The political news of the European Continent may be summed
up in a few sentences.
The Sugar question in France has been disposed of, for the present, by an ordinance reducing the duty on Colonial sugar one third, and the imposition of a duty of sixteen francs and a half on every hundred killogrammes of beet-root sugar. A cor- respondent of the Times states that fictitious plots are to be got up in France, to divert attention from the question of electoral reform.
In Spain, some advantages had been gained by the Carlists over VAN HALEN, the Queen's General. The Madrid Gazette has at length been compelled to publish a sufficient apology for the calumnies on Mr. SOUTHERN.
Some rioting occurred in Cologne on Sunday, in consequence of the arrest of a popular Catholic preacher for a seditious sermon. The disturbance was suppressed by soldiers.
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