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Cruz on the 31st January :—The Challenger, 22 guns
Captain Kennedy, C. 8., with the broad pendant of Com-
modore 11. Dunlop, C. 8., senior officer; the Sanspareil, 89
guns, Captain itowyeon ; the Phaeton, 51 guns, Captain
Tatham; the Ja.son, 21 guns, Captain Van Donop ; and the
Desperate, 8 guns, Commander Ross.
The Swedish frigate Norrkopping, 32 guns and 340 men,
Captain Adlersparre, arrived at St. Thomas on the 30th of
January from New York, via St. Barth's.
The brig Cohn Campbell, which arrived at Barbadoes on
the Ist of February in 30 days from Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
took there Captain Lain and 13 of the crew of the barque
Eliz t, from New York for Queenstown on the 9th of Janu-
ary, left in a sinking condition; also Captain Fisher and
five of the crew of the American schooner Treasurer, from
Philadelphia for Boston, blown off and become leaky.

PRINCE NAPOLEON UPON THE OCCU-
PATION OF ROME.

The Moniteur publishes a full report of the de-
bate in the French Senate on Saturday. On the
paragraph relative to the Italian question, Prince
Napoleon expressed himself in substance as fol-
lows:

" I applaud, gentlemen, the vast erudition of my
honourable colleague, M. Bonjean ; but he must
allow me to draw this conclusion from his speech
—that the Pope ought to reign at Rome without
governing there. This conclusion was tried two
years sir.ce, and fell to the ground. Stich a solution,
however bad it may be, might have been adopted on
one condition—that both parties agreed to it. But
if the Pope energetically refuses ; if he says, ' I
will not even discuss the point,' what is to be done ?
There remains one thing to be done, which I wish
publicly to state—the withdrawal of our troops
from Rome. I accept beforehand that species of
blame which it has been attempted to throw upon
the opinions which I defend, styling them extreme
and Radical opinions. It imports little whether
they are extreme and Radical opinions ; the point
is to know whether they are just."
After a few ironical words in reply to M. de la
Gneronniere, Prince Napoleon continued :

" The Roman question ought to be settled. The
public mind ought to be quieted both as regards
spiritual and material interests. We have bad
enough of this Roman question. It has done us
much injury. It ought to be wound up. Ido not
hesitate to say that if France, through the organ of
its Emperor, takes a firm decision,all this excitement
will be stopped. The Emperor would thereby render
the greatest service to France and to the whole of
Europe. There is one word, gentlemen, which I shall
omit in my speech, and which I was sorry to see
mentioned from the Tribune—Venice. There is
agitation enough already ; we have quite enough on
our hands with the Roman question, and as
Venice is not mentioned in the Address, which
would imply so much, I shall not allude to it in my
speech. Ido not mean to say that we may not
have to allude to it on a future occasion, but
this is not the proper moment to do so. Ido
not purpose entering into the history of this
Italian question at such length as some preceding
speakers have done. I will simply recall to mind
the facts of 1861. An illustrious statesman dies ;
it was a serious incident which might have had the
most terrible consequences for Italy P How does
the Government of the Emperor act P The Govern-
ment of the Emperor, inspired by a
just apprecia-
tion of the political situation, reeognises the King-
dom of Italy. That was an act which I cannot speak
of in too high terms. The Emperor did not hesi-
tate ; he saw that the enemies of Italy might take
advantage of that fatal death, and at the very mo-
ment that that death might have inflicted a blow
upon the cause the triumph of which we had as-
sured beyond the Alps he gave it that aid which is
attached to the gratitude Italy feels for France.
Prince Napoleon then quoted the words of Napo-
leon 1., which he said he should like to see repeated
by Napoleon 111. In 1808 the Emperor said to the
deputies of the old Roman provinces,—
" Let the clergy confine themselves to matters
connected with Heaven. Theology, which they
study from their youth, entitles them to authority
in spiritual affairs, but does not give them any right
to meddle in army or Govergment matters. The
' decline of Italy dates from the day when the priests
got the management of the finances, police, and
army into their hands.' "
Prince Napoleon then quoted a circular of the
Emperor Napoleon 1., as follows :
" Considering that the confusion which has arisen
between the spiritual and the temporal authority,
which still exists, has been a source of discord, and
has often led the Pontiffs to use the influence of one
in the service of the pretentious of the other ; as
thus the affairs of Heaven, unchangeable from their
nature, are mixed up with terrestrial affairs, which,
according to their nature, change according to cit..;
cumstances and customs, we do decree," &c.
Prince Napoleon then quoted various other
sayings of Napoleon I. to show that the Papal
power ought to be limited to spiritual matters.
Prince Napoleon then quoted the celebrated letter
of Napoleon 111. (when only President of the Re-
public) dated Elysee National, August, 1849, to
Edgar Ney

The French Republic has not sent an army to
Rome to stifle liberty, but to regulate it," &c.
Prince Napoleon then passed in review the whole
policy of France towards Italy since the expedition
to Rome, and concluded as follows :
" And what do you want now. Italian unity is
established with the exception of Rome and Venice.
As regards Venice, that does not depend upon us ;
it does not come within our competence. But
Rome depends upon us; we are the involuntary
arbitrators of the Roman question, because we keep
French troops at Rome. . • • Agitation
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a French army across the Alps, or to let the
Austrians have their own way ! Is there any one
here to advocate the latter cause, and the destruc-
tion of Italian Unity ? (' No, no ! ' from various
senators ; 'it is inadmissible.') It is time (continued
the Prince) that this question should be settled. It
is bad for France, bad for Italy, bad for Europe.
Let us withdraw our troops from Rome. I have
full confidence that the solution of the Italian ques-
tion will terminate in the sense of unity; that no
other solution is possible under Napoleon 111. no
more than it could have been under Napoleon I. ;
that the spiritual power must be separated from the
temporal power, and that the shadow and the genius
of the great Emperor will inspire the decisions of
his successor."

(From the Faris Correspondent of the Times.)
The sharp animadversions passed on Austria by
Prince Napoleon in his speech to the Senate on
Saturday last, and which led to the stormy scene I
have already noticed, have given much offence at
Vienna. Prince Metternich, the Austrian Ambas-
sador in Paris, naturally called the attention of his
Government to the fact; and, without waiting for
any special instructions, addressed a note to M.
Th,uvenel on the following day, the 23d ult.
Prince Metternich commenced by observing that
in consequence of the bitter and repeated attacks on
o f
Austria proceeding from a member of
the Imperia
family who stood so near the throne, he should fail
in his duty as representative of the Emperor
Austria to the Court of the Tuileries if he kept
silent, particularly as the charges brought by Prince
Napoleon against the Austrian Government were
occasioned by an article in the Foglio di Verona,
which both in form and in substance was completely
false. Prince Metternich positively denied that his
Government should be considered responsible for
that article, for the simple reason that censorship
of the press no longer existed in Austria. Indeed,
this fact was established by M. de Bourqueney in
the Senate at the moment Prince Nopoleon was de-
livering his speech ; and M. de Bourqueney added
that the press in Austria was much more free than
the press in France, Prince Metternich also re-