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SCN LaNDON, THURSDAY I+_.]:IVEN I NG, FEBRUARY 4, 1858

lost his bead in consequence thereof. If it had
the effect of keeping our countrymen at home,
and inducing them to visit the beautiful districts
in their native land, in place of becoming the
victims of foreign extortion, we should not regret
the change. As it is, we cannot compliment the
EMPEROR or his advisers on the prospects or
expediency of the stringent measure.

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LA FEST NEWS.

and the point of land opposite, was opened a
few days since by King Otho, in person. Vessels
going to Salonica and Constantinople now pass
through the channels of Egripos and Talante,
instead of going to the east of Karystos and Eubcoa.

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FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur publishes the following Imperia
decreee

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF
OF PRUSSIA.

" Napoleon, by the grace of God and the na-
tional will Emperor of the French, to all whom
these presents may concern, greeting.
" Desirous of giving to our well-beloved uncle
Prince Jerome Napoleon a mark of our high con-
fidence, we have resolved to invest him, as we now
do invest him by these presents, with the right of
attending the ordinary and extraordinary meetings
of our Council, wishing him to preside thereat
during our absence, and this in conformity to our
instructions and our orders.

ANT \VERP, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Royal squadron arrived in the Scheldt this
morning at 11, and reached Antwerp at 4 o'clock.
The Prince and Princess were received on land-
ing by the King of the Belgians, the English and
Prussian Ambassadors, the Consuls, and the civil
and military authorities of Antwerp.
The Royal party drove at once to the railway
station, and left by special train at 5 for Brussels.
Immense crowds lined the quays and the streets
traversed by the procession, and the Royal couple
were everywhere received wtih enthusiastic accla-
mations.

"Our Minister of State is charged to communi-
cate these presents to our Keeper of the Seals, to
be inserted in the Bulletin, des Lois.

" Done at our Palace of the Tuileries, February
1, 1858.

The Princess Royal looked remarkably well.

" NAPOLEON.
"Countersigned, ACHILLE FOULD.
Minister of State.
M. Billault's new penal law has certainly been
deprived of much of its most obnoxious qualities
by the intervention of the Emperor. It is still,
however, harsh in character, and may prove a for-
midable engine in the hands of some future Minis-
ter. It is thought that it will receive further modi-
fications in the Legislative Corps. Thera aro two
or three reasons why this hope is entertained. The
Emperor is known to be averse to severe or op-
pressive measures. The law encountered strenuous
opposition in the Council of State, and even with
extraneous appliances had only a majority of four,
and those considerations lead the public to hope,
now that the highest interposition has diminished
their alarm, that it will undergo a further purifica-
tion in Committee, It was in the 7th clause, as it
originally stood, that the power was given to
remove to the interior of France or of Algeria, or
to expel from the French territory, not only those
who were condemned to punishment, expelled, or
transported in May or June, 1848, June, 1849,
and December, 1851, but also those merely eloig-
nes (not exputses) on the last-mentioned occasion.
Gentlemen of irreproachable conduct and of emi-
nent condition would thus have been placed at the
mercy of the authorities. The alarm was great,
and some intimated their determination of imme-
diately quitting the country. The Emperor's atten-
tion was called to the fact, and his Majesty, without
delay, ordered the oppressive clause to be ex-
punged.
It appears certain that in consequence of the
observations addressed to the Sardinian Cabinet
by the English and French Governments, the note
which was to have been presented to the Neapolitan
Government has been withdrawn.
At 1 o'clock to-day the Emperor reviewed the por-
tion of the Imperial Guard at present in Paris, to-
gether with the infantry regiments lately arrived,
and the Ist and 4th Hussars. The infantry were
formed in battalions in the Court of the Tuileries—
the artillery of the guard and the cavalry on the
Carrousel. The infantry presented 10 lines, and
were formed in the following order :—The two bat-
talions of the Gendarmerie of the Guard formed
one line ; the four battalions of the Gren idiers two
lines ; the Zouaves one line; the battalion of Rifle-
men one line ; a second battalion of Riflemen and
four regiments of infantry, five lines. A space was
reserved between the infantry of the Guard and
that of the line, to permit the Emperor and his
' Staff to pass between them. On the Place du Carrou-
sel were drawn up two batteries of the Imperial
Guard on one line, four squadrons of Lancers of
the Guard, one line ; eight squadrons of Hussars,
two lines. The Emperor mounted his horse at one
o'clock, and the air instantly resounded with the
noise of the drums and the music of the military
bands, intz,nnixed with cries of " Five l'Emperettr."
Prince Albert of Prussia rode on the Emperor's
right, and Prince Napoleon on the left, wearing the
grand sash of the Black Eagle of Prussia. Then
followed the Princes Frederic Charles and Adalbert
of Prussia, the latter wearing the uniform of G' and
Admiral, the Austrian Prince Liechtenstein, ii
an Austrian hussar uniform, then Marshals Vail-
lant, Magnae, Canrobert, and Bosquet, Generals de
de St. Jean d'Angely, Espinasse, and
RSto.ißliileguault, ,
fulloweclby acrowd of Prussian and Austrian
staff officerp, and finally a platoon of Cent. Gardes.
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mated at 12,000 men.
infantry, 12 squadrons

FRENCH REFUGEES,

M. LE PRESIDENT,—A— Frenchman, after having
committed a crime or a misdemeanour in a
foreign country, can, in taking refuge in France,
shelter himself from judicial pursuit.
Why should the French Government, without
modifying its jurisprudence, established in prin-
ciple and in fact (Art. 5 and 7 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure), wish you to detract from
your fundamental laws ? And this on occasion of an
action prepared and combined abroad. French-
men themselves who had contributed to the pre-
paration of the act of January 14, could shelter
themselves from French authority in returning
to France before any judicial pursuit in Eng-
land. What object is there in demanding the
extradition, if not to get secretly at the refugees,
since even these latter, recognising their com-
plicity, could n,,t be pursued under the French
laws. Receive, Monsieur, I pray you, the homage
of A POLITICAL REFUGEE.

following
THE BOURSE, Feb. 3. The
closing quotations:—
were the
4.i per Cents ......... 95
Do. end m0nth...... -
3 per Cent. ..... 68 90
Do. end m0nth...... 69 15
Bank Sh ires .• 02°0
Credit Mobilier ••• 940
Do. Acc0unt......... 915 --

Credit Foncier .........
4i............
Piedinontese (5) .......
Roman
..• . ................ SS?.
Austrian Spanish Three5'..........
........... .....
Uome es .........
Debt ............. i 1
VAYS. 36

RAIL'

Orleans
Northern ...
New Ditto BO5
Lyon and Meditoran. 887.3
New Ditto B4O
Geneva

....
................. 550
Strasburg
Western
................. 690
Grand Central
..
• .............. 705
........ 650
Sariiinian
............... 497?
Austrian
...............

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, FEB. 1.
After some caustic remarks on the con,luot of th e
British Cabinet on the question of the free naviga-
tion of the Danube, a semi-official Austrian corre-
spondent of the Augsburg gazette expresses his
astonishuiont that is shoal venture to maintain
the right of the Paris Conference to revise the Act
for the Navigation of the Danube after having
officially communicated to the Austrian Govern-
mentoie
c a memorandum drawn up by the " 1,1"
ff rs of the Crown" in April, 1857, in which are
the following passages
"All that is provided
(in the Treaty of Paris) is, that
both Commissions shall have completed within the
space of two years the duties respectively assigned to
them for performance within those two years,
namely, as regards the European Commission (at
Galatz) the determination and execution of the
requisite works, and
t" compilation of the tariff
charges ; and, as regards the River Commission, the
compilation of the regulations fur navigation and river
police, and the removal of all obstacles to the applica,
iion to the Danube of the arrangement of the Treaty of
Vienna ; and that they shall report to the Coat:rem:le
that they have done 8"1—not, however, that the Con-
ference should ratify or confirm what they have dune,
but should merely record tho fact of its having been
done, and thereupon pronounce the dissolution of the
European Comtniviion,"
The sentence
With which the Memorandum
tioishel runs thus

"It would seem, by
reference to the terms of the
18th Article of the Treaty of Paris, that there is no
provision made for those regulations being ever re-
vised or approved by the couteries,ce, whose duty, as
far es the working of the article goes, would teem
to be limited to receiving from the European and
zl
River Commissioners and recording the notice hat
they have cotepleted the task which by the 16th and
17th Articles of theeonvention they were called upon to
execute within two years. .

The Austrians
Pthitively maintain that there is
nothing in the Riverain Convention which is not
in strict keeping with the Act of the Congress of
Vienna, but the assertion is not correct.

The Journal de GREECE.
St. Petersbortrg announces, as
news, that the canal between Eubwa and the main-
land of Greece is completed, and admits of the
passage of vessels
of the very largest size ;
bat it appears to me that it was finished
some time ago. The suspension- bridge
over the canal, (Egrifos)
•between Challis