LAW OF LIBEL IN FRANCE.—The editor of the Courrier Francois has been sen
tenced to three months' imprisonment, and a fine of six hundred francs, for pubfishing the following libel.
"We again bow down, though it he but for a moment, when the artist requires it, before the pious images which subdued our ancestors. The Virgins of Raphael have not ceased to be divine, though their altars are half overthrown. The picture of the Lord's Supper, the Transfiguration, the Communion of St. Jerome will remain chefs d'ancere even when the Christian faith shall be completely abolished, if the duration of their fragile materials should last so long."
SOVEREIGNS OF THE SEA.—A British vessel, the Lonach, on her homeward voyage from India, seems to have been subjected to an insult rather new in our maritime history. While running on her course through the channel between St. George and Terceira, she was chased, and fired at with a shotted gun, by a large Portuguese frigate. She was boarded by an officer and a party of marines, who hauled down the British ensign, compelled the captain to follow the motions
of Don Miguel's frigate, detained the vessel about twenty-six hours, and then sent her about her business,
ROMAN EARXIIQUAKE.—A paragraph from Rome, dated 11th June, says—Shocks of earthquake continue to alarm the inhabitants of the vicinity of Albano. On the Sib and 9th the shocks were more terrible than usual ; but, thanks to Providence, nobody has yet fallen a victim to this scourge,' continue to be addressed to the Divine Mercy. f
