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The whole of the specie which went down in the Schiller (£60,000) has been recovered, except about £I6OO. It is stated from Rome that the parliament tary committee which has been appointed to consider the question of electoral reform propcses to reduce the age required to constitute an elector to twenty-one years, and to abolish the property qualification for the franchise in the case of persons who have attained a certain educational position. In Professor Lassen, whose death is announced in the German papers, Germany has lost her most distinguished Sanskrit scholar. Lassen was by birth a Norwegian, born at Bergen in 1800, but ho was never looked upon as a foreigner in Germany. He spent all his life at Bono, as Professor of Sanskrit, and was really the true founder of the critical and historical school of Sanskrit Philology in Germany. News from Mexico, dated the 30th May, received at New York, states that the Government troops had re-established communication with the capital, and obtained a decisive victory over the insurgents at Oaxaca on the 29th of May. The insurgent losses are stated to have been 1000 killed and wounded. It is added that three of their generals were taken prisoners, and that the insurrectionary movement was everywhere subsiding, A decree had been issued fixing the Mexican presidential election for the 9th of July, '