Catalogue description NEWSLETTER.

--Private letters from Spain state that the Conde de Fuentes, made Lieutenant General by the Cardinal Archduke, will attempt something upon Ireland before long, with 5,000 Italians, 5,000 Walloons, 15,000 Germans and 15,000 Spaniards, all volunteers. Don Pedro de Velasco is to be General of the infantry, and in the mean time the Adelantado of Castile and the other Biscay captains will go to some port of the island, to facilitate the enterprise. They will also have the help of the Earl of Tyrone, who is in the field there against the Queen of England with a large force.

A mariner, who came in twenty-four hours in a sloop from Marseilles to Leghorn, and thence here, brings word of a great tumult at Marseilles at the election of Consuls, which election takes place every year on the feast of S. Simon and S. Jude.

In order to stop it, the Duke of Guise had to go from Provence, where he is carrying on the government very quietly, but much in favour of the nobles, so that no justice is done, and he has thus come to be hated more quickly than he might have been otherwise.

The Bishop who was driven from Aix, and was then at Avignon, has written from the King's Court that he should shortly return, having received good despatch from the King, who told him that any offence given by him was pardoned, and that he might return to his Bishopric.

The latest advices from Naples are that a proclamation has been issued, forbidding laymen to buy corn from any priests in the kingdom.

Letters from France say that the King, having dismissed the English ambassador at Rouen, had summoned the Cardinal Legate to assist at the Assembly of the Kingdom.

The Pope, in the matter of Hungary, has shown his usual wisdom, accepting all from the hand of God, as a punishment for our sins, and commanding that the prayers and litanies offered on this account should be better attended than heretofore, and that redress and safety should be first sought from God ; but has, moreover, given charge to the Congregations of Hungary to think also of human remedies to avert this great danger and scourge hanging over all Christendom, either by proposing a peace as little disgraceful as possible, or by rousing the ancient spirit of the glorious crusade. Apart from these two courses there seems nothing to be done, unless by reverting to a former practice at the camp of the Emperor, and offering the enterprise to his Highness Alfonzo d'Este, who has gained eternal glory without having fought at all, every one declaring that all that has been lost might have been kept by means of this Prince and grand champion.

Venice, November [19-] 29.

Letters from Spain of Nov. 5 state that the promises of contributions for the war against England are to be re-newed, and that it is publicly said in Madrid that the Adelantado was gone straight for Ireland. They are going up and down raising men in Spain and Flanders, to make an army of forty thousand ; the Adelantado having already, with the soldiers raised in Gallicia and Bertagna, about twenty-five thousand, besides those taken from Lisbon, a force sufficient to do something, if provided with victuals and munition.

We hear from Hungary that the Palfi, a Hungarian Pole, was the cause of the slaughter of the Christians by the Turks below Agria, where there perished twelve thousand Christians and ten thousand Turks. The Christians lost all their baggage and artillery, and the remnant only saved themselves by flight. The Turkish army is already dispersed, some at Buda, some at Agria and other places, and the Tartars have returned home. The Grand Seigneur has gone towards Belgrade, to provide in person for its defence, and to get ready a fresh army for the spring.