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of the 28th ult., the General replied to the first question, 
that ‘‘ the Queen had related to him the fact with inge- 
nuousness and candour, but in,terms different from those 
used in her declaration.’? To the second, that ‘her 
Majesty had told him that previous to her sitting down to 
transact business with M. Olozaga she had dropped a 
bonbon, but that her Majesty could not recollect whether 
she gave it to him or whether Olozaga had asked it from 
her Majesty.”’ To the third question, that ‘‘ he (General 
Serrano) accompanied that evening her Majesty to the 
theatre, and that neither that night nor the next morning 
had he perceived anything in her Majesty’s manner to war- 
rant the belief that she had suffered any outrage at the 
hands of M. Olozaga.’’ The discussion having closed, 
MM. Sanchez de la Fuente moved the omission in the 
address of a paragraph tending to criminate M. Olo- 
zaga, but this proposition was rejected by 88 against 
63, and the address was afterwards voted by 101 against 
48, The Chamber next appointed a deputation which 
waited on her Majesty with the address on the 20th, 
headed by M. Martinez de la Rosa. M. Olozaga had not 
appeared in Congress since the 12th. It was reported 
that he had fled from Madrid on his way to Portugal 
escorted by a party of smugglers, but others affirmed that 
he was concealed in that capital. The Moderados were 
most anxious that he should have adopted the former 
course, as fit would enable them to forego a prosecution, 
which would be the occasion of more irritating and scan- 
dalous debates than those which had already taken place, 
There was a chance besides that M. Olozaga would not 
be convicted, and his acquittal might have serious conse- 
quences for the prestige with which Royalty is still sur- 
rounded in Spain. It was said that M. Olozaga had in 
his possession a letter in the hand-writing of the March- 
joness de Santa Cruz addressed to General Narvaez, in 
which the whole scheme for overthrowing his power at 
Court and in the country was described. Accounts from 
Perpignan of the 18th inst. state that hostilities still con- 
tinued on the frontiers of Catalonia, and that Baron de 
Meer, the new Captain-General, who had reached Barce. 
lona, was shortly expected to take the command of Gen. 
Prim’s troops engaged in the blockade of Figueras. 
GrrmMany.—Letters from Berlin of the 23d state that 
on the previous evening at seven o’clock divine service 
was performed in the Royal Palace on the mortal remains 
of the late King of Holland, Count of Nassau, in the pre- 
sence of the King and Queen, of the Prince and Princess 
of the Netherlands and their daughters, of the Royal Family, 
the officers of the Household, and principal civil and 
military authorities. The principal chaplain to the Court, 
Dr. Ehrenberg, delivered an appropriate discourse on the 
melancholy occasion, in which he gave a sketch of the life 
of the King. Speaking of the deceased Monarch’s deep 
religious feeling, and his entire reliance on the Saviour of 
Mankind, he mentioned that onthe table at which he had 
been sitting when the fatal stroke seized him, the celebrated 
work on the ‘ Imitation of Christ” was found open at the 
chapter on the Contemplation of Death. After 10 0’clock 
the body was removed in silence, all honours and testimonies 
of respect usual on such occasions being declined by Prince 
Frederick of the Netherlands. The military escort was 
commanded by Prince Augustus of Wurtemburg. The 
hearse was drawn by eight of his Majesty’s horses, imme- 
diately behind which was the King of Prussia, Prince 
Frederick of the Netherlands, and Prince Albert as chief 
mourners; and then the other princes of the Royal family 
in their carriages. When the coffin was placed in the 
hearse all the troops paid military honours. The proces- 
sion proceeded in the above order to the place where the 
body was embarked to be conveyed to Hamburgh and 
thence to Holland.—Another fatal duel has been fought at 
Mayence. It took place between M. de Haber and M. 
Sacharaga, the seconds in the late affair between Baron de 
Goeler and M. de Verefkin, and it has terminated in the 
death of M. Sacharaga. ‘The challenge was sent by the 
latter to M. de Haber when in prison for his share in the 
former duel. The meeting took place in Rhenish Bavaria. 
M. Sacharaga fired twice, and missed his adversary. M. 
de Haber did not advance though he was entitled to do 
so. His ball passed through M. Sacharaga’s chest and 
killed him instantaneously. The Prankfurter Journal 
in allusion to this matter states that the Bavarian author- 
ities ordered the body to be buried privately at Manheim, 
where it had been taken after the duel. They were afraid 
of disturbance, should any attempt be made to lay the 
body by the side of his friend M. de Goler. This order 
was complied with on the 17th, in the presence of a few 
officers of the garrison and a friend of the deceased, who 
came on purpose from Carlsruhe. Several other officers, 
friends of the deceased, were prevented from attending by 
being ordered to keep their barracks. M. de Haber has 
taken refuge in France.—The German papers confirm the 
report that PrinceGustavus, son of the late King of Sweden, 
has appiied for a divorce from his wife Princess Stephania 
of Baden, after thirteen years of marriage. an 
Tra.y.—A rupture has taken place between Sardinia 
and Tunis which is likely to lead to hostilities, the Sar- 
dinian Government having sent a squadron to blockade 
Tunis. Letters from Constantinople of the 29th ult. state 
that the Sardinian Minister had presented to the Divan a 
note from his Government, informing it of the differences 
that had arisen with the Bey of Tunis, who, in violation 
of treaties, had impeded the trade of the Sardinian mer- 
chants and prevented them from exporting goods and mers 
chandise which they had purchased in the Regency, an 
on which duties had been levied the Tunisian 
Government. The. Envoy added that an ultimatum had 
been forwarded to the Bey, and that if he did not accede 
to it the King of Sardinia would be under the necessity of 
sending a fleet to blockade the harbour of Tunis, ‘The 
Porte replied that it had no knowledge of the treaty of 
commerce concluded between the King of Sardinia and 
the Bey of Tunis, that the Bey had acted of his own 
accord in the affair, and that the Ottoman Government 
could not decide who was right or who was wrong.— 
Letters from Naples are filled with accounts of the success 
of a musical prodigy called Favante who has lately made 
her app thers er di i 
of enthusiasm. She is said to be extremely beautifu', 
and it is reported that she possesses a voice one of the 
most extensive ever known, enabling her to sing the parts 
Of the contralto, the mezzo-soprano and soprano with 
equal ease. Her voice which is not only powerful but 
sweet has been brought to perfection under the guidance 
of Lablache. It is said that nothing can exceed the ex- 
citement prevailing respecting her; she fills the theatre 
nightly with an overflowing audience at raised prices, 
whilst all the other houses are deserted.—The celebrated 
Madame Catalani who for twenty-two years held with so 
much ecidé the sceptre of song has just died, after a short 
illness at the age of fifty-nine, at her villa near Sinigaglia 
in the Papal States, where she was born in 1784. She 
made her deéiié on the stage at Venice when only fifteen 
and retired in 1831. She married a Frenchman, M. de 
Valabrigue, a native of Burgundy, who died in 1828, and 
by whom she had three children. Madame Catalani has 
left a fortune estimated at about £332,000.—The naturalist 
Gemmellari has published a letter in the Naples Journal, 
descriptive of some of the effects of the eruption of Etna: 
“ Of the hundred known eruptions of Vesuvius,’’ he says, 
“eighty have been in November and December. On the 
13th of November a crevice opened on the west side of 
Etna, 400 yards long and 40 wide. I could only get 
within a mile of it. A stream of lava about six miles 
long van at my feet, with a rapidity that I calculated at a 
yard in a second. The stream was 23 miles wide when it 
reached Monte Egitto. It followed the lava stream of 
1832, and in four days menaced the village of Bronte; 
sive province. The English plan of uniformity of post. 
age has been adopted for all distances, great and small, 
Letters of 3 drachms and under to pay a piastre, or 2d. ° 
Eeyrr.—Letters from Alexandria of the 12th state 
that the Pacha is still in Upper Egypt. One of his High- 
ness’s last extraordinary feats is the carrying up the first 
cataract of the Nile a small steamer by the sheer manual 
force of some 2,000 men, which was successfully accom- 
plished, and this vessel has thus been enabled to navigate as 
far as the second cataract. It is intended to keep her in 
that division of the Nile for the present ; thus materially 
facilitating the ication with Dongola and Sen- 
naar. It is considered probable that the real motive of 
the Viceroy’s always proceeding to Cairo and Upper 
Egypt in the winter is to enjoy its beautiful climate at 
this season, while on the sea-coast, including Alexandria, 
a disagreeable damp and cold atmosphere prevails through- 
out the winter. On the 28th ult. a destructive conflagra- 
tion took place at Cairo. The fire broke out in the 
Khamzaoui Bazaar, of which one-third was burnt, and 
the loss is estimated at two millions of Turkish piastres. 
InpIA anp Curna.—An extra India mail, direct from 
Calcutta to Suez, has brought dates from India and China 
considerably later than those of the last regular Bombay 
mail. Those from Calcutta come down to the 19th ult., 
and yet give little news from that quarter, except the 
extreme abundance of the indigo crop. The news from 
the Punjaub is important as contradicting the reports of 
Heera Singh’s murder. Lena Singh also survives; and 
both these chiefs, though previously opposed to each 
other, are reconciled for the moment, and wield joint 
Sway over the 10,000 men collected in the vicinity of 
Lahore. To keep these men in obedience would, how- 
ever, require a certain revenue from the provinces and 
their chiefs, of which there seemed little prospect. Goo- 
lab Singh preserved his hostile attitude. The forces left 
in guard of Peshawur had deserted it. Except the distri- 
bution of ammunition to the army of observation and the 
urpose of the Governor-General to visit 
but it turned off towards Aderno, and tk d to turn 
into the river Simeto. A crowd of curious gathered to 
watch the effect of the lava stream running into a little 
lake of water. Fatal curiosity! It produced an ex- 
plosion like a powder mine. Out of 30 of them 25 were 
severely wounded. The lava stream stopped short of the 
river Simeto, having run about fourteen miles in all, ten 
t 
i 
the ee tn provinces, there are no tidings of 
the intentions of the Indian Government. At Gwalior, 
the Khasgee has been seized by the troops without 
bloodshed, and his reign is at an end. It is sup- 
posed that this event will render the advance of 
an army; unnecessary. The accounts from Sukkur are 
ore di i 
of them in four days.’’? A curious ook 
place at Catania the night before the eruption. A fine rain 
fell which changed the colour of the silk in the umbrellas, 
and burnt it. A professor of chemistry having analysed 
this rain, found that’ it contained a large quantity of 
muriatic acid. 
Grencu.—lIt is stated by the Ministerial papers that 
Count Nesselrode, who arrived at Windsor a few days 
since, is the bearer of the ratification of the Emperor 
Nicholas to all the proposals which were suggested by 
Prince Wallerstein during his mission here, respecting the 
final settlement of the affairs of Greece. It is said that 
the Emperor not only consents but is anxious that a con- 
stitution upon the most liberal principles should be secured 
to the Greeks. 
Turkey, &c.—Accounts from Constantinople of the 
7th state that intelligence had reached that city of the 
safe arrival of Dr. Wolff at Trebizond, where he had been 
very courteously received by the English Consul Mr. Ste- 
vens and other English gentlemen, who made a very 
handsome subscription to facilitate the objects of the ex- 
pedition. Sir S. Canning who has been unremitting in 
his exertions on behalf of the persecuted Nestorians, has 
at length prevailed on the Porte to send a commissioner 
to Mosul with orders to put an immediate stop to the 
savage warfare of the Kurds. The individual appointed 
is Kemal Effendi, a Kiatib of the Porte, a man of respect. 
able character, who it is hoped wil! do his duty im- 
partially. The Pacha of Mosul strongly denies having 
instigated the Kurds to attack the Nestorians; but the 
affair is involved in much mystery, and there is reason to 
believe not only that the Pacha but the Porte also was 
accessory to the massacre. The disputes of rival mission- 
aries who mutually accused each other of promoting poli- 
tical intrigues under the cloak of religion, had excited the 
fears and the suspicions of the Pacha of Mosul, who began 
to imagine that the independence of the Nestorians might 
become a very dangerous element of foreign encroach- 
ment.—From the Danube we learn that the Servian 
Government has determined on forming four great lines 
of Post-office roads, of which Belgrade is of course the 
starting point. The first is the easterly line which runs 
parallel to the right bank of the Danube by Semendria 
and Passarowitz, where the famous treaty was concluded, 
and terminates at Negatin within a few hours’ journey of 
Widdin. The second is the south-easterly line, which 
follows the high road to Constantinople as far as Alexin- 
itza, which is 126 miles from Belgrade. This is the most 
frequented route in Servia, for it is in immediate con- 
nexion with Sophia, Philippopoli, and Adrianople. The 
first spare funds that the Government can dispose 
of are to be applied to the construction of a com- 
plete macadamised road along this line, for as it goes 
through the rich valley of the Morana, it will infal- 
libly develope the resources of the best agricultural 
district in Servia. The third is the south-westerly 
line, which after passing by Kragojewatz, the official 
capital of Servia, in the time of Milosch, goes to Uschitza 
and the Mocragora, and thus communicates with Mon- 
tenegro and Herzegowina. Uschitza has, next to Bel- 
grade, the largest Turkish population, and is the only 
place in the interior where they are allowed to reside. The 
fourth is the westerly line, and goes up the right bank of 
the Save to Shafatz and Louvitza, on the frontier of 
Bosnia, and thus establishes the connexion with this exten- 
g than ever. It appears that of the troops 
there 1,371 are in hospital, and only 153 well. Every 
officer but one in each corps is inefficient from illness. 
It wascurrently reported that Dost Mahommed had been 
shot dead at Cabul by order of the Khan of Bokhara. It 
is said that the Khan sent several papers, with his own 
seal, to Cabul, stating that whoever should kill the Dost 
would go to heaven. This event will probably lead to a 
Suspension of any effort on the part of the Affghans to 
occupy Peshawur.—The Madras Examiner contains the 
report of a temperance meeting which had been held bya 
society called ‘‘ Father Mathew’s Society,” at Secundera- 
ad. ‘Tea was served up at a new temperance hall to about 
150 persons, and much good is anticipated from the intro- 
duction of those habits of sobriety enjoined by the rules of 
the jfraternity.—The journals of Victoria, Hong Kong, 
are to the 12th October. The sickness in that island ha 
been such as to induce the officers of the Government to 
remove for a time to Macao. Mr, Secretary Morrison, 
Mr. Mercer and Mr. Scott have died of the fever, and 
the troops have suffered severely. A Committee of Public 
Health has been appointed, and it remains to be seen 
whether the cause of the unhealthiness of the colony can 
be removed by human means. Some parts of the town 
of |Victoria are by experience known to be less healthy 
than others, and most of the cases of sickness have occurred 
at both the western and eastern extremities of the town, 
although they have by no means been confined to them. 
The trade had been opened with the ports of Foochowfoo, 
Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghoe,—Messrs. Gribble, Thom 
and Balfour being appointed consuls to the three latter 
ports. Notwithstanding the previous confinement of the 
trade to the military stations, it had been carried on toa 
great extent since the signature of the treaty. More than 
a million and a half of dollars’ worth of India and Straits 
produce, exclusive of opium, were disposed of at Chusan 
and Amoy, and other towns of the east coast. The raw 
cotton imported from India to China amounts alone to 
more than the previous annual export of British manu- 
factures to China, whilst the opium trade surpasses 
leulati Some i i was felt at Canton at 
first in consequence of there being no responsible persons 
like the Hong merchants to deal with. Sir H. Pottinger 
declares the answer of the Chinese commissioners when 
applied to on the subject as most satisfactory. 
Unirep Srarrs.—The New York packet-ship Inde- 
pendence, so well known for making quick passages and 
being annually the bearer of the American President's 
Message on the opening of Congress, arrived at Liverpool 
on Wednesday, with papers to the 8th inst. her day of 
sailing. Congress opened on the 4th and the Message 
was delivered on the 5th. The following is the passage 
relating to this country in connection with the Oregon 
territory :—“ Since the last adjournment of Congress the 
executive has relaxed no effort to render indestructible the 
relations of amity which so happily exist between the 
United States and other countries. The treaty lately 
concluded with Great Britain has tended greatly to in- 
crease the good und ding which a reciprocity of in- 
terest is calculated to encourage, and it is most ardently 
to be hoped that nothing may transpire to interrupt the 
relations of amity which it is so obviously the policy of 
both nations to cultivate. A question of much import- 
ance still remains to be adjusted between them. The ter- 
Titorial limits of the two countries in relation to what is 
