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      France. The Assembly Adjourned Last Satu...

      FRANCE . The Assembly adjourned last Saturday until Thursday , the 20 * inst , in order that the representatives might have time to examine the new departmental and municipal law . The members of the Mountain have signed a memorial , praying , or rather demanding , that a full amnesty should he granted for all political offences committed since February , 1848 . But this proposition has not been signed either by Lamattuie or General Cavaignac . Fresh troops are it is said to be sent to Rome , to counteract the Austrian troops , which are being sent into Italv .

      The President has taken another step towards attaching the army to himself , by displacing General Jullien from the command of a brigade of the army of Paris , and substiiuiimi General Herbilen—as devoted an adherent to the President as Jullien to the Assemblv . Kmtlie Girardin has published two addresses in the 'Presse '—one to tbe Governments of Europe , ' the other to the People of England , on « the abolition of misery by tbe elevation of wages . ' Both addresses are long and eloquent , but tbe latter has some ludicrous misconceptions—snch as , that the treadmill is a machine indispensable to the English workhouse . To Mr . Cottden , M . Girardin confides 'the care and honour of translating this appeal '

      On Tuesday twenty commissioners were elected hy the National Assembly to report on th ? . bill regulating the appointment of communal officers . O ' these commissioners twelve are opposed to the ap . pointment of mayors by the government .

      GERMANY . The Austrian Ministerial paper states that Austria and Prussia intend to monopolise tbe military system , and to occupy the most important positions in Germany . An army of the two Powers will occupy the country from Rastadt to Dusseldorf , with its headquarters at Mayence and Frankfori-The Ministerial paper adds , that this military protectorate will make the question of tbe Central Executive a matter of secondary importance .

      Tbe French Minister and Lord Palmerston have protested , it is believed , most strongly to the Austrian , Prussian , and Russian Cabinets , against the division a ! Germany , as proposed in the Dresden Conferences ; and dhectly intimating that as the confederation was the work of a European congress , it could not be subject to any reorganisation or alteration without the co-operation and consent of tbe powers who were parties to its formation , by the Vienna treaty of 1815 . It is said that Prince Schwanffi & lKTg , \ n reply , contents himself with stating that the Austrian government will examine the objections of France and England .

      PRUSSIA . In tbe sitting of the Berlin Chamber of the 15 th M . Aratm ' s motion touching the Schleswig-Holstein affair , was rejected by seventy-one against forty-one votes , the chamber , as recommended hy the . committee , passing to the simple order of the day . Iu the Lower House the opposition had a majority of nine votes in the division on the income tax . The resolution thus passed is prospective , and provides that the rates of taxation shall be lowered in 1856 . RUSSIA .

      It is alleged on the authority of travellers wbo have lately passed through Poland , that an enormous Russian army bas been concentrated in an imposing and menacing position in the kingdom of Poland , and that rumours of an important expedition are freely circulated among tbe various corps of that army .

      EGYPT . News direct from Alexandria , of the 6 di inst ., mention intimations having been made from the Porte of the following reforms , to be carried into execution with reference to Egypt : —1 st . Reduction of the land tax to a third of its present amount ; 2 nd . Reduction of tbe standing army of Egypt to 20 , 000 men ; 3 rd . The total disarmament of the fleet , or ratber the placing it at the sole disposition

      of tne Porte ; 4 th . The constant residence of the Inspector-General , Mahomed Ali Pacha , in Egypt ; 5 th . The regulation of the income of the Egyptian princes , according to a fixed scale . Ahbas Pacha , tbe Viceroy , has refused io obey the & e orders , but will rather , if necessary , resist them with arms . He has ordered a levy of " 40 , 000 men , 25 , 000 for the augmentation of the army , and 15 , 000 men for the navy , who are to be immediately put in preparation for active service .

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Kaffirs are in a very unsettled and rebellions state ; and , in consequence , His Excellency Sir H . Smith has published a proclamation , informing the people that he would institute a searching investigation into the causes of the present excitement , with a view to tbe pnnuhment of the guilty authors thereof . On the following day another proclamation was issued , calling upon the frontier inhabitants to enrol themselves for their own protection when the troops should advance , ' for , ' savs his

      excellency , ' the present crisis of affairs demands very summary procedure on my part when a full and just cause is elucidated and substantiated . ' In consequence of the above proclamation the inhabitants have commenced to enrol therrselves , and to select tbeir own officers . This unsatisfactory state of things kept tbe colonists in a continual state of fear and alarm , and the greatest apprehensions were entertained that as soon as Sir II . Smith should leave tbe frontier upon bis retnrn home , the wish , at least , to strike tbe blow would not be wanting on the part of manv of the Kaffir tribes .

      BUENOS AYRES . By the arrival of the clipper ship Isabella , we have received . advices from Buen-is Ayres , to the 7 th of December inclusive , from which we learn that tbe alarm arising from the rumour of a rupture with the Brazilian authorities had almost subsided , and graat hopes were entertained of a peaceful settlement of all the pending difficulties . Mt-anwhile the internal order and financial prospects of the province were all that could be desired ; and this satisfactory state of affairs was ascribed to the lofty administrative talents of General Rosas .

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      A Buccaneering Expedition Has Been Latel...

      A buccaneering expedition has been lately getting up in Paris against Monte Video , on the same principles as tbe piraciicil atiacks of the Americans npon Cuba . The government has at length been compelled to interfere , and stop the enrolments which are going on in the Cbaussee d'Anton for this expedition . A socieiy has been formed in Vienna ' for the purpose of purchasing and bringing up as Christians the Chinese infants who were destined by their parents to ba destroyed on account of deformities . ' This philanthropic socie ' y admits mercbers at a very small monthly subscription , viz ., one kreuzer , hut it imposes on all the obligation of reciting daily an Ave Maria , —a regulation which shows at once tbe sectarian nature of the association .

      M . Germain Sarrut , a member of the late Constituent Assembly , has been sentenced lo imprisonment and fined for belonging to an illegal ociety . A United States steamer called the John Adams has gone down with 100 persons on hoard . Nicaragua accounts to tbe 31 st of December report ikat the port of San Juan has bean made free to all nations . An American , named Booth , wsa found murdered

      in his bed at the Calcutta Ice-house on the 3 rd of January ; the crin : e was committed hv four American seamen , who have been since apprehended . The reckless and bucanier spirit evinced by the culpms was most characteristic ; their sole S ITT ? , , ! critne ( wbich «» te ®* - Shked otrfJJh - eh , l * * Wn and tbey talked opsnly of it in the sailors' taverns thev

      hem Two Swedish mi 5 S . . 0 Mri « - at Foochow , returning from a vessel * idi a 8 snan ani 011 nt of ^ ™ their personal wants , were attacked a few weeks aeo by pirates . One ( Mr . Fast ) was killed , and the othw was severely wounded , hut escaped l . v jumping into the water and swimming ashore . The Chinese authorities were very prompt on this occasion in discovering -the perpetrators and inflictim ; punishment . a r Aleuerfroni Cassel , of February Uth , says — Count Leimngen having inquired of the War Minisistenf the Hessiau troops can be relied upon to execute the will of the Diet , this minister has demanded of etery officer the signature of a paper

      A Buccaneering Expedition Has Been Latel...

      within twenty-four hours ^ signifying - bis full willingness or ' unwiilininefls to obey ; driconditionaUv his superior ' s , and to ' ackhowledge the unconstitutional ordinance I of "SeptVmber . ' This demand-has filled the whele ' city withlndigimtion . The'officers who formerly solicited but did not obtain their dismissal are driven almost to despair , in tbe fear that they may not be able to support this new trial -, for during the short interval that is allowed them to decide , tbey are not able to consult together . A letter dated Signapore , January 6 th , states that her Majesty's exploring ship Herald arrived there , bringing the latest intelligence from the north ,

      which ihey think possibly related to Sir J . Franklin . Near the extreme station of the Russian fur company they learned from the natives that a party of white men had been encamped 300 or 400 miles inland , that the Russians bad made an attempt to supply them with provisions and necessaries , but that the natives , who are at enmity with the Russians , had frustrated all attempts . No communication could be opened with the spot where tbey were said to be , as a hostile tribe intervened . From the Esquimauxa they had this vague story very satisfactorily confirmed , with the addition that the whites and natives having quarrelled , the former had been murdered .

      Accounts from Geneva , dated the 12 th , state that Mazzini had returned to that place after a short absence . He continues to reside in the neighbourhood of the city , and comes in every day in the most public manner to receive the visits of his friends . He is stiff actively engaged in the organisation of bis loan , and in the recruiting service for the invasion of Italy . His success , however , in the latter respect has not been equal to his hopes ; his troops do not , it is said , yet amount to more than 500 or 600 men , Poles , Germans , Italians , French , & c .. ..... . - ... ' The system of franking letters by means of stamps is being introduced into the Post-office of Poland and Russia . -

      The wife of tbe ex-Mim ' ster Mavromischeh ' s is accused of complicity in the assassination of the Minister of Justice Korfiotakis , and orders have been given to bring her to trial . The Prince d « Canino has resolved henceforth to reside at Paris , and has purchased a large hotel in the Rue de Lille , near tbe Palais Bourbon . A correspondent at Rome writes to the 'Messaggere Modanese , ' under date of the 4 tb , that the

      lists of tbe new tax-payers' are rapidly progressing in the Roman provinces , and that the new law , which imposes a tax upon trades and professions , is shortly to come into vigour . The tax will yield 11 , 000 s ' cudi ( 66 , 000 f . ) in the province of Viterbo , and 7 , 000 scudi ( 12 . 0 GW . ) in that of Velletri . It is generally understood at Rome that tbe Papal government wi \\ be under the necessity of increasing all the taxes , and of raising the price of salt to the old standard .

      The customs Congress in Vienna still continues its sittings . Its decisions are almost constantly in favour of high protective duties . V hen Mr . Heald and bis wife , LoIaMontez , took up their residence some months ago in the Cite Beajon in Paris ,- they commissioned M . Jacquand to paint their portraits on tbe same canvas , and it was determined that Mr . Heald should be represented at full length , in bisuhifoimas an officer of tbe guards , offering to his bride , seated on a sofa , a present of jewellery . Just as tbe painting was terminated , M . Jacquand learning that Mn

      Heald had left for England , brought an action against him before the civil tribunal for the price of the picture . Mr . Heald objected to the price ( 10 , 0001 . ) as excessive , and the tribunal directed M . Inares to examine the paintin ? , and to say what it really was worth . M 7 Ingres reported that lO . OOOfr . was a fair price . On Saturday the matter camebefore the tribunal for a final decision . M . Jacquand still demanded 10 , 000 fr ., but tbe tribunal , af : er hearing M . Blanchet , fixed the price at S . OOOf ., and condemned Mr . Heald to pay that sum . The costs were ordered to Vie divided between the parties .

      A few days since , as a priest was passing through the Place Rnuville , at Lyons , he was insulted by a number of boys , the oldest of whom was not more than eighteen . On the commissary of police being informed of this outrage , he arrested one of the party , and on searching tbe house where he lived , a pistol quite new was found . This fact led fie commissary to demand the names of those who were with him at the time , and fifteen other similar pistols were fonnd . Several poignards of the must effective kind were also seized . These arrests have , it is said , led to the discovery of a secret society under the appellation of » Suciete des Velites , ' of which these youths were members . The deficit in Prussia in the annual accounts of

      revenue and expenditure for the past year amounts to more than thirty-two millions of tbaiers in consequence of the mobilisation of November . This sum includes the eighteen millions which were voted for military purposes in February last , of which four or five millions remained in hand when the mobilisation was decreed . These have been squandered away , together with the other fourteen millions , which are on the wrong side of the account . The thirty millions are exclusively of the two millions five hundred thousand thalers which will be produced by tbe sale of tbe enormous quantity of horses purchased . It may be safely asserted that the mobilisation of tbe ' army bas entailed upon the country a

      direct expenditure of fully eighteen million thalers . A manuscript , written by Papin , so well known forhissQccessfti ) experiments connected with the motive power of steam , has just been discovered , say * tbe ' Sh-cle , ' near Marburgb , a small town of Electoral Hesse . This work bears tbe name of ' Traile des Operations sans Douteur , ' and iff it are examined the different means that might be employed to deaden , or rather altogether nullify , sensibility when surgical operations are being performed on the human body . Papin composed this work in 1681 , when filling the situation of professor in the university of Marburgh ; and in it he has

      anticipated the effects produced in modern times by chloroform and sulphuric ether . He communicated his ideas to bis colleagues in the university , but from them received anything hut encouragement . In conseqnence he took snch a disgust to medical parsuits that he gave up his profession as a physician , and directed bis attention to natural philosophy , in which be subsequently became so celebrated . In quitting Germany , to return to France he gave the manuscript to a friend of his , Dr . Bcernar . It at last came into the bands of a teacher named Labn , who died near Marburgh last month . It has now been purchased by the Grand Duke of Hesse for his private library .

      The Emperor of Russia has published an ukase compelling Jewish youths to enter the army which enacts that , for every Jewish recruit who fails , three more , not under twenty years of age , shall be enlisted ; ard also , that for ever 2 . 000 roubles remaining due , by a Jewish community in the yearly payment of its imposts , a Jew , of full age , shall be compelled to enter tbe armv . Some ton or eleven tobacco planters , have been arrested in the neighbnwhood of Pesth on' tbe charge of exciting to a riot .

      A "Dimcoltt" In The Souiii-West.—The Cha...

      A "DimcoLTt" in the Souiii-West . —The Chattanooga Herald of the 20 th ult . says a very serious and dangerous affray came off in this place on Wednesday last , in which it seems almost a miracle that many lives were not lost . A " difficulty " had been on hand several days , and some rough skirmishes had taken place . The particulars , briefly , as far us we have heard are these : —The "difficulty , " on the one part , was between Monroe Carter , David Angelly , William Jolly , — - "Walker , and perhaps others ; and , on the other part , between Jerry Joseph , and Sevier Freyer , brothers , and their friends . In the rencounter , which took place

      on Wednesday , the parties met in Market-street , in the heart of the town ; The weapons used , were two six revolvers , a rifle , a musket , a' bowie knife , an axe , grindstone , clubs , & c . Carter was not present . His party forted in Townsend and Go ' s store , and used the revolvers . The battle was brief but terrible . Joseph Freyer had an eye shot out-Jerry was shot in the arm—Joseph Lovclady in ' his hand . ¦ Of the other party , — Walker was shot in the shoulder with musket balls , and his arm badly broken—his damage very serious ; William Jolly cut on the head and neck with a bowie knife . A man not engaged in tho fight ,-by the name of Hush , was shot in the mouth . Colonel Thomas

      M'Gallie standing in a store opposite , had a ball lodged in tbe breast of his coat . What damage was done with rock ^ and clubs we are not informed . The parties engaged were all bound over to court except Angelly , who mounted a fleet horse and made his escape . We will not comment on this dreadful outrage of the laws of the land , as the whole matter has to be legallv investigated . —lVcto *< w * Herald ' ¦ > . Suicioe is Paris . —A suicide , by leaping from a window , took place on" Saturday last . The comctewe of the house , No . 14 , Rue St . Martin , who bad been , ill some days , threw himself from tho third story , and was so dreadfully mutilated that he died on the spot . He had just before got bis wife out or the way by sending her oa some trfling errand . °

      The'sailors' Strike, Sunderlandijsatr/Rd...

      THE'SAILORS' STRIKE , SuNDERLANDijSATr / RDAV . r-One itif the largest indoor meetings held during the agitation took place in this town lasteveningr It was convened'by the Mayor , in compliance with a requisition presented to him by the sailors . The building , tbe largest in the town , ' was crammed , and the ' avenues leading to it were also filled with sailors . The Mayor very briefly introduced the proceedings ofthe meeting . The following motion was- submitted-for the consideration of the seamen . — . 'That the . * Board-of Trade having emphatically , declared that tbey " can . not repeal the provisions of the Mercantile Marine Act ; which affects our body , nor . can any body ,

      except Parliament do so ; looking ) , therefore , to the time which must necessarily elapse before a bill for a repeal of the said act can be introduced to and passed through both Houses of . Parliament , this meeting is of opinion that the strike should he suspended for the present , and that in the meantime work ought to be resumed , and every effort made , by memorial and otherwise , to obtain a repeal of the objectionable clauses of the act . That in coming to this conclusion the meeting is of opinion that there has been no cause to regret the strike , but , on the contrary , it is a matter of great satisfaction thai one part of our object has been achieved , viz ., ar . important advance of wages . '' . ' This proposition was

      supported by Mr . Charlton ( mate ) , Mr . Groombridge ( master ) , Mr . Young ( mate ) , Mr . Steward , and other seamen . The motion was opposed by two delegates , of the names ' of Chalk and Ormond , and amid much noise and confusion the motion was put from the chair and lost , and an amendment , that the strike continue , carried . The Mayor , after the amendment was carried , strongly remonstrated with the saamen on the ' folly of their conduct , pointing out to them the misery and suffering that many oftheir wives ' and families were enduring , and

      ihehnle sympathy and ' support they could expect after the result of that night ' s proceedings , ; , and most emphatically told the meeting that he andjhe . authorities were determined the trade of the no ** should not be stopped , ) that seamen desirous of going to sea would be protected , and any one daring to intimidate them would be severely punished , Mr . James Williams , a town councillor , in a' very able speech , showed many of the advantages of the Mercantile Marine Act , and urged upon the men to reconsider the subject , and go to sea at once .

      The South Shields Shipowners' Society , represent , ing tbe whole of the : insurance . clubs of tbe town , has just issued the following notice : — ' At a meeting of the Shipowners' Society , held at their office this loth day of February , 1851 , for the purpose of taking into consideration the present great detenticn of shipping in this port occasioned by the strike of seamen , and to , suggest measures to protect such seamen as are disposed to engage themselves to ships , Thomas Forsyth , Esq ., in the chair , a copy o \ the resolution passed at a meeting of seamen yesterday having been laid before the meeting , it was resolved unanimously— 'That although this society

      agree with the seamen in opposing some of the clauses of the Mercantile Marine Act , and when the consolidated bill comes before tbe House of Commons will probably petition against the objectionable clauses , yet this society cannot allow their ship . pingpteneny to remain unemployed ; and , therefore , if the seamen persist in refusing to go to sea , the shipowners must , however reluctantly , procure men from other places , and apply to the authorities io protect them from either insult or injury , ' ; That this resolution be signed by tbe chairman , printed , and published in the town and neighbourhood . — Thomas Forsyth , Chairman : '

      The strike is now producing great inconvenience and want of employment at the pits , and amongst the steam-boat men keelmen , and other labourers who make a living on tfce river . A deputation of seamen , representing Sunderland , Shields , and the neighbouring ports , have left for London to-day , to wait upon ' and represent their grievances to the Hoard of Trade . It is expected that if they receive a favourable answer from the government , the strike will cease . Two unfortunate foreigners were ' tarred and feathered ' at North Shields ihis morning . It

      appears tbey had coma across from Sunderland to a foreign vessel in the Tine , and had been overhauled by a company of' watchers' who are kept on the look-out by the men on strike . The foreigners being unable to give a good account of themselves , were followed without the precincts of theborough . One : of them was caught near some coal staiths ai Hayhole , besmeared with coal tar , and afterwards dusted with chaff from an old bed-tick . The other man , after a chase , was caught in the village of Howdon , and met a similar fate , amid the yells and derision of a mob of women .

      Tbe inhabitants of North Shields were thrown into great excitement and alarm by the conduct of the sailors on strike on Sunday . It seems a very s ; reat number of boats had been upon the Tyne all day on the look out for vessles going to sea , and to watch that no seamen got to sea with them ; Seven boats' Crews having gone on board the / Eolian , laying at one of the tiers opposite North Shields , and having caught ' a ; half marrow' on board , they farced him into one of the boats , and brought him on shore . When they landedbim they handed him over to a mob of women , who were ready waiting for him , and having got him into one of the galleries near the river , these women besmeared him over

      with coal-tar , and turned him into the streets . He was then run out of the town , and was found during the latter part of the day lying , behind a . hedge near Burdon-Ma ' m Pit in a very exhausted condition . He was taken to the police-station , and . protected . During the afternoon another mob of seamen went on board the Spring , a London trader , and having found a seaman of the name of Thomas Medcalf on board , they gave him the alternative of either coming on shore , or being flung into the river . He preferred the former , and on being landed on one of the quays was received by an immense mob of nearly 1 , 000 men and women , and treated in the most savage and cruel manner . He was kicked and

      beaten about the head until he was senseless , ami the people were threatening to take bim to the fields and tear bim to pieces , when he wag rescued from them by the police . Two of the rioters were fined £ 5 each on Monday forenoon , and it . is expected that the ringleaders' will he captured , A ' watcher' met with a melancholy death on Sunday morning . A boat ' s crew of them went off to a vessfil towing down , and on attempting to hook the vessel got athwart the ship ' s boat , and were upset , Before assistance could he rendered , one of them , a seaman of the name of Mark Armstrong , was drowned . His body was picked up on Sunday afternoon . Attempts were made to tar and feather

      some men at South Shields on Sunday night , but the polici having received information were able to rescue the seamen from the rioters . A strong body of police has come down from Newcastle to North Shields , and a number of special constables sworn in at South Shields . There are a great number of ships ready for sea , but from the conduct- of theraen it m impossible to procure crews for them . Some of the London traders have been lying Icden for the last fortnight in the Tyne , but the owners have b ? en unable to procure crews for them .. If the strike continues much longer it will email very serious consequences to the shipping and mercantile interests of the district . Seven vessels got to sea from the Wear cm Tuesnav . ¦ -.

      Curious Accident.—Four Days" Ago The Rai...

      Curious Accident . —Four days" ago the rain fell in torrents at Vienne , department of the Isere , and caused a small river to overflow . This loosened a mass of earth , which fell on a house in the Route de Coupe Jarret , and completely crushed it . A man and his wile were in the house at the time and were buried in the ruins . Immediatel y on hearing of the accident , some gendarmes hastened to the spot , and at the risk of their own lives / proceeded to rescue the unfortunate couple . •'< The woman was got out alive , but the mail was killed : ¦¦

      Boat on a New Pbincii'lb . —The- Debuts states that there has been constructed at the establishment of Creusot , a boat on a new systemj which realises the great problem' of submarine navigation . The size of the boat and its 'machines are such that it will not be confined to the execution of works under water , such as have taken place recently at Brest , and in the Seine at Paris . The new boat is tocomo by the river from Creusot to Paris , and it to procoed to Calais by means of its own engines , which are on the screw principle . -At Calais it ; is to be plunged under water , and is to proceed ( under water ) to Dover , where it is expected to arrive in a few hours . From Dover it is to ascend tho Thames to London , to fiuure in the Grand Exhibition

      • Dehts of tub Aristocracy . —That portion of the debts o tho landed aristocracy of England that is secured by mortgaces upon their estates , amounts , according to Mr . Disraeli , to four hundred millions sterling , or half the amount of , tho national debt . It is not to be expected that " gentlemen in difficulties" should be good Financial Reformers but ; after tho happy working of the Encumbered Estates Commission in Ireland , let us'hope that its blessings will bo soou extended to the insolvent gentry of our country , who will then be able to assist the popular cause . "

      The Barra Highlanders. (From The Inverne...

      THE BARRA HIGHLANDERS . ( From the Inverness Courier . ) .- The natives of the remote arid poverty-s tricken group of islands , collectively known as Barra , driven by a necessity which no shift could longer ovade seem at last to have resolved on leaving those unfriendly , shores , to seek on tho mainland that labour and subsistence which were ; no longer to be found in their islands . On the evening of Saturday last , a good deal of surprise and excitement was occasioned here by the sudden appearance on our streets of a large body of most squalid-looking men and women , with their children-numbering sixtyone souls—who had just landed from the western steamer , and who took up their position on the navp . ment onnosite our Town House , ' to see ,

      as thoy said , •« what the authorities were to do with them ! ' !' . They brought , with them their large family chests , around which they grouped themselves , and ah encampment of Bedouins could not present si more picturesque—though , alas ' . melancholyspectacle than did these poor islesmen . The men seemed to bo hardy , weather-beaten fellows , able to work , but at the same time obviously labouring under the . effects of recent privations and scanty food ; and the women and children presented a most deplorable . spectacle . They were almost all little dark-eyed and hUck-VAwed Celts—genuine descendants of the old Clan Macniel , tho aboriginal stock of the Barra population , to which . has been added a slight admixture , of tho name of Campbell ,

      Macmillan , Gillies , and Macdougall . A . groat crowd soon collected round the strangers , and the sitting magistrate , on being waited upon by the sunorintendent of police , sent for Mr . Ander .-on , the inspector of the poor , and it was arranged that until Monday morning they should be admitted into the Poors ' -house . In the meantime , however , the storv spread over the town , and much sympathy was excited . Women and children came from all quarters with bread to the poor families , and small sums were handed to " thorn by the passers , to supply the most pressing wants . As soon as some of the rooms of the Poors ' -house could be prepared for

      the unexpected visitors , forty-five . of them were so received , being all members of seven . families , but other three families were accommodated with lodgings oh the Merkinch . On Tuesday morning the whole party moved eastwards , the . men in quest of work , and the women and children to follow their fortunes , ; and as the former were all bred to a seafaring life , we understand that they indulge the reasonable expectation of getting located among the industrious fishing people of the Buchan coast , who are many of them the same faith—for it would appear , that tho Reformation had never penetrated to Barra !

      Tho story of these poor people , so far as we bavo been able to gather it , is this , but for the correctness of these statements , we , of course , do not vouch : —Prior to . Colonel Gordon's , purchase of their island ,. or rather , cluster of islands , they all enjoyed , for very low . vents , considerable portions of such of the lands as , could be cultivated ; and they represent tho climate as quite adapted for the growth of here , barley , or oats .. Within the last ten years their former possessions have been taken from them and thrown into large farms , and the poor , crofters have been crowded together on patches of . meadow or mossy ground , scarcely at all reclaimable , and for small pieces of which they had to pay greatly increased rates of rent . Their

      fishing , also , has oflato fallen off , and this , ; , with the failure , of the kelp trade and potato crop , has thrown the people into such complete poverty , that for some time they have been quite unable to command funds for the repair of their boats , lines , or hooks , of which they may lose great numbers in a single storm . For the last year or two they , have been mere squatter . * , having no right to a house or lot of ground , and although offered , latterly employment at road-making , they seem to have , be- ; come too numerous even for that , and . the allowance made them in meal they assert was insufficient to support life . It was one pound of Indian meal , a day to . each married man , half a pound for his wife , and half . a pound for each child below eleven years

      of age—single young men above that age not being employed . . . These pittances , the people state , ' only afforded a sort of thick gruel once a day to each family , upon which , they assert , they could not subsist long . Accordingly , they were at last driven to such shifts , that tliey . had to implore tho sailing master of the lighthouse packet at Barra to take them to the mainland , which he Wwvwily A \ A upon Saturday , . the 1 st inst ., but it was feared that many have been left behind in . a state of great want . The packet could not take half tho number that crowded into it , and it was followed by a small skirl or open boat containing a family of eight individuals , the weaker portion of whom seem to have suffered much from the cold and from the sea occasionally breaking over their boat .

      Deautiful Hair, Whiskers, D Eyebrows, &C, May Be, With Certainty, Obmined

      DEAUTIFUL HAIR , WHISKERS , D EYEBROWS , & c , may be , with certainty , obmined

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      MATRIMONY- MADE EASY ; OR , HOW TO WIN A LOVER . MADAME MAXWELL , 33 , Great Percy Street , Pcntonville , London , continues to send fre e on receipt of thii teen uncut postage stamps , plain directions toeiiable Ladies or Gentlemen to win the devoted ttifcetions of as many of the opposite sex as their hearts may require . The process is simple , but so ' captivating and enthralling that al ! may be married irrespective of age , appearance , or position ; while the most fickle or coldhearted will readily bow to its attraction . Young and old , peer and peeress , a ? well as the peasant , arc alike subject to its influence ; and hist , though not least , it can be arranged with such ease and delicacy that detection is impossible . •¦ N . B—Btwave of numerous ignorant pretenders .

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      Th « a ?> wics ;—The histdrtW medicine is bv no means flattering losciehce , It ' as jqu ' estionaWe whether more « known of di « eas ' es , itheirjcanse , and ; ttieir cure , at this moment ; ' than iii tbVthrie of Galen ; it . ig . qertain that diseaees are quite agnumerous . 'dndinthe ' aggregate asfatal . Evfcry a- 'ehas producedgomenew ' sysfem of artificial therapfcu . tics which the " next age has banished ; each has boasted' in ito turn of curesTarid they , in their turn , have been conr tilmned as failures .: Medicines themselves are the subjects . inSe'd infact , that it has no established principles , ? hat it U little more than , ' conjectural' . * At this moment / vavsMr ' Pimiy , ''the op inions on the subject of treatment « t ; nim . Utfl 3 numeroas ' ns'the practitioners themselves . ? v ? tnpis the wa « i of contradiction on the treatnientof even nne di ease namely , consumption . Standi attributes itsfrennLcv to thSduction of . bark . Morton considers bark an etfc uul 1 cure Beidaseribes the frequency of the d . s-«! £ th « use of mercury . Brillonet asserts that it is eur-SSft nlSS ' RisesWthat consutnptonW

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      IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE NEW MODE OF TREATMENT . As adopted by Lallemand , Ricord , Deslandis , and others , of the llopital des Veneriens a Paris , a . id nut . uniformly practised in this country by "WALTER DE 1100 S , M . D ., 35 , Ely . Place , Holbork Hill , Losnos , Aumon OF rpHE MEDICAL ADVISEB , X . improved edition , written in a popular style , devoid of technicalities , and addressed to all those who are suffering from Spermatorrhoja , Seminal Weakness , and the various disqualifying forms of premature decay . resulting from infection and youthful abuse , that most delusive practice by which the vigour and manliness of life are enervated and destroyed , even before nature has fully established the powers and stamina of . the constitution .

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      generally , whether resulting from imprudence * ""* wise , which ; if neglected , frequentl y end j n , *»• the bladder , and a lingering death ! it j 8 one of Wished fact that most cases of gout and rnemati « esta - ring after . middle age , are- combined with ,. ir . urine , how necessary is it then , that persons tW m' ^ should attend to these important matters . Bv ¦ »? ^ tary action of these pills on acidity of the storm £ S ! llu - correct bile arid indigestion , * purify and promote ti' tlle J secretions , thereby preventing the formation fB » , 7 " " establishing for life a healthy performance of the f , ' an of these organs , ji-.- ¦?¦ ' . "" Mionj Maybe obtained with directions , A * c ., at Is ua 0 and 4 s . Cd . and lis . per box ., tVirovjgfe a « Medicine V " ?*•> or should any difficulty occur , they will be sent if , * ors receipt of the price in postage stamps , by Dr « "' ; ) on » 5 , Ely-place , Holbom-hiU , London . ' " mi ,

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      HEALTH FOR ALL . Amazing Success of Dr . Barker ' s Treatment („ 2 ' ttousands of Cases ,

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      CUBES FOR THE UA'CUKED I HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT , An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or Kim ' i Evil . Extract of a letter from Mr . J . H . AUiday , 209 Iligli-slrei ' , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , lSSU . Sin , —My eldest son , when about three years of as , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , vdto after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An citifaet medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrc-Mi and prescribed for a considerable time without effect , lii disease then for years went on gradually increasing virulence , vihen besides the ulcer in the neck , amitfet formed below the left knee , and a third under the cte , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour tawa the eyes which was expected to break . Duvinc , the wlioletf the time my suffering boy had received the constant ndiie of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Ulieltcateti besides being for several months at the General llo ?| fal

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 22, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22021851/page/2/