FRANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 633, 1 December 1858, Page 5

FRANCE.

A modal commemorating the Emperor's journey through Brittany is to bo struck at the Paris mint. It will be distributed to nil the towns anil villages the Emperor has traversed. Somo ditUcultioß are suid to have arisen be-

tween France and Switzerland, relative to the boundary line. The Prench and Swiss commissioners cannot agree. It is thought that the Federal Council will propose the appointment of an additional commissioner, to act as an arbitrator.

THE TURKS AND MONTENEGRINS. The Trieste Correspondence of the"'Nouvelle Gazette de Prussia" gives harrowing details of the atrocit es of which the Christians on the Montenegrin frontier are the objects, and says that they fully equal in horror the excesses committed b} r the Indian sepoys. On tbeotlifv hand, letters from Vienna of the 14th state that Prince Kallimaki has declared that the Porte cannot leave the Montenegrins unpunished for recent act* of cruelty of which they have been guilty towards the Turks.

AMEEICA, (Prom the ' Times,' August 20.)

Southampton, Thursday Night. The steamer Light, Capt. Tinkelpaugh, has arrived with New York advices ofthe 7th instant. She brings 62,000 dollars for France, but none for England. She has thirty 1 four passen^era for this, and eighty-four for Havre and Bremen. Spoke the ship Brother's f ride, three da\'s ago, bound eastward. The Prince Albert steamer from Gal way, arrived at Halifax on the 6th.

The Lpcompton Constitution had been rejected in Kansas by an overwhelming papular majorit}'.

Later news had been received from Utah. The territory was perfectly tranquil, and the officers were in high i'avonr with the Mormons. None of the soldiers of General Jbhnstone's army were allowed to enter Salt Lake City, and strict orders had been issued prohibiting an\ f interference with the Mormons. The Peace Commissioners had left for Washington. At a Convention held at Syracuse, Gerrit Smith was nominated for Governor, on an antislavery and anti-liquor platform. In the first district of Missouri State, J. It. Barret, National Democrat, had been chosen to Congress, in place of Francis P. Blair, jun., .Republican.

The news of Blair's defeat created intense j sensation at Washington, and in political circles everywhere the intelligence reached. Thomas S. Anderson, Xational Democrat, was re-elected in the second district. The great cricket match between Canada and the United States terminated in the latter part}' winning with four wickets to spare. Report assigned Captain M'Cluney to the comtnand of the squadron on the coast of Brazil. A despatch of the oth from Toronto says that the Canadian Ministerial crisis continued, and the excitement was greatly increased. Mr. Gr.ilt was called in by the Governor-General on the 4th, but declined to undertake the formation of a- Cabinet. It was^ reported that Mr. Cartiery. who was a member of the Macdonald Ministry, was culled ia to form a Ministry. The news of the snecess of the Atlantic cable was received throughout the country with gratification and surprise, failure having been generally anticipated. - It "was said in a despatch of the 6th from Washington, that Lord Napier wrote aleter to

Governor Douglas, of the Hudson's Bay Company, advising- him to interpret Sir Edward Buhver Lj'tton's instructions in the most liberal manner regarding his treatment of American miners. His.-lordship fully- appreciates th? advantages to accrue to his government from the early development of New Caledonia, by Anglo-Saxons, and his judgment is that the Hudson's Bay Company should relax their police regulations, and remit-their onerous taxes which they have imposed, upon doubtful authority. The tenor of the despatch was considered highly liberal. Mr. Nugent, the special cosmnisstancn- fmtn Washington to New Caledonia, had Id's New York by the Caledonia steamer, charged to make such representations to Governor Dou»las as would induce him to mitigate the rigours of the policy of the Hudson's Bay Company and of the servants of the British Government towards miners and traders from the United States. He was also instructed to counsel the latter on the duty of obeying the laws of the country, if they expected to be protected in their business pursuits. Philadelphia, August Cth. The President lias given permission to copy his message referring to the telegraphic cable: •' To Cyrus W. Field, Trinity Bay. " Bedford, Pennsylvania, August 5.

" My dear Sir, —1 congratulate you, with all my heart, on the success of the great enterprise with which your name is so-honorablv connected.

Under the blessing of Divine Providence, I trust it may prove instrumental in promoting perpetual peace and friendship between th«* kindred nations. I have not yet received the Queen's despatch.

" Yours, very'respectfully, "James Buchanan.'

The funeral oar of Napoleon.l is to. be restored " at Woolwich at the expense of Johu Bull, Mid presented in its renovated state to the present Emperor of the French.

The ceremonies in celebration of the 4th July at New York were varied by the introduction of the 'exhumed bones of President Monroe. These remains wero escorted by the crack New York militia regiments to the City Hall where they lay in state. After the due allowance of orations hud been made the bones were placed on board a steamer and sent to Norfolk in Virginia. Prussia is a charming place for employes! There the post-onlce clerks are obliged to wear uniform in the streets, and the Prussian Goverunieut vow intent,' * to impose the sivmu uniform

on the emploj'es of railways ttnd tek'graph§ 5 To distinguish, hcwever, these three classes of functionaries, those of the pusf-ufflce are to have on their caps a horn, those of- railways a frk&e)» and tl.'ose of the telegraph an arrow;