The lines of railroad from Paris to Orleans and Havre
are to be in- trusted to private companies. If within fifteen years the profits exceed 10 per cent, on the capital, the rates of carriage, &c. are to be reduced ; but if, on the contrary, the receipts do not realize 4 per cent. to the shareholders, they are to be at liberty to increase their rate of charges.
Two or three Sundays ago there was a little tumult at Aix.la- Chapelle. During a solemn procession, at which, as there were nu soldiers, the Burgher guard attended, an English servant remained in the midst of the procession with his hat on when the Bendiction was given, everybody else, if not on his knees, having at least uncovered his head. After he had been several times requested in English to take off his hat, which he always positively refused, his hat was at length pulled off, when it is probable some blows were given, and he was himself removed by the police.
A translation of Nicholas Nickleby into German has just been announced by Westermunn, of Brunswick.
The Paris papers of last week announced the existence of a pestiler- tial disease at Sobro St. Gery in Belgium, and at Beaumont and Con- sorle in France. The symptoms occasioned fears that the malady was the black fever. It progress was rapid, and in the places mentioned it had already decimated the population.
Mademoiselle Blasi* expired at Florence on the 15th of last month, after a short and painful illness.—Musical World.
The neighbourhood of Lisbon has become excessively unsafe at night, from the number of robberies which constantly occur after sun- set ; so that gentlemen returning to town from visiting their friends in the country, are compelled to do so in parties of four or five, if they wish to arrive in safety.
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