gorrign an Colonial.

Grealraivr,—A religious excitement, consequent on the quasi-Protestant secession of John Rouge and his followers from the Roman Catholic Church, has broken out into overt acts of popular violence A lertsre from Halberstadt, dated on the 10th instant, recounts a tumult in that town, occasioned by the new Luther himself— "On Wednesday afternoon, Abbe Ronce, who has numerous partisans in this place, delivered his first sermon at Halberstadt, in the open air, and in the yard of the Cathedral, before several thousand persons ef every age and sex. As soon as he had pronounced the last words of -his sermon, which were these—' Yes, brethren, Rome ought to fall, and she will fall!' a rustling noise was heard among the portion of the audience nearest the pulpit; when a salesman, well known for the fervour of his religions belief, rushed forward after Abbe Bongo, who had just left the pulpit, and endeavoured to throw a stone at him. The persons who were near this fanatic held him back, and prevented him realizing his culpable inten- tion; but at the same instant, a young man struck with a heavy stick a violent blow upon the back of Abbe Range, who immediately fell on the ground. The Abbe-got up and ran away, but soon afterwards was further ill-treated by several other men; and it was only with great difficulty, and through the protection afferded him by a great lumber of Ins friends, that he succeeded in gaining the hotel he lodged at. "Sense moments after, a crowd of his partisans walked through the streets of the town, and threw stones at the windows of the houses they thought to be in- habited by Roman Catholics. The police put all their agents on foot to appease the tumult: but their efforts were useless; the rioters breathed only rage and Vengeance. The military were called out; some detachments of infantry and cavalry appeared; and after having ordered the rebels to retire, which was not obeyed, the troops charged them, and blood flowed in abundance. The German Catholics went in crowds to the Rue de la Digue, where dwelt the salesman who had endeavoured to throw a stone at Abbe Ronge : they barricaded themselves in this narrow street, and demolished from top to bottom the house of this indi- vidual. It was only then they separated, and that tranquillity was reestablished in Halberstadt.

"The number of the killed and wounded is not at present known; that of the persons arrested is upwards of 150. The Royal Court of Magdeburg has insti- tuted an inquiry into the affair, and will judge it when the inquiry has ter- minated."

Leipzig has been disturbed by serious riots, arising out of this religious eXcitement. Among the enemies of the new sect is Prince John of Saxony, who opposed the concession of free worship to the schismatic church; and the dislike to him caused the tumult.

On the 12th August, the Prince, as General in command of the Communal Guards, arrived at Leipzig to review the Guards. An immense crowd of the in- lia'bitants assembled on the occasion, and received the Prince on his arrival on the gtound with shouts, booting, and cries of "Viva Rowe," "Viva Robert Blum," and "Down with the Jesuits." The review went off for some time quietly; but F' the same shouts and cries were renewed, and the people were becoming riotous. They sang Luther's canticle in full chorus and an appropriate g from Schiller's Raiber. The review, however, passed off without any *etnal riot or outbreak; though the people were so exasperated and excited that they appeared ready for any miscluef. In the evening, a vast mass of populam, and among them a great number of the students of the University, took possession of the square in front of the Hotel de Prnsse, where the Prince had taken up his quarters. The canticle was again sung, as well as the song from Schiller- and a good deal of excitr meat., prevailed. At length setae person threw a shine at the windows of the Prince's apartments, and tio example was followed by thousands of others. The whole of the windows

• the hotel were demolished in a few minutes. Fearing that the guard of honour

*pendia; the Prince would not be sufficient to repel an attack if it were attempted, "fogs-taut of infantry garrisoned in the town was called out at ten o'clock. Some aflempta were made by the troops to disperse the crowds; but finding them in- effectual, orders were given for them to fire. So unexpected was the discharge, that even those who were assisting the authorities to restore order were unable to get out of the way. Upwards of thirty persons were killed and wounded; among whom were two gentlemen in the employment of the Government, an agent at Police, and several persons who had taken no part in the riot, and who were walk- ing peaceably in front of the Hotel de Prasse. Nine persons were taken up dead on the spot. The exasperation of the people at the conduct of the military was ex- treme; for it is said that there was no good reason that they should tire. Tie Prince left Leipzig at daybreak on the 13th; but even at that hour a great number of the mhelitants were on foot, and they hooted him till he was beyond the boundaries of the town. From the last accounts it appears that the peace of the town was not again disturbed, but a great degree of excitement prevailed. The dead, fourteen in number, were buried on the 14th; a body of 20,000 par- sons following them to the grave. The Minister of the Interior had been to the town, to aid in pacifying it. A deputation from the Municipality had been to the King at Dresden, with an address complaining that the peace of the town had not been left to the care of the Communal Guard, and praying for inquiry. The King received the deputation kindly, and shed tears of regret; but he would promise nothing,—declaring that any concessions made at that moment would have the inevitable effect of weaken- ing the authority of the Government and the confidence of the country in its firm- ness. The Municipality sent another address, expressing devoted atteelonent to his person.

SwerzEttLars-n.—The Diet resolved on the 1 lth instant, notwithstanding the opposition of Berne, Argau, and Basle-country, that the officers who had joined the Free Corps in their expedition against Lucerne should cease to form part of the army. The proposition was voted by fourteen Cantons!

FRANCE.—The interest of the French papers this week lies principally in its law proceedings and such matters.

The Major-General of Marine has been appointed to investigate the causes of the fire at Toulon: but his report throws no new light upon the matter ; no clue to the incendiary having been discovered. The report would lead to the inference that the interior of the dockyard has hitherto been very imperfectly watched; an evil which is about to be remedied. The National has broached a new theory in re- gard to the fire: it suggests that it was premeditated in order to conceal the de- linquencies of employes, deficits of stock, and other abuses. A few provincial journals still persist in referring the catastrophe to " foreigners." The Court of Cessation annulled on Thursday the decision of the Cour Royale of Paris, which declared that, there being no law against duelling, there was no ground for proceeding against M. Beauvallon for killing M. Dujarrier, &ant of the Presse, in a duel.

The Gour Royale was occupied on Saturday with an appeal by Madame Oriel from the judgment of the Tribunal of Commerce condemning her to pay 15,000 francs damages to M. Vatel, the director of the Italian Theatre at Paris, for having refused to play a part in the Matrimonio Segreto, as unworthy of her talent. The Court, considering the former judgment to be well-founded, decided that it should be maintained; but reduced the damages to 6,000 francs. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine was occupied on Saturday with an applicatiee for a separation de corps in an affair which a short time ago was the subject of general conversation [the intrigue of M. Victor Hugo]. M. Nerd, whose with had been detected in a criminal liaison with this distinguished poet and writer4t making this application protested, through his counsel, M. I layol, with g energy, against the reports which had been current that he had been induced to withdraw his criminal prosecution against the parties by promises made to hitt of extensive orders for paintings. His only motive, he said, had been his unwIl- linroess to place at the bar of the Correctional Police the woman who bore hie name and the motors- or nis mune.. •rf. ouut uturmu Luc Herded by M. Biard, and that Madame Biard shall be imprisoned for three months in the House of Correction; the children to be under the care of the father, with leave to the mother to see them twice a month; and the husband to allow .Mridaroe Nerd 1,200 francs a year for her maintenance„—Galignanis Messenger. At the Seine Assizes, on the 14th instant, Eugene Joseph Alarie Prince De Berghes, aged twenty-three years, was tried for forgery. 'lie Prince is a mem- ber of a distinguished and honourable family, possesses a large independent for tune, and not long since married a young lady with considerable property. With a view of affording facilities for its members the French Jockey Club issues a kind of token, made of ivory coloured red, payable at the office of the society, Rae Grange Batelier, and valued at 100 francs each. On the 28th May 1845, M. Achille Seillere, a member of the Jockey Club, sent one of his agents to receive from the cashier the sum of 1,000 francs, the amount of ten checks, given to hint on the previous evening, for money, by his brother-in-law, the Prince he Berghes, who was about to start for the country. As he was on the point of counting out the money, M. Grandhomme, the Secretary of the club, was struck with the hot that the greatest part of the checks appeared to be entirely new; and on a closer examination he discovered that nine out of the ten were made of bone, while the checks belonging to the club were made of ivory. In a word, lie discovered that the signature was not real except in one of the checks, and that on the other nine it had been falsely executed. The Prince he Berghes arrived in Paris on the morning of the 30th' and was called to account. At first he said that he received the checks at Chantilly races, on Sunday the 18th May, from a foreigner nailed ” Zerlecti"; for whom the Police were instructed to search. Insteadof him, how- ever they found M. Lefevre, the maker of the false checks; who said that fifteen of them had been ordered by a gentleman on the 16th May, and ten more on the 24th, on which latter day the gentleman paid for the checks and took them away: this proved that the Prince could not have re- ceived them at the Chantilly races, and he now told a new story. He said that the false checks could not be those that he held from Zerleeti, but that he newt have received them while playing, on the night of Saturday the 24th and Sunday the 25th, at the house of the Iieasieurs de Guistry and Stanislaus Laroche- foucault, where several of their friends had assembled, and where, in the excite- ment of play, a considerable number of checks of the Jockey ChM had been cir- culated. But this story was soon upset, for M. Lefevre identified the Prince tut the gentleman who had ordered the false checks. The Prince himself was the cause of the discovery : he sent for M. Lefevre to his house, told him that eher checks had been :seized, and that he found it was a bad affair, and begged of hint tsopliicreeedp silence and give him his word of honour to that effect; entreating to be the condemnation and the dishonour which would fall upon his family and on his friends, and promising to observe, on these conditions, everything that should be desired of him. IL Lefevre declined to give the required pledge, and the Prince now made a full confession : he said that he had issued twenty-two et the false checks. At the same time he declared that the produce of the false checks, was meant for the use of a woman with whom he was connected before his marriage, which connexion he had done himself the injury to continue after hie marriage; and to her he was obliged to give money unknown to his wife. The he indicated was called. She admitted that he had been brought to bee Louse by a friend of his previously to his marriage, but she denied that she had ever had any intimate relations with him. Confronted with this witness, he ac- knowledged the truth of what she had stated, and admitted that he had imagined this story to give a reason for the creation of the false checks. In his last exa- mination he stated that he could not account for what he had done, except fro= childishness and want of reflection. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but under extenuating circumstances; and the sentence was three years' im meat and a fine of 100 francs. Against that he has appealed to the

Cassatioo.

Aseimes.—Accounts from Tangier, of the 6th instant, state that the ratifications of the treaty of Lalla-Maghrenia had been exchanged two or three days previously; and that General De la Rue was on the same day to leave Tangier, on his return to France. The Moniker Algerien states that great vigilance had been used in the West and South of Oran on account of the appearance of Abd-el-Kader in

the neighbourhood with some 2,000 horsemen and 800 infantry. .

The Moniteur contains a despatch from Marshal Bugeaudt in justification of the charges recently brought against his government of having inflicted cruel punishments on soldiers condemned to serve in the disciplmary regiments which are not warranted by the regulations of the service. One of these punishments, to crapaudine, consists in the offender's having his hands tied behind his back and one leg tied up, and being compelled to lie several hours on his back or. side; another, la barre, which is in use in the French Navy, consists in tying him. by one or both legs to a bar, a cannon, a carriage, or a tree; a third is that of. im- prisonment in a pit. _These punishments, the Marshal declares, are only inflicted upon incorrigible criminals. The tone of his despatch would lead to the inference t..t he has received a reprimand from the Minister of War; and that other por- tions of his policy than his system of military punishment had provoked the dis- approval of Marshal Souk.

The Paris papers state that a duel is Toutrance is about to take place between two general officers, MM. Bourgon and Boudolly, in Algeria, with the approval of the Minister of War. The quarrel is said to be of two years' standing. The duel is to take place on horseback, and the combatants are to be allowed to use first their pistols and afterwards their swords. The story is altogether highly improbable; since the Government is at this very time taking strong measures to put an end to the practice of duelling.

GREECE.—Recent occurrences at Athens have threatened serious diffi- culties. We quote the correspondence of a contemporary, with some abridgment—

A project of law was before the Chamber of Representatives, of which the 29th article said, that "any person once having taken orders, or who may in any way be considered as forming part of the ecclesiastical body, can never take to any other profession or calling." Now, the present Minister of Justice, M. Balbi, was formerly a deacon, but afterwards married and became a lawyer. He was so angry at Coletti's bringing forward this law that he has retired, and left Athens for Missolonglii, his native place. It was discovered, too, that several others of Coletti's friends would be affected by the provision; and he endeavoured to destroy his own bill. Ultimately, the 29th article was rejected altogether, on the plea that the canons of the Church decide the question "that no person having taken orders or otherwise belonging to the Church can take to any other profession or calling." Both parties cry out victory—the klinisterialists as having carried their point; while the others look upon it as settled that those who once belonged to the Church and are now laymen must return to Mother Church. This result was expected to create a movement in the provinces. Meanwhile, Coletti became personally implicated in an awkward dispute. He was summoned by the Senate to answer several questions; as, according to the constitution, either Chamber may demand the attendance of Ministers. At first, IL Coletti rather slighted them: a second day he made an excuse: but, as the Senate showed the intention of passing a vote of censure on him, and as the press began to censure his conduct, he at last made his appearance when he was at- tacked for numerous illegalities in the provinces. He was so astonished at the warmth of the attacks that be could not answer; and he left the Senate, cutting a very poor figure. He has since been regularly accused in the Lower House of

violating the constitution; and has been called upon to account for not allowing sr.yura, t,auavrius, /MU alla leaving those provinces unre- presented in the Chamber. Instead of answering, he sent in a written answer to the Chamber. General Macrijanni, who was shot at during the night while on Ins terrace, wrote a long letter to the several newspapers, saying that he knew why he was fired at, and indirectly accusing the Ministry, if not of encouraging Ins assassination, at least of winking at it. He says," that some time ago papers fell into his hands that plainly showed there existed a plan to put down the con- stitution." He produced the oath the members of the secret society were to take; which was—" 1. 1 abjure the constitution of the 3d (15th) of September. 2. I will be faithful to the King of Greece. 3. I will be obedient to the forty-one brethren." He goes on to say, that he informed the highest authorities in the state, but that they did not choose to attend to his information; and very fairly hints that the Ministers themselves were concerned in the plot. The Chamber having demanded explanations of Coletti, a judicial inquiry has been ordered.

Whilst this was going on in the Chamber, news arrived from Nauplia that a conspiracy had been discovered; and that a young Moreote, an officer in the Artil- lery, (who, by-the-by, had been educated at the French military school and but lately returned to Greece,) was at the heakof it. Up to the present we only know that Lieutenant Tomaropoulos and a dozen noncommissioned officers have been arrested and sent to the Palamidi. It is said they meant to murder the field-officers and some of the captains, as not favourable to the French party; and naturally they expected to be promoted to their places as the reward of their coup-de-main.

Ilitn.t.—The over-land mail brings intelligence from Calcutta to the 2d July, and from Madras to the 10th. The most important point in the news is, that the cholera, in its most malignant form, has been raging in Northern India. In Lahore and the neighbourhood it was calculated that the deaths averaged from 500 to 700 per day; but at the date of the last accounts the disease was on the decline, after having carried off 20,000 or 30,000 victims. The last advices from Peshawur represent that city as almost deserted; every one who had the means of moving had left the city. The number of deaths in that place between the 30th March and the 2d May amounted to 4,825. The scourge had swept the country as far as the banks of the Sutlej ; and had made its appearance at Ferozepore, though not in the British cantonments.

In the midst of the calamity, the state of parties in the Punjaub had not materially altered; except that Gholab Singh and Peshora Singh were gaining ground.

The commercial news is without change, the markets for British goods till being dull. In Ceylon the cultivation of the tea-plant had been com- menced, and great expectations were entertained of the result of the expe- riment.

At Madras, public attention had been much excited by the exposure of certain alleged malpractices, in the Supreme Court; where Mr. Minchin, the Master, who was also the Taxing-officer, had, it is said, long been in the practice of taking Illegal fees, and allowing them to be charged by the attornies. In one case where he had permitted the attorney to charge illegal fees to the amount of 1,600 (1601. sterling,) he had charged for himself 3,000 rupees, or 3001. In defence of Mr. Minctun it is said, that at the request of Sir Robert Comyn he resigned a lucrative practice at the Madras bar to become the Master of the Court, on the express understanding that the emoluments of the office averaged about 42,000 rupees per annum; that these emoluments arose from a table of fees established in 1801, and partly from others sanctioned from time to time by the different Masters for business, but provided for by the table, and tacitly allowed by successive Judges. No new fee, it is said has been introduced for the last fourteen years, or by Mr. Minchin during his period of office; and it is alleged that the Chief-Justice, or his colleague for the time being, has affixed his sig. natures to several hundred bills of coats, containing all those fees which are now said to be illegal, and without which signature those fees could not be demanded. Notwithstanding an able defence made by his counsel, the Court pronounced Mr. Minchin guilty of the charge, and deprived him of his office. It was expected that he would appeal to the Privy Council against the sentence. A sad accident occurred a few miles from Calcutta, but fortunately without injury to life or limb. The Bailee Khali Suspension Bridge, the largest ever con- structed in India, just as it was completed gave way in the middle, and fell into the creek over which it was erected. The accident is attributed to "an error in judgment " of the contractor, while making some necessary alterations, and" does not in any degree affect the principle on which the bridge was built."

MADAGASCAR.—The Indian advises state that in consequence of the Queen of Madagascar's ordering all Europeans to quit her country unless they would submit to be naturalized, the war-ships Thunderer and Conway had proceeded thither from Mauritius, to protect such British subjects as were resident in the island.

CANADA.—Mr. Viger has been returned as Member of Assembly for the town of Three Rivers; his opponent, Mr. Burn, withdrawing from the poll after the first day. Great interest prevailed in Canada in the proposal to improve the in- ternal communication of the country by railways across the necks of land between the Lakes, and across the Continent towards the Atlantic.

TJNITED STATES.—In our last number we were limited to a very brief account of the great fire at New York on the 19th July: we now subjoin a fuller one, from the New York Inquirer.

"At a quarter to three o'clock, or perhaps a little before that time on Saturday morning, after a series of smaller fires in various parts of the city, flames broke out in the upper part of the four-story brick building, No. 34 New Street, occupied by J. L. Vandoren as an oil-store. That building, with its contents, was in a very short time entirely destroyed, as was a large brick building adjoining, occupied as a carpenter's shop.

"At about four o'clock, Crocker and Warren's store in Broad Street, in which were stored a very large quantity of saltpetre and gum shellac, blew up with one of the most tremendous explosions ever heard or felt in the city. That building itself was, of course scattered in fragments in an instant, and those near it were little better off. So awful was the shock that the thick plate-glass in nearly all the buildings in Wall Street was broken in fragments and strewed over the pave- ment; in many instances, the substantial window-sashes themselves being broken in. The concussion in this office was so severe that the substantial stone walls of the building shook to their foundation's, and we thought for a moment that they were tumbling to their base. The workmen in the composing-room in the fifth story found the stone on which the form was making up apparently rise several inches from its resting-place; the gas all went out instantly; and during the darkness that followed, the scene was, to say the least of it, an exciting one. The workmen employed in the press and engine-rooms in the basement story, fully believing that the entire building was about to come upon them en masse, flew with rapid strides into the street. Of course however, the consternation soon subsided; and it was found, after all, that the building had sustained no other injury than the loss of a few window-glass. The effects of this terrible ex- plosion were more or less felt almost entirely over the Eastern side of the city. A gentleman informs as that many of the windows of his house in Montgomery Street were broken in pieces by the shock. The shock was also distinctly felt on Staten Island, and several windows broken by it.

"The fire extended through New Street; and the whole of that street from Exchange to Beaver Street is in ashes.

"In Broad Street the destruction is immense; both sides of that noble street, from Exchange Place to Marketfield Street, including three numbers above an each side, being one mass of smoking ruins, with not a wall standing.

"From New Street the fire soon extended to Broadway, sweeping all before its The whole of the East side of Broadway from the Waverley House, including that noble Hotel, to the Bowling Green' was consumed—among the rest, the Adelphi Hotel, one of the loftiest and most imposing buildings in that quarter. Indeed, the fire went through Beaver and Stone to Marketfield Street. The flames soon crossed Broadway, and burned all the buildings from Morris Street to No. 13. From the latter building it extended West towards Greenwich; but fortunately did not reach that street, its progress being stopped in that direction. The whole number of buildings destroyed on both sides of Broadway is ascertained to be thirty-five; in Beaver Street about fifty buildings were consumed. "But we have a more melancholy task upon our hands. There can be no doubt that the loss of life has been much more fearfully extensive than was at first sup- posed. We learn through Mr. Oelrich, the sniburg Consul, that in the store occupied by him and Mr. Crnger there were at the time of the explosion a large number of men; that, not believing the fire would reach his premises, he went out a moment before the explosion, leaving these unfortunate men within, every one. of whom he believes perished. He thinks there were forty or fifty; but we iope he is in error as to that large number. Mr. Groping, of the firm of Pavenstadti and Groning, is known to be one of the victims; and two men, so burnt and mutilated as to put recognition out of the question, were dug from the burning rubbish yesterday. Mr. Cowdrey, one of the firemen, is also known to be lost; and we fear there is no reason to doubt that a number of other firemen also lost their lives. Two women were killed by the explosion in No. 37 Broad Street, and a Mrs. Miller was carried to the hospital dreadfully injured. Nor is there any doubt that a considerable number of the unfortunate inmates of the houses destroyed lost their lives, and now lie buried beneath the rains of their dwellings. A fireman named Francis Hart, belonging to engine No. 22, was standing on the roof of the house next to the one in which the explosion took place, and was thrown two whole squares on to the Customhouse steps--but escaped with very slight injury. Peter Johnson, porter to Burrill and Johnson, besides keeping a porter-house in the lower part of Water Street, has been unseen since the explosion in New Street. Immediately before that event, he was forcing his way through the crowd; and when stopped by a policeman, he said, 'You know me, I have business "; and, having a store-key in his hand, he was permitted to pass. The policeman thinks he would have had just sufficient time to have brought him in front of the build- ing which was demolished, and that he was then and there buried under the ruins in instant death.

"A friend of ours furnishes the following incident connected with the event, which is certainly a curious one. A very large quantity of whale or other oils was carried through the sewers down Broad Street, and through the main sewer into the basin, covering the water to the depth of half-an-inch. Men in a number of small boats were busy with tin pans and wooden balers skimming the oil from the salt-water; and those who had no casks poured it into their boats. One or two boats were half filled. The greatest number of barrels filled by one man was twenty-one, and the smallest number three barrels; the total amount of barrels about fifty, worth about ten dollars each. Thus, these poor men made great gains from the greater losses of others. Both the atmosphere and water of Whitehall were flavoured with brandy and other liquors." The Inquirer publishes a list of "the sufferers by loss or personal injury, filling about a newspaper column and a half.] "The explosion was heard at a distance of twelve miles, and the reflection from the flames seen at nine miles distant. The New York papers mention many in- stances of nobleness on the part of the more fortunate inhabitants of the town during the conflagration. Many hotels were thrown open for the firemen and workers to refresh themselves, and cart-loads of provisions were also sent round to the families who had been rendered homeless by the destructive element."