According to Le Si?.cle, Prince Polignac and M. Guerrion de
Ren- ville are to be permitted shortly to go, the former to England, the latter to his estate near Caen.
The King of Denmark has abolished flogging in his army.
M. Malibran, the first husband of the celebrated Prima Donna whose recent loss has been so much lamented by the musical world, has himself just breathed his last in Paris, at the age of fifty-four years. On Saturday morning he paid several visits, and appeared in good health.
Young Lablache has made a most successful debfit at the Teatro del Fond° at Naples, in a new opera by Benedict.
Mr. Green, Mr. Monck Mason, and Mr. Holland, descended in Mr. Green's balloon at Vl'eilburg, in the dutchy of Nassau, at half-past seven on Wednesday morning last week ; after what Mr. Green calls an excessively cold journey of 480 miles, in eighteen hours. There was much anxiety as to the fate of the ai,ronauts, and various reports. The Times was hoaxed on Monday by a letter, in which an account was given of the descent of the balloon on Saturday near Rotterdam, on the estate of a Mr. James Davis, late Mayor of Birmingham. This letter, said the Times sagely, "removes all doubts respecting the fate of Mr. Green and his companions." It was also stated positively in some of the London and Paris papers, that the balloon descended in a field near St. Omer. No details of the voyage, but of the most dry and meagre description, have as yet been given to the public. It is said that an ascension is to take place from Paris.
John Richardson, the famous showman, died a few days ago, worth 40,000/.
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