The City of Venice is about to send a present to the Pope. The offering se lected for the successor of St. Peter con sists of— eight remarkable fine pieces of cannon ! What would Peter have said to such a present ?

Military Execution in India.—The progress of insubordination amongst the European soldiers of her Majesty's corps in the Upper Provinces has not been at all checked by the threats of severity that have been held out, and the Com mander-in-Chief, after issuing a long order, framedjwith the object of dispelling the delusion prevalent with respect to the treatment felons receive on transportation, has found it necessary to order the sen tence of death to be carried out in two instances. In one of these a man named Atkins, who had been convicted of striking an assistant-surgeon, was selected as vic tim, and twelve men were orderd to act as executioners. All the troops at Meerut were assembled to witness the scene. The unhappy man to the last expected a reprieve. At length, however, the man date was given to fire; and strange to say, but one bullet struck him, and that in the thigh. The provost-sergeant stepped forward, and blew out his brains with a pistol, and all the twelve men who had fired were cast into confinement, and will be tried for a conspiracy to evade the performance of their duty. Of the other execution, no particulars has yet been received.
