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of affairs. The French Government wraps tip its
latentions in inscrutable eecreey. It doe., not state
`that it will be satisfied if the persons accused of
conspiring against the EMPEROR are subjected to a
fair trial according to the laws of England. It
does not state that it will be satisfied if
they are convicted and punished. It does not even
state that it will be satisfied if each an anti-consti-
tutional Bill as Lord PALMEESTON'S is passed into a
law. It vaguely insinuates that something must be
dour to satisfy the exigencies of the French people ;
and adds that if this something isnot done, the alliance
between France al. t England cannot be maintained.
The only means we have of conjecturing what the
French Government wants England to do is to look
at the demands it kas addressed to other States.
Switzerland has been compelled to internee all poli-
tical exiles who have sought refuge within its
territories. Piedmont has bed similar, if not more
extensive demands addressed to it. Even Austria
is understood to have been remonstrated with about
the liseice of some of its newspapers. Is England
expected to confine all political exiles residing
within the British territories to certain localities,
and to set police spin; to watch all their motions?
Is England expected to impose new restrictions
upon the liberty of the press? Is England expected
to adopt new modes of judicial procedure on charges
of political deliets? And if England refuses to
sacrifice her liberties in this way, must the English
people look upon a war with France as inevitable ?
All these questions are raised, not settled, by the
Correspondence which Lord MALMESBURT would
have us believe has put an end to the differences
between France and England.

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OSBORNE, Ihica 16.

The Queen and Prince Consort, the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princeea Helena,
attended divine tervice at Whippingham Church yesterday
morning. The Rev. Prothero officiated.
Prince Alfred returned this morning to Alverbsak.

A Deputation of the Theme! Conservancy had an Inter
view with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and the Earl of
Donoughinore, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade,
with respect to the regulation of steamboats and their pa-
stures os theTharnes. The deputation consisted of Mr.
Jonathan Thorpe, Captain Piggott, Trinity House, Ad-
miral Austin, Alderman Hurnphery, Mr. Joseph Tumlry,
Mr. Thomas Dakin, and Captain Buntall, 'screwy.
Governor Wodehouse had an interview with Lord Stanley
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

This day her Majesty and Court returned to Buck-
ingham Palace, from Osborne.

Thu morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent and suite left Frogmore Lodge for Clarence House, Bt.
James's, where her royal highness will remain for sometime
according to present arrangements.

The Countess of Derby hu jailed cerde for an
easembly on Saturday next, at the fatally mansion in St.
James's-square.

The Earl of Donoughmore, vice-president of the
Board of Trade, has arrived 6A Claridge's Hotel from K Dock-
lofty, county Claimed.

The Earl of Stradbroke hu returned to the
Brunswick Hotel, St. Jams's, front Ilenham Hall, Sufolk.

Lady John Somerset has arrived in town, from
Enfield Court, for do sawn.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Pierrepont have
left Clarldge's Hotel, for Evenly 04 near Brackley.
Sir Charles Wood has taken the Duke of Devon-
shires 'mansion in Belgrave•square for a term. The right
hon. baronet will move from his late official residence at
the Admiralty immediately.

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have
returned to Blenheim, near Woodstock. Their graces have
been plunged into deep affliction by the premature demise,
siler a very short illness, of their youngest son, Lord Charles
Spencer Churchill.
The Duke of Beaufort hos taken the Earl of
Eglintoun's mansion for a term. His groom arrived in town
yesterday, from Badminton.

The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire
House yesterday, from Hollis, Hall, nal Mllnthorpe. The
Marquis of Harlington OCICIMIS b tow* to-dy.

The Earl and Countess Vane and their youthful
family, on leaving Wynnaisy after the disastrous fire at that
place, returned to The Clougha, Newcastle-under-Lyre, the
!widen°. of Mr. Edward,, and from thence came to Holder-
nesse House, Park-lane, where they are at present stay-
ing. The loss of the Counter Vane's jewels is estimated
at 7,0001.

Mr. and Lady Jane LeTett are expected to arrive
in town next week, for the season, and take powession of
their new house in Cheeham-street.

Lieut.-General and Mrs. Aitchison have arrived
in Cavan-place, from the Contineett.
THE BARONY OF BEREELLY.—WO learn from
the Oktweater Journal that Sir Maurice Berkeley has taken
the preliminary steps to forward hie claim to the Barony of
Berkeley by tenure, which has been so long in his family,
and that his petition with that view has been presented.

A Berlin letter says :—" The King's health is
s itiafactory, and hie Majesty has expressed the wish to take
ap his residence for the summer at Sana-Souci, bat his medi-
cal attendants will, It is said, recommend that Pnthus, in the
isle of Ragan, shall be selected. The prolongation of the
powers of the Prince of Prussia until the ?Mona of the
King is considered as more and more probable. It ap-
peeve positive that the extreme right in the Chambers
will not, when the question of a prolongation comes on, pro-
pose the establishment of a permanent regency, as was
epoken of."

The Times ridicules the court dress of our times,
and especially complains of the compulsory use of the same
at the Speaker's dinners and levees. The only method of
evading this requirement is that the Speaker's visitors, like
those of her Majesty, should pat on the costume of a deputy-
lieutenant or the uniform of a yeomanry regiment, if they
have the right to wear either the one or the other. This is,
perhaps, a camp for the better, although gentlemen
who put on a military uniform only twits or thrice a-year
are not particularly apt to fed at their ease in it. " But,"
says the Tunes, "why should they go on a masquerade at
all It Why should a Commoner dining with a gentleman
who is the First Commoner in the realm be compelled to
wear a travesty derived from the early Hanoverian perod of
our history, or a cavalry jacket which irreverently developee
the sitting part of his parliamentary character, or an uncom-
fortable half.roilitery red coat, which is quite out of keeping
with his usual pursuits? If Mr. Speaker Denison could but
be made aware of the extreme annoyance and discomfort In-
flicted upon the gentlemen who meet to show him respect by
the present compulsory custom we have little doubt that he
would express his readiness to receive his gamete even in the
simple dress worn by English gentlemen at their own parties
and receptions."

A shock of an earthquake was felt at Algiers at
half-peat four in the morning of the Bth Inst. The oscilla-
tion, which is represented to have been considerable, end to
hove lasted • long while, was horizontal, and from eat to
watt. No !accident is se yet reported.

We read in the NoireMate of Marseilles, of the
lath —"Neural d'Orgoni leaves this swains for Perim.
HO sojourn at Marseilles will not have been without *dean.
taps to oar ocoassiwciel relations with the Blrwau empire.
Ws baste we a• state that a oontreet has just been signed
between the Emperor of the Birmaas, represented by General
d'Orgent, sad two of the first honer in Marseilles, is rinse
of whit& great commercial opsratioae will be carried on in
Burnish. This fact appears to us of greater importance for
France, sad one aerie more poritire and practical interest,
than the commercial treaties concluded with Parris and
Stant."

VIM VACANT CANONRY OF CANTERRURY.—it le
rumoured in clerical circles that the valuable canonry of
Canterbury Cathedral, rendered vacant by the preferment of
the Rev. Arthur P. Stanley, will be weetra. by the Bert
of Derby upon the Rev. J. W. Whitavidc W.A. The rev.
pietleman, who is a brother of the Right Hon. J. Whiteside, 1
W.P., the Attorney-General for Ireland, waa formerly Maim-
brat of Trinity Church, Ri , but left that appointment in
br the vicersge of ugh, to which he was
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE

INDIA.

EAST INDIA-HOUSE TELEGRAM.
The following telegram WWI received at the East
India House at 9.30, this day, Much 18, 1858 :
"To Joni D. Dicumeor, Esq., India House.
"Intelligence from the Commander-in-Chief's
camp is anxiously expected.
" He arrived at Cawnpore on the Bth of February,
had an interview with the Governor-General at

Alkhabad, and returned to Cawnpore.
"One division of his army arrived at Cawnpore
on the 7th of February, and active preparations
were in progreas far crossing the Ganges.
"No further attack had been made on Sir James
Oatram up to the 7th of February.
"It is reported from Futtyghur that Nana Sahib
had crossed the Ganges with a strong force between
Bithoor and Sheoragpore, with the intention of en-
tering Bandekund.

" On the 3rd of February the Owalior troops from
Calpee attacked the post at Bhogneepore, near Ack-
barpoor, but were promptly repulsed. Lieutenant
Thompson, who commanded the post, was severely
wounded.

"The Ghoorkaa attacked and de'eated the rebels
at Gondah, on the 4th inat.

"lung Bahadoor was to cross the Gogra, near
Tanda, on February 14, on his march to Lncknow.
" The ex-King of Delhi is to be transported for
life to the Andaman Islands.

" All quiet in the Punjab. The arrival of Euro-
pean troops has enabled Sir J. Lawrence to send
several Sikh regiments to Rohilcund.
" Sir Hugh Ross moved on Oarakotah on the 11th
of February and the enemy evacuated it. In the
pursuit the rebels lost 100 men, mostly Sepoys.
" The Rajah of Singheera was hanged at Indore
on the 10th of February.
" Troops from Guzerat and &Undo are rapidly
concentrating for a combined attack on Kotah.

" The Madre Column and Hyderabad Contin-
gent attacked the Shorapoor Rajah's troops at
Hingassgore on the Bth of February, and defeated
them. Captain Newbery, of the Bth Madras Cavalry,
was killed, and Lieutenant Stewart, of the same
regiment, wounded.

" On the same day a Bombay force, under Colonel
Malcolm, occupied Shorapoor itself without opposi-
tion. The Rajah himself was captured in Hyderabad
on February 12.

" The sons of Phond-Nawunt, who took refuge
in Goa after the insurrection of 1844, have com-
menced depredations on the southern frontier and
the Gnarl districts. They have burnt three cus-
tom-houses, and are endeavouring to raise the
country. Careful arrangements have been made
both above and below the Ghats for the protection
of the country, and for the prevention of any gene-
ral outbreak in these turbulent districts.
_ _

" Captain Pottinger attacked dispersed a
strong body of Bheels on the 19th of February.
The jungle will be cleared, and decisive operations
commenced by the end of February.
" H. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government.
" Bombay Castle, Feb. 24, 1838.
" V. G. MONTANARO.
" Malta, March 16,1838, 31 minutes past 9 p.m."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(IT BI:IMARINE AND 111711111 TILZORATN.)
(nom ova owx cokawsroximwr.)
MALTA, MAacu 15.
BOMBAY, FEB. 24.—Imports in active demand;
money market easy ; discount lower ; exports dull ;
oil seeds in better demand ; cotton stock small ;
freights higher; exchange, 2s. lid. to lid. Cal-
cutta mail not yet beard of.

We (Times) have received the following telegram
from our Malta correspondent :

".MALTA, MARCH 16, 10 P.M.
" Up to noon on the 12th int. the Calcutta mail,
per Ara, bad not reached Suez, where the outward
mails are consequently detained.

. .
" The Colombo remains at Alexandria to bring on
the homeward Calcutta mail, which the Austrian
steamer for Corfu would await until the 15th.

" The Valetta has arrived with the Bombay mail,
which she carries on to Marseilles.
" There is no local news."

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
(IT •MTN' AID IMAM XAONIITIC TVLIGIAPH.)
(MOM OITA OWN COZRIIPONDMIT.)

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 16.

The City of Washington, hu arrived. She brings
New York date* to the 4th, and 100 passengers; no
specie.

_
The majority of the Kansas investigating com-
mittee of the House of Representatives had agreed
upon the admission of Kansas with the Lecompton
Constitution.

The steamer Eliza Battle had been burnt near
Demopolis, Alabama. Thirty or forty lives were
lost, and a thousand bales of cotton consumed.

A bill had passed the Louisiana Assembly, au-
thorising a company to import 2,500 free blacks
from Africa.

The projected general bankruptcy law was to be
submitted to Congress on the 4th.
New York stock market continued active and
buoyant. The closing rates were :—lllinois Central,
99; ditto Bonds, 96; Erie, 341, after having
touched 36; New York Central, 94. Money
Market tending downward. Sterling Exchange
quiet, but firm, at 109 to 1 for bankers' bills.

Potashes firm but pearls heavy ; cotton dull and
slightly lower; breadstuffs firm ; coffee heavy and
dull; sugar active but unchanged; iron quiet•
Freights—Modern engagements at previous rates.

EXPRESS FROM PARIb.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVIDTIXe.

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The eclipse has had great suckers. The morning
was threatening, but just before noon, when the
phenomena commenced, the clouds broke up, and
large sections of blue sky were seen. For some
time before and after the moment of the greatest ob-
seuration (ten minutes past one) the state of the
heavens was more favourable for the sight than if
they had been perfectly serene, for numbers of
black but not thick flying crude, through which
the sun's disc might be distinctly eecn, seemed as if
they had been sent on purpose to serve u eye-
preservers for those who were unprovided with bits
of blackened glass. The sky in the interstices be-
tween the clouds was of a shade of blue altogether
peculiar. The intensity of the darkness was, as I
apprehend is always the case (and I remember two
nearly total eclipses), much less than the picturesque
descriptions of modern astronomers, and the
still more imaginative records of former times,
would lead one to suppose. I know many
people who sat at home writing or reading
all day, who were utterly unconscious till they were
told in the afternoon that there had been an eclipse.
Golignani affirms that the birds continued to sing
throughout ; but on this point the English journal
is contradicted by the Pays, which says some birds
in a cage were observed to sing less and less up to
one o'clock, when they became entirely silent, and
were manifestly terror-stricken. I myself paid a
visit to a poultry-yard, on purpose to see whether
the fowls were going to bed, and I found them ex-
tremely lively and free from all painful emotions.
I must add, however, that some children at play
were feeding them—a circumstance which consider-
ably detracts from the value of this particular ob-
servation.

The Univers concludes an attack on England
with the following intemperate menaces:
Mr. Disraeli remarked in a roast speech that the Empe-
ror Napoleon is perfectly acquainted with the strength and
resources of England. But there is something else of which
the Emperor is likewise aware., and which the statesmen of
England, who calculate too much on our discord and mis-
fortunes, are apt to forget. We speak of the national senti-
ment, of the public and unanimous sentiment experienced
by France on the subject of England. Therein exist far
greater resources than those depicted by Mr. Disraeli. If
England is prudent, she will not provoke this formidable
sentiment; she will not incur the risk of learning what
France con effect in the hands of a Bonaparte. Frenchmen
do not like England. They have their reasons for this
dislike, reasons of which the English may be proud, but
which should not be met with too great disdain. Amidst all
our discord and divisions there exists a word—perhaps it is
the only one—which speaks to all hearts, even to those which
appear to have lost their nationality through study or through
enthusiasm for foreign laws and customs. On the Pyrenees,
along the shore, b►thed by the ocean, in the plains of
Alsatia and of &lope, in the streets of our towns, in man-
sions and in hovels, in workshops, and even in banking
establishments, that word, once pronounced, would excite
the same eagerness, the same inexhaustible vigour. This
may be termed a vulgar passion, but not so vulgar that
reason has failed in restraining it for a time, and may con-
tinue to restrain it; but it would take centuries to extinguish
that sentiment, while to let it loose would be the work of an
instant. England should wish that this instant many never
arrive; she should desire this the more, since, having iden-
tified her cause with that of the revolution, she possesses no
longer the friends on whom she counted at the commence-

meat of this centnry, and since the events of late year/ h►ve
considerably diminished the prestige of Waterloo. She no
longer possesses the strength derived from her triumphs ;
and this is one of the facts which is known to the present
ruler of our destinies, who may justly be proud of being the
heir of St. Helena.

The above article is signed "Louis Veuillot."
What this most turbulent of Jesuits may say would
not be worth notice, were it not for the fact that he
is now a great favourite with the Emperor. He hu
had several private audiences of his Majesty lately,
and on one occasion, at least, was presented to the
Empress. The prohibition against the sale of the
Silvio in the streets is understood to be a favour
granted to him. The Correspotadance Builier, which
is sent into all the departments, calls attention this
evening to the above article, and attributes import-
ance to it on account of its being notorious that
Veuillot has lately been received by the Emperor.
The Bourse has been without any particular
feature except a considerable fall (18fr. 75c.) in
Mobilier, on account, it is said, of the small divi-
dend which will be declared (only llfr.). The
Rente was rather firm at the close, leaving off, for
account, with a rise of 5c., at 69fr. 25c. Railways
scarcely changed.
M. Millaud, accompanied by the heads of several
Lyons houses, had an audience of the Emperor yes-
terday, and laid before his Majesty a scheme for the
creation of a new Credit Mobilier Society, to be de-
voted to the interests of the silk trade.
The Siamese ambassadors, on their arrival at
Marseilles, were introduced to the Prefect by the
British consul. They are staying at the Hotel des
Colonies, and will embark almost immediately on
board the Caradoc. It is stated that this embassy,
which it will be remembered was sent to the Queen
of England, will shortly be followed by another
specially accredited to the Emperor of the French.
The Gazette du Midi says that Ferukh Khan, on
the occasion of signing a commercial treaty with
Rome, promised Monsignor Milesi, in the name of
the Shah, that a Catholic bishopric should be esta-
blished at Teheran. Ferukh Khan, whose stay in
Europe has been very prolonged, will, it is now
positively affirmed, leave Paris for Teheran on the
25th instant.

I am assured that before his execution Orsini
wrote a second letter to the Emperor, which has
not been published, and that Pierri also wrote a
letter to his Majesty, the postscript to which is
dated half-past six on Saturday morning, only half
an hour before the execution.

Marshal Canrobert will take np his head quarters
at Nancy on Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

ITA LY.

FRENCH DEMANDS ON PIEDMONT.
A NOBLE EXAMPLE TO ENGLAND.

(FROM OUR OWN COI

TURIN, bikacu 12.

The sole and only topic with which the minds of
politicians here are at present occupied is the pro-
posed law relative to attempts upon the life of
I foreign monarchs. The committee which is engaged
in its examination on behalf of the Chamber is
divided into two parties, nearly equal in their
numbers—the one being opposed to it, and the other
in favour of it, although even the latter aooepts it
but with many amendments. Still, it is not to be
concealed that the communications made to the com-
mittee by Count Cavour have abated the warmth of
the opponents of the bill. The Armonia, which is, so to
speak, the Moniteur of our clerical party, has re-
ported in its own way the purport of these commu-
nications, and has thereby deceived its readers. I
hasten to inform you correctly, and with the utmost
fulness, upon this matter. Count Cavour has shown
to the committee that the Sardinian government has
not failed in its duty of jealously guarding the
honour, the dignity, ani the indopendenoe of Pied-
mont. Ile has stated that no special note has in fact
been sent by France to our Minisier of Foreign

Affairs respecting the crime of the Rue Lepelletier,
bat that the Prince Latour d'Auvergne, in
hie conversations with the President of the Council

himself, has insisted almost every day upon obtain-
ing from our government the adoption of repressive
measures. Forgetting the liberties with which this
country is governed, the French ambassador asked,
amongst other things, that the journal L'ltalia del
Popolo, the organ of the Mazzinians, should be arbi-
trarily suppressed ; he asked that Signor Bianchi
Giovini, editor of the journal L' Uniose, should be
expelled ; that all the refugees who have written
in any political journals should likewise be ex-
pelled; and that the juries should not intervcuein
the trial of press prosecutions when they relate to
offences against the person of foreign sovereigns. j
would have you observethat the demand of expulsion
directed against Bianchi Giovini was calculated also
to please and satisfy the clerical party, by whom
that journalist is especially hated on account of his
sharp and vehement polemics against them. The
Sardinian government has replied in the negative to
all these demands ; hence much anger is felt at the
Tuileries ; and a most exalted personage, speak.
ing to General della Rocca, has used the following
words, or words similar to these :—" Monsieur le
General, please to let those gentlemen know that
Belgium and Switzerland have submitted, and that
England herself is preparing to satisfy France ; will
Piedmont alone pretend to resist P" General della
Rocca repeated precisely, in his letters, the
phrases he had heard ; but the Sardinian
government did not give way for that, and
maintained its refusal. Then the French govern.
ment desisted from its pretensions, and renewed the
fullest assurances of its true and cordial friendship.
At this point Count Cavour interposed a gap in his
narration, and refrained, out of due respect, from
saying how the noble resistance of the Ministry has
received a most substantial support from the per-
sonal conduct and the act of King Victor Emmanuel.
This episode of the little drama not having fallen
within the legal inspection and responsibility of the
Ministers, was rightly passed over in silence by the
President of the Council. Bat I, being exempt
from governmental duties and diplomatic reserves,
can report it to you exactly, and I have no fear
that any one will ever venture to contradict what
I now state. Victor Emmanuel, on being informed
of the language used at the Tuileries, took pen in
hand, and, of his own motion and counsel, wrote to
General della Rocca a letter worthy of him who is,
perhaps, the most loyal and liberal prince that now
its upon a throne. Amongst other things this letter
said, that for eight centuries past, the princes of the
House of Savoy have always held their brows erect,
and that he would not begin to abase his own,—that
his people had entrusted to him the custody of their
liberties, and that he would never betray them. It
is but natural that language so noble, so clear, and
perhaps so unexpected, should have produced a
suitable effect, as I have just intimated.
Yesterday evening there was a private, but still
a very numerous meeting of the Liberal majority of
the Chamber. Three of the ministers were present;
on the other hand, the members of the Left section
were absent. Count Cavour repeated a great poe.
tion of the things which had beets said, and of the
communications made to the committee. He en•
deavoured to prove that the proposed law is one not
contrary to liberty, and that its principal object is to
prove to Europe that the Italian nation hates the
doctrines of regicide, or of any other political mos.
sination whatever. With regard to our relations
with England, he said that several of your present
ministers are personally favourable to Piedmont, but
' that unfortunately the Tories hold it as amongst
their old traditions to profess friendship for Austria.