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were p resent at the TL,
nre broke out on the stage, and, ti

with great rapidity, the spectators became
A fearful confusion arose from the rush to the

doors, the staircase from the boxes gave way, all escape
was rendered hopeless, and the mass of human beings
within the buildings were involved in destruction. Forty-
six bodies, viten the last accounts left, had been taken
out, but it was impossible to estimate the true extent of
loss of Eit.e resulting from this fearful calamity.

that this

CHOLEAA.—Letters from Persia st
dreadful disease is making frightful ravages in the interior
of Asia. This scourge, which has travelled through
Cabul, has already penetrated nearly as far as Taheran.
A letter from Rome of the 18th ult. says, that when
Cardinal Falconnieri came to kiss the feet of the new
Pope, his holiness said to him :—" Your brother is in
esfle for a political cause—he may return."
The Newfoundland papers are of opinion that their island

is rising gradually out of the sea, and they produce well-
authenticated authority for the fact that it is actually ele-
vating itself and that too with a steady progression, and at

.hat threatens at no distant day
t harbours on the island.

THE RESULT OF GAMING.—A Frankfort journal states
that a Russian baron, who had lost large sums of money

at play at Baden-Bpden, has recently gone mad, and is
now in a lunatic asylum. At 1--I amburgh, says the same
journal, the son of a high functionary at Bonn, having
lost a!1 his money at the gaming-table, snatched up the
gold, which was lying on it, and endeavoured to escape,
but he was arrested, and is now in confinement.

ADULTERATED 'HOLY WAFERS.—An English ship
had conveyed to Gijon, a port of the Asturias, a large
cargo of great and small holy wafers, in which have been
detected portions of wheat flour, potato, plaster, and
whites of eggs, to produce consistency and bright colour.
The use of animal substance renders these wafers impro-
per for the holy sacrifice, and the Bishop of Oviedo sent
a circular to all the curates of the diocese, forbidding
them, under pain of sacrifice, to use these wafers. [lt
must be a shock to the faithful to find that the veritable
body and blood of Christ can be adulterated.—En. L.S.]

TIIE HARVEST IN FRANCE.—A great many fields of
barley have been already cut down in the environs of
Paris. The crop is not heavy in the ear. and the straw is
very short, as was to be expected, from the long drought.
but the quantity of grain appears to be equal to what is
called an average crop. The late rains hare had so bene-
ficial an effect upcn the artificial grasses, that they are in
full flower, and quite ready for the scythe. It is very rare
for the second crop to be fit for mowing so early in July.
If the weather should be favourable, the third crop will
be fit to cut in August.
Private letters from Rome of the 29th ult., announce
that the six cardinals comprising the temporary com•
mission of government had disagreed among themselves,
and that Cardinals Lambruschiui, Mattei, and Bernetti,
bad tendered their resignation. A full amnesty was to
be published in a few days. The Pope signed, on the
28th, the pardon of Professor Orioli, Minister of Public

Instruction during the revolution of 1831. His holiness
intended to permit the construction of railroads through
the Papal dominions, and to introduce various reforms in
the administration. Several inhabitants of Rome having

any.satisfactory reason for that measure, the Port ordered
the prisoners to be immediately restored to liberty. The
Military Commissions of Bologna, Ravenna, and Rimini,
had been dissolved.
LOVE.—We have now a most curious affair here which
may greatly embarrass the Porte. A young and handsome
Christian being the neighbour of a Turkish girl, she falls

in love with lan, and invites him to turn Tail( and marry
her. He refuses. The girl's father then offers him one
hundred thousand piastres if he will comply with the re•
quest of his daughter. He says—" I will not change my
religion for any consideration." The girl then declares

that, to cut the matter short, the will herself turn Chris-
tian. The father alarmed at this makes known the case
to the Government, who is now discussing the affair. In

the meantime the girl has been placed under surveillance
or arrest. Now, what the Sultan promised to Sir Stratford
Canning was, that he would not execute persons originally
Christians, who, after becoming Moslems, returned to
their original faith, and this is the first instance in which
a Tutki.Al woman has here expressed a wish to become
Christian. If the Turks allow this, they may now tear
out a few more leaves of the Koran, and if they go on in
that way nothing but the cover will remain at last.—Cor-
respondent of the Morning Herald.

THE POPE ELECTED BY A MISTAKE.—His Holiness
the present Pope Pius IX. has been elected by a mistake,
or rather, he was, as those familiar with elections in
" Merrie England" well know, he was set up as a candi-
date without the intention of his being finally elected. It
occurred thus :—When the cardinals are duly " fixed" in
the conclave, they begin in the evening by giving the name
of one whom they have no intention should be ultimately
aone to see to volmotn sossittsoseneco.l ten-
dencies of their likings directed, or, in plain Saxon, as a
" feeler." It appears that on the second evening of the
conclave the cardinals, according to established usage,

gave in the names of those whom they did not intend
should be elected pope; and Cardinal Giovanni Maria

Mastai Ferretti, archbishop of Imola, and now Pius the
Ninth Irma appnintoA to, call nut liao-namastsua-Lilakt WUXI&
out of the urn, and to his great surprise he found the first
seven or eight billets marked with his own name. His
feelings at so unexpected an honour, when it reached the
fourteenth slip that his name was written on, were so ex-
cited that he fainted. Nevertheless, the calling of the
names went on, and to the great surprise of the Sacred
College, his name was found to have the requisite number
of voices, viz., two-thirds of the number of the cardinals
present.—Florence, June 24.
MASSACRE OF EUROPEANS AT MADAGASCAR.—
Private letters received at Paris give detailed accounts of
a horrible massacre of some French and English by the
Hovas.—We quote the following account of the murder
of an English soldier, who bore all the tortures inflicted
upon him with the heroic firmness of a martyr ;—" Dur-
ing the struggle an English soldier, dangerously wounded,
had dragged himself to some bushes, where he lay con-
cealed. From his hiding-spot he witnessed the horrible
tortures inflicted upon his companions, and for forty-eight
hours endured all the torments of thirst and hunger.
Hoping, then, that his life would be spared, he left the
bushes, and advancing into the midst of the Hovas, gave
up his musket, and requested some water, pointing to his
wounds at the time. The chief Marsoumana sent to in-
quire the will of the governor, who ordered the soldier to
be put to death. The Hovas then stripped him, and with
their knives stabbed him in different parts of the body.
The soldier, who was on the ground from weakness,
raised himself by an heroic effort, and, standing, submit-
ted without uttering a word to the tortures inflicted upon
him. Perceiving that the Englishman, who was covered
with blood, derided all their attempts to shake his cou-
rage, they commenced tearing out his nails. He shut his
eyes and calmly submitted. A dagger was then driven
through his heart, his body cut in pieces, and his head
paraded on a pole."

IRELAND.

On Monday, a party of six Terry Alts were captured at
Borrisoleigh, where they had attacked a house.
In the Queen's County, a man named Quin, living at
Upper Permute, was killed in a sort of faction fight. Quin
bad beaten a man named Dorling, who gathered some of
his friends to be revenged. Seven of them set upon
Quin, and beat him to death. Five of the cowardly
assailants are in custody.

STRIKE AMONG COTTON-SPINNERS.—The cotton-
spinners in the employment of the Alessrs. Lepper, of
the Lodge Mills, Belfast—the most extensive firm in that
branch of manufacture in Ireland—have this week struck
work, in consequence of a proposed reduction in their
prices.—Banner of Ulster

r. [We thought we were to
, when free trade was granted.

have no reduction of w

—En. L. S

At Leighlin-bridge. in the county of Carlow, there was
a serious riot on Wednesday week. About two hundred
persons, under pretence of wanting work and food, coin-
menced breaking up the public roads, and threatened to
plunder the houses. The mob was fast increasing in
numbers and daring, when a detachment of the 931 High-
landers and a strong body of police were brought in from
the surrounding stations, and tranquility was restored.
The ringleaders will be prosecuted.
THE IRISH CH E E.CII AND TILE MINISTRY.-Lord
Ebrington, one of the new Lords of the Treasury, in
a3swer to some pungent questions that were put to him
on Thursday, by a Wesleyan minister, at Plymouth, thus
expressed himself :—" As the sum of £lOO,OOO a-year was
given by the state to the Protestant Dissenters of Ireland,
he had no objection that the surplus revenue of the Irish
Protestant Church should go to the Roman Catholics.
(Great uproar.)" We entertain not the least doubt that
the present ministry will sacrifice the Irish church to pro-
pitiate O'Connell. unless they are restrained.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE.--
On Thursday week an attempt was made to assassi-
nate Charles Ferrall, Esq., of Dalystown, J. P., near
Loughrea, in the county of Galway. This gentleman ob-
served a strange man at his parlour window, looking ,in
very intently. He asked bis business ? " Charity,"
replied the fellow. He was told there was nothing for
him. Whereupon he presented a paper to Mr. Farrell,
which he refused to look at. This movement was evi-
dently intended to arrest the attention of that gentleman,
for the fellow drew a pistol from his breast,and was in the
act of cocking it, when Mr. F. rushed towards him,calling
to his servants. The intended assassin was apprehended
after a run of three miles across the country, and on his
person were found two ball cartridges, together with the
loaded pistol. He was identified at the gaol of Loughrea.
His name is Burke, and he had just been liberated after
six months' imprisonment for robbery.
AIR. O'CONNELL AND THE NEW MINISTRY.—At the
meeting of the repeal association on Monday last, Mr.
O'Connell spoke respecting the course which was to be

adopted towards the new ministry. He professed his de-
termination never to abandon his advocacy of repeal, but
said that he wished the people of England would bid for

Ireland, and that he should like an instalment of repeal
this year. He adverted to Sir R. Peel's speech, declaring
that there should be perfect eality between England and
v• 1 • ••

speeches, an echo of his own requirements. He was de-
termined to bring the question of repeal under the
con-
sideration of the HouQe of Commons in the earliest part
of the next session. With regard to the pending elections,
he said that he would return a repealer for Dungarvan if
he could ; but that he was resolved not to uffer any
vexatious opposition. He would urge the electors to re-
turn a repealer, but at present he hid no candidate pre-
pared. He afterwards declared his intention of opposing
any proposition for extending to Ireland the English sys-
tem of out-door relief to the poor.