Last night's Gazette announces a Court mourning for the Elector
of Hesse—to commence on the 5th instant, change on the 9th, and terminate on the 12th.
The Paris papers of Thursday announce the return of the Prince de Joinville, with his fleet, to Toulon, and his resignation of the command. This resolve is ascribed by the organs of the French Government to the Prince's ill health; but the Times assigns another cause—" The reason for his resignation of his com- mand is not, we are assured, indisposition, but disgust, well or ill founded. at measures taken by the Government which rendered the French name unpopular in Italy. His retirement has, however, in it nothing that any sincere lover of peace should regret." The Liberal movement of Italy has extended to the island of Sardinia. On the 19th November and subsequent days, the people assembled in the streets with shouts of "long life" to their King and his recent act in joining the Italian Union. The Viceroy seems to have taken alarm at these manifestations of the King's popularity; for while he distributed professions to the people, he dis- tributed cartridges to his soldiers. However, be had to encounter nothing worse than the cheers which had made him so nervous.
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