2 MARCH 1839, Page 14

We learn from a correspondent at Rome, that apprehensions bad

been entertained at the end of last month as to the health of the Pope ; but that the indisposition of his Holiness had been less serious than was supposed, and that he had been present at the mass celebrated in St. Peter's on the anniversary of the enthronement of' that apostle, which was attended by such a concourse of foreigners, that it could not be performed as usual in the Sistine chapel.—Galigneni.

The Austrian Government have just purchased the collection of na- tural history of the celebrated traveller Charles Baron von Hugel, for an annuity of 3,000 florins, and the additional sum of 36,000 forms.