Private letters from Bayonne are given in some of the
Paris papers, which state that Mr. Iforthwick and Mr. rector, beth described as
English Members of Parliament, had arrived at that place, on their way to the Carlist head-quarters, to which they had received the necessary
passports from the Prefect. It is added, that the visit of these gentlemen is undertaken with the sanction V Lard l'ami Athol ! and that the ohject of it is to ascertain the real state of things, with a view to see it' any remedy can be devised for the horrible atrocities that are daily com- mitted by the belligerents in Spain.
Eliot, the duellist who killed Mirfin, lies been making himself con- spicuous as a bully in Paris. A 11:w nights ago, he was completely set
down by a young French gentleman, at the I told Victoria ; and as the Police have an eye upon him, he will probably think it prudent to abstain from his usual practices.
The Dutchess of' Palmella has escaped front Paris with the young Countess Donna Maria de POVO:l e Sainvayo, married when only in her
ninth year, to the Marquis of Payal, son of' the Duke of Pahnella. A
decree was obtained in Portugal to annul the marriage, and officers were sent to Paris to reclaim the young heiress : but the Dutchess of Pahnella got on board a steam-boat at Boulogne, just in time to effect her escape. A general railway law has recently been enacted at Berlin. after due deliberation, and sanctioned by the ,:ignature of every member of the Cabinet.
Marshal Soult, on his way to Paris lately, was attacked by four high- waymen. They were resisted, and Lea tot off, by the valet and other domestics of the Duke ; who was during the entire the affair enjoy- ing it profound slumber in his carriage, arid only learned the danger he had incurred when he awoke at the end of the stage.
There is an amusing story in the Commerce, that M. Thiers haejust had a long and verv amiable interview with The cause of the visit is said to have been that the former had heard of the arrival of some news by the telegraph ; and, as from old associations, he has as strong a caprice for the telegraph as the late George Selwyn had for an execution, he was very anxious to learn the latest intelligence. No other way suggested itself to his mind, than at once to call on the Minister, notwithstanding his own situation as a leader of Opposition ; and, as the story goes, the Minister told him every thing—with the less reserve, perhaps, as there was nothing to conceal.
From the American papers we learn, that Mr. Swartout, late col- lector of the port of New York, has left that city for this country, in consequence of the discovery of immense defalcations in his accounts ; that Mr. Price, United States District-Attorney for New York, has also quitted the United States for England, under similar circumstances ; and that embezzlement of public funds to a large amount is suspected at Washington and Boston. Since Jackson's first election, it is said, twenty millions of dollars have been embezzled by public officers.
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