white slaves besides themselves were in the island; and
this, coupled with the report that the missing party
landed near South Cape for water, has led to the
conjecture that two at least of their number may yet
survive.

The West India mail has brought accounts from
Jamaica to the 29th ult. The House of Assembly had
been further prorogued. The cholera was still making
most destructive ravages in the interior parishes of the
island, and in many of those districts where all traces of
it were supposed to have disappeared, it had again made
its appearance, spreading terror and dismay in all
directions. Throughout the island the weather was
dry, and rain was experienced but seldom. The influenza
and colds which had been so prevalent in Kingston and
its environs had almost altogether disappeared, and on
the whole the island was healthy, excepting those
districts in which cholera prevails.

The accounts from Canada mention a serious riot at
Toronto, on the 24th of July. On that evening, the
Anti-Clergy-Reserve Association held a meeting, which
was called by the Mayor. The High Church party
called a meeting for the same hour, and addressed the
mob in the most inflammatory language, inciting them
to break up the Anti-Clergy-Reserve meeting. The
mob proceeded to St. Lawrence Hall, (where that
meeting was held) and attempted to force their way
up stairs, but were driven back. They then prevented
others coming out, broke windows, and attacked several
persons. The Mayor received a cut over one of his
eyes by a stone. The Riot Act was read, and the
military called out. The mob finally dispersed, without
loss of life, about two o'clock in the morning.

The intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope, which
comes down to the 4th of July, continues to be
unsatisfactory. Sir H. Smith was on tiie frontier, but could
not do much for want of efficient forces. The Kaffirs
were kept at bay by the force under his command,
although they could not be reduced to subjection without
much greater strength being brought against them.
However, they were effectually prevented from doing
much harm. The feeling at the Cape was that the war
would be of long duration, unless much more strength
in the shape of troops was sent from England. Sandilli
was in his native mountains. His favourite prophet
has forsaken him and joined another chief. Pato
remained faithful to the British cause. The news from
head-quarters brings intelligence from King William's
Town to the 17th of June. Bodies of troops which had
gone out for the purpose of patrolling both banks of the
Keiskamma, so as to prevent, if possible, the rebel
Hottentots from retiring on the Amatola, or any
reinforcement of Kaffirs from moving into the colony to
their aid, had returned, after eight days' hard work in
the bush, without falling in with any large body of the
enemy, or capturing more than some two hundred of
cattle.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE general lull on the Continent of Europe begets no feeling of confidence. Distrust impends everywhere,
and the announced probable meeting of the despotic sovereigns in Prussia will certainly not tend to
disperse it. Nor do the last mails from the American continent bring news of a satisfactory kind. Crimes of
the most barbarous character appear not only to be frightfully increasing in the less civilised states of the
Union, but to be bringing into more systematic use than at any former period a mode of repressing them
not less infamous and lawless. In the south there is little doubt that another piratical expedition against
Cuba is proceeding, on a greater scale than that of last year; and if the Government of the republic suffers
it to explode as its predecessor did, it may be found more difficult than formerly to save its promoters from the
responsibilities of an attempt so atrocious in itself, so little warranted on public grounds, and so unheard of
in the usages of nations understood to be at peace with each other. As to the reported insurrection in
Cuba, it appears to be yet very doubtful whether it will turn out to be anything more than a mere invention
of these amateur American pirates and sympathisers.

The French National Assembly terminated its session
on the 9th, when it adjourned to the 4th of November.
—Public attention in France is chiefly occupied with
the trial, now going on at Lyons, of a number of persons
charged with a democratic conspiracy against the state.
In November last a secret society was discovered, of
which a person named Gent was a leading member.
Many arrests consequently took place; and the
prisoners have been brought before a military tribunal;
the district being still under martial law. It appears
from the evidence already taken, that the plan of Gent
and his fellow-conspirators was to give the south-eastern
departments of France a secret organization sufficiently
strong and complete to enable them to break out in
simultaneous insurrection on a given signal; to secure
the frontier of Switzerland and of Savoy as a means of
assistance or of retreat; to support the French
movement by the advance of the refugees collected at
Geneva; to take possession, if possible, of the ports of
Toulon and Marseilles, and thus to command Algiers
and the fleet; to inflame by this insurrection the south-
eastern provinces, pledged to the movement, and
subsequently the eastern departments, supposed to be favourable
to it; and thus to lead to a general republican
rising throughout the country, especially where the
garrisons were weakest. From the number of persons
implicated, the proceedings are very voluminous and
likely to be protracted for a considerable time. The
fraction of the Orleanist party which opposes the
present government has resolved to bring forward the
Prince de Joinville (with the Prince's own sanction, it
is understood), as a candidate for the presidency of the
Republic next year, a step which has caused an immense
sensation both among the Legitimists and Bonapartists.
Some disturbances took place on the 13th inst., at
Laurac (Ardèche). On the occasion of the fête of the
town a banquet took place, at which were assembled the
most ultra demagogues of Largentière, Joyeuse, and
other neighbouring villages. After the dinner a crowd
mustered outside the house where the guests were
assembled, and began to cry "Vive la guillotine!"
"Vivent les rouges!" "A bas les blancs!" The
gendarmes interfered, and arrested two of the ringleaders,
but the crowd rushed in and rescued them. A red flag
was then displayed by the brother of the ex-sub-
commissioner of Argentières, and the moment after the
gendarmes were attacked with stones and sticks, and
severely beaten. They at last, in self-defence, fired,
and two of the assailants were wounded. The
gendarmes at last succeeded, though not without difficulty,
in gaining the mayor's house, where they found refuge.
In about an hour after the sub-prefect of Largentière
arrived with some troops, and after a short opposition
dispersed the rioters. The bearer of the red flag was
arrested, as well as five other persons. Warrants have
been issued against some of the ringleaders, and a judicial
investigation has been ordered. On the 12th inst., at
Havre, the premises of M. Normand, one of the greatest
ship-builders in France, including two fine vessels in
course of construction, were destroyed by an accidental
fire. The loss sustained is estimated at a million of francs.

The intelligence from Germany preserves its character
of confusion and obscurity. The Sovereigns of Austria