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liant speech.
Miss Charlotte Hindes, the purchaser Of On
Irish estate under the encountered estates act,
has been barbarously maltresfed by some re-
fractory tenants, who waylaid and attempted
to assassinate her. Her leg and arm were
broken and two balls lodged in her head. She
is not expected to survive. Rewards have
been offered for the apprehension Of the per-
A paper casl.d L 'Homme, published in Jer.
sey, and edited by refugees, having INDUCED
in abuse Of the Queen Of England, has been
denounced at an indignation meeting held BY
the inhabitants, and is to be suppressed. Later
letters say that the conductors left Jersey on
the night Of the 18th October and took refuge
In Guernsey. Previous to their departure,
mob, carrying sticks, assembled before the
door. large number of French refugees
were inside we'll armed, and prepared to de-
fend themselves; but, happily, the police in.
terfered and prevented q collision.
Letters from Odessa announce that in conse-
quence of orders from the Emperor Alexander
commission of inquiry has been appointed at
Kew to decide on the fate Of such volunteers
in the foreign legion serving for the Western
Powers as may be taken prisoners. These
men will not be considered prisoners of war.
Hungarians will be delivered to Austria.
General Korf has been deprived of his COM
mand for his negligence in allowing himself to
be taken by surprise by Gen. A Allonville's
cavalry. He is succeeded by Gen. Prince
Radziwicke. These changes have been no.
tilted in a Russian order Of the day, dated Oe-
tOber 4.
The Cologne Gazette says that Gen. Korff is
to be tried by court martial
- -. ITALY.
The Turin Opinione gives the following dis
patch:
There are several armed bands in the island
The number of armed insurgents in Aderno,
near Catania, is said to be 1000. Sauguinary
conflicts have already taken place in that
quarter. The bauds who have appeared in
tho mountains near Palermo are supplied with
cannon, and march under the italian tri-color
flag. The excitement in Messina is tremen-
dous and the whole State Of Italy augurs
coming events of interest. - - CO.,
PIEDMoNr.-The decree of excommunicat alton
issued by the Pope on the occasion of the pro-
mitigation of the convent suppression law had
his Holiness and the Sandman episcopacy.
The bishops were often perplsxed with regard
to the application of ecclesiastical penalties.
A deinitive decision has been at last come to
by the court Of Rome respecting the different
categories of persons who have incurred ex-
communication These categories comprise
the ministers, the members Of the ecclesasti-
cal board, the agents Of the public revenue,
the mayors, municipal councillors, and work
men who took part in tho different expedi-
tions against the converts, the journalists who
advocated the Ratazza project, and the sign
ers Of petitions to Parliament in its favor
Parish priests are accordingly forbidden to ad-
minister the sacraments to that numerous
class Of persons, if they do not previously sign
an explicit retraction. Notwithstanding the
excessive prudence with which the clergy de-
ported itself in this affair, a serious collision
between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities
is considered inevitable.