altar. The meaning of this is, that there exists in France
a government animated with the faith and the love of good,
which reposes on the people, the source of all power, on the
army, the source of all force—and on religion, the source of
all justice."

The property of Villeneuve, near St. Cloud, has been
recently purchased for £44,000 for the President. This
estate is said to be destined for the English lady who
accompanied him to France.

The French President left Paris on Saturday morning,
the 17th, to celebrate the opening of the Strasburg
Railway. He arrived at Strasburg on Sunday at noon.
A salute of a hundred and one guns was fired on his
arrival. He was met by the authorities, and the keys
were given up to him. The bishop then performed
divine service in a large pavilion near the station;
blessing the railroad and the locomotives. Thence
M. Bonaparte proceeded to the Prefecture, well guarded
by soldiers. The population filed past him; and, in
the evening, Strasburg was in a blaze with variegated
lamps, Bengal lights, and fireworks of all kinds. On
Monday morning, he reviewed the troops. The bridge
was thrown over the Rhine, and the President,
accompanied by the envoys of Prussia, Baden, Wurtemberg,
Hesse, and Switzerland, passed over to Kehl; where he
reviewed the garrison of Baden. Having returned to
Strasburg, he set out on Tuesday for Baden-Baden.
After he had crossed the frontier he refused a military
escort.

The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, having
shared in the festivities of Strasburg, returned to her
territories with Louis Napoleon. It is rumoured that
the main object of the President's visit to Baden-Baden
was to see a fair relative, who might possibly some day
become his wife. The lady is a daughter of Prince
Gustave de Vasa, now an officer in the Austrian army,
and granddaughter—by her mother—to the Duchess of
Baden: her name is Stephanie de Vasa.

The accounts of the President's reception at Strasburg,
and at all the places on his route, being all derived from
official sources, are of course couleur de rose. The
feeling excited by his presence is described as unmingled
enthusiasm. He took his usual means of gaining
popularity—making telling speeches, attending fêtes
and balls, and dancing quadrilles with the wives and
daughters of his prefects and other officials. It is
curious to note by what stealthy degrees he approaches
the summit of his ambition. At Nancy his chair was
starred with the imperial bee; at Strasburg he adopted,
for the first time, the white breeches and jack-boots,
which formed an invariable feature of the emperor's
military costume. He returned to Paris on the evening
of Friday the 24th. The correspondent of the "Daily
News" describes his reception as being exceedingly cold.

An event worth attention, as showing the lengths to
which the present government is prepared to go to
curry favour with the priesthood, has just occurred in
La Vendée. The family of a person lately deceased,
who was one of the only three Protestants in the parish,
desired to bury him in the Catholic cemetery. The
parish-priest opposed this, but the mayor supported the
family and appealed to the prefect, who decided that
the interment should take place in the consecrated
ground. As soon as these facts came to the knowledge
of M. Fortoul, the Minister of Public Instruction and
Worship, he sent down orders that the heretic's body
should be exhumed and removed out of the holy
precincts. This has been done to the great delight
of the bigoted inhabitants of La Vendée, with whom
the government will doubtless gain much popularity in
consequence.

The anniversary of the taking of the Bastille on the
14th of July, was this year celebrated by the deposit of
a single crown on the railings of the column of July.
This solitary homage to a day so often commemorated
by countless thousands on the same spot, was performed
by a lady elegantly dressed. The crown was instantly
taken away, and the lady with her husband arrested.

The accounts from Italy contain particulars respecting
the system of wholesale arrest now going on in
Lombardy. A letter, dated Milan, July 3, states that
it has been ascertained that the body of Signor Pezzotti,
who was found strangled in a Milanese dungeon
immediately after his arrest, was instantly cut open,
with a view to get possession of some papers which he
had swallowed at the moment of his arrest. It is
said, too, that the tale of his having strangled himself is
a mere invention to conceal the fact that he was
assassinated.

Arrests continue at Brescia, Pavia, Cremona. At
Cremona one Antonio Binda, a landed proprietor,
has been arrested along with others. To those arrested
at Mantua has to be added the name of Count
Arrivabene.

At Venice many deplorable arrests have been made
—Scargellini, Canal Zambelli, Ferracini, and others.
Here, as at Mantua, the arrests have been made in
succession, this being an old trick of the Austrian
police, to induce the imprisoned to believe that they
have been denounced by their previously arrested
companions, and so to spread abroad through the liberal part
of society the suspicion of mutual treachery.

Altogether at Mantua the arrests hitherto known
exceed one hundred; at Venice there have been
in all eighteen; in the other towns the numbers are
proportionate.

The Emperor of Austria is making a tour through
his Hungarian dominions. On the 11th he was at
Buda-Pesth; and, accompanied by forty generals,
among whom was Ban Jellachich, he inaugurated an
iron monument to Henzi, who was killed defending the
fortress from the Hungarians under Görgey. Medals
were distributed to the soldiers engaged in the defence.
On the 13th the emperor left Buda for Semlin.—One
incident, which is related as having occurred before he
reached Pesth, throws some light on the internal state
of Hungary:—"In Stuhlweissenburg, it is said, the
violence of an officer—a general—completely scared the
people. On the arrival of the monarch, the country-
folks, who had assembled from all parts, were so intent
on getting a good sight of a real emperor, that they
forgot to doff their hats, until a hint from the
obergespann reminded them of what was proper. In the
principal Place the same thing occurred; but instead of
employing his tongue, the before-mentioned officer used
his sword, with which he knocked off the hats of the
gaping Magyars. This specimen of military tactics put
an end to the 'Elgens' at once."

The important intelligence has been received from
Brussels that a convention has been concluded between
the Belgian and Dutch governments for the amalgamation
of the railways of the two countries. The great
trunk line beginning at Antwerp will be continued to
Rotterdam, and so be put into communication with the
whole of the Netherlands. It is stated, upon good
authority, that the Bavarian government has engaged
to pay 1,400,000 florins to the administration of the
Palatinate Railway on condition that the latter shall
undertake to execute the works on the line from
Ludwigshafen to Wissemburg speedily. This is the
point to which the Strasburg Railway is to be continued
beyond the French frontier.

In the Roman States great resistance is offered to the
tax-gatherers; and conflicts between the bailiffs and the
people are not uncommon. It was rumoured at Rome,
that about 2000 men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
forming part of the French force in Rome, will be sent
home in August; and that a proportionate force of
Austrians will evacuate the Roman States at the same
time.

M. Thiers has been ordered by the Swiss Federal
Government to leave his residence at Vevay, and either
convey himself into the interior or leave the canton.
M. Thiers preferred the latter, and on the 2nd instant
was about to quit Switzerland altogether, for Florence.
This measure, prompted by the representations of the
French envoy at Berne, is deemed the retaliation of
President Bonaparte for his own extrusion from Switzerland,
at the demand of M. Thiers, as foreign minister
of France under Louis Philippe.