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      France. On Sunday Last In The Committee ...

      FRANCE . On Sunday last in the Committee of Permanence General Bedeau read some police reports , from which it appeared that the 6 th Regiment of the line arr ived from Metz in Paris the same morning , under the command of the Colonel , Garderens de Boisse , who has distinguished himself lately by a bombastic Bonapartist order of the day , and was received by a mob of Decembrists with cheers of ' Vive le colonel ! ' * Vive le sixleme de ligne ! ' at the barrier and at the Eccle Militaire . But this attempt to provoke a demonstration found no echo in the population . The committee , after several members freshly arrived from the country had described the feeling of discouragement produced among the sound part of the population , adjourned . Neither M . Berryer nor Mi Dapin were present .

      The president has been consulting M . Billauft , but that gentleman has declined to undertake the formation of a cabinet . He is an eminent advocate of Nantes . In the Chamber of Deputies he was a violent opponent of the policy of M . Guizot , particularly as regarded the entente cordiale with England . In 1842 he chiefly contributed to the withdrawal of the treaty admitting the right of search for the suppression of the slave trade ; and he was one of the leading speakers who stormed about the Pritcbard indemnity . Appointed representative of the Loire Inferieure in tbe Constituent , he made a speech on the droit au travail , with which the President is said to hare been greatly struck , and to have exclaimed on that occasion that Billault would one dav be bis minister .

      It is not considered that the late ministers have scarcely the smallest chance of returning to power ; neither is there any greater probability of Gatlier resuming his post as prefect of police . The determination of Louis Napoleon is regarded with great apprehension at Berlin and Vienna , and it is said that tbe northern powers are resolved to arm and concentrate a large force of observation on the French frontier . More than ever these courts , as well as the Pope himself , desire to see Rome delivered from the alarms attending a French garrison , and the prospect of a complete change of policy .

      The ' Constitutionnel , ' after complaining of the disproportionately small number of medals awarded to French silk and woollen manufactures , although the annual exports of these amount to between fourteen and sixteen million sterling , adds that after England has proclaimed her supremacy in tbe greater part of articles of great consumption , she cannot with any consistency call upon France to remove or lower the barrier of her custom ' s duties , and throw open her internal market . It is reported that a demand to authorise the prqsecution of M . Miot and other members of the Mountain for implication in the disorders of the Cher and Allier will be presented on tbe re-opening Of the Assamblv .

      The ' Monitenr' contains a decree subjecting t e departments of ( he Cher and Nievre to a state of sifge . M . Faucher statas , in the preamble to this ordinance , that the searches made by the troops in the various c iiamunes , seat of the late insurrection , prove the action of secret societies , having a completely military organisation , which manufacture powder and procure arms . The degree , countersigned by the Minister of the Interior , bears the date of Tuesday . The rumoured success of Carlier at the

      Prefecture of Police , M . de Maupas , prefect of the Hante-Garonne , curiously enough was summoned from Toulouse to Paris , to receive a wigging from M . Le « n Faucher , relative to some disputes between the prefect and the military authority . On the eve of the ministerial crisis , M . de Maupas was ordered by the Minister of the Interior to return to Toulouse , but showed in reply a note from the President , requesting him to stay . Perhaps the prefect of Toulouse will have to thank M . Leon Faucher for putting him all innocently in the road to the Prefecture of Police at Paris .

      A correspondent writing from Cons tan tinop'e says : — ' The opinion prevails here that the two Emperors of Russia aud Austria have formerly promised their support to Louis Bonaparte for his ambitious schemes , and eventually assured to him an honourable position either in Russia or Austria , in case he should fail . So much is certain , that all the French diplomatic agents side always with the Russians . '

      GERMANY . Berlin . —There has been a report afloat for some time which , from its seeming improbability , did not attract much notice , viz , that the federal diet would remove its sittings from Frankfort to some other town , on the pretext that the city government of Frankfort was unable to preserve order , law , and peace within its walls ; in other words , that it is not sufficiently despotic to please the diet . This report has uow received confirmation from the ' Kreuz-Zeitung , ' which complains that suspicious characters from France and other countries find refuge and protection in the very place where the ' illustrious German confederation' hold

      their sessions ; and adds , that' if the city authorities do net find means to' eject such persons , and io establish a police security in the town , the diet will find itself under the necessity of taking up qaiet winter quarters at Regensburg . ' The election battle with reference to the new legislative body in the Frankfort city government , has terminated in favour of the Liberal conservatives . In both divisions ( the men of letters and men of business ) the majority nronounced in favour of the

      list furnished by the Burger Verein ; so that the new legislative assembly , if it can do no good , may at least prevent much evil . It is no matter of wonder that the diet proposes a retreat from such a city as this . Under the very nose , in the immediate presence of the diet , to dare to retain the shadow of a shade of liberality—what is this but the most fUgraut and impious rebellion against the high and mighty , the righteous and the most religious power of tbe confederation ? Such conduct is

      revolutionary , no doubt . The Cossacks say sp ; and who out of France aud England—the two lands given over to the curse of democracy—shall gainsay their word ? A correspondent from Berlin states that he has learnt somewhat distinctly what military preparations , in anticipation of events which may happen in France in 1852 , are now making . The troops of all the German states are to be put on a fall war establishment , and to be ready for immediate action early in the spring . The regiments and divisions quartered at present in the western garrisons are to be in readiaes to form a junction on the shortest

      notice , and to advance towards the French frontier . The military equipments , which in Prussia were deficient on the last calling out of the areiy , are now quite complete , and everything is prepared for another general call to arms , or , as the Germans say , mobilmachung . The western fortresses have received orders to be in readiness for war ; and in ail the sai'itary stores and war magazines of the kingdom the utmost activity prevails to provide every kind of supply . This is all said to be mere precautionary demonstration . It shows , however , a determination to take advantage of any plausible provocation to proceed suddenly to hostilities , against France .

      ITALY . The legal proceedings instituted by the government against all persons suspected of connexion with Maxzini have now terminated , after having lasted nearly six months . . Government has failed to prove the assumed guilt of most of the persons , whom the police imprisoned during the past summer , and has been compelled , however unwillingly , to set t ' aem at liberty . Some , however , have compromised themselves sufficiently to procure their condemnation by the courts martial , and the sentences against them are expected to be pronounced in a very few days . Two have already been published ; both inflicting punishment or death . Count Ra & izkv has , however , commuted the

      sentence on "Vinceuzo Maisnee , a Milanese by birth , but formerly established in Venice as a priniseller » nd publisher , to ten years' fortification arrest . The second sentence , however , that on a young and ¦ wealthy individual , named Luigi Dottesio , who has been proved to have been very active in concocting tna disseminating revolutionary pamphlets , was carried into effect on Friday morning . All the enorts of his relations and friends , and even of the me * M ^ Tf ' 'F ° ve « I unavailing , and Dottesio me . h * death by therope at the * - nted tiuiei A I :.-.. : » 1-v a . iui ; HUUUIUICU UUIC .

      ,, The chief cJo ^ ioSefntll ° \ ] aZZM 2 L - houses of the freenort ™? t , ° " * ware ' tut « . being dSS ^^ J « ^^ Like everything else in the SrianIZ ^ If ' oust yield to military interests ? emp , re ' * The fortunate delivery and safe arrival i „ E „ . and of the heroic Kossuth , after so manj S „ S for his country ' s sake , has a melancholy Contraft ia Italy in the fate of the triumvir , Calandrelli

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      whose chivalric conduct in the defence of Rome against the unjust and unprovoked attack of the French was worthy of a better . recompense . The following letter was written by him to his sister , after bis sentence was intimated to him , and has been copied and circulated about Rome as a touching proof of his resignation and constancy in misfortune : — - , „„„ ,, ' Septembers , 1851 . ' My dearest Sister , —Yesterday evening my sentence was notified to me . It is to the following tenor . Fifteen years of the galleys for robbery to the prejudice of the Ecclesiastical Academy , and five years of public labour for robbery of twenty

      scudi to tbe prejudice of the Barberini family besides which , ignominious death for treason All this , by the special favour of his Holiness , has been reduced to twenty years of the" galleys . Before setting out for Palliano , or elsewhere , according to my destination , I communicate this to you , with the utmost serenity of mind , because I feel that 1 am in no way culpable . Thank my uncle , thank my defensor , thank all those who have exerted themselves in my favour , especially the Prussian minister , to whom present my respects , and entreai of him to place at the feet of his King my most heartfelt homage and my immense graiitude for tbe interest he has deigned to fake in my case .

      ' I send you my picture , which you will keep in remembrance of me , but hidden from every One . 1 send you my sheet , pillow-case , trowsers , and basin . Collect what linen you can , shirts , handkerchiefs , and two pair of sheets , and send all to the place or my destination , having previously obtained the COH sent ot tbe sacred consulta , through which you will ateo send me news of yourself and our family . 1 beg you , my Lisa , to be tranquil , to preserve your health , and to live for your children 5 with regard 10 me , you will see that those very men who now humiliate me so much , will liberate me from th penalties they now inflict upon me , as soon as their party spirit is calmed , and they become better acquainted with my innocence .

      ' Console Ludovico and my poor father , and tell them that I shall be quiet and resigned if I know that they do not take to heart a thing which I hope will be but pissing . I am going , and in setting out I recollect that a few years ago , on this same day , I and Ludovico were all intent on adorning our houses , and contributing with many scudi to the grand festival in honour of , the Holy Father , ( The writer here alludes to the grand demonstration of popular affection and gratitude with which the Pope was received on the 8 th September , 1846 , after having granted the celebrated amnesty to political offenders . ) Now I set out , poor and abandoned , with only thirty-five bajbccbi ( eighteenpence ) in my pocket . Such is the fruit of my plunderings I embrace you affectionately . 'Believe me to be always your brother , ' Alexander . '

      ' P . S . —I beg you to make interest for me , in order that my little dog may not be taken away from me . This is the favour which I request . ' The fortress of Palliano , to which he refers as the probable place of his confinement , is not yet quite prepared for the reception of political prisoners . NAPLES . —From Naples we learn that it is customary for the people of Naples to keep chickens and turkeys , which are fattened on the filth of i he streets preparatory to cutting their" throats at Christmas . No one ever imagined that that class of animal life would be considered subjects of Ferdinand II . and therefore liable to arrest . As

      regards those poor chickens ' Nature did not leave herself , ' and cause tri-coloured feathers to sprout from the Italian cock ; neither was there anything offensive in their crow ; nordid they , like the parrot which was arrested at Rome , attempt anything like 'Viva la'Republics . ' Nevertheless , on a late occasion the police authorities went round the town and robbed the poor of all their chickens . In some instances it was stated that chickens created disease , in others that they were wanted for Melfi . The only object that we can see in their acts of silly cruelty was that of wishing to offend the lowest classes , and accumulate odium . In the next constitutional charter , the Neapolitans will have a special habeas corpus tor chickens .

      The charitable have subscribed nearly 50 , 000 ducats for the sufferers at Melfi , the scene of the late earthquake .

      AUSTRIA . From "V ienna we learn that another journalist has been arrested . A correspondent of a north German journal , Dr . Freund , was arrested two days ago , in the act of posting a letter , the authorship of which he would not deny . He awaits his trial before the court-martial , and is not likely to meet with lenient judges .

      HUNGARY . Archduke Albrecht has arrived at the seat of his new government . He reached Pesth on the afternoon of tbe 13 th ulc , and inaugurated his assump . tion of office by a review of the garrison of Pesth . He was received by the late governor of Hungary , General Gehringer , and the other civil and military authorities . In the evening the whole town was lit up by order , and a large mob ' allowed' to assemble to roar a welcome to his imperial highness .

      UNITED STATES . The royal mail steam-ship Africa , from New York , arrived at Liverpool on Sunday last with the usual mails , seventy-five passengers , and about a million dollars of specie in silver and gold . There had been two arrivals from California , viz ,, by the Empire City , on the 7 th , with Havannah dates to the 2 nd , and 350 , 000 dollars specie ; and also the Prometheus , which arrived on the 4 th , bringing 465 passengers , and gold dust of tbe value of a million and a half of dollar ? . The City of Manchester screw steamer from this port arrived at Philadelphia on the 3 rd inst . The political news by this arrival is less important than the commercial . There had been almost

      a money panic in New York on the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th , and several of the banks had been severely run upon : they had , however , stood well , and by the 6 ih it bad abated , and it was heptd the crisis had passed . Still , however , confidence was slow in returning , and money was almost impossible to obtain , except for hills of the very highest class . Stocks , which had been very much depressed , were recovering , and the foreign rate of exchange declining . A fugitive slave was arrested at Syracuse ou Wednesday , October I , and brought before United Stales Commissioner Sabine for examination

      forthwith . The bells of the different churches commenced toiling , and handbills were distributed calling on the citizens to congregate and see a negro kidnapper . The commissioner ' s office was soon crowded , and a rescue was successfully carried out . The negro was at once put on his way to Canada , and the agent of the claaimnt arrested for attempting to kidnap a citizen of the county , Tbe slave was afterwards recaptured , and two military companies called out to guard him . Several white men were arrested for assisting the negro in his attempted flight . This being the county fair day , a large concourse of people surrounded the policeoffice , where the negro and the white men were

      undergoing an examination . About dusk the crowd began to throw stones into the window of the police-office pretty freely , which caused the adjournment of the court till eight o ' clock the following morning . For a while after the adjournment , the crowd seemed to disperse ; hut at about half-past eight o ' clock they began to break in the windows and doors , and thus made an entrance into the building , and carried off the negro . All sorts of' weapons were used in the affray . Pistols were fifed from both sides , but we'cannot learn that they took effect on . any oneV Several persons were badly hurt from the clubs and stonesi but none seriously .

      The news from California-is to the 6 th of September . The cities of San Francisco and Sacramento have again been the scene of a terrible tragedy , in the summary execution of criminals by the hands of the people : two men convicted oi highway robbery had been taken by force from the authorities and executed . The particulars Of the affair are as follows : — ' On the 22 d of August , in conformity with the sentence passed upon them by the law , Thompson , Robinson , and Hamilton were hanged in Sacramento for highway robbery . On the morning of the execution Robinson was reprieved by the governor , M'Dougal , notwithstanding

      which tbe poprlace took the prisoner and executed him . On the Tuesday previous to the above ( which took place ou on Friday ) the Governor , with bis aids , went in the middle of the night and rescued , without opposition , the tW 3 prisoners , Whiltaker and M'Kena'B , who were placed in the custody of the Vigilance Committee , "This caused a tremendous excitement , but on account of the forbearance of the committee under the circumstances quiet was restored , and everything was thought to be at rest until Sunday morning , tbe 24 th inst ., when a portion of the members of the Vigilance Committee broke into the ' eounty gaol , Hook theprisoners i drove

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      them down m & carriage to the committee rooms , and in seventeen minutes from the time the men were first taken from the gaol they were hanging in front of the committee rooms on Battery street , in the presence of 20 , 000 people , all of whom approved of the act . ' The accounts from the mining districts continue to be favourable ; improvements are in successful progress in various gold-bearing streams ; and the yield of the precious . metal is such as to reward the enterprise and industry of the miner .

      Advices from the city of Mexico state that the cabinet resigned in a body on the 2 nd of September , aud much disaffection prevailed : throughout the country , which wag in the most deplorable and abject condition . The Convention of the Governors of the different States , ' called for the purpose of devising some means for the relief of the difficulties under ' which the people arenow ) abo ' uring , had met , and v w { thput . taking any [ decisive action on the sub - ject , adjourned , causing great dissatisfaction . . The revolution in Northern Mexico , thus far , h & 8 proved entirely successful . ; It commenced , at Camargo , where the patriots attacked the Mexicans . The patriots came off victorious , having ' taken the

      town by storm , with a loas on the side of the Mexicans of sixty . The government troops were intrenched in a church , with artillery . The revolutionists are commanded by Carabajal , who has also with him two companies of Texans . At the last accounts : they were marching on Matamoras and Reynosa . General Avalos , who is at Matamoras , has only 300 troops . He had made a requisition on 'he city . for 2 , 000 , but the city refused to raises single man , The plan of the revolutionists was a promnciamento , which was widely circulated . Tampico and its vicinity is in tbe hands of the insurgents . The people of Matamoras are quietly awaiting the arrival of the liberating army .

      Advices from , Nicaragua state that . General Munoz had marched upon Granada , the seat of Scnor Montenegro ' s government , with a view to capture the city , and put an end to that government . -No information as to the result had been received , and it was reported that the expedition bad halted by the way at Nicaragua . We see no reason to doubl his success in this enterprise , as the strength " : on his side is much greater than on the other . . There may be blood shed , but victory will probably be with him . At San Juan much ex citcment prevails , owing to the appointment of an Englishman as local agent , for the American Ship Canal Company , CAPE OF GOOD HOPE .

      Important Intelligence . —H . M . St ., Birkenhead , arrived ou Monday last at Plymouth with most important intelligence from the Cape . She left Simon's Bay on the 12 th of September , reached St Vincent on the 4 th of the present month , and sailed on the 7 th , She has brought home the mail which would have been despatched by the steamship Sir Robert Peel , but for the accident which that vessel met with on her outward-bound passage near Sierra Leone . After having landed some despatches for the Admiralty , the Birkenhead proceeded with her mail to Portsmouth .

      From private information we learn that a serious engagement took place on the 1 st of September in the Fish River Bush , in which the British troops suffered a partial defeat , with considerable loss ; and there seems to be no doubt that the whole of the frontier is in a slate of alarming dlaafivclion . The 2 nd Royals , a regiment which had but just been conveyed out from this country by tbe Birkenhead , took part in the action , and , it is stated , had four men killed and seventeen wounded . The Birkenhead is said to have been selected by Sir Harry Smith for her well known speed ; and it is also stated that she has brought home a request from his Excellency that a reinforcement of at least 10 , 000 troops may be immediately sent out to his assistance .-

      On the 1 st inst ., Lieut .-Col . Burne , of the 2 nd Regiment , who was engaged in patrolling the Fish River Bush , near Committee ' s Drift , had a seveie action with a body of Kaffirs and Hottentots . The particulars are not fully known . The fight is described as ' a sharp affair , ' and the casualties were rather heavy , three soldiers being killed and twelve wounded . On the 2 nd inst ., the Kaffirs attacked some waggons on their way to Graham ' s Town from below Southwell , and succeeded in carrying off five spans of oxen , worth .- £ 300 . The affair was reported to Major-General Somerset , when pursuit was immediately made , and eighteen of the oxen recovered .

      From Lyndcch , intelligence has been received that most of the Tambookie servants , who bad hitherto remained faithful , have joined the enemy , and have assisted in driving off their master ' s cattle , horses , and sheep . Some sharp conflicts had taken place between tbe colonists , and the marauders , several of whom were shot . In these actions two burghers were killed , and others wounded The e'ftemy had reappeared in' Oliphant ' s Hoek and Lower Albany , as soon as Lieut .-Col . Eyre left that part of the country . Th ; y bad committed several depredations , and had kept the burgher patrols continually active in pursuing them , though with little success .

      . On the afternoon of the 5 th inst ., an attack was made on Mr . Goldswain ' s p lace , at Burnt Kraal , five miles north-east of Graham's Town , and the enemy succeeded in getting off with about 1 , 200 sheep . A patrol , under Capt . Carey , was immediately ordered by General Somerset in pursuit , aud it was hoped that ' the flock would be recovered . On the'Srd inst ., three inhabitants of the village of Salem , while on cattle guard , were attacked by fifteen or twenty Kaffirs . One of the guards named Thomas Filmer , was severely wounded by a bullet , which lodged In his side , the cattle were , all but one , brought safe to Salem . The wounded man was doing well , the ball having been extracted . Information had been received from Farmerfield

      that two houses , one belonging to Mr . Bowles and the other to Mr : Barnes , had been fired near the Kariega , and fifteen head of cattle captured from Mr , Gush . Patrols immediately started off in pursuit , but did not succeed iu overtaking the plunderers . Mr . Thomas Scanlan , of Graham ' s Town , lieutenant in the Fingoe levy , a brave and worthy colonist , who was wounded a few weeks ago while on cattle guard near that town , has died of his wonnd , leaving a wife and four children , with his parents , eighty years of age and quite helpless , to lament his death .

      The ' Graham ' s Town Journal' of the 6 th inst ., says ;— ' In reference to the close of the war we may state that in the neighbourhood of the beadquarters , it is reported the Kaffirs are about to enter on the war with renewed vigour . This does not look , much like subjection and submission . It is satisfactory , however , to learn that Major Hogge , one of the assistant Commissioners , seems perfectly to ' understand the position of the colony , and that , so far as he is concerned , uo patched-up peace will satisfy him—no peace , but one established on a solid , satisfactory basis . How he and his Excellency will agree on this matter remains to he seen ; but one circumstance is pretty clear to even the most casual observer—that the Governor is fast loosing the confidence not only of the public , but even of his former friends and supporters in this quarter .

      EGYPT . The Egyptian question is likely to be settled ia the most satisfactory way . The last letter of the Grand Yizier to Abbas Pasha says clearly that the Porte cannot acknowledge the right of Abbas Pasha to enter into negotiations with foreign emissaries , involving the interests and resources of the country for the future , but if the Pasha applies to the Purc ' e [ or the permission of the construction of a railway , the Porte will grant this permission , under the following conditions : —! . That the railway should be

      made out of tbe regular income of the province , and that it never should be a pretext for the heavier taxation of the people . 2 . That the native workmen should be paid , and work for wages ; the work should not be a compulsory and gratuitous one . 3 . T he administration of the railway must remain in the hands or the regular authorities , not in those of foreigners . This ultimatum shows clearly that the Porte is no enemy of the railway scheme , but that she cannot allow that it should become a pretext to make Abbas Pasha , the hereditary viceroy , an independent prince .

      CANADA . The resignations of the Canadian ministry were not sent en masse , but Mr . Hincks , the inspectorgeneral , and Mr . ' Morris , the postmaster-general , sent their resignations ; and this made such a rupture of the ministry , as to make the resignation of the whole a matter of necessity . The object of these resignations , or at least that of Mr . Hincks , is to cause an early appeal to the people for the purpose of carrying out some combinations with the « clear grits , ' or old reform party . The ' chief point of division is the clergy reserves . Mr . Hincks is in favour of the secularisation of these * hiIe Mr , Lafontaine holds the converse creeds

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      WE 3 T INDIES . Via New York we have advices from Jamaica to the 29 th ult .,. which state that the cholera was prevailing in that island ; eleven deaths had occurred during tbe week ending the 29 tb . A smart shock of an earthq uake had been felt in Port of Spain , but no damage was done . Antigua , St . Vincent . Grenada , aud Dominica papers furnish no news of interest ;

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      The ' Tuscan Mohiteur' has published decrees infeodating Tuscany to Austria . f In consequence of the Manuel du Droit Canon , by the Abbe Lequeux , having been condemned by Rome , and put under the Index Expurgatorius , Mgr- Sibour , Archbishop of Paris , has dissolved the Ecole Theologique des Cannes . The pupils of this school have been sent to the seminary of St . Sulp icft . The directors of this seminary have caused the condemned ' Manuel' to be withdrawn from all the seminaries in which it was used by members of the community of St . Sulpice ,

      The' MoaUeur' contains an address of M . Leon Faucher to the President , with reference to the local municipal resources throughout France for undertaking public works , with a view to the employment of workmen . This is sweeeded by an analvsis of the reports of the prefect ? , showing the financial situation of the chief town in each department , the extraordinary public works projected foj the last months of 1851 and for 1852 , or susceptible of being undertaken during that period , and , lastly , the details of'the ways and means ol execution , and the amount of resources disposable or realisable , which could be applied to those works .

      A poisoning case at Cilli has procured the publication of some interesting facts respecting the arsenic eaters of Lower Austria and Styria . In both these provinces it appears to be a common custom among the peasantry to consume every morning a small portion of the deadly poison , in the same manner as the eastern world consumes opium . Dr . Tschudi , tlie well known traveller , publishes an account of several cases which have come to his knowledge . The habit does not seem to he so pernicious in its results as that of opium

      eating . It is commenced by taking a very small dose , say somewhat less than half a grain , every morning , which is gradually increased to two or three grains . The case of a bale old farmer is mentioned , whose morning whet of arsenic reached the incredible quantity of four grains . The effect it produces is very curious . The arsenic eater grows fat and ruddy , so much so that the practice is adopted by lovers of both sexes , in order to please their sweethearts . It relieves the lungs and head very much also when mounting steep hills and entering into a more rarified atmosphere .

      The ' Giornale di Roiaa , ' of the JUh inst ., publishes the convention concluded at Rome on May 1 st of this year , between the Holy See ,. Austria , and the States of Modtna , Parma , and Tuscany , for the construction of a railroad from Piacenza to Bologna , through Parma , Reggio . amlModena , with a branch from Reggio to Mantua , and continuation from Bologna to Florence . The Piedmontese papers remark , with complacency , that an English dragoon of & cer in full uniform attended the King at the late manoeuvres .

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      Rkmakkablb Passage . —The American papers say a remarkable pa-sage has been made by the New York clipper ship Flying Cloud , round Cape Horn to San Francisco , the voyage having been performed in eighty-nine days , although the mainmast was sprung soon after leaving the port ; Her run from Cape Horn to San Francisco was made in thirty-nine days . Her best -run in twenty-four hours was 374 miles , the greatest run ever made by a sea-going vessel , averaging ; fifteen miles and three quarters per hour . While making this run she was carrying top gallant sails , with the wind one point forward of the beam . She ran in three days 992 miles , On one occasion , during n squall , seventeen knots of line were found insufficient to measure her speed ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 25, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25101851/page/2/