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soretoll intelligence. THE report in the Paris Papers of Monday and TTuesday that eight of the prisoners who escaped from St Pelagie, were re-captured by the Police, is unfounded. None of the refugees have yet been re- taken, although instructions were promptly commu- nicated to all the Prefects of Departments, command- ing them to seize all suspected persons without a moment's delay. The prisoners could not have so Ion,, escaped the vigilance of the police, had the Government been ignorant of their intentions. The Dutch Mail received this morning (Friday) brings important advices from Holland, dated yester- day. On Wednesday an attempt was made to assas- sinate the Duke of Saxe- Weimar, brother-in-law to her Majesty Queen Adelaide, at the Review of the Camp at Reven, or more properly, after the Review had terminated, The Duke had retired to his tent after giving orders that no person should be admitted to disturb him, when an individual, partially dressed in the costume of an officer, endeavoured to force his way into the tent, armed with a sword concealed in a cane, which he drew upon the sentry on duty. During the scuffle the Duke came out armed with a pistol, which he levelled at his assailant, but it missed fire. In the meantime a number of officers hurried to the fipot, by whom the assassin was secured, and ordered into close confinement. Such are the particulars of this :1. "fi. strange affair, as reported by the Dy-stanaers, UUL. are disposed to regard it as much exaggerated, The individual who attempted to force his way into the Duke's tent was evidently insane, nor is it quite ap- parent that he had a design upon the Prince s life. It would certainly betray no superabundance of po- litical sagacity to connect this event with the late dis- turbance in Amsterdam- after the fashion of a very horror-stricken Morning, contemporary. A Dutch journalist that would assume the Reform Bill as the original propelling cause of the missile that assailed the head of our Most Gracious Sovereign at Ascot Races would be laughed at by our Morning contem- porary; and yet the absurdity of his own inference is an hundred times more ridiculous—unless, indeed, the cause of all insanity be political excitement. The Court of France has consented to a marriage between Prince Leopold of Naples, and the Princess Maria of Orleans. Advices from Madrid to the 5th inst. have been received. The Regent has published a decree for the suppression of the Order of Jesuits in Spain, and another for the abolition of the Juntas de Fe, or dio- cesan tribunals for the punishment of heresy-the last remnant of the Inquisition. By his Majesty's Ship Benbow from Barbadoes, we have received Jamaica papers to the 10th of June. They state that the Spanish brig Palenta was boarded by the Captain of an English ship off the island of St. Thomas, and that 503 kidnapped African slaves Were found on board. The Spanish slaver had been for thirty-eight days off the coast, and when exami- ned, she was found to possess papers and other in- struments, duly and regularly signed by the Spanish authorities. The Jamaica Journals indulge in the usual quantity of abuse against the Government, the Governor and the system of free labour. Dr. Mad- den in his late work on the West Indies has unmask- ed these hirelings, so that their slanders are not likely to be attended to in future. Had the slaves no stronger claims to emancipation than many of their owners could bring forward on their own indi- vidual behalf, to prove their right to a participation in the liberties of Englishmen, we question if the British Parliament would consent to give them free- dom. The Moniteur of Thursday, which we have re- ceived, together with the other Paris Papers of the same date, contains the copy of a telegraphic despatch, announcing the arrival of a second battalion of 250 British auxiliaries at St. Sebastian on the 13th inst. IVe have likewise an account of the arrest of seven Dutch officers of rank who were proceeding to join Don Carlos, and of the capture and execution of the Marquis de la Torre, who was sent by Don Carlos from Navarre to effect a movement of the Carlists in Catalonia. A letter from Bayonne, dated the 11 th, received in Paris, confirms the report of the death of General Valdez. It is stated that he was killed in a rencon- tre between two skirmishing parties. The report Requires further confirmation. Private intelligence received from Vienna confirms E1 report previously spread abroad to the effect that the Emperor Ferdinand was about to secede from the Holy Alliance. The French Journals state that Don Carlos had not quitted Marguria on the 7th. Cordova, Espar- tero, Latre, and Gurrea had, in fact, quitted Bilboa on the 5tli, at the head of four battalions. It is be- lieved that they have followed the line of operation which must cause them to approach Vittoria and the E bro, to prevent the Carlists from passing that way, if they should take it into their heads to attempt to advance into Castile. A garrison of 4,500 men, be- sides the Urbans, is left in Bilboa. DON CARLOs.-We believe no doubt can any longer exist as to the authenticity of the decree issued at Durango by Don Carlos, dated the 20th ultimo, in which that rebel has attempted to repay this country for saving his life in Portugal, and for affording him all asylum as long as he thought fit to require it, by proclaiming that all strangers whatever," including of course the individuals forming the British auxi- liary legion, who should take up arms against his rights, should be deprived, not only of the benefit of listing laws, but also of the Convention lately signed for the exchange of prisoners." It is, therefore, with no small satisfaction we have to announce, that his Majesty's Government have dispatched a messenger to Don Carlos to tell that Prince, that if that decree be attempted to be carried into execution, or if a sin- gle British subject, fighting on behalf of the Queen, toe taken prisoner, and dealt with in any manner in- consistent with the Convention, or with the ordinary rules of civilized warfare, Don Carlos himself shall he held by our Government responsible for the act, and dealt with accordingly. CHOLERA AT TOULON.—The following letter from Toulon is dated the 8th instant The cholera continues to rage with a violence almost unprece- dented in our temperate climate. Though the po- pulation has been diminished nearly one-half from the terror which has induced the inhabitants to fly, there have been 111 deaths in forty-eight hours, that i,s, one in 400 persons every day. The town lately 80 populous and animated, has become a melancholy desert. All classes are panic struck. More than two-thirds of the shops and warehouses are shut up, the workmen go away in crowds; and apprehen- sions are entertained that we shall be in want of bread, from the desertion of the bakers and the men. We have been obliged to have recourse to the mili- tary for coffins, and there are scarcely men enough left to remove the dead. The Municipality is redu- ced to the mayor, and at most six councillors, who are almost constantly sitting at the Mayory, where not a single clerk is left. The convicts are scarcely 9ufficient to dig the pits in the burying-ground. At the close of the day, the streets and squares are co- vered with large fire*, into which are thrown quantities of spices and aromatic herbs; and during a part of the night gunpowder is let ff from muskets petards, &c., in the hope of purifying the air. fhe mag? trates, in order to satisfy the people, w xt great effects from the explosion, have consented to have cannon fired. All this contributes to reader the appearance of the town so much the more som- bre. The most frightful picture of all is, that the authorities have ascertained that a species of society has been formed of upwards of two hundred wretches, who have organised a system of plundering the houses of such of the inhabitants as have taken their depar- ) tnre. Severe measures have been adopted, and or- ders have been given to inflict summary justice upon I aH who may be caught in the act. The President of ?' ?ie Civil Tribunal went yesterday to the Court, and there, overcome by his terrors, turned a brace of pis- tols against his own head. His jaw was terribly fractured, and his brains flew up to the very ceiling. He was only lately married to a rich heiress. The surrounding villages were overcharged with the mass of people ho have hoped to find safety by removing, but who will, probably, ere long, pay dear for the false confidence, because, if attacked by the disease, they will be without medical aid and without the protection of the magistracy. Already several of the villages have been invaded by the disease, and no doubt its ravages will be rapid and terrible. Persons who have weighed the consequence of the rapidity with which the population of Toulon has increased during the last ten years, have anticipated that which has now come to pass. In fact, within the Confined space of the town, 40,000 persons have been crowded one upon the other, without the conveniences or even the necessaries of life, in houses without any court- yards. or drains, raised to an enormous height, from the impossibility of increasing their number, so that it is inconceivable how they have not been devoured by infectious complaints during the intense heat of sjmraer. The necessity of enlarging the town or building suburbs, has long been felt, but the engi- neers have opposed it; We trust, however, that the present melancholy warning will open the eyes of the Government, and that it will take measures to reme- dy evils so numerous and so destructive."

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