The quarrel of the Danes and the Schleswig-Holsteiners has resulted in a great battle and a small
protocol; the battle bringing some seventy thousand men into the field, sacrificing lives by thousands, and
settling nothing; the protocol wasting but an ordinary-sized sheet of paper, requiring but the signatures
of England, France, and Russia, and bidding fair (for the present at least) to settle everything. For, though
Prussia and Austria withhold their assent to the protocol, there is every reason to believe that the gallant little
duchies must now submit; and no doubt their fate will point a moral and adorn a tale for Mr. Cobden, General
Haynau, and the other members of the Universal Peace Congress now assembled to speechify at Frankfort.

America has received a new and apparently satisfactory batch of governing ministers from Mr. President
Fillmore, who makes Mr. Webster, a man of genius, his principal secretary of state; but the hope of any
amicable settlement of the slavery dispute has again received a decisive check. Spain is in great grief for a
famous bull-fighter, lately tossed and mangled by a fierce Andalusian bull; and a daily bulletin is issued.

The French Assembly broke up on the 9th, without
any formal prorogation. On that day there was "no
house," there being only 230 present instead of 376, the
number required by law: so the assembly closed its
session by being "counted out." It re-assembles on the
11th of November. The committee of surveillance is
to sit during the recess, and a majority of its members
are to be always resident in Paris.

On the 12th, the President set out on an extensive
tour through the Provinces. He had previously given
several military banquets, which, from their imperial
aspect, and the political spirit manifested by the guests,
created a great sensation. On one of these occasions, a
dinner to the officers of a portion of the garrison of Paris,
it is told, that after the company left the table, they
adjourned into the garden to smoke their cigars; and
there Louis Napoleon, seeing a musket (probably put
there on purpose), took it up, and went through the
manual exercise with great dexterity, to the great
delight of the sergeants and corporals, who shouted
"Vive le petit Corporal!" (the Emperor's pet-name
among the soldiers) with great enthusiasm.

The French Journals, are filled with accounts of the
President's journey; but their details are of a very
monotonous kind; descriptions of triumphal entries
into towns; receptions and harangues by the authorities
right royally responded to; reviews; balls, and visits to
theatres; every movement attended by shouting crowds
generally testifying great enthusiasm for the name of
Napoleon, and the memory of the Emperor, not
unfrequently mingled, however, with manifestations of
republicanism; and it is singular enough, the existing
government being a republic, that the republican cries
have the air of proceeding from disaffected
malcontents. The President has been liberal in his
distribution of crosses of the Legion of Honour,
sometimes accompanied with gratuities in money to old
officers, and soldiers of the Imperial Army. At Dijon
he thus decorated, adding a present of 500 francs, an
old soldier who had served under the Emperor in Egypt
and had lost his feet, frozen in the retreat from Moscow.
—At Lyons the President's reception was peculiarly
favourable, and the day he spent there the most brilliant
of his journey. He was entertained at a splendid
breakfast in the Jardin d' Hiver, got up by subscription,
and attended by an immense assemblage, full of
enthusiasm. At noon there was a grand review of
troops. He then visited many of the manufactories in
the Faubourg des Croix Rousses, the most turbulent
quarter of the city, into which he went with scarcely
any escort. Afterwards he was entertained at a grand
dinner by the Chamber of Commerce, where the scene
was quite sentimental à la Française. On his health
being toasted with immense acclamations, he made a
speech in acknowledgment, which he concluded thus:—
"On the eve of bidding you farewell, permit me, I pray
you, gentlemen, to remind you of certain expressions
that have been celebrated. But, no! I cannot go on,
it would be too much vanity on my part to say to you
as the Emperor said, 'People of Lyons, I love you.'
You will, however, I trust, allow me to say to you,
which I do from the bottom of my heart, 'Lyonnese, I
pray you love me.'" These words, spoken with some
emotion, produced an electrical effect on the audience;
every man stood up, and a triple round of applause
responded to the petition preferred by the President
of the Republic, and cries of "Oui, oui, nous vous
aimons!"

The evening was concluded by a visit to the theatre.
As he entered his box the whole house rose with the cry
of "Vive le President! Vive Napoleon!" On three
different occasions a .solitary voice from the upper
gallery cried, with all the force of his lungs, the more
earnest that it was not responded to, "Vive la
Republique!" It is scarcely necessary to say that the
house was crammed from top to bottom.

On several subsequent occasions the President was
more roughly received, particularly at Basançon, when
a ball, given to him, became the scene of a violent
disturbance. A torrent of the populace burst into the
room, shouting "Vive la Republique!" and causing the
utmost terror and confusion. Amid the shrieks of ladies,
the company and the President himself, hastily
abandoned the room, leaving it in possession of the rioters;
but General Castellane, who, sword in hand, had
protected the President's retreat, ordered a charge of
cavalry on the mob in the street; and at the same time
the room was cleared at the point of the bayonet. At
another ball, in the theatre, he was well received. He
afterwards proceeded to Strasburgh, where, and throughout
Alsace, his reception was of a chequered kind;
acclamations of multitudes mingled with strong marks of
disaffection. At Strasburgh a conspiracy against his life
was detected and several arrests took place in consequence.
On the 23rd, the President left Strasburgh for Nancy,
and Metz.

There has been a sort of Congress of Legitimists at
Wiesbaden, assembled round the Count de Chambord,
who assumes a royal state, keeping a sort of court, and
giving formal receptions and audiences to his adherents,
with whom the little town has been filled. Among
them were M. Berryer, General de St. Priest, and M.de
la Rochejaquelin.

Little progress in the German Question has as yet
been made by the Congress at Frankfort. At a meeting
on the 8th, at which Count Thun, the Austrian
plenipotentiary, presided, it was decided that Austria should
formally invite all the members of the Bund to assemble
at Frankfort on the 1st of September next. A circular
note of the 18th of August, in which the Minister-
President reiterates the assurances so solemnly given in
the circular of the 19th July, that it is the earnest wish
of Austria to make such reforms in the Act of Confederation
as may be required by the recent change of
circumstances in Germany, and may conduce to the unity of
the common fatherland, was accordingly despatched
with the Frankfort summons to the difterent courts on
the l5th. It remains to be seen whether Prussia and
the League will accept this proposal.

In Piedmont a great sensation has been produced by a
collision with the papal power. The Sardinian Minister
of Finance, the Cavalière Santa Rosa, who had
supported the ministry in passing the law which rendered
the clergy amenable to the civil courts, being on his
deathbed, was refused the sacrament by the monks,
under the direction of Franzoni the Archbishop of
Turin. At his funeral such excitement was manifested
by the people, that to avoid an actual outbreak, the
monks were ordered to leave the city, and the possessions
of their order were sequestered. In the search through
their house, documents were found which inculpated
the Archbishop Franzoni himself, and he was
consequently arrested and imprisoned in the fortress of
Fenestrelles. Both Austria and Rome, however, have