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      AMERICA . The news from Kansas still speaks of disturbance . The St . Louis D emocrat mentions " despatches from General Calhoun to the Cabinet at Washington . The despatches -were telegraphed from Boonville . The tenor of these is that General Calhoun has thrown out the vote returned toGovernor Denver , alleging as a reason for so doing that such returns were not made in accordance with the Lecompton schedule , and should have been delivered to him , and therefore are illegal and void . This high-handed measure gives the pro-slavery party a majority of one in the Council , and a majority of two in the Lower House , besides elects the pro-slavery state ticket throughout . " . A pro-slavery member of the Kansas Legislature has been shot in a stage-coach by a horseman who rode up , called out his name , and fired , inflicting what is thought to be a mortal wound . " The party erring , " as the assassin is delicately and considerately called by the paper just quoted , made his escape . The Lecompton constitution for Kansas was sent by the President to Congress on the 2 nd inst ., accompanied by a message which is described as having a pro-slavery tendency . Mr . Buchanan , says an abstract published in the English papers , " characterizes the ^ city of Lawrence as the hotbed , of Abolitionism , denounces the persistency with which the Topeka movement is insisted upon by the Free-state men , and asserts that the dividing line in Kansas is not between political parties , as in other places , but between those who are loyal to Government and those who are endeavouring to destroy it by the force of usurpation . He says , in effect , that Kansas is now by the will of the people as much a Slave State a 9 Georgia or South Carolina , and insists that an admission into the Union under the Lecompton Constitution is the only means of restoring tranquillit } % the people having the power to amend it hereafter as they think proper . The message gave rise to animated proceedings in both Houses . "

      Further advices have been received from the Utah expedition . Colonel Johnston has mustered four additional companies of volunteers for a period of nine months . The troops are in good health , and very comfortable in their winter quarters . An abundant supply of beef has been obtained from a settlement to the north of Salt Lake . A volunteer regiment had been organized in New York for service with the Utah expedition . Walker has appeared before the United States District Court at New Orleans , when Judge M'Caleb said there was nothing against him , the grand jury having refused to find a bill . The Filibuster then asked to be put on trial for violation of the neutrality laws ; but the Judge refused , ,

      Mexico is still in a condition of civil war . General Comonfort , uniting with the Liberals , has placed himself at the head of an army which will operate against the reactionists , who have proclaimed Santa Anna . By this move , Chief Justice Juarez becomes President of the country . The belligerents are going to fight it put in the city of Mexico ; but they have made an arrangement that there is to be a three hours ' truce every morning in order , that every one may go comfortably to market . This certainly shows forethought of a certain kind . From Monte Video we hear that Colonel Brigido Silveria has risen against the Government , but that the insurrection is very nearlv quelled .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian , feeling is to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign , nations , and cares for no portion of the human race but that to which itself belongs . Da . Arnold .

      FRANCE . Codnt de Mobny presented the report ofthc new penal law last Saturday to the Corps Legislatif . Ho remarked that the well disposed have x \ o occasion to feel any alarm at the bill , which , as now modified , is to be only a temporary instead , of a permanent measure . The Count made some observations on the position of parties in France , and on the fact of the Legitimist and Orleanist statesmen withholding from all support of the existing Government . He observed : —" The greater part of those men who have remained attached to the ancient order of things have all been men of government ; they knpw the conditions and difficulties of it ; they are not under the delusion that a now revolution could at the present day be made in favour of their opinions ; they are not ignorant that it ia rather against society than

      against the Throne that a blow would be directed ; and yet they prefer remaining aloof , forgetful of their ancient principles , and seeking ; to weaken the Government which protects them . A lamentable contradiction , which diminishes the prestige of men , and dostro 3 's political faith in the heart of the people I—a sad situation , with which , nevertheless ^ a sTrong ( Soverrimont ought to know how to live without too much umbrage , and without violence . " Further on , ho remarked : — " Wo must mako a distinction . Legitimacy is the timo which connocratos it , or the wl ) l of the people who founil it ; hereditary r ] ght ip . only its political ' consequence . Does any ono believe that this last baa boon instituted for the Advantage of royal families rather than in favour of popular interests ? Is not its only object to render the tranamUelon of the throne exempt from dispute and trouble ? If

      not , the elective system would certainly present greater guarantees . But , now that our modern society has no longer the superstition of divine right , the first condition of hereditary right is possession ; and does not a good citizen sometimes feel his conscience , troubled when , by the interpretation of a principle of which the sole object is the public tranquillity , he disengages himself from the obligation of defending the institutions of his country ? Moreover , this theory is not new ; it was that of _ the Orleanist party . That did not repose on an } ' principle . It was founded neither on right nor on popular election . It had only a glimpse of a revolution , and yet it deceived no one when it called the dissentients to it by showing them the abyss that yawned beneath their feet , and conjured them to rally round it in order to save society from being precipitated . " The Minister afterwards demanded a supplement of 1 , 200 , 000 franca for the secret service of the police .

      An Englishman was seized the other day by some police agents while walking in the streets of Paris , was taken to the Barriere de l'Etoile , and there searched , and was afterwards marched some way on his road to the Prefecture of Police , when his captors suddenly changed their mind , and set him at liberty . They had mistaken him for an Italian of whom they were in search , and , although he produced his passport when first questioned , and thus clearly showed thaf he was English , the police officers kept him in custody until they found out their error to their own satisfaction . The funeral ceremony over the remains of Count de Rayneval , late French Ambassador to the Court of Russia , took place yesterday week at the church of the Madeleine , jvith great pomp . The body was afterwards deposited in the cemetery of Pere-la-Cbaise . The Independance Beige is informed from Paris that certain officers of high rank in the Imperial Guard , who had received the order of the Bath at the conclusion of

      the Crimean war , have torn off their ribands in consequence of Mr . Roebuck ' s speech , and sent them to Marshal Vaillant to be returned to England . The decree nominating the Marshals to the new military commands appears in the Moniteur . Marshal Magnan has the command of the troops in the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd territorial divisions of the North . He retains the command of the Army of Paris , and of the 1 st milU tary division ; head-quarters , Paris . Marshal Canrobert , the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , and 7 th divisions of the East ; Nancy . Marshal Castellane , the 8 th , 9 th > 10 th , 17 th , and 20 th divisions of the South-East ; Lyons . Marshal Bosquet , the llth , 12 th , 13 th , and 14 th divisions of the South-West ; Toulouse . Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers , the 15 th , 16 th , 18 th , 19 th , and 21 st divisions of the West ; bead-quarters , Tours . The Marshals have taken their oaths to the Emperor , but they will not take possession of their commands till next April .

      The Cliambre des Mises en Accusation has received the report of M . Salle * , substitute of the Procureur-Ge ' neral , on the attempted assassination of the 14 th of January . The day for the trial is not yet fixed . The condition of trade in France is at present very languid . The Duke de Montebello has been appointed Ambassador of France at St . Petersburg . The Duke , though the son of Marshal Lannes , a Bonapartist general , has hitherto been an Orleanist . He was the French representative in Switzerland twenty years ago , and it was he who , in the name of his sovereign , demanded the expulsion of Louis Napoleon from the Helvetic Republic—a demand which induced the exile to leave the country voluntarilyand come to England .

      , M . Ottajanp , the Neapolitan Envoy , who was the bearer of an autograph letter from the King of Naples to the Emperor , congratulating him on his escape from assassination , returns to Nnples with a letter from tlio Emperor to the King . There is said to be no prospect , howevor , of a reconciliation between the two Governments j but Franco and Austria seom to bo rapidly approximating . M . de Persigny arrived in Paris from London last Saturday night . The ancient exhibition of the JBceuf Gras was celebrated in Paris this week with great splendour .

      . The Princo and Princess Frederick William hare received , since their arrival at Berlin , several addresses of congratulation ; among others , ono from the English residents in tlio Prussian metropolis . There have also been state balls and dinner parties , besides a subscription ball at tbo Opera House , in which the Princo and Princess appeared in public . The students have had a torchlight procession , which was very striking ; but a superb brtnfire which had boon kindled was abruptly put out by the fire brigade , lest tho town should bo set on fire ,

      Colonel von Woymar , an Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia ^ has arrived at Berlin from St . Poteraburg j oom-1 rni ^ ionbtr " l ) 3 ^ b " e ^ Einpbr 61 " to ™ pvo 8 ori £ "' fo tho Prussian Royal Family his congratulations and those of tho Russian Court on occasion of the public entry of tho newlymarried couple : ho was tho bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor and Einpreaa , and of the Grand Cross of tho Ordorof St . Catherine for the Prlncosa Frederick William . ITALY . France has boon making certain demands on Sardinia ulmllur to those already made on England . A vorbal

      message has been sent to the Cabinet through the Minister at Turin . This 13 said to have been expressed in very courteous terms , but the precise nature of the demands has not transpired . The political trials have commenced at Turin . On the first day , a letter of Mazzini ' was read , In . which , according to the Tivies Turin correspondent , the extriumvir " accuses himself and his confederates of having unduly neglected the people of Lombardy , and urges the necessity of establishing in that country a secret organization under the name of ' 11 Popolo , ' in groups of five persons , to be linked together by means of one of

      each group , who shall swear fidelity to the Republican unity of Italy , and to the rules and directions that shall reach him from the centre of action . Every member of this society is to be instructed to provide himself with a short weapon , and to collect , little by little , as much ammunition as possible . Intelligent proselytes are to be instructed and made chiefs of groups and- useful as propagandists . The plan is to be carried out not only at Milan , but at Conio , Brescia , Bergamo , and othei towns . Communications are to be kept up among these for the transmission of printed papers , and every opportunity of obtaining money is to be seized . "

      The cold in the north of Italy has been very great this winter . The Po has been frozen over for some days at Ferrara to such an extent as to bear crowds of persons a circumstance unknown since -the commencement of the present century . There has been a good deal of illness in consequence ; but the carnival , nevertheless , has passed off with great spirit . A commission having decided that our unfortunate countryman Watt , the victim of Neapolitan cruel ty * is liable to fits of insanity ( the result of his treatment in gaol ) , the trial has been suspended in order that certain phrenologi may make further inquiries de lunatico . The Turin correspondent of the Daily News states that the municipality of Milan refused to attend the funeral of Marshal Radetzky .

      " Between Rome and Frascati , " says the Coumer d'ltalie , " is a railway about nine miles long . A considerable number of persons went the other day to a fete at Frascati , the ladies being dressed in their richest garments , and wearing their costliest jewellery . This was all known to the brigands . Accordingly , they seized the officers who occupied the intermediate station in the midst of the deserted country , and proceeded to hoist the red flag , as a signal to Stop . The engineer , fearing something was on the liue , brought the engine to a dead stand , when the robbers instantly laid hold of the travellers , and coolly plundered them , doing them , however , no other injury . Up to this time we had fancied

      that railways would put an end to this sort of advent ture ; but the foregoing stroke , performed at the Very gates of Rome , shows that we Were too sanguine . Instead of robbing some ten or a dozen passengers in a diligence , the brigands now take one hundred in one haul . Of course , the more productive this peculiar branch of industry becomes in the Roman States , the greater will be the numbers of those who follow it . " ~~ The Sardinian Charge" d'Affaires has been directed to demand the immediate restitution of the Cagliari , and the liberation of tho crew , on the ground that the capture was illegal . Tho demand is said to have been formally refused , and the refusal has left Naples .

      SWITZERLAND . The Ultramontanist 3 have combined . with the High Church Protestants in a monstrous endeavour to make the Church superior to the State . The Bishop of St . Gall demands that the clergy shall no longer be amenable to the temporal authorities , The Council of State of Freiburg has been revising the educational system pf the canton , and has abolished from the list of subjects taught , history , geography , physics , and singing . To make up for the loss , tlio students are to spend several hours a day in reading theology .

      TUUKISY . A brutal outrage has been perpetrated upon an American . missionary and his family stationed at Jaffa , in Syria . His house was broken into during tho night , he himself was stunned by a blow on the head , his sonin-law was murdered , and his wife . and dauglitora were subjected to the grossest indignities . Tho American consul-general has brought tho fucts before tho notice of the authorities .

      BKI . aiUM . Tho Ducho . sso do Brabant was delivered of a daughter on Thursday afternoon .

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . Tub February ( sessions wore resumed on Monday , when a rospoctablo-lookinjr num ., named John Reynolds , surr ¥ n ~ d 6 roa ~ to ~ t " akirins ^ trial ^ oti-ft-ch'argo-T of ^ affgravated assault on a Mrs . June Archer . This woman oluimod a right of way across Roynoldu ' a gordon , in Grove-lane , Stamford Hill , to a garden of hor own . On tho 7 th of January , an sho was endeavouring to enter Ms garden , ho pushed her back , nnd , on her trying to got ovor a fence , ho throw her down , aoiml her by the right arm nnd loft log , held hor up ovor a woll , threatening to drown hor in it , and oxpoaed hor in a shameful manner . Wiillo doing this , ho uttered the moat revolting lan-

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      OUU CIVILIZATION .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2231/page/9/