Summonses were issued this morning to all the Ministers, (by
direction of Sir James Graham) to attend a Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office on Monday next, at one o'clock precisely.—Standard.
Mr. Archer Gurney, of Rock Vale, Devon, has offered himself to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire, under the character of " an exponent of the eco- nomic policy of protection." The working men of Liverpool met in thousands on Thursday, and adopted a memorial to the Queen praying for free trade in food. The rumoured intention to convert the pit of the Italian Operahouse into stall& is contradicted by the Times, on authority.
The last accounts from Hanover represent King Ernest as having nearly re- covered from his serious indisposition.
Letters from Vienna, of the 15th instant, state that the Archduke Charles was dangerously ill with inflammation of the chest: his case had been considered hopeless.
The Paris papers of Thursday report a sudden calamity which befel a column of French troops, numbering 2,500 men, in Algeria. They had gone, under the command of General Levasseur, to punish some revolted tribes, and had ac- complished the object On the 2d instant, while on the march towards Con- stantine, a snow-storm came on: in a few hours the mules were unable to pro- ceed, and the guides lost all knowledge of the route. The snow continued to fall,
the baggage stuck in the defiles; and men and horses were exposed for two days to all the miseries of cold and hunger. Many of the men died from their suffer- ings. The bulk of the column succeeded in reaching Setif; where the injured frost-bitten soldiers were placed in the hospital. The loss is not yet known, as stragglers were daily arriving at Setif. Some accounts estimate the deaths at a haindr4 others at a much higher number.
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