The King of Greece opened the Chambers on the 22d
December. His speech, in allusion to the state debt, mentions that he had asked the Great Powers to grant an extension of the term of payment., to enable his Government to make certain retrenchments, and adopt other measures calculated to increase the national resources: he hopes the request will be complied with.
Intelligence from Algiers comes down to the 31st. December. A great engage- ment had taken place on the 23d, between Abd-el-Kader and lus " pursuer,' General Joussonf; in which the Emir is said to have been defeated. The advan- tage was not followed up by the French; they only boasted of having driven off the indomitable chief: but he suddenly reappears, falling " like a thunderbolt' on a tribe leagued with the French; and it is suspected that, he had merely heat leading General Joussouf and Marshal Bugeaud's cavalry a fruitless chase, in order to tire out his enemy. Accordingly, the Marshal's army is said to be "in a deplorable condition."
Two movements of an alarming kind have been made in the Swiss Canton of Berne: four thousand Radicals collected at Arberg, and demanded constitutional changes; and a still more numerous meeting asserted a similar claim at Givatt.
We rejoice to learn that the American Minister in this country, Mr. Maclane, an excellent man, has very recently expressed his perfect conviction that there will be no war.—Leeds Mercury. A frightful loss of life occurred on Wednesday by an explosion of fire-damp at Risen Colliery, near Newport: thirty-five dead bodies have been taken up, and it is feared that a number more still remain under ground.
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