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      FRANCE . Paris , Mokdav . — It is of importance to understand cleatly the nature of the resolution adopted by the legitimist party on Saturday night last . Tbe motion carried in the Riie de Rivoli was that the Assembly should be invited to express a wish for the total revision of the constitution ; total revision admitting , according to the legitimists , the restoration of tbe traditional monarchy . The question as to the date of the meeting of the new Constituent has been reserved for another meeting . In the meantime the legitimists have determined to

      organise , all over France , a vast petitionary movement ; and , in order that there may be no ambiguity about the drift of the signers , the petitioners are directed to pray the Legislative Assembly not only to take into discussion the total revision , but w express the wish that the future <^^» 3 proclaim the return of France * «* rtjhwj principle of the hereditary monarchy . Thus there Si he no danger of confounding the legitimist petition « tb those of the Bonapartist or * _ - . - * __ tut * - HA ( a liner nnnp fnr ail This vote has once for all

      Orleanist parties . settled the long agisted qu » ta » defter any fraction of the legitimists would espouse the prolongation of the President ' s powers . The whole party has taken a formal engagement to work might and main together for the restoration of the legitimate monarchy in 1852 . This is equivalen t to a declaration of war against the present executive power , which is resolved not to abdicate until forced by some irresistible expression of the national will . The Orleanists are greatly chagrined

      by this uncompromising resolution of the legitimists as they regard it not only as a dangerous provocation to Louts Napoleon , bnt as a premature propaganda for the elder monarchy , which tends to drive the Orleans country party , for self-preservation , to the banner of the President . The members of the Left have also made known their determination . They held a meeting , and to remove from it ail character of any particular shade of opposition , the oldest member present , General Leydel , was called to the chair , M . Versigny acting as secretary . The discussion lasted nearly two hours , and in the end the following resolution was adopted : — 'The members of the Republican

      democratic opposition , assembled together , declare that in presence of the law of May 31 , which suppresses three millions of electors , and substitutes a restricted suffrage for universal suffrage 5 in presence of the acts which have curtailed tbe rights and liberties of the people—considering that all the projects Of revision which have been brought forward are evidently intended not to ameliorate the constitution , but to endanger the Republic—considering all this , the said members declare that they ate unanimously of opinion that every project of revision ought ' to be opposed . ' The meeting separated mth the understanding that they were to assemble again in a fortnight .

      The central committee of the Electoral Union held a meeting on Monday last to deliberate on the part which the union ought to take in the petitionment for revision . It was shown from the reports of the district committees that the latter had unanimously admitted the indispensable necessity of revision , aud expressed by a large majority the wish to see the Electoral Union present a petition to the Assembly . In compliance with this wish the central committee decided , by a majority of 170 votes against two or three , that the Electoral Union should circulate for signature a petition for the revision of the constitution . As to the question whether the Electoral Union should adopt the form of petition circulated by the Bonapartist committee of the Rue Nenve St . Augustin , this will be decided by the committee appointed to draw up the petition .

      Every sitting of the Assembly now opens'with the presentation of a mass of petitions for revision . This preliminary form having been gone through , the Assembly on Tuesday last proceeded to discuss the interpellations of M . Esquiros on the treatment of the prisoners at Re \ l Isle , k series of unnecessary hardships and privations had been imposed upon men who were not common criminals , but stood essentially in need of intellectual occupation , from which they were debarred , books and writing mateiials having been refused them , and latterly even the tables which served some of the prisoners for writing upon having been taken away , on the

      plea that the planks belong to the administration . In consequence of their remonstrances against this monstrous oppression , thirty of the prisoners , among whom was Barbes , had been consigned to dungeons , put upon bread and water , and obliged to sleep upon old straw , which had been long lying in the casemates . Having enumerated the privations as to diet , and other cruel severities , to which tbe prisoners were subjected / M . Esquiros moved the appointment of a commission of three members ( he had no objection to them all being selected from the majority ) in order to proceed to an inquiry upon the spot .

      M . Leon Faucher maintained that the harsh treatment to which the prisoners had been subjected had been called down by tbeir violent , menacing , and insubordinate behaviour . M . Benjamin Raspail traced the rigours complained of to the personal character of the director of the prison at Belle Isle , who had excited the earns complaints at Haguenau and Vannes , where he had held the same functions . Amid loud cries of ' Question , ' M . Raspail proceeded to show how at Vannes this director had caused a woman to be tortured . The president , having taken the sense of the Assembly , prohibited M . Raspail from speaking further . M . Leon Faucher replied from his place , that the director ' s character had been cleared by a commissioner of the provisional government .

      M . Scbcelcher complained of the restrictions imposed upon prisoners in their communications with tbeir friends and families . The prisoners were not allowed to be visited by their wives . The Assembly , on being consulted , passed , by a majority of 428 against 218 , io the pure and simple order ol the day . Tbe commission on the proposition for establishing a special police at Lyons have declared themselves in favour of the measure with only one dissentient .

      BELGIUM . Our advices from Brussels are of the 18 th inst . The government had been defeated on the financial measures brought before the Chamber . The Ministers had , consequently , presented their resignation to the King on the evening of the 17 tb . The Belgian government has been defeated on the proposed new law of inheritance , and the Ministry has resigned . Every endeavour to effect a new Ministerial combination has been fruitless . It was asserted that the late Ministers would all resume their portfolios .

      GERMANY . \ Te are in receipt of German journals of the 18 th instant . On the 17 th the Dresden conferences were closed in a full sitting , at which , M . de Mantenffel and Prince Schwarzenberg were present ; It appears that the central federal commission continues to exercise its powers , and it is not yet known when it will be dissolved . Prince Schwarzenberg has addressed a note to the free city of Bremen , calling for the immediate suppression of the daily ' Chronicle of Bremen , ' or otherwise he will send a thousand troops to occupy the town . The Emperor of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the 13 th inst ., where hewasjoined on the following day by the Empress .

      Advices from Hamburg state that the Austrians are terribly afraid of tbe democratic clubs and publications . Every meeting advertised by a club of that denomination has been prevented , on their instigation , by the police ; nevertheless , their guards and patrols are increased , and all the sob die « who are mounting guard or on parade are loading thair muskets ready to fire at a moment ' s notice . The legiaents in the neighbourhood , too , got orders to

      march upon Hamburgh at the first S !!\ £ ? ea * ° tbe m * HUhe ^ homer , they S £ a ? T *? because nobod > thinh 0 ' cordio / lo their £ &&* eafis War too " liberal , though it has been raoS J X the arrival of the * nJ £ 3 ftSl £ L Tf two actions which were bnuwu „ . Aus , naus . of tbe state -ilA ^ SJK & ifS one ™ , ttquWhut the « ffi £ fte 5 S KuuaiKi

      w » nnes-me editor 300 and thennhi » h „ 200 marts , together about 4 % which in ^ S of arbitrary govrmmat , 0 f course appears too mild , conndenng as they do a caricature " „ ™ crowned head as a heinous crime , for which the offender ought to be sent to prison for many years The . trialof the six so'diets taken up for committing the cmel assault upon Mr . Marr is carried on w th profound secresy by the Austria . ! military authorities . At their first examination at the guard Lous ? , it is said that a soiichor belonging to the criminal part of the police office * a * present , but it

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      has not transpired what the results of that examination were . AUSTRIA . We are informed that it was stated at Vienna or the 18 th inst , that ( lie plans brought forward at Dresden would served the-basis for the proposed revision of the AcfVof Confederation . The Emperors of Russia and Austria and the Bang Of Prussia were to meet at Cracow , and proceed Itogether to Olrautz . The Governments of Austria and Prussia were still at variance with Denmark on the Holstein question . There wasa dangerous flood at Vienna . All the bridges but one had been carried away .

      SPAIN . The Madrid journals of the I 5 th inst . announce the defeat by a Progresista , of M . Bravo MurillOj president of the council , in the election at Barcelona . I he Count of San Luiseo , Minister of the Interior , having been prevented by order of the government , from personally canvassing all the electors in his district ( Cuenca ) has not gained his election . Tbe measures be formerly employed against his political enemies have been turned against himself . There will be , however , an effective opposition of about eighty in number , among whom are reckoned Glozaga , Cortini , Bacosura , Asquerino , and Pidal . It is confidently asserted that many of the

      minister s best supporters contemplate the desertion of his standard , on account of the concordat , tbat measure by which tbe government has thrown some of the most important of the royal prerogatives at the feet of tbe pope . Even many of the Carlist party are indignant at the humiliation of the nation . Besides the moral , religious , and political preponderance which the Papal court has been enabled to obtain , tbe canning Italian has converted the country into a California out of which he . hopes to extract the precious metals almost without the trouble of digging . Take , for instance , the sums which tbe Pope ' s nuncio is entitled to . That reverend gentleman receives 100 , 000 reals a year as president of

      the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Rota , a tribunal which has to judge of ecclesiastical affairs , which belong many of them to international law . Besides his regular pay , be has an immense number of perquisites . Whenever any of tbe suppressed order of monks wishes to obtain permission to offer himself as a candidate for a curacy , be must pay the Pope ' s nuncio three dollars . His holiness ' s representative has in this manner extracted 40 , 000 doils . from the pockets of the most miserable part of the Spanish clergy . There are dispensations and indulgences , at the rate of 60 , 000 reals , without

      mentioning those which belong to the general agency office of indulgences for marriages , & c , oi which there are no less than 477 degrees , varying in price from 2 , 000 to 44 , 000 reals , aud for which the Spanish nation pays twelve millions a year . It appears , alee , that the abolition of the commissionership of the crusade , was , in a great measure , owing to manoeuvres of tbe Pope ' s nuncio , into whose hand * a great deal of the lucrative business of that department will' now fall . In " fine , tbe clergy costs no less than 308 millions , including the sum of 190 millions of reals set dwwn in the

      estimates , twenty-eight millions of reals for indulgences , and ninety millions for miscellaneous articles oi clerical providing .

      PORTUGAL . According to news up to the I 6 th inst . Saldauha was still at Oporto , and was daily less able to control the revolutionary movement , which would be satisfied with nothing less than tbe abdication of the Queen . In the meantime the absence of a settied authority was a source of universal alarm . Saldanha had not yet succeeded in forming a ministry . The foreign representatives had , as yet , abstained from all demonstration : but the fear of anarchy promoted a tendency to reaction .

      Our Overland advicesfrbm Lisbon areof lhel 2 th inst . Numerous bands were collected on the road from' Oporto under pretest of making Saldanha pronuntiamientos . The Duke would , however , avoid them by travelling' by sea ,, and had chartered two steamers to convey him ,, and his troops to Lisbon . Lisbon was tranquil , and the Queen appeared disposed to meet Saldaoba ' s views in the formation of a ministry . The CountdeThomar , as soon as hefound things were going against the Portuguese Court , and that the triumph of Saldanha was complete , resolved on flying from Spain to England .. He accordingly took his passage in the mail-packet

      ' Iberia , ' which arrived at Southampton on Tuesday . He came home as a second-class passenger , and shame and dejection prevented him from mixing with the passengers during the voyage . As soon as the 'Iberia ? arrived at Southampton dock , the Count came on deck for the first time . He remained but a short time in Southampton ere he started for London . After first proceeding to his hotel , he walked from thence to the dock to look after his baggage . He leant against the Custom-house door unconcernedly until he could obtain it . He was dressed meanly , and

      appeared sad and careworn . Nothing in his countenance betrayed the talent which he undoubtedly possesses ; nor would any one imagine that he had heen an object of such celebrity and obloquy in Europe , nor tbat he bad fallen from the very pinnacle of power and greatness into the depths of poverty and disgrace . Captain Bowen , of the Peninsular mail-packet , ' . Montrose , ' who' was known to the Count , waited on him to render any assistance in the Custom-house ; and the Customhouse authorities treated him with that respect which sympathy for his fallen fortunes naturally excited .

      ITALY . La Croce di Savoia' of the 15 th'instant contains the following : — ' We are assured that a concordat has just been concluded between the Pope and the Sardinian government . The concession on the part of Sardinia will be the unconditional restoration of the Archbishops Franzoni and Marengia to their' respective dioceses , and the arrival of a Nuncio at Turin . It is not known whether he will be invested with his former powers . The end and consequence of these arrangements will be a political league between Rome , Naples , Piedmont , and Tuscany , in order to effect the evacuation of the Pontifical States by the foreign troops , French as well as Austrian . '

      PIEDMONT . In its sitting of the 15 th , tho Chamber of Deputies of Turin passed the ministerial bill for imposing a tax upon mortmain property and corporate bodies , by ninety-seven votes to twenty-seven . The Senate approved the first fourteen articles of the bill on the discipline of judicial functionaries and their permanence in office . The « Opinione' of Turin quotes letters from Milan to the loth , stating that Marshal liadetsky has been summoned to Vienha , 'fbr the purpose of accompanying the Emperor to "Warsaw . Count Gyulay is to assume , the government of Lombard ? m tho interval . A rumour is current at Milan that ihe daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt is to be affianced to the Emperor of Austria .

      DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . Letters from Hamburg of the 18 th , state that We Assembly of Notables held their first meeting on the 17 th . Count Bille Brahe addressed the Assembly , and alluded to the conciliatory feelings of the Danish government as evidenced in the amnesty . A draft of a joint constitution , for the duchies in union with the Danish monarchy was then placed before the Assembly . Another meeting was to be held on the following Monday , -

      EGYPT . The viceroy continues bis residence at Cairo , where he lives in a most unostentatious and quiet manner . He has heen very anxious for a final arrangement of the vexed question still pending with Constantinople , and has sent a modified proposal by the Mooktsh Bey on the 1 st inst . As his plans have met the sancfion of the English and other consuls generally , it is to be hoped they will ac celerate , iftheydo not effect a settlement of the difficulty .

      -The country is perfectly tranquil , and continues to give evidences of the progress of material prosperity . The government for the first time during the history of the present dynasty , is free from debt . Strict economy is practised in all the public departments , and it may be added they were never before more free from official dishonesty and corruption . The reports circulated in some of the papere , that the Pacha has been vigorously employed in warlike preparations , are exaggerated . They originated , doubtless , in the circumstance of the recent limited conscription' for the land forces to recruit their effective strength , which had been reduced by invaliding and other causes . There has been ho extraordinary augmentation of numbers .

      By laws lately enforced in this portion of the Turkish empire it is forbidden that European or other foreign residents should purchase or hold IT pf rpetuity non 8 e or 0 | her property . The result has been to check in some measure the progress of nouse building , and to enhance seriously the charge R « if . 4 nother evil effect has followed-tbe thn nnW K , on ' have as a consequence become not SSiT ? ° ? Md nonse constructors , have ZluoSiy ^* *™ ' **™™ co-equa with « ffi--nE ? f- *? th ^ hidings . re rude » n structure , ill-contmed , „* M 8 uited f 0 ,

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      forts ol the European occupants , who , of course , are most able and most willing to pay for them . The returns of British and foreign , shipping for the three first months of 1851 show a material falling-off in the number and tonnage of British shipping , and an astounding increase in that of other foreign flags—particularly those of northern Europe —nearly the whole number of which have been loaded for English ports and for English account . There are at present only 144 vessels bearing foreign flags in harbour—twenty-six of which are English , twenty-three Austrian , twenty-four French , and thirty-six of Baltic ports . The total number of arrivals for the period named of British vessels being seventy against 159 during the same period in 1847 .

      TURKEY . The negotiations between tbe Porte and the Austrian government , respecting tbe refugees located at Kuteya , have been brought to a close , and the amnesty granted in their favour b y the Emperor has finally been announced to the interested party . This amnesty , however , excludes six of the most prominent characters , and Kossulb , Bathiany , Parzcel , and Metzaros , as a matter of course , are among that number . The first secretary of the Austrian mission , in company of a certain individual of questionable character , named Zazmagi , has set off for that city in order to communicate the fact . Several of the refugees have , however , declared their intention of

      continuing their residence in Kuteya , in order to be near their " admired chief Kossuth , Such as have accepted their amnesty are , according to the convention drawn up with ihe Porte , at once to embark for England or America . This concession to Austria is considered by most as a violation of the rights of that hospitality which was so generously granted by tbe Sultan in more perilous times . The'port would not have closed this negotiation had it not been perplexed by numerous weighty ' matters . The most prominent of all is the financial difficulties that have sprung from the unsuitability of the present system of taxation . There is , besides , a general discontent

      of the Rayah population in , many parts of tbe country , not against the government , but against their own primates , who sacrifice the lower classes , forming the mass of their respective nations , to favour themselves and their equals—the state of Bagdad , which demands immediate attention—the attitude of Abbas Pacha , whose actions are at variance with bis fine professions—the worrying demands made upon tbem , in all possible shapes , by Russia , v * ht > , meddling with everything , tries to retain the Porte in leading-strings ; these and other things keep the Porte in constant ' work , and no sooner is one subject dispatched than Others replace it .

      'INDIA . . We have news from India up to the 17 th ult . : The Governor-General left Peshawur on the 18 th of March , and was to have crossed ' the Indus on the 2 lsty but . was detained till the 25 th by the bridge of boats at Attock having been carried away by a sudden rise of the river . ' Lord Dalhousie will return to Calcutta during the . ensuing monsoon , and it is generally believed , that he will shortly after leave India , and . tbat tbe Marquis of Nortnanby will be his successor .

      Robberies ate still of nightly occurrence at Peshawur , but several of the thieves have'been caught , aud eignt or ten of tbem were gibbeted by order of the Governor-General-during his short Stay at the station . Several others are in custody , and likely to shar ' e . the same fate , .. A ressaldar oi the 1 st Punjab Cavalry has been killed in the pass on his way from Kohat . Letters from Peshawur stale that a force of 2 , 000 men ' is about te be marched into ^ tbeAffreedees ' country to destroy their crops and cultivation , but ' this report wants

      confirmation ; 'An extra issue of the * Dereea-ee-Nobr , ' published ' at Peshawur on the 31 st of March , announces that the Ameer of Cabul , baying passed the Hindoo-Koh and invaded Bokhara , had attacked the "Wales of Balkb , and besieged his town , after beating him in the field . During the siege two sons of the Walee fell into the hands oi' Dost Mohammed / who is said to have put them to death , shortly after which Balkh surrendered . The Ameer ' s brother , Sultan Mohammed , was encamped at Alee Musjid ,

      The Deejerat frontier still continues in a disturbed state ; , the hill tribes are collected at the mouths of various passes , watching an opportunity for a foray , but the arrangements for their recep . tion are so effective that they have not as yet ventured a descent ; ! It is expected that ' - they . will shortly disperse Vfo ' r ' j as they cannot carry provisums for any length of time , to keep them at bay is sufficient to insure their defeat ,.

      Frauds to the extent of £ 3 , 500 are said to have been discovered in the Bengal Military Orpban Fund . Tbe kingdom of Oude is at present in a state of anarchy , little inferior to that usually prevailing in the Nizam ' s dominions . In the latter the Nizam still continues his own Minister , with the intention , it is . presumed , of making out of the revenues a private purse for himself in case of his being deposed , Suraj-ool-Moolk is intriguing for the Ministry , apparently with some chance of

      success . There is an unusual amount of public works going on at Bombay . The railway works are progressing favourably . A breakwater is being constructed in connexion with the dockyard . Tanks and wells are being ' sunk in all directions ,- and between 3 , 000 and 4 , 000 workmen are employed by the Board of Conservancy in carrying out municipal improvements . '

      CHINA Our advices from China ere dated Hong Kong , March 30 th . Chuy Appo , the imputed murderer of Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer , in February , 1849 , was tried on the 10 th of March , when the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter , and he was sentenced by the judge to transportation" for life . ' On tbe night of the 27 th , however * he succeeded in strangling himself . - ' ' ' ; The Governor-General of Manilla had ' left ' that settlement , with a force of about 5 , 000 [ men , for the Sooloo Islands in the" Eastern Archipelago , for the

      purpose of destroying the pirates who infested those parts . Accounts from Manilla state that , on the 28 th of January , an attack had been made by the Governor-General on the forts at Sooloo , which resulted in their capture , together with 140 pieces of artillery and other munitions of war . ' The Sultan and many of the inhabitants had ! fled to the in . terior . The loss on their side is not stated ; that of the _ attacking force was about . 120 killed and wounded . Tbe defences of the island have been demolished , and the surrounding country laid waste . It is reported that the Spanish authorities do not intend to keep possession of the island . ' : -.

      VAN DIEMEN'S LAND . By a recent arrival from Hobart Town we learn that an important .: meeting had taken place at Port Phillip of the various delegates appointed by the public meetings held at the several Australian colonies for the purpose of adopting measures to prevent the further introduction of convict labour into' those settlements . At the above' meeting of ' delegates it was unanimously resolved that resolutions be'drawn up" by which the : colonists pledge themselves to employ . no convict labour after tbe present time , nor to hold any communication or have dealings with any who shall employ such labour . It was" also resolved that a sum of £ 20 , 000 be raised by public subscription to carry out' the object . of the meeting . ; ' Before separating the delegates drew up an appeal to the people of England , calling upon them toco-operate with tbem in their ahti-cotmct agitation .

      Melbourne journals , have been received to the beginning of February . . A colonist named Kentish bad discovered a new motive power . The editor ol the 'Port Phillip Gazette , ' Mr . W , Kerr , write g that he has possessed himself of Mr ; K . ' s phvn , applicable to the propulsion of ships , & c . i and . expresses him . self perfectly satisfied of its easy and economical appHcation . He says , ' 'It will very speedily sapersede both ' : steam and sails ; indeed so simple and . so pal . paWe is the principle on . which if is based , tbat the wonder is how it could so long have been overlooked . '

      AMERICA . By the Royal : mail steam-ship Asia /! which arrived at Liverpool dri Saturday , we have advices from ¦ New York to the 7 th inst . " . She brings £ 75 , 000 in specie on freight and a large number of passengers . r We have advices from California by the steamship Georgia to the 1 st ult . This steamer bad 1 , 500 , 000 dol . on . freight , and & large number of passengers . The export of gold dust for the month of March was estimated at over 5 , 000 , 000 dbls . The news from the mines is more encouraging than it has been for some time past . Heavy tains had fallen , which quite elated ( he miners , who had spent tbe winter in gathering golddust , which they could not wash for warn of water .

      The working of the quartz mines has been very successful .. ' ' A novel importation had - been 'made into San Francisco , the steam-ship Ohio having brought to

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      that port upwards of one hundred cats , They cost attheport of embarcation about , fifty cents per bead and sold at San Francisco for ten dollars to twenty dollars each . ,..,.. „ By the Georgia we have advices from Havannah to the 1 st inst . The greatest excitement existed in relation to the news of the expected invas 4 u , many persons had been imprisoned on suspicion , and among them three priests for preaching seditious sermons . One person said to have been sent over by Lopez to obtain pilots for the expedition , had been executed after undergoing the torture .: The Captain-General was taking every precaution against an invasion ; lookouts were stationed along the coast , and vessels of war were kept cruising between San Antonio and Havannah . One of these vessels , the Cuba , had got ashore on the Colorados . ¦ •

      _ .. We have advices from Toronto to the 2 nd inst . The intention of the Home Government to reduce official salaries had been received with satisfaction . The Salaries of the Chief Justice and the Judges were to be reduced to £ 900 and £ 800 , and of the heads of'departments to ^ 800 each per annum : the salary of the Governor-General is to be borne by the Imperial Treasury , but , on the other hand , the colony is to sustain the cost of the troops deemed necessary and also of the Rideau Canal . By the American mail steamer Pacific , we have three days' later news . The Pacific left New York ontbelOth inst ., at noon , and has brought tbe large number of 230 passengers and 365 , 000 dolls ., or over £ 75 , 000 sterling , in specie . The news , however is not important . . .

      , It is confidently stated tbat tbe Cuban expedition is again abandoned , and a large number of men whe had collected at Jacksonville , in Florida , bad dispersed , and were returnm ? to their homes . Gorzsles , who it will be remembered , was one of the leaders in the first expedition , was reported by tele graph to have been arrested at Florida , which may in part account for the expedition being g ' wen . up without even embarking . . .....

      The trial of Mr . Forrest for a violent assault upon Mr . N . P . Willis commenced in the Superior Court of the State of New York , on the 8 th inst ., before Chiet Justice Oakley , and was proceeding at the ' date ol this departure . The assault was hot denied ; but was justified by Mr . ' Forrest ' s council in consequence of Mr . "Willis ' s conduct towards Mr . Forrest's wife , and iu the unhappy differences that existed between Mr . Forrest and his lady . It was expected that the jury would return a verdict with small damages . ¦ ¦

      The intelligence of the disposition of South CaTO . lina to secede from the Union is attracting attention ; The reports from the Convention at Charleston assure us tbat that body is determined to resort to

      . The accounts of the cotton crop which , at this season are always very interesting , seetti' to be' " unfavourable . A severe frosthad prevailed throughout Georgia in the first week in May , and great damage to the young plants is reported to have ensued in consequence .. The Southern Eights Convention assembled . at Charleston , and , to which much importance appears to be attached , had decided upon tbe following resolutions : ¦ '• ¦¦ "

      • That in the opinion of this meeting , the . State of South Carolina . cannot submit to the wrongs and aggressions which have been perpetrated by the Federal government and the Northern States , without , dishonour and ruin , and that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom , with or without the -cooperation of other Southern States . : Thatconcert of action , with one or more ' of our sisters of tbe Sontb , ' whether through the pro ' - posed Southern Congress , or in any other manner , is an object Worth many sacrifices , but not the sacrifice involved in submission . ¦ * That we hold the right of secession to be essential to the sovereignty and freedom of the States of this confederacy , and that the denial of the right would furnish to an injured State the strongest additional cause for its exercise .

      - ' That this meeting looks' with confidence and hope to the convention of the people , to exert the sovereign , power of the State in defence of its rights at the earliest practicable -period , and in the most effectual manner , and to the Legislature to adopt the most speedy and effectual measures ' towards the same end . '

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      The ' Epoca' quotes a letter , from Seville , announcing that a frightful catastrophe had occurred in tbe garden of tbe Duke of Mohtpensier ,, at Alcala del Rio . The Prince had caused a steam engipe . to be placed in it for its irrigation , and the 10 th inst , was fixed lor its trial . His Royal Highness could not assist at . the operation as he intended , having been obliged to repair on that day to Yillamaurique . As the boiler to : be used for the experiment was not

      new , it was agreed that it should be slowly heated , but , either from neglect or imprudence on the part of the engineer , the boiler exploded , and overthrew the building , burying under its ruins sixty or seventy persons presenfat the experiment as operatives or mere spectators . . M . Latour , as secretary of the commands of the Duke , on hearing of the accident , immediately repaired to the spot , accompanied by the physician iu attendance at the Palace . ' On their arrival eight dead bodies and sixteen wounded bad been removed from under the rubbish .

      An important commercial reform was undertaken by the municipal council of Fan ' s at its last sitting . It is proposed to establish in the new building which had been purchased for the Chamber of Commerce for about £ 20 , 000 , the Hotel des Commissaires Priseurs at the corner of the . Eue Notre Dame des Victoires , a museum for receiving and exhibiting collections of every kind of foreign produce . The Chamber also wishes to establish a public exhibition of silks , similar to that ' which now exists at Lyons , as well as of wool , and other woven articles . Arrangements will also be made ,- in Order that the merchants of Paris may be able to receive every information as to the value of merchandise in the principal towns of France , and a room will be specially appropriated where they can acquire every information as to the latest maritime and commercial news received by telegraph .

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      Containing the Kemedy for the Prevention of Disease . — Illustrated by Ono Hundred Anatomical and Explana tory Coloured Engravings 011 Steel . On Physical Disqualifications ^ Generative- kcapaeity , and Impediments to Marriage , A . Nuw and improved Edition , enlarged to 196 pages , price 2 s . 6 d ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 80 . ed ., . in postage stamps . ., ;¦ -v V All communications being strictly ' confidential , the Authors have discontinued the publishing of Cases . THE SILENT FRIEND . :- a Practical X Work on the Exhaustion aud Ph ' jBical Decay of-tb ' e System , produced byescessire indulgence , the consequences 01 infection , or the abuse of Mercury ,-with explicit Directions for the use of the Preventive Lotion , followed bv Observations on theMiBKiED State ,, and tho disqualificaaons which prevent it . Illustrated by ' One- Hundred Co-

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      11 1 1 II W battle . nrtewnnttitlHe * faon « valuable ., Price He per battle , or four qoantttlea fa one for 33 s . ••'¦ - ' . ' ' ,-.: ¦ >' The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE an anti-Syphuistic remedy , for , purifying the system from contamination , and ia recommended by any of the varied forms of Secondary Sjmptems . Its action is purely detersive and its beneficial influence on the system is undent able . Price Us . and 33 s . per bottle . - The £ 5 cases of Skkiacom or Caw 3 Etrra . k m > Baimm Essence can only be had at 19 , Berners-street , Oxfordstreet , London , whereby there is a saving of £ 1 We ., and the natient is entitled to receive advice without a fee , which advantage is applicable only to those who remit £ 5 , t 0 i " PERRY ' S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PttLS Constitute an effectual remedy in all cases of Gob irxbcea Stricture , and Diseases of the Urinary Organs . Pnce 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and lis . per box . Sold by all medicine vendors in Town or Country . Consultation fee , if by letter , £ 1 .- Patientsi are requested to be as minute as possib em the description of their cases . _ .... «« ...,. __ . Oxfordstreet

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      : Beware of Ten Shilling Quacks mo imitate tnis Advertisement . ' IMMENSE . SUCCESS OF THE NBW . MOUJS Ol ? TttEATMIMT . 9 , 211 CURES LAST YEAR ¦!!! As adopted by Lalltmand ,. Eicord , DesfandM , and others , of the Hopital des Veneriens a Paris , a , vt ftow uniformly practised in this country by ¦ WALTER DE R 00 S ,. ] O ., 35 , EW Puck , Holborn Ilixt , London ,

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      hill , London . Hours , 10 tiiri ; ' 5 nd 4 tlllft . Sundaj s ^ hill , London . Hours , 10 tiirr . ' aadi tillS . . Sundaj s « ,, cepted unless by previous - arrangement . ( N . B . —Where difficulty w « urs in . obtaining any t , f ^ above , ' enbloie postage stamps to the establishment

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      SEUtlEt SUKK . UW . I vcaiAift ur , L , r : ¦ Immtnsi mctti of the A « u | Mode pf Treatment -which hat never failed . DE . ALFRED BARKER , 48 , Lirerpool . i j street . King ' s Cross , London ,-From many years' experience at the various hospitals in London and on the ContiHe ' nt , is enabled to treat with the utmost certainty of erne , ' every variety of dlseaso arising from solitary habits , excesses , and infections , such as gonorrhoea , gleet , stricture , and syphilis , or venereal disease , in all their stages , which , owing to neglect or im . . proper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rhe umatism indigestion , debility , skin diseases , pains in the kidneys ' back , and loins , and finally , an agonising death ! The lamentable neglect of these diseases by medical men ia general is well known , and their futile attempts to tWe by the use of these dangerous medicines—mercury , copaiba , cubebs , & c , have produced very distressing results , All sufferers are earnestly invited to apply at once to Dr Barker , who guarantees a speedy and perfect cure , an d of every symptom whether primary or secondary , without any of the above medicines ; thus preventing the psssibi . Iity of any after symptoms . This truth has been esti

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      . ,,. CITRES . FOR THE TWCUltED ! OTOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . f ¦* - An EaAraordimhi Cxvreof Smfnla , w King ' s 1 ¦ ' ¦ : ; Evil . Extract " of a letter from Sir . J . II . Ailiday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . ' Sib , —My eldest son , ' when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular- swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . Tbe disease then for ' years' went on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee ; and a third under the eye , be sides seven others on theleft arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my . suftering boy . had received the constant adrice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides . beingforseveraVrnonths at -the General Hospital

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 24, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24051851/page/2/