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ment, and understands that he has been promoted
as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Ber-
lin. vice Lord Bloomfield, who retres on pension.
Admiral Lord Lyons died at Arundel Castle on
the 2ith of November after Il short illness. He
had just completed his 6Sth year. His last service
was the command of the squadron which accompa-
MED Queen Victoria to CherbOurg The London
Times in its obituary notice characterizes Lord Ly
ons the most ustrious Admiral in the British
Navy and saws he nObly earned his pcerage by his
services in the Black Sea and the Crimea. Lord
Lyons is succeeded in the title by Mr. Lyons, the
British Minister at Florence, and who is spoken Of
for the mission to Washington.
The task of completing the Great Eastern steam
ship was about to commence and it is considered
certain that she will be ready to make her first trip
to Portland by midsummer next. The first years
trips of the vessel are to be between England and
Portland but where she will be eventually en-
ployed is at present undecided. A suggestion that
she should be the pioneer Of great trunk line of
communication between England and India was IA
vorably received
The London Times in response to the defence by
the American press, of Mr.. Commissioner Reed,
reterates its charges against that gentleman, and
says that ''a comparison of the English treaty
which obtains everything, with the American,
which obtains nothing is all that is necessary to
prove its assertions.
Intelligence had reached Lloyd's within the
space OF two three days, of the loss of fewer
than eight Quebec homeward bound ships including
the Peerless, Barbara, and Rankin, barqucs Lady
Campbell, Petrol and Claude, and the brig Wilkin-
son; Except in the case Of the Claude there
little no loss of life.
The same journal has a satirical article on the
proposition, alleged to be in contemplation at
Washington, to place tax on tea, drawing atten-
ton to the manner in which like proposition was
treated at Boston in l773. 1t says-"An American
seli-impoSed tea tax certainly teaches one lesson,
aud that's, that it is not bad government much
as meddling, domineering government, that
al, lates the members of free State"
The British Board of trade returns exhibit a
large increase in the shipment of cotton manufac-
lures.
William Lemar Oliver, the Lendon Stock Bro
ker, who was found guilty Of forgery and applying
to his own use securities and property entrusted to
his care had been sentenced to twenty years penal
servtude.
The rate of insurance on the over due steamship
Indian Empire had advanced to 35@40 per cent.
and even at these extreme charges, transactions
could not be effected to any extent The owners
had published statement that they had no inteli-
gence of her having left Halifax.
The Canadian Ne,cs has undoubted authority for
saying that, although Her Majesty finds it imposs
bic for her and the Prince consort to pay visit to
Canada, short interval only will elapse before
of the young princes will go there.
FRANCE.
TRIAL OF NJ. DE MONTALEMBERT.
The trial was held in the Sixth Chamber of Cor
rectional Police small court, holding scarcely two
hundred people, adjoining the precincts of st.
Chapelle. The spectators were admitted by tickets
of which ten given to VI. de MOntalembert.-
The court was crammcd-a few ladies being pres
ent, among them the Countess Montaembert and
her daughter, and Madame Arthur Berryer. NJ.
Berrver was counsel for the Count, and VI. Dufaure
counsel for NJ. Dauniol the geront of the Cores.
pondont. NJ. Odillon Barrot and the Due de Broglie
at the side of Count de M0ntalembert The
defence of NJ. Dauniol was that NJ. de Montalem-
bert's article was published in his Absence without
his seeing it,
The French government through its advocate
the PrOcureur lmperia-a subordinate crown
lawyer-declares that NJ. dc Montalcmbert had laid
France PROSTATE at the feet of England. ''I ou
have" he cried to NJ. de Montalembert vehement
ly, 'struck France in the face, yes struck her in
the face-unwOrthily struck her in the face"
Fous Parer troPpe az cisoge-oui JrdPPe a" Ctsage,
indigRen,em trdppe az riSdgc.)
NJ. de Montalembert, in "A striking speech, made
admissions, in answer to questions put to him, to
the effect that he admired the political institutions
of England, and regretted that France had lost
them, and then recapitulating those parts of his
paper which had been declared offensive attacks up
the French Emperor and the French govern
ment, he denied that he did in a sense forbidden
by the law. The Procureur General opened his
charge, it is said very tecbly NJ. Chalk d Est
Age sat behind him, it is said, looking at NJ de
Muntalembcrt like a chained tiger but, prac-
tisng in the higher courts, he was unable
to speak in this inferior court. NJ. Berryer then
replied in Il speech declared to have been the most
magnificent Grafton he ever delivered. One who
was present writes: 81 have heard all the most dis
tnguished advocates of the present day in England
and think am not carried beyond the bounds of
sober Judgment by the enthusiasm of the moment
when | offer the opinion that none of them, in
point of cIoGucnce of the highest ORDER are at all
comparable either to NJ. Berryer or NJ. Duiaure.-
NJ. Bcrryer, quivcrng with contagious passion,
and yet never for a moment forgetting the legal
points of his case during speech OF three hours,
was one of the finest sights ever saw in my lic.-
Daiause. regarded a mere lawyer, is probably
the greatest at the French Bar, but he is much
more than a mere lawyer. His severe logic and
concentration remind me, somewhat, Ot the late Sir
William Follett, but he is much more eloquent.
NJ. Berrycr exclaimed pass;onatcsy, under his CA
citement, that to affirm that France did not now
possess liberty, was not an attack upon the govern
mpnt but merely the assertion of notorious and
undeniable fact; and the President instantly inter
rupted him. by telling him that he was exceeding
the broad limits allotted to counsel; that he was,
in fact, doing that for which NJ. de Montalembert
stood arranged at the bar. "What!' cried NJ
Berrvcr, in indignant astonishment; ''must | then
throw up nv brief? Have ] lost my reason and
conscience? 4? Do | understand what the Court
means? Can it be that counsel Is construed as
attacking the government because he will not say
that black is white? Why, it is the boast OF the
government that it has bartered liberty for order;
and it h0s done so, it says with the consent of the
French peoples that am not here to deny-but 1t
has done it. Yes, France has repudiated her own
liberty" After examining the state of the law
under which the accusation made through sue
cessive reigns he concluded his speech with most
brilliant peroration, which excited general shout
amazement of the electrified officials, who, under
the direction of the President, NJ. Berthelin, had
commanded that no demonstration should be made
Although active search was made, no delin-
quent was detected.
After half an hour adjournment, the Procureur
Imperial replied, and NJ. Dutaure went on with the
defence of NJ. Dauniol. NJ. Dutaurc's defence was
most able He quoted speeches recently delivered
by men in high position, which said no less than
NJ. de Montalembert had written; but his law, his
logic, his eOquence, were employed in vain. The
Judges retired at six O'Clock for an hour on the
pretence of deberation, and at seven returned with
a verdict OF six months imprisonment ana ine OF
3 200 francs against NJ. de Montalembert, and one
months Imprisonment, and fine of 900 francs
against NJ. Daunol together, jointly and severally,
condemnng both in the costs of the trial, and, In
default of payment, Imprisonment for one year.
An appeal to the Imperial Court is open to the
prisoners and it is declared that NJ. de Montalem-
bert will exercise his right
1t is said that Prince Napoleon, desiring to de
vote himself exclusively to the Government of Al
gera, is about to resign the administration OF the
colonies into the hands of the Minister of Marine
The Jewish Consistory had resolved on prosecu-
ting NJ Veuilot, of the Lnirers, for having accused
the Jews of annbalism-OccasiOnally breaktasting
or lunching on little children.
A telegram from Paris says: at is reported that
an Ango-French feet will leave on the 10Th of De
cember for the Gulf of Mexico. The French feet
will have board battery of artillery, in order
to oppose any enterprise of the ilibusters against
Central America"
The Patrie reiterates the story that the Emperor
of Russia will probably visit Paris in the Spring.
The Bourse was feeble the 26th, but the
three per cents were not lower; they closed at
7If l5c for money, and 74f. 25c. for account.
SPAIN.
A Madrid telegram of November 23d announces
that Senior Ros d'Oano had been appointed Cap
! tain-G General of Madrid, but that General Concha
will remain in Havana until the difficulties with
| Mexico are arranged.
The squadron destined to act against the Riff pi-
rates left Cadiz the 22d ut. and the second di-
vision of the squadron destined to act against Mex
leo had also sailed from the same port.
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
| Late advices report that much damage had been
done to the shipping during the late severe
weather, particularly to foreign vessels. NO de-
! tails given.
| The Bank of Frankfort has reduced its rate OF
discount from five to four per cent
| The PrusSian elections had resulted in the com
! pete triumph of the constitutional party. The
new ministry is supported by three-fourths of the
| deputies whose return is as yet known.
AUSTRIA.
A telegram from Vienna, dated 2jth November,
! announces that important reductions in the army
| had been accomplished. A rumor was current that
! the Austrian Cabinet had despatched note to the
Court of Sardinia, protesting against the vehement
policy of the Cavour Cabinet
ITALY.
! The King of Naples is said to have decided that
! all foreigners employed in his States must cause
themselves to be naturalized.
CHINA.
Telegrams of China news, additional to that re-
ceived per City of Washington, state that the Com
| missioner from the Imperial government has JUST
| arrived at Shanghai to arrangethe tariff, &c.
| At Canton business wasstil suspended, but thepo-