The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-19

ceeded IN gaming possession OF some pieces OF can
non, which were in the old establishments Of the
Jesufts. The Government caused the tocsin to be
rung, and the generate to be beaten. The militia
faithful to their duty, assembled in the principal
streets, attacked the peasants, who had posted
themselves in the upper part OF the town, ana
defeated them with loss of eight men Killed the
peasants had been told by their priests that they
were to be supported by body OF two thousand
men, who, however, never made their appearance.
ITALY.
The Times correspondent in letter from Rome,
dated March ID, has the following The Pope
and Cardinals have fallen into the depth of despair
since the French steamer OF yesterday distributed
the fatal news of the restoration OF the Russell
Cabinet. | am told that the Post fell like thun-
derbolt the Vatican, and that, for long time,
the Holy Father and the Camara refused to credit
the bad news. 1t was only when their own dis
patches arrived that they admitted the melancholy
truth, and now, unable to make head against it,,
they look to the Protectioniss, to the Irish mem
bers, to free trade, any thing and every thing as
a means Of again throwing the country into confu-
sion, and expelling the whg Cabinet Cardinal
Wiseman and his advisers, who had lately regained
the position they had lost the majority in favor
OF bringing in the bill being made known here,
have again fallen into disrepue, and the Vatican Is
more lrrtated than at their indscretiOn even
| the Supreme Pontif feels that the Archbishop Of
Westminster, had miscaculated the force OF his
adversaries, and his Grace, who looked upon
as inspired because all his letters asserted that the
Ministry struck to the ground, is now regarded
as feeble man misled by his vanity, and
who knew not how to estimate the weig extent
| OF public opinion at home"
GREECE.
The kolner Zeitung states, from Berlin, that The
question of the Grecian succession has at length
been decided. After the demise of The Grecan
King the throne will fall to Prince Adabart of
Bavaria. The Government treaty with the Aus
trian Lloyd's has been ratified by the Diet. The
city OF Levissi, in the Island Of Rhodes, has
been destroyed by an earthquake.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Adyices have been received to the 5th February.
The Grahams Town Journal, of the 9th Janu-
ary, contains the following: Six hundred Kaffirs
have besn driven away from King Williams Town
by MAJOR Armstrong twenty four were killed and
| several wounded The British lost only one trooper
and one Fiegoe wounded. In some districts The
Hotfentots had joined the KafTrs, and were COM
| mitting great havoc The Dutch were turning out
slowly, and an attack on Somerset was expected
The same journal says the rebellion of the Hotien-
tots furnishes key to the present policy of the
kaffir chiefs The kafiirs were to engage troops
when the Hotentots were to plunder the colony.
No later official dispatches are published
The state OF feeling IN the colony may well be
imagined, when it announced that the Hot.
tentots on the frontier found to be in league
with the Kaffirs. The outposts were as we'll pro.
ected as they could be, but the limited disposable
force bronght into service included all the aid that
was obtained from Burgher volunteers and others.
1t IS feared that hoslllites may be proraced for
months, and that the extreme points of our DOS
sessions the frontier will suffer seriously from
iDroads made upon them by the natives Assist
ance from Natal was expected, and it could not
arrive loo early.