proceeded to the Tuileries, preceded by squadrons of
National Guards, by their staff, and a body of mounted
Chasseurs; he rode alone fifteen paces ahead of his
staff, in the full uniform of a Lieutenant-General. The
Boulevards were lined with troops; a strong mass of
heavy cavalry followed the staff; and as they passed,
the regiments that kept the ground closed in and joined
the procession. In this way he proceeded to the
Tuileries; flowers falling at his horse's feet, and women
breaking the line at intervals, encouraged by M.
Bonaparte, three to present him with bouquets, one with a
paper. After he had entered the palace of the Tuileries,
he reappeared on the balcony, to bow to the acclamations
of trades' deputations. The same night he repaired to
the Elysée.

During the day a decree was posted in the streets of
Paris, reducing the octroi-duties on salt, pork, and
bacon, fifty per cent. The senate is convoked for the
4th November. The reason for this step is "the striking
manifestation which has just taken place throughout
France in favour of the re-establishment of the Empire."
The work of the senate will be to adopt a Senatus-
consultum recommending the Empire, and submit it for
ratification to the French people.

The President has restored Abd-el-Kader to liberty.
He visited the old Emir personally to communicate his
intention. During the interview Abd-el-Kader swore
on the Koran that he would never attempt to disturb
the French rule in Africa, and that he would submit
without any ulterior design to the will of France. He
is to reside in future at Broussa, in Turkey.

On the evening of the 22nd the President went in state
to the Théatre Français. The house was splendidly
ornamented with trophies and emblematical decorations,
and crowded with a vast assemblage of spectators. The
Prince was received by the director, M. Houssaye,
by whom he was conducted to his box; he was dressed
in plain clothes, and wore the Grand Cordon of the
Legion of Honour. The President was accompanied by
Marshal Jerome Bonaparte, M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, General de Saint
Arnaud, Minister of War, and Generals Roguet and de
Lourmel. The Princess Matilda occupied a box on the
first tier; and most of the ministers and great officers of
state were in the theatre. On the President's arrival
the acclamations and plaudits of the audience were loud
and general, and all the passages in the play, which was
Corneille's "Cinna; ou la Clémence d'Auguste," that
could be made to bear any allusion to the position of the
Prince President, and passing events, were eagerly
seized and warmly applauded by the audience. A little
after the tragedy had terminated, the curtain rose and
discovered Mile. Rachel clad in white, with her waist
encircled with laurel to represent the Muse of History.
The whole of the company was ranged behind her, and
at the bottom of the stage was a flag on which was to be
seen an imperial crown with the name of Napoléon III.
The great tragedienne then advanced, and, bending
lowly before the Prince's box, recited stanzas, composed
by M. Arsène Houssaye, for the occasion, entitled
"L'Empire, e'est la Paix." The verses were not
remarkable for anything but their very French tournure,
and the extravagant fulsomeness of their adulation.
The Prince is about to pay a similar visit to the Opera.

Favourable accounts are given of the commercial state
of France. In Paris, manufacturers, shopkeepers, and
tradesmen of all kinds anticipate an unusually brilliant
winter. The country traders are making larger
purchases than they have been in the habit of doing for
some time. One sign of the good state of trade is to
be found in the fact of the Paris manufacturers
increasing the wages of their operatives in order to have
a sufficient number of hands. It is, however, remarkable
that no rise, at least none to any extent, has taken
place in the value of the raw material, and whenever
an attempt has been made it has been defeated by
foreign competition. The improvement of trade in the
capital and the provinces has been turned to account by
the ironmasters, and reports relative to that particular
branch of industry are favourable.

An attempt to escape has been made by some of
the convicts stationed on the Isles du Salut, at
Guyana. These islands, it appears are obliged to
procure their supplies of fresh water from the continent,
and a schooner called the Citerne was employed for the
purpose. One day, when this vessel was as usual about
to discharge its cargo, several convicts resolved on the
execution of a plot to possess themselves of it, and to
sail away. As its crew was very small in number, it is
probable they would have easily succeeded in their
design; but the man-of-war, the Dugueslin, of 80 guns,
at anchor in the roadstead, perceived what they were
about, and sent several boats against them. The
convicts resisted, and force was employed to subdue them.
Several of them were wounded; two were stabbed so
seriously by bayonets that they had to be conveyed to
the hospital, and died in a short time.

At Madrid, on the7th inst., funeral honours were paid
to the memory of the Duke of Wellington, who was also
Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, and a captain-general of the
Spanish army. At twelve o'clock the entire garrison of
Madrid, in full dress, assembled before a mausoleum
erected for the occasion, and there rendered all the
honours to the memory of the Duke which is paid to a
deceased captain-general. The ti'oops afterwards
defiled before the Captain-General of the Province, who
was accompanied by the military governor and a
numerous and brilliant staff. There was no religious
ceremony, in consequence of the Duke having been a
Protestant.

At Vienna, funeral honours have been paid to the
memory of the Duke of Wellington, who was a field-
marshal in the Austrian army, and decorated with the
order of Maria Teresa. The whole garrison of Vienna
assisted at the ceremony. The drums were muffled, the
flags craped; the Emperor appeared in mourning at the
head of his generals; and twelve batteries fired three
rounds over the imaginary bier. Lord Westmorland
was in attendance on the Emperor. A deputation
consisting of a whole officer's corps, headed by their colonel,
are to be sent to London to attend the funeral. A
deputation will also be sent from the 27th Regiment of
Prussian infantry, which the Duke commanded.

Letters from Vienna speak of shocking barbarities
perpetrated in the Austrian dominions. "Every eight
or nine days," says one account, " the second column of
the 'Wiener Zeitung' contains what is here commonly
called the 'bill of fare' of the Military Court, and the
last which has been laid before the public is even less
inviting than usual. Public opinion has so energetically
and repeatedly condemned the system of flogging women,
that the following extract will hardly fail to excite as
much indignation abroad as it has done here:—'Elizabeth
Hickmann, a machinist's wife, twelve stripes with
a rod and eight days' arrest in irons in the military
prison.' It appears, on inquiry, that the person
subjected to this severe and ignominious punishment had
been guilty of impertinence to a policeman or a soldier.
This is the first time that a Vienna court-martial has
sentenced a married woman and a mother to be flogged.
It is but just to observe that even military men of the
very highest rank are heartily tired and ashamed of a
system which, to use their own language, 'can lead to
no good.'"

The opening of the Vienna Customs Congress,
appointed for the 20th, was postponed in consequence of
the absence of several delegates. M. Von Stockhausen,
the new Hanoverian minister at the Austrian court,
was admitted to present his credentials on the 21st.
The Hanoverian government appears fairly to have sat
down to wait the issue of the events now taking place in
Vienna and Berlin. Its commissioner to the Zollverein
conferences at Berlin was recalled on the 30th ult., and
his post has since remained vacant. Letters from
Hanover state, moreover, that an equal reticence is
observed towards Austria, the invitation to send a
representative to the Vienna conferences having been
declined. The Vienna papers publish accounts of yet
more extensive damage from the inundations in the
south of the empire. At Fiume the American mill
has been carried clean away by the flood, the proprietors
sustaining a loss of 200,000 florins. The tobacco
manufactory and the hospital also stand in the water. The
district of Posavura is said to have suffered in a higher