as follows: "l am conscious of having done my duty,
and if you are dissatisfied, you can bring me to a court-
martial, or remove me, as I before mentioned to the
Admiralty. I am very far from well, and I assure you
this correspondence has not improved my health, and I
am suffering much from cold."

To this letter Sir James Graham rejoined: "I am
very unwilling to be involved in a written controversy
with you, but you have brought it on yourself, by your
report of the 25th of September, after your second
reconnaissance of Sweaborg. That report appeared to
me to be entirely at variance with the opinions
previously expressed by you, and I certainly understood
you then to say, that if you had mortars, rockets, and
Lancaster guns, you considered Sweaborg assailable by
sea. In May you declared it to be unassailable by sea
or land, and the Admiralty did not send to you the
appliances which, in Sept., you declared to be wanting,
because they believed, from your account, they would
be useless against a place which in the first instance
you pronounced to be impregnable. I could not bring
myself to believe that the want of Lancaster guns, or
even of mortars, rendered a sea attack, on your plan of
the 25th Sept., impossible, if you had 25 sail of the
line assembled before the place, with all their means of
vertical fire. I am sincerely sorry to hear that you are
unwell. I hope that Kiel harbour and milder air will
restore you to health."

In the last of the series, written from Kiel, Nov. 6,
Sir C. Napier says: "There is not a word in either my
public or private letters that justifies the construction
that you and the Admiralty have thought proper to put
on them. My letter in answer to their lordships' last
despatch is plain enough; but if their lordships think
proper to deliberate on one part of my letter, and ignore
another part, I can only protest against it; and I am
quite prepared to defend myself against any unjust
attacks that are made against me. Enough has not
been done to satisfy an impatient public, as you called
them—some one must be blamed, and I am the chosen
one; but I will not allow myself to be crushed, because
I could not do impossibilities. All this stir has been
caused by the reports of two engineers (one French and
the other English), diametrically opposed to each other;
in addition to which was the report of the capture of
Sebastopol, not yet taken, though the fleet there is
assisted by an army of 70,000 men, in a fine climate;
and I have been expected to take places much stronger
with a fleet alone; and the same people who so often
warned me against unnecessarily risking my fleet, are
now dissatisfied because I did not expose them to
certain destruction. I have gone through the world with
honour and credit to myself; and, just as I am about to
leave it, unworthy attempts are being made to ruin my
reputation; but they will fail, and recoil on
themselves."

Advices from Paris state that another attempt has
been made on the life of the Emperor. On Saturday
evening, the 8th inst., his Majesty visited the Italian
Theatre. The first carriage of the cortége, containing
Count Bacciochi, attracted little or no attention. The
second carriage, which followed at an interval of some
minutes, contained the Ladies of Honour. An old
soldier of the Empire, who happened to be standing
near, and whom the sight of the imperial liveries excites
to enthusiasm, shouted out "Vive l'Empereur!" with
much ado. Hearing this, a youngman stepped forward,
a small pistol in each hand, levelled at the carriage;
but before he could fire them, the police had rushed up
and struck them down, causing the balls to pass under
the carriage. The assassin was instantly arrested. A
few minutes afterwards, the Emperor drove up, as calm
as usual; and his appearance in the theatre was a signal
for a burst of cheers. The assassin was taken to the
Prefecture of Police and examined, when it was found
that his name was Bellemare, and that he was
unquestionably a maniac. He will therefore not be brought to
trial, but kept in confinement as insane.

An Imperial decree has appeared in the Moniteur,
raising the Commander-in-chief of the French army in
the Crimea to the dignity of a Marshal of France.

General Canrobert has declined the offer of a Marshal's
bâton, on the plea that his acceptance would diminish
the glory of Marshal Pélissier.

A most lamentable accident took place on Sunday
night, the 9th inst., on the Versailles Railroad. The
passenger train returning from Versailles came in collision
with a luggage train quite close to the Paris station,
which actually cut it in two. Several carriages were
broken to atoms, and several lives have been lost; nine
killed on the spot, and seventeen badly hurt, are
admitted by the directors. Two young girls, sisters, had
their legs cut clean off, and among others the body of a
man was found with both legs cut off, and a child stifled
by the death embrace in his arms. The spot where the
accident occurred was covered with blood. A child only
eighteen days old was killed in the arms of its mother,
who had a leg fractured. The father was on the roof,
and at the moment of the collision leaped on the ground,
and only received some contusions.

Intelligence from Florence gives terrible accounts of
the ravages of the cholera. No less than 11,000 persons
have, it is stated, been carried off in the month of
August. The population of the city, which is on an
average 100,000, is now reduced to 60,000 by death and
flight. It is affirmed that ten persons were lately buried
alive. The horrible fact was lately brought to light in
this way:—An Italian warehouse-keeper in Palazzuolo
(a faubourg of Florence) was buried for dead in the
Trespiano Cemetery, with many other supposed corpses
in a common grave. He awoke to a sense of consciousness,
and so thin was the covering of sandy earth above
him, that he made his way out to the surface. Still
weak, he lived for three days on roots in the forest
which surrounds the graveyard. At length he recovered
strength sufficient to reach his house, where he startled
his family, who were in mourning for him. He assured
them that he distinctly felt the bodies of numerous
people interred with him moving about. The grave
was consequently opened, and it was found that many
had stirred, and several of them had bitten their fingers
in agony, and otherwise injured themselves. They were
all dead when the investigation was made. The utmost
excitement prevailed on the subject among the population.

The accounts from Naples represent the cruelties of
the government as being so intolerable as to threaten a
popular explosion. The Paris Presse describes the
judicial murder of one of the political prisoners, vouching
for the truth of the statement. "Everybody now knows
of the death of the unfortunate Lorenzo, who was
bastinadoed for having replied with dignity to the insults of
the sbirro Campagna. It should be known that Lorenzo's
bourreaux were ordered to pause four minutes between
every blow of the stick, and the number of blows
awarded was one hundred! The surgeon in attendance
remonstrated after the fiftieth stroke, and declared that
if the punishment was carried further death must
inevitably ensue. But neither the generous intervention
of the surgeon nor the piercing shrieks of the victim
could stay the executioners. The hundred blows were
scrupulously administered, the four minutes' interval
being observed throughout; and, after a torture which
lasted seven hours, the unfortunate man was
transported to the prison hospital, where he very speedily
expired." It is said that the young king has at length,
in consequence of the agitation at home and
remonstrances from abroad, found himself compelled to
dismiss Mazza, the Director of Police, the chief agent of
his atrocities.

The reign of the young king of Portugal, Don Pedro
the Fifth, was formally inaugurated on the 16th, at
Lisbon. Appearing before the Cortes, the king declared
his adhesion to the policy of the Cabinet, and gave it
his confidence. His accession was welcomed by the
people with joyful demonstrations; and the British
men-of-war, Neptune, Sanspareil, and Rosamond,
arrived just in time to fire the salute that courtesy
required. The electric telegraph was used for the fiist
time to notify the accession to Europe.

The Spanish Cortes are to meet on the 1st of October.