A report was current yest...
A report was current yesterday, that an attempt lhad been inade on the life of the King of France. That some faniatic has been discovered to have formed such a design, is believed, but no autlhenitic details of its nature or prospect of being executed have been allowed to transpire. T'he letters from Paris whiclh mnention it are expressed with Freat caution and very obscurely. It appears that some investigation by tho police is in progress. This report, cornbined with the expected diminution of the French troops in Spain, communicated a degiee of gloom yesterday to the,markets for F:nglish end European seaurities, most I of which declined in value. Extract of a letter received by the agents at Alvarado, f'rom Charles IMakenzie, Esq. British Consul for Vera Cruz, dated Jalapa, August i3:- In covsequence of General Lemour claiming the right of levying duties on vessels entering the bay of Sacrificios, I have applicd to Vice-Admiral H-lalstead for a British ship of war to be constautly on the coast ; but as I am not yet aware how far such an arrangement may be practicable, I beg that you will state to the Committee at Lloy(d's, that it will be de- sirable, so long as the port of Vera Cruz remains in its pre- sent condition, that no British mrrerchant vessel sh4ould resort to it, but that they should rathier avail themselves of the port of Alvarado, where all the necessary'oflicial arrangements have beein made. Shotild, however, any case arise, in which either the draught of' water or any other cirecnstances render it necessary for a vessel to anchor at Sacrificios, I beg to recommend the southerni entrance to that anchorage, by whiclh she would avoid being at any time within the ramre of the gulns of the castle of St. Juan de Uiloa." Another unfortunate creature has lost his life througlh the encourageement still given to the brutal practice of prlze fightiiig. Two men named Scott and Brown fought on Tuesday. The former iii the 19th rournd fell senseless, and died on Wednesday morning-