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602 —never bas the examination of bills been more profound, never have contradictory opinions on important projects been offered with greater liberty or talent. Lord Cowley has arrived in Paris. The successor to Marshal Serrano has not been definitively decided upon by the Spanish Govern ment. The reigning Prince of Monaco, who has been residing in Paris for some days past, has been honoured by the Emperor with a private audience at St. Cloud. Prince Napoleon, it is said, will leave Paris on the 10th July for the Exhibition at Manchester. His Imperial Highness is also to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne house. The Emperor and Empress leave Paris for Plom bieres on the 2Sth inst. AUSTRIA. The visit to 'Vienna of the Count of Syracuse is said to be devoid of all political motive. His Impe rial Highness has been received with the utmost. attention by the Court of Vienna, and from the tact that the Emperor of Austria has received Prince Petrulla, the Neapolitan Envoy, in private audience, it is assumed that ►he relations with the Neapolitan Court have taken a more friendly turn, though Gen. Von Martini, the Austrian Minister of Naples, has retired from his post on leave of absence. No change bas taken place in the relations between Sardinia and Austria. Count de Paar, late Austrian Chargé d'Affaires at Turin, has been appointed Minister at the Court of Modena. A letter from Vienna says : The Jesuits are gaining ground here with fearful rapidity, and the children in the " Orphan House "—Waisen Haus—the offspring of Vienna citizens—are likely to be intrusted to their care. Not long since a Protestant lady possearing property in Carinthia promised to marry a Catholic, but the clergy hare refused to perform the cere mony until the bridegroom has obtained permission from Rome to enter into a matrimonial engagement with a heretic. It is stated that the Benedict in sped intends to remove all difficulties by embracing the Protestant faith. RUSSIA. The Russian Government appears to be display ing great activity in its relations with Central Asia. The Czas of Cracow speaks of three embassies re cently sent into Persia and China. One has been confided to General Prince Melnikoff, , who has been sent tl Teheran by Prince Bariatinski, Governor- General of the Caucasian proinces, to notify his nomination to that post to the Shah and to keep up relations. The other two are to China, and these missions acquire an additional importance when that country has broken off her relations with other States of Europe. An extra ordinary embassy has been confided to Admiral Fantiatine, who has already arrived at Irkutsk from St. Petersburg, and is to proceed immediately to China, to convey to the Emperor promises of assist ance from the Russians against the rebels. This mission will also have for object to regulate matters connected with the frontiers and the development of commercial relations. The baptism of the young Grand Duke Sergius was performed last week with great Court cere monies. The visit to Germany of the Czar is now beyond all doubt; he will arrive in Hamburg on the 2nd of July, travelling under the name of Coant Borodiusky, and accompanied by a suite of 150 persons. BELGIUM. The Moniteur Beige of Sunday publishes three important documents. The first, a report, dated January, horn the Ministers to the King. proposing the closing of the Legislative Session from 1856 to 1437. Such a measure, says the report, will suspend the discussion of the bill for charitable institutions, and adjourn it to next session. The report is signed by all the Ministers. The King replies:— 13th June, Itc)7. My dear Minister,—l received the report of the Cabinet yest..rday, anal I hasten to give it my approbation. In pro posing the adjournment of the discussion, you have taken an initiative sugvested by circumstances, and which the country will readily comprehend. I avail myself of this opportunity to address, through your instrumentality, some words to the country which has given me so many proofs of its attachment. A discussion long and animated, followed by incidents which I depluze, has taken place in the Chamber of Repre sentatives, upon a project of law presented by you. For the first time for the twenty six years I have dedi cated myself to Belgium. the parliamentary debates have tended to increase the difficulties, the solution of which will not be soon revealed. You have acted witltili; greatest loyalty, and with the most perfect good faith. You are firmly persuaded that the project of law if put into execution would not produce the painful consequences which have been attributed to it. I will not now pronounce a judgment upon that law ; but T may say I would never consent to give a place in our legislation to a law which was at all likely to produce those mous effeett which were by some anticipated from the one in question. But without meaning to enter upon an examination of the law itself, I must notice like you the impression which was produced on that occasion by a con- THE PRESS. siderable portion of the population. There are in the country those who take a warm interest in public matters. They are susceptible of lively emotion—rapid, contagious— whose opinions, too, are propagated with an intensity it is more easily to describe than to explain, and with which it is morn wise to treat than to reason. The free institutions of Belgium have worked during twenty-six years with an admirable regularity. What is needed to enable them to continue to act for the future with the same order and the same success? I do not hesitate to say that it is necessary to observe moderation and reserve in respect to parties. I believe that we should abstain from agitating any question which may light up the flames of hostilities in the public mind. I am convinced that Belgium can live happy and re spected in following the path of moderation ; but I am equally convinced, and I say it to all the world, that any measure which may be interpreted as one tending to fix the supremacy of one opinion over the other, that one such measure is a danger. Liberty never betrays us, and our Constitution, wiser• and moderately maintained, presents a happy equilibrium. Aly attachment, sincere and profound, to the fortunes of the country has greatly increased in me those grave re• flections. I communicate them to the country, to ycurself, to the majority of the national representation. In the circumstances in which we are, the majority of the Chamber, whose voices as a majority are, and ought to be, my guide, has a noble position to take—a position worthy of a great party. I give it the advice to renounce, as you will propose to it, the right of continuing the discussion of the law. It is to the majority that belongs the power of tilling this generous role. In accepting it completely it will give to the world a high idea of its wisdom and its patriotism. It will preserve within its ranks that cordial union which for all parties is the first fruit, and the first recompense of a noble and good action practised in common. . - In the last year the country thanked me for my devotion —I thank it to-day for its confidence. This letter will prove to you how happy I am to find myself in accordance with you, and how much I approve of your conduct. My desire is to continue to watch with you, end with your colleagues, over the interests of this tine and much. loved country. Believe, my dear Ministers, that I entertain affectionate sentiments towards you. LEOPOLD. A royal decree then follows, closing the Legislative Chambers. PRUSSIA. The Ministerial Zeit of Berlin publishes an article to exhibit the Neufchatel settlement in the most favourable light to the Prussian public. The writer of the article expresses regret at the separation of Neufchatel from Prussia, but the sovereigns of Prussia, it is added, will continue to bear the title "Prince of Neufchatel and Valengin," in virtue of a resolution of the King, which does not need the con sent of any European power. ITALY. A concordat has been concluded between the King of Naples and the Pope, restoring to the clergy the most important privileges relating to the disposition of ecclesiastical property, abolishing the penal code against parish priests, annihilating civil marriages throughout the kingdom, and ordering the civil authorities to lend every assistance to secure the execution of sentences passed by ecclesiastical tribunals. The Pope continues at Bologna. He has received several deputations, and has held many councils upon questions of administrative importance. The Sardinian Minister, the Chevalier Boncompagin, left Florence on the 9th for Bologna, where on the 11th he was received with distinction by the Pope. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Oat Deutsch Post says that the importance of the decoration lately conferred on I'rince Vogorides of Moldavia by the Austrian Government has been greatly exaggerated ; that no political demonstration whatever was intended by that act, which had only an administrative character. The Vienna Oesterreichieche Correspondenz cf the 15th had a long official article on the subject of cer tain defamatory charges recently made against it by some of the organs of the Belgian and Prussian press : An erroneous statement now made by the German papers is, that the Imperial Cabinet " has complained to the German Courts of the policy of Prussia in the ques tion of the Danubian principalities." Austria and Prussia go hand in hand in the matter in question, and neither power has cause to complain either of the impetuosity or of the want of energy of the other. AMERICA. Intelligence from New York to the lith states that Lord Napier informed the Government that there was no foundation for the report that New liranada had ceded an island to England. The correspondent of the New York Times, on the other hand, says : It is untrue that Lord Napier officially denies the ces sion of the island in Panama Bay to Great Britain. The Administration certainly did not interrogate him, nor did he volunteer a statement upon the subject. No one, how ever, in diplomatic or Guveniment circles believes such cession has been made. Later news from Salt Lake states that Brigham Young is driving all the " Gentiles" out of the terri- SATURDAY, tory. Judge Stiles, the United States' Marshal, the Surveyor• General and his family, and a large num ber of other persons, had been obliged to leave. The United States' Secretary -at-War had issued an order for the movement of 2,300 troops to Utah, under General Harvey. Lord Napier on the Queen's birthday had given a brilliant ball, at which all the foreiln diplomatic corps and the members of the United States' Government were present, with the exception of General Cass. Cart ant lastton. Her Majesty tha Queen returned to Buckingham Palace from Windsor last Saturday. On Sunday morning his Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrived at Ports mouth, and left for town by a special train at three p.m. At the Vauxhall private station his Imperial Highness was received by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and conducted to the Queen at Buckingham Palace. On Tuesday the christening of the Princess Bea trice was conducted with the usual state ceremonies at the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. On Tuesday evening her Majesty, accompanied by her royal and imperial guests, attended at Her Ma jesty's Theatre, and witnessed the performance of Don Giovanni. On Wednesday the royal party visited the Crystal Palace, and heard the performance of Judas Maccabeus. On Thursday her Majesty held a brilliant levee. Her Majesty this day will receive addresses upon the birth of the Princess Beatrice. A magnificent ball was given on Wednesday night by the Countess de Persigny, at Albert-gate House. The Duke of Northumberland returned to Northumberland-house on Tuesday from Alnwick Castle. The Countess of Derby's assembly takes place this evening and on the 4th proximo. The Earl and Countess Somers have, by their last letters, left Malta for Athens, and will make a tourin Greece prior to going to India. The Right Hon. J. Wilson Croker has, we are happy to learn, quite recovered from his recent illness. Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly last Saturday evening. The Countess D'Apponyi gives an assembly this evening, to meet his Imperial Highness the Arch duke Maximilian of Austria. Volitual. CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and Wednesday last, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Present— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grans ille, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labeu chere, Lord Parnnure, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. A DINNER was given to Sir Wm. Jolliffe, Bart., M.P., at the Carlton Club on Saturday last, in recognition of his great services to the Conservative party. Up. wards of 190 noblemen and gentlemen (chiefly mem• bers of the two Houses of Parliament) were present, being the utmost number which the dining room could accommodate. The chair was occupied by the Earl of Derby, and the v i ce - c h a i r by th e Bi g ht * Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. ANOTHER LARGE AND INFLUENTIAL MEETING of the Catholic nobility and gentry was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Stafford street Club, for the purpose of considering the course which it is desirable for their representatives in Parliament to adopt in re ference to the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. In the absence of the Duke of Norfolk, who, as Earl Marshal, was obliged to be officially present at the christening of the infant Princess at Buckingham Palace, the chair was taken by Lord Vain of Harrow den, who was supported by the Earl of Fingal], Lord Edward Howard, M.P., Viscount Campden, Lord Camoys, Lord Stafford, and Lord Lovat. Among those present were—tbe Hon. Charles Langdale, the Hon. T. E. Stonor, the Hon. G. 3lostyn, the Hon. Philip Stourton, t he Hon. Alfred Stourton, Sir Robert Gerard, Mr. Charles Petre, Mr. H. Beding feld, Dr. Bowyer, M.P., The O'Donoglioe, M.P., Mr. S. E. De Vere, M.P., Mr. L. Waldron, M.P. ' and several other gentlemen of r an k an d p os ition. Alter a long and spirited debate, in which Lord Edward Howard, Mr. Ball, Mr. De Vero, Lord Camoys, Dr. Bowyer, Mr. Wilberforce, TheO . Donoghoe, Mr.Meore, Mr. Henchy, Lord Fingall, and Mr. Wegg-Prosser took part, it was proposed by the Hon. Charles Langdale, seconded by Mr. E. Ryley, and carried vtith only six dissentient voices ;