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also varied from 6 or 7 degrees of Fahrenheit to 19,
and when this has been the case, the mortality has
quickly risen. The lowest temperature in the quar-
ter (25.8) was curiously enough registered on the
14th of February, the day which old tradition as-
signs for the commencement of Spring weather.
The highest temperature (56.5), as if to display to
the full extent the eccentricities of our climate, was
registered on the 3d of January. Truly, looking
at these figures and their respective dates, we
need not wonder at the perplexity of foreigners con-
cerning our seasons. The last table in this
appendix treats of the sanitary work of the quar-
ter, and this is a very important branch of the re-
port, as it is only by the rigid maintenance of the
system of inspection that we can hope to have sani-
tary regulations properly carried out. There appears
to have been no lack of industry among the medi-
cal officers, for there haTe been, in all, 2,452 inspec-
tions of houses in the quarter, 793 of which have
been in common lodging-houses, 232 in consequence
of the appearance of smallpox, and 146 for other
cases of disease, all of which have been returned in
the parish books by the medical officers of the
unions. That these visits of inspection have not
been without benefit, is proved by the issuing of
468 orders for works of sanitary improvement, as
their results.

LATEST

NEWS.

The following telegrams hare been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

MADRID, APRIL 4.

When the troops became aware that General
Ortega had deceived them as to the object of their
movement they refused to march, and to his cry of
" Vive Carlos reis" they answered by shouts of
" Viva la Reina." The General took to flight, ac-
companied by four persons, of whom nothing is
known, and was pursued by his own troops.
Hopes are entertained that General Ortega will
be captured.
The troops whom he had misled made their sub-
mission to the Queen on the arrival of General
Cerida.

Tranquillity reigns in the Balearic Isles. No
agitation prevails throughout the nation.

All the deputies at :Madrid have presented an
address expressing their devotion to the Queen.

NAPLES, APRIL 4.

Factious persons have attacked the troops at
Palermo, but were bravely repulsed and dispersed
to the cry of " Viva it Re."
The city is tranquil.

THE MAN AND THE SNAKE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

A FABLE.

A note in the Moniteur of this morning points
out the happy influence exercised on the French
export trade, by the treaty of commerce with Eng-
land especially for productions of the South, wines,
spirits, and articles de Paris.

(Respectjally Dedicated to the Swiss Confederation.)
Once on a time, as 2Esop tells,
A hind, in winter's iron weather,
Found on the bare and wind-swept fells,
A snake, its coils frost-bound together.
He raised the creature from the ground,
And was about to fling it by,
When 10, some 'park of life he found
Still glowing in its evil eye.
The clown, whose large compassion ranged
E'en to that reptile most unblest,
Sudden his idle purpose changed,
And placed the serpent in his breast.
Under his kindly bosom's glow,
Slowly the stiffened coils out-drew;
The thickening blood resumed its flow,
The snaky instincts waked anew.
The man was glad to feel awake,
The crawling life within his Test :
For to have harboured e'en a snake
Is pleasure in a gen'rous breast.
Sudden he stops—with shriek and start ;
Then falls a corpse all swoll'n and black 1
The snake's fell tooth had pierced the heart,
Whose warmth to life had brought it back.
Well, simple Switzers, had it been,
Had you of this old fable thought,
When, tracked by justice, close and keen,
Your mountains young Napoleon sought—.
Asylum 'mid their snows to claim,
From France's King, against whose crown
His hand had reached, with daring aim,
. In scuffle scufflingly put down.
The shelter of your rocks you gave
To him and to his desperate cause ;
Nor asked, was he true man, or knave,
Blameless, or guilty by the laws.
Enough that harbour he required,
Enough that harbour you could give :
The panting fugitive respired, s
And 'neath your Alps was free to live.
France asked him of you; you refused :
She threatened; you defied her might :
For years your mountain-screen he used,
Wherewith to hide his schemes of night.
At length full-flushed with power he stands—
Power, to your sheltering kindness due ;
And turns the parricidal hands
Which you kept free, to strike at you !—Punch.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article by M.
Grandguillot stating that the effect of the Papal
excommunication is to immediately break off the
diplomatic relations between the Sovereign Pontiff
and the Prince excommunicated.

Nothing similar has taken place in reference to
the Cabinet of the Tuileries.

The object of the note in the Moniteur was not
to provide against the effects of the excommunica-
tion, but to recall the principles of our civil inde-
pendence and re-establish the true doctrines of the
Church of France.

PARIS, APRIL 4.
Despatches received here from Madrid state as
follows :

General Ortega had chartered two foreign
vessels at Marseilles, by means of money coming
from Madrid and Paris. The promoters of the re-
volutionary movement are not resident in Madrid.
The Deputies have assembled to protest against the
rebellion, and even private persons have offered
their services. The whole nation is against the
rebels."

BERNE, APRIL 4.
The National Council, by 106 against 3 votes,
and the Council of State unanimously, have voted
the extraordinary powers demanded by the Fede-
ral Council.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 28,
(via Marseilles).
A corps d'armee has left Monastir to encamp
between Montenegro and Servia. The son of Prince
Milosch has refused to come to Constantinople to
receive his investiture.

The Governor of Candia has imprisoned forty-
two Greek priests who had declared themselves
Catholics. The Ambassador of France has inter-
ceded in their behalf, and has invoked religious
liberty, which has been promised.

MALTA, MARCH 31.

The Vectis, from Marseilles, arrived here yester-
day at 11 p.m., and sailcd to-day at 4 a.m. for
Alexandria.

The China, from Southampton, arrived to-day
at 11 a.m., and sailed at 6 p.m. for Alexandria.
The Alhambra sailed to-day at 2 p.m. for Corfu.

111 W SUN, LONDON, THtTRSDAY FE VENING APRIL 5, 1860.

INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.

By extraordinary express, in anticipation of the
overland mail, we have received letters and papers
from India and Australia. The dates are—Bombay,
March 12 ; Melbourne, February 17 ; Sydney,
February 13.