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      _mscE . MOCK TRIAL OF THE PROSCRIBED _USSUB 1 _ACANS This 'monstrous mockery of justice is ' dragging its slow length along . ' Of late the _incident bave not heen wonh _reporting in fall . Oa Tuesday ( week ) the court was the scene of another scandal , in _conwquence of the gross misconduct of a witness , M . Valors , _vrtio , instead of coufiuing himself to facts , abused the prisoners , who were representatives , calling them not representatives , but wretches—hereupon the prisoners , as might have heen expected , loudly protested against the insults of M . Valois . These protests were rentwed in the course of the day

      in consequence of the manner in which a certain Captain _Goubewi gave bis evidence . ' -Tne _Captain 6 tated that upon his arresting a couple of individuals One of them said * Take care , I am a representative _;' OS which he ( the witness ) exclaimed , ' You a representative ? ay , a representative of the Canaille !' Hereupon the prisoners rose , en masse , and protested against the shameful insults to which they were subjected , and one of them Lamaziere , denounced the witness as a liar , for which he was immediately sentenced to three months' imprisonment , and a fine of 100 francs . The counsel for the defence energetically denounced the insulting conduct of the

      witnesses . On Thursday the examination of witnesses as to the general facts terminated . On Friday the court was occupied in hearing complaint instituted by tbe Aitoracy-Gcnera ! against U . Hermaut , the editor ofthe ' Tribunes des Peuples , ' for having purchased an unfaithful _report of the _proceedings of the court , and insulting to the witnesses examined . The court , « fcer having heard M . Michel ( de Bourges ) in defence of the editor , delivered its judgement , declaring tbat th * report of the _proceedings of the court published in the ' Tribune des Peuples ' -was unfaithful and insulting to the witnesses ; The President sentenced II . Hermaut to imprisonment for one month and to pay a fine of 1 , 000 / .

      The proceedings on Saturday passed without any remarkable occurrence beyond the reading of a letter from one of the parties implicated in the insurrection , complaining bitterly of the treachery of the Mountain in deserting Ltdru Rollin and the others whea the moment of danger arrived , on the 29 th of January and 13 th of June last . The only incident of any note that occurred in the High Court of Versailles on Monday was tbe energetic denial by Sergeant Commissaire of the statement of witnesses against him . He said that they were all mistaken , aud particularly a cabman , who swore fae drove him to the Conservatoire on the 13 th of June .

      _JUoRsPiiosECDxrovs . —The' National'announces the acquittal at Melz , of six persons accused of having taken part in a revolutionary movement which took place at Strasbnrg on the 14 th of Jane last . The editor of a Democratic journal published at _"Karoonne has been _condemned to imprisonment for one month , and to pay a tine of 2 Q 0 f . for having published his journal without having deposited the usual 6 ecurity in money . The editor of the _journal' _L'Egah ' te , ' of Gers , has been condemned to imprisonment for six months and 500 / . fiae , for having published an article headed 'Down with the Rich . ' _The'Republiqae' and the 'Democratic Pacifique ' have heen seized for publishing the following letter from Louis Bulkc and his companions in exile : —

      * Citizen , —The sentence which has , in the person of citizen Cab : t , just struck one of tbe most pure and courageous servants of democracy , has not surprised ns . Whatever opinions may be formed on an attempt at colonisation , inspired moreover by so elevated a feeling of devotedness , every Socialist coneiders himself as jointly attacked hy the judgment pronounced against Cabet . It belongs to those who have sanctified the pillory and the hulks to re-establish also the benches of the correctional tribunal . Each of us henceforth has paid his debt . The

      musket , the hulks , exile , imprisonment , the galleys _, and infamous condemnations are the consecration of new ideas . It is still the gibbet of ignominy _trancformed into the standard of victory ; the cap of the slave become the glorious symbol of liberty . Health and fraternity . ' The members of the committee , Louis Blanc , President ; J . Cazavakt , Secretary ; Caussidiere ; Louis Mekabd ; Rattier ; J . P . Bebjaeu ; A . Boura ; Delkau ; A . Dubois ( a journeyman cabinet-maker ;) A . Watripox ; Martin Bejxsakd . '

      The _AssembiiTaxd Ministry . —Theproposiuon of M . Creton , for the abrogation of the laws which banish the two branches of the House of Bourbon from France having been rejected by a majority of 484 to 103 , the diicossion on if . Napoleon Buonaparte ' s motion to grant aa amnesty to _theinsurgents of Jane was rejected hy a majority of 236 . M . de _Fallonx arrived in Paris on Saturday from the Chateau de Store . He had a day or two before Been M . de Persienv , who paid him a visit in the

      name ofthe President of the Republic , and to whom he announced his intention of resigning , and of coming to Pans to plaeehis resignation in his hands . His medical attendants bave absolutely forbidden occupation of any kind to their patient . Complete repose is the only chance for his recovery . M . de _Falloux on his arrival in Paris visited the President of the Republic , and delivered his resignation . He proposes proceeding to the south of France without delay .

      Paris , Tuesday . —Thediscnssionon M . _Francisijue Bouvet's interpellations relative to the reasons for still keeping Lyons and the neighbouring departments in a state of siege occupied , the Legislative Assembly yesterday till its rising . The only speech of any consequence was that of M . Dufaure _. who declared that although he had been one of the strenuous advocates for the rising of the state of siege of Paris , he looked upon tbe case of Lyons very differently . The demagogues in that place were still anxious for an outbreak , and he had the most positive in ormation that they were only wait * ing for a favourable opportunity to carry their wishes into effect . Besides this , the election of the grand council was about to take place at Geneva , on the 11 th of November , aud thete the Radical party was sot only in the ascendant , hut had thought fit to

      keep in that city tbe chief part of the French refngees whom the government of the Republic had denailded tO he lent into the interior of the country . An active correspondence was going on between the _demagogues on both sides of the frontier , and some of tbe Swiss emissiries bad already been arrested in France , who confessed that they had been gent on a mission to the Radicals of Lyons . Considerable agitation existed on both sides of the frontier on account of this election and the proceedings of the Radicals , and he therefore contended that tbe state of siege ought not to be levied . Two orders of the day motive were brought forward to the effect that the state of siege of the sixth military division ought to be raised , but they were rejected , and the order of the pur et-iimple was adopted without a division . The assembly thee adjourned .

      A letter from Montpellier states that at the moment a number of Socialists were transferred from that town to Aix for triaLA tumultuous mob assembled round tha prkonvah , " exclaiming , ' * v * iveBarbes ;' * "Vive Robespierre 1 * ' Vive la guillotine . ' ! M . Raspail has been transferred from the citadel _« f Douillousto the hospital at Amiens , in consequence of ill-health . Seventeen persons were acquitted on the 27 th nit . _tothepMrntneutCQurt-Martbil sitting at Lyons . They were accused of having participated in the tumultuous scenes which took place in the Com-Biune of Taiga subsequent to the revolutionary movement of the 13 th of Jane .

      ITALY . ROME . Oct . 17 . —We are still in a state of the greatest nncertainty with regard to the future coarse of events in this country . Difficulties and perplexities surround the government on every side . Cardinals , ministers , diplomatists , and generals are aU enveloped in the same dark mist of confusion and uncertainty , which serves to conceal their intentions from each other's scrutiny as well as from the profane eye of the public . Whether the _motuprojtrio of bis holiness is really to become the law of tbe land , and when , are questions hourly asked , and hourly answered in a different stain ; and to the ineairies of the foreigners , who now begin to make

      their appearances in Rome , and who are naturally andous to know under what regime tbey are to pass the few months of their winter residence , we can but reply that the only recognised authorities are French soldiers and Roman _slirri , and that no lex suprema is as yet established for the guidance sad guaranteeing of the community . "What is very positive , and at the same time very deplorable , is the financial and commercial embarrassment of the state . Ever since tbe time of Cardinal Gossalri , who in 1815 found the country comparatively unencumbered , the national debt being then almost nominal , the treasurers of the Papal _givemmeat have been gradually ruining the interests of ths state by their corrupt and injudicious

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      _alministration ; and although the public revenue , _calculated according to the population , yields far more in proportion tban that of the neighbouring states , the ordinary expenseeinvariahly exceed it , so thai everv now and then a loan is required to make np the growing deficit . It is now rumoured that _sPius is about to make a fl ying visit to Rome , and , after passing a week at the "Vatican , just , as it were , to take possession , he will _reiurn to _Velletri , and take up his residence there under the protection of bis faithful Spaniards . If the railroad had heen completed , he would only

      haee been at three-quarters of an hour _s _distance from the capital , in that city : ; but the old regime detests quick travelling , aed progress in every form . The head engineer of the line had an interview with the triumvirate on the subject of the suspension of the works lately , and exposed in such lively colours the distress h . _nicted on ' the workmen , the loss occasioned to the shareholders , and the public odium incurred by their Eminences ' determination , that the cardinals promised to try and'remedy the _affair _'—to use their own expression . We shall see . Robberies conriaueto he disagreeably frequent , and the French are so careless , and the sbirri so inefficient in preventing themthat there is some talk of

      re-esta-, blishing the national guard ; iudeed _, a circulation has already betn pasted u ? at the Piazza Colonna _, purporting to he a model of the new uniform , and representing an individual with a musket on his shoulder , dressed with a three-cornered hat , black shorts , silver shoe-buckles and , in short , the ecclesiastical carl ) . Whilst mentioning caricatures , i must not forget to say that the journal of political caricatures entitled 'Don Pirione , ' which ran to about 230 numbers , at one penny the number , and was always a great favourite witb the Romans , has now so much increased in value , that a perfect set . wbicb I beard had been disposed of yesterday , fetched no less a sum than 120 dollars .

      NAPLES , Oct . 16 . —The correspondent of the 'Daily News' writes ;—Since I wrote last nothing of an extraordinary character has transpired . Arrests , flights , and exiles , have been the order of the day , and between these disasters , and the absence of foreigners , we shall have bnt a dull winter it is to be i feared . It is now the season of retaliation , and every one who is dressed in a little temporary power , makes use of it to revenge himself on those from whom he suffered insult or neglect during the stormy times of 1848 . The almost irresponsible power which many of the public authorities have , and the readiness witb which calumnies and slanders are

      received _, nay , with which they are encouraged m this kingdom , greatly increases the evil , and introduces into social life nothing but suspicion , distrust , and fear , even amongst those who style each other friends . How demoralising and degrading this is here ont of place to remark , and so long as this lystem is pursued , I see nothing for this portion of Italy but a continual source of moral retrogression , which will do anything but prepare them for political amelioration . The observer of all observers is now , of conrse _, the Pope , aud every movement of his holiness is detailed by the government journal with the most faithful accuracy . Every church and _moaastry is in its turn being daily visited , and Pius

      IX . is earning small praises by dispensing his benedictions from every turn and corner , and receiving bouquets and portfolios from schools for young ladies , and smiling with complacency at the discourses and poems pronounced in his honour by the misses of the first form . The feeling , however , of these children of the' shepherd of the whole catholic world , ' cannot but be curious , when they find themselves elbowing and hobnobbing with his holiness , who has hitherto been regarded as a kind of * veiled prophet '—lord of imperial _R-uie— au object hut to be viewed at a distance , and then clothed in gorgeous robes , whh the triple crown on his head , fci . abod ! Ichabod ! thv

      glory is departed . During the last week his holiness went to _Salens , on purpose , says the' Journal , ' to visit the cathedral and urn of St . Alfonso , at Pagani , the tomb of a holy apostle , and that of a holy pope . It was his holiness ' s first journey by railway , « adding an inestimable benediction , ' says the same' Journal ' * to this modern discovery of human genius . ' The King , who was not displeased to bask in the rays reflected from the Pope , left Naples at half past four in the morning to join the Pope ' at Portici , and accompany htm in his pilgrimage . How his holiness visited monasteries and churches , and celebrated and heard masses , how he was received at the doors of one sacred building by the King and royal princes

      on their knees , is all dwelt on with tedious accuracy , and yet it is not without some surprise and interest too , as if one had opened seme record of the fifteenth century , that one reads the following passage : — ' Absorbed in our pious sentiment , the exalted head of tbe catholic worid retired behind the altar , and then prostrating himself before the body ofthe saint opened the urn , kissed the hand on which the august face , being deeply moved , abandoned itself moistened tbat hand with his tears , and taking off his ring from his own finger , placed it on tbat of Alfonso , who doubtless at that moment blessed him from heaven / Tender tears , says the journalist , veiled the eyes of the King , the prinees , Cardinal Antonelli , & c . & c ., who felt the value of the holy

      eloquence of that act . At Salerno , the Pope worshipped the bones of St . Gregory , and in the archbishop's palace ( from grave to gay ) he dined , admitting to bis table only the King and his royal brother ofTrapini . The King's reception is described as most triumphant . ' Along the roads _thosa amorous sentiments of hi 3 subjects , as customary , hecame most fervid . * The whole country resounded with cries of , ' Vive il Re 1 * Tbe day was a fete , and it is impossible adequately to expnss how the too dear cry of' Vive il Re ! ' broke on the silence of the air , Tendering this day a day that belongs to history . This is a preci / iu comment on the fact that scarcely is there a fasaily which does not lament some friend or acquaintance fled , arrested , or exiled .

      Continuing the narrative of the Pope's doings , I should observe his holiness yesterday visited tbe royal palace of Caserta . Here , as usaal , the police authorities had arranged that a mob of the lowest lazzaroni should welcome Pio Nono ; but strange to say , with the cries of * Vive il Re V The King , the royal family , and the Pope are at tbe present moment amusing themselves , surrounded by troops , at Caseta . His holiness has blessed the people , and railway authorities hare honoured tbe church and King with decorations at every station . Nothing is said about the Pope ' s return to Rome , diplomacy is about as much puzzled about the matter as the army of the French Republic (?) . Both have failed , and from what I can learn his holiness is as far from Rome at the present moment as he is distant from ihe hearts of all educated Roman catholics .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . The Vienna paper ' Lloyd' has the following account of the late capital executions at Pesth : — The tranquillity and the discontinuance of executions oa the _Holzplats ( the Tyburn of Pesth ) has already had its effects . Most people believed that justice wonld not in future stride over corpses , but that it would walk on the paths of forgiveness and grace . But on a sudden a rumour was spread in the town of the executions which were to take place to-day ( 20 th ult . ) This rumour found little credit , for people would not- — nay , they could not—believe it . But this morning , at six o ' clock , a troop of horse , with bared swords ,

      made its appearance in the Holzplatz _, thus effectually dispelling all doubts as to tbe intentions of tbe military authorities . SHortly afterwards a battalion of foot appeared and formed a square , into the interior of which they led the men who were about to suffer death . The drums were beaten . Their hollow sound caused our hearts to quake . After the roll of drums the sentences were read . The reading was long , very long , and justly so , for tbe documents were neither more nor less than passports to eternity . At length the first of the victims was led forward . He mounted the scaffold . He was . a handsome young man of twenty-five years of age . I was informed that he had awaited his death with the

      fortitude of a martyr . When I saw him he was pale and cast down . It was tbe manner of his death , it was the execution by the cord , which drove the iron into prince Woroniecki ' s soul . Tin ' s young man was an Austrian officer when the Hungarian war commenced . He left the Emperor ' s service and founded a Polish legion , of which he became the commander . Haynan's _troojis cap'ured him at _Sznrer , near Sz _^ gedin . The second victim was SI . Ahancmirt , who , after the Polish movement , had been condemned to twenty years' imprisonment , and who joined the Hungarian

      insurrection , acting as adjutant of General Dembinski . He was more collected than the Prince , and indeed he was able to address a few words to the public . The third and last sufferer was Giroa ; he leaves thtee children behind him . He commanded the German legion , assisted in the storming of Buda _, and so great were his military talents and his zeal , tbat he was said to be appointed to the command of ths garrison of Comoro . He was captured at _Peterwardeifl . The dreadful scene closed witb a prayer , in which the soldiers and the public joined . ' Letter ; from Hamburgh of the 26 th ult . state

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      that General Klapka intendtd on that day to leave Hamburg h for London . Respecting the late rumours of large sums ofmoney which ( General Klapka is reported to have taken with him , one of tbe Getman papers contain * the following : —•* The fugitives from Hungary have _sot , it seems , entered on their expedition to America without funds . General Klapka has negooiated the sum of 200 , 000 dollars in this place ( Berlin ) , and obtained hills of exchange on London for the _stme . '

      « As this statement seems calculated to throw a suspicion on what I did in Hungary , I think I owe it to my own honour , and to tbat of my comrades in arms and exile , to publish a peremptory aud unqualified contradiction ofthe said statement . 1 and raj comrades have scarcely saved enough to provide for the nextfew months . I was not moreover in Berlin in a condition to do as I liked , for it is notorious that during my short stay there I was attended and watched by a commissioner of the police . —KlAvka .. '

      We have since heard that General Klapka bas arrived in London . The official Gazette of the 24 th publishes the Ministerial report , sanctioned hy the . Emperor , concerning the new political provisional organisation of Hungary . In this report the Ministry , after stating that the ancient Hungarian constitution is annulled by the very fact of the revolution , declares that , for the maintenance and development of the maxims established in the charter on the 4 ih of March , it would not be just- to favour Hungary at thc expense of other parts of the empire which had remained faithful , or to graut it , to the prejudice of other nationalities , institutions in contrast with an equality of rights . A special statute is consequently de . creed , based upon the principles proclaimed in the charter .

      The provinces formerly appertaining to Hungary —namely , Croatia , Sclavonia , the Croatian coast lands , the grand duchy of Transylvania , with the Saxon districts—are to be considered as provinces of the Crown , independent of Hungary . The Woyevodia or principality of Serbia is to he in like manner separated , and afterwards annexed to another province of the Crown ( Cioatia }) The country is to be divided into districts ,

      subdivided into circles corresponding to the ancient comitats . Tbe Ministry , referring to the 84 th article of tbe charter , proclaims the unity and indivisibility of the Executive Power , under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Empire ; recognises , also , that principle for aU the branches of the Administration of Hungary ; hut it places the _whole civil and military power in the hands of the Commander-in-chief of the army so long as Hungary remains in the exceptional state under which it now is .

      A letter from Vienna of the 26 th ult . announces that thc emperor had granted a private audience to M . Constantine Mussare _, the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Porte . Other letters of tbe same date mention that the aged Baron Perenyi , President of the Chamber of Magnates , and Czernuz' and Szacsvay , both delegates to the Hungarian diet , were hung on the 24 th ult at Pesth . Fifteen more executions were ordered to take place . The Vienna publishers have been ordered to submit all works to the censorship before they are printed . POLAND .

      The Vsarsaw official journal publishes the sen . fence of a court-martial , which condemns Alexander Georgeski and Charles Rudiski , leaders in the last Cracow insurrection , to confiscation of aU their property situated in the government of Radom ( Poland . )

      SPAIN . Plot and _Cuuntur . Plot . — At a Cabinet Council held on the 18 th of October , estimates for 1850 were definitively approved of . The Ministers subsequently retired to their respective hotels , and were preparing to proceed to the palace to he present at an opera which was to be performed in the theatre of the Court , when they were suddenly informed that they had ceased to be Ministers . It appears that on the 17 th the Queen bad said to her first majordomo , Count de Pinohermosa that the Cabinet should be changed because the Ministers displeased the King . The Count thought that Her Majesty was jesting , but nevertheless ventured to

      say a few words in praise of tbe services tbe present Cabinet had rendered the Queen , Count Puvober . mo _; a heard no more on the subject until the evening ofthe 18 th nit ., when the Queen communicated to bim a letter she had just received from the King , Don Francisco de Asis , strongly urging her to get r id of _Naivaiz and his colleagues . Her Majesty said to him , ' You see I was right last evening . Here is a letter from my beloved husband . Communi . cate it to your brother , the Minister of Marine , who wil ! place it before the President of the Council . The Count having complied with the injunction , General Narvaez immediately convoked his ' colleagues , who unanimously resolved ; on tendering

      their resignation to Her Majesty . General Narvaez repaired in person to the palace , and the Queen on receiving tbe collective resignation said she would consider and reply to it . The Queen and King subsequently visited at the opera . The resignation of General Narvaez , however , having been accepted , a new Cabinet was composed as follows : _—General Count Clonard , President of the Council and Minister of War : General Balboa , Minister of the Interior ; M . Armesta , an officer of the Court of Accounts , Minister of Finance ; M . Bustilos , the commander ofthe flotilla of the expedition to Italy , Minister of Marine ; M . J . Manreza , Minister . of Justice ; and Count Colombi , Minister at Lisbon ,

      Minister for Foreign Affairs . The Ministry of _C-msmerce was to he suppressed and united with the department of the Interior . M . M . Clonard , Balboa , Manreza , and Armeste took the oath of office in presence of tV _. _% Queen . In the absence of M . Colombi and M . Bustillos , the Minister of War was to direct ad interim the department of Murine , and M . Manreza tbat of Foreign Affairs . In less than twenty-four hours this plot was reversed ; the old Ministry was again bailed to power , and Count Clonard and his friends were dismissed , and most of them arrested . It would seem that that old fox Louis Philippe was at the bottom of the intrigue which was intended to lead to the encroa hment of the Duke de _Montpensier . The plan was to take

      the opportunity of the assembling of the Cortes to replace Queen Isabella by her sister , and was connected with the movement which hecame evident lately amongst the _Orleanses of Bordeaux , who se . parated themselves from ( he legitimists , by voting for another candidate then M . Ravez . The Duke of Montpensier in Spain was to serve as a basis for Orleanist movement in France . The restored Ministers affect to be more ' Liberal' thau heretofore . Several distinguished generals of the progresista party have received employment , amongst them Espartero _' s two friends , Evariste San Miguel Infante . The King Consort is deprived of all power ; tbe royal patrimony will be administered by the Minister of the Home department , as well as the interior government of the palace .

      Private letters from Madrid of the 24 th ult ., state that on that day the'Gazette' contained a decree for the reduction of the disposable force of the army in consequence of the profound peace which exists in Spain . The third battalion ot each regiment , and a third part of the Engineers and Artillery will proceed to the provinces , there to form the reserve , the officers alone retaining their pay , and those who may hereafter desire to pass to the same conditicn half-pay . The Cortes will assemble at the period previously indicated , and there will be no speech frora the throne . The ' Fumerito' of Barcelona says , that Lola Montes has recovered her husband , who had only gone to Mataro , where she rejoined hira , and re « turned with him to Barcelona ,

      TURKEY . The question of the extradition of certain Polish and Hungarian refugees who Bought safety on the Turkish territory—a question which for a time assumed a serious aspect , and has occupied so much of the public attention—has , we are happy to state , met with a peaceful solution . The result of Fuad Effendi ' _s mission , so anxiously expected , has transpired . The French government has _received a telegraphic despatch trom General de Larooriciere , stating that Count de Nesselrode _, ths Russian minister , had notified to the Ottoman Envoy , that the Emperor , taking into consideration the letter of the Sultan , limits himself to demanding that the refugees should be driven out of Turkey . The telegraphic despatch ad

      Tbe above intelligence is confirmed by the following official announcement in the ' St . Petersburg * ! Gazette' of the 7 th ( 19 th ) Oct .: — ' On Tuesday last , the 4 th Oct , his Excellency Fuad Effendi , sent by the Sultan to the Emperor iu the quality of ambassador extraordinary , was received hy his Majesty in a private audience , The court equipages conveyed his Excellency to the palace , where he was received with all the honours due to his rank and to the intimate relations which exist between the two Sovereigns . ' The circumstances attending the mission of Fual Effeudi to St . _Petershurgh have given rise to the

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      most extravagant rumours in tbe public press . Far from implying ) as has been asserted , the rejection of the demands made by the Imperial Cabinet , in virtue of the treatv of Routchouk-Kainardji , relative to the Polish rebels , who , having taken part in the Hungarian insurrection , have recently sought a refuge in Turkey , this mission originated solely in tbe desire ofthe Sultan to discuss amicably with tbe Emperorwithout toreign intermediation , the inter

      , pretation to he given to the article of the abovementioned treaty applicable to those individuals . This direct appeal of an intimate ally to the sentiments of friendship of the Emperor could not fail to be responded to , and the distinguished _reieption uiven by his Majesty to the Ottoman representative , by putting an end to all false reports , authorises the hope that this affair is on the eve of a prompt settlement , to the mutual satisfaction of the two

      courts . ... „ Constantinople , Oct 15 .-The Turkish Government have sent orders to remove the Hungarian and Polish refugees from V . _'iddin to Shumla . Shumla is at a short distance from Varna , and being farther from the Russian frontier than Widdin , it is thought by the Porte that the refugees will be there in greater safty than at the latter town . Sir Stratford Cannine has sent passports to General Guyon and

      the other Englishmen who were ) in the Hungarian service , and they are expected daily at _Constants nople . It would appear from these proceedings that there were some grounds for supposing that the Russians intended to carry off their victims by a sudden coup de main . One thing is certainthat neither tbe Porte nor their allies have a very high opinion of Russian morality , and that they believe the agents of the Czar capable of any violation of international conventions to gratify the

      wishes of their Imperial master

      EGYPT . Alexandria , Oct . 15 . —The Nile is about its greatest height , and the inundation is considered a favourable one . In a couple of months the cereal harvest will be attaining maturity , and every expectation of abundance is entertained . Kamil Pacha , the son-in-law of the late Mahomed Ali , seems to have outlived the popularity he enjoyed during his father-in-law's lifetime , and has been sent to Sennaar in a * kind of . honourable exile . Many others , some time ago prominent in the country , have shared a tirailar fate . Among these are Mahmoud and Hafiz Beys .

      The screw steam-frigate Sharkiah , after a trial trip , the highest speed attained on which was about nine miles per hour , has been pronounced , I have heard , to be worth less than half her cost , and is ordered to be got ready to proceed to Constantinople , from which it is matter of question if she returns again . Ahmed Pacba proceeds on a myjsion to the Turkish capital by this vessel , and among other rather extraordinary consignments , are a number of harems , numbering , I am told , over 100 ladies .

      On the 15 th u " t . the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company , presented to the Pacha a handsome English-built chariot and four horses , being a gift from that body , in acknowledgment of the labours of his Highness , since his accession to power , in the _improve-nent of the overland route to India , through Egypt . No less than 200 refugees from Italy and other quarters have arrived at this port lately from Europe . The place seems overrun with motly and grotesque uniforms . The Lord Bishop of Jerusalem arrived from Palestine on the 5 th ult , en route to Cairo . It is expected he will consecrate the new Protestant church of St . Mark before quitting Alexandria .

      Mr . E . W . Lane , the talented and excellent author of * Modern Egyptians , ' and his sister , Mrs . Poole , known to the world as tbe authoress of the ' English Woman in Egypt , ' return to England by the Hindostan to-morrow , after seven years spent in research and study , destined no doubt for the enlightenment and edification of the world .

      THE IONIAN ISLANDS . The' _Patris _' of Corfu states that on the 30 th Sep . several arrests took place at Corfu , and tbat after placing the prisoners in solitary confinement their papers were seized and underwent a severe scrutiny . The persons arrested are MM . Valianos , Pietro Quartano , J . B . Scarpa , G . Calogeras , Colonel Zambeccari , De Ohilippis , and Rocco Canerini . We have received Corfu papers of the 12 th ult . inclusive . Sir H , G , "Ward , the Lord High Commissioner , had addressed a letter to his Highness the President of the Senate , in which , after stating the existence in Corfu of a secret society to which

      several Italian reiugeess had united themselves since their arrival in the island , and detailing some ofthe proceedings of the society , he adds that he should take upon himself the responsibility of ordering those foreigners , who had violated the tights of hospitality by their intrigues , to quit the Ionian territory , and to place those Ionian subjects who belonged to the society under the surveillance of the police until ulterior measures bad bees' decided Oil . The papers contain a long account of the ceremony of the investiture of Mr . Ward , the Lord High Commissioner , as Grand Cross of the Order of St . Michael and St . George , which took place with

      great pomp on the 6 th ult . A correspondent at Corfu writes to us under the date of the 19 th : — ' By the arrival this morning of the Sharpshooter frora Cephalonia with a detachment of the 36 th regiment , which was despatched from this island on the first outbreak , we hear of the _captuts of the priest Nodaro _, and one of his companions , and the surrender of Vlacco at Luxuri . Martial law has been taken off all the districts except Luxuri , where the trials are now going on . His excellency Sir Henry Ward is still there , and the Sharpshooter sails again to-day for Cephalonia , to bring his Excellency and staff . '

      We learn from our Malta correspondent that the inner cordon of British troops , placed round the Black Forest at Cephalonia , had , upon information received from an accomplice , who , on a promise of pardon , had turned spy , succeeded in _taking 'fendoro Vlacco and the Papa , or Priest , Nodstro , two of the chief ring-leaders in the late outbreak in thst island , who , after a _summaiy trial by courtmartial , were both condemned to death , which

      sentence was carried into execution on the 19 th of October , his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner having considered it inexpedient to commute the same , although Vlacco , in his petition for mercv , made manifest to his Excellency , that the life of the latter had been in his ( the rebel ' s ] power had he choson to seize the opportunity of taking the same with his rifle , which , when taken j was absolutely pointed at the Lord High Commissioner .

      INDIA AND CHINA . ASSASSINATION OF THK PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR OF MACAO . The overland express brings intelligence from Calcutta to the 8 th of September , from Madras to the 15 th , and from Hongkong to the 29 th of August . A local riot had occurred near _Cannanore , in the Msdras Presidency . The Moplahs , a fanatical caste , had committed various depredations , taken refuge in a temple , and forcibly resisted the military for some time ; but eventually they _* ere subdued . In the conflict , some Sepoys ran away , leaving Ensign Wise and a few men at the mercy of the rioters ; by whom they were cut to pieces .

      A terrible loss of lifehadhappened at Trichinopoly . An idolatrous festival , held at the top of the high rock , was attended by an immense concourse of people ; a sudden panic occurred ; and the multitude from above pressed upon those below , upwards of four hundred were suffocated or trodden to death . The political interest centres in the news from Macao- ; the Portuguese Governor of which _hal been openly killed in the campo by Chinese assassins . This outrage was partly political and partly p 3 _rsonal and threatened serious consequences both directly and indirectly ; and a slight retrospect is necessary to make the affair at all intelligible .

      It was the custom of Senhor Amaral to tide every day as far as a barrier in the campo , near which is a sandy neck of land , open to a' distant view on all sides , and affording a favourable spot for making a sudden attack flithout interruption . On the evening of the 22 nd ot August , the Gove . nor , ' accompanied by his aide-de-camp , took his rid _> , atan-honr when most of the foreign residents go forth for _esercise in ihe campo . He had ridden his usual d o tance _. and was returning . 'Within 150 paces ot the barrier-gate , a Chinese boy presented him with a flowet on the end of a bamboo . His excellency accepted the flower ; v . hen the boy it _imk _liitii w ifcn thc bamboo : he appeared to think at first that it

      was some peculiar way of _chia-chiuning ; but ou the blow being repeated , he stooped forward wiih the intention of rebuking the lad . While thus engaged , he was attacked by five Chinamen , armed with swords ; they stabbed hira in the side and back . Having lost his right arm many years ago in battle , Mr . Amaral took the bridle iu his teeth , raising the left arm to take a pistol from the holsters ; but before he could effect his purpose , the murderers bore him to the earth , and dispatched him with many wounds . The head was cut off , leaving the lowei jaw and part of the tongue attached to the trunk :

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      the left hand was also taken away . The aide-decamp was also wounded severely by a cut on the heid and a stab in the thigh . The remains of the unfortunate gentleman were carried to Macao in the carriage of Mr . Forbes . The murderers escaped in a boat waiting near the barrier , taking with them the head and hand of their victim . '

      SINGAPORE . _EXPEUmON AGAINST PIRATES . Our dates from Singapore are to the 5 th of September . From t h jt settlement itself there is literally no news . Her Majesty ' s brig Albatross and the Hon . East India Company ' s steamer Nemesis arrived there on the 4 th with accounts of the proceedings of Sir James Brooke on a naval expedition against the Sakarranand Saia * ias pirates , Sir James , with the Sarawak flotilla , reached the mouth of the Moratabas on the night of the 24 th of July , where they found a large force already anchored .

      On the 28 th , Sir James Brooke , with part of the native force , anchored off Kaluka . The other detachment was stationed at the mouth of the Sarabas ; the Nemesis took up a station in the baybetween tbe two rivers , and the men-of-war ' s boats in line shorewards . They remained in this position till the evening of the 30 th , when word was brought that the pirates , after threatening Palo , had proceeded to a river named Si Maring , and anchored there . On the evening of the 31 st it was intimated that the piratical squadron was approaching . : We jrrlve what ensued in the words of an eye-witness : • In about fifteen minutes all were

      in motion to meet them , the Nemesis proceeding seaward to command them and prevent their escape to sea . As soon as she was descried by the pirates , they made at once for the Kaluka river , where their progress was intercepted by the native boats , and those commanded by Lieuts . _Wilmsburst and Everest . The pirates then as a dernier resort made a dash to reach their own river , when they * came in immediate contact with the men-of-war boats , and the action became general . It was now dark , and the great danger was tbat of firing into each other , or into our native allies . The pass-word selected was ' Rajah , ' and the Malays screamed this out at the

      top of their voices when they thought any of the Europeans were near tbem . Commander Farquhar , who directed the operations , was in the midst ot the melee , giving orders , and exhorting the crews of tbe various boats to be careful , and not to fire into each other , and several of those present , from their age and service , capable of giving an opinion , state they uever , in any boat actions , satv firing so rapid and destructive . Two large prahus were seen by the commander escaping seaward , and the steam-tender was ordered to chase ; the nearest one having barely escaped one of h ? r six-pound rockets , made for the river , and met a pirate ' s doom . The Nemesis ,

      which had been deal ' ng death and destruction to all around her , ran her down , and the scene which took place as her crew , above sixty in number , came in contact with the paddle-wheels , _bsggars all description . A large congreve rocket from the little steamer entered the _prahu that had continued out to sea , and rendered her destruction complete . A signal was now made to close , aud the scene as witnessed from the bridge of the Nemesis was most exciting . It was evident from the first that the day was our o <* n , but a rapid running fire was still kept up along the margin of Hie hay . This having gradually subsided , at 12 30 , on the morning of

      ihe 1 st July , Commander Farquhar ordered the boats of the variaus vessels in tow , and having sent the Ranee with despatches to Sir James Brooke _, then in some part of the Kaluka river , we commenced the ascent of the Sarebas to prevent escape by the Rerabras branch . In doing so we were deprived of a sight which all state took them by surprise . At daylight the bay was one mats of wreck , shields , spears , and portions of desttoyed prahus , extended as fur as the eye could reach ; whilst on the sandy spit which extendes a

      considerable distance seaward on the left bank of the _Ssreba * , were _upwurds of 70 prahus , wbicb tbe natives _vieie busy clearing of a'l _valuables , and destroying . The punishment inflict * d on these barbarians had been most complete . Of 120 prahus which it is said started on the expedition , and allot which were in the bay the preceding evening , more than 87 were destroyed , and the loss of life on their ride must have been immense , indeed it has been placed as high as 1 , 200 men . On our part , saving a fewcasualties , all were unscathed .

      On the 2 nd of August the expedition proceeded up tie river . On the 4 th reached and destroyed the town of Paku _, and also an adjoining village . On the 7 th Sir James proceeded to tbe Sarebas territories , and the Nemesis returned to the mouth of the river and wooded . On the 11 th the ascent of the river was recommenced , and on the Uth the Nemesis , with her attendant native squadron , anchored off the Kanawit river . The small steamer , to _European boats , and the . native prahus , were ordered to continue the ascent on the 16 th . ' The whole of the settlements on both sides were dest _» 0 ; , ed . ' Ou the evening of the 18 th the Ranee returned with several men sick of fewer . On the < 5 _* th the Nemesis landed Sir James at Sarawak . The cases of fever on board the Nemesis and Albantrosswere were taid to be numerous .

      UNITED STATES AND CANADALiverpool , Sukbay Night . —The British and North America Royal Mail steam-ship Canada , which was telegraphed off Holyhead this afternoon at three o ' clock , has _jnst arrived in tbe Mersey , and brings from Boston , Canada , and Nova Scotia seven days , and from New York and the other leading cities and towns of the United States eight days later advices than those received by the America this day week .

      We have _te hand , hy this arrival , the announcement that the United States government had issued an official proclamation , directing that all British vessels , witb cargoes , entering ports belonging to the American Republic , or the territories thereof , shall be admitted on equal terms with vessels belonging to and 6 ail " ng under the colours of the Republic of America . The new regulation is to come in force on and after the 1 st of January , 1850 . The great fete ofthe American Institute has gone off well in New York . The attendance was " immense , and the exhibition of machinery arid of manufactured and agricultural articles was larger than on any former occasion . The state of Florida was said to he under the serious consideration of the Cabinet at Washington .

      Cholera still lingered in the Lake districts and the deaths among the immigrants and the new settlers were said to be very numerous . Some meetings and musical festivals have heen recently held in connexion with the European political sufferers . Philaeelphia , Oct . 17 . —Important elections bave taken place in four states of the Union , viz ., Maryland , Georgia , Pennsylvania , and Ohio . The results generally are unfavourable to the National Administration . In Maryland , tbe Whigs lost one member in Congress . In Georgia , the Democratic candidate for governor was re-elected , and by an increased majority . Both branches of the new Legislature are also Democratic . In Ohio , the Whigs have elected a majority to the Senate , while

      both patties claim the house . In Pennsylvania , the democrats have elected their State Canal Commissioncr , and have also carried both branches of the _Legislature . The Canal Commissioner will have a majority of at least 10 , 000 ; while last year , Gen . Taylor parried the state by a majority if 15 , 000 . The revolution is most decided . Sirae fersons imagine that it will lead to a change in the Cabinet . A scene of horror has heen enacted in this city that may fairly he pronounced without parallel , as it was without provocation , in any ot the recorded public outrages and mob murders of modern times . In the lower part of Philadelphia _bap . ds of outlaws and ruffians have existed for more than two years , calling themselves * killers , ' * stingers , ' ' skinners , ' & c . These titles are of themselves sufficient to show the ferocious and criminal character of such

      associations , which are , in fact , similar to the ' Mohawks , ' who disgraced London in the da » s of Queen Anne and ihe fi ; st _George . Tlie _Philadelphia gangs , however , are mure sanguinary than ever were the Mohawks , and accordingly ' _people had frequently been set upon and wounded , and one or two killed , in the open streets ; while near the Schuylkill highway robberies and river . piracy have been committed with impunity in the open day br brigands tailing themselves the Sc ' . uyikill Rangers . ' On Tuesday night last , about ' nine

      o ' clock ( night of the city and county election ) , a band it ruffians repaired to a hotel at the corner of Sixth and St . Mary-streets , called the 'California House , ' where they sought a quarrel , broke the glasses in the bar , piled the furniture in the middle of the rooms , and then set it on fire , soon enveloping the entire building in flames . A story had heen raised that a while woman and a coloured man had Jived together as mm and wife , but this was a mere pretext for commencing a riot , by inflaming the public mind , and stimulating a mob to acts of tyranny and outrage . Many ; coloured people , and

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      those of the lowest classes , live in St . _Mary-slreet These were _obhged to fly , and in escaping £ their _houses , they were fired upon and pelted S bricks-even women and children . The fire Pf _« panies of Philadelphia soon repaired to the _scenTnr conflagration to extinguish the flames ,- when _? in ° credible as it may appear ) they were _um _& 8 hower 8 of bricks and _'„ ' mogkc ° " ff , t J _St bal 8 ! S _^ _^ _re ' wounded _TsS _™ hin a few _minutes-the rioters loading again and firing aS fast as they could . The pS ZleZ _^ ' they ffere recej _' _^ "ith 33 ZtZ v Were wou , l ' < 1 * N « _M- « the firemen _tSntleffi _^ i u' neUher C 0 "W « " _*»* re . to the hospital , or _Ol _& _£ t S _^ R } . ( 3 " * - _f _- anWhile ' houses _aSinTbe 'California became a _prev to th * fi _« Jc I _auothe _^ -hotel , the _« _mV _^ _hSJ _^ also set on fire and destroyed . The _fiX ccT tinnedand " gCOn

      , men wero _««„ , ,., _» «« _r j , ,. " 7 ' , , n f _« _« _" <* re carried off wounded . It was notunt , nearly two o ' clock in the mo ning tl t . or three companies of volunteers _repairing to was „ o _~ » i * V- F ° r this , hochi _" 8 riot _*™ Seal or Si , inn , 7 r eXCUSfi ° f frac « on _^ _P ' ' _" _SnlA " feeI ' ' » Ms _m conflict be-Is _isftt * P ° I '' Cath ° and Pr 0 , eSt 8 nt _' was nn fiS _. 1 ma P ° litical _J- arlies - No ' _* was no actual cause , beyond the gratification of the most evil p 3 SSi ons , and a lust of blood . The whole must have been premeditated , as the _mab were not only well armed , but well provided with ammunition—plenty of powder and hall . The active rioters were from 300 to 500 in number , aided and cheered on in their work of slaughter by as many more . I can positively assert , from personal observation , that the scene appeared more like murder

      for amusement—for the joy of the _hloodthirstvthan any political or civic riot . No princi ple whatever was contended for—no right or privilege had been denied or was sought . Then the fact o £ shooting firemen , who are citizens and the sons of citizens , who volunteer a dangerous duty without pay , fee , or reward of any kind ! Yet they were fired on , apparently for the . sport of a savage mob ' Such atrocities can hardly be believed to have takert place in a christian city and in this our boasted nineteenth century . Yet such there were Three respectable men were killed , three or more are ex pected to die , and about twenty-seven were wounded in allThe entire

      . number of deaths will hardly be known for at least a week . None of the rioters were injured . As soon as the _militarv were on the ground , the firemen returned and extinguished the conflagrations . About seven o ' cloek in the morning the riot was resumed and several shots were fired , _two or three persons being wounded , hut order ' was quickly restored , and several arrests were made . On the following Friday a carpenter ' s shop in the vi . cinity was set on fire , and attempts were made to renew the riot by attacks on tbe coloured people but the ruffians were overawed , and several of thera captured . The military have encamped in the disturbed districts , and guarded it ever since . About

      twenty suspected persons have been arrested , a few only admitted to bail , of from 1 , 000 to 5 , 000 dollars each . In the northern suburb , Kensington , a gang of outlaws has heen formed , known as the ' Pirates . ' A few days since they nearly killed Alderman Wilt in the street ; and they entered a house , in which they heat the owner nearly to death . Unless the laws be administered in these districts hereafter with sternness and justice , neither life nor property will he secure ; and it is notorious that of late many of the magistrates and constables have been so far intimidated , or have _bren so wilfully remiss , that misdemeanour _snd outrage there have long gone on ' unwhipt of justice . '

      The news lrom Canada is more important than usual . The partj who have opposed the course of policy laid down and acted upon by the Governor-Gfneral have thrown off all ideas of " a federal union of tie British North American provinces , and have coma out openly in favour of annexation to the United States . They have , for this purpose , issued a petition praying for annexation to the American Republic This petition has already received upwards of 1 , 200 signatures , amongst which are included those of some of the leading men in the provinces . A counter-petition had been also issued , which has received 200 signatures .

      The party in favour of annexation have issued a declaration of their views , and of the reasons which have determined their choice , and also why England should consent to ratify that choice . . Tne ' y declare * however , tbat should England not consent to their wishes , they will not agitate the matter further . The Steam ship Canada brought the following important announcement hy Mr . Meredith , Secretary of the United States Treasury . t ' INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS ANn OTHER OFFICERS OF TBE CUSTOMS ,

      'Treasury Department , Oct . 15 . — 'Inconsequence of _questions submitted by merchants and others asking , in consideration of tbe recent alterations of British navigation laws , on what footing the commercial relations between the United States and Great Britain will beplaced on and after the 1 st of January next , the day on which the recent act of the British Parliament comes into operation , the department deems it expedient at this time to issue

      the following general instructions for the information of the officers of the Customs and others interested . ' 1 . In consequence of the alterations of thc British Navigation Laws , above referred to , British vessels from British or other foreign ports will under existing laws after the 1 st of January next be allowed to enter our ports with cargoes of the growth , manufacture , or production of any part of the world .

      2 . Such vessels and their cargoes will be admitted from after the date before mentioned on the same terms as to duties , charges , and imposts as vessels of the United States and their cargoes .

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      GOOD IIEALTiL GOOD SPIRITS , _ASD 3 vO _^ G LIFE , SECURED BY TBAT HIGHLY ESTEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , PARR'S LIFE PILLS , Parr introduced to King Charles I . —( See " Life and Times of Thomas _l'arr , " which may be had gratis of all Agents . ) SEW LIFE . —Jlirourcus who have kept their beds for yeavs have been so speedily re-invigoratcd with an infusion of new blood , and consequently of new life and strength , by the use of _PAUR'S LIFE TILLS , and that tbeir rc-appearance amongst their fellow beings who had long given i them up as incurable , is looked upon as the greatest of the i many great wonders of this miraculous age . "First—They increase the strength , whilst most other e medicines have a weakening effect u \ . on the systtm . Let t any one take from three to four or six pills every twenty . . I ? ™ _wi ' ' " l 8 t , _l ad of liavi _"S weakened , they will ba e 2 _S ? i ? I ? mwed tl , e a " imal s P hits > an ( J 'o bave im . iparted a lasting strength to the body . dicli ? l * . r _* In tt , , eir ° Peration they go direct to tha ia ? _S _3 L AfJe *' . J , 0 li 1 _"fe taken six or twelve pills you will il _fe £ In _^ l T r effect i the disea , se UP ° H rm will _l" _« om 8 ia « IT 1 leS 8 _> b >; _""JT dose J _" take ; and if you will perse , c ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 3, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03111849/page/2/