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given to the Consuls tohavP all such foreigners arrested
and sent to Hong Kotirz. The death of Major Eldred
Pottiager, which (yrMI-red at Hong Kong, was greatly de-
plored. Colonel KoOwles, of the Artillery, and assistant-
surgeons Graham and Dill, have also fallen yictio,s to the
prevalent inandy. Rumour spok, of some differences.
bPtween Sir H. Pottinger and ,the British Admiral and
General.

The Plehipotentlary is said to he anxious to return to
Europe. The Admiral was about to sail for Calcutta.
The Americas frigate and minister had gone t;) China
from Bombity and Colombo, at both of which places he
had been feted.

The inhabitants of Calcutta and Madras are struggling
hard 'to secure to themselves the large steamers ; hut their
voyage would pay the Oriental and Peninsular Company
far better if they took the mails from Bombay to Suez,
and bad branch boats from Bombay to Ceylon, Madras,
and Calcutta, and even Sincapore.

REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.
By extraordinary express from Paris, accounts have been
received from Madrid, which state that a revolt had broken
out at Alicante, on the 28th January, of the most for-
midable nature. The Provincial Regiment of Valencia,
stationed in the town, joined in the insurrection, which
was directed against the government. The cry of the in-
surgents was " Long live the constitutional Queen, down
with the Ministers." The military commander and poli-
tical chief were surprised and arrested by the Custom-house
Carabioiers. The Council of Ministers at Madrid, on
receiving this news, immediately gave orders for the arrest
of the leaders of the Progressista party, and, among others,
of Cortina, Lopes, Madoz, Garnica, Ors, and Benedicto.
Cortina was arrested. Lopes and Ors could not be found.
The others have been taken. It was said that Generals
Serrando and Concha had also been put under arrest. The
pretext for the arrest is, that the whole Progessista party
have entered into a vast conspiracy, of which the breaking
out at Alicante is the first symptom.
The Gazelle is full of the most severe decrees directed
against the Alicante insurgents. The provinces of Ali-
cante, Murcia, and Castellon de la Plana. are placed under
martial law. A large body of troops, under Brigadier
Cordova, have bcen directed to leave Madrid for the dis-
turbed districts. It was reported that Carthagena had
joined in the revolt. The National Guards are to be sup-
pressed, and the liberty of the press abolished.

Dr. Kalley was liberated from prison in Madeira on
New Year's Day, in consequence of the remonstrances
made by our government.
MADAME C A.T A LIN I.—This celebrated singer has ad-
dressed a long letter to Dr. Heller, the journalist, of
Leipsic, complaining bitterly of the cruelty of the German
press, in so repeatedly putting her to death. " What,"
says she, " have I done to the German press, that they
have now for the fourth time killed me ? Though at the
age of sixty-four, I still retain good health, and live in
quiet retirement, in the remembrance of former days."
OLDENBURG, Jan. 27.—A most afflicting loss has un-
expectedly fallen on the Grand Ducal family
.and the
country. This afternoon, at four o'clock, the Grand
Duchess expired after a short but severe illness, in con-
sequence of her accouchement. Her Royal Highness was
a daughter of the late King of Sweden, Gustavus IV. She
was born June 22, 1807 ; and married the Grand Duke
of Oldenburg, May 5, 1831.

VIENNA, Jan. 25.—The Imperial Family was yesterday
visited by a severe affliction, by the sudden and unex-
pected decease of her Imperial Highness the Archduchess
Maria Carolina Augusta, eldest daughter of their Imperial
Highnesses the Archduke and Viceroy Rainer and the
Archduchess Elizabeth. Her Imperial Highness was
born on the Gth February, 1821, and was consequently 23
years of age. This bereavement is the more melancholy,
as the Archduchess was to have been married, in March
next, to the Prince of Savoy Cariznan.

PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS.-WARSAW, Jan. 22.
An imperial ukase has been received in Lithuania direct-
ing the authorities of towns and other localities inhabited
by Jews to transport those unhappy persons, amounting
to 36,000 families, to a distance of 12 leagues from their
several actual places of residence. This cruel ukase was
further to receive its execution before the 18th instant; so
that at a moderate estimate, 150,000 persons of both sexes,
and of all ages and conditions, are at this moment, in the
midst of all the rigours of a Lithuanian winter, expelled
their houses, and forced to seek a resting-place in strange
countries, and not merely among strangers, but among
people predisposed to view them as outcasts and objects
for extortion, persecution, and violence.

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—The
following news of the Bokhara captives is given by the
Malta papers :—" Trebizonde, Dec. 13.—0 n the 11th
some passengers from Bokhara report that Colonel
Stoddart is alive, that he is a general of artillery in the
service of the Emir of Bokhara, and th_t he was compelled
to embrace Islamish, under the name of Abdul Semmel
Khan, given him by the Emir, with whom the colonel is
a great favourite. As to Captain Conolly, the information
is less positive ; the same passengers having only said to
have seen, in company of Colonel Stoddart, a young man
of a rather short stature and a wide beard, who attended
the colonel as secretary. The statements given by these
passengers as to the stature and description of these two
persons perfectly correspond with those of Col. Stoddart
and Captain Conolly, as given by the Rev. Mr. Wolff."
Another letter of the 24th ult. says " that the statement
of the former passengers was fully confirmed by others
who arrived from Bokhara some days after." Mr. Wolff
had reached Erzeroum, on foot, from Trebizond, a dis-
tance of 150 miles.

WRECK OF AN AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT.—The latest
arrival from America brings intelligence of the diastrous
wreck of the steam-boat Shepherdess, from Cincinnati to
Philadelphia, just above the mouth of the Cahokia Creek,
about three miles above Philadelphia, on the fourteenth
January, about eleven o'clock at night. The vessel struck
a snag or rock, and in a very few minutes the water rose
to the lower deck, where most of the passengers in that
part of the boat were asleep. At the moment of the col-
lision most of the passengers in the gentlemen's cabin had
retired to their berths, and the ladies too were generally
undressed for the night. The scene may, therefore, be
better imagined than described. The water rushed in with
tremendous rapidity, and in a very short time was up to
the floor of the upper cabin. A portion of those on deck
were saved by getting into the yawl, which was cut loose
and rowed to shore with a broom. The water rose so ra-
pidly that it soon became necessary for all to seek safety
upon the hurricane deck. Much difficulty was experienced
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struck another snag, which was far out of water. This
threw the boat nearly on her beam's end, on the larboard
side. Drifting from the snag, she again lurched to the
starboard, and at each lurch several persons were washed
off. Some of them reached the shore, but many were
drowned. A short distance below, just above the first
shot tower, the hull struck a bluff bank, which again ca-
reened her nearly on her beam's end. Here the hull and
cabin parted. The hull sunk and lodged on a bar above
Carondelet, and the cabin floated down to the point of the
bar below that place, where it lodged and remains. It is
estimated that from ninety to a hundred of the passengers
were drowned. The night was extremely cold and frosty.

IRELAND.

THE STATE TRIALS.

At the opening of the court on Monday, Mr. O'Connell
(who appeared without his wig and gown which be had
worn every day since the trial commenced) proceeded to
address the jury. He commenced by saying, that he did not
stand as his own client, but that his clients were the Irish
people, whose rights lie stood forward to protect. He
was net going to deny' or palliate anything he had done,
but the substance of all he had said he was there to vindi-
cate. When the political order of things was restored
every where, Ireland alone was left without its full
day of retribution. The jury differed from him (Mr.
O'Connell) in religious belief, and that difference was,
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The prosecution was the strangest one that had ever been
entered upon : the jury had not one or ten facts to try,
but they had to wade through the history of nine months,
and the evidence of the acts as laid before them was raked
up from newspapers • and it was a monstrous thing to term
that a conspiracy which everybody knew of, and three-
fifths of the people were engaged in. There was not suf-
ficient evidence to support an action for the recovery of
XIO. No conspiracy was proved ; and the Attorney-Ge-
neral had made a long speech, but he had at the close
merely told the jury to go back to the beginning and find
out the conspiracy for themselves, The hon. traverser
then related two or three anecdotes, which he conceived
to be in point, as showing that because the Attorney-
General had taken so long a time in stating the case, there
was really no charge against the traversers. The trial was
a ministerial one, to see whether the present ministry were
to retain office, or whether we were to have the whigs again
promising much and doing nothing. (Laughter.) They
could not believe that he, who was to receive that awful
judgment which could not now be much longer postponed,
could enter into a conspiracy. The verdict might impri-
son him, but it could not take from him the conscious
innocence he possessed. If the Attorney-General's doc-
trine of conspiracy were sight, the slave-trade would
never have been abolished, and Wilberforce and Clarkson
were as much conspirators as he (Mr. O'Connell). The
hon. gent. then referred to what he termed the " machi-
nery" of the evidence, dividing it into two classes—mon-
ster meetings and newspaper publications. The meetings
were legal : no disturbance took place at them—no life
was lost there—and there was no evidence brought
forward to show that they led to intimidation. They were
peaceable by design, and were discontinued the moment
a proclamation was issued discountenancing them. He
left the meetings to the jury, as men that must answer
for their verdict before their maker. As to the newspa-
pers he had nothing to do with them—there was no proof
of any connection between him and the newspapers; and
he had frequently disavowed at the association that any
newspaper was the organ of their body. They had circu-
lated newspapers, but the evidence on that point merely
went to show that those who subscribed a certain sum
allocated a part of that money to the choice of a news-
paper, and there was no proof at all that even these re-
ports in the papers had led to any breach of the peace.
The hon. gentleman then went on at great length to show
that his whole life went to disprove that he could be guilty
of such conduct as was attempted to be brought to his
charge. He then read a number of extracts to show as
he conceived how much Ireland prospered under her own
independent Parliament, and brought forward an immense
number of figures and assertions to make it appear that
his country suffered severely from the Parliament sitting
in England, and concluded as follows :—I leave the case
with you—l utterly deny that I have said or done any-
thing to warrant the imputation that I am a con-
spirator. I reject the accusation with contempt.