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      FRANCE . A scene took place in the Assembly on Saturday which recalled some of the most tumultuous reminiscences of the constituent . It appears Jhat among the many lotteries which are just now the rage in Paris , there is one called the L ' ingots d'Or from the chief prizes being large ingots of pure gold . The object of this lottery , whScb . is nnder the direct patronage of the government , is the promotion of emigration to California , and the scheme having been puffed in every direction , tickets enough were sold soon after the first promulgation to send out the first batch of emigrants . The ship was to have sailed in November , hut no departure

      took place , and owing to the delay the unfortunate emigrants to have been almost reduced to starvation Under these circumstances , M . Pascal Duprat , on Saturday questioned the government as to its connexion with this scheme . M . Baroche , the Minister of the Interior , gave a very equivocating answer , saying government had merely countenanced and not supported the lottery in question . A very noisy discussion followed , in which M . Denjoy moved that the Assembly pass to the order of the day without expressing any opinion on the question , which is equivalent to a vote of confidence in government . This was rejected by a majority of 426 against 192 votes , whereupon MRarocbe declared'he would resign .

      The whole Assembly was thrown into the utmost confusion , and the majority hurried from their places , rushed to the bench where M . Baroche was sitting , and protested earnestly and humbly that there was intended nothing of a hostile character against him in the resolution that had been adopted ; and when the Minister frankly declared his incredulity in those hollow professions , wrung from them by the danger of a retreat , each vied with the other in inventing a remedy fur the evil they had committed . It is stated that not less than forty orders of the day , each having for their object to nullify the effSCt Of ttlS rejection of toe order of the day pure et simple , were successively proposed . That of M . Delessert was entirely lest sight of . This undignified hurry to nndo their own work was a source of much amusement to the Mountain , who scoffed and laughed at the terror of the majority .

      Por nearly half an hour all tha members were shouting together in the hope of obtaining a hearing and personalities and abuse were bandied about in the most lavish manner , in the heig-jt of the storm , M . Emile de Girardin ascended the tribune , and having obtained a momentary silence , proposed the following motion : — ' The majority , satisfied , passes to the order of the day . ' This the Assembly thought was an evident and flagrant outrage on the dignity of the whole Assembly , and that nothing less than the personal and immediate immolation ' of its daring author seemed likely to appease the tumult .

      The President said that M . de Girardin had deposited his order of the day on the table , but that he had refused to accept it , and told him to reflect on its consequences . He persisted , and as it contained an insult to the majority , he would consult the Assembly . M . de Girardin said " that his order of the day was perfectly serious ; that a similar order of the day was adopted in July , 1847 , and that six months afterwards a revolution took place . ( Loud murmurs , and cries of » Tbe forged message . ' ) M . de Girardin , in reply ,, said that the journal which had published the message had not invented it , and that it was a bona fide a message oi the President of the Republic . ( Cries of ' Shame , shame ! ' on the right . )

      The President then consulted the Assembly , and M . de Girardin ' s exclusion during three days , with censure , was pronounced by a considerable majority . Much agitation ensued , and M . Emile de Girardin left the hall . Ultimately the following order of the day motive , proposed by M . Kerdrel , was agreed to by a majority of 37-5 to 292 : — 'The" National Assembly , confiding ia the , solicitude of the government , passes to the order of the day . ' This decision overturns the former one , and converts the ministerial defeat into a victory , by the cowardice of the majority . Tha prefects of the departments have been instructed to watch the proceedings of the foreign refugees .

      The interment of a democrat of the Croix Rousse ( Lyons ) took place on Monday . It was attended by 400 ' brothers and friends , ' ana nassed off with the greatest order . There was : iot the slightest cry in favour of any particular form oi government . Otherwise Lyons continued up to yesterday to enjoy the profoundest calm . Ws extract the following from ihe ' Constitutionnei , ' which guaranteesits authenticity : — ' A country lsd , named Jean , residing in the house of a landed proprietor at Auteuil , was sent about a week back to

      Paris on a message . Whilst looking at some prints en the Place de la Bourse , a rcan accosted him , praiiinj his taste for the fine arts , & c . Soon at ' ler he r equired v ; here he resided , which J ? an very simply informed him , and the stranger declared that he was himself going out to Auieuil , and would give him a lift , if he liked , in the hackney coach v . hich rsu » i be taken for the purpose . The servant gladly accepted the offer , and the pair went en very pleasantlv until the vehicle arrived at the end of the Rue

      de Rivoli , when the stranger , unbnttoning his coat , showed a tri-coicured scarf , and declared that he was a police agent , and that his duty was to arrest the other for being in the midst of a crowd of bad characters on the Place de la Bourse . Jean was exceedingly alarmed , and protested his innocence so strongly that the agent agreed to let him go , provided he paid the amount of the reward to which each police agent was entitled , he said , for arresting a bad character . Jean banded over his watch and whatever money he had about him , and returned Lome . The next day hs was sent into Paris to call at a painter ' s for a portrait , and was just on the point : of returning home , when a stranger accosted him , and stated that he was the fellow-agent of the man vvho had arrested him , and ought to have had half the reward ; that he must still arrest him , unless

      he ( Jean ) made it worth his while to refrain . Jean , in great alarm , gave him 207 ., and a breast-pin . Three day ' s after the two agents calUd on Jean at his master ' s , and informed him that all had been discovered by the prefect of police , and that they wished to fly to avoid punishment , if they did not they would ha arrested , and must then in self-defence disclose whom tbey had taken up . Stiil , if they had 200 f . they would prefer going off . Jean hurried over to the baker who supplied the family , and borrowed from him for his master 200 f . This sum fee handed to the two nun , who immediately made off . As to himself , totally overcome by so many emotions , on his return heme he fell down in a fir , and on his recovering his senses stated what occurred . Informations were immediately lodged , bat nothing has yet been discovered of the two pretended agents . '

      The publisher of the new Republican journal , ' Le Vote Universe ! , ' was yesterday tried for an attack en the ri g ht of properly , contained in two articles published in that journal about a month ago . On the first he was acquitted , but on the second he was found Guilty , and sentenced to six months ' imprisonment and a fine of 6 , 000 ; . The * Constitutionnel ' announces that the Minister of the Interior has written a letter to the President of the Assembly , suggesting that M . Yon ought to be removed from ( he situation of Commissary of Police at the Palace of the Assembly , and that M . Dupin has merely replied that he has referred the letter to the qnajsiors . It is probable that this affair will lead to a fresh skirmish between the Minister and the Assembly .

      The Bulletin de Paris' says that , in consequence of the appearance of M . Mazzini in the neig hbourhood uf Geneva , the Swiss Government is determined to sxpel the chief refugees . The ' Bulletin de Paris ' is published under the auspices of the Blysee . The following is a specimen of the information with which it treats its readers . The ' Bulletin ' of to-day says : — 'If we are to believe the correspondence which we receive from Switzerland , the Roraan ex-triumvir has contributed a areat deal , by tbe aid o ( intelligent agentsfin excit ? ng " the relig ious movement in England astainst the government of the Holy Father . He is certainl y the bearer of the , sum of nearl y a million , which ' has been paid to him as part payment of the loan which he has succeeded in opening 4 0 London . '

      ITALY . The state trials have mai < -rally progressed . The crown lawrer has summed up . It appears tbe exposure of ' the police frauds has not materially affect hh conclusions as to the null of th torg accused . The crown still demands ^ JJ ° J ° ? of theprhoners , amongst ^/" - ^ jKi Uiaco , and Agresti . " Thirty years' galleys is asked

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      for the ex-minister . Baron Poerio , and the others lesser periods in irons . The court is now occupied in hearing the defence ; we must yet wait far the ultimate decision of the judges : it is generally supposed that none will be liberated ; indeed , it would be inconsistent with the policy of the government to do so , the object being to intimidate and imprison all who are conspicuous for their constitutional opinions . The correspondent of the' Daily News' says : — ' It may not be uninteresting to Englishmen at the present moment to learn the views of the Roman church , touching popular right ; and as papacy boasts of « uniformity , ' it will be seen in

      the following quotation from a series of little books just published by the Jesuits what are the Roman Catholic views of the constitutional government in general , and their morality as regards royal oaths . I find the following dialogue in the ' Catechismo Filosofico , ' under the heading , ' Constitution : ' 'If the people have imposed certain obligations and certain reserve on the sovereign power , shall not such obligations form' the constitution and the law of the state ? Tbey shall , if the sovereign has accorded them freely , otherwise they are not binding , because the people , who were made to obey , and not to command , cannot impose a law on the sovereign , who does not receive his power from the

      people , but from God . A prince having accepted and sanctioned the constitution , or the fundamental law of the state , and having promised and sworn to observe it , is he obliged to maintain his promise , and respect those laws and that constitution ?—He is obliged to do so if it does not injure his sovereignly , and offend the universal good of the state . Why do you not , think a prince is obliged to observe the constitution when even it offends the sovereign power?—We have already agreed that the supreme power of the sovereign comes from God for the good of society ; and this power , accorded and imposed by God , should be maintained inviolate and entire , and cannot be lessened by man without offending the laws of nature and Ged . although then the people have imposed an

      agreement which injures the sovereignty—and although the prince has promised to observe it—that promise is an . absurdity- ^ tbat promise is not valid , and the prince is not obliged to observe a constitution which contrasts with tbe decrees of God ; but he should maintain entire the supreme power imposed on the prince by God Where any doubt arises the head of the church is by God authorised to annul the oath , and relieve the conscience of a prince , believing the church has just reason for doing so . ' Whilst Rome is endeavouring to plant ber . power iu the very heart of Protestant and free England , surely it is well to let Englishmen know what they might expect from a triumph of papacy , which boldly tells you she has only one policy End one faith—craft and falsehood when weak—tbe

      inquisition and tyranny when strong . It is from quotations such as these , and the events which are taking place in Italy , that the real spirit of papacy canlie gathered , and not from the coquetting sentimentality of papacy in England , whose victims are either dupes or hypocrites .

      LOMBARDY . A letter from Milan of the 16 th inst . announces that from the 1 st of January next there are to be no longer any foreign Consuls or Ministers of foreign powers resident in that city . SARDINIA . " The Senate of Piedmont , in its sitting of the 16 th inst ., passed the bill abolishing the laws on primogeniture by a majority of thirfy-four votes to nineteen .

      ROME . We regret , says the ' Journal de « Debats , ' to have to announce new and strange vexations directed against the Jews of Rome by the pontifical government . A letter which we have this day received , dated Rome , December 12 th , informs us that one of the most respectable members of the Isrealitish com . munity , M . Tagliacozzo , saw on the 5 th his house invaded by the agents of police , and was nearly being dragged off to prison as guilty for having received into bis house a poor Christian woman , aged fifty , without resource , and whom he had employed to get up the linen of the family . M . Tagliacozzo

      oniy escaped the humiliation and suffering of the prison by the devotion of his son , who constituted himself prisoner in tbe room of his father , and bas been condemned to a vicarious imprisonment of ten days . On the intervention of the chiefs of the Isrealitish community ( M . Tagliacozza himself is a member of the consistory ) , the Cardinal Vicar has deigned to reduce the duration of the imprisonment endured by tbe son in place of his father , and on the 11 th M . Tagliacozzi was set at liberty . Such are the facts as they are communicated to us , and which need no long commentary that the public may form a just judgment of their value .

      GERMANY . The rumour of certain secret stipulations , which were said to be appended to the Qlmutz treaty , recurs again . in tbe ' Breslauer Zeitung . ' That paper states that the secret stipulations of that treaty carry out the leading ideas of tbeRussian policy in Western Europe , and that one of those secret artie ' es guarantees to the Court of Berlin the diplomatic and other support of Germany and tbe Northern States against Switzerland , and eventually against the French Republic , for the purpose of again subjecting the principality of Neufchatel to the dominion of tbe Prussian Crown . The late rumours of a league between the smaller States of tbe north of Germany are again repeated by the « Niederhsachsisehe' and ' Kolner Zeitung , ' which state that there can be no doubt but that

      preliminary negotiations have takea place between Hanover , Oldenburgh , Bremen , and Schaumburg respecting a joint advocacy of their common interrsts at the Dresden conference and elsewhere . . The German journals are filled with the most contradictory conjectures relative to the attitude that will be assumed respectively by Austria and Prussia at the Conferences , which were to have opened on the 23 rd at Dresden . Apartments had been prepared in the Royal Palace for Prince Schwarzenberg and Baron Manteuffel , who will attend in person . It is scarcely to be presumed that any decisions will be taken until after the Christmas holidays .

      The correspondent of the 4 Daily News' says' Herr von Manteuffel leaves Berlin for Dresden on Sunday morning , and it is understood that the conferences are to commence on Monday . Manteuffel will , most probably , remain some time in Dresden , and , if there appears any probability of his carrying his plans , will remain until the end . It is very wise on the part of the minister , for it sets aside the possibility of other influences interfering in his absence . The public , or at least tbe small portion , who think at all on the subject , look forward to the auproaching conferences with anything but

      hope . Most of them consider that the differences between the respective parties will he so great that all hope of any liberal or time-serving alteration in the constitution of the Bund will be destroyed , and that the conferences will terminate in the restoration of the Bundestag in its former character . Nobody knows what the exact details of Manteiiffel ' s plans are , nor what kind of an arrangement was come to at Olmufz between him and Schwarzenberg , and therefore it is idle to speculate ; but it cannot be denied that experience condemns hope and justifies fear in the minds of all liberal men .

      HESSE CASSEL . A letter from Cassel says : —* The majority of the judges of Marburg , we learn , have been forced by the rigorous measures adopted against them , to choose between their duty and their means of existence and have preferred the latter . They have resigned their offices . Thus has the state been robbed again , by these atrocious proceedings at Rothenburg and at Marburg , of fourteen of its most faithful ard able judges . We could have wished that these men had not yielded , but had removed with their families to some other place , and flood out to the last , so ( bat Hassenpflug would not have been able to fill their posts with tools of his own . We now see the moment at hand when the last of our judges true to their oaths and the constitution will be driven from our courts of justice , and Hassenpflug and his associates will be empowered to pervert all laws lo their

      own purposes . A paragraph under dale from Tburingia , Dec . 16 , says : — « General G . roben ha ? , with his whole staff . made a wide circuitous movement in retreat with his whole staff , through Eisenach and Magdeburg , towards Paderborn . Well-informed persons say that the o ' tject of this movemet is to avoid any possible collision with the Bavarian troops who now occupy Hesse neariy up to its Westphalian boundaries . ' From Hanau , of the 16 th , we learn that the Elector has conferred decorations on all the officers who did not resign their commissions in consequence of the Hassenpflug ordinances .

      BRUNSWICK . A letter from Brunswick , of Ore . 14 , states : — * In the Bitting of the Assembly of Deputies to-day , M . Holland !; proposed : « That the government should be earnestly solicited , —first , to lay before the next

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      diet the project of a law for the revision of the constitution ; second , that it should express its conviction that the government holding fast to constitutional principles , should , in tbe anticipation of the approaching free Conferences , give its consent to none of the contemplated rules for changing ; the constitutions of the German States ; andin anyicase should—thirdly , protest against the admissibility : of such rules , and against their influence on our own constitution . '— 'Zeitung' for North Germany . The ' Constitutionncll Zeitung' states that General Penckar , the Prussian Commissioner , has received instructions to let the Austrian troops proceed to measures of compulsion if tbe inhabitants of Cassel persist in refusing to make their peace with the Elector .

      DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . Information received from Rendsbarg and Kiel , which is worthy of credit , states that measures have been concerted between the Stadtholderate and the general now commanding its forces for a vigorous attack upon the Danish lines , to be undertaken within the next week at latest . The Danes are keeping themselves on the alert , and are actively watching the sundry movements of the Schleswig-Holstein troops in the lines of operations .

      On the morning of the 20 th inst . the Danish Jagers surprised one of the most advanced posts at Marienthai , occupied by a company of eight battalions of infantry , who , favoured by a fog , advanced within ten paces of the Holstein troops , and succeeded in killing two of the pickets and taking five prisoners , with a quantity of firearms and accoutrements , which the others were compelled to abandon . Considerable inattention seems to be paid by the Holstein army to their outposts . Accounts from Hamburg state that the Danes have thrown a bridge over the Schlei at Cappein , west of Missunde , which is being strongly entrenched . The Works will be defended by heavy artillery , so as to make any passage of the Schlei at this point impossible .

      A private soldier , who some time since shot an officer on parade in front of the lines is to be tried by court mariial at Rendsburg . The victim of this act of revenge was Lieutenant Khron , son of the Minister of War of the Stathalterselmff . A de . serter has been tried and condemned to death , but the sentence has not yet been confirmed . A strict inquiry is being carried on against the persons charged with insulting General Willisen at the railway station at Neumunster , as he was on his way from Rendsburg to Hamburg after giving up the command of the Holstein army .

      AUSTRIA . The ' Vienna . Gaze tt e , ' of the 14 tb , contains a memorial , signed by the ministers , recommending the extension of the government monopoly of tobacco into Hungary , Transylvania , Croatia , Sclavonia , Servia , and tbe Banal ; and also a royal decree in which the Emperor gives to this recommendation the force of law . Tbe main ground alleged for this innovation , which follows close upon a similar extension of the salt monopoly , is the necessity of giving unity to the fiscal system of the empire , It is said that Austria proposes to insist at tbe Dresden Conferences upon the admission of all her provinces ( Gesammtstaaten ) into tbe German Bund .

      The Minister of the Interior and the Common Council of Vienna have been at loggerheads . According to paragraph thirty-five of the Corporate Laws no employes could become members of the Municipal Council . M . de Czapka , who , as Burgomaster of Vienna , was obliged in 1848 to seek safety in flight , having been recently elected a Common Councilman , bis brethren refused to admit him on the plea of his being a pensioned servant of the State . A Cabinet Council has decided that actual employes , and not pensioners were meant . This is a great triumph for the retrograde party , as the gentleman in question is an Ultra-Conservative . The sentences on the unfortunate members of the

      ' Slovanska Lipa' and 'Marcomannen' clubs , who were arrested at Prague in May 1849 , have not yet been published , but it is said that four are condemned to death , and the others to ten years' imprisonment . You will probably recollect that the notorious Bakunin was mixed up in this affair .

      PORTUGAL . Much interest has been at last excited by the preparations for the approaching Exhibition in London , and it seems to he viewed in its proper light as an opportunity of displaying the progress of industry and art in Portugal to the rest of the world . Conscious of their inferiority in many respects , they still think that it would be more shameful to shrink from a trial than to be considered unequal to other competitors . The committee , recently appointed , has been busily engaged in drawing up reports on tbe subject , and the government will name a deputation , irrespective of political partisanship , to accompany the specimens of manufactures and works of art , which will be conveyed at the public expense at tbe end of March ,

      SPAIN . There is a rumour afloat that the Queen is again in an interesting state . The countermanding of a ball which was to have been given at the palace seems to have led to the report . SWITZERLAND . The National Council of Switzerland , in the sitting of the 18 th . voted 6 , 000 f . for the expenses of the Exhibition of London .

      POLAND . Letters from the Polish frontier of Prussia state that the reports of concentrations of Russians on the frontier between Silesia and Poland are well founded . ' in the middle of . the present mouth Russian columns appeared without previous notice ia the Polish towns near tbe Silesian frontier , which were immediately distributed among the villages along the boundary line . The troops consist of lancers and infantry . The town of Czenstnchau is crowded with them , yet itis not known whence they have come or whither they are going . All the horses and waggons of the border country are pressed for the service of the army . The Polish inhabitants have to lodge and feed the troops without repayment , and do not look on them as welcome guests ;

      RUSSIA . The conspiracy is reported to have been discovered in Southern Russia , and a number of officers belonging to various regiments of the military colonies have been arrested ; others have succeeded in making their escape , and have fled into Asia , or to the Caucasus . In connexion with this affair is the errand of Baron Von Osten-Sachen , adjutant of Prince Paskewitch , to Constantinople , where he has been sent to keep a strict watch on the proceedings of the political refugees in that city , and to ascertain whether any of the deserted officers are concealed there .

      The Berlin ' Wehr Zeitung' publishes a detailed account of the Russian army , from which it appears that the army consists of 17 corps to 107 military administrative districts . They are . divided and subdivided into 74 divisions , 241 * brigades , 322 regiments , 889 battalions , 3251 batteries , 1 , 469 i eacadrons , 4 , 900 companies , with 18 arsenals , 7 military factories , and 501 artillery parks .

      BOSNIA . By a telegraphic despatch , ' by Vienna , it is reported that the troops of the Seraskier have entered victorious into Tuzla . Mosiar was in a state of insurrection ; it bad sent a deputation to the Seras . kier offering to submit , hut with the condition that all the Turkish authorities should be displaced .

      TURKEY . The Hungarian Hefugbes . —The ' Gomer olskt' announces that the affair of the Hungarian refugees has been finally arranged—America bas offered them an asylum which they have accepted , and has undertaken to provide for their wants ; the Ottoman Government pays their expenses so Liverpool , and the . English Government their expenses from thence to America . The arrangement was proposed by the Ottoman Government and acceded to by England and America .

      IONIAN ISLANDS . The' National' publishes a letter from the Ionian Islands , dated the 8 th inst ., announcing that the Lord High Commissioner had been again obliged to prorogue the House of Representatives , in order to prevent the adoption of the following seditious decree by the Assembly : — ' Whereas , the independence , sovereignty , and nationality of every people are natural and imprescriptible rights ; ' Whereas the people of the Seven Ionian Island ? , forming an inseparable portion of the Hellenic nation , are now deprived of the enjoyment and real exercise of those rights ;

      • Whereaf , moreover , the motives for which they were placed under British protection , in virtue of a treaty , to which they never gave any sort of assent , have totally disappeared ; ' Whereas , finally , a portion of the Hellenic na-

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      lion to which they belong that is , independent Greece—has already reconquered its rig hts of nationality and sovereignty : ¦' . ' * For these reasons the first Free Assemby of the Representatives of the Seven Islands declare : — _ ' That the unanimous , firm , and unalterable wish . ojpthe people of . ' the Seven Hellenic Islands is to Mcovet their independence and procure their annexation to their own nation—independent Greece . ' This solemn declaration shall be forwarded by a message of the Chamber : ¦ to the protecting Power , With a request to communicate it to the other European Governments , in order that they may combine means for tbe speedy execution of the pre * sent decree . ' Greece ( Corfu , ) 8 th Dec , 1850 . ' The resolution was signed by eleven

      representatives .

      SICILY . The Concordia' of Turin of the 20 th inst . confirms the intelligence of disturbances having broken out in Sicily , adding that numerous bands have appeared in the vicinity , of Suana , Dorleone , and St , Joseph ; that several encounters have taken place , in which the Neapolitan troops have been forced to retreat , and that General Pronio has left Palermo , with some regiments of the line and several pieces of artillery , in order to restore tranquillity in the disturbed districts .

      UNITED STATES . By the United States mail steam ship Atlantic , Capt . West , we are in receipt of one day's later intelligence from tbe United States and the British colonial possessions . Another large importation of gold dust has been received at New York from California by the steamship Georgia . The amount received amounted to two-and-a-half million of dollars ; and one-and ahalf million dollars were on the way in the steamer Cherokee . . The brig Union has arrived at New Orleans , with 200 , 000 dols . of gold in freight and 160 passengers , from Vera Cruz .

      We regret to state that the advices per the Georgia , as far as relates to the health of the mining and other population , are very unfavourable . The cholera had not abated its virulence . The number of deaths in Sacramento city for the week ending October 26 th was ninety . This was considered a large mortality , in proportion to the amount of population . The steam-ship Sagamore had burst her boiler at San Francisco , causing a loss of seventy-five to 100 lives .

      A large hospital for the insane , at Augusta ( Maine ) , was destroyed by fire on the 4 th and at least twenty-eight of tbe lunatics perished in the flames . It is supposed that the fire was occasioned by a defect in the chimney . Some of the lunatics gave the alarm as soon as the fire was discovered , but the keeper ; , supposing the noise to be the accustomed ravings , gave no heed to them until they discovered that the building was filling with smoke . ' With but few exceptions , all those lost were incurable , and it is believed that most of them died from

      suffocation . It is estimated that the damage done to the hospital can he repaired for 50 , 000 dollars . The entire building , and seven others , were destroyed . Those who perished were all males . Those in the female galleries were all saved . Much difficulty was experienced in removing the insane , some ol whom had to be forced out of the building . Others , after being put out , would rush back . One poor fellow , after being twice taken away , ran back to his gallery and perished . There were 124 inmates of the hospital , of whom , we are informed , some seventy . nine males occupied the wings in which the fire ratpad . Large numbers of . the inmates were necessarily turned loose at once , and were wandering at random . Many others were taken to the gaol , to the alms-house , and to the dwellings of the citizens .

      Nothing of importance had taken place in Con gress .

      JAMAICA . We have received shocking accounts of the ravages of cholera in Jamaica for three or four weeks past . A letter from Kingston states that ' about 4 , 000 persons have died in this city from cholera , out of a population of 35 , 000 . In Spanish Town 1 , 500 deaths out of a population of 7 , 000 . At Port Royal , 250 death out of a population of 1 , 000 . The deaths are mostly among the negroes , who have beeu very heartless towards sufferers . The highest number of deaths at Kingston in a single day was 240—they are now down to fifty . The dreadful pestilence is subsiding . '

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      Characters of the Exglish , Irish , and Scotch . —Looking at the population of the three kingdoms , it may easily be perceived that there is a considerable difference amongst them with respect to temperament . The Irish are gay , ardent ; the Scotch are comparatively cool , steady , and cautious ; the English ate , perhaps , a fair average between the two . 1 remember it was not inelegantly observed by a friend of mine , that an Englishman thinks and speaks ; a Scotchman thinks twice before he speaks ; and an Irishman speaks before he thinks . A lady present added , " A Scotchman thinks with his head " ; an Irishman with his heart . " This allusion to impulse operating more rapidly than deliberation , is akin to Miss Edgeworth ' s remarks , that an Irishman may err with his head , never with his heart ; the truth , however , being that he " obeys" his heart , not always waiting for the dictates of his head .

      Some yean ago there was a caricature , very graphically portraying these grades of difference in the ardour of the three nations . An Englishman , an Irishman , and a Scotchman were represented as looking through a confectioner ' s window at a beautiful young woman serving in the shop . "Oh !" exclaims Mr . Patrick , "do let us be after spending a hblt ' -a-crown with the dear crayture , that we may look at her conveniently , and have a bit of chat with her . "— "You extravagant dog ! " says Mr . George , " I ' m sure one-half the money will do quite as well . But let us go in by all means ; she ' s a charming girl . "— " Ah ! wait a wee ' . " interposed Mr . Andrew ; " dinna ye ken it'll serve our purpose equally weel just to ask the bonnie lassie to gie us fcwa sixpences for a shilling , and inquire where ' s Mr . Toompson ' s hoose , and sic like ? We ' re no hungry , and may as well save the siller . "—Smith ' s Irish Diamonds .

      Civility . — " What is the best attitude for selfdefence ? " said a pupil ( putting on the gloves ) to a well known pugilist . " Keep a civil tongue in your head , was the significant reply .

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      Amazing Success of the New Mode of Treatment . r ) R . BARKER ' S Compound Indian Ex-1 J tract , for Secret Debility , and Impediments to Mar . is i tothe

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      • *«„ -, e „ u „ veiy uircctca - cure of nervous and sexual debility , irregularity , weakness , consumptive habits , and debilities arising from mental irritability , local or constitutional weakness , generative diseases , <_ c . It is a mostpowerfulandusefulmedicine in all cases of syphilis , or any of the previous symptoms which indicate approachlug dissolution , such as depression of the spirits , melan . olioly , trembling of the hands ' dp limbs , disordered nerves , and inward wastings . The fine softening qualities of the Compound Indian Extract is peculiarly adapted to remove £ . _ i \? ? _ ' and Squally to restore the system to a neauuy state-even where sterility seems to have fastened on the constitution , this medicine will warm and purify the blood and fluids , invigorate the body , aad remove

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      . _ — == —* _ _„ . _„ . rtfl c _ rt with the utmost safety confide th » mMl" >» _ and of Dr . Barker , asthe most honour ^ f ™ f dalt , delicacy are observed in every case . At fljnw «« " / for consultation from 9 till 1 mornings , and 5 tul 8 evenings ' . Sundays excepted . «„ . « ni PostToffice orders to be made payable at the General Post Office , to Dr . Alfred Barker , 48 , Lirerpool-street , S oros ' s , Won . . A cure effected or the money returned in all cases .

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC Jj pills . — The following testimonial is another proof of the creat efficacy of this Medicine : — Ot tne great e ^„ Bon (] ^^ Iondw ) i October 12 th , 1850 ^ . < tin _ Tn acouaintinR you with the great benefit which I haVe eTperfenfed by . &_« BLAIR'sW AND RHETJMATIC PILLS , I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly afflicted . About twenty years since I was first attacked by Kheiima . Ue Oout in my hands and feet . I had previously been subieoted to every variety of climate , having served in Canada in the 19 th Dragoons , and in Spain , under Sir John Moore , in the 18 th Hussars . I always procured the best medical aid , but without obtaining any essential relief , and m » onff ^ ririffg can be annreciated only by those who know

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      CURES FOR THE UflOUIlED ! HOIiLOWAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s , Evil . Extract of aletter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . Sin , —My eldest son , when about three years . of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the necfi , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An emtnent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The 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 nnder the eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital

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      IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE NEW MODE OF TREATMENT . As adopted by Lallemand , Ricord , Dislandis and others , of the Hopital des Veneriens a I ' aris , a .: < £ not , uniformly practised in this country b y WALTER DE ROOS , M . D ., 35 , Ely Place , Holbokn Hill , London , author of ., ¦ THE MEDICAL ADVISER , 144 pages , improved edition , written in a popular style , devoid of technicalities , and addressed to all those who are suffering from Spermatorrhoea , Seminal Weakness , and the v « . rious disqualifying forms of premature decay rcsultinit from infection and youthful abuse , that most delusive practice by which the vigour and manliness of life are ener vated and destroyed , even before nature has fully established the powers and stamina ol the constitution

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      , , , oarting from the routine of gmral practice , devotes the parting from the routine of general practice , devotes the whole el bis studies to this class of diseases , the lamentable neglect of which by ordinary medical men , and their futile attempts at cure by mercury and other equall y dangerous medicines , have produced the most alarming re . From the great extent of Db . Dx Roos ' s practice for many vears and hie former connexion with the various institu . fcnns both in London and Pans , for the relief of those at flirted with Debility , Syphilis , Secondary Symptoms , Stric-?« £ » Gleet , Teneral and Scorbutic eruptions , & c . of the ?»™ and bodv : he has had perhaps unusual facilities for

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      ON THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND General character of SYPHILUS , STRICTURES , Affections ef the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , _ c , followed by a mild , successful and expeditious mode of treatment . Thirty-first edition , Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings ' on Steel . Now and improved Edition , enlarged to 196 pages , ust published , prict 2 s . 6 d ; or by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . 6 d . in postage stamps . " THE SILENT FRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Spmptoms , Gonorrhsea . & c , with a PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR PREVENTION :

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 28, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_28121850/page/2/