account for the outrages against Dr. Hooker and Dr.
Campbell.

At Macao the Portuguese had given up the Chinese
soldiers taken prisoners in their attack on the forts after
Governor Amiral's murder; and in return the Chinese
had yielded up the head and hand of the late governor.
These relics had been well preserved, and were both
immediately recognised: the skull had been fractured,
and the ring finger removed.

The only news of political interest brought by the
West India Mail is from British Guiana, whence papers
to the 18th of February have been received. At a
special meeting of the Combined Court, on the 7th of
February, it was resolved to apply for the £250,000 loan
which the mother-country is ready to advance: and to
pledge the colonial duties and wine and spirits for its
repayment of interest at 4 per cent, and a sinking fund
of 2½ per cent. An advance of £50,000 to the Railway
Company at 6 per cent, interest was determined on.

The Australian news is not of political importance.—
The Irish political offenders, Smith O'Brien, Meagher,
O'Doherty, Martin, Donohue, and M'Manus, arrived at
Hobart Town in the brig of war Swift, on the 27th of
October. By the same vessel the governor received
orders to grant the prisoners tickets of leave, on condition
that the indulgence should not be made the means
of escape. Mr. O'Brien rejected the offer of a ticket of
leave, but all the others accepted the offer on the
conditions expressed. M'Manus was located at Norfolk,
Meagher at Campbell Town, O'Doherty at Oatlands,
Martin at Bothwell, and Donohue at Hobart Town.
All are said to have competent means but the last, who
will use his occupation of law-writing to earn his living.
O'Brien was despatched to Maria Island, to be kept
under strict guard.

The Cape papers of the 1st of January mention the
discovery of a great Lake in the interior of South Africa,
during a journey of exploration by two gentlemen named
Murray and Oswall. It is situated in longitude 24°
east, latitude 19° south, and its limits appear to have
been undiscernible. According to the natives, however,
it takes twenty-five days to travel round it. The
vegetation on its banks is tropical, and palms are abundant;
but it contains no crocodiles, alligators, or hippopotami.
It is approached by a river, which for some distance is
of small size, and which, as it approaches the lake,
becomes as large as the Clyde. The lake itself has no
islands in it, but it is said that there are many at the
mouth of the river, and that these are densely populated
by a race entirely different from those near the borders
of the lake. Pelicans are numerous, as also fish, some
of which resemble perch and carp, and weigh between
40lb. and 50lb. There are likewise a great number of
elephants, although of a much smaller description than
those nearer the colony. The natives, whose language
was unlike any known dialect spoken by the other tribes
in South Africa, appeared to be of an inferior nature,
and to be much afflicted with pulmonary disease.

Advices have been received from Sierra Leone to the
16th of February. The slave trade was as flourishing as
ever, but no blood had been spilt since the engagement
in the Gambia. The Cygnet, which brought the
accounts, had, during her commission, made nine prizes,
and released upwards of 14,000 negroes.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS,

THERE has been another crisis in Paris; but as, on the former occasion, M. Odilon Barrot suddenly departed
without leave-taking and the storm quietly subsided, so M. Ferdinand Barrot now as suddenly departs
and the adverse powers are propitiated. What more immediately and unequivocally demonstrated the
recent discontent was the election of three Socialist candidates for Paris by decisive majorities; wherefrom a
stranger might have imagined that the community who could elect such a trio as MM. Carnot, Vidal,,
and De Flotte, must be prepared straightway to establish a communist régime, and reinstate Louis Blanc at
the Luxembourg. But this is not at all the intention of the good citizens or soldiers of Paris. They meant no
more than to express a disapproval of the ministry, and they have done it most effectually. Half the
Socialist voters among them this week might be voters for Absolutism next week, without the least impeachment
of their consistency of motive.

The Czar of Russia has published a note against Lord Palmerston on the Greek affair, which has fallen so
lamentably flat of its design as to have even done infinite service to its proposed victim. Quis tulerit
Gracchos, &c. The English people have too much sense not to see the monstrous absurdity of complaint
against their minister for enforcing just claims against an inferior state by the physical argument of a
blockade, proceeding from a power which has been insolently and aggressively active for the last two years,
menacing, bullying, invading, occupying, and (where it was possible) subduing, every country within reach of
her armies, no matter how independent, if only sufficiently weak.

From America the news relates chiefly to the proposed enactment on the subject of Slavery, and to the
discussions for admission of California as a free State into the Union. Of course the Southerns are intolerant
and violent, and have raised their old wolf cry of "civil war." But they are only anticipating by a few years,
more or less. It will come upon them some day, without any preparatory cry, "like a thief in the night."

The anniversary of the Revolution of 1848 passed off
in Paris on Sunday, the 24th ult., with perfect calm.
The weather being fine, there were vast crowds of
promenaders on the Boulevards, in the public gardens, the
Champs Elysées, and other places of resort; in the
Champs Elysées, particularly, the gathering of
pedestrians and the display of equipages were larger and more
brilliant than have been seen since the fall of the
Monarchy. The President of the Republic drove about
accompanied only by two attendants in livery, and was
everywhere received with demonstrations of pleasure
and attachment. A religious ceremony was performed
in all the churches of Paris, and a Te Deum was sung;
the Archbishop officiating at Notre Dame. The
Chamber of the Assembly was illuminated in the
evening. During the day there was a crowd of workmen,
nearly all attired in their Sunday clothes, around
the Column on the Place d la Bastille, and the railing
of the column was decked with crowns of immortelles.
—Some incidents of the following night and next day
excited much comment. During the night of the 24th,
the wreaths of immortelles which the Republicans had
hung on the railing round the Column of Liberty on the
Place de la Bastille, in honour of the victims of February
or July, were removed by the police. The denizens of
the Faubourg St. Antoine, on discovering the removal
in the morning, went tumultuously to the Prefecture,
remonstrated with the soldiers to whose care the
memorials had been confided, and obtained leave to replace
them publicly. The re-instatement was conducted with
much éclat, amidst a large and agitated concourse;
the police appearing scarcely willing to sanction the
proceeding.

On Sunday, the 10th, about 200 subaltern officers and