The Paris papers of Thursday contain a despatch from Marshal
Bugeaud, an- nouncing two expeditions against the Sheha tribe; a party of whom, being driven into a grotto, capitulated; while others were killed by the explosion of a mine. Their leader, the Scherif Bourmasa, was still in the field.
Madrid was quiet on the 29th; and as Scher Mon had promised to modify his scheme of taxation, it was hoped that tranquillity would continue. Saragossa had shown some symptoms of contumacy.
The Bishop of Fulda has issued an episcopal brief in which excommunication is declared against the Rouge and Czerskish dissident; and all who follow their example. The document is dated 15th August. —Ober Postamte Zeitun 9.
Successive advices by divers channels, confirming each other, report that Ge nerd Count Woronzoff has precipitately retreated within the Russian frontier; having recently lost 6,000 or 10,000 men in conflicts with the Caucasians.
Mr. Joseph Louis Papineau, formerly Speaker of the Canadian House of As- sembly, was to embark at Liverpool on Thursday, for his native country, after a long exile.
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