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      2 The Northern Star. October 11, I85 L

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      FRANCE . The same spirit which dictated tbe refusal to allow Kossuth and his family to cross France , pre * vails in every department of the administration . The mayor of St . Michel , M . Laugier , has been suspended by the Prefect of the Basses-Alpes for directing tbe interment of a Protestant ' s infant child in a Catholic cemetery . The terms in which tbe Prefect justifies this harsh measure form an excellent pendant to the official style of M . Suleau , the Prefect of Marseilles . He says ;— 'The mayor Langier , of St . Michel is suspended for having caused to be interred on his own authority , and in spite of the warnings given to him , in the part of the cemetery reserved to the Catholic religion , an

      infant not baptised according to the rites of this religion , which he ought to have considered as having died without baptism , and have buried as such , since the state has not recognised the Protestants of St . Michel ; also for not having awaited , as he was by us bidden , the decision of the government upon the legal existence of the Protestants of his commune . ' Thus , as the Prefect of Marseilles cannot recognise the existence ot Kossuth on shore , the Prefect of the Basses-AIpes cannot recognise the existence of the Protestants of his department , and considers an infant baptised by a Protestant clergyman as an in . fant not baptised at all . This is the P harisaical slang , tbe crabbed argot and narrow rigour of formality which characterises the ' Jacks in office' of an illiberal administration . It is unfortunate that

      a tone s-hich grates so harshly on the ear of common sense and humanity should be now given all over official France by the tuning fork of the Minis * ter of the Interior . Meanwhile , although it is true that a decree of the second year of tbe republic enact that < no law authorises the refusal of sepulture in the public cemeteries to deceased citizens , whatever may have been their religious opinions or professions , ' this does not prevent the interment of Protestants in a place apart uneonsecrated , and stigmatised by the abomination of desolation . A correspondent , writing from Paris on the 5 th inst ., says : —

      The fact which most strikes the traveller who remains some time in France and at Paris is , a certain shameless brutality , with which anti-liberal and antisocial principles , such as a few years ago were found revolting alike to French sentiment , generosity , and good taste , are to-day confessed and even proclaimed . And here , let me not be understood as speaking merely of the lower classes , of democrats aud socialists—no , I speak of the honnetes gens , of the * good citizens' of the middle classes , the readers of tbe Constitutionnel' and' Debats . ' But yesterday the journals reported a process before the Conseil de Guerre at Paris which places in a very clear light the social position of Paris and of France . A soldier

      in garrison at Paris went to visit his brother , a workman , ten years bis senior . The soldier was invited to dine with his industrious brother , eat of his bread , drink of bis innocent wine , and when he left was offered a trifle of money to pay for bis cabriolet to the barracks . Now the young soldier taking it into his head that be was degraded by this offer of money , to square the account commences fighting with his kinsman . A neighbour of the latter , who knew him as an honest and industrious man , vexed to see him ill-used , threw himself between the brothers , and administered to the soldier a box of the ear . The latter drew his bayonet , plunged it into the month of him who dealt tbe blow , and killed him on the spot .

      The court-martial has just terminated the investigation by simply acquitting the soldier-murderer . The same journal which yesterday contained an account of these proceedings and their denouement —a tale shich , a few years ago , would haverevolted the whole nation—to-day reprints with satisfaction an order of the day issued by a colonel to his regiment , on its departure from Malz to go into garri son at Paris . This officer exclaims to his men : — ' Yea , soldiers ! we march as one man , and yonr colonel swears to lead the way , to unfurl the flag of order on tbe barricade of anarchy , as before we have unfurled it , surrounded by the dead and dying , in a storm of balls and grape , at the breach of

      Constantino , each man burning to avenge his brother , should he fall by the lead of the parricides of our beloved country . Such is the salutation with which a French colonel announces his arrival to tbe Parisians . The barricade of anarchy , the breach of Constantino , the demi-savages of the African desert , the workmen and the citizens of Paris , it is all the same to this French officer . In his impatience he sees beforehand ' tho dead and dying , the showers of ball and grape / in the streets of Paris . This is horrible ; but what is yet more horrible is , that a large portion of French society is dead to the terrible signs of social decadence and moral anarchy presented by an order of the day such as this .

      Bat the self-same journal brings us yet another sign of the times in this same number of yesterday . It is the statistics of the gendarmerie in France . This body of Military police reckons no less than 23 , 154 men . Add to these the gendarmerie mobile , the republican guard , and the sergents des villes , and you will have a military police for France amounting to nearly 50 , 000 men . And even the largeness of this force does not prevent incessant affrays between the populace and the gendarmerie . On the contrary , these encounters were never so much the order of the day as now . And we find the verv reason of this in the

      timid mood of the lourgeoisie , with its representatives , and organs , who without , perhaps , intending or even being conscious of what they do , excite soldiers and gendarmes against the workmen , and these in turn against the military . If a party of highwaymen rob some stray traveller , you may be sure to read in the' Debats' and Constitutionnel of the day following that a citizen has been waylaid and robbed by democrats or Socialists . Thus , is one half of society irritated against the other , and gendarmes and soldiery are taught to see in the workmen who favour democratic ideas nothing but -vagabonds , robbers , and assassins .

      The views of parties are growing a little clearer . It is manifest that the parliamentary majority have dropped for the present all notion of either repealing or modifying the law of May . Tbe * Debats' and ' AssembleeNationale' both contain decisive articles in favour of supporting it against all attacks , coming from whatever quarter . On the other hand , it is rumoured that the prefects have received instructions to conduct tbe elections of the Chamber according to the law of May , but tbat of the President according to the old lists of universal

      suffrage . I mention this report in consequence oi the serious attention bestowed upon it by Girardin . The ' Moniteur' is expected to publish , towards the middle of the month , the decree convoking the electors of the Seine to choose a representative to replace General Magnan . On the result of this election , which would thus neatly coincide with the reopening of the Assembly , will depend very much the tone of the President ' s message . If the democratic party persevere in their intention of offering resistance to the execution of the law of May , all France , it is said , will be placed under a state of

      siege . The policy of the ' Constitutionnel » to proceed to the elections of the Assembly according to the law of May , and to the election of the President according to the old law of Universal Suffrage , is beginning to be combated by the ' Order' and other parliamentary papers in a tone which shows conviction that such is the course meditated at the Elysee . The Electoral Union wishes to defer tbe elections of the Seine . In any case the democratic party will abstain , the Prince de Joinville will not come forward , and the candidate of the Electoral Union must therefore walk over the course .

      The * National' has opened a subscrip tion at its office for contributions towards the execution of tbe medal proposed by the ' Revolution , ' to commemorate the sympathy of the democracy with Kossuth at Marseilles . The ' Moniteur de 1 'Armee' announces that the Minuter at War has expressed his disapprobation of the regimental order of Colonel de Gardarens , of tbe oth Regiment .

      AUSTRIA . *! . ? . « ' ^ f that Ww * Windischgralzhas refused the appointment of governor of Humtarv , for the present as least , as he does not feel inclined to serve Bart . ° * Inte » ° V Or . The new loan , like the proverbial ' bad shilling ' returns again and again to notice . The Minister of Finance has confessed , in an official document that his loan has proved a failure . The official document alluded to was an order on the bank to subscribe the ten or twelve millions which all the extortion compulsions , intrigues , and promises of the past month have left him minus the desired amount . Not . withstanding the unusual advantages offered by the government , nearly ten per cent , altogether ; notwithstanding the prolcBjaiion of tho original

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      period within which this great advantage would be continued ; notwithstanding the very ample use of sham agents who have subscribed in Frankfort , Amsterdam , and London ; notwithstanding the acknowledgment of the « domestic obligations' of the two Austrian provinces and Styria—a measure which added ten million real subscriptions and other ten millions of state paper to the loan—Baron Kraus has at last forced himself to resort once more to his usual expedient of drawing upon tbe bank , and he has ordered the bank to subscribe the amount wanting to make up the eighty-five millions . No matter by what means , or however unreal , tbe new loan is at least to appear to have been subscribed . What the Finance minister will do when

      he has got his eighty-five millions must be a puzzle alike to himself as it is to the rest of the money world . The Contemplated Was . with Turkey , and thh 'Promised * Constitution . —Popular rumour exaggerates very much the increase now being made in the Austrian forces on the Turkish frontier . Instead of 40 , 000 men , I believe that only 10 , 000 are on tbe march . If the Porte return a compliant answer to the demands for

      compensation , the main ground for making war will vanish ; for , unless renewed disturbances arise in Hungar from the liberation of Kossuth and his companions in confinement , the Austrian Emperor aud his minister , Prince Schwarzenberg , have no valid reasons for desiring to punish the Porte for setting tbe illustrious exile at liberty . For the moment the question continues to wear a doubtful aspect . The imperial conncil would not come to any decision on the other question—the constitution—because that important document is not yet finished .

      The proprietor of the 'Friedens Zeitung' ( Peace Journal ) has bad a compulsory interview with the court-martial of Vienna for printing a small notice of the Hungarian colony in the United States . His answer to the accusation was , that he bad excerpted it from the official journal , the Reichs-Zeitung . Judge his astonishment , when the sapient mem hers of tbe august court nevertheless repreraand him most severely , adding , that what a large journal like the Heighs-Ze ' Uuug was allowed to print , could not be permitted in a small one .

      Count Potocki , a member of one of the most influential noble families of Poland , a gentleman of vast wealth , and generally held to be semi-conservative in his political opinions , has been arrested and confined in the citadel of Lemberg . The grounds of this step are not known , but it is supposed tbat tbe order came from Paris , where Chevalier Weiss von Starkenfels , tbe Vienna director of police , is at present conferring with M . Carlier .

      HUNGARY . We learn from Vienna that there appears to be some design on the part of the government to re tarn to the old federative system in regard to Hun gary , the centralising one which they have been introducing having proved a complete failure . It is said to be probable that a Diet will be established , of course with very restricted privileges . The governor-general , in the person of Archduke Albrecht , assisted by a commissioner possessing some experience of civil government will be the

      direct medium between the monarch and his territories ; the different ministers will subside into di rectors of departments ; aud the imperial council , which is to be established , will be equally tbe creatures of the emperor ' s will ; his wishes will be their lav . One construction that must inevitably be pat upon this change , no matter how gradually it may be introduced , is that the government has been most glaringly defeated , and is compelled to ao knowledge in the most effective manner the righteonsness of the cause for which the Hungarian people took up arms .

      ITALY . Respecting the magnificent displays of loyalty which are described daily in the ' Vienna Gazette ' as having been displayed in Milan , Brescia , Venice , & c , our letters give a very different account . In Brescia the inhabitants were ordered to illuminate their houses , on pain of severe punishment ; and in order to deprive them of every excuse the government sent a supply of candles to every house . Tbe paid claqueurs certainly shouted to their utmost when the emperor appeared in public , but their numbers were so small , and their isolation so complete , that the cry of' Long live the Emperor' was only heard at intervals from single individuals . The

      military did their best to prevent tbe true state of tbe case from being too apparent . In Milan tbe same circumstances occurred ; and in Venice a letter which we have read asserts that a pin might have been heard drop in the streets , so death-like was the silence during the visit of the emperor . It has been much remarked upon that the emperor did not pass a single night at Milan , which city he quitted on both occasions before nightfall . Tbe 1 Croce di Savoia' contains a letter from Brescia , describing in matter-of-fact terms , the want of affection and loyalty displayed there . It was confiscated by the police , who actually visited every cafe in which Italian journals are kept in order to obtain possession of it . Perhaps this confiscation was partly caused by an allusion to the Archduchess Sophia in another article , in which that princess is

      termed the vainest and most ambitious woman that has appeared in the world since Eve . The Emperor has suddenly quitted Italy , for reasons which can only be guessed at . Tbe newspapers of Turin make mention of the Emperor ' s sudden departure from the camp of Somma as of a flight . The prescribed route of return to Vienna was abandoned for the road by Helzendorf . The Emperor left the Somma at six o ' clock on the morning of the 30 th ult ., and leaving behind all the carriages of his suit arrived in four hours at Casinia de' Pecchi , a distance of forty-five miles . This precipitate departure by a changed route is ascribed to alarm and discouragement at his blank and cold reception by the Italians . The camp of the Somma was ordered to be broken up , the cause assigned for this new arrangement being the unfavourable weather .

      GERMANY . The German governments are extremely alarmed at the rapid progress of what they call the Communist Socialist Associations' among the workmen of Germany , and have determined to resort to extreme measures against them . For this purpose they have resolved to republish the ancient resolutions of the Diet against Socialist associations . Another leading and apparently semi-official article , published in the ' Frankfort Journal' of the 5 th inst ., makes known the important fact that tbe Austrian cabinet has determined no longer to press at this time the desired incorporation of its non-German proviaces into tbe confederation .

      A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort , published by the official Berlin ' Anzeiger , ' states that the diet has taken a unanimous decision in favour of dissevering from the Germanic confederation the Prussian provinces incorporated in 1848 .

      SPAIN . It is said that the Cortes will be convoked on the 1 st of November . General Narvaez is expected in Madrid as soon as he receives the news of tbe Cortes being opened . His relentless enemy , Gen . Pavia , has published a memoir of the civil war in Catalonia , in which very heavy charges are brought against Narvaez . The persecution of the opposition papers still continues . Last week three editions of the' Epoca' were seized , the last of which merely contained the news from Cuba .

      AUSTRALIA . THB NEW HOLLAND GOLD DIGGINGS . By the arrival of the Thomas Arbuthnot we are nut in possession of Sydney papers as late as the 9 th of June ; and though this does not appear to be later than previous advices , the accounts are much fuller , and a better picture is afforded of the actual position of the gold diggings than has yet been presented to the English reader , the more especially as great attention was being paid to tbe obtaining of accurate intelligence , for which purpose parties had been specially commissioned to proceed to the diggings by the journals and private individuals . On Sunday evening , the 1 st of June ,

      Mr . Hardy , the government commissioner , arrived at the Summerhill Creek , Bathurst , whilst a party of mounted police encamped at Swallow Creek , and followed to the diggings on Monday . Mr . Hardy , with much good judgment , did not pressthe diggers « ho were without means for the immediate payment of the license fee , but gave them a week for the purpose and offered to take the amount in gold dust . The variety of costumes at the diggings is stated to immediately attract the attention of the visitor . The poorer classes , generally

      speaking , work in their usual apparel ; others add to it a blue serge shirt and a California hat . Those who are in better circumstances will be found with strong moleskin trowsers , blue serge shirt , warm woollen comforter , California hat , belt , and a pair of strong leather leggings ; others again , instead of leggings , will be found with waterproof boots , reaching from « x to nine inches above the knee . Those who desire to be more conspicuous than others will be seen with scarlet serge shirts . One party from Sydney was dressed in a very singular fashion , his

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      appearance presenting some slight resemblance to that of a Spanish brigand ; he wore a close scarlet lambswool shirt , a rough brown jacket , buckskin breeches , with boots reaching a little above the knee , a slouched hat , and a belt , from which dangled a pocket pistol on one side , a dirk on tbe other , and a cartridge pouch behind . This constituted his working dress , the jacket only being thrown off when the weather was warm . The fierctness of the aspect of this individual , however , was probably owing to his Californian reminiscences , as the wheel of fortune had previously carried him to the American El Dorado . The appearance of tbe upper part

      of the creek , about eight or nine o ' clock in the evening , states an eye-witness , is very singular , and would form a good study for a painter . The rows of tents and gunyahs of every description , with large blazing fires , and knots of human beings flitting before them , have a veryunique effect . The shouts and laughter of boys , mingled with occasional discharges of firearms , g ive additional singularity to the scene , which when viewed from tbe high abrupt ranges , has something rather unearthly about it . In the day time theswarms of human beings rocking cradles in the bed of the creek , and the intensity of attention with which they pursue their work , show that the diggers possess in a strong degree the qualities of energy and perseverance . Many will be seen there who never before performed a day ' s hard work in their Jives now strenuously working

      with the pick , shovel , and crowbar , lifting heavy stones , carrying over stony roads buckets heaped with soil containing the golden deposit , or working tbe rockers , being at the time soaking wet up to or above their knees . Great order and unanimity prevail , a little bantering occasionally diversifying the scene , whilst all seem in good spirits , kept alive by their golden hopes , which , however , in numberless cases , end in disappointment . During the . last three days , the number of persons who had arrived at Bathurst en route to the diggings was estimated at no less than fifteen hundred ; independent of this , numbers were daily wending their way by other routes , so that in the course of a month it was thought there would be at least 10 , 000 persons on the ground , even allowing a heavy margin for those who might leave .

      As regards the weather , which may reasonably be expected to have an important influence on the yield , it is stated that for the last four nights the cold bad been exceedingly severe , although in the day time the sun shone brightly . Some of the diggers were working in a mizzling sleety rain , whilst in other parts of the neighbourhood a heavy fall of snow bad taken place ; so tbat many were already beginning to wish for their comfortable beds and warm firesides , and were anxious to regain the genial winters to which they had been accustomed at Sydney . Fears were entertained in many districts that the cultivation of the land would be very seriously interfered with by the prevalent excitement . Many farmers were rushing off from their avocations to try their luck at the diggings .

      A person writing from Maitland states that , if the mania lasted any length of time , the town would be drained of its population , as every one was preparing to start . The prices of all kinds of provisions had advanced within the last few days 30 per cent . Labour of any kind was scarcely procurable , and permanent engagements were quite out of the question . Few cases of violence at the diggings had been heard of , but it was scarcely to be expected that

      this would continue . In one case summary and exemplary punishment was inflicted by two young men on a dishonest comrade , who was entrusted with the sale of some gold at Bathurst , and made a false return ; and this made the place ' too hot to hold him . ' A few petty robberies of mining implements , Sec , were also now and then heard of * Much improvidence was manifested by the most successful parties , a case of luck being instantly made use of to replenish the kegs , and enjoy a few days '' spree . '

      Tbe local papers are nearly full of advertisements of articles ot dress , food , aud otherwise of necessity to the visitor to the gold regions , whilst nearly every shopkeeper seems to have become a pur * chaser of the produce of the diggers' labours . With a view to appease the prevalent curiosity and present means of affording distant friends an actual view of tbe precious metal itself , one man very obligingly advertises' handsome specimens from the Opbir diggings , ' weighing eight , ten , twelve , and fourteen ounces . An order had been issued by the government for the payment of £ 500 to Mr . Hargraves , as a reward for the information given by him respecting the Bathurst gold field .

      AMERICA . By the United States mail steamship Pacific , Captain Nye , we have advices from York to the 2 ? th . She brings £ 120 , 000 in specie . A very destructive fire bad occurred at Buffalo . Great " consternation prevailed in New York owing to the rumoured instability of the banks ; more than half-a-dozen had been named as weak . The influence upon the stock-market of the pressure of money was severely felt . Government stocks had suffered less than any other .

      The banks that have already failed are the People's Bank and the Commercial Bank . The market for foreign exchange to send by tho Pacific was rather weak , the scarcity of money limiting purchasers very materially . Great excitement had also been caused by the flogging of an abolitionist , in the state of Virginia , and his compulsory removal from the state . The affair is thus described in tho New York papers : —

      " The Vigilance Committee of Grayson county , Virginia , on the 13 th ult . arrested John Cornutt , a friend of Bacon ' s , the Ohio abolitionist . They at first requested him to renounce his abolition sentiments , which he refused to do . They then stripped him , tied him to a tree , and , after receiving a dozen lashes , ho agreed to renounce absolutionism , sell bis land and negroes , and leave the state . Great excitement prevailed , and the commute were in pursuit of others .

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      A reconciliation seems to have taken place between Narvaez and Sir Henry Bulwer : / or the latter is said to have accepted a dinner from the Spanish marshal at the Trois Freres , on Wednesday , Donoso Cortes , the Duke of Ossuns , and Other distinguished Spaniards , were present . A synod was held at Mans on September the 6 th attended by three hundred ecclesiastics of the diocese of Maine , in which it was decided that the pointed cap should be replaced by the square cap throughout the diocese . This apparently puerile subject of deliberation for so great a body is

      pregnant with meaning . Out orders have only to refer to a collection of costumes of the time to remark tbat Saint Ignatius and Father Lainoz , and all the good Jesuit fathers , wore the square cap . The pointed cap , on the other hand , was the traditional head-dress of the Gallican clergy . The triumph of the square over the pointed cap is , then , nothing less than the triumph of Jesuitism over the Gallican church—of Escobar over Bossuet—of the Council of Trent over the declaration of 1602 . It symbolizes the union of the Maine clergy with ultramontanism and Loyola .

      Nine new rooms on the ground-floor of the Louvre are to be opened lo the public this week , They contain a collection of French sculptures from the time of Louis XII . to the modern sculptors , Houdon and Ciiaudet . Three other rooms are to be opened at a later period , with sculptures of the middle ages . One of the editors of the ' Constitutionnel , ' M . Charles Duveyrier , an ardent Bonapartist , who is suspected by some people of prompting the articles signed by Dr . Veron , has left for Russia , and , as it is reported , on a confidential mission .

      A serious affray , between gendarmes and about forty people , has taken place at Parigtie L'Eveque , near Mans . On the night of September 29 th , after the closing of the wine shops , a knot of people conversing in the high street were ordered to disperse by the patrol . They refused , and one man asserted loudly that they were freemen , and had a right o remain . Upon a gendarme proceeding to arrest this man the whole assemblage pelted the gendarmes with stones . A severe struggle took place , and in the result two gendarmes were severely wounded . The prisoner was ultimately secured , but the rest escaped , and it will be difficult to identify them . The vellow fever has broken out in Oporto .

      The President of the Republic has authorised the town of Fontainebleau to erect an equestrian statue in bronze of the Emperor Napolean in the court in front of the palace celebrated as the scene of the 'Adieux' of Fontainebleau . The expense will he paid by subscriptions . The ' Risorgimento' of Turin of the 3 rd inst ., says : — 'Yesterday the Piedmonte . se workmen who had been sent to the London Exhibition returned here . They assembled at tbe Bourse , where they were met by the Minister of Commerce and the

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      members of the commission present at Turin . The men are perfectly satisfied with their visit to the Crystal Palace , and to the great manufactories in the neighbourhood of London . When the Minister re . commended them to be paterns to their fellow , workmen by communicating to them tbe information they had obtained from their journey , they expressed a wish that an exhibition could be organised , to which they would bring all the objects of their art with tbe improvements which they had learnt in London . It is very easy to see that they will be very grateful , and will not forget the advantages which they owe to the generosity of their fellowcitizens , and to tbe solicitude of the government .

      The Marsouin' anchored at Pairaboeuf on the 26 th ult ., with eighteen desperate convicts , whose conduct bad been so bad at Toulon that they were ordered to be removed for more security to the galleys at Brest . While they were taking the air on the deck by the indulgence of the captain , one of them , finding himself without his irons , stabbed the keeper with a knife . The cries of the victim brought the officers and sailors upon deck . The comrades of the assassin refused to point him out , but the wounded man with difficulty found strength to do so , and on the sailors attempting to secure him , the villain swore he would kill somebody , and rushed furiously at the officers . Two pistol shots failed to induce him to surrender , and ultimately one of the keepers shot him dead on the spot with his carbine .

      Last week , whilst two battalions of the gendarmerie mobile were exe rcising themselves at firing in the Champ-de ^ Mavs , Paris , as is the custom every Wednesday , several officers were seen making signals with red and white flags from the platform over tbe Pavilion Marsan , at the Tuileries . The passers-by could not make out what the cause of such movements could be , particularly 8 s many were alarmed at the sound of fire-arms , being ignorant of the exercise which was going on in the Champ-de-Mars . ' The object of the signals was . to ascertain if , by means of flags , a correspondence could be effected with all the detached forts which command Paris . It appears that a correspondence was so established with the forth of Montrouge , St . Denis , MontValerien , and Vincennes .

      The races at Algiers , lately founded by the Minister of War , took place on September 28 . A number of Arab chiefs , and as mnwy as 1 , 500 natives on horseback , attended . There was room for 3 , 000 spectators in the stands , which were well filled , and the neighbouring bills were crowded with spectators . There were only two races in which French and native horses were pitted against each other , and in each of these the former were victorious .

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      . Manufaciubing a Saint . —The ceremony of the beatification of the Venerable Father Pietro Claver , a Jesuit , surnamed the Apostle of the Moors , took place on tbe 21 st ult . The basilica of the Vatican was adorned with red damask hangings , and two altars bad been erected , under the transepts , with paintings representing the two miracles of the venerable father , which had been approved of by the Congregation of Sacred Itites . After the brief of beatification had been read aloud , a solemn Te Deum was sung , and , amidst the thunder of artillery , the statue of the Venerable Father Claver was uncovered , after which a high mass was sung by Monsignor ( Jardelli , Archbishop of Acrida . In the evening his Holiness the Pope and the Cardinals proceeded to tho church to adore the new saint . —Giornale di Roma . A retired pawnbroker , named Cohan , committed suicide in Liverpool on Monday , by cutting his throat whilst suffering from delirium tremens .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11101851/page/2/