It is remarkable to observe the cool way in which the
highest functionaries of the state, and persons in the
nearest confidence of Louis Napoleon, choose to overlook
the fact of his election for ten years, and with the
most unblushing contempt of all law to speak of him as
of a king. Thus General d'Espinasse, the officer who
was commissioned to occupy the Legislative Palace on
the morning of Dec. 2, having been despatched to Algiers
to be present at the inauguration of the statue of
Marshall Bugeaud, closes his speech with the following
expression, which is taken from the official Akbar, of
the 17th inst.:—"The Prince who sends me wishes to
make the prosperity of Algiers one of the principal
glories of his reign."

Intelligence from Madrid states that a royal order
has declared that, as the English officers of the British
Legion in Spain were duly paid and compensated,
according to treaty, for their two years' service, they
have no right to retain the title of their rank. The
case is different with General de Lacy Evans, who
holds the rank of Lieutenant-General of the Spanish
army.

The Valentia journals contain an account of a very
horrible affair. The watchman, on going his rounds on
the Place de Las Moscas, on the 13th July, perceived
the door of a house standing wide open. This excited
his suspicion, and he entered. In the passage he saw
bloody stains, as if caused by a man coming from an
upper story. He followed the marks until he arrived
on the first floor, and there in a room he saw four dead
bodies lying bathed in blood. He gave an alarm, and
the deceased were recognised to be an old gentleman
named Mayans, proprietor of the house; his
housekeeper, Maria, aged thirty-seven; her niece, a
dressmaker, aged twenty-two; and an apprentice, aged
between twelve and thirteen. In the drawers the plate
and jewellery were found untouched, as was also a sum
of 1900 reals. The lower part of the house was unoccupied,
and in the upper resided a retired officer with his
wife and servant. Notwithstanding the most active
search had been made by the police, and a reward
offered, no clue to the murderer had been obtained up
to the 31st.

The Emperor of Austria has returned from his tour
in Hungary. On the 13th inst. he arrived at Presburg,
accompanied, it is said, by a band of eight hundred
mounted Slavonians. Reports say he was well received
by the people; but the reports are derived mainly from
the police-ridden journals. Next day he entered Vienna,
coming thither by the railway. Here again, on similar
authority, we are informed he was received with
loud demonstrations of attachment on the part of the
people. Nevertheless, the streets from the railway
station to the Cathedral were thickly lined by soldiers.
At the Cathedral a Te Deum was performed; and
thence the Emperor went to the Palace. In the evening
he drove through the streets, to see the illuminations
which had been ordered by a circular from the Police;
and agents from the chief office were known to be
scattered through the crowd, to see that the order was
obeyed. It was expected that the Emperor would leave
Vienna on the 16th, for Ischl.

The Vienna Gazette of the 22nd contains the following
sentences of the court-martial sitting at Hermanstadt:
—Count Joseph Haller, aged 33, of Weisskirchen,
in Transylvania, landed-proprietor, and the Rev. Francis
Nagy, aged 63, of György, reformed pastor, to be
hung for high treason, their property being also
confiscated. The Emperor has since commuted the punishment
to ten years' imprisonment in the case of the
younger, and fourteen in that of the venerable prisoner;
the confiscation being maintained. Three yeomen
charged with homicide during the civil war, and
sentenced to various terms of imprisonment by the court-
martial, now receive a remission of half the punishment.
A subsequent notification in the Gazette states
that the functions of the Hungarian court-martial are
now suspended.

The town of Wasa, in Finland, was destroyed by
fire on the 11th inst. The details are wanting, but it
is stated that nothing was left standing except the
court of justice and four houses near it. The town was
founded in 1606, by Charles IX. of Sweden, and
contained about 3,200 inhabitants.

Accounts from Switzerland mention the following
piece of bigotry as having occurred in the Canton of
Schwytz:—"A catholic citizen of that canton, who had
long borne arms in Africa, fell sick. A priest arrived,
and insisted upon the sick man's confessing. The latter
declined, and as this old soldier did not care for the
society of priests, all the attempts of the curé remained
ineffective. The man died: his body was placed in a
sack and thrown into a hole near the gibbet, while
hitherto even suicides have been interred in the cemetery.

A student of theology at Bonn went in a fit of
religious insanity to a neighbouring wood with hammer
and nails, and, finding a tree in the form of a cross,
actually crucified himself. He was found in a state of
insensibility by some peasants, who, not having tools
for drawing the nails, felled the tree, and carried him
with it to the next village. The young man is now in
the hospital at Bonn, and out of danger.

The hippodrome at Florence has been closed by
the authorities in consequence of an anti-Bonapartist
demonstration. The "Wars of Napoleon" was the
piece represented. The taking of the bridge of Arcole,
and the 18th Brumaire, went off very well, but at the
coronation scene loud hissing was heard. The actor
who played Napoleon then dashed his crown and sceptre
to the ground, amidst the deafening applause of the
audience. The police have ordered the circus to be
closed for fifteen days, and have perpetually interdicted
the reproduction of the piece. The actor was sent to
prison for twenty-four hours.

An English traveller who attempted lately to pass
into Lombardy was stopped on the frontier; and
although his passport "was perfectly regular," he was
forbidden to cross the magic boundary, unless he would
surrender some works which he had in his carpet-bag.
The noxious volumes were "Murray's Handbook for
North Germany," an Italian Vocabulary, Keller's
"Map of Switzerland," the "House with Seven
Gables," and a volume of the English translation of
Plato. The traveller would not give the books up, and
he was obliged to return on his way.

In Naples, Mr. Hamilton, an English Protestant,
relying on an article in the treaty of 1815, set up a
school in 1848, for the education of Swiss and English
children. By degrees, government influence was used
to drive away his pupils, and lately he had only some
dozen English children. The police have now forcibly
closed the school, and turned the little boys on the
street. Sir William Temple was informed of the act of
the police, but it remains to be seen what course the
British government will pursue.

In Piedmont, severe measures are taken against the
freedom of the press. M. Ivan Golowine, editor of the
Journal of Turin, has been ordered out of Piedmont,
because he published an article against Austria, written
by the Marquis d'Aneglio in 1848, without the name of
the author; the editor of the Gazette of the People is
fined £20 and sentenced to one month's imprisonment,
for an article in favour of mixed marriages, in which he
said difference of religion ought not to form an impediment
to marriage when the conduct of the parties was
irreproachable; the editor and the director of the
Opinione have been fined and imprisoned for publishing
an article against the Catholic religion; and M. Viard,
a refugee and director of the Patriote Savoisien, has
been ordered to quit the country.

Arrests continue in the States of the Church and in
Lombardy. The Austrian Consul at Genoa caused
seals to be placed on the property of a Lombard who
died there, and who had long been suspected. It is
said by the French journals that the clue to a conspiracy
was found among his papers, and that numbers of
arrests have followed. The same authority states that
the conspirators were in the pay of the Revolutionary