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      FRANCE . Paris , Sa _turday- * -The Approaching _Eikctions . —The delegates of the Socialists had a formal meeting last nigfet to consider the question of tbe choice of ibe candidates on the Republican and _SocSdist interests atthe approaching elections for the ' department _bf'the Seine ; ; The meeting _fcasengaged in'hearing- the opinions of the different candidates , arid deliberating on * the choice till ten'Vctock this HiorBing _. ' when they came to a _resolutiea , by a _larga majority , that tbe candidates chosen by the majority of the meeiing should have the rapport of the whole ofthe united _parties . M , Emile de Girardin attended tbe meeting forthe _purpose of explaining his principles . "Dl _iimatel y a ballot was taken , when the vole was declared to be in favour of the following names , wbo may be considered the Socialist candidates : —

      --J *' ..-. 1 . M . Frangois Vidal , _ex-delegate of the Luxembourg . 2 . ; M . de Flotte , ex-officer of the French army . It ' wili ' _Tre remembered that he was deeply implicated in the affair of the 15 ih of May . - 3 / _Carnoi-1 , Minister of Public Instruction nnder the P / ovisionil Government . The € itizen de Flotte must not be confounded ¦ wi th _the'Qs « _tnier ' Flotte , the friend of Blanqui . He is a ' Republican and Montagnard . After serving for m aiiy " jwrt * as jl lieutenant in the French army he was obliged to leave it on account of his _republic -canisui , and has since been frequently imprisoned for -his political opinions . *• M . Frangois "Vidal is a-well known Socialist writer .

      • As t _* t M . Carnot , be . is best kuown as 'he son of the great Carnot , who was Minister of War during ! "Erst _involution . His own principal political act was ihe famous circular which , as Minister of Public Instruction , he addressed to tbe primary teachers of -France .. . ; -A aumOer of merchants , operatives , and others , had _previously voted the following address to the - delegates chosen by the Democratic Socialist Electoral Committee : — 'Citizen Delegates , —We must be either Royalist or Republican . At present every _Jibyalist is a conspirator . The duty of each of us 'isi to " support the Republic . Ia order to sustain it

      : vre aiust oe united . Uaion is force . The operative -.-and the ia _' _erebaat are united by their feelings and [ 'their interests , which are common . They must : _> therefore remain united , particularly for the elections . 'Tlie success of the Democrats in the elections for ' Paris will have an _immense effect throughout France . The impulse from Paris will be decisive , for Paris is ' " at once the head and the heart of France . The ' " merchants , consequently , comprehending all the importance , of the situation of affairs , and in order to _i ' secure the triumph of the Republic , declare that tbey ! -frill-adhere-to the list , whatever it maybe , tbat "shall be selected by tbe Democratic Socialist _Comf-tnittee _? - '

      " - -The 'Sieele , ' the ' National , ' tbe ' Presse , ' and " several ' other Moderate papers , as well as the ' Re" jubhque ' _-tfhd * Voix du Peupie , ' accept the Socialist list as the definitive one , and call on all their friends . to -support It . " The ' Presse , ' in giving tbe list \ says : — ' However significant the names of _Leflalte , "Vidal ; and' Carnot may he , there is reason for _astonishment that they are not still more extreme . They ¦ sij _* Biiy" a ' "protest , in the name of violated justice , against transportation . without trial ; a protest , in the name bf enlightened Socialism , against the pretended ' InfaUiiiiHiy of the police ; and a protest , in the name of suppressed liberty , against the prosecution'of the schoolmasters . It is enough that these

      names _should'have this signification to induce us to " * rall y round them without hesitation , and without " oui remembering tbat the name of the former ' Minister ' of "Public Instruction was preferred to thai ofthe chief editor of tbe * Presse . ' We more than - ever ' persist in thinking that , if there is still time to - stop the government and . the majority in their _progress towards the fatal precipice which is leading .. them to their doom , it will only be arrived at by voting deliberately on tbe 10 th of March for tbe list - adopted this morning by the central committee of -the Republican delegates . Perhaps other names ' mig b ' t have had a better chance of success , but these names have been chosen . We mast think no more of it . ' L _» t there be no tardiness , and no sterile _re--criminations . We must now look but to one end

      _ttnd-one means . ' i < : The Conservatives are far from being so united in ¦ ' the choice of their candidates of the Socialists . "The partisans ofthe Elysee call upon the electors -to" support no one bnt Gen . de la Hitte , M- Donjean , '" arid M . " Arrighi de Padone . The' Debats' and other . moderate papers insist upon it that the electors should be allowed freely to select from among the -eleven names put forward by the Electoral Union . ' -The committee of the ' Six Decembre , ' composed of pure Buonapartists , but not approving of tbe present Ministry , has selected three candidates of its ' own .

      ' Besides this serious diversity of opinion , the * _Unirin _, ' tbe organ of tbe Legitimists , is very reserved , and declares tbat it will not blindl y accept the candidates the Electoral Union may choose to present . It gives no list of its own ; but it . com . plains that among the eleven names contained in the list of the Electoral Union , there is not one who is known as an undoubted Legitimist . AU this shows that the party of Order is not by any means so united as conld be wished ; and tbat the heterogeneous masses of wbich it is composed do not appear prepared for ' a pull , a long pull , and a pull altogether . ' .

      _Icknbin the ASSEMBLY . —On Saturday , Thiers bavin , * attacked the men who governed France in the first days of the Republic , General Cavaignac _replied with energy , and did his best to conceal , but could not , the effect produced on him by these censures . After a scene of recrimination of a violent kind , and after repeated calls to order , M . Emanuel Arago addressed the house , but still the storm raged In the Mountain . The authority of the President ( General Bedeau ) was repeatedly set at defiance . MM . Arago and Jale 3 Favre replied to M . Thiers in

      the most personal manner . M . Thiers again spoke but his explanations did more mischief than his orig inal speech . Having spoken of the days of February as * fatal , ' his voice was completel y drowned by the furious shouts of tbe Left . M . Latnartine stood forth as the champion of the * g lorious Revolution of February , * and his words were applauded with frenzy by the Mountain , The sitting lasted to an unusuall y late hour ( past eight o ' clock . ) and the adjournment took place amidst _grt _* t agitation .

      On Monday great confusion ensued in consequence of M . Jules Leroux persisting in reading a long historical sketch of the first revolution though he had been repeatedly called to order by the President . The Assembly was consulted by the President as to -whether M . Leroux should not be compelled to quit the tribune . The Assembly assented , and M . Leroux _ret-req * to bis place , The lender will understand that tbe following is from tbe journal of an enemy : —The election of Messrs . ScVcalcher and Perrinon for Gnadaloupe is confirmed 1 they have been named by a very large majority . Their opponents were M . Cherbonneau _, tbe cure of Pointe-a-Pitre , and M . Alexandre Dumas . The result of the ballot was made known

      on the 18 th ult ., and the victorious party manifested its joy iu the most turbulent manner . Disorderly dances took place in tbe streets , and bands of negroes went through tbe streets , crying 'Vive Schoelcher ! vive Perrinon ! ' They stopped before thehcu . es of the white inhabitants or men of colour who were not Socialists , crying'A bas les aristocrats ! ' ' A bas les blancs ! ' _» Vive la Mohtagne !' The Procureur de la Repuhlique has ordered tbe seizure of a pamphlet by Ledru Rollin , entitled 4 24 th Fevrier , ' as containing—first , excitement to hatred and contempt against the government of tbe Republic ; secondly , exciting citizens one against the other ; and , thirdly , insults against the person of the President of the Republic .

      _Proceedings are also instituted against the printers of placards relating to the elections , who have acted contrary to the laws on that subject , and bave ordered such placards to be torn down . The - Patrie' having stated that Ledru Rollin had had an interview with Lord Palmerston , the proscribed champion of Freedom has addressed the following letter to the editor of tbat paper : — Sir , — I am not in the habit of contradictingall tbe inventions that are propagated about me , but tbat which i 8 contained in your " number of the 22 nd February _CTTies wiih it sueh an affirmative character , that I fcel myself obli ged to contradict it . I bave never 52 \ _™**( uencR " _^ h Lord Palmerston ; I need net add I have never demanded one . Not Ithstanding . then , the exactitude of your information * , your acconnt a _fto _, _„ inyention i froni beginning t 0 ™& 8 _*¦«>** _RoLEurLondo Feb

      _% _ts to-ft' _* ' _.- D , . 23 td , 1850 _/ _;— — - — . _yuwu _,- _* _™ Theother _RepubUcai papera ne _eqwllyearnest a calling oa their friend- * to irote for the " tbm

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      selected candidates . They _tdUnem _' _tha _* the _qoeition is nov _^ fly - _pntSof _, _J'M 6 nar _* j _% _w « _epiMic , _* and tbat on the _lOthiof March that question wilt be settled . . . . _^^ is \ _*" , £ , ¦ v _USp ! _f _& _it- - ''' Toe Pr % ureur " 6 f 4 he _RtSpt-WiVof ' tbe 'Seine-Has given ordehforthe _^ trict - " execution of thriawof the 10 th December , 1830 , which interdicts the posting up of any bills treating ; of political matters . This is the more extraordinary ,- considering that an election is about to take place in the capital . - ' The consequence of it is that the police can stop even the addressesof the Socialist candidates . « n ft , J

      ANNIVKBSABf OF THE REVOLUTION , _JJBB . _£ _* . " - To-day is the anniversary of the proclamation of the republic , and it is ushered in by beautiful weather . There is Httle fear of any demonstration , as the de . mocrats are determined to be quiet , and , as their organs say , are not to be provoked by any stratagem to make a manifestation . . -.- ¦ . - The democratic journals publish a manifesto , say . ing that they will have no feast—no demonstration . The manifesto runs thus : — . . ¦ Anniversar y of Feb . 24 . —v _\ e shall not sit down to-day to our fraternal feast . We shall not adorn our houses with garlands and torches . No banquets , no illuminations . ' We shall content ourselves with hanging crowns on the bronze ' that covers onr deceased : brethren . Wa shall separate _, in order to give no pretext for provocation . In

      1850 , as in 1849 , the anniversary of the revolution is not a day of joy but of mourning . The present , instead of belonging to liberty , belongs to despotism . Listen to tbe voices that rise ; they do not bear to heaven the hymn of independence , of glory , and happiness ! They , are but the leave-taking of prisoners , which are carried away by the wind towards the land of exile ; they are the curses of soldiers , to whom stupid absolutism has given the part of executioners ; they are the groans of citizens and poor men , who die in bankruptcy and misery . Tbe dead will pardon us for not drinking the cup to the gratitude we . owe them . Our hearts can only find room for the regrets which their loss inspires . And tben , what toast could we drink ? Not a toast to liberty _, for it is dead ; not to equality , which no one will have ; and notto fraternity . We leave oiir joy as a legacy to future generations .

      • * To the citizens who died for liberty on the 24 th of February , 1848 , the grateful future ! Vivela Repuhlique !' . " The steamer in which the insurgents of June , detained at Belle-Isle , were embarked , sailed from Brest for Algeria on the 19 ult . Paris . Monday . —The anniversary of the revolution _, yesterday , passed off with perfect calm . The weather being beautifully fine , there were vast

      crowds of _promenades on the Boulevards , in tbe public gardens , the Champs Elysees , and , other p laces of resort ; in the Champs Elysees , in particular , the gathering of pedestrians and the display of equipages were larger and more brilliant than bad been seen for the last two years . During the day there was a crowd of workmen , nearly all attired in tbeir Sunday clothes , around the Column on the Place de la Bastille , and the railing of tbe Coluraa was decked with crowns of immortelles .

      A religious ceremony was performed in all tbe churches of Paris , on the occasion ofthe anniversary of the 24 th of Feb ., and a Te Deumwas sung . The Archbishop of Paris officiated at Notre Dame . Additional telegraphic despatches have , been received to-day from the departments . Everywhere the greatest calm reigned on the 24 th of Feb ., excepting at Carcassone , where there was some agit ' a tion in honour of Barbes ( who is a native of tbat place . ) but it was easily kept down . Paris Tuesday . —In the Legislative Assembly to day the second reading of the Public Instruction Bill was carried hy a large majority , and the Assembly determined , by a majority of 436 to 205 , that it should pass to the third reading .

      To-day we have been threatened with some disturbances in consequence of a piece of overzeal on the part of the police . I yesterday informed you that a considerable number of " tbe friends of the victims of tbe revolution " of July , 1830 , and February , 1848 , had gone to deposit crowns of everlasting at the foot ofthe Column of July , on the Place de la Bastille , where the victims are interred . This morning it was discovered tbat during the night the whole of these tokens of grief and _sff . 'ction ( for they very rarely bave any political meaning ) had disappeared , and it was soon discovered that this very wanton act had been committed by the police ; A more gratuitous insult could not have been offered to the oeople , nor one more likely to exasperate the

      inhabitants of tbe Faubourg St . Antoine , wbich is in the close neighbourhood . At au early hour this morning crowds began to assemble around tbe column , and in the course bf the morning a procession of about 1 , 200 persons arrived , carrying wreaths and crowns , to replace those which had been carried away . This demonstration was quite peaceable , but there were a good many cries of " Vivela Repuhlique ' and others not quite so agreeable to the powers that br , The procession was dispersed , and from time to time strong parties of sergens de vide cleared the the Place de Bastille . Ultimatel y tbe crowds dispersed , happily without any collision , but certainl y it is not the fault of the police tbat the affair has passed ofF quietly .

      Two bales of Socialist pamphlets , weighing 1601 bs ., printed in _Belgium and smuggled into France , were seized near Lille by the Custom-house officers on Thursday last . Accounts from Cabors of the 23 d ult ' , state tbat a seditious movement had taken place on the preceding night amongst the Socialists of tbat town aud Vigau . The Prefect , however , being on his guard , the movement was suppressed and several of the leaders were arrested . . M . Dubain , the editor of the ' Paysan , ' of _Rennes , wbo was prosecuted for having published a seditious libel , has been acquitted b y a jury of that town .

      M . Suquet , responsible editor of tbe * Temps , ' was yesterday condemned by default to three years' imprisonment and 6 , 000 f . fine for an article in that journal containing attacks against the government , and vindicating facts considered as misdemeanours by the law .

      SWITZERLAND . The following is from tbe Paris correspondence ef the ' Times ' : — 'Letters from Geneva of the 10 th ult ., ' state that affairs in Switzerland are becoming every day more complicated and the fermentation of the public . mind greater . The political refugees of all nations congregated there feel that the critical moment has arrived , and tbat something must be done now or never . Rumours of approaching insurrections in France , Germany , and Italy were rife ; and for the last 15 days an incessant - movement of the chief conspirators has been remarked both at Lausanne and Geneva , and correspondence exchanged with London and Paris . The _Becret committees are in permanence , and agents have set out in various directions . The activity of the

      propaganda has increased ahundredfold , and incendiary publications Issued daily from the Lausanne press . Ten thousand copies of Eugene Sue ' s work , 'Les Mysteres du Peupie , ' have been printed there , and distributed all over the country . . _ The journal' JLa _Smsae , ' of tbe' 19 th nit . confirms tbe information 1 pave you several days since , that no official note had been communicated to the Federal Council on the part of tbe Powers , and that tbe question of Neufchatel had bean the subject of diplomatic negotiations . That statement , as well as others in the letter of . the same day , touching the determination of the Federal ' Govemment in case of invasion , are also fully confirmed in the following' Circular , * addressed by the Council to the Governments of all the cantons , but particularl y to those of the frontier : — 'Berne , Feb , 15 . '

      1 Faithful and dear Confederates , —Several journals - have announced that some powers , among other Austria and Prussia , are concentrating troops destined to march against Switzerland _^ and even to invade it , in order to wrest from it certain concessions incompatible with its di gnity and independence . Although up to the present time there has been addressed to us , on the part of those Powers , no note , written or verbal , m demand , direct or indirect , ot the nature of those referred to in the public papers —notes or demands relative to the refugees , and which would tend to enroacb on the institutions and the rights of Switzerland ; although these Powers have no grievances against the Confederation , which

      has spontaneously fulfilled its obli gations , and will continue to fulfil them ; although we are consequently very far from admitting or even from supposing the projects ascribed to those powers—notwithstanding that ; we say , our duty being to watch over ths aaftey of Switzerland and the maintenance of its independence as well as its neutrality , we beg of yon to make known what you may know or learn touching the concentrations or movements of forei gn troops , which might be directed against Switzerland , in order that if , contrary to all expectation , _theiumoura which are spread be well founded , we miy be able to take in good part all the measures required for the defence ofthe country . You know ,

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      dearand faithful confederates , if , on the one h _' and , Switzerland does _^ _mean ; to llo . _^ her soil to serve as tbe centip of _£ a ; propaganda _^ - ; and of | schemes which mayl | cauae disquietude ttf | nei g hb-iuririg states , as ' theFederal Council 'has- ; proved' _byvits decree of tbe loth of July , 1849 , and | itsbth measures relative to the sending into the interior- of the refugees , and the expulsion . , of their chiefsmeasures which are not concessions , but the free and voluntary accomplishment of our free and international duties ; on tW other-hand , - strong in this _pojitidnrswitzerland will know how to resistrwith the energy which the sentiment'ofagood . cause gives , any demand which may ! exceed , the limits of .

      its duties , any attack on its ri gbts ; sucb is . tbe _. firm resolution ef the nation , and of its authorities , both cantonal and federal ., It is consequently our reaolution also , certain as we are . that , if Switzerland does not ' provoke / she ' will not shrink before , menaces . - But _werepeatjthat the hostilities with which certain journals menace _Switzerland are so devoid of foundationj they would be so contrary to re-son-and ' . to justice , ! so to oppose to ' the maintenance of general tranquillity , that we ' _. . should consider it an insult to the , powers to suppose tbat they Jwould allow themselves to be misled by a party'which does not cease to calumniate Switzerland , in the hope that , _deceiving tha European governments by its continual falsehoods ; it will succeed in making them serve as instruments

      tilts perilous designs . Do not either believe this party when it states that the Federal Council has complied with the injunctions of diplomacy , or has anticipated its . exigencies . That is as . contrary to the truth as ¦ when it : pretends that the Federal Council has not the power to cause , its orders ; to be respected , or that Switzerland is a permanent cause , of perturbation to the neighbouring states . These , inventions are , like so many others , part of the schemes of the reactionary party , on which it is necessary to have . the eye open . We seize this occasion to recommend you , dear and faithful confederates , and ourselves , to the Divine protection . —In tbe name of the Swiss Federal CounciV _> H . _DrtJe y , President of the Confederation . . ' * N . Vrar Moos , Substitute of the Chancellor of the Confederation . '

      GERMANY . PRUSSIA . — The , « Kolner Zeitung ' has two electric despatches from Berlin ofthe 21 st ult . —one stating that bis Majesty the King of Prussia is con . fined to his apartments in consequence of an accident he met with in walking ; and the other containing tbe announcement that the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament has voted an extraordinary supply , of 18 000 , 000 thalers for the War-office . Another despatch froni Berlin of the 20 th ult . , states that the President of the Cabinet has communicated to the members of the two _^ houses a Royal message , from which it appears that the prorogaiion of the Prussian Parliament came off on the 26 th ult . ¦¦ ¦ ' . ' - ,

      _-.-The 'Cologne Gazette' of Saturday publishes a telegraphic message from Berlin , dated the 22 nd ult ., stating that at midni ght the jury had returned a verdict of , N 6 t guilty . ' in the case of tbirty-six of the members of the National Assembly iaccuaed of exciting the people hot : to pay the taxes , but had found . Bucher and three others guilty . " The court on the following morning pronounced its sentence upon the convicted , prisoners . Bucher and _Plath were sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment and loss of their respective offices ( the former held a judicial office , and the latter that of a _Biirgermaster . ) The others were sentenced to six months ' imprisonment .

      The German question has come under , discussion in the- Upper Chamber of Saxony . Some of the speeches were violent denunciations of the Prussian policy , and its Bund its motives and means , and indicated- a strong- opposition to any accession to or countenance of the Erfurt plan . Its object _; it was asserted , is not . a . strong Germany , but , a strong Prussia ; under the hypocritical mask of a popu ' ar constitution it-was attempting to bring back ' the most absolute despotism . This is about tbe mildest specimen of the language used . M . Mammen declared he should prefer a -revival ofthe old confederation , with ail its ' shame and disgrace' to Germany , to tbe establishment of what -was called

      the « Three Kings Bund . ' There are three motions before the house . The third , made by M . Von Carlo witz , is only - eventual , ' or to be proposed if either of the other two are accepted .. The first is for the production of the correspondence , upon the accession of Bavaria and Wirtemberg to the treaty of the 26 th of May , adding-the expectation that the Saxon government will not form any union ; that does not fulfil the just expectations of-the German people—namely , a- central power surrounded b > Constitutional guarantees , a Parliamentary government , and representation . M . Joseph , the mover of the second resolution ,, protests in it against : any

      union that does not include the whole German race , and all the ri g hts ofthe German grundrecht _, ; as published by the Frankfort Assembly on tbe 2 nd of March , 1849 . If _reither of , these resolutions be carried M . ' Carlowifz is ready to pledge the Chamber to a declaration that the laying before it . the' negotiations on the German question for its mere information is a sli g ht to theV constitutional functions ol those bodies . M . Carlowitz thinks if Germany waits for either Bavaria or Austria , it may wait a very in . definite time ; be- is therefore prepared ' to go ' through and by Prussia to Germany , ' being nearly tbe only advocate the Bund found in . the Chamber .

      AUSTRIA AND _HUNGARY . VIENNA , Ffb . 17 . —The 'Weiner Zeitung , ' of this day , contains a semiofficial article , in which the introduction of a new stamp-tax is announced . M . Kraus expects to get a revenue of three millions sterling from this new fiscal expedient . The ' Gratz Gazette' announces that General d'Aspre has received orders to march on Rome , and setup tbe double eagle again over the Austrian embassy , while the'Pope makes bis entry into the Eternal City . - ' : '" _- : _] ' ' ¦ /•;< . On the-12 th the prefect of police at Agram notified to the editor of the ' Siavenski Jug , ' that the Ban Jellachich had given orders for the suppression of tbat paper , and proceeded to seize the , number of the day .

      . Forty-one Honveds , belonging to a regiment stationed at Ebersdorf have made their escape from the barrack i with their arms and their accoutrements . Desertions of this kind bave latel y been very numerous , aiid in most cases the deserters have been successful in escaping with their arms-Three of the political offenders confined in Presburg have likewise succeeded in making their escape , notwithstanding the extraordinarily strict watch

      kept over them . ' The Minister of War has recently sent orders to Haynau to raise a new levy Of 24 . 000 Honveds . General Haynau has on this occasion called out tbe members of the former Mobile Natio » al Guards of the large towns like Presburg , Pesth , " & c . , to the great consternation and irritation of all the principal families . Many of the parties knowing they were likely to be called ; upon have escaped by flight . :..... .... V - _" , " .. ' r

      - - . . ITALY . ROMAN STATES . —The « Nazionale' publishes a letter from Rome of the 13 th : ult ., stating that upwards of 500 persons had been arrested since the preceding day . Most of them are shopkeepers , functionaries * and persons in easy , circumstances . Even-ladies had . not . been spared .- On the : 12 th three or four Frenchmen more had been ¦ _stabbed ; and from forty to fifty persons arrested on that account .. The advanced , sentinel , of the Campo Vaccino had beeu - stabbed immediately after the publication ol General Baraguay d'Hillier ' s proclamation . Two trasteverins were to be shot on the 13 th ult . for having knives about them ' The French and Roman police were actively engaged in stopping and searching people in the ' streets .

      Lettersfrom Rome of the 18 th lilt ., state that the assassin of the French so'dier of the 53 d Reriment was shot on the day previous on the Piazza del Popolo , pursuant to sentence of courtmartial . There were upwards of . 10 , 000 persons present to witness the execution . The man who had attempted to murder Lieutenant _Vessigny bas made disclosures , and , in addition to those already implicated , five others have been arrested . TUSCANY . —The ' Piedmontese Gazette' states from Florence , 18 th ult ., that a person publicly received forty strokes of the bastinado at Leghorn on the 16 th ult ., for having insulted the authorities . On the 17 th ult . M . Zappoli and Cenni ( the latter was aide-de-camp to Garibaldi ) were suddenly arrested at Bologna . At Pesaro the Gonfalonierc was arrested on the 12 th ult ., for having 250 loaded military muskets , 80 . swords , and five drums in his

      pats _ssion . SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN . _,. Berlin ,: Feb 23 . —Prussia has refused to renew the armistice with Denmark for six monthB ,-on the ground that she cannot countenance tbe continuance

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      of a provisional _gqveraraiiit _^ n th ' e _^' _licb-f of _Scbles-WigV'Wbicfifrei _$ rely _parity _^ " s _^ istai ( tie if > lth ' e 1 pe ' oplei whose acts . anjfi'in direct opposition Iwith ftheyreasonable . wisbe »! tof the peop le _, an 'd whose- ' _adifflwsfeationcaVo _^ _^ defended by any princip le of poHtical . _ormord rig _hts _-i RUSSIA . ' ' _"" - " The Czar ' s way of " treating the guests whom he invites to dinner is put in a characteristic light by a _decreed wfiic _* _£ has just , been _promulgatedpyvthe head-prefect _„ of _.. police , .. menacing . with the most rigorous , punishments tbe owners as well as servants of' equipages '¦; _ iwhich - act ' v 5 disorderly upon such

      occasions . . The "' St . Petersburgh'Gazette' contains ' an imperial ordinance of police , - in ivhich , - after . animadverting upon tbefrequent insults inflicted " : On gendarmes at the ' doers of theatres ; and ; pth _* er ' p laces : of public resort , by coachmen , outriders ,: and . lacqueys , ic is mentionedtbata- law was enacted , in .. 1839 , tbata gendarme was-to be considered in future as inviolable as a sentinel ; and _. that any persons of the categories mentioned caught insulting a gendarme would _beseizeflonthespot and made recruits ' : of ' Notwithstanding this , ' says the ordinance , ' 'the

      equipages , which , jlrove away onthe 3 rd of February from the Winter Palace , after ; " dinner , were , _disorderly in consequence of not observing the established sequence ,: and the coachmen nearly disregarded altogether the prohibition of the gendarmes . His Majesty the Emperor ' observed this ¦ disorder , and has been pleased to command that al ) -such breaches of order in future the law of 1839 will be carried out with rigour ; . and , moreover , _thatthe . owners of such equipages , in case , they knowingly counive at such misdemeanours of their .. people , will be subjected to responsibility , and . punished , with the full rigour of the laws . ' .. , ;

      THE GREEK QUESTION . We have received , through our Malta correspondent , dates from Athens to the 29 th January . The capture and detention of Greek merchant vessels by British Cruisers continued , and up to the date mentioned amounted to forty-one , chiefly grain-laden , taken at the _Pirwus , _Poros , Spezzia , and Syra , and carried into Salamis . Other five or six were taken at Patras , and sent into Corfu in charge of prize crews . The number of Greek ships of war detained amount to five , the largest of which is the Ottone steamer . ' ' . ' . ¦ ' ' , ; ' , ' . ' ... .. ' ;

      king _Olbo and bis ministers have expressed their determination not to accede ¦ to the [ demands of Great Britain , unless , the other two protecting 'Powers ( Russia and _. France ) counsel such a measure . The exchange of dip lomatic notes had ceased for some days , partly byreason of the instructions which the Ministers of France and Russia were awaiting , from tbeir respective : ' governments , and partly from tbe boisterous weather prevailing , which rendered communications wi th' the bay ; of Salamis , where Mr . Wyse and Admiral Sir Wm . Parker , with all his fleet except the Odin , were at ; anchor . The

      merchants of Greece had protested against the capture and detention of merchant vessels , rand , though ! the people seemed at ; first'to _side * with the Ministry , there were at-the latest date . signs , of an opposite _feelings which , might ' become serious ; * " ~ he only ' ships of war at the . Piraks weire the Odini Britishsteam- frigate ; the Diana corvette , the Marianha Steamer ( Austrian , ) the Vedette French steamer , and a Russian corvette ., An English war-steamer is said to have run' on shore , by being ' decoyed on to a dangerous'shallow by a small Greek merchant craft which she was in the act of chasing . •' ¦ ¦ - ,:

      Athens , Feb . 4 _.- —M . Thouvenal has contradicted tbe report that Gen . Aupick was privy to the _desine of the British admiral on sailing from tbe Dardanelles to Salamis . The country is very quiet ;; the people wait-with . composure the solution of thequestion by the protecting powers . ' The folio wing facts seem to betoken a not unfriendly disposition towards the blockaders . —A -boat , - with a -dozen English sailors , and . an officer oii' board , was upset lately in

      the _Pitsus . The Greek : sailorsimraediately . exerted themselves with the best means and alacrity to : assist the capsized , who were all safely brought to shore . Two , benumbed with cold , were taken into a private house , where theyreceived every assistance and attention till they recovered . On . the beach of St . Andrew , near _Patras , the English steamer Antelope , with troops and despatches on board , ran aground . Two Greek war-schooners came immediately to her assistance .

      We extract the following from ' Malta _corres _? pondence _, dated Feb ., 18 : — -, ' The merchants at Athens were getting weary of the check on their commerce , and in some few instances bad remonstrated with the Hellenic govern * ment . _'^ '•' _¦ " ; - _^ - ;¦ -: ;¦ ¦ ' -c- ; '! ' ' "' ; - ' ' At Athens ; the people were by no means disaffected towards the English ; at Patras the feeling was more hostile ; and the . fact of two war-boats having been seized by the Eosamond , and towed to Corfu , had contributed not a little to keep up the angry . feeling which already existed . . . ' ' The Consul had plainly intimated to the English who were desirous to land for the purpose of sporting that he could ' not guarantee their safety from insult . ' , ¦ !

      ' . _, A very melancholy accident occurred on the 7 th ult ., by , which twelve-lives were lost . From tbe very imperfect accounts wbich have reached this island , the following account may be accepted as nearl y as possible to the truth •—Lieutenant Michael Breen , a young man who had but recently received his lieutenancy ; and at the same time an appointment to the Ganges , 84 , Capt . Smith , bad been sent with the pinnace ,, containing - nineteen

      hands , from the hay of Sa _' _amis-to the Piraeus for water . Having accomplished his duty , he set sail on his return , and when near Pigeon Island , the wind blowing strong , tbe pinnace was capsized . By this accident six men were drowned . The lieutenant , with the remainder of the crew , struck manfully out , and succeeded ih reaching Pigeon Island , but here , owing to the intense cold , he , with others , was frozen to death , before assistance was sent ! I regret not being in possession of the names of the sufferers .

      . ' Pigeon Island is remarkable , as containing several monuments erected to the memory of officers and men who have been drowned near the spot , The wind often blows with frightful violence between the Bay of Salamis and the Piraeus . "

      ¦Nil National Reform League . The Usual ...

      ¦ Nil NATIONAL REFORM LEAGUE . The usual Friday evening lecture in advocacy of the principles and objects of this association was , on the 22 nd ult . delivered by Mr . Hart , in con . sequence of the absence of the president ( Mr . O'Brien , ) who was still in Scotland . ; Previous to commencing his lecture , Mr . Hart read an extract of a letter from Mr . O'Brien , stating that he bad , on the 18 tb , addressed a large audience in the City Hall , at Glasgow , oh the principles of '¦ Natioual Reform ' ; " and that tbey received his exposition with much approbation . The letter also stated that branches of the League were about to be formed at Glasgow , Edinburgh , and other towns in tbe north . Mr . Hart ' s lecture" was principally devoted to the

      elucidation of one of the main propositions of the League , and the nationalisation of the land of the kingdom . He remarked that the time was coming when it would not do to refer to a'bit of parchment as the basis of a rig ht , especially a ri g ht to possess individual property in the soil . Aright must be based on immutable principles , either natural or siriptural . He expressed a great regard for the political economy of scripture ; and said that if Christianity were really the law , as itis ostensibly the relig ion of this country , there would be no need of his standing there that evening to advocate human r ' g htf . He h h referred to the Mosaic code which did net admit of the private possession of land in such a way that a man could dispose of the

      feesimples of it , as is done now . At stated periods , all lards reverted to the original families to whom it had first been given . He thought tbat if anything could prove the wisdom and justice of the law 3 of Moses it was this ordination , because it recogn sed the primary rig ht of humanity to a free soil . ) Man had a rig ht to the produce of his toil on the land , but not to the land itself , which was the Lord ' s- and not man s . Custom had sanctioned the usurpation of the soil ; but when the evil consequences of tha I custom became fully discerned by society , common sense wonld universally protest against it , and insist

      on its becoming state-property , for the hem fit of tbe whole people . The lecturer then detailed the prcce ; a by which it was proposed gradually to change the present system of land tenure ; and showed how that change could be brought about , not only without injury to any class , but with obvious advantages to all classes . Mr . Hart concluded his able and instructive discourse b y some forcible illustrations of the working of our present monetary system ; and shewed the necessity _which had in our days ariien for a free money as well as | free soil ; « _guing _^ _tfcatlibtii were tad _^ _erisabIe 4 o securetl »! just rights or man " .

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      - THE _lTj _61 _flSb " E _% KERS' j 7 _> _eo-OEtfRAto-yBi society . ¦ "¦ _$ ! mm 7 ' ,-f _^ , ' : _M ) TO _- _TH-EflEDttOR . _OlP THbI NORTHERN STAB . ' _VSiR _^ In _^ _e-jnamiBidf _the-soclet _^ to which I have the hOnour _^ tp ; bybng ' _- _- _^ hSy _«^ to ' tbank " L'Ami du Peupie _"Sforwthe * favourable notice of the strong shoe men s movement * which appeared in the Star Of Feb _. | 9 thi I now take the liberty of stating that we have hitherto been : very much distressed for funds . Those who aire employed at the light branches _of-our business , who -have uponformer-occasions nobly assisted us , are engaged in _^ a _stpggle . . them : selves , and so far from asking relief from them , ' we

      would g ladjy . have given our mite , according to our ability , " to '" _assisf ' thp 8 e *" gallaht fellb ' ws in _% . _warthey'baWtp wi 8 ge ' agains , t ' capital , - ' bad-it : nbt been that just at the . critical time we were ' hurried into the same position . ' At iast _/ howeveriprbspects _Beemi to bri g hten _>¦ with---us . ' - - " -A i * entledian ,.: well known in the literary and-politicalworld , has kindly promised-to ; lend us tbat pecuniary assistance ; which will give us a chance -of . testing , " our iBystem ,: tand , without which , ; I muchrfear , tbat tbe , ; difficu } tie 81 of our position wouldhaye proved too much for . _tis . :

      We are in treaty for . a . shop . in : High . Holborn , which , we . . hope to open very soon , for the manufacture and sale of every description of boots and shoe ? , required by whoever shall . p lease to . deal with us , all being the manufacture of : our members . Our object shall be to produce every article ordered , first rate in its kind , both as regards fit , material / and workraariship . ' As we shall pay our members employed in the shop , far better wages than are paid at ' other shops ih the same branch , and as the _businesswill belong to the saen employed in it , ; we may confidently expect ,- and as confidently promise , that our productions , will be . superior in every _respect . to those got up b y those individual employers with whom we shall have to compete . .

      So soon as we are enabled to open our establishment , we confidently hope for . support in our undertaking from all . the ' friends of progress . It is not for ourselves , only that we are working . The "strong trade , " sunk in the lowest depths of degradation and distress , , * call a oud for some amelioration of their condition , and which , we hope to commence . We think we know the disease , and hope to apply a more ' efficient remedy than - has hitherto' been brought to bear upon it . _•> - •

      ¦ Although a series of encroachments , recently made upon the- wages of the men , _; has compelled us to assume the position we have taken , cooperative labour is by no means a new idea with us . Years agothe principle would have been tried bad we had the means . Now , we are about to make a commencement ; and once begun we shall not li ghtly recede from our position . Our minds are fully made up to endure any privation , rather . than fall back into the ,. hopeless State in . which so many of our shopmates are living , and in which . ' we . should now find oursflves , were it not for the faith we have in the co-operative principle .

      " ¦¦ To the customers of the shop , belonging to the late National . Association of United Trades , we more particularlyappeal for " support ; it was onthe supposition that the men- were benefited by the trade of the shop , that the . great majority of the Customers were . induced to : patronise , it .. Unfortunately , circumstances we need not particularise , caused the failure of- that attempt . -This ; time it will be our own fault if we fail . We are : our own masters , and the remedy of any evil will lie in our own bands . _,, We can promise superior , articles in exchange for the- , money paid for th era , as we shall be able to , bring superior judgment to bear upon the purchase of the material employed .

      I ' remain , sir , yours , respectfully , * '¦ '' - ' ¦' _••' " T ; HAWSON , President of the Strong Men ' s Society * See the Morning Chronicle of the Uth , Hth , andl 8 t February .. ,... ' . .

      Redd This, And Judge For Yourselvvs. ..'¦¦ Good Health, Good Spirits, And Long Life, Secured By That-Highly .Esteemed Popular Remedy, P A R R''S 'Life -Pills. ¦ ' : '¦ ' ". ' " Thomas Parr.

      Redd this , and judge for yourselvvs . .. '¦¦ GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND LONG LIFE , SECURED BY THAT-HIGHLY . ESTEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , P A R R _' _'S 'LIFE -PILLS . ¦ ' : _'¦ ' " . ' " THOMAS PARR .

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      PABB SliOOTINC WITH _TDE CEOSS BOW . See his Life , to be had gratis of all Agents . ECONOMY . —Economy should be practised ' in all _things , but moro particularly in matters of medicine . The restoration to . health has generally been purchased at a costly price ; but where is . the wisdom , where is the economy in spending vast sums on a physician ' s attendance , when sound health and long life may be ensured by the cheap , safe , and simple remedy of Parr ' s Life Pills ? . Hundreds who have kept their beds for years have been so speedily re-invigorated with an infusion of new hlood ,

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      If Mankind are liable to one disease more than ' another , or if there are . any particular affections ofthe human body we requireto have a knowledge of over the rest , it is certainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and Improved edition of the "Silent Friend . " The authors ,. in thus _sendixi' - forth to the world another edition of _theit medical work ' , cannot refrain from expressing their _gratl fication at tlie . continual success attending their efforts , which ; combined , with the assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy cause of . mitigating and averting the mental and physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact _.

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      • winal _daWli * -- * m 4 _vUcT 4 _ji _^; W _& a . _thejj £ _&& £ . ' train of symptoms and _dtwrfe _i * . _1 * iratraced ! h _» _SP _?' g connecting results to _thl _^ _-S _^ ¦ _tiflTsSoniPf *« may b » remedied , and lull and ample aireainn . * _, '» use .,. It is illustrated by tliree * cokmred _entrSi " _^ ftiBy display the effects of physicaLaec « 7 y 7 _*™ 1 g ? " _"'Wch _r .,., 1 _, .- _„ ; ,. _--Pa _*? tthe , Thir 4 ,, . -. " Contains ' an accurate description of tie' diseases PO nfec t _* on _,-and * y the . ' _abuse of mercury > _primal _^ hs condary _Bymptoms ,, eruptions _efthej _ski ' n sort . * v ' * aaminafion of tfie ' eyes " ,.. ' _disease ' of the bonV _. „ r roa ' ir «

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      TRY ERE YOU DESPAIR . HO LLO WAY ' S P ILLS . ' " ' Cure of Asthma ; Extract of a Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a respect-. able Quaker , dated Creenagh , near Loughall , _Irelsm _*) _, dated September 11 th , 1848 . . ' ' RESPECTED Feiesd , —Thyoxcellent pills have _effecturulv cured me of an asthma which afflicted me for three years to such an extent that I was obliged , to walk my room at night f _» r air , afraid of being suffocated if I went to bed by cough and phlegm . Besides taking the pills I rubbed plenty of thy , Ointment into my chest night and morning ,.. ( Signed ) Beshajic * Mackie . —To _t ' rofessor Hollowat , Curs of Typhus . Fever when supposed to be at the . _. ... ' : ; Point of Death .

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      IMMENSE SUCCESS OP THE NEW REMEDT , Wiich has never yet failed . —A cure effected or tin money returned . DR . WALTER DE BOOS , 1 , Ely-place , Holborn-hill , London , from many ye ra experience at the various Hospitals in London anil o _= i the continent , is enabled to treat , with the ' utmost certainty cure , every variety ef disease arising from solitary habits , delusive , < fcc , ic , excesses , infection , such a _gonorrhtea , gleet . Stricture , syphilis , in all their varieties andstaf _* es < - which , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rheumatism , indigestion , sextual debility , skin diseases , pains in the kidneys , back and loins , deficiency of natural strength , and finally an agonising death . The lamentable neglect of these diseases hy medical men in general is well known , and their attempts to cure bj . ths use of those dangerous medicines — mercury , copaiba , eubebs , & c—have produced the most , distressing results .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 2, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_02031850/page/2/