The Helvetie relates that the Earl of Munster with his
lady and family, being on their way from Basle to Neufchatel, met with an acci- dent, between Montier and Conet, which might have been attended with serious consequences. Upon reaching the second turning of the road, the carriage, in which were the Earl and Countess, with their son and daughter, was, through the negligence of the postilion, thrown down a precipice of more than twenty feet ; and, if it had not been stopped by two trees, would have fallen into the Birse. Two of the horses went down with the carriage, and three others were left on the road from the traces breaking. Happily none of the party received fur- ther injury than contusions. The postilion was so alarmed that be im- mediately took to flight.
Numerous idle speculations have been circulating through the papers respecting Jenny Vertpre's marriage with a certain young branch of a noble English family. The fact is, the demoiselle is already married to a Mons. Carmouehe (a name which would be quite professional with an S. before it!) For the sake of the gentleman's connexions, we are happy to be enabled to contradict the report, as we learn it has caused much uneasiness.—Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood, the vocalists, have taken their departure from Liverpool in the George Washington for the United States.
The recruiting for the Spanish auxiliary force is going on briskly, and in the course of a few days another large body of men will he on their way to Spain. Between forty and fifty of Lieutenant-Colonel Kinloch's Lancers embarked on Thursday afternoon, to be placed in one of the hulks off Gravesend, which is to be used as a depot. Lieu- tenat-General Evans and his Staff leave Portsmouth on Tuesday next. In the arsenal at Woolwich, 150 boys have been employed in the laboratory, making cartridges for the service in Spain. On Monday, a notice was posted that no more boys would be taken.
The conditions for making an iron railroad from Paris to Brussels are settled, and the expense is estimated at 100,000,000 francs. The application has been made for the permission of both Governments..
The German and Brussels papers bring intelligence of the capture of a horde of pirates who infested the coast of Smyrna, and com- mitted the most barbarous atrocities. They have been sent for trial to Constantinople.
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