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      PRANCE . In the . Asspmbly ' s silting of Thursday last the house proceeded to discuss tin : taking into * conbideraiion of M . St . Btuve ' s free trade motion . . MM Barocb . e and Faucher demandrd tbe adjournment of the debate ia consequence ot the absence of M . Buffet , Minister of Commerce . M . St . Ueuve opposed the adjournment ; M . Thhrs , who wished to speak in this debate , also objected io putting it « tf , as next week he should not be ahie to attend . The

      assembly decided by a large suijomv against me adj'mraroent demanded by the stovernmeu * . M . St . Beuvs then developed , in a long speech , his plan , which is to place France iu the read of tbat free trfide policy , the example of which has been set by England . He proposed tbe suppression of all duties upon alimentary substances , and upon raw materials ; tbe abolition of all prohibitions , and tbe establishment of a protective duty not exceeding ten per cent , upon goods partly manufactured , at ; d not esc * edi- ; g twenty per cent , wpun goods entirely manufactured . M- Th-ers replied on the-part of the Protectionists , and was warmly congratulated by his friends . The motion was lost by 428 to 19 ° .

      The club of the Rue des Pyramides held a meeting on Friday nissht to consider the course to bs adopted in the debate on revision . 11 . De Brogue and M . de Montalsmbert explained that by the new form of the m ~; ion , implying a wish for total revision , was meant that the electors and the constituent mig ht exert their fall sovereignty withou ; limitation / The meeting accepted the new form of tbe million , and en * a « ed several members to speak in the debate . Among those who consented were MM- d .-. Bros ; He , de Monislcmberr , Coquercl , de Goulard , andLestiboudois .

      Au evening paper publishes a manifisto of Mazzini and Ledru Rollin to the Wallachian papulation . The central electoral committee of the Haute"Vieur-e , covopesed of delegates of all the cantons of the department , decided in a meeting held at Limoges on the 2 Cih ult ., that the candidate of all shades of the parly of order should be M . Eugene Baiaille . The party of tbe Mountain have declared their intention to abstain from voting . The number of signatures to revision petitions from the liurc-et-Loire . according to the latest accounts , amount to 15 , 000 . ' This department , ' says the Journal de dartres , '' will send at least 20 , 000 signatures to the . National Assembly in favour of tbe revision of the Constitution . ' The Marne has aiwdy furnished over 53 . 000 , and the Meuse 36 , 00 'J signatures .

      The train which was bringing the government engineers and representatives of the Orleans and Bordeaux Company from Poitiers lo Tours after the ceremony of delivering over tbe line to the company , met with an accident near Dange . The locomotive came in collision with a paviour ' s club which lay on the rail , and ran off the line . Fortunately it was only followed by one carriage , the chains having broke . No one was hurt ; but the fifty passengers were detained eleven hours at Dange . M . Mercy , a Paris tradesman , has presented to Colonel Vaudrey , in order to be laid before the Assembly , a mass of petitions in favour of the prolongation of tbe President ' s powers , signed by 11452 tradesmen aud workmen of the department ef the Seine .

      Notwithstanding the statement of the telegraphic despatches which follow , it is said by an eyewitness that the President was received coldly , and without any marks of enthusiasm , both at Poitiers and in the other parts of his journey . The following telfgraphic despatch has been received from Poitiers : — ' The train of inauguration arrived at Poitiers at half-past three . An immense crowd assembled about the terminus and saluted the President with their acclamations . After the benediction of the locomotives , the President passed through tbe city to the prefecture . The deputation of six departments , and the inhabitants of the neighbouring country show the

      same solicitude as the inhabitants of Poitiers to receive jvcrthily the head of the executive power . ' The foHowiijij is the speech of the President a 11 'oitiers : — ' I look upon the future of the country without fear , since its preservation will always depend upon the will of the people freely expressed and religiously accepted . I invoke therefore with all my wishes that solemn moment when tbe powerful voice of the nation shall overcome all opposition , and do away with all animosities , for it is fraught with sadness to the revolution , disquieting society , rai-ing heaps of ruins , but yet still leaving the same

      wants , the same passions , and the same elements of disturbance . When we reflect upon the territorial unity which the persevering efforts of the monarchy Lave bequeathed to us—when we reflect upon this unity , political , administrative , and commercial , "luch the revolution lias bcsiowed upon us , we teel astonished that society , possessing tbe elements of piwer and prosperity , should often expose itself to destruction . Might we not then regard as true the saying of the Emperor , " That the old world is at an fnd and that tbe new one is not yet formed ? " Without knowing what that future will be , let us now perform our duty , by preparing solid foundations for its erection- "

      The opposition press has net failed to make the most of the revelations disclosed by the incident in the Chamber on the baras of St . Cloud . Nothing seizes public curiosity more vividly than anything lying on the dfbaieab'e ground between public and private life . Consequently when M . Frichou in narrating the visit of the committee to the park of St . Cloud , began to talk of the charming aud luxurious pavilions which bad been constructed since the President ' s election , apparently with the design of serving for a superior destination to the Etables , half the Assembly looked morose and the oiher half malicious ; just as if the republican president were indulging the sutuptous , foibles ef another Sar < ia ; iapalus- The plain truth of tbe matter seems io be that a large tract ot pasture enclosed for the breeding stud of Louis Philippe , became a

      world too wide for the shrunk baras of the republic . Hence half the ground with an adjoining piece of the park was granted to the President on a short lease from January 1 . 1850 , to May 10 , 1852 , The President ' s respect for the constitution clearly app earing ia tbe term of the lease , raised a gcod deal of hilarity . But when the gentlemen of the committee wanted to examine these elegant dwellings , destined surely for no quadrupeds , they stumbled all at once upon a sentry , who barred further investigation , and they then retired with whispered speculations upon tbe imageries of St . Cloud . M . Magne , the Minister of Public Works , applied the match to the explosive tender . cy of the Assembly to break fairly out into laughter by gravely assuring tbe house that the President hunted no game in the national domain of St . Cloud but what he bad

      stocked the preserves with himself . So finished ibis delicate incident . To-day the Assembly rejected the motion , as amended in committee , of Smile de Girardin for supplying the papers with an authentic official account of the debates in the chamber and law proceedings . The badget of the Assembly for " 52 was then passed . A credit of £ 5 , 400 was voted for the publication of M . Ferret ' s wr . i k on the catacombs of Rime . No debate of the least interest took place .

      PORTUGAL . The Dauntless frigate , Capt . Halstead , arrived on Saturday merning at Spithrad , with dates from Lisbon to the 23 rd ulf ., and having the Prince of Ssxe Cuburg , brother to H . R . ll . Prince Albert , or boad . All was quiet at Lisbon . The Monitflsft mail steamer , with tbe English mails of the 1 "th ult ., arrived iu the . Tagus on the 21 st nit ., aid left for Cadiz and Gibraltar on tbe 22 r . d ult . Oar correspondent writes as follows : —

      ' It has been stated that the CabralHes rested all their hopes of foreign intervention upon inducing tbe bdief that the Septesibrisfas wished to dethrone the Queen and declare a republic ; this h £ v ; ng failed , a jd ,. t has been got up of no trifling a nature , which r . » usi also he Taid upon the broad shoulders of that odious pasty ; it is no less a one t ZT ^ lf ' that , be **«»?* ^ ming Th , « £ ? ? " Wil 1 ™ »« tfite & take place ffi / n ^ Sfe lL , s VMt l 0 UiC W ° 'M I" ? the puba 5 U FapfcrS 8 aili t 0 be f

      Sr Vh ! h-t ° a" S ' S 7 f « , " "r Emitted to ihem bv a friend from fclvaa . and of wWdl it sa « . ; < s iiit a more lamentable proof of how much the auwr a ine ?«„„»]» , carry oul ^ . oi-iazsmi against religion , the tbione , and thpr ^ sMtt organisation of societv . ' The b-iief i 3 en " deavcurcd to be incufcvrd ; that the documnts wem i ? : t from Seville to Evuia , from the latter plac- to £ ! vas . the grand uc-is of Cabraiista i ' ntr " uu > , and fry 25 thence ti .-Yi ' onnd their wav to L ; .- \>>! . The ; orre = po .- } denJ of tbe ' Estandartft ' says j ,= uas seen jsany epics . This is not doubted ; but unds ; sbat circumstances lie has s « n them is

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      another thing . They wish it to be believed that Espartero in Spain , and Saldanha in Portugal , are the two great beads of the embryo Republican party . ' A decree has been published , stating that as the time necessary for carrying into effect the process relative to the election of deputies , mentioned in a simultaneous decree ( that of the 18 th , for reglllating tbe elections , and which is not yet published ) , the meeting of the Cortes is postponed to the 15 th f November . The decree in question is very voluminous , and will be published hy piecemeal . The American frigate did not salute the French flag on her arrival in tbe Tagus ; a misunderstanding between the two governments on the subject of the islands in the Pacific is the aileeed cause .

      Sir R . Pak-eiiham had his first audience of the Quepn on the 18 th ult ., at a private court at Necesiidades , which was attended by the Cardinal Patriarch , the principal officers of the royal household , ihe gentlemen ot the chamber , the Ministers and Councillors of State , the Honorary Ministers of State , and many others . The Queen , King , Duke of Saxe Coburg , and others of the family assisted at tbe procession of Corpus Cbristi on the 19 th ult . The troops made a pleasing and martial appearance . Several French and English naval officers , and some English gentlemen , desirous of getting near , were kept back by one oi the municipals , which being seen by Don

      Francisco de Mtllo , son of the Duchess de Mello , and who commanded the 2 nd Cacadores , that officer immediately rode up , and desired that the officers and gentlemen might pass , and they were allowed to choose their places , which kindness was warmly acknowledged by both French and English officers " Both officers and troops conducted themselves es-: remely well , which was the more remarkable , as last year the troops , particularly the battalion of the charier , behaved like brutes to the people , even beating them . Benevolence aud civility appear to be infused into the soldiers undsr Saldanha ' s government , while brutality and oveibearinir , appeared to be considered as the best exercise of their functions under the Cabral ministry .

      SPAIN . In the sitting of the Chamber on the 27 th ult ., the debate on the vote of confidence having been brought to a close , the motion was carried in favour of ministers by a majority of 184 against 31 . In the sitting of tbe 25 th ult ., Esteban Collantes tuade a furious attack upon Bravo Murillo . Bertram ue Lis was replying when the post closed . In the Senate there was a debate upon the floating debt , upon which no decision was arrived at , GERMANY . Information has been received at Hamburg of an extensive conflagration in the Russian city of Archangel . The foreign merchants' quarter was almost entirely consumed , and severe losses are entailed upon tbe insurance offices of St . Petersburg .

      It is reported by many papers that the Danish Minister , M . Reedlz , who arrived on the 22 nd tilt , at Ksel , has been referred , both by Prussia and Austria , to the two Diet's commissioners , Count Mensdorf and General Thumen , as , on the renewal and prolongation of their commissions , the sole representatives of Germany , with reference to the settle , went of the Schlesflig-Holstein affairs . This intelligence is , if true , exceedingly important , as it virtually makes the Schleswig-Ho ' atein question a purely German one . M . Reedtz has had several conferences with tbe commissioners .

      It is stated that Prussia has forwarded to the Diet at Frankfort a demand in form to the effect that the Prussian non-German territories incorporated in 1848 into the confederation may be separated as before . This shows no tendency on the part of Prussia to admit Austria ' s non-German stales . It is announced that a congress of delegates of the German governments will anottlv assemble at Gotha to draw up regulations relative to the conditions to he imposed on residents in Germany . It appears to be certain that the Minister intends to proceed against all the functionaries who have resisted the execution of the ordinance relative to the convocation of the provincial states .

      Accounts from Frankfort state that Austua in reply to Prussia ' s demand for tbe disincorporalion of her non-German states , expresses her determination only to concede the puint if the unanimity of all the German slates with which the incorporation was passed is obtained for the reversal of that measure . Public attention in Germany is just now particularly excited by the manifesto and statutes of a secret communist society which have just been published in the * Dresden Journal . ' These documents iu themselves are calculated to awaken curiosity , but prove of far greater importance by reasan of the strenuous endeavours of the German government to turn them to account . For some time the Gr . rman

      newspapers bare diurnally brought us word of arrests , domiciliary visitations , and seizures of papers , all of which are said to be directly or indirectly consequences of the discovery of the communist society aforesaid . A slight examination of the manifesto is , however , sufficient to show that the society is of very limited extent , and that by far the greater number of arrests , & c , which have taken place can have no real relation to its discovery . The governments in truth ate working the little fact , magnifying it in order to draw from it an exaggerated significance and utility , thus making good the words of Machiavelli , speaking of secret societies and conspiracies which are prematurely discovered : 1

      These , * said that great master of policy , ' in the end do really injure those against whom they are organised ; for tbe victorious government iu seeking to turn a discovered conspiracy to an unfair account always goes too far ; the innocent are punished , the occasion is seized to get rid of inconvenient men ; and in rendering the unoffending responsible for those who have not conspired , a best of malcontents is created . ' Already , before our very eyes , we s , te this effect produced . A secret communist society is discovered i and the first consequence is , a razzia on all the man with whom one could hops to find papers interesting to the government . Documents which seem to prove the existence of a secret

      society of workmen have been found , and at once ail societies of' turners '—that ia to say , public associations of gymnastic amateurs , are prohibited . The consequence is clear ; Machiavelli foresaw it . By-and-bye the secret society . will be forgotten ; but men will never forget that the police may at any moment enter and seize their most private papers—they will never forget that it is not permined them to pursue the favourite and manly diversion of gymnastics in associations which alone can furnish the means of those exercises . General Klapka is a -very terrible personage to the German police . He is discovered in several parts of Germany almost at tbe same moment : be

      is said to be concerned in every one of the numerous plots with which ministers and monarebs are terrified into re-actionary measures : bis name and military qualities form a chapter for themselves ill the numerous revolutionary documents which ihe police now and then discover with so much cleverness . Last summer General Klapka was said to have been in Hamburg and Holstein , endeavouring , with Arnold Ruge , to incite the Schleswjg-Holsteitl soldiers to mutiny against the interference of Austria and Prussia ; within the last few days the gallant defender of Coraorn is discovered bv the

      police to be meditating a descent upon Dusseldorf . The general has formerly lived in Dusseldorf and is well Known there , and as he- is stated to have had his passport vised in Paris , the whole affair would seem to deserve no credit . Nevertheless , instructions have been given to the police on the route between the Prussian frontier and Dusseldorf to be watchful and to secure his person . In connexion with this proposed visit of General Klapka , may perhaps be the numerous domiciliary visits and arrest ; made by the police in the Rhine provinces , in Heidelberg , Darmstadt , Majence , c , within the last three days .

      HESSE . An Important decision has been pronounced in the Constitutional quesiion between the Ministry of the Electorate and the reeusaut officers and civfl officials . The permanent Committee of the Chamber , after the process against it was commenced , referred all the points in dispute to the juristic faculty of the University of Gottingen . That learned body has just pronounced its decision . It declares that the legal right is on the side of tbe government , as according to the 95 th article of the Constitution , it

      was not bound to procure tbe consent of the Permanent Committee of tbe Chamber to the publication of the decree of September , 1850 , respecting the continued levy of taxes , & c . This was the point on which the whole Constitutional conflict in the Electorate turned . The officials , therefore , who refused to carry out the decree administratively , and tne officers of the army who prospectively refused to support tbe government in case the support of the armed force was required , are declared by one o' the highest legal authorities to have been in the wrong . The Committee of the Chamber has also refYmd its case to the legal faculty of the University of Heidel-

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      berg , and it is stated its decision will entirely coincide with that of the faculty of Gottingen , and establish the question of right even more strongly on the part of the government . The official ' Gazette' of Cassel , of the 27 tb ult . publishes , under the date of the 26 th ult ., the consent of the Elector to the grant of an amnesty .

      THE PAPAL STATES . It is stated , in a letter from Rome of the 20 th ult ., that the garrison of Rome is to be increased by 1 , 500 men more . It adds that General Gemeait having demanded , in consequence , of the Papal government the occupation of several military posts , the latter has granted some , but refused others , among which were the Collegio Homano and the Pontifical palace of the Quirinal . The Ausuians have advanced to Otricoli . Monsignor Matteucci was , while visiting the prison of San Michele at Rome , accosted by several political prisoners with violent insults and imprecations , and one of them threw a bottle at him , which slightly wounded the reverend prelate . It is believed an Aglo-Frencb company , at present represented at Rome by M . Montclar , will undertake tbe execution of the great railway line from the Adriatic to the Tuscan Hue .

      A letter from Rome , of the 20 th , in the ' Constitutional , ' contains an account of several events calculated to produce disturbances , which the correspondent attributes to the Mazzinians . It confirms the fact of the explosive cigars we mentioned a few days ago , and adds that a strict inquiry having been set on foot by tbe police , several parcels of cigars were found in the very magazines of the government , sealed with the government seal , and charged with fulminating powder contained in a small tin tube . In consequence of this discovery several arrests have been made . Signor Bonifazi , a bookseller , had his premises set on fire , but disastrous consequences

      were happily averted by timely assistance . Since then he has received threatening letters menacing hira and his family with death . The police , according to thia letter , have some hopes of discovering the murderer of Signor Evangelist ! , a man having been discovered lurking near tbe house of Colonel Nardoni , armed with a double-edged stiletto , which exactly corresponds with the sort of weapon which the surgeons declare has been used in stabbing the above-mentioned victim . Two brothers , named Cincinnati , have been condemned by default to hard labour for life for having thrown stones at some French soldiers at Frascati , one of whom has since died of a contusion received in consequence .

      The 'Cologua Gazette , ' of the 18 tb , gives an account of an encounter between two detachments of Papal troops and six robbers , in the vicinity of Bologna . Three soldiers were wounded by the fire of their adversaries , but one of the latter having been killed , tbe others took to flight and escaped . Accounts from Rome , dated the 24 th ult ., state that the city was in tbe midst of those gorgeous processions which take place in various parts of the city every afternoon during the week , dis - tinguishing it from all others in the year by the endless display of colossal crosses , pictured saints , banners , bands of music , trains of clergy regulur and secular , and religious confraternities of all

      colours and in all sorts of costumes , remarkable even in this country of spiritual pageantry . To say that they excite a great deal of enthusiasm amongst the people would be perhaps an erroneous statement , but at any rate they attract a considerable number of spectators , especially of tbe lower sort , and they generally pass off in a very decent and orderly manner . That of the parish of St . Lorenzo , in Lucina , however , on the afternoon of Thursday last , formed an exception to tbe general rule , a tremendous turmoil amongst the crowd having thrown the procession into disorder ere it was more than half way oul of the church . The bearers of the ponderous crosses and standards ,

      staggering under the weight of their burthens . were unable to resist the impetus and rush of the spectator ? , who seemed impelled by sudden fury or sudden madness , to rout the whole concern ; the piazza was strewed with sacred implements , the actors and spectators in the procession fled in every direction , and the very eminent Cardinal Barberini , who , with the rear of the train , was as yet in the church , took it into bis head that a revolution had commenced outside , aud could not be prevailed upon to resume his part in the ceremony until Ion ;; after tranquillity had been restored . The fact was that a pickpocket , discovered in the act of picking a gentleman ' s pocket , took refuge from his

      pursuers by plunging deep into the ranks of o caped , hooded , and tasselled confraternity just issuing from the church portico ; his headlong rush , and that of his captors , appeared like a murderous onslaught to the ecclesiastics , who are in perpetual fear of some such tragedy , and who consequently consulted their safety by flight , communicating their panic to the outer circles , until the French soldiers cocked their muskets and prepared for a volley ; but tbe Roman band , whose leader had perceived the cause of the fray , and gave the signal for a lively strike up , soon inspired all parties with confidence and harmony again . Tbe cricumstancc would not

      be worth mentioning , were it not to show the ex-Ct-ssive terror displayed by the priests oh the occasion ; a terror arising horn tbe consciousness of the little love ot spmpathy towards their order which the conduct of tbe present government has produced amongst the masses . The stairs of the neighbouring palace of the Duke Fiano were crowded with refugees , amongst whom was a bishop , who hastily did away with the insignia of his rank by pocketing bis gold chain and detaching the band and tassel from his bat , perhaps reserving them as propitiatory offerings or spolia opinio to the murderous mob below .

      Brigandage is not yet exterminated in the northern provinces . A bloody engagement took place on the 17 th ult . between robbers and Papal soldiers in the territory of Bologna . Some armed outlaws had been seen in the morning going from Cast el de ' Britti towards Ciagnano , where they entered a house situated in a spot called Belvedere . Tbe fact being reported to the military detachments stationed in Maggio and tbe Compana , the first censisting of a sergeant , a corporal , and five privates , and the second of a corporal , four privates , and a gendarme , they set out to capture the brigands , who , six in number , armed with double-barrelled guns , made good their position in the house , and defended

      themselves for some time , until they retreated in the direction of Monte Calderaro , leaving one Of their number dead , but carrying off another who was wounded . The dead robber was recognised as Felice Scheda , nicknamed . Feliciore and Anguillone , one of the most notorious of the late Passatore ' s followers , for whose head a reward of 500 dols . was offered . His corpse was carried te the Csmpana , and then to Bologna . Valuable rings wtre found on his fingers , shoes , articles of dress , ammunition , a knife , and a beautiful double-barrelled gun were found in tbe house abandoned by the brigandes . The soldiers had one corporal and two privates wounded in tbe encounter .

      RUSSIA AND POLAND . Letters from Warsaw give a corrected account of the statement that has appeared in nearly all the German papers , relative to the compulsory delivery of plate , in return for a certain sum of money ; a statement which caused great excitement .. - The facts of the case are these : •—The Minister of Finance finding nearly all the financial resources oilhe country exhausted , and being , however desirous of levying an equitable tax , considered those persons who were able to have plate would be best able to pay a tax upon it . The tax he accordingly , imposed , and although it has created some dissatisfaction , it is , however a tax which leuches the rich , and that , too , in exact proportion to their property ; the poor are in no wise affected by it .

      TURKEY . Advices up to the loth ult . state that important news has been received from Daghistan via Trebizonde . All the correspondence ( com Tiflis gives more or less the details of the successes of the mountaineers over the Russians , who have suffered immense Io . 's . The leader of the Dagldees in Mahomed Emin , the naib ( or lieutenant ) of Shei h Chamil , who , at the bead of 25 , 000 picked men of the warlike tribes of the Abedjeks , and other independent tribes of tbe Western Caucasus , bad attacked the Russian entrenchments of the Chenis , and driven the Russian troops , under the command of General Cerebrianoff , beyond Themer . The

      engagements which took place were bloody and disastrous , and tbe Russians suffered so severely that all the spare waggons of the army were barely sufficient to carry their wounded away . Their loss , according to an impartial statement , is calculated at 5 , 000 in killed and prisoners . The mortality in comparison is by far greater among tbe officers than amnng the privates . The position of the Russian army is very insecure at present , on account of the communications between Themer and the Kouban being intercepted , and owing to the vigilance of the Daghlees it is impossible to send reinforcement ] in that d'rection for some time yet . The mountaineers boast at present of being well supplied with amtna-

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      whole summer season . By the aoove u » / ascertained that the Russians have made no progress whatever in the conquest of the Caucasus thn ' ^ The Turkish fleet has quitted Us anchorage in tho . nil ! to the BoaphorL Twelve fire sips , hwj been fitted up and manned , and it is said that a cSe in the Archipelago will be undertaken , and nprhaus a visit paid to Alexandria . P A socictv for the study of Turkish literature and diffusion of useful knowledge has just been insti-2 d The intention of the government » to encourage thestudv of the Oriental language * by grant-L prizes and medals to those who compile good H ! ng works , cither in Persian , Turk . sb , or Arabic .

      INDIA . By the overland mail we have the usual files , and our c orrespondence in advance to the following dates ; -Bombav , the 25 th of May ; Calcutta , the 15 th j and Madras the 17 ih of May . It is currently rumoured and believed tbat the Governor-General intends to return to Calcutta immediately after the rains . The reason assigned for this is that he has disapproved of some oi the

      rueasures of the Bengal government ; but it may be that tbe real cause is bis having received a strong hint from his honourable masters that it would tend more to their interests if he wandered less from home than he has been in the habit of doing . No doubt the demands on his lordship ' s attention made by the affairs of the far north west are less urgent and imperious now than they have hitherto been and he can devote himself more than be has heretofore been able to do to the affairs oi Lower

      Bengal . The noble marquis has , it is sa ? d , recommended that tbe chief magistracy and post mastership at Calcutta , each worth about £ 3 , 000 per annum , shall not as heretofore be confined entirely to the civil service . It is most probable that these offices will be in future conferred on gentlemen of the uncovenanted service on a much reduced scale of salary . The nostmastership at each of the

      presidencies has always been looked as a fat sinecure which ought to be abolished , the actual duties having for years past been performed by the deputy . It is different , however , with the office of the chief magistracy , the duties of which are very arduous and responsible . The most proper person to be selected to fill this very important situation is an English barrister , as a perfect knowledge of the criminal law is absolutely requisite to a proper performance of the duties .

      A series of most destructive hurricanes have just occurred to the South of Bombay between the line and 15 deg . N . latitude . The first near Ceylon , and another at Madras , in which no fewer than fifteen vessels and eighteen human lives have been lost . We have to record the loss of another vessel by fire in the Hooghly . On the 13 th ult . tbe clipper Ariel was burnt off the months of the Hooghly , when cargo to the value of £ 100 , 000 was destroyed . The Buckinghamshire , Kurratnany , Ardaseer , and Ariel , have all been burnt in these seas within two months , and all , save the Ardaseer , which is doubtful , have been destroyed by incendiaries at a loss of little short of a quarter of a million pounds sterling .

      We regret to mention that cholera has been very prevalent in Bombay of late , and has committed sad ravages amongst the European * on board the Ajdaha steam frigate in our harbour , where nearly all the cases proved fatal , one midshipman and seven European seamen having fallen victims to this dreadful scourage of the human race . The epidemic , disappeared , immediately the Ajdaha was sent to sea for change of air , she having since returned t » port with a clean bill of liealth . The ' Delhi Gazette' newspaper reports the occurrence of a melancholy accident near Hurreepoor on the road to Simla on the 30 th ulti . mo in the following terms . Lieutenant H . P . Sale , of the 13 th

      Native infantry . Adjutant of the Nusseree battalion stationed at Jntog , went down towards Kalka for the purpose of meeting a detachment escorting treasure from that place . After encamping near the river at Hu ' reepoor , he strolled up the hill in the neighbourhood with his gun , whilst the men were cooking their dinner ; he bad not been long absent , when , to the surprise of the Goorkhas , he fell from a tremendous height into the river close be them . The man who was with him says that he begged of bis master not to go so near the edge of the precipice ,-tbat whilst speaking to him his foot slipped , and that , in falling he caught at a tuft of grass , which

      gave way , and the unfortunate young man was precipitated down the khud . He lived about a quarter of an hour . after , but quite . insensible . Mr , Apothecary Law arrived very opportunely just after the accident , and rendered every assistance in bis power . Mr . Law remaiaed on the spot until life was quite extinct , The deceased was the youngest son of the late Sir Robert Sale , and his untimely death has cast a gloom over a large circle of friends , by whom , as well as the men of his regime . nt , he ... was much esteemed . He was buried at Subathoo on the evening of the 1 st ultimo . . ..

      The Governor-General is by no means popular in India . It is complained that , though extremely fond of display and magnificence ( new silver state howdahs , and so on ) at the expense of the Company , he is himself by no means given to hospitality to the extent expected from a Governor-General . Lord . Dalhousie , too , is accused of unduly favouring his fellow-countrymen and personal friends in the dispensation of his patronage . lie has recently occasioned' much dissatisfaction in the Nizam'z army by appointing a young officer of bis

      own staff to a brigade in it over the heads of many much his seniors , yrho had served in the Nizam ' s army ... for many years ,, and were , consequently , generally , considered entitled to succeed to its brigade commands . It cannot , however , he denied that Lord Dalhousie ia one of the most able ' men of business that have ever come to India , ' and that , with the assistance of the Lahore Board , he has succeeded in settling and organizing the Punjab better and with more enlarged views than any newly-acquired Indian province was ever settled before .

      ihe Arab mercenaries are beioming all-powerful in the Nizam ' s territories , and there is no doubt that nothing but our protection prevents the Nizam being deposed and an Arab dynasty es blisbed .

      AMERICA . By the Royal mail steam ship Asia , we have advices from New York direct to the 18 th . ult . She brings £ 223 , 000 iu specie on freight . The steam ship North America , - announced to sail from New York on the 17 th ult . for Ireland , and whose anticipated arrival has lately caused such extensive preparations and induced so many sanguine hopes in that country , had suddenly been withdrawn , the Galway route not having proved sufficiently attractive . We extract from the ' Tribune ' the following account relative to tbe withdrawal : — ' For the last three wefks it has been advertised that this steamer would sail from this

      port direct for Galway , Ireland , on the 17 th of June , in commemoration of the ' new enterprise an Irish flag was presented to her captain by , a wealthy gentleman , and much gratification was expressed by our Irish citizens at the prospect of a direct steam communication with their native country . But notwithstanding these preparations , the North America did not sail as advertised , and it was an nounced on Monday that she had been sold . She had steam-up , and fuel and provisions for the vovage , and her passengers were coming on board whey they were inform d that her destination had been changed . Of course there was much excitement among those who were on board and the crowd that had gathered to witness the departure

      of thesteamer , and mauythreats were made against herandherowners . 'but we believe nothing SeriQUS occurred . It was the intention of those who controlled her to despatch her as advertised , but at eleven o ' clock yesterday they received an offer to purchase her from Cornelius Vanderbilt , which they concluded to accept , as they had engaged but few passengers for the excursion to Galway . These were offered tickets for the Pacific , ' and we believe this arrangement was generally satisfactory . It is understood that the North America has been purchased for the purpose of being placed on the rente from San Francisco to Raelejo , in connexion with the Prometheus on this side . She will leave for the Pacific in a few days . '

      The steam ship Alabama , arrived at New Or . leans on the . U . h ult . with advices from California to the 14 th ult . The following is the telegraphic communication ; - ' A terrible fire had occurred in San Francisco , lajins ? in ashes property to the amount of from twelve mi lion dollars to sixteen milium dollars . A jjong the buildings destroyed are the Custom-hcuse , Union , Parker ' s ,. National , New World , City , DelmomcoV and the Exchange

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      Hotels ; also Rose ' s buildings and the offices of the steam ship company . The fire also spread to the shipping * burning a large number of vessels that were lying at the wharves . It was first discovered in Clay-street , and ran through about one dozen blocks , quickly spreading to other parts of the citv , the greater part of which is a heap of ruins . The ' buildings on hunter , George , Main , Centre , and El Dorado streets , are reduced to mere shells . Every newspaper office in the city except the ' Alta California ' was destroyed . The utmost constemarion prevailed during the fire , and thousands were turned uut of house and home , having lost their all . Measures were about being adopted to

      relieve the distressed . It is feared that a number of lives have been lost . Business was not thought of , and San Francisco presented a sorrowful and heart-sickening picture . A great fire has also oc . enrred at Stnckton , the loss from which was estimated at over one million dollars . The news from the mines continues of a cheering character . New discoveries were daily made , and the prospects of the miners highly favourable . Those working with the quartz crushing machine were reaping a rich reward . In some instances the average per man was thirty dols . to fifiy dols . per day . Lynch law is still in force , and several new examples have occurred . '

      The Washington correspondent of the ' New York Herald , ' writing relative to postal arrangements , mentions that , from the 6 th of July , there will be a regular exchange between the United States and the British provinces of New Brunswick , Cape Breton , Nova Scotia , and Newfoundland at the same rates established for the United Stales and Canadian mails . By the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific , Captain Nye , we have received advices from New York to the 21 st ult . The Pacific brings 150 passengers , and 1 , 000 , 000 dolls , in specie . Large numbers of Chinese were arriving at San Et & wcUcQ .

      Serious fears were entertained at New York that the conflagration at San Francisco , so destructive io goods shipped from New York , joined to insurance losses , would embarrass many firms . The news brought by the steam-ship Asia of the burning of a great part of San Francisco is now confirmed . The loss is estimated at 12 , 000 , 000 dollars . About 1 , 000 buildings were destroyed , and three-fourths ot the business districts had been consumed . An earthquake bad been felt but no damage resulted . Over 600 buildings had been recommenced to be built . From Baltimore we learn tbat the dry weather was doing serious injury to the Virginia tobacco crops .

      Jamaica accounts , of the 13 th ult ., announce a fresh outbreak of cholera , more especially at Westmorland , Falmouth . Deaths were numerous , though the disease does not appear to be as malignant as last year . 259 Africans had arrived from the 8 th . His Excellency the Governor had prorogued the parliament to the 15 th oi July . Much raiu had fallen .

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      It is now ascertained that gold in considerable quantities exists in the state of aine , but the labour of getting it is scarcely compensated by the gain . General Geoigey is said to be engaged at Klagenfest , with the composer of a large political work on the Hungarian revolution , which is to appear at Hamburg . Ram Lai ) , the famous Muttra banker , who recently gained the great opium case on appeal to the Privy Council , has just presented a thousand rupees ( £ 100 ) to the Bombay School of Industry . It is announced that the question of Abd-el-Kader ' s captivity is on the point of receiving a salishclory solution .

      The ' Weiner Zeitung publishes a list of thirteen persons , all of the working classes , who have been sentenced by the courts-martial of the city , for various offences of a trivial nature , chiefly for using threatening language relative to the Government in the open street ; the sentences vary from twenty-five strokes with the cane to six weeks' imprisoament . A M . Schramm has been condemned to six months' imprisonment for publishing the ' tax-refusing ' resolution of the Prussian National Assembly in November , 1848 . In Spire a priest ,

      named Tafel , has been displaced and suspended from the exercise of all spiritual functiors for a speech delivered in the Frankfort Parliament in 18481 M . Schramm bad , of course , long since disappeared , and was condemned tw confMmaciam ; but the priest , with the stain of that sinful oration upon him , has quietly performed all his duties as a pastor for three years . Justice is slow in Germany without being sure . Tbe number of persons formally sentenced , years after they are beyond all reach of the German law , is positively ridiculous .

      A sad accident occurred near Poitiers . M . De Gazes and Mademoiselle de Villars , whilst bathing in the Vienne on the 24 th , were carried away by the current and drowned . Madame de Cazes , who bad been likewise in imminent danger , was saved . The last number of the ' Bulletin of the Laws of the Austrian Empire ' contains an ordinance of the Ministers of Finance , dated June 20 , 1851 , on the subject of the abolition of the lines of

      customhouses on all the Crown lands of Hungary . After the 1 st July the custom houses between Hungary and Transylvania on tbe one side , and those of Lower Austria , Moravia , Silesia , and the Buckowina , on the other , will he completely abolished . On the frontier between Hungary and Cracow on one side , and Styria , Carinthia , and Illyria , on the other , the existing custom-houses will be retained provisionally for carrying out the regulations relative to the salt trade .

      Several arrests have been made at Erlau . It is thought'that a conspiracy against the government has been discovered . The conspirators were in the habit of meeting in a cave , and were mostly partisans of Kossuth ; thirty ; or forty of them have already , heen brought in here . The number oi persons , compromised is said to be considerable . At Chemnitz a depot of arms , many muskets , and two cannon have been found .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05071851/page/2/