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      and Costa Rica . The New York papers , however , announce the arrival of General ^ Yalke ^ at New York . . ' . The New York journals were occupied with full reports of a trial for breach of promise of marriage at St . Louis , which had occupied some time , and is remarkable from the fact of the large damages awarded by the jury . The lady 13 a Miss Effie Carstang , a native of New York , and the defendant Mr . Henry Sliriw , of St . Louis , a gentleman counting ^ 65 years , and said to be possessed of 1 , 500 , 000 dols . The lady laid the loss of her peace , and her prospects of sharing a portion of the 1 , 500 , 000 dols ., at a surir of 100 , 000 dols ., and the jury brought in a verdict in her favour for the entire amount . Measures were being taken to obtain a new trial .

      West Indies .- —There has been no substantial change of weather at Jamaica since last packet The drought in some districts was very severe , and was likely to be attended with serious results to the colony . Intelligence from Hayti reports the opening of the Chamber of National Representatives , by President Geffrard , who delivered an inaugural address , guaranteeing to them their liberties , which was replied to by the President of the Chamber in animated terms . The Secretary of State had also presented an exposition of the state of the island before ^ , nd after the revolution which , drove away Soulouque .

      usage from the authorities . Mr . Bingham had rendered himself obnoxious by an apparent display of partisanship for President Monagas , whose wretched arid unprincipled Government was overthrown by the recent revolution ; but this , even assuming it to have been substantiated , can afford no justification for the insults to which he isallcged to have been now exposed . The statement is that , after a long series of annoyances had been inflicted on him , with the evident connivance of the Government , he was at length seized on a clumsily

      fabricated charge of possessing concealed arms—a gun having been found among some fodder on his premises—and marched through the streets of Caracas amid the hootings of a rabble incited by the soldiers employed . The affair , unless it has been misrepresented , calls for attention , and is one among other indications that tlie people of "Venezuela who tolerated Monagas for many years have not suddenly changed their nature , and become honest and capable of self-government merely because they now enjoy license and term it liberty . Sottth Amkrica . —From the south of Chili there is no news of importance ; everything in a tranquil state , business very bad , nothing doing . A slight revolution hud broken outat Arequita , but no particular could be got . Guayaquil was still blockaded . There was a rumour of an arrangement being made by which the blockade would be concluded . The Peruvian Government continued very much disorganised ; it appeared , that although the Grenadian minister was received by Castilla , he had not been very courteously treated by him since his reception . A battle had taken place at Valparaiso between Revolutionists and the Government , on the 29 th , in which the former were completely . defeated .

      The Bishop of Antigua , Dr . Rigaud . died on the 16 th of May of yellow fever , and had a public funeral on the 18 th . Mrs . Rigaud and family , who also suffered from fever , return home by the Plata . Her Majesty ' s ship Alert , Commander Pierce , arrived in Panama Bay , from the Coast of Mexico ^ on the night of the 22 nd ult ., with upwards of 2 , 000 , 000 , dollars in treasure for England , which La Tlata . brings . Judge Wilkinson comes to England in the Plata on leave of absence , and Justice Roper will act for him .. . ¦ '

      The young canes were looking well generally at Barbadoes ; old canes wexe being taken off the ground as fast as possible , but could not be manufactured as rapidly as they ought to be , and were said to . be rotting fearfully . Costa Rica : The Bellt Scheme . —In Costa Rica , President Mora has been re-elected without aiiy opposition for ten years longer , and it is exjpected that he will use this period more for public than for private good . His trip down to Nicaragua lias not turned out as anticipated , as his reception was rather cool , but at all events the MartinezjVTora-Belly treaty has been ratified . From

      Nicaragua there is nothing particular to report ; the Belly enterprise is the only talk of the day ; but , with the exception of a few excited Frenchmen , there is nobody who believes in the possibility of that gigantic work , although Belly ' s people assure us that all has been subscribed , and that no actions are to be expeoted . The Trench engineers are now levelling the river San Juan and the laud between "Virgin Bay arid Salinas , so We may have their return as to the possibility of the canal in about two months . Mexico . —The State Department at Washington has received voluminouB' despatches from Mr .

      M * JLane , the American minister to Mexico , setting forth in an official form his misunderstanding with Miramon . It appears that he simply followed the precedent set by the British Government in making demands of one government while recognising lhe other , but Miramon declined to received Mr . M'Lane ' s communication . Tiie latter complains bitterly to the United States' Government . Miramon , after forbidding any communication between the city of Mexico and Vcra Cruz , sold to a party the exclusive privilege of transporting goods between the two places , in consideration of the payment of an ad valorem tax to the Government of 26 per cent , on all

      goods . The latest despatches forwarded to Mr . JVt'T-innc had not reached him . It was believed that they would result in the speedy conclusion of a treaty with the Juarez Government , as special instructions relative to the transit question were included . The Navy Department have also received despatches from Captain Faragut , commanding the United States steamer Brooklyn . He announced his intention , according to the desire of Mr . MXano , to send a naval forco immediately to Tampico , in anticipation of an attack on that place by the Miramon party , the object being the protection of the United States Consulate and other American interests there . Vjsnbssuhxa .--Ad vices to % \\ o 12 th ult . report that affairs continued very unsettled . The Government troops had mob with defeat from the hands of General Tamcra , of the insurgent army , at Coro , And the insurgents wore holding the province of Coro . Private letters , dated the 7 th of May , assert that Mr . Blnghaiu , formerly British Charge d'AOhiros to the Venezuela liepubliq , had met with gross 111-

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      Tiie Priests in Lqmbakdy and Pieixmoxt . — A . correspondent of the Morning Post says : — " When the French arrived at San Martino , they met with a priest at the bridge of Buffalora , and asked him if there were any Austrians in the town ? He said , ' No . ' They had hardly advanced 100 yards before a fire was opened upon them which killed many , and I think General Cler fell there . The gendarmes immediately rode back and took the priest before he had time to escape , and he was killed on the spot by one of them . He had 400 Austrians concealed in his own house . The priest of Magenta gave the same answer when asked . There were at that moment 4 , 000 Austrians in a convent . He was taken and sent to Turin , tied hand and foot . "

      Napoleon HI . at Magenta . —The correspondent of a contemporary , writing from the seat of war , says : — "It is utterly erroneous that the Emperor was ever in the slightest danger of being taken ; a stray shot at a long range might have wounded him , but it would have been an extraordinary accident . His Majesty , it is true , did ride down to the banks of the river as the first troops were crossing , but , like his prototype celebrated by the French poet , he remained on the bank" Louis lea anltnant du feu do son courage So plaint do ba grandeur qui 1 ' attache au rivage , " but soon after got on the roof of a house , at the outskirts of San Martino , where he remained during the greater part of the day . "

      them personally interested , through near and dear relations , in the solution of the ciphers , she sank back in a , swoon , grasping in her closed hand the paper upon which were traced the figures whose hidden meaning conveyed sentences of despair to so many . It is well known that swooning , like weeping , is catching by contact . One by one the ladies gave way to the sensation , and the drawing-room at St . Cloud soon resembled the scene in the " Sleeping Beauty in the Wood . " Madame MacMahon , who who has been quoted as the only one to whom the accident happened , was , on the contrary , the first to whom consciousness i-eturned , and soon it was to learn the high fortune to which her husband had attained , and the glory he had earned at Magenta .

      1 tuoi-ese Sharpshooters . —Most of the French generals who fell at Magenta were victims of the unerring rifle of the Tyrplese jager . Espinasse was shot through the left eye * and the bullet crashed through the brain ; General Cler was , like poor Beuret , who fell at Montebello , shot like a chamois right between the eyes . The Austrians make a great mistake in not being a little more sparing of these riflemen ; they should be employed exclusively as sharpshooters . They are , on the contrary , employed as heavy infantry . The French charge them witli the bayonet , and the Tyrolese has no bayonet to der fend himself with . They use the butt-end of their rifles with good effect , but even that breaks their line .

      PlEDMONTKSB AND FRENCH SOLDIEKS . At the triumphal entry into Milan , says a correspondent , " all the soldiers had nosegays , or wreaths at the end of their muskets . The Guard so severely tried at Buffulora , carried almost exclusively the latter , and certainly not without good claim . No Piedmontese troops took pa it in the procession . In , fact , ever since the battle of Pulestro they have been completely banished to the background , and not a word it heard of them . You might suppose they were carpet knights , only fit for drawing-room service . They complain . on their side of the French , as being too quick for them ; while the French say the Piedmontese never arrive in time . The understanding between the two , you will thus Bee , is perfect . "

      Tub News at Saint Cloud . — Referring to the reception of the . despatch , announcing the victory at Magenta , a Paris letter says ; - * - The story about faintings which is going the round of the papers in not exact . It was not Madame MauMahon alone who fainted . An eye-witness has recounted the scene . The despatch was brought to the Lady Regent . It was in cipher as usual—a cipher of which the Imperial Lady alone has the . key . It was the longest which has ever been transmitted by electric telegraph . As tlio Empress proceeded Jn her deciphering , the emotion anddrend grow grentor at onch word , until completely overpowered by the agitation of tlie moment , the dread of what was to come , the eagerness and terror evinced by the ladies present to lenrn the contents of the despatch , all of

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      : «» ¦ ' ---: . G E R MA N Y . , Jo ' E 14 tli . The rumour of last week lias become the fact of this , Prussia has mobilised six army corps . This fresh mobilisation is asserted by some journals as a consequence upon the change of ministry in England others view it as a threatening * reply to the Russian circular note , while very many regard it as a measure directed against those bellicose States ofBavavia , Hanover and Saxony . It is , indeed , not impossible that the Prussian army may have a very different task marked out for it , to that which has hitherto been imagined . A union of the students oi the several Universities have drawn up a petition to the Prince Jtegeiit of Prussia , praying lmn to proclaim himself at onee Emperor of Germany . This is considered by

      some journals as a puerile ebullition , and they affect to ridicule it , but I for my part am fully convinced that tho prayer of the petition finds a ready echo in the hearts oi the overwhelming majority of the different peoples speaking the German language , who would all hail the acquiescence of the Prince in the prayer of the petition with boundless delight . Hanoverians , and Saxonians , il not Bavarians , would rejoice to be incorporated with Prussia . I do not think tins petition a laughing matter , puci-ilu though its origin may he ; old men don't make revolutions ; if young men are silly , old men are dull . Those who fought at tin * barricades in 1848 were mostly very young ui « n , and this petition issuing from being * who liavc not lived long enough to be over-fond of life , lead to results

      at the expense of every noble virtue , may of mucli greater importance than its contomners fancy . I shpuld . not be astonished to sue a revolution nil ovev Germany before this year expires . A 3 every observer oi public Jiitliirs whs well aware that the war , which is now raging- In Italy , was a certainty , sooner or later , so h " who is now watching carefully tho different phases oi public opinion here , feels that sooner or later there will be a desperate struggle to make a united Germany . Cm ? anybody belieVe that the Germans will calmly view a united Italy , and they themselves disunited , and expose / 1 throutrli that disunion to the insolent dictation of a semibarbarous nation like that of Kussiii . This students ' petition may prove the match that will act Germany in a blazo .

      . ¦ The bnttle of Magenta has produced tho offoct which I predicted in my last . The caricatures of' Louis Napoleon nres less numerous and tho many sins committed by Austria against Germany are becoming tli « themo pt tw journals . Even in Vienna a certain amount of civility is evinced towards the enemy , as shown by the circumstance , that the performance of u theatrical p » ce « entitled : " Moiiseiur Louis and his friend Caviar , " has been lately prohibited by the authorities . The toim , too , of the Uav&riiuis and Saxonians id slightly altered , mo ™ especially of the latter . We are now reminded , as a singHlm * circumstance , that , aeccording to an old custom , me court theatre at Dresden is closed on the anniversary oi tho death of the great Napoloon , nnd that notwithstanding- tho nnti-galHo effervescence among tho omoinls , tins « jna lllr * iuilan Hi .. « ., «« # . n thn fit . il nf'MllV . lttOl ) . SO

      peUCttably disposed are tho Snxoninns growing , that weavei tow that , forgetful of tho wav , th « y are devoting nil tliwir thoughts to tho groat exhibition of pictures , by artists oi all nations , which Is to bo opened on tho 3 rd of July next . Tlio King of Havnrin has grown suddenly very sweet . —Thnt ( MtftoofMauonta ! Dr . WoUs , whoso elect on ns vlco-president oi tlio 'Chamber led to ita dissolution by the king , has boon elected Mayor « f Wurabuw . Everybody was wondering whothov thu election wo « i « reculvo tho royal sanction , for although tho candJdnh * waspoesosscd of every quallfloatkm to nil itho o \ nce , n was thought that the Government would view tlio choleo us nnotlior demonstration . The king , however , to the astonishment of all , not only confirmed the election , but added , that ho desired to be at pence with hto » ubjuct . H , and tbftt , for his part , he was nmtly to forget and lorglvo .

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      WAR INCIDENTS .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2299/page/8/