Logrono, sixty-three years of age, an ex-friar of the
Franciscan order, but secularised in 1821, on his own
application. He was nearly six feet high, stout-bodied,
with a dry, wrinkled countenance, very bright eyes, low
forehead, and white hair. He left his convent in 1820.
It appears that he had sung mass, and confessed and
shriven several penitents, on the day he committed the
crime. After he was seized, he was conveyed in a
carriage to prison, the multitude in the streets being with
difficulty prevented from tearing him in pieces. He
was brought to trial on the 3d, and condemned to death
by strangulation; which sentence was executed on the
7th, the criminal having previously been degraded from
the priesthood. On his examination he declared that
he had no accomplices, and his whole conduct was
marked with cool indifference. The Queen's wound
presented a serious aspect for some days, but she has
now entirely recovered. She has presented to "Our
Lady of Atocha" the mantle which she wore when she
was stabbed, and which was pierced by the knife of the
assassin.

It appears by the accounts from Vienna that the
police of that city are as active as ever. An order has
been issued obliging all lodginghouse-keepers, although
they may only let a single bed, to make known immediately
the fact to the police, with every information
about their tenant. In fact, there never was a time,
not even during the most despotic period of the empire
in France, when policemen intruded more perseveringly
and vexatiously into the concerns of private life.

Patacki, the Hungarian arrested at Rendsberg, in
Schleswig-Holstein, on the charge of being an emissary
of Kossuth, was executed on the 5th instant, for having
tried to seduce Hungarian regiments from their allegiance
to the emperor.

Intelligence from Berlin states, that Privy Councillor
Niebuhr, son of the historian, is gone on a mission to
London, partly in order to notify the satisfaction of the
Prussian court at Lord Granville's appointment, partly
in order to inquire into complaints raised that the
Prussian ambassador at London, Chevalier Bunsen, in
consequence of his family connexions with English
society, does not pursue Prussian interests with desirable
energy.

Accounts from Rome state that the Austrian troops at
Ancona have been recently supplied with 16 of the
newly-invented German rifles to every company of 180
men. These soldiers are now daily drilling as sharp-
shooters. It appears that the whole Austrian infantry
has been similarly supplied, and the officers declare that
these rifles will carry with decided effect upwards of a
thousand yards. Great pains are bestowed by the
Austrian officers in keeping the troops under their
command in the highest state of efficiency. In the
provinces occupied by them, soon after daylight, the
soldiers are to be seen spread about through the
vineyards, hills, and dales, carrying on sham-fights, and
other military exercises. In Rome, the Chasseurs de
Vincennes continue to improve by practice the deadly
aim of their unerring rifles.

The Belgian government has just ordered an
augmentation of 100 men in each of the battalions of the
regiments of the line of the Belgian army. As there
are 49 battalions, this will make the total augmentation
4900. It is reported also, that the government intends
to apply to the Chambers for a credit of 6,000,000fr. for
the establishment of an intrenched camp in the environs
of Antwerp, and for putting into a state of defence the
Tête de Flanders.

A letter from Milan in the Opinione of Turin of the
13th, states that the forts of Milan are to be immediately
completed, and that the government has established a
reserve fund to meet the expenses of a war, in case it
should break out. Lombardy is at this moment entirely
supporting by her taxes 100,000 men of the Army in
Austrian Italy. The population of Lombardy and
Venice is only 5,000,000. The pressure upon the tax-
payers is producing extensive emigration.

Accounts have been received from the Coast of Africa
of the Destruction of the Town of Lagos by the boats of
the English squadron, under Commodore Bruce, on the
26th and 27th of December. Lagos is a considerable
Negro town on the river You, which flows into the
Bight of Benin, and connects Lagos with the town of
Abeokuta, another populous place in the interior, under
another king. The late King of Lagos had two sons,
Akitoye the younger, and Kosoko the elder: Kosoko
was rebellious in his father's lifetime, and was banished
to Badagry; Akitoye was made the heir of the King
by his will. When Akitoye ascended the throne, he
invited his brother home; Kosoko went home; and
before long he made a party, by whose aid he deposed
Akitoye, drove him out of Lagos to Badagry, and made
himself King of Lagos. Commodore Bruce, in his
despatch to the Admiralty, states as follows the reasons
for his attack. "Their lordships are aware that Kosoko
very recently rejected the proffered friendship of
England, and that he opposed with fire and sword the
approach of a flag of truce proceeding to his seat of
government with Mr. Consul Beecroft, who offered to
negociate and to advise with him, and who was merely
attended by an escort of armed boats, scarcely or
problematically sufficient for his personal safety among
savages. I therefore determined to send a strong and
well-organised force to punish this refractory chief, and
having, through the untiring energy and exertions of
Mr. Beecroft, procured the attendance of Akitoye and
nearly five hundred of his followers near the scene of
action, ready to take advantage of a clear sweep when
we should make it, I concerted measures with Captain
Lewis Jones, of the Sampson, and Captain H. Lyster,
of this ship (the Penelope), who both were volunteers
on the occasion, and entrusted the detail and execution
of the service to Captain Jones, seconded by Captain
Lyster, and their lordships will see, from the
accompanying reports, the complete success with which the
enterprise has been crowned." The Commodore
proceeds to make an official report of the action,
but a more graphic account is given in a letter
written on board one of the ships engaged, from which
we take the following extracts; premising that the
expedition entered the Lagos River on the 23rd, rested
on Christmas Day, attacked the town on the 26th and
27th, and occupied it on the 28th. "The attack on
the 26th, began at half-past four in the morning. The
Bloodhound, with Captain Jones, led in; then the port
division of boats, consisting of two paddle and pinnace
of Sampson, under command of Lieutenant Saumarez,
followed; then the Teazer weighed, with Captain
Lyster; and then the starboard division, under
command of Commander Hillyar, of Penelope, which
consisted of her two paddle-box boats, pinnace, and the
rocket-boats, each boat commanded by the Lieutenants
of Penelope, and the rocket party by Lieutenant
Corbett, Gunnery Lieutenant. As the Bloodhound
steamed up, a terrific fire was opened on her by all
the batteries and thousands of musketry; which was
returned by her with shot and shell. She got up to her
destination with little damage, and then got aground
at musket-shot from the platform battery. Then
followed the port division of boats, under a complete
storm of musketry, grape, round, and canister; which
was returned in good style from the boats, who pulled
up gallantly, and took up their position opposite a two-
gun battery, and which they soon silenced. Then came
the Teazer with the starboard division; and, in trying
to keep away to bring her guns to bear to cover the
port division of boats, unfortunately took the ground,
and could not get off. She was there exposed to the fire
of twenty guns. Captain Lyster instantly, finding all
attempts to get her off of no avail, took the command of
the starboard division of boats, and made for the shore,
for the purpose of spiking the guns. After firing several
rockets they dashed in, and effected a landing, and took
one battery by storm, spiking its guns. The enemy
charged them on each flank, and a retreat was necessary.
The enemy got possession of her paddle-box
boat, the cowardly Kroomen having jumped overboard.