The Quotidienne states that the health of Count Pozzo di
Borgo con- tinues indifferent. He lins lucid intervals in the morning, but soon his ideas are confused, and he is incapable of any important occupation.
" The intellectual faculties of Prince Metternich," says the COM- MCAT, "have been so much impaired by his recent illness, that it is feared he cannot remain much longer at the head of affairs."
A St. Petersburg letter states that the Emperor of Russia has deter- mined on the construction of three railroads,—one from St. Petersburg to Warsaw by Wilna, another from St. Petersburg to Moscow, and the third from Moscow to Kiew. These lines, if not undertaken by com- panies, are to he executed by the State, which will employ the Govern- ment serfs.
A Vienna letter mentions that the reform in the postage system in England has induced the Austrian Government to follow the example, and that the Minister of Finance and the Director of the Post Adminis- tration are concerting the best mode of bringing the plan into execution.
The death of the King of Denmark took place on the 3d instant, at Copenhagen. The Crown Prince, the late King's cousin, was imme- diately proclaimed his successor.
The Moniteur publishes a royal ordinance, raising the Duke d'Aumale, the fourth son of Louis Philippe, Captain in the Fourth Light Infantry, to the rank of Chief of Battalion in the same corps ; an appointment on which the Opposition papers severely comment.
The Univers states that a marriage between the Duke de Nemours and the daughter of the Dutehess of Leuchtenberg is seriously con- templated; and that Marshal Soult was most anxious to accomplish the union of the present Royal Family of Frauce with the family of Beau- harnais.
Six young French officers, from the school of St. Cyr, have set out front Marseilles for Persia, where they are to be employed as military instructors.
Private letters from Bayonne of the 4th instant state, it was reported that a sanguinary affray has taken place at Tolosa between the troops
and the inhabitants, and that eighty of the former had been disarmed. A band of between fifty and sixty mounted Carlists was also said to have made its appearance at the Carrascal, in Navarre.
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