over to the tribunals for having closed their shutters, many
of the shops continued to be only half-opened. The Ileraldo states, that in the recent disturbances only five officers, one non-commissioned officer, and some soldiers, had been wounded; and that, on the side of the people, a grocer had been killed, and five or six other persons wounded.
Brigadier El Rayo, the captor of Zurbano, had a very narrow escape for his life on the 21st- " He was passing along the street de las Postas, in plain clothes, when he was beset by a group of persons armed with sticks, who, crying out ' This is El Bayo ! at him !' commenced a violent attack. The Brigadier being unarmed, ran to- wards the nearest military post; where the sentinel on duty, seeing a man hasten- ing towards him, followed by others, levelled his musket and ordered them to halt: but the fugitive, doubtless preferring running the risk of being shot to having his brains knocked out with cudgels, pursued his course, and the soldier's piece sent a ball whistling close to his ear. This arrested the career of his foes, and he got off."
The Paris papers of Thursday contain little of interest. Lieutenant- General Lamoriciere is appointed Governor-General of Algeria during the absence of the Marshal Duke D'Isly, who has leave of absence from the 1st September. M. Thiers has taken his departure for Spain; whither, as his editors have taken care to notify, he is repairing, in order personally to in- spect the fields of battle he will describe in his next volumes of the Histoire du Consulat et de (Empire.
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