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Further by the Canadian.
Portland, Dec. 5.

--The following are the chief items of interest embraced in the advices per steamer Canadian:

The report at London of the Emperor Napoleon having arrived privately, proved a hoax. The railroad station was besieged by an anxious crowd to view the distinguished sovereign, but he did not appear.

The London Times hopes for an early reduction of the Bank rates of discount,

France.

Count Morney is going to Rome on a special mission, with an autograph letter from the Emperor.

It is stated that Count Walewski will succeed Count Persigny in the London Embassy.

Italy.

There is no new movements of interest. The clergy in the Neapolitan provinces were engaged in paying their homage to Victor Emmanuel.

The Archbishop of Naples was about to return to his See.

The rumors of a new Sardinian loan were contradicted.

The Dowager Queen of Naples, with the young Princess, had arrived at Rome.

The French were about to occupy Terracina.

The siege of Gaeta continued. The Piedmontese bombarded the suburbs on the 12th.

The further resistance of the Bourbon troops had been paralyzed by the insubordination of their chief. Confusion was prevailing. It was believed that the complete evacuation of Gueta had been resolved on.

latest via Londonderry.

A dispatch from Naples says that the ex-King had burst a blood vessel.

It was stated that negotiations for the cession of Venetia had been commenced.

The Empress Eugenia returns to France on the 10th of December.

The Brazilian corvette Donna Isabel was wrecked on the coast of Barbary, and 100 seamen and 23 officers lost.

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