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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1853.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

tempted to escape. The authorities have ordered
the arrest of MM. Coester an advocate ; Pelis-
siere, a shopkeeper ; Lautenschla,ger, a jeweller ;
Nollenberger, a lithographic printer : Brenner, a
miller, and Schenk, a tobacco manufacturer, for
ordering the printing of the proclamation of the
Presidents of the Five Political Committees, but
they were afterwards released, on depositing a cau-
tion money of 100 thalers. There are 500 inha-
bitants of this place implicated in the affair of high
treason, some of whom are public functionaries."
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin 7th,
says :—" The German States on the borders of
Switzerland are at this moment sending troops to
the frontier. It is worthy of remark that no reso-
lution to that effect has been come to by the Ger-
manic Diet ; the particular States have adopted the
measure of themselves in order to exercise a more
severe surveillance with regard to foreigners. Other
German States not on the confines of Switzerland
have also adopted similar measures."
The committee of the Second Prussian Chamber
on the budget, having refused to propose the grant
demanded by the Germanic Diet for the completion
of the federal fortresses, the Cabinet of Berlin has
invoked the paragraph of the Federal Act, which
states that the sums demanded for the federal ob-
jects cannot be refused by the Chambers, and has
given the 274,000 thalers.

Hudson (1831); Colson Festing (1838), George G. Miall
(1838), Charles Hall (1841), Godfrey L. Woolley (1841),
John Hills (1841), Cheesman H. Binsted (1841).
The following lieutenants have also been promoted to
be commanders on the reserved half-pay list :—Francis
Godench (1809), Richard Ward (1810), John Adamson
(1811), Richard N. Williams (1813), Thomas Higgins
(1814), Francis Lyon (1814), William Hole (1815), John
Nicholas (1815), Alexander Shillingford (1815), John
Sanders (1815).
_ _

Marshal de Saint-Arnaud, Minister of War, has
been ill for some days, and has, it is said, been
recommended by his physicians to abstain for a
certain time from occupation. He will, it is added,
'go to Hyeres, as it is hoped that the climate of
Provence and abstention for a time from business
will soon enable him to resume his official duties.
The Count de Camerata, who committed suicide
a few days ago, was second cousin of the Empe-
ror ; he being the son of his Majesty's cousin
Napoleon Elisa, who was daughter of Marie Anne
Elisa, Princess de Piombino, Lucca and Massa
Carrara, subsequently Grand Duchess of Tuscany,
sister to the Emperor Napoleon 1., and wife of the
Baron, afterwards Prince Baciocchi. His father,
the Count Camerata, was chief of an illustrious
and wealthy family of Italy. The Princess Marie
Anne Elisa, who was born in 1777, and died at
Trieste in 1820, had by her marriage with the
Prince Baciocchi another child, Napoleon Frede-
rick, born in 1815, at Rome, but he died in 1833
from a fall from his horse.
The Patirie states that the Bey of Tunis is ex-
pected to visit Paris in the course of next month.
The Archbishop of Paris has made public the
letter which he has addressed to the Pope com-
plaining of the circular letter of the Bishop of
Moulins, on the prohibition by the archbishop of
the reading of the journal 1' Univers by the clergy
of the diocese of Paris. It will be remembered
that the Bishop of Moulins, although disapproving
to a certain extent of the course pursued by the
Univers, defended it on some points, and indirectly
questioned the propriety of the decision of the
Archbishop of Paris. The bishop authorised the
clergy of his diocese to subscribe for and read the
Univers. For this dissent from his views, the
Archbishop of Paris calls for the reprobation of the
Holy See. After stating the facts, he concludes,
his application to the Pope as follows :
•' As long as I live the religious press of Paris shall
be watched, and, if necessary, repressed by the spiritual
weapons of which I can dispose. It shall either remain
within the line of duty or leaie the diocese, and seek
elsewhere a more complaisant jurisdiction, to preach
contempt for the hierarchy and make war upon the
authority which I hold from Divine Mercy and the
grace of the Holy Apostolical See. Therefore, very
Holy Father, T lay before the tribunal of your Holiness
the circular etter of the Bishop of Moulins, and I ask
you for justice. I demand justice in the name of the
interests of my diocese, which are compromised by the
irritating discussions and encroachments of a certain
journalism ;in the name of my venerable colleagues, who •
are engaged with me in the cause for which I combat
and receive insults ; in the name of the holy.canons,
which are shamefully violated ; in the name of your
Holiness yourself, and the rights which you have con-
ferred upon me as Archbishop.
•We read in the Presse :—" We are informed
by letters from Toulon that, unless counter orders
arrive, a new convoy of convicts will leave • for
Cayenne. It consists of a certain number of per-
sons who were condemned by Co4irts-martial after
the coup-d'etat of December, 1851, some to simple
transportation, others to transportation to a forti-
fied place. They had appealed to the chief of the
State, and their punishment had been commuted to
15 years of hard labour either at the bagne of Tou-
lon or at the penitentiary colony of Cayenne, at
their choice. They had chosen Cayenne, thinking that
they would be there classed in the category of
political convicts, but when they had made their
choice, they were informed that they would be assi-
milated to ordinary convicts. These persons wrote
immediately to Paris to obtain, if possible, the re-
vocation of their commutation, preferring a con-
demnation for life to a lighter but more degrading
condemnation."
A telegraphic dispatch from Toulon states that
the squadron of evolutions has returned to that
port, after a cruise of ten days. •
The Debats has an article on the effects of the
restrictions in the French commercial tariff. Some
of the facts stated are too remarkable for it to be
supposed that the Government will not make some
material modifications in the relations of interna-
tional commerce. We confess, however, that we
do not comprehend how it happens that the price
of cotton is 14 per cent. higher at Havre than at
Liverpool. The Debats says : •
"It Is a fact worthy of remark, and one which se-
riously affects all houses who manufacture cotton goods
for exportation, that the raw material is now selling
from 12 to 14 per cent. dearer at Havre than at Liver-
pool. It may be readily conceived how much this cir-
cumstance enhances the price of French articles as
compared with similar ones manufactured in England ;
there is nothing more wanting to enable our rivals on
the other side of the Channel to drive us out of every
foreign market. The remedy for this evil would be very
simple if our manufacturers could go and supply their
wants at Liverpool, but this power is formally denied
them by our customs' laws. When the treaty of com-
merce between France and England was negotiated in
1826, the two governments, in order to confer advan-
tages on the commercial marine of their respective
countries, stipulated that the subjects of each of the two
states should not procure from the other any of the pro-
ductions of Asia, Africa, or America. Hence it follows
that the produce of these three parts of the world before
it can reach the French public, however much it may be
wanted, must be shipped at London or Liverpool for
either Rotterdam or Ostend, and thence re-shipped for
France, thus giving rise to delay and heavy expenses.
It is for this reason, also, that pine apples from the
West Indies can be purchased in London for 25
sous, whilst in Paris they cost 20fr. But to speak
of interests more serious than the pleasure of eating
pine-apples, it is thus that while the English
ports are glutted with guano 'from Peru, our
agriculturists are compelled to dispense with that
valuable manure. It is thus that raw cotton, under cer-
tain circumstances, as for instance at present, is so dear
at Havre as compared with the price at Liverpool, that
our most skilful and most enterprising manufacturers,
those who compete with the English in foreign markets,
are deeply injured. The English Government, better
enlightened than in 1826, as to the true interests of the
British public, and particularly of its mercantile marine,
completely abolished, in 1849, the restrictive clauses of
the treaty of 1826. Any of the produce of Asia, Africa,
or America, may now be sent direct from any port in
France to England, and there, under whatever flag it
may arrive, it is treated exactly as if imported in an
English vessel. It is much to be desired that this exam-
ple should be imitated by us. The protection which
the legislator of 1826 flattered himself he reserved for
French vessels, is here illusory, for cotton from the
United States is exclusively brought to Havre in Ameri-
can bottoms. It is, therefore, in the interest of the
American shipping that our laws cause an injury to our
manufacturers, which at the present time is very consi-
derable. Our customs' laws offer many other examples
of similar mistakes. No one can be ignorant that the
high duties levied on coal, when-it is imported by the
sea frontier from the Sables d'Olonne to Dunkirk, causes
considerable injury to French manufactures in our de-
partments on the coast, less for the benefit of French
collieries than for those of Belgium."

Capt. Hon. 'S. T. Carnegie, of the Horatio, 24, screw
steam guard-ship, at Sheerness, visited the Cyclops steam
frigate in the basin at this dockyard; and also the Tribune,
30, steam-frigate, now fitting with the masts, spars, and
rigging, brought up from Sheerness to Woolwich in the
Cyclops. It is expected Capt: Hon. S. T. Carnegie will
'be appointed to command the Tribune when she is ready
for commission. The Cyclops steam iigate will be taken
out of the basin this evening or to-morrow morning,
and proceed up the river to John Penn and Son's wharf
at Deptford, to take on board a portion of the ma-
chinery of the St. Jean D'Acre, 100 guns and 650-horse
power, for conveyance to Plymouth, where that ship
will be launched on the 23d inst. The whole of the ma-
chinery
will be ready at John Penn and Son's factory by
the 21st inst., when the heavy parts will be put on board
the Melampus, 42-gun frigate, at present at Sheerness,
making ready for being towed round to Plymouth on
that service. The engines of the St. Jean D'Acre are on
the patented trunk principle, and exactly the same as
those put on board the Agamemnon, 91, by the same
firm.

- The amount of the subscription opened at Vienna
for the construction of a church in commemoration
of the escape of the Emperor from assassinationalready reaches 134,123f1.

John Penn and Son have also the following engines
in a forward state :

One pair of 400 horse-power trunk engines for the
Royal Albert, 131, building at Woolwich, and to be
ready for putting on board in the latter end of the month
of July next.

Lieu- t. Andrasffy, Gaspard Noslopy, who was a
commissary of Kossuth, Sarkozy, an advocate, and
Zubal, a professor of the Academy of Pesth, who
had been condemned to death for high treason,
were executed at Pesth on the 3d. Andrasffy,
having made revelations, had obtained the favour
of a military execution, but the others were
hanged Neither of them was more than 35 years
of age. It is stated that they met their fate with
great firmness.

One pair of 400-horse power, on the trunk principle,
for the Royal George, converting into a screw steam-
ship at Chatham.

One pair of 400-horse power trunk engines for the
Euryalus, 50, building at Chatham.
One pair of 400-horse power trunk engines for the
Caesar, 90, building at Pembroke.
The above are all for screw steam-ships of war in the
Royal Navy.
One pair of 350-horse power trunk engines, similar tio
the engines fitted in the Imperieuse, for the Palkan Rus-
sian steam frigate.

One pair or 700-horse power, on the trunk principle,
for the Himalaya, building for the Peninsular and
Oriental Conipany, supposed for the Australian service.
This magnificent vessel will be much larger than the
Great Britain, and her engines are similar to those in
the Agamemnon, only of larger dimensions. , •
One pair of 400-horse power, oscillating engines for
the Vectis, and one pair of 400-horse power oscillating
engines for the Valetta, both belonging to the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company, and intended to carry the
mails from Marseilles to Malta.

One pair of 400-horse power oscillating engines for the
Royal Mail steam-ship Tamar, building by Mr. Pitcher,
at Northfleet. .

One pair of 130-horse power oscillating engines for a
war steamer, building by Mr. Green for th Brazilian
Government.

One pair of 130-horse power oscillating engines for a
war steamer, building by Messrs. Wigram for the
Brazilian Government.

The Tyne store-ship, Master Commander Wellington,
is loading at Woolwich with stores for Ascension and
Rio, and will take out two engineers from Portsmouth
dockyard and one holder up from Woolwich yard, for
service at Ascension.

THE COAST OF AFRICA.
Ccorrespondent of the Thus on the coast writes—
.

" The mail screw-steamer Forerunner returned to
Gambia on the 21st of February, having performed the
tour to and from Fernando Po, touching and landing the
mails at all the intermediate ports, and going up several
rivers, in 35 days. On the same evening (the 21st) the
steamer left Bathurst for Goree, Teneriffe, Madeira, and
Plymouth.
" Several English vessels had arrived at Gambia—the
Orion and Kate Kearney—the latter after a run of 16
days from Plymouth. French vessels were also coming
briskly in for ground-rent cargoes.
" The Bathurst merchants are justly discontented at
the foreigners trading in London, Liverpool, and other
ports, with British goods, conveying them to Albreda,
the small settlement of the French on the river Gambia,
and then circulating the English manufactures among
the adjoining natives up the river, escaping the four per
cent. duty imposed upon the British merchants, and
thereby underselling the lawful traders. The paltry
settlement of Albreda, unworthy of a great nation like
France, although a mercantile thorn in the side of the
Gambia community, ought to be exchanged for an equi-
valent in some other colony.
"Admiral Bruce, Commander-in-Chief of the African
squadfen, arrived at Gambia in the flag-ship Penelope,
Captain Lyster, on the 28th of January, and on the Ist
of February proceeeded to Matagong, Sierra Leone,
Lagos, and the Bights. The squadron, with a few ex-
ceptions, was healthy. The Admiral had destroyed
several slave settlements and barracoons, and is not
likely to remain idle down the coast.
" His Excellency Governor O'Connor, having suffered
from repeated attacks of fever in January and February,
embarked in the Forerunner for a short visit to Tene-
riffe.

"On the morning of the 22d of February the Fore-
runner arrived at Goree, delivered and received the
mails, and proceeded on her voyage in less than two
hours.

" Commodore Boudin, Commander-in-Chief of the
French squadron, in the flag-ship El Dorado and five
steamers, with 600 soldiers, were on the eve of starting
to punish the Bijooga savages (cannibals), who plundered
a French vessel and butchered the crew—the custom of
these wretches, who torture and devour any miserable
beings wrecked upon their inhospitable shores. It is to
be hoped the brave old Commodore will give the natives
a wholesome lesson, and teach them that Europeans are
not to be insulted or eaten with impunity.
'Hid Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of Senegal
and Goree and Commodore Boudin visited Governor
O'Connor on board the Forerunner. Two notorious
slave-dealers, Captain Salas and his mate, who had been
convicted at Gambia, the former sentenced to six years'
transportation, broke out of the gaol at Bathurst and
escaped to Goree, where the Governor had caused them
to be arrested on suspicion. His Excellency ordered

the Spaniards to be placed in the military prison until
handed over to persons authorised by the Governor of
the Gambia to receive the felons. This is the proper
understanding to exist between foreign nations in their
distant colonies and settlements.

The African Mail Steam Company as yet have no
right to complain. The Hellespont, Commander Watts,
left Gambia with a full cargo on the 26th of November.
The Propontis, Commander Glover, crowded with pas-
sengers and a full cargo, no room for 15 tons of wax, at
Bathurst the 4th of Feb. ; and the Forerunner, Com-
mander Atkins, with a full cargo from the South Coast,
the cry. again No room.' At daylight, on the 27th,
the Forerunner made the Peak of Tenerife, and, after a
few hours' delay, proceeded on to Madeira."

COMMANDER It. C. MICHELL.—Amongst the appoint-
ments will be seen that of Commander It. C. Michell as
inspecting commander of the coast guard. This is one
of the first appointments of the First Lord Sir James
Graham, and we can safely affirm that no one will find
fault with it. If others are made with the same impar-
tial spirit, they will amply bear out Sir James Graham's
profession in the House of Commons. Commander
Michell is one of that class of officers who has gained
every step by his own services and merit ; he has never
had political interest, nor friends born before him with
power to assist him, though he comes from a long line of
a noble family. His last command was H.M.S. Sappho
in the West Indies, on the iron-bound coast of Honduras,
whose shores and waters the advancing sailor sees strewed
with the wrecks of successive years. On this dangerous
coast he had the misfortune of striking on a sunken
reef,—it might have befallen the ablest, and we have it
on the surest and best testimony, from pilots and practi-
cal men in those seas, that the Sappho was the only ves-
sel, under similar circumstances, ever saved from total
wreck, others having gone to a thousand pieces. She
was hove off from the reef with the loss of her rudder. A
gale of wind set in, she parted her cable on -the edge of
the reef, but the noble behaviour of her officers and crew
preserved her from wreck and to H. M. service. Let it
be observed, this service was performed by Commander
Michell when he was weak and suffering from a recent
attack of fever, and after he had broken his arm on two
different occasions in the execution of his duty. We
repeat again, well will Sir James Graham bear out his
assertions of disinterestedness if other appointments are
made in the same spirit of impartiality.—Portsmouth,
Times.

vV
Lord Stratford de Redcliff, the British ambas-
sador at Constantinople, has been received by the
Emperor and the Empress, in the apartments of
the latter.
On the Bourse yesterday a good deal of activity
was displayed, both in Rentes and Railway securi-
ties ; but the former did not maintain the quota-
tions of Wednesday, though.the latter generally
improved a shade. The Three per Cents. closed at
81f. 10c. for the account, being sc. lower, and the
Pour-and-a-Elalf per Cents. at 104 f. 50c, being a fall
of 40c. Bank Stock remained at 2,750 f., being
the former quotation after the heavy decline of the
previous two days. The market for railway shares
was firm, with a good demand for Northers at 901 f.
25c. for cash, and 906 f. for account ; Strasburg
and Bale at 366 f. 50c. for cash, and 368 f. for ac-
count ; and Caen and Cherbourg at 627 f. 50c. cash,
and 625 f. for account. A good deal of speculation
was observable in Paris and Rouen shares, which
were at one time as high as 1,078 f., but fell to
1,065 f and closed at 1,072 f. 50c.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL-MARCH 10.

.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was better to-day, and
closed steadily, but without much business.—Caledonian,
321 ; Chester and Holyhead, 221 ; Eastern Counties, 13 ;
Great Western, 91; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 77i ; Ditto
(fifth shares), 4 9-16 d. ; Leeds Northern, 16 ; Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 171 ; London and North-Western,
119 A ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 29a : Midland,
76 faj ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 ; York, New-
castle and Berwick, 17i ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
coln (6/. new), fi p.
MANCHESTER—MARCH 10.
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STOCK ExoriAXCri.-L-There was a better business, and
prices were rather higher. Great Northern, 4 p. ; Cale-
donian, 32, g ; Eastern Counties, 13 ; Leeds, 77, ; ditto
(pref.), 15i ; Dovors, 23, 9-16 ; London stock, 1194, ;
Sheffiehls, 29, ; Ditto, No. 1, 8 ; Ditto (new pref.)
9-16 p. ; Midlands, ng ; Manchester and Birmingham C.
Qrs, 1i ; East Anglian Six per Cents., 3i.