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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 298, 28 August 1860, Page 3

The growth; of cheap literature is not confined to England alone, but is visible, quite as much in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and indeed over the whole of Europe. In Paris, for example, there have been established within the last three years no less than seventy-five new periodicals, nearly all of them unpolitical, and those which contain news with the indispensable feuilleton at the bottom. Of these seventypapers, forty are cheap illustrated journals, a class which seems just now in particular favor with the French public. These cheap periodicals sell even lower than what we are accustomed to see in England; for the retail price of twenty-one of the number is only a penny, and of the other nineteen merely a halfpenny or five centimes. Of these halfpenny periodicals 772,000 are sold weekly in a Paris alone, and: nearly twice as many in the provinces* But larger still is the sale of the llustrated papers for a penny, which} contain jnore than double the matter of the former, and one of which, the Journal dv DimancheZ^ in such favor with the public as to bring its proprietor a regular annual income of about £5,200. No wonder that, under such circumstances, publishers, as well as authors, abandon the manufacture of books, and prefer thrbwirig themselves into the more profitable, if hot more pleasant journalistic career. Generals Lanza, Letizia, Salzano, Catoldo, all of them disgraced after their ignominious return from J§dermo--are ,ioZ be tried by court-martial under the presidency of Lieu-tenant-General Dalcaretto. Coloimais the ohiy; general excepted. Amongst other charges against^ them is the rather, sin^ilar one that the 3,000 bombshells fired upon Palermo were charged half with clay, or, common earthi arid half with powder, these officers pocketing the money value of the difference.

The French Government has given its consent.to a loan in France for thePohtifical Government. The sum required is twentyfive millions ©f francs, to be raised by public subscription at five per cent, interest. Father Fellitti, so well known for the part he'took in the Mortara affair, has just received a most signal compliment from the Dominican order to which he belongs, having been elected prior of the great convent of Minerva at Rome, the usual residence of the general of the order,