crown descends to his brother, John Nepomuc Marie
Joseph; born on the 12th December, 1801.

An insurrection broke out in Parma on the 21st of
July. Two medical students deliberately shot at an
officer: the troops were called out; and an attack was
made on a café. As the keeper of the house would not
open his doors, they were burst in by cannon: the
Austrians plundered the cellars, and, coming drunk into
the streets, fired indiscriminately among the people,
killing many. This was followed by the arrival of Count
Nobile with more Austrian troops.

The advices from New York are to the 10th inst.
Congress adjourned on the 7th until December. The
session has not been productive of important acts.
Only three great measures have been passed: the
Nebraska Bill, by which one million of square miles
of territory have been opened to slavery; the Bill for
the Relief of the Indigent Insane; and the Bill for
the Improvement of Rivers and Harbours. The two
last-named bills have been vetoed by the President.

The Reciprocity treaty between Great Britain and
the United States, signed by Lord Elgin on the 5th
June last, was ratified by the United States Senate on
the 2nd inst., without opposition; and on the 3rd the
bills necessary to give effect to its provisions were passed
with unexampled rapidity. By this treaty the fisheries
dispute has been settled on terms of complete
reciprocity; the fishermen of the United Scates and those
of the British American Provinces being at liberty to
fish on the coasts of either country—shell-fish, salmon,
and river fisheries, being alone reserved to British
fishermen on their own coasts. Also the British North
American Colonies obtain the admission of their
produce free of duty into the United States; and on the
other hand, the navigation of the St. Lawrence and the
canals connecting the great Lakes and the Atlantic are
opened to the citizens of the United States.

The Senate ratified a treaty with Russia, securing the
neutrality of the United Slates in the present war, and
setting forth the principle that free ships make free
goods.

A very extraordinary proceeding has been adopted by
Captain Hollins, commander of the United States sloop
of war Cyane, at Greytown, otherwise San Juan de
Nicaragua. Some time since, there was a riot at
Greytown, during which the United States Minister to
Central America, Mr. Borland, interfered to prevent a
man charged with murder from being given up to the
authorities. In the scuffle Mr. Borland was struck and
arrested. For this offence Captain Hollins demanded
an apology; giving the Greytown people from the 11th
to the 13th July to decide between tendering an apology
and undergoing a bombardment. They refused the
apology, it is said, and Captain Hollins fired at the little
town for six hours, and then landing a party burnt
what remained. No lives were lost. The English
escaped on board the Bermuda war-schooner, and the
natives fled. Some papers in relation to these
proceedings have been laid before the House of
Representatives. Among them are the instructions issued to
Captain Hollins, by which he is told to demand prompt
satisfaction from the Greytown people for the outrages
they had committed; but it is hoped be would be able
to effect the purposes of his visit "without a resort to
violence and destruction of property and loss of life."
Among the documents is the protest of Lieutenant
Jolly, of the British schooner Bermuda, against the
threatened bombardment—an act that would be
"without precedent among civilised nations"; adding,
as a reason for his protest, that the force at his
command was totally inadequate to protect the property of
British subjects against the Cyane. In reply, Captain
Hollins cites his "orders," and expresses his full
sympathy with Lieutenant Jolly "in the rescue of English
subjects and property, under the circumstances," at the
same time expressing his exceeding regret that "the
force under his command was not doubly equal to that
of the Cyane."—The inhabitants of San Juan (Greytown)
have commenced rebuilding their town, but
most of the influential men have left for other places.

The American papers mention many Destructive Fires
in the United States. At San Francisco on the morning
of the 11th July about sixty-five houses were
destroyed, and the loss is estimated at about 225,000
dollars. The whole tract burned over was built of
wood on piles. The tide was out at the time, and the
fact of the water being about twelve feet below the
street, and very shallow, prevented the firemen from
extinguishing the fire sooner.—The town of Columbia, in
Toulumne county, was burned down on the morning of
the 11th July. The loss is estimated at 500,000 dollars.
The town of Minnesota, in Nevada county, was burned
down, excepting three houses, on the 8th July. Loss
estimated at 52,000 dollars. Fourteen hundred acres of
wheat were burned in Sinsun and Vaca valleys on
the 7th July. Four hundred acres of wheat were
burned at San Bernardino on the 29th June. Twelve
buildings in Sonora were burned in a conflagration
on the night of the 3rd July. A fire broke out at
New Orleans on the 5th instant, destroying many stores
and houses. The loss is estimated at a million of
dollars. On the 11th inst., the United States Navy-
yard Foundry at Washington was totally destroyed by
fire. At the moment the fire occurred, the workmen
were engaged in casting the cylinder of the United
States steamer Fulton, and had about two-thirds of the
metal poured into the mould, when the latter exploded,
the eruption instantly setting the building in a blaze.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

A mention of the new publications of the most vacant
and idle month to publishers, in a year more unfavourable
to literary enterprise than almost any on record,
will be comprised in a very few lines. A History of the
Reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, by Mr. Eyre
Evans Crowe; a volume published by Mr. John Chapman,
with the ominous title of What is Truth; a collection
of Songs from the Dramatists, which forms a volume
in Mr. Bell's annotated edition of the English poets; a
new volume of Notes and Queries; an American
Handbook, or tourist's guide through the United States,
issued by Messrs. Routledge; a squib upon the
convulsed style of poetical writing, entitled Firmilian or
the Student of Badajoz; a small volume, by Mr. J. A.
St. John, the Nemesis of Power, on the causes and
forms of revolutions; a translation, from the French of
M. Chevreul, of a clever little treatise on the Principles
of Harmony and Contrast in Colours; a new section
of Mr. Johnston's magnificent Physical Atlas; a
translation, from the French of Alexander Vinet,
of a compact little History of French Literature in the
Eighteenth Century; a timely piece of instruction for
the learning of Turkish, in the shape of a Turkish
Reading Book with Grammar and Vocabulary, by Mr.
Burckhardt Barker; the usual supply of volumes, which
are chiefly continuations, in Mr. Bohn's and the Messrs.
Murray's and Longman's several Libraries; two octavo
volumes of Reminiscences of the University and Town
of Cambridge, by the late Senior Esquire Bedell, Mr.
Gunning; a "story for the times," called Gold; a clerical
angler and sportsman's book, Forest Scenes in Norway
and Sweden, by the Rev. Henry Newland; a small
volume of the memorials of the life of a young Scotch
minister, Mr. John Macintosh, published as The Earnest
Student; a little American story, The Shady Side, issued
by a Pastor's wife to exhibit the shortcomings of
members of Unendowed Churches in the practical recognition
of their duty to their pastors; a new volume (the sixth)
of the new and enlarged Encyclopædia Britannica; and
A Shilling Cookery for the People, by M. Alexis Soyer;
—these, with the continuations of serials, and new
editions, form the entire sum of the new publications of
the past month that may properly claim to be recorded
here.