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ermit the construction of railroads through

the Papal dominions, and to introduce various re

.forms in

been arrested, and the Governor being unable to assigni
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

Chris ian being the neighbour of a Turkish girl, she falls
in love with him, and invites him to turn Turk 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 gift then declares
that, to cut the matter stunt, she will ht
tiara. The father alarmed at this makes

e 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 Turkish 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 Mornino Herald.
THE POPE ELECTED BY A MISTAKE.—His Holiness
the present Pope Pius IX. has been elected by a mistake,
or rather, be was, as those familiar with elections in

" Merne England" well know, he was set up as a candi-
date without the intention of his being finally elected. It

the conclave, they begin in the evening by giving the name
of one whom they have no intention should be ultimately

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, was appointed to call out the names as they came
out of the urn, and to his great surprise he found the fit st
seven or eight billets marked with bin 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 be 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 be 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
eves and calmly submitted. A dagger was then driven
through his heart, his body cut in pieces, and his head
paraded on a pole,"