he
has had a majority of eight to one. The inauguration of the usurper took
place in the church of Notre Dame on the 3d of January, and the new order
of things has been recognized by all the courts of Europe.

On the 25th of November a French squadron appeared before Salee, to claim
satisfaction for an act of piracy committed by the inhabitants of that
town. The Caid asked for six days to take the orders of the Emperor of
Morocco; and the Caid of Rabat sent a similar evasive reply. The next day
the French bombarded the place for seven hours, the fire being returned by
both forts of Rabat and Salee. The Admiral, however, confined his
chastisement to the latter, which he thoroughly performed, and fired the
town in several places. The French fleet arrived at Tangier on the morning
of the 29th, when the Consul-General for Morocco and several officers of
the squadron landed, and had an interview with the Bashaw of the province,
which ended in a satisfactory arrangement, to the great relief of the
people of Tangier, who were in consternation at the prospect of sharing
the fate of their neighbors.

From Austria we learn the partial amelioration in private business of the
financial difficulties. The Emperor published, on the 1st of January,
decrees, that whereas the provisions of the constitution were cancelled by
the imperial edict of August 20, 1851, the last principles of political
right conceded by the constitution are now disavowed. There now exists no
political right in the empire. The Austrian government continues to watch
with the keenest anxiety the proceedings of the exiled Italians and
Hungarians, and by very stringent arrangements in regard to the press, and
the interdiction of most foreign journals, keeps the "dangerous classes"
in ignorance of the sympathy with which they are regarded from abroad.

The Queen of Spain, by a spontaneous act of her royal clemency, granted a
pardon to all such prisoners, made in the last expedition against the Isle
of Cuba, as are citizens of the United States, whether they be already in
Spain, undergoing the punishments they have incurred, or whether they be
still in Cuba. The queen on the 20th of December gave birth to a princess,
who is heir to the throne.

From China there are reports that the Emperor has been compelled to resign
in favor of the revolutionary general, whose triumphant march through many
revolted provinces has, from time to time, been noticed in the last half
ye