Last night's Gazette announces that the Queen has appointed the
Right 11011011I. able Sir James Stephen, K.C.B., to be Professor of Modern History in the Uni- versity of Cambridge, in the room of William Smyth, Esq., deceaesd
At Clonmell Assizes, on Wednesday, all the parties in gaol for playing min° parts in the insurrectionary proceedings at Balarry were called to the bar and informed that Government did not mean to proceed further against thew'
sfany of the leaders are now suffering the legal consequences of their mad folly, others are fugitives from the land; but the prisoners at the bar had conducted themselves in an exemplary manner during their long detention in gaol; the country is quiet, and it is trusted that they will not easily be led again into the like folly. They were therefore liberated on their re-cognizances, to surrender to judgment on due notice from the Crown.
In the sitting of the French Assembly on Thursday, the first six articles of the bill relative to the press were agreed to. A great number of amendments were brought forward by the Opposition, but all of them were rejected. Letters from Paris of yesterday evening's date say that the ultimatum of Aus- tria has not been accepted by that Piedmontese Government. A counter-project has been drawn up by that Government, in which the concessions offered by Piedmont are set forth; and it has been already despatched by the Chevalier de Bruck to Vienna: in the mean time, M. de Bruck has con- sented to remain at Turin, and to let matters remain in statn quo until the reply of the Austrian Cabinet shall have been received. Letters from Constantinople of the 6th instant, state that the Porte had pro- tested against the Russian troops passing through the Turkish territory of Tran- sylvania; intimating, that should they be defeated and attempt to return the same way, they will instantly be disarmed.
The fortress of Rastadt surrendered unconditionally to the Prussian forces on the ;23d instant. Some of the insurgents had been for a time in a state of mutiny against their leaders. The leaders Tiedeman, Corvin, and Willich, are in custody.
The mail-steamer Canada was telegraphed off Holyhead this morning; having left. Halifax on the 21st, and having therefore crossed the Atlantic in seven days!
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