writing an article in the "Evénement" condemning
capital punishments.

Two Political Duels have taken place at Paris.
Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, having been
accused, in a book written by Viscount d'Arlincourt,
of having instigated the murder of Count Rossi, at
Rome, the son of Count Rossi, excited by these
imputations, lay in wait for the Prince, and, having met
him, aimed a blow at his face. This led to a rencontre,
and, after the exchange of a couple of pistol shots each,
the seconds interfered, and put a stop to the affair.
The prince declared that the assertion of his having
participated in the death of Count Rossi was a disgraceful
calumny, and M. Rossi expressed his regret at having
been moved by it.—The second duel was between Count
Nieuwenkerke, Director of the Museum in the Louvre,
and Pierre Bonaparte, one of the representatives of the
people for the Ardèche. The dispute arose out of the
duel described above, Pierre Bonaparte being the brother
of Canino, and both sons of Lucien, brother of the
emperor. The parties fought with the small sword, and
after Count Nieuwenkerke had received a wound in
the thigh, the seconds declared the affair at an end.

A Fatal Duel has taken place near Boulogne. Six
Frenchmen left London to settle a dispute between two
of them on some political question. They entered a
rabbit warren, and the duellists fired, first at twenty-
five, and again at twenty paces. At the second fire one
of them fell. The five survivors returned hastily to
Boulogne, and embarked for London in the night. The
deceased, named Petit, was foreman to a London tailor.
His body was found by the authorities lying on its
back. There were no watch, money, nor papers, save
a book with the deceased's name and place of birth, and
a passport. Upon his breast was laid a fine cambric
handkerchief, on a corner of which the initials "R. B."
surmounted by a coronet, were worked.

The war in Algeria opened on the part of the French
with severe losses and dreadful carnage. In the advance
of a column five or six thousand strong on Djijelli,
Colonel Arnaud is admitted to have sacrificed more
soldiers than were lost by Marshal Bugeaud in his two
expeditions against the great tribes of the Kabyles, and
in all the campaigns of 1845 in Oran and Algiers. Two
companies of the 10th fell into an ambush, and lost 200
men, with 5 officers. The whole number killed is stated
at 300. On the next day after their bloody encounter,
the troops had to march between a grisly perspective
of heads of their slain comrades, which their ferocious
enemies had stuck on poles during the night, to dismay
them in their harassed march. Terrible, on the other
hand, has been the retaliation. On the 15th of .May,
twelve villages were burned; on the 17th, thirty, and
by the last accounts it appears that the Kabyles have
submitted. When it is remembered that these Kabyles
are not nomad tribes of Bedouins, but hardy independent
mountaineers, who are addicted to agriculture, the
destruction of their settlements rouses a strong feeling of
compassion.

At Hamburg, there has been a serious collision
between the inhabitants of the St. Pauli suburb of that
town and the Austrian garrison. A quarrel arose
between the soldiers and some of the sailors who chiefly
inhabit that suburb, and the soldiers had the worst of
it; they returned with assistance, and there arose such
a general battle that a body of armed soldiers was
marched to the spot by the officers. The mob refused
to disperse, were menaced by discharges of unshotted
guns, and then were fired on. Six were killed and
twenty wounded; and when the military supremacy
was asserted, it was maintained by the entry of a large
additional Austrian force. The whole proceedings have
been condemned by the Hamburg Municipality; and
the proceedings of the Austrian commander-in-chief in
billetting fresh troops on the town without preliminary
forms, is protested against as a breach of the laws of the
confederation. It is said that the municipality has
forwarded its protest to the French and English governments,
as parties to the treaty of Vienna, who have
guaranteed the independence of the free German cities.

The Emperor of Austria has just appointed M. Aaron
Wolfgang Messeley, a Jew, to the office of Professor of
Criminal Law at the University of Prague. This gentleman
had long filled the chair of the Hebrew language
and literature in the same university. The number of
Jews now attached as professors to the different
universities and educational establishments in the Austrian
states is seventeen; of whom fifteen were named by
the late emperor, and two by the present.

Much irritation has been recently created in Schleswig
by the strictness of the regulations for saluting
Danish officers. The people turned them into ridicule
by bestowing the same formal marks of reverence upon
all the animals they met. The order has since been
revoked.

A violent outrage has been perpetrated in Florence;
the aggressors being the Tuscan authorities, supported
by Austrian bayonets, and the victims certain peaceable
Italians who assembled in the church of Santa Croce, in
Florence, on the 29th of May, for the purpose of hearing
a service in honour of their deceased relatives who fell
at the battles of Curtatone and Montanara. The church
was filled with men, women, and children—and the
solemnity of devotion prevailed, when several gendarmes,
dressed in plain clothes, approached the tomb-stone,
inscribed with the names of the slain, where old men
and children, aged matrons and young maidens, were
scattering wreaths of flowers and shedding tears. Without
any provocation, these men began to strike right
and left with their sticks this inoffensive and sorrowful
group. The alarm thus raised, Austrians and gendarmes
appeared with their muskets on several points of the
church, as if by enchantment, the former pushing with
their bayonets the peaceful and unarmed crowd before
them. A scene of confusion ensued which it would be
impossible to describe. When on the square before the
church, the greater portion of the thousands assembled
were making the best of their way to their homes, a
company of carbineers or gendarmes received orders to
fire, which they immediately did. In this brutal assault
two of the people were killed and seven or eight
wounded.

Accounts from Naples describe the whole population
as being in a state of alarm, owing to the innumerable
arrests which are again taking place in every class oi
society. The victims are connected, or supposed to be
connected, with the expulsion from Naples of the Jesuits;
others are accused of having excited the lower orders to
shout "Long live the Constitution!" whilst a third
group of offenders belong to the disasters of May, 1848.
The crown lawyer is in fact employed in tracing the
origin of the constitutional struggle, and instructed to
incorporate in a criminal processo all who have taken
part in the movement, which ended in his Majesty
swearing to maintain a free representative government.
As the prisons are cleared of one set of offenders, another
takes their place, and thus with exile, imprisonment,
and persecution, whole families are ruined.

The dates from New York are to the 10th inst. The
political intelligence is not important.—The President
and Mr. Webster have been making a tour through
several of the States; and it is observed that generally
Mr. Webster has been received with the greater
enthusiasm. The seventh census of the United States has
been published; the following are the results: In the
Free States, 13,533,328 freemen, 119 slaves; in the
Slave States, 6,393,757 freemen, 3,175,783 slaves; in
the Districts and Territories, 160,824 freemen, 3687
slaves; total population, 23,267,498. The whole number
of representatives in Congress is 233, and of these the
Free States have now gained an increased apportion-
ment.

A great sensation has been created in several towns
of the United States, in consequence of many ladies
resolving upon a complete revolution in dress. In every
direction we hear of young ladies wearing trousers with
a very short shirt or tunic, as in Persia and the East.

There was an earthquake at Valparaiso on the 2nd
of April, whereby 260 houses were so much injured that
they were quite unsafe and must be pulled down. No
lives were lost, but a great deal of property was
destroyed in the houses injured by the heavy rain that
fell immediately after the shock: