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      FRANCE . T * ae » Moniteur du _Soir' _stetei that fire soldiers were arrested on Thursday near the Column of July , where they bad placed a crowa of immortelles . ' ' ' . The trial of the Legitimists who were arrested some time since in tbe Rue de Rumford , on a charge of conspiring to overthrew the Republic , was concluded before ibe Assize Court on Thursday . They were found guilty of having formed a secret society , and senteaced to various terms of imprisonment , varying from one month to six days . A vast quantity of Socialist pamphlets were seized on the 25 th ult ., at a house atMaiennes ( de Sevres ) They were immediately handed over to the Attorney-General .

      Tbe editor of the' Bon Homme , ' a Socialist journal of Le Mans , M . Mancau , has been found guilty by thejury , and sentenced to one month ' s imprison _, meat and a fine of 2 _, 000 f ., for ' calumny' against the Commissary of Police . The Prefect of Bordeaux has dissolved the Nations ! Guard of Lihourne . Accounts from Nevers of the 2 Sth ult ., state tbat incendiary fires are becoming of alarming frequency in ihe _"Nievre . _ .. „

      The responsible editor of the Independent ot _Vfisneswastrieda few days ago before _-te Y ° _' of Assizes of the Morbihan , for having published articles attacking tbe Catholic religion , exciting citizens to hatred ef the government , & c . He was acquitted on . all the charges except one— of having published an article in verse , by a M . Colin , addressed to the insurgents of Belle Isle , and justifying offences descrihed as crimes by the law . On this ne was condemned to ten days' imprisonment and lOOf . fine . The same sentence was also passed

      on Coim . M . Faures , ex-editor of the « Peupie SouvenuV of Lyons , who was in custody on a charge of publishing sedulous articles , escaped on Monday -o _.-eek . from tbe gendarmes . As he was being conveyed from a court martial , where his pretence had been required , to prison , he was met "by some friends , who begged of him to accept an invitation to breakfast . They pressed him 5 & _Etromjly that the gendarmes allowed him to go , and went " with him . After breakfast the friends insisted on giving the officers wine , and Faures , on _pretence of calling the waiter , got up , and slipped away by the back door . The escape is supposed to hare been planned .

      A * sothbr Democratic Victory . —The election for ths department of the Vosges has terminated in favour of the Democratic candidate . M . Guilgot _, the democrat , obtained 31 , 195 -rotes , while General Raoul , tbe Government candidate , obtained 23 . 779 votes . The curious part of tbe affair is , that General Raoul is dead . He died on the Thursday before the election , hut his death was not known to the electors . Had the majority been in favour of General Raoul , thfre would , according to the law of France , he another election .

      Some time since that M . Victor Hennequin , one of the editors of the ' Democratic Pacifique , ' was condemned by the criminal court of Paris to a . years imprisonment and a fine of 2 , 000 f ., for saying ( what was inis . ) that the President of the Republic had not pad up his subscription 50 , 0007 to tbe cites oiarieres . The _excessiye injustice and severity of the case created considerable sensation . 31 . _Hennequin appealed , and the Court of Cassation lias _qsashed the whole of the proceedings , on the ground that they were irreaular .

      Paris , Sunday . —M . Vidal , who was recently elected as representative for Paris , was elected at the same time in the department of the Lower Rilne . He has iatiaiate-1 bis intention of making his option for the Lower Rhine , so that there will be a new election _f-w Paris . M- Emile de Girardin bas already announced himself as a candidate for Paris on tbe Republican interest . Tlie moderate papers begin already to cry out _tgainst M . Vidal for making bis option in favour of the Lower Rhine , instead of for Paris ; and to

      complain tbat the _object of the Socialists is ' to keep up the agitation of tbe capital , and to revive the passions « hich _wera beginning to be extinguished . ' It is only two days since the same papers were taunting the Socialists with not daring to risk another election in the capital , and proclaiming that tbey were sure to he beaten . The facts appears to "be , thai M . Vidal bad given a promise to his supporters in the Lower Rhine to elect in favour of that department , in the event of his being twice elected , and that they now hold him to his bargain .

      The petition of the delegates of tb _* e provincial jonrnals against the law on the press was presented on Monday to the committee charged to examine that law . ' La Presse * announces that tbe Minister of Finance bas resolved to propjse a duty on paper on its removal from the manufactory . Several arrests _w-fre made on Saturday evening at a house in the Rue Soufflet , where a secret meeting was held to organist : a subscription far the dismissed Socialist schoolmasters . Eighty persons are in costony at the Prefecture de Police , and some import-rat papers , arms , and _revolutionary emblems were discovered at their residences .

      Tuesday . —Yesterday , the ' Voix du Peupie' was seized for an article entitled ' Malthusiasm and Socialism / The' . Moniteur , ' in announcing tbat fact , says that its _responsible editor is to be prosecuted—first , for 2 n outrage against the religion the establishment of _whifh is legally _recognised in Prance * , and , sec-ei . aly , for an attack against the principle of property . Tbe National G :: aid of Lezigmm ( Ande ) have "befcn dissolved by decree of the President of the Republic . GERMANY . Munich , Makch 21 . _—Lust night the patrols in the street were doubled , and precautionary measures adopted , fears being entertained that the prohibition of ail newspapers in the public-houses , and taverns will cause public _dis'urbances .

      SWITZERLAND . The delegates of certain societies of German workmen were arrested a few days ago at Morat , in Switzerland , and their papers were seized . It appears from tbem that ( hey were in communication witb several German _associations relative to a new armed _expedition against the Grand Duchy of Baden . In _consequence of this discovery the Federal Council bad taken severe measures to prevent the execution of the design .

      ITALY . "ROME , March 20 . — The result of the late elections in France bas filled tbe more zealous upholders of despotism in the Papal dominions with dismay , and tbey begin again to anticipate some unpleasant _complice-ion of events in that quarter , by " _<* -hich the _fiasl and undisputed restoration of the reigning Pont . ff to tbe independent tbrone of his predecessors may be delayed and endangered , if not altogether hindered . The probability of Home being " honoured ' with tbe presence of the Papal court so long as the """" Tench army garrisons the city is , of course , di xainished by the threatening aspect of the Parisian borizon , but it is not in France alone that the progress of socialism affords ground for serious _apprehensions amongst the partisans of governments of

      ancien regime . Here , also , although communism and socialism are almost words without meaning , so little bave they been brought under public consideration , the republican principle is obtaining a steady development ; the followers and agents of Mazzini are unwearying in tbeir propagandist labours , and secret societies , the inevitable consequences of a tyrannical and oppressive form of government , are multiplying in numbers and importance , in Bpite of tbeir members being now and then thinned by exile or imprisonment . One ot these societies , entitled the * Italian Association , ' has the following ostensible ends in view , which are distributed in prospectuses printed at a _soiihtmi Italian Typography' as audaciously aa il neither censor of the pressi sbirri , or prisons were in existence in the city .

      The Italian association tends to unite in one common idea , both as to means and end , all those elements of Italian action which aspire to effect the liberty and the independence of Italy . Every member of the association must consider it to be based upon the following articles t—1 . To sacrifice to the common good every sentiment of private interest or self-love . 2 . To lend all possible aid in educating toa instructing . 3 . To labour in the propagation of the Unitarian republican principle . 4 . To demonstrate to the people their rights and t & eir duties . 5 . To combat immorality under whatsoever 45 _^ 5 ft may _^^ _g To take espeaal care of the children and vou * ef the poorer classes . 7 . To wear national " dresses so as to _encoBragethe-atauftcturere 0 f them , and fnraish

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      _breidtosuch of onr people as work in the manufactories of national cloths . "* 8 . To employ those artists who . give proofs of loving liberty and tbe independencei _otftheir country . ' 9 . To assist every one to , earn his daily bread honourably by the sweat of his brow . * 10 . To serve tbe association by every means , at every time , and in every P _** The Roman government , fully aware of the _existence and activity of these secret societies , « _aploys various hostile measures _^ _' _¦• ' _^"''" _S want of evidence , it cannot attack with the carnal weapons of the police . _^ _pnntug office of the in reprobation of

      , _XwJ _*>^ - fhe _vSe secTof _Mazzini-the Lent preachers _inve . gh _££ the depraved maxims of repubhc from the altar—Father Bernardino , w the lasmonauie church of San Carlo , holds forth _. opon the danger of 1 herd opinions with an motion never yet dis-Ledf whilst warning a flock from the perils of _veccato _ntoKafe-poHties have everywhere usurped the place of religion in the house of God—the spiritual arms of the church are brandished against temporal toes—And pulpit , drum ecclesiastic ,

      Is beat with fist instead of a stick . Whilst these means are being adopted far the conversion of such sinners as have still a lingering tendency ( or the transitory glories of the Roman eagle , other plans are pursued for the fortification and preservation of those whose political faith is considered as but little tainted by tbe late revolutionary events . All the government clerks , employes in the different ministerial departments , and paid officials , who have survived the shears of the councils of censure , all the officers and S 9 ldiers remaining in the army , every one in fact who takes government pay ( with the exception ot the spies and sbirri , whose firm attachment to the Papal sway needs no such confirmation ) are obliged to resort in detachments to monasteries and

      confraternities of different religious orders , where , for eight days , tbey undevgoe a vigorous course of expurgatory doctrinal diet , prayers , fasliilg , and exhortations , known by the denomination of spiritual exercises . ' Monsignor Gazzola , editor of the newspaper entitled ' Progresso , ' during the republic , and author of several pamphlets against the papal government , and the Pope himself , of tremendous severity , bas just been condemned to imprisonment for life . We learn from the ' Giornale di Roma' that Monsignor Bedini , Pontifical Commissary Extraordinary of the Four Legations , has issued a circular prohibiting functionaries of any class from expressing their political opinions against the government , and direct * ing tbat strangers shall not be admitted into the public offices to converse with the officials , unless upon business .

      THE LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS . NAPLES , Feb . 24 th . —The insufferable dullness and g loom which bave reigned in this fair city for some weeks past , malgre the Carnival and the usual balls and gaieties , bave at last been dispelled by the excitement caused by one of the finest ernptions of Mount Vesuvius ever known . For some twelve or fourteen days , the mountain has been in labour , giving manifest indications , by groans and waitings , of bringing forth speedily something more than a mouse . On the 6 th , volumes of smoke and vapour , with occasional sheets of flame , were succeeded , from time to time- by awful subterranean rumblings ; and

      on the morning of the 7 th the lava made its appearance , running down the mountain , on the side of Torre Annnnziata , in seven or eight distinct streams-Oil the evening of the latter day , a party of us as . cended to the Hermitage , and thence , on foot , with guides and torches , to the cone , from whence a fine _vievt _*« as obtained of tbe lava at a white teat , as it was pumped out of the crater , and thence- bent Its way in the direclion of Pompeii and the Bosco Reale . This ascent was very fatiguing and disagreeable , and one of the party bad a narrow escape of fracturing a limb by a fall . During the night of the Sth the roaring and bellowing of tbe crater kept most people from enjoying their rest , and on the whole of the

      9 th , volumes of smoke , lava , and vapour , together with huge stones and serris , were ejected without intermission . On the evening of this day a special train was announced to leave Naples at six o ' clock for Torre Annunziata , returning at eleven . About four hundred natives and foreigners availed themselves of this opportunity ; and a strong party of Inglesi , with guides and torches , and mules and denkeys , proceeded from the station at Torre Ahnun ziata to the Bosco Reale , which is about five miles , through narrow lanes and country roads . There was no cause for apprehension , however , as the government had taken care to send strong bodies of troops , both horse and foot , forthe protection of

      life and property , and the preservation of order . Tbe sight that met onr view on our arrival at the Bosco was grand in the extreme . The lava presented a frontage of about at least a mile and a half , and was advancing slowly but steadily and surely , and devouring . everything in its -way . On the road we had met parties of poor peasants carrying beds , chairs , pots and pans , and other moveable furniture , which they had been able to save from the devouring liquidthe women and children rending the air with their groans and cries and supplications to tbe good San Ge _' unaro , the patron saint of these parts . These _poer wretches were thrown on the world homeless , penniless . By the time of our arrival , wbicb was

      about nine o ' clock , the lava had taken complete possession of the wood , having devoured about half of it . At times a row of three or four hundred saplings caught fire , simultaneously , producing a vivid flame that lighted up the country for miles around . Some splendid full-grown ilex , oak , and ash trees , offered in the ponderous trunks a momentary resistance * , hut it was to no purpose ; the larger ones generally exploded with a loud report and a leap of twelve or fourteen feet in the air , to be consumed like tinder on their descent . It was curious to observe , when , from a sudden rush of lava , wbich always occurred after a temporary obstruction , how the larger trees gave out tens of thousands of little jets of steam from tbe knees and elbows of the smaller branches . It was owing to tbe rootsand trunks coming immediately and

      suddenly in contact with the lava , and before the whole tree had had a preparatory roasting previously to ita final combustion . In these cases the tree generally exploded ; those , on the contrary , that had nad their initiatory grilling , generally bowed their beads slowly and majestically , dying , like Caisar , in their dignity . As this novel and brilliant spectacle quite absorbed our attention , the majority of us lost the return train to Naples , and we decided to pass the _nii-lit on tbe spot . There was no moon , hut the stars shone clearly , and the sky was cloudless ; a cold tramontana , however , on one side , and the insupportable beat of tbe advancing furnace on the other , made it necessary for us to keep revolving from time to time like bottle-jacks before the lava , to obviate being frozen on one side and baked on the other . At about three o ' clock in the

      morning the eruption was at its height . Ihe amount of lava was quintupled , and the masses ef stones which shot up into the air descended with a reverberating crash . It was . toe discbarge of these stones which caused a noise that rendered our voices inaudible . I can only compare it to the concussion produced by the broadside of a threedecker . The ground at times trembled under our feet , and a wailing , sobbing , distressing sound seemed to indicate that nature was undergoing a horrible subterranean convulsion ; and thus gave vent to the ' throes and throbs' of her agony . At about four o ' clock the destroyer advanced to a farmhouse and outbuilding , which seamed from tbeir solidity , being built of rubblestone , and joined with the well-known Roman cement , likely to offer a stout resistance . And here the lava seemed to he

      endowed with consciousness and instinct . No sooner did it feel the momentary check than it commenced rising like the water in the lock of a canal , and from being at its arrival about twelve feet deep , speedily rose to aheut thirty ; and attacking the _bomb-ihaped solid stone roof of the main building , and at the same time running in at the windows and doors , caused a _ratification and condensation of air , that made the whole concern sauter with a terrific report . A very serious accident nearly occurred at the time , from the incautious curiosity of a _< freehorn' citizen of the States . When no traces of the farm or offices was any longer visible , being

      covered by a smooth surface of liquid fire , the poor agriculturist , the proprietor , together with his sposa , their children , and some half-dozen louts , set up a yell , and beat their breasts , and tore their hair in the true Neapolitan fashion . Instead of saving as much as they could frora destruction beyond their mere bidding , they did not attempt to remove 1 single thing ; thus all the doors and fittings , mangers , troughs , also about an acre of cabbages , carrots , and celery , together with various gates and farming utensils , Here allowed to be destroyed . There was ample time to move those things , bnt they preferred howling and calling on San Gennare either to do it for them or stop the torrent ol lava .

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      A still more interesting and affecting spectacle was presented about an hour after by the destruction of a small church embosomed in this hapless wood . The lava here , aa at the farm , had a rather tough job from-the extreme solidity " : of ' the edifice ; and with a sort of instinct , and conscious pride in its own irresistible power , ; it dashed forward ; to the attack , despite the moans and chants of a parcel of Franciscan friars connected with the church , and of the mute sorrow of the poor care : The ornaments of the altar , together with thepictures , statues , and

      finery of tbe Virgin and the patron saints , and the parish records , bad all been removed _•; but the in . cessint entreaties of the curi failed to induce his pa . rishioners to put their shoulders to two fine doors , and lift them off their hinges to a place of security , which they could easily bave done . The bells also might have been saved with little exertion . No ; the Virgin or the patron saint would either appear corporeally , that is visibly , and stop the sacrilegious destroyer , or the edifice would resist and go scatheless . From time to time the bells were tolled

      mournfully ,.. and care , monks , and parishioners chanted the funeral dirge of the sacred edifice where most had b * en _baptiied , and which was associated with all the prominent parts of their little secluded Hve 3 . The lava here insinuated itself into the crypt of the building , thereby undermining it so that it was literally a' temple rent in twain , ' the two nearly equal portions of which rocked and tottered to their base , and then fell—belfry , bells , and all—into tbe burning gulf . Several passages , of tbe' Inferno' ef Dante were called to recollection this night , and the divine poet ably describes what here palpably and tangibly represented hell , though upon earth . For half an hour an intense dark green flame played over

      where once stood the doomed edifice , caused perhaps by the fusion of the _bell-metal below . In other parts blue flames of various degrees of intensity and depth of colour , played and flickered about . All night parties arrivod irom Naples , wbo bad missed the train ; and the wood was glittering with torches approaching and receding in the distance . The arrival of a large body of priests , mounted on all the available jackasses and mules in the neighbour _, hood for miles round , caused an immense sensation among the rustics , as there was little doubt these worthy men would soon settle the business of the ruthless " enemy , and put things to ri g hts- ; so to it they went—clergy and laity ; and , on our departure

      from this scene of desolation and woe , the welkin resounded with the exertions of some hundreds of pairs of lungs . Much of the beauty of the effect faded on the approach of daylight , and when we left , which was at exactly half-past six in themorning , the lurid glare and vivid brilliancy of the lava was succeeded by a black carbonaceous _dulness , with only here and there a deep red glow ; the volume of lava had also diminished , and the crater was bushed . Nature seemed to bave a slight intermission of her pangs , to be resumed the folio wing evening . On our return to Naples , we learned that a tragedy of another and a more sanguinary kind had been enacting elsewhere during the night . Hun .

      dreds visited the crater itself , and the mountain was literally dotted with little bright starlike points , ascending and flitting like will-o' _-thcwisps . : The effect was picturesque in the extreme . A party of American officers of the squadron here , with characteristic and national rashness and curiosity , approached too near , and one of the officers , a fine handsome young fellow , received a mass of hot calcareous matter on the right shoulder , which stripped the ' flesh to the bone as far as the elbow . There was no actual fracture , but the hcemorrhage was so violent , and so long a time elapsed before he received proper medical aid , that he lies with little hope of recovery . All the Galenic skill of the place

      is tending him . He is only two-and-twenty , and remarkably amiable and handsome , and quite the pet of the squadron and of the ladles . He holds the position of Commodore's naval aide-de-camp , and is a lieutenant in rank . Only a few nights since we had seen him at a ball , the gayest of the gay , his fine manly form and features making him almost ' the observed of all observers . ' But another accident , within ten yards of the same spot , and almost at the same time terminated fatally . The victim of hia rashness was a Polish officer , who received a mass of stone of some tons weight , on tbe left tbigh , which caused a compound fracture , and there he lay and bled to death , bis blood running down into the very crater itself ,. whereit boiled , and hissed , and steamed . A Neapolitan gentleman , who related the particulars

      to us , nearly lost his life in hia exertions to bring the body down the side of the mountain , for at the time the lava and stones fell in all directions thick and fast . Another individual , a native , had tbe dexter side of his lower jaw completely removed by a stone , which was shot obliquely out of the crater while he was stretching over peering into its fiery depths . The catalogue of contusions , abrasions , and lesions on tbat eventful night would nearly fill one of your columns . The ladies were everywhere in the van of danger and fatigue , and some have not come off scot free , Tbe sex bave a great deal more courage than we men are willing , to give tbem credit for . This is proved here daily by the intrepidity small and delicate women show in their ascents ; true , it is to gratify curiosity—a strong instinct on dit in their nature . ¦

      The whole of that magnificent and extensive wood , Bosco Reale , is now destroyed ; not a vestage remains ; and the fair crops of springing wheat , tbe pasture and arable land , where are they ? They no longer form a part of this earth ' s surface . The face of the country to within a short distance of Pompeii is changed—the roads , the landmarks , the means of communication from one point to another , are obliterated—all lies buried under a superstratum of from twelve to fifty feet of lava . It is generally admitted

      that in any other country the exertions and energy ofthe people would have saved nearly the whole of the timber , and much else that is now lost . Twenty men could have cut the trees in a line faster than the lava approached , which might then have been carted off by others , and relays of about the same number would thus bave saved property worth several thousand pounds—a kind of property very valuable , too , here , where firewood is so dear . The lava has now nearly reached the sea , and it is said covers a superficies of abort fourteen miles .

      SWEDEN . Letters from Stockholm announce that by a general order the Swedish navy is put on a footing of war . The object of the measure is not known , but it is generally believed to , be merely precautionary against all the eventualities which the present complications nr _"*» to bring about . * SPAIN . At Madrid all the opposition journals were confiscated on the 23 rd ult ., for animadverting on the hraldom in which Narvaez keeps the Queen , A USTRIA AND HUNGARY . Arad . —Three more sentences of death have been passed , but they bave been commuted into imprisonment in irons from fifteen to twenty-one years . One of these . _wntences was upon a former magistrate .

      RUSSIA AND TURKEY . The Austrian ' Wanderer " states , from Galatz of the 3 rd inst ., that the aspect of affairs continues to increase in gloom- The Russian troops have not left theDanubian principalities . General _Luders js expected at Galatz ; he is to review some regiments which were lately quartered on the banks of the Deiniper . An unusual activity prevails at _Sebasfopol . The fleet has been placed on a war footing , and the workmen in the docks are employed night and day . The Russian government has offered to enlist Grecian sailors under most advantageous terms to the latter . A great many sailors have come from the islands of the Archipelago , and _engaged to serve for two years .

      We learn by letters of the 9 th ult . from _Constan . tinople that the Hungarian-Polish ' renegades' passed the Dardanelles on the 7 th on tbeir way to _Alexandres . The steamer Taif is waiting at Varna for the Russian Poles , who are to go to Malta . We bave advices of the 6 th from _Brussa , in the province of Natolia , according to which all preparations were being made for the removal of Kossuth and followers to Kintabia . The exiles are to be sent off in troops , composed of both Poles and Hungarians ,

      instead of being separated as was at first , proposed . The refugee question is not yet definitively settled . Austria demands that the period of detention should be five years ; Turkey proposes one year . The Wanderer' states that there can he no doubt that the Russians will for the present continue to occupy the Danubian Principalities . Omar Pasha , Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish troops there , who is now at Bukamt , behaves with great coolness to the Russian authorities .

      GREECE AND THE LEVANT , From Salamas , we learn , under date of the 21 st of March , that nothing had , as yet , been done in the way of settlement of the pending differences , as Baron Gros had not yet made himself fully master of the subject . Meanwhile , Sir William Parker re-

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      tains possession of torn * thirty-five prizes , to the ruin of the owners , as well of ships ss cargoes ; and what with the shortness of provisions and the bitter cold prevailing ( thermometer as low as 38 deg' ) no _^ inconsiderable degree of discontent prevailed among the Greek crews , who are bordering on desperation at the idea of the misery and famine which must reign in their families . _Malta , March 26 . —The French steamer of the 15 th , from Naples ; brought here a Mr . G . B . Naudi . It appears that this Naudi was arrested at Palermo , and found to be the bearer of some of _Mazziri ' s pamphlets , and also pf letters from some Italian re . _fugees in Maltato some parties in Palermo . As a . . , . __^_ - . _«•_ . „ C __ : _» _.. In *• , «

      , blind to ; the police , these letters aad papers were addressed to the English consul at Palermo , who , of course , repudiated all knowledge of Mr . G . tf . Naudi , or the parties who sent them . One of the letters stated , that this Mr . G . B . Naudi was a ' sworn brother in whom implicit confidence could be placed . ' The Sicilian authorities sent him to Naples in ; a steamer of war , and Mr . Temple believing , or feigning to believe , that he , Naudi , was what he stated himself to be , a Maltese merchant , who went to Palermo on business , and took charge of these letters and papers , innocently and without a knowledge

      of their contents , interceded with the Neapolitan authorities for his release , and he was sent here in the Preach steamer . The Malta government addressed a letter to the President of the Chamber of Commerce , upon this subject , with the president ' s reply . These letters have drawn forth rejoinders from Mr . Naudi , in a paper called the _VAvvenire , ' the organ ot a club named the 'Circolo Maltese , ' of which he is a member . In consequence of thi affair , three refugees , the Marquis Mile , Signore Alberto Sichera , and Stgtior Bottari , have received notice from the police , to prepare to quit the island ; nine others are also said to be implicated _.

      INDIA . News from Bombay , by the Overland Mail , to the 2 nd of March , brings the following * . — The 'Delhi Gazette' ofthe 23 rd of February , contains the following particulars of an expedition against the Affredies : — ' We have letters from Peshawur , dated tbe 14 th inst . from which we gather that there was skirmishing both on the 10 th and 11 th , on the way from Muttunee to Kohat , and on the 13 th , whilst the

      force was returning through the passes . The 31 st Native Infantry and Coke's Infantry have suffered severely , the latter are said to have behaved splendidly . Ensgn W . H . Sitwell was killed ( cut to pieces , ) and Lieut . Hilliard , 23 rd , severely wounded , Only three or four European soldiers were wounded , they are said to have gone to their work very steadily and did not fire until sure of their mark . The shrapnel ) , from Fordyce ' s guns , astounded tbe insurgents more than anything else .

      'The expedition seems to have been completely successful ; no regular stand was made by the enemy , but a galling and uncertain fire was kept up in tbe passes .. Six villages have been destroyed , and of course a number of the enemy , the amount of whose loss it is impossible to ascertain correctly , A force has been left to occupy the _pasB near Mut tunee—one correspondent says a party of Pollock ' s levy , another , that a detachment- of the Rifles and Coke ' s Punjaub Infantry are in charge . The Commander-in-Chief and the Kohat expeditionary force returned to Peshawur on the 14 th inst . Head-quarters was to commence its march back , in two or three days afterwards . '

      Just as the mail was about to close , letters from the Jullundur Doab reached _Bombav , to the effect that in the affair at Kohat with the _Eusofzyees , our people were considered to have had the worst of it . Ensign Sitwell , of the 31 st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry , was killed , being _liJeralty hacked to pieces , One of his arms was cut off and fixed to a spear head as a trophy . Lieutenant _Hillard , of the 23 rd Bengal Native Infantry , was wounded dangerously , if not fatally , by a shot through the lungs , and 150 men killed and wounded . No results have been obtained , and it is surmised that operations on a large scale will be resumed . The Commander-in-Chief , who was with the force , had , it was started , returned to Peshawur .

      UNITED STATES , CALIFORNIA , AND CANADA . . ( Prom tbe * New York Tribune , ' of March 20 th . ) Since our last issue , the United States Congress has been principally occupied with the discussion of Slavery , and the kindred topics wliich have been the leading subjects of interest during the present session . Three important speeches have been made in the Senate by . Mr . Calhoun , Mr . Webster , and Mr . Seward , presenting an elaborate and powerful statement of the widely-differing views maintained by those gentlemen respectively and arguing tbe whole question of Slavery and the territories in the various aspects of which the complicated and exciting subject is susceptible . [ Here follows a summary of Mr . Calhoun ' s speech , which is already familier to our readers .

      Ed . A . S . _] On Thursday , the 7 th ult . the floor and galleries of the Senate Chamber were crowded with a vast assembly , drawn together by the announcement tbat Mr . Webster was to address the Senate at that time . His speech , which was one of his most deliberate , if not most able performances , is far from being satisfactory to the public sentiment of the North . It was unworthy of his distinguished fame , and fell short ofthe demands of the occasion . Mr . Webster contended that the insertion of the Wilraet Proviso , prohibiting the introduction of slavery into the Territories in any bill for their government , was nugatory and useless . Texas bad been admitted , with her

      slave institutions ; it had been provided that all new States formed out of her territory should be slave States ; but at the same time , slavery was excluded from-California and New Mexico by the law of nature , wbicb had erected impassable barriers to its introduction within their limits . He maintained that every portion of the territory in this country had a fixed and immutable character , which no legal arrangement could modify . For this reason , he would no more apply the principle of the Wilmot Proviso to the government of California than he would to that of Canada , in case she should seek for admission to the Union . In allusion to the question

      of fugative slaves , Mr . W . argued that the North had failed in her duty to tbe Constitution by refusing her aid in their capture and delivery . The South bad cause to complain of this neglect . The duty was imposed by the Constitution , and tbe North was bound to fulfil it . In like manner tbe public agitation of the subject at the North has been conducted in a manner not only to vitiate the vernacular of the country , but to produce needless excitement and irritation . Mr . W . concluded his speech with an impassioned eulogium on the value of the Union , and an earnest appeal to tbe patriotism and philanthropy of the Senate , to abstain from every measure that shall be hostile to its duration .

      Mr . Seward , in one of the most important and eloquent speeches which have been made in the Senate during the present Session , adopted a different course of argument from that of either of the two distinguished Senators who preceded him on the Slavery question . He maintained tbe immediate admission of- California imo tbe Union , replying at length to the various objections which have been urged against tbe measure . Araoug the reasons which he advanced in favour of the reception of California , he dwelt on the importance of unity , between the different portions of tbe country , now extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific , and composing a numerous population , speaking the same

      language , having the same origin , and cherishing common sentiments and principles . In view of the position , the power , the capabilities of America , among the nations of the world , he regarded disunion as inadvisable , presumptuous , and" not to be thoug ht of for a moment . California was now a complete State . She could never become anything less—could never again be a province or colonycould never shrink iuto the dimensions of a Federal dependent territory . If she was not received as one of the Bister States of the Union , she would soon set up for herself . She had many motives for independence ; if she did not contemplate it , it was because she did not expect rejection ; if she chose

      it , we had no power to prevent it . We could not reach ber by rail or steam . She could defy our army and navy . Nor would she go alone . Oregon , with the western declivity oi the Sierra Nevada , and the entire Pacific coast would follow in her footsteps . Mr . S . was opposed to all compromise on the subject of slavery . He would not surrender any portion of human freedom for tbe gold and power of the western El Dorado , He had perfect confidence in the perpetuity of the Union . He could discover no omens of revolution . There would be no revolution , but one that began and ended in Congress . He should , therefore , vote directly for the admission of California , without conditions , qualifications , and without compromise .

      A large meeting has been held in the Broadway Tabernacle , for the adoption of measures nitb reference to $ he permanent relief of the Hungarian _rsfo .

      France. T*Ae » Moniteur Du Soir' Stetei ...

      gees . " Hi 8 "' Hbnour _^ Mayor Woodhull , _presided'at the meeting , which was addressed by Horace Greeley , John Van Buren _^ Nathaniel B . Blunt , and others . A committee was appointed to receive subscriptions in ' aid of the Hungarians , on whoBe behalf the meeting was _called _^ I t is proposed tb raise a sum of at least-10 , 000 dels ., and apply it to -the purchase of lands in the West , with agriculiural implements , seeds , animals , and supplies , sunlcient for the establishment of the exiles on their own farms , where they maybe joined by tbeir families , unless recalled to Europe by political changes . i - „ _,. .-. ¦ -,-. ¦ _» _-J _^ _-iV ... ... .. _'ii-i ' tl .

      The expedition in . _search of Sir John Franklin , which has been started by private subscription in this city , is to consist of two or three schooners suitable for the navigation of the Arctic Seas , of from seventy to ninety tons burden . Lieut . De Haven , who was attached to the Exploring Expedition , has accepted the command of the enterprise , and will sail with his company from this pert about the 1 st of May . A disastrous fire occurred at Buffalo on tbe 10 th inst . destroying-several public buildings and fifteen or twenty private houses and stores , making a total loss of 300 , 000 dols . The property destroyed was in the most beautiful part of the city .

      The trial of Prof . Webster for the murder of Dr George Parkman , " commenced yesterday in Boston , Between fifty and sixty witnesses oil each side are in attendance , and the _Court-room is thronged with an immense crowd , pf spectators . No disclosures have yet been made to the public to relieve the subject from its original , dismal obscurity . The late Municipal Elections in Canada have resulted in favour of the Annexation candidates . The dates from the City of Mexico are to the 19 tl \ ult . There was a prospect of peace between tbe Indians and Yucatecoes . Gen . _Mejia bad been obliged , by HI health , to resign his post as Commandant General of Durango .

      The nesv 8 from Texas is to the 1 st inst . The Indians continue their aggressions on the white travellers . The legislature , which recently adjourned , has passed an act for the great Pacific Railroad , granting the right of way to the government , and giving to the builder every alternate section of the public land on which the road may pass , to the extent of five miles on each side . An act bas also been passed extending the time for filing claims against the late Republic to September , 1851 , and barring all claims not filed by that time . We have dates faom San Francisco to Feb . l , a fortnight later than those given in our last issue-There is no additional news of importance .

      _Dreadfui . Steamboat Disaster . — Baltimore , MAncH 12 th . — _. 'fhe ' _-Alabama ( Montgomery ) Journal , ' received this evening , has a full account of the dreadful accident to the steamer Orville St . John . She burnt about four miles below Montgomery . It is supposed that there were 120 pesons on board , many of whom leaped into the river and were droivned . Others perished ih the flames , and others were crushed by the guards of the boat . The ladies threw themselves into the river , and moat of those on board were burnt . Mrs . Hall , with her daughter in her arms , was drowned . The clerk of the boat ( Mr . Mear ) in attempting to save her was nearly drowned . The only article on board tbat was saved , was the trunk of Col . Preston . There was a number of

      returned Californians on board who lost their all , Col . Rodman Price of the- United States Navy , agent from California , lost his _baggage , with which were 250 , 000 dols _belonging to the government . Mr . Maul , a returned California !] , was very severely injured . F . H . Brooks of Mobile , rumoured to have been lost , was saved . In addition to the money lost by Mr . Price , were 10 , 000 dols belonging to Mr . Knowland , and a large sum by Mr . Schmidt . A considerable portion of the sum in charge of Mr . Price was gold dust , in the safe , and may be recovered . The clerk of the boat has furnished the

      following list of the names as far as ascertained ;—Lost—Mrs . Hall and daughter , supposed of Augusta , Ga . ; Mrs . Vaughan _, Miss Vaughan , Mrs . M'Cann , Mrs . Haley , Mrs . Wright , and one or two others ; Messrs , M'Cann , of South Carolina ; T . C . Carson and _soUi of Dallas county ; Judge Lindsey , of Mobile ; Thomas Stephens , printer , of Camden ; and four others , whose names were unknown . Hugh Hughes , mate ; Peter , steward ; Esther , the chambermaid . The second cook and eight negroes were saved , also all of the crew with the exception of the second mate . Another account supposes that there were fifty lives lost and 600 , 000 dols . Many persons are still missing .

      National Reform Association.—In Pursuanc...

      National Reform Association . —In pursuance © f the recommendation of a meeting of reformers , held in the City of London , on Thursday , December 20 , 1849 , Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., in the ; chair , to hold a conference of the friends of reform from all parts of the kingdom , the Council have decided that the Conference shall be held in Crosby Hall , _Bisbopsgate-street , on Tuesday , the 23 rd , and Wednesday , the 24 th , of Apr jL next , the sittings to commence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . The objects ofthe Conference will be to receive reports from delegates in reference to the progress of the reform movement ; to devise means of carrying out with promptitude and vigour the objects of the association , and to complete the arrangements for realising tho fund of £ 10 , 000 , required for the present year ' s operations . —Daily News .

      Brother Chartists! Do Not Be Beguiled . 110ptukes! Mjptdres! Ruptures!

      BROTHER CHARTISTS ! DO NOT BE BEGUILED . 110 PTUKES ! MJPTDRES ! RUPTURES !

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      DR . DE ROOS' astonishing success in the treatment and cure of every variety of RUPTURE is ample proof ofthe unfailing efficacy of his _dis - covery , which must ere long entirely banish a complaint hitherto so prcval « nt . All persons so afllicted should , without delay , write , or pay a visit to Dr . DE R . who may he consulted dailj from 10 till 1 ; and i till 8 . —( Sundays excepted . ) This remedy is perfectly free from danger , pain , or incoavenience , may he used without confinement , is applicable te male and female , of any age , and will he sent free , with full instructions , < S _* c _., die ., rendering failure impossible , en receipt of 7 s . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holborn office , A great number of Trusses have been left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which willbe readily given to any one requiring them after one trial ofit . Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps _. Address , Walter De . Roof . 35 , Ely-place , Holborn-hill , London . In every case a cure is guaranteed ,

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      IMMENSE SUCCESS OP THE NEW REMEDY , Which has never yet failed , —A cure effected or the money returned . DR . WALTER DE ROOS , 33 , Ely-place , Holborn-hill , London , from many years experience at the various Hospitals in London and on the continent , is enabled to treat , with the utmost certainty oi cure , . every variety of disease arising from solitary habits , excesses , infection , such as gonorrhoea , gleet , stricture , and syphilis , or venereal disease , in all tlieir stages ,-which , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rheumatism , indigestion , debility , skin diseases , pains in the kidneys , bach , and loins , and finally an agonising death .

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      ' _- ' _-OBiW'PTIJrT-- _TTITn _«~; _iT _^^^"" _-- -- * " * I '"* _' * _-- " _»^_ _R OSALIE GOTJPEIiL **? 4 ¦ Ii PARISIAN . POMADE _isXrtnL _i , Celebr af , as th 6 i only , preparation for th _? * r * ly a _** nwu _!^ WWskers , Eye . brom 1 & c ., i „ _so _^ sight weeks , reproducing lost hair _. _^ " " ' as «• _" _* curling weak hair , and eheeWng _*^ ' _*«« wa « gL Stt > life , from _whatever cause _arisinf * u - ? _""' anv tL _^ knomitofaa , and will be forSf * , JU * «« * . " _» _itructiong ,. & c ., on receipt of 24 postJf eiJ " ¦ th full _% « _« ,, -d •„ ¦ ™ ' ' 0 _''* _Ats , & c ? stam Ps . H . Mr _.-Bull ,-Bnll _,-iay 8 : _^ . *« ia mhannv f _tbing _.-eliefailed , yours _hashad the d _« i _^ _^ after _., nags in duita cheeked ; j e _de 5 , rt " d effect- » , *>'• _, Dr . Erasmus Wilson : _ . Itis vastlv gr < * clumsy greasy compounds now sold und Pcri < yi " all , lines

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      or if than are any particular affections Z % th u * _V wa require to have a knowled ge of Z _,- ti , _' J , Ul _"anv ' _- tainly that class of disorders - matedI Of i _? ¦ rest iSH _proveded itlon of the "Silent ftM » ' _^ _^ _tf ' thus sending forth t » the world anotW _^ '" "io _» V medical work , cannot refrain frora _exm-l _, _!*««> - ?} " » fication at the continual success attS S » 'eir _> which , combined with the assistance : of _? _£ _- N" c £ _?* _sirel jr of their own preparation , have be . ? _$ * s , < _£ ?' of mitigating and _averting thement < _. lon i , " _'apnvn , _*' _attendantonthosepecuh _^ _iSs _^ that suffering humanity must u _& _aA ? _m _$ J

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      Read this , and judge for yourselvvs , GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND L 0 N _3 LIFE , SECURED BY THAT HIGHLY ESTEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , PARR'S LIFE PILLS , THOMAS PARR .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06041850/page/2/