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were admitted at that price, aud E10O0 sterling
were taken at the doors. The demand for sea-
son tickets also continued, and the receipts al
together were estimated at $4,000 dav.
The following Americans were presented to
the Queen at her drawing room or eevee bv
the American Minister, Hon. Abbott Lawrence,
on the 9th inst. Hon. Charles Il. lIaddock.
Charge d'Aflars of the United States to Por.
tngal, Capt. Joshua Sand, Lieut.. L. L. Avery.
Lieut.. John X. Duer, and Lieut. Geo. If. Pre-
BILE, of the United States Frgaie ST Lawrence.
! The London correspondent of the CONNER
c,al Advertiser writes as follows, under date OF
May 9th:
Nothing further has been done with the bill
| against the Papal aggression. The vote agans t
tie Ministers on the income tax caused them
to postpone it or it would have been proceeded
with early this week. 1t is now to be taken up
next week.
| The effect produced by the brilliant opening
OF the exhibition appears to have been univer-
sal, and the daily receipts are beyond previous
anicipations.
| The money market is without alteration, but
there is still considerable depression in prices
In our various manufacturing districts.
The Board of Trade returns for the month
ending on the 9th of April last have been is
sued, and are again remarkably favorable
| They show an increase of fllSl,4 44 on the
declared value of our expectations the total
being E6,965 ,l96, against C57S3,752 in the
corresponding month of last wear. The total
increase in the first quarter IF the present year
over the first quarter otthe previous year 1850
is 81 ,S6S,l9l.
FRANcE.-From Paris we learn that the 4th
OF May, The anniversary of the proclamation of
the republic had passed off without the slirhtes,
| n nj at a.
unavorabe for the spectacle, but the crowds
OF spectators were very great. The fireworks
were failure, in consequence of the heavy
rains. The intended Bonapartist banquet in
the suburbs was prohibited by the authorities.
The festival also passed off in Lyons, and the
other chief cities OF France, with profound tran
guilty.
PoRTUGAL-From Portugal we have late
Intelligence, with accounts from Lisbon to the
18th, and OportO to the 30th ult. The tele-
graphic dispatches received by way Of Paris
and Madrid, announcing the nsurrection of the
Oporto garrison on the 29th April, are fully
confirmed. No contest, however took place.
and but three lives were lost, viz: two soldiers
and Col. Cardozo OF the ID Infantry, who was
shot by his own men, while trying to quel the
revolt.
Marshal Saldonha entered Ooorto on the 9th
ILL.,, and was greeted with the most enthusi-
astc reception by the entire city, which turned
out to meet him. The instruction in his favor
was spreading in all parts of the Kingdom.
Everywhere the troops were unanm rus for his
course: and were m archng TO Join him from all
points.
The King had left Coimbra, and was retreat
INC from Lisbon, most Of the forces under his
command having pronounced for the revolution.
m 1tn lv ntt tho g
volt was known in the capital, Count Thomar's
ministry resigned, and the Count himself fled
from Lisbon, having been conveyed from thence
to Nlgo III the British mail steamer Montrose.
where he remained, watching the turn of events
The Queen thereupon entrusted the formation
OF ministry to the Duke of Terceira, but it
was thought the Duke would decline.
Fears were entertained of the rising of the
popular or Junta party, unless the Queen should
quickly take steps to clothe the victorious Sal
danha with full powers to form ministry =
and 1t was further feared that sSaldanho', party
would require the abdication of tho Queen, ana
the proclamation of u regency. A Spanish
army Of observation was being collected on the
frontier.
AUsTRIA.-From Vienna it is stated that
note had been forwarded to Constantinople, de
handing the detention for two years longer, of
fourteen Of the Hungarian tugitives. Austria
offers to bear the expense
The new press law of Prussia. as amended
by the debates going on in the second chamber.
promised to be equal TO the Severcst press laws
in Europe.
It is stated in some of the German Journals
says Galignani's Messenger) hostile to the
Austrian Government, that fresh symptoms Of
agitation are perceptible III Hungary. A let
ter from Vienna st1tpS that the nritntion H. CON
fined TO the question of the tobacco monopoly. !
which encounters much opposition; but that
otherwise, the suppression Of the late revolt
has produced IA feeling Of attachment to the
Austrian Government on the part of the peas
antry, as 1t has relieved them from the tyrurny
and cXactlonS of the hungarian mobiles, many
OF whom had taken part in the nsurrection only
IN the hope OF cmanclpatlng themselves from
the control OF Austria, which was beginning to
espou,c the cause of the productive classes
PRUssIA.--Ihe Diet was to meet at Frank
fort 10Th May. There was probability of diff
ilculty IN the settlement Of the SchlcSwig Hol.
stein affairs; Denmark having shown symp-
toms of eXactng more than the Prussian and
Austrian Commissioners were willing to con-
cede.
SAXoYY.-A plcnary meeting of the Con-
ference took place on I'd May. at which the re-
ports Of the four great committees were dis
tnbuted to the plenlpotentlares, in order that
they might be sent on to their several govern
mCntS.
The SoUTH CAROLINA AGIrArIoN--The
Washington correspondent of the Journal off
Commerce writes
Mr. Pettgrue, the U. st. District Attorney
from South Carolina, is here and has been fire.