ffoTtign anit (Colonial,

aux.—The rumours which have been current, of a new conspiracy against the Pope, appear to have been not altogether destitute of founda- tion; but an attempt was inade.on-tile.lstinstant to disturb public order. The occasion selected was the annual grand procession of the Boccaletti, in which the glass-blowers of Rome figure conspicuously with specimens of their trade. The plot, however, came to nothing; Chief Secretary Ferretti being fore-warned, and therefore fore-armed. Another leader of the former plot had been captured, in the person of Domenico Cavaletti, late Chief Director of the Police for the district of Velletri and the Pontine Marshes. Cardinal Lambruschini had been sum- moned to Rome from Civita Vecchia, and precautions were taken to pro- tect his person from injury by the populace. Colonel Pfeyffer, Commandant of the Swiss Guards, had absconded, in consequence, it was believed, of certain peculations in which he was associated with the Maggiordomo Pa- lavicini ; who had prudently retired to Genoa.

The Pope has been busy with financial reforms. He has cashiered Trea- surer Antonelli; and has placed Count Pietro Ferretti at the head of the Finance Department, conjointly with the late Bavarian Legate Morichini.

The Pope has nominated a third deputy for the city of Rome, in the person of Prince Odescalchi. The railroad question has been definitely settled by the Pontifical Go- vernment. The line from Rome to Cabrano by Albano is adjudged to the company presided over by Prince Altieri and M. Rosetti; that from Bologna to Ancona will be given to a Bolognese company.

At Ferrara, the Austrian General was doing his utmost to render his presence unbearable. It is said that amongst other evidences of petulance, he had come to Rome complaining that the Cardinal Legate Ciacchi had not given his men free quarters, as he had been led to expect. He loudly boasted of having in his possession Cardinal Gizzi's written invitation to come to Ferrara: but the statement was not believed.

The conduct of the Austrians looked very like the result of a determina- tion to bring about a sanguinary crisis. On the 6th instant, Ferrara was again overrun with foreign troops, on the pretence that on the 1st an officer had been arrested and insulted by the Civic Guard. Patrols of Austrians traversed the streets and squares, with orders to fire upon all who neglected properly to answer the German challenge, " Werdan." Against this act the Cardinal Legate had energetically protested, signing his protest in the presence of the notary Monti. Authentic copies of this document were then sent to the Pope, to the Viceroy of Lombardy at Milan, and to Gene- ral Radetski at Verona, the head-quarters of the Austrian army of Italy. "In the mean time, Cardinal Ciacehi apprized the inhabitants of what had passed, and recommended them to observe the greatest prudence. At a quarter to ten o'clock p. en., the Austrian patrols issued from the citadel and entered the town. One of them, on entering the small square of Gorgadello, perceiving some persons advancing in their direction, fired three shots upon them; which fortu- nately did not take effect. A little further, another shot was fired; which caused no injury. The Cardinal, under those circumstances, gave orders to the troops of the garrison and the Civic Guards to take arms, and hold themselves in readiness to turn out should tranquillity be disturbed: but down to midnight, when the mail left, no further incident had occurred."

A. paragraph in one of the Paris journals, founded on a letter from Milan, states that the Austrian troops on the Italian frontier have commenced their march, but that it is understood they are merely to reinforce the gar- risons of Austrian Italy, where a revolt is considered imminent.

Letters from Naples to the 6th instant describe the rapid progress which Liberal ideas are making amongst all classes. No immediate political outbreak was anticipated.

SWITZERLAND.—Advices from Berne state that after a violent discus- sion of three days' duration, the Federal Diet had on the previous day adopted, by the usual majority of twelve Cantons and two Half Cantons, the proposition drawn up by the Committee of seven relative to the disso- lution of the Sonderbund.

The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Berne, mentioning that the British Envoy, Mr. Peel, at a special interview sought for the purpose, had read to M. Ochsenbein a friendly despatch from Lord Palmerston, declaring that England will oppose any intervention destined to paralyze the legal action of the Diet. The letter, however, goes on to report "the general opinion in Switzerland," "that a pacific d6nouement is impossible, in pre- sence of the arrogance of the minority before a majority which can have sixty thousand men on foot in forty-eight hours, and which has consider- able financial resources."

A meeting of Swiss sharpshooters lately took place on the plain of Wy- ler, in the Canton of Clorais. More than 15,000 riflemen assembled to contend for the prizes.

raksiCH.—It is announced for the twentieth time, that the Duke d'Au- male is to be " Governor-Geneial " of Algeria, in place of Marshal pogeaud. The statement now rests upon the reliable authority of the Revue des Deux Mondes. It was the King's wish that the Duke should proceed to Algeria as "Viceroy "; but prudence dictated the abandonment of that title, for the more modest one adopted, in deference to public opinion, just now not favourable to any extension of the kingly power.

The Revue says, that at the same time With the royal ordinance appoint- ing the Duke d'Aumale Governor-General, will appear another ordinance reorganizing the administration of Algeria, according to the recOmmendationt of the two Committees of the Chatnber of Deputies, of which M. de Toe- queville and M. Charles Dupin were the reporters. The three Central Di- rectories are to be suppressed, and a General Direction is to be established, from which all the orders connected with civil affairs will emanate, and the head of which will be the principal personage in the colony after the Go- vernor-GrenemL In each province are to be placed Directors of civil affairs, whose powers and duties will be similar to those of Prefects in France. Each province will also have a Council to aid the Director. Municipalities are to be established; but the Municipal Councils are not to be elective, their appointment is to be direct from the Government.. Another ordi- nance is to prescribe new forms for grants of land and mines, with the object of rendering impossible irregularities similar to those recently brought before the public. In its relation to the home Government, the colony of Algeria is to continue, as before, under the Department of War.

The Duke de Nemours was to proceed on the 19th from the Chateau d'Eu to the Chateau at Compeigne, in order to assume the chief command of the troops there assembled in camp. The Prince de Joinville is said to have given up the command of the Mediterranean squadron, on account of ill health. It is certain, however, that he is coming to Paris; and that the King's surgeon, Baron Pasquier, has been Commissioned to attend him.

It was reported in Paris, on Thursday, that the Pope's Nuncio in that capital had, previously to the departure of M. Guizot for his country-seat, communicated to him the Austrian reoccupation of Ferrara, and submitted a copy of the protest of the Cardinal Legate. M. Guizot is said to have ex- pressed his approbation of the protest; promising at the same time to sup- port, by his Ambassador at Vienna, any representations that the Pope may make on the subject of this outrage. The Manche of Macon announces the formation of Swiss committees in Paris, Lyons, Bourg, Besancon, Strasburg, and Grenoble, on the plan of the

Polish committees. In case war be provoked by Austria or Piedmont, those committees will give the aid of revolutionary France to Switzerland; which they regard as the representative of the cause of the people.

The Paris correspondent of the Times describes the very lamentable ef- fects produced in the departments as well as in the metropolis of France by the proofs and allegations of corruption in high places-

" Insults are said to be addressed hourly to men in office by the populace. In more than one district a cry of ' au voleur r (robber) is raised the moment a pub- lic functionary is met or recognized. The Governmeat is seriously alarmed at this state of the public mind, and fears are expressed for the occurrence of an insur- rectionary movement I cannot pretend to affirm that those apprehensions are groundless; but I can assure you that the persons supposed to have influence with the disaffected are more solicitous to prevent an emeute than the most attached friend of the Government can possibly be."

Disturbances broke out on Wednesday sennight in the Faubourg St. An- toine. A mob assembled round the manufactory of an extensive cabinet- maker named Krieger, which they forced and pillaged. The tumult is ascribed to some dispute about wages: it was resumed on the Thursday, and not quelled until the troops had charged the crowd, and captured several of the ringleaders. There was some indication of a further move- ment on Friday; but the groups were dispersed by the patrols before they became numerous. Tranquillity was quite restored on Sunday.

A remarkable sequel to the Dujarier duel has engaged the Paris gossips,

in the shape of a trial which exhibited the Viscomte d'Ecquevilley, formerly- one of the witnesses for the defendant Beauvallon, now as a prisoner charged with perjury; M. Beauvallon taking his turn as a hard-swearing witness. The French papers are full of the proceedings; but for the Eng- lish reader, the connected narrative supplied by the Times, which goes back to the original affair, will be at once more intelligible and more interesting.

"In a most equivocal society, composed of ' literary men and actresses,' Bean-

vallon [editor of the Globe] and M. Dujarier [editor of the Presae] quarrelled at a card-table, and a challenge from the former was the result. Beauvallon wished to fight with the small sword; a weapon which hi. Dujarier' well aware of his own helplessness and his opponent's skill, declined, and selected pistols, as giving him, at all events, a better chance for life, though even on those terms he had to oppose the most utter inexperience on his own side to notorious excellence on that of his adversary. At six o'clock on the morning of the duel, Beauvallon repaired to D'Ecquevilley'sgarden; where by appointment he met a M. de Meynard, and coin- menced practising at a mark. So admirable was his performance as to elicit a compliment from Meynard; which he acknowledged by stating that the pistols be- longed to his brother-in-law, and that he was well acquainted with their peculiar capabilities. After the practice, D'Ecquevilley and Beauvallon proceeded to M. Dinarier's seconds to arrange the conditions of the duel. The meeting had been fixed for nine o'clock, and IL Dujarier was punctual to the hour: his adversary-, however, was not so- and M. Dujarier was kept waiting shivering in the snow till half-past eleven; when Beauvallon stepped out of a snug carriage, with his clothes wadded, and with a very reasonable confidence in his instruments and his arm. So palpably had the duel been forced on the unfortunate victim, and so little ground was there, even according to a Frenchman's code, for this combat i routrance, that M. Bertrand, his second, aeon of the Marshal, went to unusual lengths of nego- tiation on the spot, and actually 'supplicated' Beauvallon to proceed no further; an intervention which was cut short by the reply., 'No I have not come hem for nothing.' On this rebuff, M. Bertrand, betook himself to his charge of loading thelpistols; when he discovered, to his astonishment, that the barrel was actually . warm in his hand; and upon inserting his finger in the bore, it was perfectly blackened from the soil of the recent discharges. He dropped the weapon in- stantly, exclaiming that the duel was impossible; when DEcquevilley reiterated ' his solemn word of honour that Beauvallon had never seen the instruments, and that the barrel had merely been soiled by a little powder flashed off Cflanthae

to air it. The combatants re accordingly placed on the ground. The , gs shot

from the shivering and unpractised irm of M. Dujarier passed full sixty paces from his antagomst, who was now in legal command of his victim's life. So gri- - tifying was this crisis that he was reluctant to end it; and, instead of firingistood 'looking full at M. Dujarier with a sett of pride,' till at length M. Bertrand , called out, `Depechez vous done, M. Ileauvallen.' He then did fire, and shot 31, , Dujarier through the brain. "The origin and incidents of the last trial are equally striking. After the duel; D'Ecquevilley went to Meynard and made interest with him to conceal the facts reepecting.the ownership of the pistols and the previous practice. To a sug- gestion of D'Ecquevilley's that he should come into court and directly perjure himself on this point. he demurred, saying it was dishonourable, but consented to absent himself while DEcquevilley swore to all that was required. He scion, however, began to babble, and was urged to retract his admissions; which he de- clined to do, but agreed to tell no more, and to do all that he could, consistently with his honour, to inspire a belief that the reports he had circulated were false. Unfor- tunately, his forbearance was tried beyond its powers; and the result was a formal deposition, which occasioned the present trial. His statements were confirmed the seconds, by the surgeon in attendance, and by a multitude of indirect proo which left no doubts upon the mind of the Court. Even the mistress o

hi

Meynard deposed that Beauvallon had called upon her on his way to the practice before the duel on that morning, had told her he was going to some pistol-shoot- ing, and had endeavoured to make an appointment with her for a ball in the evening: a mark of confidence in the result of the engagement which she after- wards could not help recollecting. Oil the trial, Beauvallon and Bertrand were confronted; and on the President's remarking that the evidence of the latter con- tradicted that of the former, 'You would have then,' exclaimed Beauvallon, 'a duel between M. Bertrand and myself?' When we add that Dr. Guise, the me- dical witness, deposed to his having been challenged by D'Ecquevilley,. and that the brother-in-law, the owner of the pistols, actually challenged one of the wit- nesses in the witness-room of the court, our readers may form some idea of the uses of duelling in such society.

"It would be unjust to conceal that the judgment of the Court on all these

points was severe, and that public opinion did on this occasion side with the Court. it is true that Alexandre Dumas and some other lights of literature tendered em- phatic testimony to the honour, probity, and integrity of the accused. Bat the Court sentenced D'Ecquevilley to ten years' reclusion: a sentence involving the severest labour and imprisonment for that period, and entailing civil degradation and indelible infamy as its sequel. Beauvallon, the voluntary witness for his 'friend,' is also placed under arrest for manifest perjury during this trial; an event which will at length bring some punishment limos to him, but which will fall very short of securing him his deserts.

"One incident on the trial is both too extravagant and too characteristic to be

omitted from its report. Here were two men who to a systematic life of the grossest profligacy, sustained by swindling and shielded by imposture, had added a deliberate and concerted murder, the fine for which they had evaded by ab- sconding, and the facts of which they were labouring to conceal by cool conspb. racy and tinrepenting perjury. Yet, when Beauvallon is told by the Judge that he can no longer 'consider himself a gentleman,' he colours up with ind4:nation, , and can hardly restrain himself from a violent protest in the open court! " GERNANY.—The Polish trials have been proceeding with regularity. ha addition to the chief offenders, hfieroslowski, Kosinski, and Dumbrovnadi

the examination of a great number of the minor prisoners has been con- cluded; but the cases arc devoid of interest. The first acquittal took place on the 11th instant, in the case of the Priest Anton Kielsdorf, who was ac- cused of having a knowledge of the fact. His defence was, that the know- ledge charged against him was under the seal of confession. Kielsdorf had undergone about eighteen months' imprisonment before the trial. Divine service by the Jews was celebrated for the first time on a Sunday on the 8th instant, at Koenigsberg, in Prussia. There were about 600 Jews in the synagogue, and more than 200 Christians, among whom were several eminent functionaries of the town. One of the attendants was the Direc- tor of Police; who strongly opposed the intention of the Jews to transfer the celebration of the Sabbath from Saturdays to Sundays.—French Paper.

UNITED STATES AND Mexrco.—The usual mail brought by the Bri- tannia furnishes intelligence from New York to the 31st July. The news from Mexico is by no means conclusive. The United States forces had advanced no further into the interior; General Scott remaining inactive, and possibly incapable, at Puebla, while General Taylor continued im- moveable at Walnutt Springs. There had been some minor affairs in other quarters. Generals Cadwallader and Pillow had repelled an attack made on them at Lahoya; and had pushed on to Perot% with the object of joining General Scott. Colonel de Russy, with a small force, ventured about 100 miles inland to rescue some American prisoners. In this object he was unsuccessful. But when surrounded and attacked by a body of 1,200 Mexicans, at Huequetla, he managed to cut his way through the enemy's lines, with the loss of 20 killed and 10 wounded. General Pearce, with 2,500 men, had also engaged a division of 4,000 Mexicans, near the National Bridge. The affair was very severe; for although the victory remained with the invaders, General Pearce was so crippled by his losses 63 to be obliged to return to Vera Cruz for reinforcements.

Meanwhile, it is said that Commissioners had absolutely been named by the Mexican Government to confer with Mr. Trist at San Martin Teems- lancan on the 8th July, in order to arrange the terms of a peace.

The domestic news of the States is not very striking. The struggle for the nomination of President had begun to agitate the public mind; and the " fall" elections were on the eve of commencing when the Britannia sailed. The general condition of the Union was prosperous in the extreme.

The harvest had closed throughout the Western States; and the yield was indisputably far above an average crop, and of excellent quality. The Washington Union of 21st July gives the following account of the state of the national finances-

" The augmentation of revenue under the new tariff, for the first seven months and seventeen days, compared with the same period of time preceding under the tariff of 1842, is 1,337,597 dollars, exclusive of half a million of dollars of duties accrued on warehoused goods. At the same rate of augmentation for the year' the total increase of revenue would exceed three millions of dollars. Last week the duties received in New York and Philadelphia were 672,000 dollars, against 336,000 for the same week last year; being exactly double under the tariff of 1846 as compared with the tariff of 1842."

The New York correspondent of a Dublin paper states on the authority of an eye-witness, that "of 2,235 human beings who left Europe in five vessels—the Jessie, from Cork; Erin's Queen, Sarah, and Triton, all from laiverpool; and the Avon, from Cork—not more than 500 will live to settle in America."

CANADA.—Advice8 from Montreal describe the closing of the first session a Parliament under Lord Elgin's rule. The event took place on the 28th July, when the Governor gave the Royal assent to ninety-six acts. The whole number of acts passed by the Canadian Parliament in a short session of two months amounted to 122.

The Quebec correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on the 24th of July, describes the wretched state of the emigrants who arrive in vast numbers from Ireland, suffering under fever; the disease committing its ravages with no effectual control from regulations either on the voyage, or on the spot. He says that the disease rages among the emigrants as vioc, lently as ever; the deaths diminishing in number as the ships came in more elowly, but in many cases assuming a more malignant form. We extract the greater part of the statements cf fact, omitting merely inferential amtesages.

quarantine hospitals at• dr•osse Isle still contain their two thousand liatients, while all the available accommodation for the sick in the town itself has been for some days filled up. Most fortunately for the inhabitants of Quebec, comparatively few of the emigrants land amongst them; they are almost entirely embarked direct on board the steamer for Montreal, the healthy from their ships, and the so-called convalescent from Grosse Isle, and are carried away at once, without any communication with Quebec: consequently, whilst the disease is daily being conveyed to the Upper St. Lawrence and spread into the Western districts, it is here almost solely confined to those whose duties compel their per- sonal attendance upon the sick. Several clergymen and doctors have died, and ethers are dangerously ill; but the fever is decidedly not general in the town, be- cause, being contagious onlyhy actual contact with the infected, comparatively few persons are exposed to as poison. Still there Is necessarily a strong and con- stant visible evidence of its neighbourhood: many families are in manning, a general tone of dulness prevails, scarcely any of the hundreds or travelling Americans who come up each summer have ventured into Canada this year, while the local papers are full of details of the misery and death which is so near. Last Sunday the Bishop himself performed the entire cathedral service alone, an occurrence probably without parallel; and he prefaced an extempore sermon by stating, that with the intense Tabour he had to undergo, and the weekly increasing church duty consequent upon the diminishing number of the clergy, he had been unable to find time to write.

"The first fever-ship arrived about the 8th of May. From that time to the present, daily and hourly arrivals have taken place; and of those who left their cottages this spring to seek a new and happier home on this side of the Atlantic, one eighth have but wandered to their graves. About 57,000 persons have ar- rived in the St. Lawrence up to yesterday; and the deaths from typhus now very nearly amount to 7,000. The list on the 22d instant stood as follows—

Died at sea ' Died after arrival, but before landing 2,216

1,011

Died at Grosse Isle (this only extends to the 17th)

1,291

Died In the Marine Hospital, in Quebec

150 Died at Montreal 1,400 Died at various places in the provinces, about 800

6,778

"Though it might fairly have been expected, that in the gigantic amount of Irish emigration intended to take place this year a much increased average of sickness would occur, especially as typhus was very prevalent at all the shipping ports in Great Britain, it appears that no arrangements whatever were made to prepare for it. The quarantine station was left in all its practical uselessness; one surgeon and a few sheds constituted its whole establishment, and Grosse Isle was kept up rather as a comfortable farm for the superintending surgeon than as

the amatory gateway of England's most valued colony. The dead, the dying, and the sick arrived; the buildings on the island, mere out-houses at the best, were ra- pidly filled; and then the luckless wretches for whom no room could be found to die under a roof, were laid on the grass in tents, with the rotten beds they had brought from home: 400 are thus provided for, and as for some days past much heavy rain has fallen, their present state must be one of the most fearful misery. There are but eight surgeons to attend to two thousand patients; and it is said that many of them do not possess the qualifications which so responsible a position requires.

' The convalescent, so called at least, are rapidly sent on to Montreal; but as they die there at the rate of nearly 30 per cent, and carry fever wherever they go, it is fair to suppose that many, if not all of them, are got rid of much too scon, and rather to make room for others than because they are recovered themselves. In one steamer which carried up a party of convalescents' from Grosse Isle to Montreal, seventeen died, though the passage did not occupy twenty hours. " Strange to say, there is a regular communication between Quebec and the quarantine. Most people labour under the impression that such a place is shut off from the rest of the world, with the cordon sanitaire preserved in all its strict- ness around it: but here there is a generous disregard of such precautions; and an Irishman may go down to the hospital-sheds, bring away the ragged filthy gar- ments of his dead wife, and carry them in a bundle pestilent with fever through the streets and into the houses of Quebec. This has been actually done in several* cases. Of course sickness must result from such proceedings. But there are war- dens constantly occupied in the lower town removing the infected, and doing all they can to counteract the effects of the poison by enforcing cleanliness and other similar precautions. " The sufferers are almost without exception Irish: amongst the English emi-

grants scarcely a case of fever has occurred, while the Liverpool and Cork vessels have had it worst. In many cases the fever broke out before the ships had been a week at sea: in others, it is mainly attributable to the infamous negligence of the masters and mates; who frequently have never during the whole of the voyage gone once below, but have left their passengers to rot in dirt and foul air, without attempting in the slightest degree to make them clean their berths or persons. In some of these ships, the boarding-officer at Grosse Isle has actually had to lay down planks over the liquid filth and dirt which covered up the 'tween decks, to the depth of many inches' before he could force his way to the beds in which the unhappy passengers were dying. The food provided has sometimes been so bad that the flour has produced ulcers on the inside of the lips and mouth, while the- salt beef and pork has been thrown overboard as utterly poisonous. Many vessels left Ireland and England with typhus fever evident amongst the people before they sailed: the master of the Pursuit, from Liverpool, has signed a declaration that he took many passengers on board with fever, that he objected to them, and that two deaths occurred before he left the dock. The master of the Helen, oF Sligo, certifies that he sent ashore a family who had been embarked sick; that they were reshipped by the agent, that two of them died a few days after sailing, and that the whole ship was infected by them.

"On the arrival of ships at Grosse Isle, if they are found to have no epidemic- or infections disease on board, they are allowed to proceed direct to Quebec; and it is of passengers from such vessels that the majority of the wanderers in the streets here are composed. They present generally a most wretched appearance; but demand the most ridiculously high wages; and many of them remain idle for a fortnight rather than accept a lower rate than six shillings a day, while the regular pay for strong and experienced labourers does not exceed three. It is a curious fact, and one utterly inexplicable here, that on the dead bodies of many of the most miserable-looking Irish, sums of money varying from 5L to 501. have been found concealed in their clothes; and yet these very men allow themselvea and their families to actually expire from want of food! ' - "The reports of the provincial emigrant agents speak encouragingly of the

demand for labour; but the fear of introducing fever amongst themselves will pre- vent many employers from engaging this year's emigrants. Still, all who can and will work are rapidly absorbed; and the chief emigrant agent at this port, whose position is now one of the utmost difficulty and labour, forwards the desti- tute, as far as the funds at his disposal will allow, on to the districts where they will most probably meet with employment: but the drain upon his treasury for hospitals and burials, and every expense contingent upon universal sickness and universal death, leave him but a small sum comparatively to apply to the more regular and legitimate expenditure of his office."

The subject had also excited alarm at Montreal; where the mortality; not only among the emigrants, but among the ordinary residents, had con- siderably increased. This will be illustrated by the subjoined table, show- ing the comparative mortality of the town, with a population of 50,000, for two periods of six weeks, ending respectively on the 25th of July 1846. and the 24th of July 1847—

Residents. Emigrants. Totak

Six weeks in 1846 318 7 323 Six weeks in 1847 596 1,450 2,046

Of the residents who died by fever only, the numbers were—

Six weeks ending 25th July 1846 48

7/ 77 24th July 1847 204

The number of sick at the Emigrant Sheds on the 27th July WAS 1,573; this number of deaths within the previous twenty-four hours, 19. An official Einigaut ConIaliseipa bad been contemplating the ereetion

additional sheds for the faz&ption of emigrants, above the town, but in its eroaimitae Alarmed at this intention, the inhabitants had taken active step% to divert the local Government from its purpose. The citizens had held a public meeting and memorialized the Governor; the Corporation and other public bodies had also petitioned; the general wish being, that provision should be made for separating the diseased from the healthy emigrants at all the emigrant stations, and more particularly that a hospital for diseased emigrants should be established on one of the islands in the river—Boucherville Island, or Isle Bourdon. To this proposition the Commissioners made various objections,—namely, that it would entail greater expense; and that the sick would have greater difficulty in obtaining medical assistance, nurses, the charitable at- tendance of the nuns, (which had been most exemplary,) and religions consolation; also that the proximity of the Emigrant Sheds to the city was not really productive of danger. Five medical men were included in the Commission; but the authority of nineteen medical men was cited on the other side. A good deal of excitement appeared to prevail at the departure of the mail on the 28thJuly; but it does not seem that the Government had been turned from its purpose.

The Montreal Gazette mentions facts bearing on the same subject, and reflecting the highest credit on the Roman Catholic clergy-

" It is our painful duty. to announce the decease of the Reverend Mr. Richards, an aged and respected .priest of the Roman Catholic Church. This is the eighth gentleman of the Seminary who has fallen a victim to his pions zeal from con tagion caught in administering the rites of their religion to the destitute emi- grants in the sheds. The whole of the sisters of the Grey Nunnery are laid up with illness contracted in the same mission. Nevertheless, the exertions of the Roman Catholic clergy are unwearied by fatigue and undeterred by danger. The Right Reverend the Bishop of the diocese and his Vicar-General spend alternate nights in watching in that pestilential atmosphere over the sick and dying."