The "New York Daily Times" of the 30th ult.,
alluding to the Immigration from Europe, says—

"On Thursday and Friday of last week 6832 foreign
emigrants landed on our shores, and since that time 7321 more have
arrived, making an addition, within lest than one week, of
14,153 persons to the population of this city by emigration
alone; and this process is going on from week to week, from
month to month, and from year to year. Can the history
of modem times show anything like it? Has there ever before
been a time when whole cities were emptied upon our wharfs in
a single week—when ships within a fortnight brought more
people among us than cities of half a century's growth contain?"

During the last month sixty-two ships under government
control sailed from Liverpool to Australia, carrying
no fewer than 23,280 passengers, including 1770
from the emigration depot at Birkenhead. The
parochial authorities of Liverpool are using exertions
to obtain a voluntary rate for the purpose of aiding
deserving paupers to emigrate to the antipodes. They
have recently availed themselves of a balance of an old
voluntary rate for this purpose. Last week, they
succeeded in sending away twenty hearty young girls, by
the Catherine Mitchell. Before the vessei left the
river, ten of them had been engaged as servants by
families on board.

Emigration from the Western Islands is proceeding
at a rapid rate under the auspices of the Highland and
Island Emigration Society. Last week 400 people
arrived in Glasgow, en route for Birkenhead government
depot, whence they will be shipped to Australia.
The greater number were from Skye; but a group of
thirty-six, formed of eight families, was from the rocky
and remote St. Kilda—the first emigrants thence.
Already two thousand persons have quitted Skye, by
means of the Emigration Society.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

The French journals have been filled with official
accounts (no others being permitted) of the Prince-
President's progress through the Southern Departments.
These accounts are a monotonous repetition of triumphal
entries, pageants, banquets, addresses, and displays of
unbounded public enthusiasm. We find among them,
however, a few remarkable and characteristic traits.

While the President was on his way to Avignon, an
"infernal machine" was seized by the police at
Marseilles, on the night of the 23rd ult. The Moniteur gave
the following account of the affair:—

"The Minister of General Police has for some time past
been on the trace of a secret society, of which the object
became every day more manifest. The members had resolved
to make an attempt on the life of the President. The city of
Marseilles had been chosen for the execution of the plot.
M. Sylvain Blot, Inspector-General of the Ministry of Police,
carefully followed its development and progress. The
construction of nn infernal machine having been resolved on,
several of the members set to work, and the machine was
quickly completed. It is composed of 250 gun-barrels, and four
large blunderbuss-barrels, the entire divided into twenty-eight
compartments. Those twenty-eight pieces were for greater
precaution deposited in twenty-eight different places until the
moment a suitable place could be found to fix and put the
machine together. The conspirators then occupied themselves
with the choice of a situation, which should naturally be
situate on the passage of the Prince President. They first
fixed their choice on a first story in a house in the Rue d'Aix,
whither they were to remove and raise the machine on the
night previous to that in which the President was to arrive at
Marseilles. Some suspicions which were excited in the minds
of the conspirators caused them to change their idea, and a
second locality was chosen. Like the first, it was situate on the
passage of the President, being on the high-road from Aix. An
entire house was hired. It is a small house, composed of two
stories, with two windows in front. The infernal machine was
to have been placed on the first floor. It was seized on that
spot. At the same moment, one of the conspirators was in the
very house in which the infernal machine was found. The
others were in their houses, or in the different places where the
police were assured of their presence."

There is considerable scepticism as to the truth of this
story, which is suspected to be a device to excite popular
enthusiasm. The official accounts describe the
President's reception at Marseilles as magnificent. But an
English eye-witness, writing in the Times, gives a very
different picture:—

"I was stationed, at the time of his arrival, on the Place
St. Ferreol, a good-sized square, close to the Prefecture, where
he was to alight. The square had been very handsomely
decorated, and turned into a parterre of flowers, surrounded on all
sides by a compact mass of soldiers; admittance within the
square being given by tickets, which were only granted to
persons of known character and respectability. My chief object
in going thither was to ascertain, from personal observation, the.
manner in which Louis Napoléon was received. I watched the
populace, both within and without the square, very closely and
attentively; and I ran assure you that there was not any
expression of feeling in his favour; with the exception of a few,
very few and feeble, cries of 'Vive Napoléon!' a sullen and
significant silence sat upon the multitude. The troops did not
utter a single cry. The President looked most wretched,
haggard, and careworn."

The President left Marseilles for Toulon, accompanied
by a strong fleet of war-steamers and men-of-war,
on the 27th. We are told that "the crews of the
vessels raised one sole cry of 'Vive l'Empereur!' and
the whole town responded. The squadron saluted
with its thousand cannon. Toulon and its roadstead
presented a spectacle as imposing as magnificent."
Returning from Toulon to Marseilles on the 29th,
President Bonaparte set out at once for Aix; passing
through Rognac and Septemes. He arrived at Aix
about four o'clock in the afternoon, escorted by soldiers,
generals, prefects, and an army of official persons. Aix
was formerly the capital of King René, father of Margaret
of Anjou, and the head-quarters of the troubadours.
King René, whose mind ran on such things, invented
and established a fête called "la Fête Dieu,"
representing the triumph of Christianity over Paganism.
This famous celebration was suppressed by the Convention;
revived in 1803 and in 1807. Associated with the
history of the Empire, the authorities of Provence thought
fit to revive it on the occasion of the visit of the inchoate
Emperor. Accordingly, the old mummeries were got up
afresh; and when M. Bonaparte entered Aix, an
histrionic procession, comprising King Herod and Jupiter,
the Queen of Sheba and Venus, the three Magi and the
three Zephyrs, besides hosts of forgotten personages,
angels, demons, bishops, and others, danced round the
imperial carriage to the music of flutes and tambourines.
This strange performance was followed by an address
from the mayor, and a gracious but insignificant reply
from M. Bonaparte. An address presented to the
President by the Mayor of a commune in the department of
the Hérault, is a parody on the Lord's Prayer:—

"Our Prince—You, who are in power by right of birth and by
the acclamation of the people, your name is everywhere glorified.
May your reign come, and be perpetuated by the immediate
acceptance of the imperial crown of the great Napoleon. May
your firm and wise will be done in France, as abroad. Give us
this day our daily bread, by reducing progressively the customs-
duty, so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary
to us, as also the exportation of what is superfluous. Pardon us
our offences, when you shall be certain of our repentance and
that we become better. Do not permit us to yield to the temptation
of cupidity and place-hunting, but deliver us from evil—
that is to say, from secret societies, from vicious teaching, from
the excesses of the press, from elections of every kind; and
continue to make it more and more a matter of honour, the practice
of morality and of religion, respect for authority, agriculture;
and industry, the love of order and of labour. Amen."

At La Teste, a deputation of young girls was
introduced to the President by the mayor of the town. They
were all dressed in white, and wore the high cap of their
district. They carried in neatly-woven baskets the
products of their part of France—namely, fish, oysters,
shells from the basin of Arcachon, fruit, honey, and
ears of rice. One of them, Mademoiselle Monpermey,
presented the following address:—

"Monseigneur,—Allow us to offer to your Imperial Highness,
in the name of the maritime and labouring population of
La Teste, with the expression of our unalterable devotedness,
this slight tribute of our Landes, and of the beautiful basin of
Arcachon, which one day attracted the attention of the Emperor,
and which our country would have been so proud to show you.'