'Robinson Crusoe,' the works of Sir Walter
Scott, and those of Benjamin Franklin.

The finances of Austria are in a disastrous state. The
Gazette of the 19th inst., gave the financial statement
for the six months ending April 30; the later accounts
are still withheld. The receipts were 104,387,712 florins;
the expenses 146,889,867 florins; leaving a deficiency of
42,002,155 florins—about four millions sterling.—The
Emperor of Austria's expedition to Lombardy has
turned out a complete failure, and the military
manœuvres also. The sodden state of the ground,
owing to the heavy rains, rendered the projected
operations impracticable. The troops were much
discontented, and it became necessary to order them to
their quarters. Some generals lost their baggage,
several soldiers were hurt, and the whole movement
resembled that of a routed army. The official accounts
of the Emperor's enthusiastic reception are entirely
false. An eye-witness describes the silence of the
Milanese as terrifying. When the Emperor visited the
theatre at Verona, only one Italian lady of distinction
was present.—The Austrian Government, enraged at
Kossuth's escape from its hands, has hanged him in
effigy. On the morning of the 22nd of September, the
names and effigies of the Hungarian fugitives were
publicly executed, by hanging them in the market-place
of Pesth, with all the dreadful solemnities which accompany
the execution of a human being. The military
were drawn out and formed into a square, within which
there appeared the usual gallows. The officer in
command read the sentence of the court-martial,
according to which the enumerated persons were
sentenced to death in effigy, having been tried in
contumacion, and found guilty of high treason. The
sentence having been read, the hangman was ordered
to do his duty; which he did by hanging up a string of
black boards, on which the names of the sentenced
criminals were written—Kossuth, with Guyon, Perczel,
Casimir Bathyani, Count Teleki, and some thirty other
companions.—The legal proceedings instituted by the
government against all persons suspected of connexion
with Mazzini have now terminated, after having lasted
nearly six months. Government has failed to prove the
assumed guilt of most of the persons, whom the police
imprisoned during the past summer, and has been
compelled, however unwillingly, to set them at liberty.
Some, however, have compromised themselves
sufficiently to procure their condemnation by the courts-
martial, and the sentences against them were expected
to be pronounced in a few days. Two have already
been published; both inflicting punishment by death.
Count Radetzky has, however, commuted the sentence
on Vincenzo Maisnee, a Milanese by birth, but formerly
established in Venice as a print-seller and publisher, to
ten years' fortification arrest. The second sentence,
however, that on a young and wealthy individual, named
Luigi Dottesio, who has been proved to have been
active in concocting and disseminating revolutionary
pamphlets, has been carried into effect, the efforts of
his relations and friends, and even of the Podestà of
Venice having proved unavailing.

A terrible catastrophe has taken place near Vienna.
On the morning of the 15th the large powder magazine
at Gneixendorf Blew up, causing much devastation and
a melancholy loss of life. Three officers of artillery, the
inspector of the magazine, the two sentinels on duty,
and a little girl, the daughter of a labourer, were
destroyed. The officers of artillery had only that instant
reached the entrance to the magazine in a carriage,
having been ordered by the military authorities to inspect
and report upon the quantity and condition of the
powder in the magazine. Their deaths must have been
instantaneous, as the bodies were found completely
crushed by the enormous masses of brick-work hurled
from the building by the force of the explosion. Strange
to say the carriage horses escaped entirely unhurt; the
driver, however, is said to have received mortal injuries.
Of the magazine itself not one stone remains standing;
large portions of the brick-work, tiles, and beams, were
hurled to a distance of more than 2000 yards. The
vineyards and fields in the immediate neighbourhood
have suffered considerable damage. Two or three
labourers in the fields received severe contusions from
the descending ruins. In Gneixendorf, not a single
window remains whole, and in Krems, which is more
than three quarters of an hour's distance from the
magazine, much damage has also been done. Several
houses were dangerously shaken. The report of the
explosion was heard in Vienna, thirty-five miles off.

The accounts from Germany speak of the military
preparations now making in anticipation of events
which may happen in France in 1852. The troops of
all the German states are to be put on a full war
establishment, and to be ready for immediate action early in
the spring. The regiments and divisions quartered at
present in the western garrisons are to be in readiness
to form a junction on the shortest notice, and to advance
towards the French frontier. The military equipments,
which in Prussia were deficient on the last calling out of
the army, are now quite complete, and everything is
prepared for another general call to arms, or, as the
Germans say, "mobilmachung." The western
fortresses have received orders to be in readiness for war;
and in all the military stores and war magazines of the
kingdom the utmost activity prevails to provide every
kind of supply.

The Prussian Minister of Justice has issued an order
practically repealing the provisions of the Constitution
of 1848, by which the Jews in Prussia were admitted to
equality and the enjoyment of judicial offices. Those
who have passed their examinations will be allowed to
take employment in the administrative branches. The
reason given for excluding the Jews again from law
offices is, that a Jew cannot administer an oath to
Christians.

A serious dispute has arisen between the Pasha of
Egypt and the Ottoman Porte. The Pasha having
contracted with Mr. Stephenson for the formation of a
railway between Alexandria and Cairo, the Sultan has
declared the contract null and void, as having been
entered into without the authority of the Porte, and
has intimated to the Pasha, that, in demanding the
authorisation to construct this railway, the Pasha must
prove that the annual revenues of Egypt show a sufficient
surplus to meet the necessary expenses for the
construction of the said railway; that new taxes will
not be levied for that purpose; that the present taxes
will not be increased; that the inhabitants will not be
compelled to labour gratuitously; and, lastly, that no
recourse shall be had to a loan, or to any foreign
companies. From the last accounts from Constantinople,
it appears likely that the matter will be satisfactorily
settled on the above footing.

The dates from New York are to the 11th instant.
Mr. Owen, the American Consul at Havannah, has been
recalled, in consequence of his failing to interfere in
behalf of the American prisoners, followers of General
Lopez, captured and executed at Havannah. Owen has
been removed. The delay in removing Mr. Owen arose
from the necessity the Government was under of receiving
an authentic official account of his conduct. The
President was determined from the first to remove him
if official information confirmed the newspaper reports
of his procedure; and has written to him that his
defence is entirely unsatisfactory.

Much excitement is caused by the pursuit and
capture of Runaway Slaves. On the 30th of September
an alleged fugitive slave, named Harrison, was arrested
and brought into Buffalo, under a strong guard and
handcuffed to two constables, so as to make a rescue
more difficult. The coloured population were much
excited, and followed the officers with their victim in
great crowds from the boat to the goal. After a brief
hearing the commissioner decided that he was a fugitive
slave, and that he would make out an order for his
return, after which he was ironed and taken to gaol.
The court-house was crowded with citizens, who made
a show of resistance, but, after some slight skirmishing
within and without the court-room, Harrison was safely
lodged in goal. The negro is a mulatto, and about
19 years of age. When about being removed from the