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      Boweries at oace charged into the midst of the Dead Babbits , who received them with pistols , muskets , rifles , and revolvers ; and one of the combatants even brought tip a howitzer , but it was captured before it could be got into action-. Barricades were formed across the streets ; negro-and Irish women on- the roofs hurled bricks and chimney-pots en the heads of the combatants ; and a great many persons were killed and wounded . The police ^ interposed , and were driven back . Three regiments * were then sailed out , armed with the Minie rifle , and having , twelve rounds- to a mai * . This put a stop to the conflict for that day ; but it was renewed on the 8 th , when two of the rioters Were shot by the police .

      The Cincinnati Commercial , of June 24 th , gives an account of a slave flight and pursuit . We here read : — •* Three slaves—two- belonging to Mr . J . Sanford , and one to Mr . J . Berry— -made tracks from Henry county , Kentucky . They were traced across the Ohio River , and were discovered hidden in the brush and behind logs , about four miles back from the river , on Kane ' s Branch . The negroes , being armed , made a desperate resistance , and one of them , belonging- to Berry , while in the act of shooting Mr . James Humphreys , one of his pursuer * , was shot , and instantly killed . The second escaped , while the third was arrested and taken back to Kentucky . "

      Mr . Mandeville , formerly of New York , has been appointed Surveyor-General of California , in place of Colonel Hey s , who has been appointed Surveyor-General of Utah . Mr . H . E . B . Stowe , son of Professor Stowe , was drowned in the Connecticut river on , the 10 th . lust . He was a student at the Dartmouth College . Judge fceavitt' has discharged the United States Deputy Marshal and his assistants from the custody of the Sheriff of Clarke County , Ohio . The Marshal ' s offence was connected with the arrest of an alleged fugitive slave . The English officers who took home the Fanchita as a slaver from the Coast of Africa were arrested on the 10 th at the suit of Mr . J . P . Weeks , and held to bail in 15 , 000 dollars . The owners of the barque are confident they can prove a wrongful seizure .

      A Boston committee of scientific men has inquired into spirit-rapping , and exposed its frauds . Some intelligence from South America is communi 1 cated to the London papers in a telegraphic message from Paris . We here learn that Dr . Valentin Alsiria has been recalled to power at Buenos Ayres . He represents the party of the emigration of 1840 . At Monte Video , the yellow fever is sensibly diminishing . The Corps Legislutif has adopted the Code Napoleon and the French Code of Commerce . The New York money market on the 9 th was easy , with a . decided reduction in discount rates . Stocks had slightly advanced .

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      THE PITJSTERAL . OF BGRANGER . BerAkgeb has been committed to the grave undor circumstances which would have been very painful to him could he have anticipated them . Ho waa buried with a degree of haste which in this country would be considered indecent and which in Franc © is unusual . At fialf-past five o ' clock on the evening of Thursday week , he expired '; by twelve o ' clock on the following day , the friends of the dead poet hud assembled at his house to attend the funeral . This precipitation was- dictated by the Government , out of a fear lest the occasion should lead to a democratic outbreak ; but it is against the general terms of the existing law , which declares that twenty-four hours shall elapse between the death of any person and the interment of the remains . An exception , however , ia made in cases of urgency , warranted by the is enid that

      signatures of two or three physicians . It the authorities received notice that some popular ' demonstration' would take place during the ceremony ; and it therefore anticipated that dosign—if it really existed —by hurrying on tho funeral . The Moniteur announced on the Friday morning that tho obaequiea were to bo public , at the expense of tho Imperial treasury , and honoured by every national observance which , could l ) o shown on , the occasion . By tho express wish of tho dead , poet , und in conformity with tho arrangements mode by tho municipal administration , the official doputations , and those to whom letters of invitation wore sent , were alone permitted to be present at the religious ceremony in tho Church of St . Elizabotli-du-Tomplo , or to form part cf tho procession to Pere-la-Chaiso . The route ) however , was densely thronged , and tho street where Be > ang « r died was quite blooJcaded .

      " At twelve , o ' clook preaisely , " suya the Times Pftria correspondent , " all the persons specially invited assembled at the houae of tho poet in the Jttuo Vondonae , and the aorttyt set . out boou afterwords for tho church . A magnificent hoarse , adorned with branches of ouk , of laurel ,, and crowns of immortelle ? , bore tho remains of fcho . poet . Tli © chief mourners wore MM . Benjamin Antin , Pewotlo ( l > is publisher ) , Prosper Vornet , Pro * , feaoor of Law ot Toulouao—all lite intimate friends of many years | , and n sub-oiflcor . of the 1 st Regiment of Artillery , nearly jcolatod to BoYungor , and , I bolievo , the only representative , of his family present aL the funeral ceremony . A . compositor employed , tit the Impriraodo Inapdrialo of Jparis waa eaid to bo also , but more

      distantly , related to him .. One of the Emperor ' s carriages and nine mourning coaches iminediately followed the hearse . The Emperor ' s , household was represented by ¦ General de Cotte ,. one . of his Majesty's aides-de-camp j the Minister of State and of the Household by M . Gauthier , Secretary-General of the Department ^ the Municipality of Paris by M . Werruan , Secretary-General of the Prefecture of the Seuve ; M . de Saulxure , Secretary-General of the Prefecture of Police , and the Mayor of the 6 th arrondissement , to wluoh the Rue Vendoine belongs . The Institute was represented by M . M .. Thiers , Mignet , Villemain , Cousin , De Vigny T St . Marc Girardin , and other eelebrities of the lit erary world . Besides these , a considerable number of Deputies , Senators , Councillors of State , and men of letters attended the © eremony . The Parisian press had also its representatives on the occasion . —M . Porrou , from the Moniteur ;

      M . Hene / Deputy ) , from tbe Coiistitutionnel and . the Pays ; M . Neftzer ^ from the Presse ; MM . Havin and Jourdain , from the Sieclo ; and the Journal des JDebats , the JRatrie , the Bttajette , and other journals , sent their editors and managers . The mounted Guards of Paris , with their colonel at their head , opened the procession , and rode on both sides of the hearse . The iufantry of the same force closed it with , their arms re versed , and three regiments of infantry were drawn up in line , and extended from the Rue Vendome to the Chutch of St . Elizabeth . The crowds of people to see the procession were immense , and as the remains of him with ¦ whose songs they were familiar from childhood , and whose strong nationality they loved , passed along , tbe cries of ' Vive Btfranger / ' or ' Honneur a Beranger ! ' were loud and frequent , and every head was uncovered . The windows and balconies , and in some instances the roofs of the houses , were alive , with people .

      " The hearse reached , the church at a quarter past twelve . The exterior of the building was covered with black cloth , which displayed shields inscribed with the initials- of the poet . The interior wore also the same sable hangings from the floor to the friezes . A border of white stars ran round the nave . Shields , with the initials ,, and large crowns formed of immortelles , were alternately placed on the drapery . At the extremity of the nave , close by the higla altar , rose a magnificent catafalque , displaying tears-wrought in silver , and encircled by lamps and . lighted tapers . "

      The religious ceremony being concluded , the procession wound its way to the cemetery , the same vast crowds again lining the roads . Aa the body issued from the church , the cavalry checked the advance of the people ; but this , appears to have been the only approach to disorder during tlie day . A dense body of persons waited on the outside of the ground , and testified their respect to the national chansonnier in . the most orderly manner . The remains were deposited in a vault , over which a monument will be erected at the Emperor ' s expense . The obsequies having been brought to a termination , the mourners , the soldiery , and tho multitude , quietly dispersed . During the ceremony , two squadrons of the mounted Guards of Paris patrolled up and down the Boulevards from the Porte St . l > euis to the comer of the Rue Vendome ,. to keep the -way clear from stoppage .

      They were assisted by several squadrons of Sergeus de Ville . Large bodies of soldier 3 wore also kept in reserve at various points . Eight divisions , each commanded by a General , were under arina ; and . Marshal Magnau waa at the head of the wholo force . The Minister at War got up twice during the previous night , to communicate with Marshal Magnan at his head-quarters . The National Guard was warned to be in reudiness to turn out ; and the various guards were not relieved for fortyeight hours , in ordor that small bodies of troops , aa they wout about the streets , might bo protected . Every arrangement , in short , was made for crushing a , n outbreak , had it ocqurredj but there ia no doubt that tbo Government waa greatly alar . med . The telegraph waa kopt constantly at work between Paris and Plomlrieres , and the Emperor seems to have shaved the general nervousness . Tho following is tho placard of the Prefect of

      Police : — " Franco has just lost her national poet ! Tho Govornment of the Emperor has dotormined that public honours shaU bo paid to tho memory of Bel-anger , This pious homage was due to the poet whoso songs , consecrated to tho worship of tho country , have aided in porpotuatlng in tho hearts of the peoplo tho reminiscence of tho Imperial glories . I loarn that party men only see in this sad solemnity an occasion for renewing tho cliaordera which at othor times have signalised similar ceremonies . The Government will not allow a tumultuous manifestation to bo substituted for tho rospoetful and

      patriotic sorrow which ought to prevail at the funeral ol Bdrangor . On tho othor hand , tho wishes of tho docoasod havo boon expressed in these touching words : — As to my funoral , if you can avoid public nolao , do so , I bog of you , my dear Porrotin . I hold in horror the tumult of a cro ^ vd and tho iclat of speeches at the infcormont of friends whom I lose ; and if mine can bo offeoted without a publle gathering , one of my wishes will be accomplished . ' It has therefore boon resolved , in accord with the testamentary ojcocutpr , that tho funoral procession shall be exclusively composed of official persons and those who rocolvo letters of invitation . I request tho populace to conform to these arrangomonfca .

      Measures arc taken to cause the determination of the Government and the desire of the deceased to be rigorously and religiousl y respected . —Pietri , Senator . —Paris July 16 , 1857 . " A few interesting details with respect to the deceased poet are communicated by the correspondent frotn whom we have already quoted : —" The portrait of Beranger will be placed in the Museum , of Versailles , in the gallery -with those of Moliere , Corneille , and Lafontaine , and the street in which he died is to be called the Rue Beranger instead of the Rue Vendome . The posthumous works of Beranger consist of from forty to fiftrv songs , which were deposited by him some years ago in the hands of a notary in Paris . During his residence at Passy , he prepared notes for a sketch of the revolutionary period of Trance , and he began his memoirs , lie did not long continue this work , and it is said that lie destroyed with bis own hand all the documents lie had collected for that purpose . A few notes without method , and his correspondence , which is considerable , remain . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRAXCE . Tire harvest in all parts of France promises to 1 > c unusually abundant . In the meanwhile , trade languishes , and the operatives ( as they commonly do at this time of tlie year ) are deserting their in-door occupations for field work . There ia scarcely any political news . The intense heat of the weather seems to have caused a general debilitv , and Paris does little else than pant and sigh for the shade of trees and the running of cool waters . With respect to the climate , M . Babiner , of the Institute , expresses his opinion , based on several scientific observations , that ' the regular seasons may be considered as re-established in France for several years to come ; ' that is to say , that there will probably be a long succession of warm springs and ' hot summers . The Minister of War has determined that the Zouaves of the tine , as well as those of the Imperial Guard , shall henceforth be armed with rifles and sabre bayonets . This measure will increase the Light Infantry by eleven

      battalions of picked ' troops . The Emperor has decided that tbere shall be a gallery at the Museum at Versailles dedicated to paintings representing battles in the Crimea . Several arrests have been made in Paris during the last few days , in consequence , it is thought , of tho movements of the democratic borty in connexion with tlie funeral of BeYanger . A report has been circulated of an attempt to assassinate the Emperor at Plombieres ; but it is denied . The Empress gave up her intention of going to the theatre on the night of Thursday week , on account of Be ranger's death . contains the

      Tho Moniteur of Wednesday following : — " For more than a month the police has had . proof that a plot had been formed in London to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor . Three Italians , charged with the execution of this horrible project , were at Paris , and arrested . The arms al « o which were to hav « been used for the perpetration of tho crime have been seized ; they consist of poniards , revolvers , &c Brought to justice , tlvo prisoners had already confessed their crime and revealed the names- , of their accomplices . The Government , notwithstanding , suspended tho proceedings against them , in ordor that tho ecltit of the process might not be regarded as a means of influencing tho result of tho elections which were about to tako place . Tho proceedings are now resumed , and an ordinance of tlio Juge d'Instruction sends beforo the-Chamber of Accusation all tho prisoners arrested , with their accomplices . Their names are Tibaldi , Bartolotti , Grilli ( otherwise Saro ) , MastssiniLedru Kollin , Muzaronti , and Campanoll / i . "

      , A demand has been presented to the Council of State for the payment of a sum of 1 , 700 , 000 francs on account of tho mission of M . do Momy to Kussia , So anxious was tho French Government to hurry UeVnngor into liis grave , that his body was illegally oneloHod in tho coffin before twenty-four hours had elapsed since his death . Many persons in Paris ouly know tho d . iy nflor tho Amoral Hint tho groat |> oot had died . Sevoral arrests took pluco , uiul a numbor of persons received warning to leave tlio country . Last -wook nn eminent man of letters was HuminonoU before a judfro , who told him that soiioun ohurgos wure iinponding over Jiio hi-ad , nnd gave him inoro than a broad hint to proowro a passport and go abroad . Tills is one way of ox Ding the suspected . The day of Bdmngora interment w « h ono of extreme nnxioty to tho Uovornmont . In I ' ariH tlio general opinion !• ¦ > , tliat tlio ovidenoo of tho Italian plot hu » , luu groat measure , been

      fabricated l » y tho police AUSXItl / V . Tho Auysbury Qazeth ) announces that throo political offender ' s , Dr . Sohutto and two military oMuora , who wore not Included in tho rocont amnesty of tlio limporoi of AuHtrln , bffooted ( Heir escape about a forti % l ) t ago from tho foi'treas of Josophatudt in Bolvumia . Tlioy hud , it appears , lor- some time made a praotiuo of lying in u « u to a very lute hour , and , as thuy nppourud to bu m » Il'C |» i tho turnkeys abstained from disturbing thorn . Ono morning 1 , a , turnkey , having somcLkJUJg to say tt > ScUwtto ,

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      70 & THE Ij E A DE R . [ No . 383 , Jxrxif 25 , 1857 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/6/