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      PRANCE . Politics are at a stand-still in Pahs , and were it not for the reviews at "Versailles , and the split among the Legitimists , the editors of tbe newspapers would find it difficult to fill their columns . "With respect to the reviews at Versailles , it may well be conceived that , regarded as tbey are as an attempt on the part of Louis Napoleon to extend his popularity with the army , tbey excite considerable jealousy among all those who are opposed to the pretensions of aggrandisement attributed to the President . The Lfgitratsts are fully as indignant as the "Republicans . The * Union' alludes seriously to these reviews as a demonstration of the cravest character .

      "An attempt is made , * " savsthat paper , Ho seduce the army by marks of attention ; it is caressed , exritea _, and encouraged to use cries in the midst of its libations . It cries ' Vive Napoleon ! ' 'Awe lEmpereur ! ' which are _" _^ oubtedly _unconstitutiona , but which are excusable , because they are the result ofa _Lkng emotion . The soldier is always _dispostd _tofetTthelerson who regales _hira . He is never Sggardly of his vivats after a gala . ' The 'Union , ' after thus exposing the means used to seduce the troops , asks if they are likely to he successful , and comes to a _negate conclusion . « A victorious gene _, ral could alone proflt by these sympathetic transports ; a civil magistrate cannot profit by tbem . Besides , do these military fea 3 ts prove that the army is ready for a coup de main , or that it is determined io gag the representative of France and tb proclaim anew _Casar , by destroying the constitution , and

      closing the doors of the _National Assembly ? Seriously we do sol think so . ' A long series of remarks follows , in which the * Union' endeavours to prove that the period for _coaps d ' etat are long past , and that such practices are inapplicable to tbe present times . Throughout the whole of its argument the 1 Union * assumes that the intention of Louis Napoleon and bis partisans are to make use of unconstUu . tional means against the Assembly to gain their objects , but it prophesies that these efforts will be unsuccessful , thongb it looks upon the affair as one of considerable gravity .

      The * National' treats the affair _differently . After describing the first part of the review on Thursday , it says : — Between the acts we had precisely the same interlude as on Sunday . Twelve loaves , twelve sausages , twelve bottles of champagne , and a large bundle of cigars were distributed among every twenty-five men ; and atthe risk of being accused of giving a pnff , we will inform our readers that the corks of the champagne had the seal of the house of Aagnste BondriL Are the houses of Moet and _Jacquesson in disgrace ? In afterwards filing past the President , the ardour of the troops was very great , and on their return to Versailles the observers had an opportunity of settling the question whether

      the authorities were not wrong in forgetting , when organising the regimental schools , to consecrate a chapter to the influence of sausages , of cigars , and of champagne , on the appearance of troops , when on tbeir march . Besides this , we may state tbat this sort of exercise is not altogether displeasing to the troops . The only one tbat has to complain is the cashier at the Elysee ; butM . Fsuld is so complaisant , that he will find the means of slipping this little supplementary demand among tbe expenses of the ( _Campaign . And why should the Assembly refuse It ? Does it not fall within the system ofthe _presidential policy _' that Lonis Napoleon should be less a warrior than—a restaurateur ?'

      All this , however , does not prevent Louis Napoleon from proceeding witb the reviews . An official notice has been issued at the Elysee , to the effect that the number of persons who daily present themselves at the palace , demanding audiences of the President of the Republic , is so great tbat it interrupts his attention to the public business , and that , iu consequence of this , no one will be in future admitted without a letter of audience . Tbe new law relative to the press continues to he a subject of embarrassment to the conductors of the Paris press . It threatens completely to upset many established reputations , and to bring forward a series of names hitherto nnknown to fame . The Berlins ,

      Verons , and others , who have acquired a name and reputation , not for what they bave actually written , but because their names have been affixed to their respective papers as redacfeurs en chef gerans , mast now yield to those who are the actual writers of the articles for which they have hitherto got credit . During the two months which have passed between the passing of the act ahd its coming into force , the gsrants , who were quite alive to the blow aimed at them , exercised their utmost ingenuity to elude the law , and various plans were proposed for that purpose . Some proposed that the whole staff of _editors _should sign each particular article , while others proposed tbat onlv one article shonld be signed in each

      number of the newspaper . The editors knocked the first of these plans on the head , and the Minister of Justice the second . The editors declared that , though they were willing to be responsible for their own writings , they could not take the responsibility of the writings of tbeir colleagues , and tbat it was _impossible to get a whole staff of editors to agree on every subject discussed in a newspaper ; and the Minister of Justice intimated that be was determined to carry out the law strictly , and that all newspapers publishing articles on political , moral , or religious sub jects , ' would cerlainly he prosecuted . Numerous other plans were proposed , but all were thrown aside

      for one reason or another ; and when the time arrived for the law to come into execution , tbe gerans were as far from coming to a settled plan of action as on the day when the Tinguy amendment was first announced . The editors do not appear on this occasion to have given any very efficient aid to the gerans , in their attempts to get rid of the difficulties of the law . On the contrary , they seem to have thrown every obstacle in the way of any plan which might tend to its execution ; and it may very reasonably be suspected that many of them did not regret the opportunity now given them of establishing a reputation by the publication of their names , and of stripping the gerans of their borrowed plumes .

      The * Corsaire was seized m Paris on Saturday , by order o £ the Attorney-General of the Republic , in consequence of an article entitled ' Les Cesars , ' containing an _( irence against the President of the _Republic M . Courtois , who signed the article , and AI . Laurent , the editor of tbe journal , are to be prosecuted . On Friday thirty-one persons were tried by tbe Court of Assize , on the charge of having formed a secret association for the destruction of the Rep ublic and the restoration of tbe monarchy of the elder Bourbons . The chief of the Eociety was a person named _Adjutor Duhisson , who is in fli ght ; three of the accused were absent ; and of the twenty-seven others wbo appeared eighteen had been admitted to bail . The indictment stated tbat

      the authorities , having obtained information of the existence of the society , caused papers to be seized at the residences of the persons implicated at Rouen , Amiens , Paris , Havre , and Caen . In all those places separate societies existed , but it appeared they wcie all branches of one great association , nnder oae common direction ; that they communicated with each other by means of letters o ' r travellers , and corresponded with a chief residing abroad . In each town in which a society was established there were chiefs charged to incorporate as many members as possible , to draw up lists of all the members , and _tosend those lists to the common chief . According to the zeal displayed bj the persons thus

      enrolling , different grades corresponding to those in the army were conferred on them , and many of them were paid in proportion . To secure members money was _frequeiilly given . Most of the members were workmen in need of pecuniary assistance . The funds for this purpose were sent from abroad , chiefly from Brussels . In addition to the money actually paid , more was promised regularly in case of war ,- recompenses of money and places were also offered in the name of the patron ( the Bake of Bordeaux ) to those who might distinguish themselves in any demonstration which might become necessary , and pensions were promised to the families of whose wbo might fall . Though the papers

      seized left na doubt that the design of the conspirators was tbe elevation to the throne ofthe Duke of Bordeaux { it did not appear that they hadcometo an agreement as to the period or mode of action , SO that the offence of the accused did not amount to what the law describes as a plot , but simply to that of having formed a secret political society . The repliesof the accused to the interrogatories threw _jiltleligbt on the affair ; some of them pretended tbat the society was merely for the defence of orderothers tbat they did not know what i ! s object was

      ethers explained the meaning ofthe terras used in tbe correspondence ; . others stated the sums of money ihey bad received or distributed ; and one or two declared that they had only joined the association because they were paid . They were fonnd Guilty , and i sentenced to imprisonment for six ¦ _nmitte ; _' 7 _^ _S _^ _S 7 _¦*¦ ¦ ' The suicidalffblo * * _JeaK th ' « g _t _» ia « t » by tbe _Bartheleray ciicnlaxJs _^ becoming daily more appa-

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      rent . The chagrin and vexation of flui moderate section of tbe Count of Chambord * adherents » such as to threaten an entire break up of the party . Already a section , whose _dew _e _^ _^^ _ed ; in the press _bytthefl- _A-tombtee Nationriej _^ have : for the present " _^ itt ! aside '' their m « _hwMea _«^ and embraced . th _^ _fhwf el _^ upporting _^ enera } Changarnier . _aVNig _^ idate _. for . the , _pfesidency against Louis Napoleon . " Thins the new tack of those who were of late fusionists , but who now see no possibility of union with the Orleanists , after a manifesto which repudiates the main article of the political creed of the latter party . The Council of Prudhomm . es , of Marseilles , dissolved" on the 16 th by decree of the President of the Republic _^ has protested _against that act of authoritv .

      A letter from Toulouse of the 25 th ult ., states that the differences existing between tbe master carpenters in that town and the operatives ate about to he arranged . The Prefect of the Seine Inferieure has suspended from the exercise of their functions the Mayors of Hodenger , Meshil , Esnard , and St . Marguerite . - It is said that a letter has been received in Paris * , by a member of the Permanent Committee of the Legislative Assembly , from an adviser of the Count de Chambord , disapproving of the circular of M . Barthelemy . ¦ _* _;¦ The Bishop of London preached at Paris on Sunday to a numerous congregation .

      Undismayed by the melancholy catastrophe that befel Lieutenant Gale , the aeronauts continue to invent new modes of attracting spectators . Instead of Monsieur Poitevin ascending on horseback , it is Madame Poitevin who now performs that dangerous feat . Tbat lady made an ascent on Sunday from the Hippodrome , dressed en Amazone , mounted on her white mare , her husband occupying tbe car . After having passed over Paris , and sailed amongst tbe elouda for a couple of hours , the adventurous couple descended safe and sound at some distance to the north of the capital . A Socialist banquet , intended to have heen held at St . Pourcain ( AUier , ) was prevented by the anthor uies , supported by the military . The examination into the affair of the disturb .

      ancesofthe Drome is being actively carried on . The leader of the affair , a man named Pascal , his brother , and another individual known by the sobriquet of Graillon , have been arrested by the gendarmery of Loriol . The authorities had received information that a number of the rioters had taken refuge in the Department of the Ardeche , which , forming part nf the 8 th Military Division , was beyond the - regime of the state of siege . They were besides informed that a clandestine manufactory of gunpowder , on a large scale , existed at Pouzin , in the houseof a man named Soubeyran , a man of desperate character , and who had been heard to declare that the first gendarme or police agent who

      approached him should receive two balls through his body . General Lapene , who commands in the Drome , arranged with the authorities of Ardeche to put an end to this state of things , and an expedition was organised to advance on the place by both banks of the river , under the command of Commandant Oliver . " This expedition arrived at Pouzin at an early hour in the morning , after having invested in their way several of the neighbouring communes . The Prefect of tbe Ardeche was on tbe spot with several brigades of the gendannery of his department . A 3 early as five o ' clock in the morning the armed force presented itself at the" house of Soubeyran , and , in the name of the laws , summoned

      him to open his door . A moment of silence followed , during which the cocking of a double barrel gun was distinctly beard . The door immediately after opened , and Soubeyran appeared with the weapon in his hand , but seeing the force with which he had to contend he appeared to hesitate , when the Prefect , rushed forward , laid hold of him , and , presenting a pistol to his breast , summoned him to surrender . Soubeyran , however , hy a sudden movement broke from his grasp , and , running to a win . dow which opened on tbe river , jumped into the Rhone and disappeared . Some soldiers immediately

      ran to tbe other bank to arrest him wben he landed , but nothing more was seen of him . On searching his house a powder manufactory , completely organised , was found , and a great number of car . tridges and several sacks of powder were seized . During this time several arrests were made on the opposite bank of the river by the gendarmery . The troops marched a distance of iwenty . five miles during the night , and remained under arms a great part of the following day . By this expedition all the villages on the banks of the Rhone have been cleared of the parties who kept up a constant agitation in those parts .

      Several journals having announced that the society of the Dix Decembre was in a state of dissolution , the ' National' contradicted the assertion , and stated that a meeting of the members was to take place the same evening in the Rue St . Dominique , in the room of the _Freres Ignorantius . The _meetings in fact , took place , and the ' Pouvoir ' published an account of the proceedings . General Piat was in the chair - M . Gallix , censor of the society , and formerly director of the journal the ' Dix Decembre , ' now the ' Pouvoir , ' pronounced an opening address . "We omit the details given of the organisation of tbe mutual aid funds , and come to the part where M . Gallix announced that the society bad _en-registered 1 , 400 new adherents in twenty-five days .

      It is rumoured abroad that the existence of this society has appeared to the socialists an excellent means of re-organisation , in order to be ready for every event . They in consequence get themselves enrolled as members , under cover of which they find a security which M . Carlier _' s police did not for a long time leave them . Two delegates of the Maronite population have arrived in Paris . They have come in the name of their countrymen of the Libanus to ask the French government for a concession of land in Algeria . This population bas always been regarded as honest and industrious colonists , and their introduction into Algeria must be considered as highly _desirable .

      The ' Moniteur' publishes a decree of the President of the Republic , establishing , on the recommendation of the Minister of AVar , superior schools in Algeria for the education of natives who may become candidates for employment in the administration of public worship , justice , and public instruction . The Attorney-General caused the Assemblee Nationale' to bs seized at the post and at its own offices , in consequence of the publication of an article on the journey of M . Persigny to London , and highly offensive to the President of the Republic .

      DENMARK AND THE DUCHES . A return of the officers serving in the Holstein army s'ates that one-balf of the commanders of brigades , battalions , and companies are Prussians ; a fourth are Scbleswig-Holsteiners who were formerly in the Danish service , and the remaining fourth are from the . different States . of Germany . General Von Willisen , the Commander-in-Chief , was in the service of Prussia ; the Chef ofthe Staff , Colonel Von de Tann , in that of Bavaria ; Major Stutterheim , the sous chff , in that of Brunswickhe succeeded Major Wynecken , who was an Hanoverian officer ; the Prince of _Augustenbtirg , also on the staff , was in the Danish service ; two other staff officers are from Nassau . The whole of . the artillery 13 commanded by Colonel Von Wissel , an Hanoverian ; the commander of the cavalry was formerly in the Danish army .

      An order has been issued at Rendsburg prohibiting any civilian from passing out of the Schleswiggate ( to the north ) to visit the camps or outposts of the army ; written permissions for the same purpose are no longer given . As many Englishmen have come to Hamburgh for the sake of seeing the army in the field , it may save some disappointment to state that unless they have special or professional business , and very good recommendations , ihey may go to Rendesburg _, but will not be allowed to go out of it to the north : The reason alleged for issuing the order is tbat the permission to visit and inspect the positions has been abused . The Holsteiners do not like being visited as a show , as if the war was a spectacle got up _< for the amusement of the public , ' who are disappointed if every day does not furnish some exciting action or tableau .

      Active hostilities were recommenced by the Holsteiners on the 29 th ult ., under the command of Colonel Von der Tann . They made a second attack on the town of Friedrichstadt . Tonningen was taken by the Schleswig-Holsteiners , after two hours'fighting . Friedrichstadt was bombarded through the day . Two of the trenches were taken with the bayonet by the Holsteiners , and fourteen guns captured . The city was encompassed . The Holsteiners had made 217 prisoners . Another despatch states , that on the 27 fh the

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      SchleBwig-Holstelners amy left its cantonments , and the staff followed on the 28 th . _^ " * Tonningen is occupied by two companies of Holsteiners . A detachment of Danish prisoners has been brought , to Lunden . An important skirmish has taken place near Beckehdorf . * 7 ; ' . V J *! _fRUSSIA ; 7 -, _^ 7 * _- 7 ; 7 ' Baron Schleinitz _, "Minister of Foreign Affairs , has resigned . Baron Radowitz _aueceeds to tbe portfolio . This is considered a great triumph for the Constitutionel party .

      INTERFERENCE OF PRUSSIA IN _HESSE-CASSEL AFFAIRS . The following despatch has beed addressed by Count Brandenburg , the Prussian minister , to Herr von Thile , at _Prankfort-on-the-Maine . " ' . [[ _.. ]} } _- . In tbe first note which the royal government forwarded to that of the electorate , under date the ] 2 th of the present month , we already pointed out tbat , at the present time ; there existed in Germany no organ recognised on all sides , by . which the complication existing in the electorate of Hesse can be solved . ; In the meanwhile , however , * it has come to onr knowledge that tbe electoral government has applied to the assembly of plenipotentiaries of certain German Governments , which bas assumed the name at Frankfort of diet of the confederation .

      'We hold it to he our duty on this subject to inform the electoral government that we do not recognise this assembly as the German diet , nor do we recognise it as the organ of the German union ; and we therefore most decidedly declare that we cannot and will not _recognise as legal acts any decisions which may be taken hy the same in 'the name of the union , or which tbe same may assume to beads of the highest federal authority in refer- * ence to the affairs of the electorate of Hesse . Further , that of whatever kind these acts may be , and considering the relations of a country , which apart from all . other obligation , is placed as regards its geographical position , in . the nearest and most important relation to the Prussian monaichy , we reserve for the future any farther decision which may be required by duty to Germany to bur own country . ( Signed ) Vosr Brandenburgh .

      HESSE CASSEL . Matters continue , fo . assume a formidable and complicated aspect at Hesse Cassel . The resolution of the Frankfort Assembly to intervene in the passive revolution , in the first instance , by authorising the Elector to employ such coercive means as are at his disposal ; in order to enforce his ordinances of ihe 4 th and 7 th ult ., leaving ' ulterior measures , in case of failure , to be determined upon , has produced no other " effect on the standing committee , or , as it may be in fact called , the de facto power ,. than the most unequivocal resistance . The

      decree of the Federal Assembly ' was no sooner made : known at Cassel * than the committee drew up a protest against the same , declaring the Frankfort Assembly to be illegal ; its resolutions invalid , and all acts tending to interference in the affairs of Hesse to he an attempt against the security / and independence of a sovereign state . They further declared that they place themselves and country under the protection of the law of nations , and that they will oppose any attempt to enforce the decrees of the Federal Assembly by all constitutional means at their disposal .

      ;'• The Court of Appeal of Greifswold has acquitted M . Hassenpflug of the charge of forgery brought against him—or rather it has reversed the condemnatory sentence 0 f the lower court .

      MECKIiENBURG . _SCHVVERIN . Matters in Mecklenburg-Schwerin seem to be progressing towards the same dissension between the duke and his people as in Hesse Cassel . The constitution sworn to by the Grand Duke on tbe 10 th of October , 1849 , has been violated by a ministerial decree of the 14 th ult , abolishing it altogether , and re-granting to the obnoxious nobility , or junker , their old privileges and rights . The deputies refused to obey what they considered an illegal act and intended to come together on the 24 th ult . at the appointed time , for the purpose of carrying on their deliberations . On tbe previous day , however , the president of the Chamber was . seized by the police and carried to prison ! The members belonging to the Left quitted Schwerin immediately afterwards , and from the village of Ostorf issued a

      protest against the illegal proceedings of the government . It is signed by twenty-six memhers , and is distinguished by great moderation . The whole of the grand duchy is in a high stave of excitement , and the military force it possesses is in readiness to quell any disturbance at the first sign of an outbreak . It will hardly be necessary , however , for them to act ; the population of Hessen have given so brilliant an example of the advantages of passive resistance , and the Prussian troops are too near the Mecklenburg frontier to render it likely that resistance will be attempted by tbe people . The Engere Auschuss of the nobilty and landed proprietors , abolished for ever in 1848 , is to be re-opened on the 28 th ult , by a ducal commissioner , and one oiftheir lirst measures will be the immediate restoration of their feudal privileges to their fall extend

      HESSE-DARMSTADT . On the afternoon of the 27 th ult ., immediately a ( ter the division on the question of supplies , the Chamber was dissolved by a sovereign edict . The proclamation speaks of a new election to take place as soon as possible , but does not mention the existing electoral law .

      AUSTRIA . The Austrian government are evidently disposed to push their interference in the affairs of Hesse Cassel to the extreme , and thus come into collision with Prussia . General Haynau , who has twice been with the Emperor since his return , will probably leave Vienna on the 27 th ult . During his second audience , which lasted nearly two' hours , he probably gave his Sovereign a full account of the reception he had met with in London . Permission has been granted to about 150 Hungarians to return from Constantinople to their native country .

      A letter from Frankfort , Sept . 25 , says : — ' Hassenpflug ' s day is well nigh over . The Austrian plenipotentiaries are diligently seeking a better man and the prince is bitterly lamenting that be has to pay 4 , 000 thalers a year out of bis pocket for the services of a man who is always bringing bim into scrapes . The squadron of the- 12 th Hussars garrisoned here will leave in a few day ' s for _Vestplialia , and be replaced by a squadron of the 8 th Ulan Regiment . It is reported tbat Prussia is making new preparations to oppose the threatened intervention . '

      The Bavarian corps in the neighbourhood of _Aschaffenburg was reinforced on tbe 24 th ult . by the arrival of a mixed field and flying battery , with four squadrons of the 2 nd Regiment of Light Horse . Several battalions of infantry in the interior of Bavaria have received orders to hold themselves iu readiness to march ( 0 the frontier !

      HANOVER . Letters from Hanover state that orders have been issued to a brigade of troops , amounting to from fonr to five thousand men , to hold themselves in readiness for service in case of need ; but , with the exception of one or two battalions , placed in observation along the Hessian frontier , no concentration has taken place .

      BELGIUM . On the 25 th ult . the King gave a grand dinner to the past and present members of both Chambers , in the Hall of Representatives , which was magnificently decorated for the occasion by the best Belgian artists . The King sat in the centre of the principal table . The Duke of Brabant , the heir presumptive , facing bim , 'and his Majesty and his Royal Highness having on both their sides ' the President of the Congress the Presidents of the former and present Chambers the Ministers , the high functionaries civil and military , the leading artists and literary men , the members of the legislative and scientific bodies , & c . Covers were laid for five hundred . The excellent bands of the regiments of Guards and Grenadiers performed several popular pieces during dinner .

      After the banquet had been removed , the King rose , the whole assembly imitating his example . His Majesty , in a clear and firm voice , proposed the following toast :-- '* I propose with all my heart a toast in honour of the National Congress and of the legislatures who have consolidated this work . The future is unknown to us , gentlemen , hut . we must face with courage the _difficulties with which it may be fraught . If we _r-amath united—if we preserve a mutual confidence *—we shall surmount those difficulties with honour and advantage to our country . ' ( Long and unanimous -sheering followed these patriotic words . ) 7 When ' tranquillity was restored ,

      M . N . Gelarche _, - President ofthe Congress , now President ofthe Supreme Court of _Justice , rose and said : Gentlemen _^ u President of \\ q National

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      ti . „ _rf * _thfl honour to nronose a * ... Congress , I have tne _¦* - * - . . »¦ - * . oatt _» n honour of his Majesty Ledpold I ., King bl tbe Belg ians —( loud cheering)—to the King chosen by the peoirtVto the elected of the _CqugreseT y ( Renewed cheeringj ' aud crle 8 ; Of * Long . live _the'King' ) , The whole company then repaired ; to the former Chamber of the Senate , ' for the sittings of ; W , bich a new hall has recently been built . Therefcoffee was served , and at ten o ' clock the Princes left and returned to Laken . . ,, * addresses ti _^ _the bonournronose a * i-- # | n

      The speech of the King , in reply to the of the two Chambers , is marked by an excellent feeling . He said : —' Gentlemen—I am happy to associate in _. an-act . of national . gratitude to an . Assembly memorable amongst all others for their patriotism , _thelr _- _BagMity and _Heraperance . An experiment of twenty years has tested the wisdom and solidity of the work the Congress " have transmitted to us . All the liberties inscribedih our _fundamental law are respected _. ' extended , and > enjoyed , _^ without any impediment ; : and the best eulogium which can be passed upon the Belgian people is : to say , that it _constUulionrlf

      has shown itself worthy of its dunftg a period _^ of'twenty years Belgium bas remained calm and strong , it is because it , has had confidence in its institutions and in its government ; if , on the other band , the government has been preserved in every commotion , it isb & cause . tbey sought this support in _the'institiitiohs and in the sympathy of the , nation . May nothing alter ' this reciprocal confidence ; may the . people continue to enjoy their liberties with the same temperance ;' may the constitution be trans _., mitted intact to'those who will come after us '; . and may "the present f twentieth anniversary open for Belgium a new era of real greatness and prosperity . '

      ITALY . Advices irom Rome are of a nature to indicate that the difference which has arisen between the Papal and Sardinian Governments is as far from a solution as ever . Tbe question of the . Archbishop of Turin is , complicated by - the recent events at Cagliari , where the Archbishop opposed the orders of his Government ; As soon as what had taken place at Cagliari was made known at Rome , a

      council of cardinals was convoked , at which Pius IX . presided . The-Sovereign Pontiff spoke iii favour of conciliatory measures , biit the cardinals oppose anything like an arrangement , and insist upon severity . The Papal Nuncipfat Paris has had various interviews with GeneralLahitte , . with a view , it'is said , of soliciting the friendly mediation of France . , . ; The Court of Appeal has _sentenced the Archbishop of Turin to banishment , and the sentence was to be executed without delay .

      " . : .... TUSCANY . The _'MonitoreToscano * publishes two important grand-ducal decrees , dated Florence , September 21 st _and-22 _nd . The first runs as follows : — . ' We , Leopold IL , & c , considering that the political circumstances of Europe , . and especially those of Italy and Tuscany , have hot ; permitted and 'do not permit us , for the present , to restore that system of representative government , which , grantedby vis _inlFebruary 1848 , was afterwards overthrown by revolutionary violence in February" 1849 , and which we nevertheless declared it was pur intention to revive , so as not to incur a renewal of . similar scenes of disorder ; ' , considering that , under / the imperative influence of the aforesaid circumstances , it is not possible to define the period when the present precarious state of things may cease ; and - lastly , ' considering that it is meanwhile indispensable to

      provide Speedily and efficaciously for the ; better administration of the country , and the consolidation of order and public tranquillity , retaining as far as the time will permit , the principles sanctioned by the statute , — "we have decreed a decree a « fai . lows : —Art . 1 . The Council-General of Deputies , the session of which was opened on the 10 th of January , 184 !? , and then interrupted by the ; subsequent revolution of February , is dissolved . . Art . 2 . Until a new convocation of the Legislative Assembly be possible all power shall be . exercised by us , after consulting' the Council of State in the cases requiring its advice , and retaining as far as possible , the principles sanctioned by the fundamental statute . Art . 3 . Our council of Ministers is charged to execute the present decree . ' Leopold . ( Countersigned ) Baldasseroni , Landucci _, Lami . '

      The second decree modifies the law 3 on the presss . Proprietors of Newspapers , in actual existence are authorised to continue their publications on condition of observing the articles of this decree . The Minister of the Interior may _suspcad a journal at a moment ' s notice , and the Council of Ministers may suppress it . The suspension caiinot last more than a month . The proprietor may appeal to the Council of Ministers against it . Governors and

      Prefects may seize , and prevent the distribution of any number of a journal or' periodical which may appear dangerous . In that case they must immediately , inform the Minister of the Interior of such measures . The penal articles of this decree prescribe fines of lOOf . to 500 f ., and imprisonment Varying . from five days to two months . The editor , printer , and _distributor of . a paper during its ( suspension are all ' equally liable to be punished for such infraction .

      SPAIN . The triumph of the dominant party in the recent elections has been so complete , that its organs in the press contend that there can be properly no party or political opposition in the next Congress , in which more than nine-tenths of the deputies elect are persons professing the same political opinions ' . It is therefore indicated that the next session is . to be peculiarly devoted to important administrative and economical questions , which the ' Epoca' sums up thus : ' — ' . " ¦

      • The budget ; the conscription laws ; the arrangement of the debt ; the favourable and prudent resolution of the question of corporation estates j the reforms that are judged to be necessary in our system of imposts , in customs , in the salt , in the gate dues , and those on consumption ; tbe concordat ; a practical system which may facilitate the communications and the public works in the countrysuch is the vast programme . of the next session .

      UNITED STATES . The royal mail steamer , Hibernia , arrived at Liverpool on the 29 th , with journals and letters from New York to ihe 17 th ult , Boston to the 18 th , Halifax to the 20 tb , and Montreal to the 17 th . A telegraphic despatch from New York had been received at Halifax bringing down the news to . the 20 th ult . Rumours of another intended attack on Cuba were exciting uneasiness , but government were prepared to meet and suppress any movement of . tbe kind . The House of Representatives had passed a bill appropriating 3 , 250 , 000 dollars tb meet the investment under the American indemnity treaty .

      The members from California have been admitted into both Houses of Congress , arid have' taken their seats . Colonel Fremont , one of the senators from California , has introduced a bill extending the laws and judiciary system of the United States over California , and appointing a surveyor of the public lands to reside there , and keep the peace between the whites and the Indians . The bill for abolishing the slave-trade in the district of Columbia has been the

      subject of several exciting debates in the senate , and on Saturday was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading , by a ' vote of ' thirty-two to ten . The bill forthe delivery of fugitive slaves has passed the house by a vote of 109 to seventy-five . It was supported by only three Whigs from the . free states . Of the Loco Foco members from the free states there were twenty-six in its favour . A vote' has been taken in the bouse . Jor the reconsideration of the od valore m tariff , by a majority of two .

      It is not probable tbat much more business would be transacted in Congress , as the close of the session bad been arranged to take place on the 30 th of September . It was expected that the struggle for the next presidency woiild soon commence . . The following gentlemen were already talked of as possible candidates : _lj ~ Whigs :. ' Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , 'GenerarScott . Democrats James Buchanan , General Cass , Commodore Stockton , General Houston , General Wool , Levi Woodbury .

      _TheLegislature of Texas , m anticipation of further difficulties in the settlement of the New Mexican boundary , 1 * have passed a bill for organising the county of Santa Fe , providing special taxes , authorising government to anticipate the . collection , and to appoint a marshal and deputy , with power to arrest for treason . This bill passed on the , condition that no hostile demonstrations should take place before the action of Congress . on the Bill brought ' forward by Mr" Pearce for the arrangement ' _of the boundary . The house has voted to require the Governor to submit to the people any proposition of Congress . "for the purchase of territory . A bill , has _beehintroduced proposing . to' sell the _North-western territory , and determining the northern boundary of Texas . A joint resolution-has also been proposed requiring the government to demand of the general government the removal of all Indians beyond the limits

      Prance. Politics Are At A Stand-Still In...

      Of Texas * . At a public meeting , heldat San Antonio , resolutions were pM 8 edito , _iMnp _» inion and the constitution and _tbHrecommen'd _< tU * _$ ale to tne _UnitedStates o _^ _alliterritdry _^ _ittin \ $ 3 _, aegrees west of lO _^ ' _degreestrl' _^ _newB of 4 tbe passage of Mr , Pearce _' _s _. bill _M a _& tbp ; th _fhrther _^ weeedlng _cepHbereferehce to _^ he _^ _^ peopie _% the proposition of _Congressv _'Th _^^ a _ture _was _' Mpec ' ted to adjourn on the 5 th _inst . 7 _^ 7 ' The Turkish , Commisioner , Captain Ammin Bey , arrived in new York oh the-12 th of September , and ftf TftM . At a DubliG meetinK , heldat San ,

      onHhe l < th received an official visit from the Mayor , common council , and heads of departments , who _^ welcomed him to the country , , and exchanged the courteciesof the occasion through the medium of Mr . J . P . Brown , Secretary of the _^ United States Legation at Constantinople , the ' Commissioner was dressed in the ufiiformfof his rank . f ; ' He " wore ii costly ' diarMiid pendant ' on his breasf y as an 'jndicatinn of his rank . : ¦>¦ ¦ . _- ¦ _' ¦¦ >

      Edwin Forrest ,-the tragedian , had ; been arrested on the complaint of Mrs . Forrest ,. and held to bail in the aura of 10 , 000 dollars to keep the peace toward her , she having reason-to fear personal violence from his'hands , An injunction had also been granted by the Supreme ' Court of New York , re ,-strainingMr . Forrest from conveying away his property to the . injury of the ' rights therein possessed by Mrs . Forrest . . ' She had also , commenced a suit in

      the Courts of the" State for divorce agaiust Mr . Eorrest , for violation ; of the marriage . ' covenant in . several 'instances , ' which are specified . "„' , ' , [ , _"' - ¦ i Two . concerts bad [ been given by Jenny Lind , and the public ' enthusiasm ; continued unabated . ' She had ' appropriated her _' _stiare of ( _he-. avails of the first doncert / beihgat least 10 , 0001 ; to several charitable institutions in this city . " 'The * whole of her ; _receiptsin America , ' it was Baid , were to berdevoted to the establishment ; of ¦ ffee ,-schools in ; Sweden and

      Nor-WAV " " ' _•) * ' ¦ ' ' * ' , _* *¦< i * * ¦ ' 1 . ' :. ; ' . ' . ., , ' . ' . CANADA . , .. . ... ¦ _:-From this colony . we ; bave no political news _. b _' ut something much ' , better—symptons ! of -intelligent enterprise ,- and . prosperity _. ats unfailing . reward _., The authorities are doing , theirpart , well , and providing judiciously for , thefimproyement iof internal _navigation .. .,. ' . , . .: * ¦ . _,-.-. , -- ¦ _Private enterprise is also exerting itself exemplarilyVo' develope th , e resources of this noble province . " Take 7 for example : Not many years ago Lake Sitncoe might alraost'have been ; considered as outside tne pale of settlement . " - ' - ' 'In ; the file of the Toronto Globe' which has jiist come td'hand , we see advertisement ' s " which " show usthat LakeSim ' coe has-become an _* es ' tablished link-in the chain of

      communication between Toronto and remoter , regions beyond it . A ; line of small ; stages ; has ; been established which plies daily ifrom 1 Toronto to Holland Landing ,. . there being , morning and . afternoon ; despatches both ways , every , day . . From . Holland , Lauding a steamer , in connexion with the states ,, starts daily , to Orillia , returning _,, the . same day ; . on _^ Mondays , Wednesdays , and . _Fridays , it . touches ; at Barrie . and Oro ' . i . _oti Tuesdays ' and Saturdays at Georgina , Mara , ' aiid Oro ; and on Thursdays It proceeds direct across tlie lake to ( MUia . ' . At Orillia again stages

      are ih waiting on the arrival of the ' steamer to carry passengers' - bound for the' 'different ' , ports _o-n . Lake Huron to Sturgeon B ' ay ; by the Coldwater _postage Road . * '¦ ' Once a week a steamer * starts from Sturgeon Bay , onthe arrival of the stages , to convey _travellers'to Sault St ' . Marie , ' landing at _Penetanguishene , Owen Sound _. _fMaintailin , St . Joseph ' s and the Wallace and . Bruce Mines . All this indicates'a progress inthe direction from Toronto towards Lake Superior which even the marvels of the United States do not exceed .-

      NOVA SCOTIA .. The ' Nova Scotian , ' of the 19 th ult ., states : — ' We learn that our enterprising countryman , C . D . Archibald '¦ . Grey , will : probably have 600 tons of Londonderry iron ready for ' shipment this autumn . It is positively asserted that this splendid article , will command £ -10 per ton in the British market . ' From the same journal we learn the mackerel fishing for the season had begun well . ' The Pictou mineshave again , ' saya the ( Halifax ) 'Morning Chronicle , " ' been the scene of a' most serious occurrence , but happily unattended with loss of life . On Tuesday last , a large portion of the roof of the Albion mines gave way , destroying about thirteen ; acres of the workings . ' The ' Sastern Chronicle' thus describes the affair :

      • For some days past the workmen had observed symptons of weakness in some portions of the roof , indicated by the falling off places and flanks of the coal from the top and sides of the workings . The necessary precautions to . prevent any accident were immediately resocted to by Mr . Poole , in sending down large props that were used in supporting the roof in such places as there was any suspicion attached to but on Tuesday morning last , about eight o'clock , when the workmen were , on the surface at theibreakfast hour , a large portion of the roof fell in and completely choked lip the workings , burying beneath it all the workmen ' s tools , and the

      railway laid down from the various boards to the shafts . The extent of the workings thus destroyed is about thirteen acres , and so far . as au opinion can now be formed , not only this , but those portions of the mines not fallen in must be abandoned , as the latter could riot be : worked with any degree of safety in consequence of . the , foul air which will immediately accumulate in the part thus destroyed . _, This circumstance , unfortunate though it-maybe , will not-materially interfere with the company ' s business _, in . the ; way of shi pping eoal . There is . now a sufficient quantity of the article on the bunks to answer all orders during tbe season , and the new shafts lately sunk about half a mile from the other , have been for

      some lime raising coals . There is also a road from the new shafts to the old railroad about one third , ofa mile in lengt _* _- , all gravelled and completed ready for . the laying down of the rails , so that there need be no apprehension of the company not being able to supply any demand that may offer ; The surface of the ground shows no evidence of the commotion which has taken place below , except iu a variety of-cracks'or fissures , varying from the smallest perceptible space to four or five inches in widtb , and in some instances the cracking of the walls and ceiling of some of the workmen ' s houses . The dwellings _, near the sunken part were at first abandoned-by the inmates , but weunderstand they are acain occupied . '

      Thb Blood

      THB BLOOD

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      Our 6 ocKcs have been entirely / ormed , cir « now forming , and will continue to be built np during Lfe from , the Blood , This being the case , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for withoiit this'purity , disease will show itself in some way or the other . ,. ' . ' ,

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      ?? _n ? _S 1 c _^ _P _^ . F _^^^^^ o _^ _fflx _^ ( , _wmH _!^ GAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVP S _INCAPACITY _^ _uaPEDIBffiNJS , "rQ MABRU 6 S _, _^^ _w - eai'ion , _* iiUu 8 _tetei \ vrth _'* ,, wen _^ _SU ; Ahat _« iB ' _i I cal _Engravings 6 n steel ,-enlarged torl _» 8 ; pages , » ric « \ ?• . < _"d ; Bylpo ' _st _,- . direct _> from the -Establishment , 3 s . « _d , In postage stamps . '

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      IMPORTANT . Established Fifty Years . THB , ' great-, success which has attended Messrs . PEEDE . in their treatment of all those Diseases arising from indiscretion or excess , and the number of cures performed by them , is a sufficient proofof their skill and ability in the treatment of those complaints . Messrs . Peede , Surgeons , & c may be consulted as usual from 9 till 2 , and fi till 10 , in all stages of the above complaints , , in the cure of which they have been so pre-eminently successful , from their , peculiar method of treatment , when all other means hare failed , which has secured for them ihe patronage and gratitude of many thcusaudswho have benefited by their advice and medicine .

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      EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF THE NE W REMEDY !! Which _hsts never been known to fail . —A cure effected or the Money returned . PAIXS IN THE BACK , GRAYEL , LUMBAGO , B . HEU . MATISif . GOUT , DEBILITY , STRICTURE , GLEET , ix .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 5, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_05101850/page/2/