presided on the occasion, attended by his ministers and
the civil and military authorities. The defective arrangements
for the accommodation of the public gave rise to
great confusion. More than 3,000 tickets had been
issued, and the saloon could hold only 1,200 persons.
The rush when the doors opened was tremendous.
With difficulty a passage was made for the President
and the Jury, and more than half an hour was spent in
vain efforts to establish something like order and silence.
At length Louis Napoleon advanced to the front and made
a sign with his hand that he wished to speak. He
proposed that the meeting should be adjourned to a
larger gallery, and the proposition was adopted. But it
was found impracticable, owing to the noise and
confusion of the crowd. The tumult was increasing, when
Louis Napoleon, whose calmness and good humour were
not for a moment discomposed, advanced once more, and
said—"Gentlemen, I am most desirous of seeing you
around me, and as near me as possible, on this interesting
occasion. As, however, this cannot be the case, I beg
to propose an adjournment of the proceedings to another
day." This proposition was received with acclamations
and cries of "Vive le Président!" The crowd then
dispersed, and the President departed by the Tuileries.
At one moment the rumour flew about that an emeute
had taken place. In a moment half a battalion of troops
from the barracks on the Quai d'Orsay, half a battalion
of the 49th from the Assumption, and half a battalion
of the Gendarmerie Mobile from St. Thomas de Louvre,
assembled in the Place du Carrousel. The movement
was effected in five minutes. Nothing, however, occurred
to require their assistance; and, as soon as it was
ascertained that the President had left, the troops
returned to their barracks.

The Austrian government is continuing a course of
terrible punishments by means of courts-martial. The
court-martial sitting at Este has just added ten sentences
of death by powder and ball, twelve of imprisonment
in heavy irons for twenty years, four of similar
imprisonment for eighteen years, and three of hard
work on the fortifications for fifteen years. Field-Marshal
Radetzky had dissolved the Common Council of
Como, "for refusing, with indecent and disloyal language,
to appear and do homage to the emperor on his
late visit to Italy."

ERNEST, KING OF HANOVER, died at the palace of
Herrenhausen on the 18th inst. His Majesty was the
fifth son of George the Third, and was born on the 5th
of June, 1771. In 1799 he was created Duke of Cumberland
and Teviotdale, and Earl of Armagh. In 1815
he married the Princess Frederica of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, widow of the Prince of Solms Bramfels. In
1837, on the death of William the Fourth, he succeeded,
under the Salique Law of Hanover, to the Crown of
that Kingdom. He is succeeded by his only surviving
child, Prince George Frederick, who labours under the
calamity of blindness. On this account the late king
left his paternal directions, that twelve councillors
should be sworn to attend perpetually, in rotation, two
at a time, in order to read over to him every State
document, and to attest his signature. The Gazette of
North Germany, of the 18th inst., contains the royal
patent announcing the death of the late king, and his
son's accession to the throne. The young king pledges
his royal word to "the inviolable maintenance of the
constitution of the country; "he retains his ministry,
and all his servants, clerical and lay; and assures them
and his people of his "earnest desire to promote, with
the help of the Almighty, to the utmost extent of his
power, the welfare and happiness of his subjects." The
patent is signed "George;" is countersigned by
Munchausen, Lindemann, Kossing, Jacobi, Meyer, and
Hammerstein.

The first act of the young king has been to make an
entire change of the ministry. On the 22nd inst. the
Munchaussen cabinet received their dismissal. This is
the more surprising, as the new king, only a few days
before, had declared in the patent announcing his
accession to the throne—"I retain in their present
posts all my civil servants," and before a week elapses
the chief of these servants are dismissed. A ministry is
appointed, consisting of M. Schele, Premier and Minister
of Foreign Affairs; M. Borries for the Interior; Windthorst
for Justice; Backmeister for Worship; General
Brandin for the War Department; the Finance Ministry
remaining as yet vacant.

Advices from Gibraltar state that the piratical Moors
of Fez had captured several vessels belonging to Spanish
and British owners; among others the schooner Emilia,
belonging to Messrs. Heredia, and the brigantine Violet,
belonging to Mr. Cross, of Wisbech. Her Majesty's
steam-frigate Janus started from Gibraltar on the 17th
October, and reached the coast of the Riff on the 18th.
She found the Emilia a wreck on the beach, stripped by
the Moors. The boats of the Moors were totally destroyed
by the boats of the Janus, with shot and shell; and then
the Janus set out for Cape das Forcas. There she found
the ribs of another vessel (the Violet), and prepared
immediately to attack the Bedouins' boats. But the
greater number of the Bedouins enabled them to keep
up an overpowering fire, and the English were
compelled to re-embark and retreat to the Janus.
Commander Powell was shot through both thighs, but not
dangerously; and seven men were wounded, four of
them dangerously. Accounts from Melilla, of the 22nd
October, state that the crew of an English brig are in
the hands of the Moors, who demanded one hundred
dollars for the ransom, and have been offered but sixty
dollars. It is believed that this crew is that of the
Violet, and that Mr. Cross, the owner, is himself one of
the captives. Reparation, it is said, is to be demanded
from the Emperor of Morocco.

The accounts from Naples mentioned several outrages
on British subjects, and a system of uncivil and aggressive
conduct towards them on the part of the authorities.
A short time since a British passport was refused in
Naples, and its owner sent away, because the police
(without any proof), thought the traveller was a
"dangerous person." Three or four English gentlemen,
artists, were lately travelling in the Neapolitan
provinces; they were arrested by the police, marched
twenty miles between gendarmes, imprisoned and
insulted. Eventually they were released, as their passports
were perfectly en regle, and themselves perfectly
innocent of any offence whatever. There was another
case still stronger: Mr. Maudint, an Englishman, is the
director and proprietor of oil works in the Albruzzi. His
manufactory is in a small town called Monopello. He
lately left his works for a day or two, and on his return
found the windows of his manufactory broken and his
people in a great state of alarm. Some gendarmes had
endeavoured to break into the building for the purpose
of abusing the females employed in the works. Mr. Maudint,
on learning the particulars of the case, applied to
the authorities of the place, and requested the gendarmes
might be arrested. He had scarcely returned home when
two of the gendarmes entered and began to abuse him,
stating that he was an enemy of the king. He asked,
in what way? The men then thrust the royal arms of
their uniform at his face, and used the most abusive
language, which ended by placing handcuffs on Mr.
Maudint, and marching him off to prison. Here he was
insulted and struck, the irons still round his wrists.
Two days afterwards he was released, having been
informed that "there was no ground for his detention."
He has applied to his minister at Naples, and, it is
expected, will obtain redress.

Advices from Madrid state that, at the solicitation of
Lord Howden, the English Minister at Madrid, the
government of her Catholic Majesty have granted a free
pardon to twenty-three misguided English subjects who
were induced, by assurances, the falsehood of which was
admitted by so many of the unhappy victims themselves,
to take part in the expedition of General Lopez.

The advices from New York are to the 13th instant.
The chief matter of political interest is the rejection by
Mr. Webster of the terms proposed by Spain for the
settlement of the Cuban difficulty, and for a better
understanding between the two countries. The proposition
was for the American government to invite the