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FRANCE . m Paris , Saturday , Dec . L—M . George Wash ington de Lafayette , son of the celebrated general of the same name , and godson of Washington , died yesterday at bis chateau at Lagrange , near Paris . lie was member of the Chamber of Deputies since 1822 , and Vice-President of the National _Consti-«« _£ ssemUy ia 1848 . He was the father o ( AIM . Oscar and Edmund de Lafayette , who were also members of the Constituent Assembly . M . Bezard , a member of the Convention , and late honorary member of the Court of Appeal at Amiens , died a day or two ago ia that f own . He haa just completed his 89 th year . As a member of the Convention he had voted for the death of Louis XVI ., without anneal or reprieve .
Sunday , Dec . 2 . —Tbe dividend on the Roman loan fell due yesterday , and a great number of the bondholders applied to MM . de Rothschild as usual for p _& ymsnt , but the answer was—no effects . The * ational' says that the Papal Government asked the house of Rothschild to advance the money , but that it declined . The * Moniteur' announces that a review of the army , and of the national guards of Paris , will take place at tbe Champ de Mars on the 10 th inst ., in honour ofthe anniversary of the election of thc President of tha Republic . The review will Jake place ia presence of the President _Wmstlf . A telegraphic despatch from Marseille- , of the 29 _ih ult ., announces tbat despatches from _Algiere slate that on the 10 th ult . Genual _Herbilhm
attacked t ' : e Arabs , at Ourfcal , near Oued Djeddi , within five leagues of Zaaicha _, and defeated them . 200 Arabs were killed , 3 , 000 camels and 15 , 000 sheep were taken , beside a large booty . The whole of the tents were destroyed . On the following day the principal chiefs surrendered , It is thought that Ziatcha will surrender almost immediately . _Monday , Dec . 3 . —The * Reforms' was saizeu yesterday , by order of the Procureur ofthe Republic , for a seditious and inflammatory libel , in an article entitled , ' Au p _: _uple des Compagnes . '
Monday . —The * Siecle' states to-day that at a Council of Ministers held at the Eljsee on the 20 th til :., a note was read to the council , from which it appeared that England pronounced in favour of the right of the Roman people to choose its own government . Tae same journal says , that at a cabinet council held in London , it was decided to support Louis Napoleon's policy at Rome , if the President engaged himself not to separate from England in the affair of the Hungarian refugees . The' Moniteur * publishes a decree , signed by the President of the Republic , appointing M . Lacosle Commissary Extraordinary of the Government at Lvous , aud _throughout the sixth _miliiaty division .
it is announced that the President of the Legislative Assembly will give a dinner on the 9 th to a hundred gusts , and that the President of tbe Republic _vciil he praent . It is also said that on the 10 th . the anniversary of the election of Louis Napoleon , there will be a grand banquet for 250 guests at the Hotel de Ville , at which also the President of the _ReiMibiic will be pre sent , and the banquet followed by a ball , for which 6 , 000 _iuvitation-cards are to be if sued . Twenty-seven of the Legitimists arrested in the Rue Run » = ' ord , have heen set at liberty . The farce of a military organisation had been performed by the _conspirators , and amongst them -were to be found _persons designated from all rauks from General to _diumuitr .
Paris , Tuesday . —Yesterday , in the Assembly , the President put tbe question on M . Pean ' s pooposivion for _li-e abolition of the custom of exposing Che names » f political offenders condemned by default on the pillory . The proposition was rejected by a large majority , and the house adjourned at halfpast six o ' _ciock . Pour hundred of the insurgents of June , 1848 , arrived in Paris yesterday , escorted by a guard of city _sergteii-. s { ra < n Havre The Attorney-General attended a ; the Conciergerie and signed the order of liberation : jr all . Thty proceeded immediately each to his o _» li home accompanied by tbeir friends and relatives w ' :: o bad been at the Conciergerie to meet them . Ai ; immense crowd was attracted to the spot , but the utmost tranquillity prevailed through * out .
More _Pfhsecutiojt . —Yesterday the Procureur ofthe Republic immediately after the publication of the work , ordered the seizure of the pamphlet entitled 'Le IZth Juhi , par Ledru Rollin , printed by M . Sthueidtr . Proceedings ate instituted against the printer and all the publishers of the work : — Erst , for exciting hatred and contempt of the _go--vernment-, secondly , for justifying facts considered as crimes hy the penal la < v . A person named Perrey , late a pupil of the Polytechnic School , was tried before the Paris Court of Assize , on Tuesday , for having on the 13 ili of June last excited the population to take arms , under tha pretence that the Constitution had been violated . _Hs was found guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment for five vears .
GERMANY . Bkrun . Not . 29- —Thc trial of Valdeek commenced } eii . ? rday at a quarter past nine . A large number of persons assembled to witness the proceedings . Ths prison in which the jury hold their sittings is full of soldiers and constables , and in the immediate _nelghbonjliood of the building tbe police prevented _aji persons from loitering about- Weldeek seemed rather pale , and bis sharp features seemed thinner than ever ; hut in his eyes there shone the lig ht of ihat powerful mind which so often carried away with its eloquence the Chamber ? , and caused the miu ' _tuy ; a tremble . His fellow-prisoner and secret _accuser , the _meichant Ohm , is a jounjr . man , about _twei ;> y-four years , of ordinary _appearancs _, and vulgar _Jt : » -. fsii features . He appeared careless of the nuraer _.-us _speciaiors . Both the accused pleaded ' Not Guilty . '
The _accuied 0 « ru addressed the court , having previously _received _permission to assist his memory witb some written documents which lay beiorehim . Re first ox all complained most bitterly ofthe bad treatment he _hzd met with in the prison , and then spoke of his political proceedings subsequent to the revolution _* f . March . He had joined the democratic party , and had heen made acquainted with their plans . IL sketched the proceedings of the ultrademocrais during the summer of 1848 , mentioned the _sioniiing of the arsenal as the work of French emissaries . van _cfahoin he professed to have known as AI . Soulier ; he alluded also to the celebrated _proposition made bv Mr . Stein in tbe Prussian
National _Amenably , and declared that on the 17 th Nov ., when ibis _propositian was rejected , 100 men were stationed , with daggers beneath their coats , before the building in which the Assembly was flitting . Or . that occasion he saw his error , and perceiving tlie egotism of the democratic party ; the feelings of a Prussian and a royalist were re-awakened ianis bosom , and he above all grew disgusted with the _democratic party , because they assisted the Polish _revv ' ydon . For _tbrse reasons he had joined the _vaxtv _<•? order ; but he imagined that he might
serve his _country to greater advantage by preserving the appearance of a _democrat , and thus became _acquainted wrh thc plans of that party ; he , therefore , joined the _» _-.= _« ' _Pn-.-sian _Gazttte _, ' in which journal fie had pii ' ihsbee" their- plans ; the notorious _Entlndlungen ( disclosures ) were written hy him . He mentioned his connexion with M . Goedschef ( one of the persons employed on the paper , and probably tU ? principal concoctor of the whole plot against _Wa-Jtck ) and with D'Ester in a very _conferred and _hthitatin ? . wanner .
This unexampled _piecs of pleading created a most Unfavourable impression . The accused spoke with the most vulgar pathos , in bad German , seeking nevertheless so create au impression tbat he had saved his _country . Th : 3 unfavourable impression Has heizhifii ? d considerably by the examination Which the president of the court then instituted . The accused was so completely embarrassed by the president , t ' uat he Teueaiedly convicted himself of having lied . The principal portions of the statements contained in the _preliminary examinations he aow denipd . and moreover confessed much that he had former ! v denied . Until now he had maintained
that he knew noihicg of the letter said to be written "by D'Ester , and upon which the whole _accusJlion is based ; but in the course of this examination he declared that he knew it proceeded front D'Ester himtsl . Ia tbe crowd of list ? _ners it » a 3 _onile impossible to note every particular ; 1 must therefore wait for the short-hand reports , which will proclaim tbe _Carious fact how often the accused confessed , ' Yes , there I litd . ' Up to this time these reports have not appeared ; the house in which they are being printed is perfectly "doctaded by the mob , and the police lave been compelled to interfere to preserve order ; they Tuht for the copies of the reports .
During the esamii ation the sprctators were _frequen 1 / _unsble to suppress tbeir just anger aud disgust . Waldeck listened calmly and coolly , though
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a smile _appealed , on his lips , at the more 'extraordinary portions ' of his acenser ' s testimony . "* x The examina tions having been concluded , "Waldeck addressed the court in his defence , in a speech which lasted nearly two hours ; his speech was a masterpiece of cool , clear and perfectly objective description . Even his political opponents declare that he never before spoke so well and so effectively . The mare contrast between tae defuse , vapid , and lying oration of his predecessor , and this practical , cutting speech uttered with the calmness ofa good conscience , should be sufficient to decide the verdict of the jury .
The impression created by his speech was apparent in the solemn silence which succeeded it . The President announced that the speech was so complete and detailed that he had no further questions to ask . The Staats-Anwalt then put a few questions , which Waldeck answered in a calm and collected manner , and tbe sitting was then closed at half-past four . The extraordinary and unexpectedly favourable result of the first day ' s trial spread like lightning through the city . All the details of the trial were discussed , and a general opinion expressed that the process must terminate iu the acquittal of Waldeck Tc-day the examination of the witnesses was to commence , and the number of persons present was , if _possible , still greater than yesterday .
Only six witnesses were examined to-day , and it is therefore hardly possihle that a verdict can be given before Saturday next ( Dec . 1 . ) Oue of these six witnesses was a most important one , no less a person than the president of the police , llerr von Hinkeldey . His examination was a most interesting
scene . Herr von Hinkeldey made his appearance with all tbe insolence and rudeness of a superior Prussian ( I might say Russian ) official . He began by asking , Was stehtzuihreu dieusteu ? " ( What are your commands ?) The president ef the court reminded him that witnesses were summoned to answer questions . This somewhat humbled the autocrat of Berlin , but not sufficiently to prevent him behaving in a similar improper manner on several ihibsequent stages of his examination ; so that the president felt himself called upon to remind bim that he ought io behave himself differently before a court of law .
Herr van Hinkeldey was questioned as to his connexion with the accused Ohm . The following is his characteristic explanations . Herr Goedsche , whose namehad been sooften mentioned , and whom heknew as a faithful adherent of the King , had often made communications to the police which bad subsequently been confirmed : upon one occasion the raid Goedsche bad declared that he could procure for the police authorities several important papers which would iay bate the treasonable plans of several of the leaders of the democratic party ; but required a promise from him ( Hen Hinkeldey ) that the parties in whose hands these papers were should not suffer by their disclosing them . As president of police he had made that _promise , and assured them that he should not be punished . Upon which the information was immediately rendered .
Upon heing questioned by the President whether he considered himself empowered to do so , the President of Police replied , ' Certainly ; I only do my duty in promising to let these go unpunished who assist me iu discovering the plans which are still being concocted between here and Paris . ' He afterwards exclaimed with great violence , 'I am responsible only to my superiors in office . ' I must remark here , that the English practice of permitting a man to turn ' King ' s evidence , ' has hitherto been unknown in Prussia , and that the King alone had the power of promising life to any concerned in criminal accusations ; and since the publication of the constitution it is very doubtful , whether this right still exists , and if so , in whose hands ? Nevertheless , Herr von Hinkeldey has taken it into his own hands .
After Hinkeldey came Herr Goedsche . This witness , after indulging in a long account of terrible conspiracies , each of which was more remarkable than its predecessor , and having uttered a tirade of such immense nonsense that even Waldeck v , as compelled to laugh , was subjected to a close examination . The witness showed himself sly and cunning , his replies were for the most part indirect , and he endeavoured at every occasion to return to his discoveries of frightful conspiracies . To all
appearances he is himself the soul of the plot invented to sacrifice "Waldeck . Out of the many details of this examination , in which numberless contradictions were apparent between the evidence of the witness and oi the accused Ohm , and between the evidence given at the present and at former examinations by the witness himself , 1 will only mention one fact , that in a letter from Ohm to Goedsche , which has been discovered , there occures the following : — ' A letter will reach you from use tbat handwriting . '
On the third day proceedings commenced at halfpast nine . Several witnesses for the defence were examined to prove the connexion of Goedsche rritb Ohm . One of these witnesses said that be bad known Ohm under a different name , and had been in the habit of carrying letters to him from Goedsche , ia whose employment witness was . The same witness confirmed Ohm ' s statement of his being the author of the notorious ' Enthullungen . ' Another witness , the publisher of the lithograph of D'Ester , beneath which appears afac simile of his handwriting , gave evidence to the effect that the lithograph was only a
partially correct imitation of the handwriting . The remaining portion of tbe sitting was consumed by hearing tiie evidence of the parties appointed to examine and compare the handwriting of the letter in question , with other authentic papers in the handwriting of D'Ester . From their report and testimony it appeared that their handwriting of the letter in question was in some respects similar , but in others totally different to the authenticated handwriting , and further that Ohm ' s handwriting exhibited some affinity to that of the letter . It was farther proved that ihe handwriting of the letter was very similar to that of thelithographic / ire si _' _irafe .
Several witnesses were then called and examined to disprove the statement made by Ohm respecting the meetings which he affirmed had taken place at various cafes . These witnesses all denied any knowledge of such meetings . The landlords of the different bouses in which D'Ester lived at various times denied all knowledge of Waldeck ' s person , or that ha bad ever visited D'Ester . This "Was coxfirmed by the production , to the great astonishment of all present , of a public declaration , made by D'Ester before the _authoritcs of- the Canton Argau ,
in which he denies that he ever was intimately acquainted with Ohm . He had become acquainted with Ohm in searching for lodgings ; in which search the accused , Ohm , had intruded his assistance ; and his conduct had been so suspicious that he ( D'Ester ) had regarded it as a most solemn duty to preserve the utmost caution in ail his conversation witb bim ; aud he finally declared that he had never written a letter to Ohm . The poster of the house in which Waldeck lived denied evtr having seen Ohm there .
Fourth Day . —The examination of the witnesses was brought to a close to-day ( Dec . 1 . ) The case grows more favourable to Waldeck as it proceeds , and his accusers are gradually _entauglhig themselves ia the _Tnfcibfcs oi the net which Vhcy wove for his destruction . The proceedings were very interesting to-day . The authenticity of a letter said to be from D'Ester , and which was also found upon Ohm , and which referred to a debt owing by D'Ester to a wine merchant , was entirely destroyed by the wine merchant in que-aion declaring that D'Ester had never been in his debt . Another witness testified that he met Waldeck on
the day of his arrest at one of the gates of the town , and at the particular hour at wbich Ohm declared he had met and spoken to him at a totally different spot . The servants of Waldeck also gave evidence to the effect that they had never once seen Obm at the house of their master . In the cross examination which was then instituted by the Staats An wait and Waldeck ' s counsel , Ohm : entangled himself in such glaring contradictions , that his statement of having visited Waldeck many times was reduced to one single visit , and finally he was so drives into a corner , tbat he declared it was impossible for him to remember every thing that had takeu place seven months ago .
Tbe witnesses whose evidence was then taken were all former parliamentary colleagues of Waldeck . They , one and all , declared that Waldeck had never spoken of a republic even in Ibe private meetings oi the party to which he belonged , and that he had always spoken of the democratic monarchy as their object , and the parliament as the arena in which the truggle was to be made . His fellow-travellers on the journey to Dresden all agreed thatthe journey was simply one of pleasure , and that it was by a mere accident tbey had made tbe acquaintance of Bakuuiu , in a hotel in Dresden . Herr von Uurah specially testified that , in November of the past year , Waldeck was opposed to an armed conflict . Another deputy of the former Prussian National Assembly
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swore that the witness Goedsche tried to bribe him to ' vote with _thesRighfKpatty ra the Chamber , by promising him three dollars for every minor _occasion and forty dollars for every important occasion . G : edsche was able to give only a most stupid eX ; planation to this positive testimony of the witness . A bookseller proved that on the day on which Waldeck was arrested , Goedsche came into bis shop and demanded a portrait of Waldeck , containing a fac-simile of his handwriting , that he handed , him one , that while looking for some other , he perceived that Goedsche bad carried it to the window , and was comparing tbe fac-simile with some writing on a piece of paper , which he hastily placed in ah envelope as the ( fitness approached .
The evidence given by the daughter of tbe landlord of the bouse in which Ohm lived was most important . She swore that she herself gave to Ohm the seal with which the letters , said to be from D'Ester were sealed , and that Ohm had expressly asked for a seal without any particular marks upon it-The Staats-Anwalt and' Waldeck ' s counsel bo th declined to call any other witness .
ACQUITTAL OF WALDRCK . The ' Cologne Gazette , ' of Tuesday , in a telegraphic despatch from Berlin , asnounces that the accusation against Waldeck and Ohm had been dropped ou Monday by the Staats-Anwalt , and that the jury of course acquitted both prisoners . The Staats-Anwalt in his speech characterised the letters said to have been written by D ' Ester as the production of a knave . Waldeck was immediately set at liberty , but Ohm was detained ; the Staats-Anwalt announcing that he would be tried again for falsely denouncing Waldeck . Numerous groups of respectable people greeted Waldeck on his appearance in the street .
PORTUGAL . The tews from Lisbon is to tbe 29 tb of November . A plot had been formed against Thomar , tha opposition press bringing against bim strong charges , although he still retains the confidence of the Queen . A ministerial crisis is the result . Three of the ministers wilt , it is said , be ousted—namely , war , finance , and justice .
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . From no parts of the empire do more dismal accounts come in than from Transylvania . Since the surrender at Vilagos the Wallachs , or Daco-Romans , as these savages classically dub themselves , have actually murdered no less than a tenth of the whole Hungarian nobility in Transylvania ; and , upon tha strength of these deserts , a deputation , headed by a bandit and a priest , are on their way to Vienna to petition the Emperor to confirm the claimsof the Daco-Ramaus to a heparate nationality . The bandit is the ferocious Janka , and the priest the schismatic Greek bishop Schaguna .
THE HUNGARIAN REfcUGEES IN TURKEY . Widdin , Nov . 7 . —I returned here this morning from accompanying Kossuth , and the last . portion of the emigration , two stations on their route to Schumla About a fortnight ago arrived , from Constant ! - nople , two , miralais , or colonels , with instructions to convey the whole emigration from Widdin to Schumla . From this moment the munificent hospitality , _aln-ays intended by Abdul Miejid , was carried out in a congenial spirit . In addition to the pay proportioned to the rank of the refugees , and to the rations liberally distributed since the first complaints reached Constantinople , hourly proofs were given of the Sultan ' s magnificent gene rosity , in which chiefs , officers , and soldiers participated .
Lodged in the best houses of the town , and soldiers were clothed anew from head to foot ; and besides its being intimated that everything would be furnished on the road , a large gratuity to defray incidental expenses , and proportioned to the rank of the recipients , was paid over . Every general received 5 , 000 piastres , and to Kossuth 10 , 000 were presented , besides a neivand costly travelling carriage for his journey . The officers despatched by the Porte upon this mission displayed a prevanance . forethought , and politeness . which would have done credit to the most polished circles of the west . Kossuth , Count Bathyani and Court Zamoyski , who , without violations of oriental
etiquette , could not refuse thc Sultan ' s present , divided one portion ofthe gift between the Mollahs and the Greek bishop , to be applied to the relief of their respective poor , and distributed the rest amongst the subaltern cfiicers aud soldiers . This , indeed , is the use to which , after the example of Kossuth , the Hungarian chiefs have all along applied the weekly pay apportioned to them by the Porte . As the poles , Italians , and Hungarians were to commence tbeir march in three distinct bodies , on the eve of separation a general explanation of 'aU previous misunderstanding took place between the chiefs who came to take ef the late president governor of Hungary an _affectianate leave .
Under tbe influence of his genius , the result , so little to be expected under the disi ntegrating influence of adversity , has been tbe complete oblivion of all political differences , and the fusion of all op inions in patriotic unison of tendency . On the morning of the 31 st , the Polish legion undertook its march , under the military ' command of General Vysoeki , but headed by Count Zamoyski , towhom the consent of the Polish portion of the emigration has been awarded by his countrymen . Gen . Vysoeki , who represents the republican , and Zamoyski the monarchical interests amongst the Poles , bave in fact given a touching and salutary example of abnegation of _personal interests and opinions for the _-public _good .
At ah early hour a marquee wa 3 pitched outside the citadel of Widdin on a space cf ground which , out of comph ' aent , must be called the glacis . Here the Pacha and Turkish authorities were assembled waiting for Kossuth , to review the legion and the _Tuikish Nizam destined for its escort befoie it com menced its march . Kossuth and his suit made their appearance on horseback . He was dressed according to his habit in very plain civilian clothing , covered by a blue cloak , but wearing the graceful low crowned black felt Hungarian hat , adorned with the while ostrich feather , which was distinctive of ths Hungarian _g'oera ' s aid leaders .
Old Dembinski , with his silvery beard , was in the national costume of Poland , and Kossuth ' s military followers in the dresses of their country , from which our own uniformes have been derived , and wiih which the appearance of Prince _Esterhazy at our drawing-rooms and levies has familiarised us . Kossuth , after riding , down the line , addressed an impressive speech ' o the Polish legion . All publicity and display are distasteful to the simplicity of Kossnth ' s tastes ; but in particular he piques himself on never holding out a false hope , or making even an ungrounded insinuation . On this account his ap-¦ _peataTitie aw > _6-ngst the refugee troops was quite un . wonted . He had impulitically refused to show
himself iu the camp because he could not give tbem conscientiously any assurance of safety . On this occasion , af : f r thanking the Poles for tlieir services he dwelt upon the generous hospitality extended to them by the Sultan and the Turks , but . expatiated in particular on the cheering sympathy , of that great nation of the west , and on the human ty-. of its minister , to whick , under Providence , they owed their Jives . The effect of his ehquence on this impressionable ' people may be judged—prolonged and deafening cheers for Kossuth and for Hungary , such as perhaps Widdin had never heard before _. Then followed cheers for Poland , and a right hearty cheer for the Sultan and the Turks . The Polish
legion began its march amidst the good wishes of the Turkish population , _one-third of the men literally shedding tears , and all joining in the chorus of their patriotic songs . Ou the following day this scene was repeated by the departure ofthe Italian logion , under Colouel Count Monti , and which Kossuth very eloquently addressed in the Italian language . The appearance of this legion did its commander the gr < atest credit ; after so many disasierSi marches , and fatigues , it turned out without any assistance of clothing from the Turks , in better and brighter order than a French regiment of the Vine reviewed in the Champ de Mars . This result Colonel Monti brought about
by the maintenance of an iron discipline , by isolating himself with his men , and sharing their fate , encamped in the midst of cholera , in a marsh of the Daunbe . On the Thursday , General Bern , or Mourad Pacha , embarked in a government steamer on the Danube in great slate . The two other' rene gade' generals , the gallant Kmettel , a magnificent specimen of a Hungarian , and Stein , a short , fat , and fair German , a very questionable _acquisition to the Turks , since he was avowedly on the pointof making propositions to the Russians — quitted Widdin by land with all due honours , accompanied by a large escort , and the remainder of the converts to Islamism . After all the fuss that had been made of their numbers , it consisted in toto of niuety « eiabt As a great prejudice had . been excited , th _? re were
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r _^^ _p _^^ _m on their j th , _Aeteve , a little to their surprise , _^ j dado » nd Sure of the Poles was repeated . One thing Sen s emed much to impress the Turks * _u the Sitic enthusiasm with which all these refugees whom they had seen so dejected , were inspired by the , appearance and words of Kossuth . A striking and affec tionate episode waa his touching allusion to and their lament over 320 of their number , who had died of cholera , or from previous wounds during their sojourn at Widdin . for
A hundred waggons , a guard of honour Kossuth , and an escort of four hundred cavalry had been provided by the Turks . Kossuth , beading the coluran , rode side by side with General Perczel and Count Casimir Batthyany , who wore on his arm a black crape , in mourning for the execution of his cousin . The fact and manner of that nobleman s death have now united in' Count Casimir all the suffrages whoee aristocratic predilections bad induced them to think feasible an arrangement with the House of Hapsburg . Two ladies only , the Countess Batthyany and the Countess Dembinski , accompany the emigration _. After four hours' march the emigrants hailed for the night in a small village on the bank ofthe Danube , and last night reached another station six miles further on the road to _Schamla .
¦ Nothing could exceed the kindness or goodwill of the _Mahomedan population in both these villages-They ; strenuously refuse all payment for tbeir hospitality . The very women , veiled to the' eyes , quit their harems , and rush in crowds to seethe renowned Magyars and the . ' great Kossuth' pass by . The peculiar circumstances ofthe sojourn of tbe Hungarians at Widdin have done the work ofa century in neutralising the seemingly intractable prejudices of the Islamites . Here , on my return to Widdin , where everything is again dead , dull , and silent , the Turks volunteer their friendly greeting and inquire with deep interest after their departed guests . There is hardly a Turk in Widdin who has not picked up a few words of Hungarian . This circumstance so difficult to reconcile with
their habitual disdain for the language of the _^ ' _aottt * is , perhaps , mainly to be accounted for by the impression which has gone abroad amongst them that the Magyars belong to their own race—an impression the Magyars reciprocate , and which in the future may not be barren ef results . General Damianitch ( from an officer of whose staff we publish IheTolIowing letter ) was hanged on the 6 th of last month at Arad . Damianitch , a Hungarian Serb by birth , served before the war broke out as captain in the Austrian infantry . He was one of the bravest and perhaps the ablest of the Hungarian generals . It was his habit in the hottest fire to urge his Boldiers on by remark , ' Never' fear ,
you see they cannot hit me , and I am twice your size . ' On quitting the Banat upon one occasion , he addressed a remarkable proclamation to the Servian population in which after reminding them of their former cruelties wbich had . made'him utterly ashamed of the race to which he had the misfortune to belong , he threatened if they ventured to hurt a hair of the heads of any Magyar or German families to exterminate them all on his return , and . then blow out ' his own brains that the last Serb . might cease to pollute the Soil of Hungary . Hanged last of his companions he turned to the officials presiding at these exeouu _' ons _, and said , banteringly , ' You know my friends that before the enemy I was always first , why here the last . '
TO MAJOR GENERAL _SEVEttUS B 0 UTOURLINE , _CuIEF OF THE STAFF TO F . M . PRINCE PASKIEWITCH . General , — After the capitulation of General Georgey he addressed a despatch to the garrison of Arad , ordering it to place itself under Russian protection . A council of war was held in consequence , at which it was determined to hold out against the Austrians to the last , but to open negotiations with the Russian General Rudiger . ' You general , were under these circumstances sent from the bead-quarters of Prince Paskiewitch to Arad , aud with you I personally entered into _negatiations on behalf of General Damianitch and of the garrison .
' You must remember the assurances you gave and the promises you made on that occasion . They were ofa nature so positive and solemn as to induce me to invite you into the fortress , and to inspire US all with confidence in you . ' If your memory fails you I accurately recollect , and propose here to recall the exact tenour of your words ' . * After assuring us of the sympathy of your Emperor with the Hungarian nation , and of his willingness and desire to shield us against Austrian persecution , yon guaranteed to us tbat we should remain under Russian protection till a complete amnesty was proclaimed by Austria , and further the retention of our baggage , personal properly , and arms . •
' We _surrendered on these assurances , and in full reliance on the protection of- Russia . We could not doubt the honour Of your emperor as pledged through the accredited representative of his commander-we could not doubt a soldier ' s word . ' Well General ! do you know that in consequence of that credulity ,. General Damainitch , the brave commandant of Aarad , has perished by the hangman ' s bands , , and that the remaining officers who . have not shared his fate , hive been sent off , stripped of every thing , as common soldiers to the army of Italy ? •
'And if you know these things , as you must know them , what have you to say to avert the universal execrations . which I call down on the perfidy of your . Emperor if you acted by bis orders . or on your own murderous duplicity , if you did not ? Gustav . Frits . ' Widdin , October 29 .
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . By the arrival of her Majesty ' s ship Eurydice at Portsmouth we have dates from the Cape to the 12 th of October . The ' Cape Town Mail , ' ofthe 6 th ult ., says : ' Private letters from Graham ' s Town state that the effect of Earl Grey ' s last despatch , in that quarter , hr gbeen to create universal alarm and indignation . The inhabitants of the western districts are assured of the support of the people of the eastern province in carrying out the strongest measures of resistance which they think proper to adopt . " The same paper has the account of a great public meeting held on the 29 ih of September when the following resolutions were adopted : —
'That the inhabitants feel compelled , by sense o " duty to themselves , their children , theh' fri . nds , and their country , and fully justified in the sight of God and man , in the exercise of their undoubted rights and privileges as British _subjects , to put into immediate operation all those means of self , protection which are expressed in the document called the pledge . ' That the words' any persons who may assist in supporting convicted felons , ' include all departraeu _' s , by or through , or under the authority of which , supplies oi any kind' are conveyed to the Neptune , until that vessel ' sdestinationbe changed , and until supplies are required to enable her to prosecute her voyage . ' -
• That the chief departments responsible for , or directly instrumental in , the detention of the Neptune , are—1 st , the head of all the departments , including the executive council . 2 nd , the commissariat and naval departments . ' 'That this _colsny , beingtormally degraded into a penal settlement , a party of convicts being actually within its limits , it is the opinion of the inhabitants that all colonists who may be called upon to act in the management of such convicts , if landed , such as field gornets and justices of the peace , may loyally resign their commissions . '
The colony continued in a most excited state ; business was altogether suspended , and on the day the Eurydice sailed , most of the shops were closed . Sir Harry Smith remained at Cape Town . It was generally understood tb at the convicts were positively not to be landed , and that theNeptune only remained for her final orders to proceed on to some other place . The troops , as usual , marched down to the commissariat stores for their daily
rations of fresh beef , & c . ; the government had a supply in store of seven or eight thousand casks of flour , six omven thousand oxen , and several thou sand _sheep . The governor had been compelled to seize bullocks while engaged drawing waggons , and to employ fore d measures to secure other provision * . A stipulated price is paid for the captured cattle . The convicts were still distributed on board ber Majesty ' s store-ship Seringapatatu and oa board the Neptune .
Although no violence had occurred previous ts the departure of the Eurydice , the _lerment was at its height . The colonists had declared that they would not supply the naval service with anything whilst the ship was ia the bay . The governor had replied
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that he hadmade every concession in his power , and would not submit to threats . UNITED STATES , CANADA , MEXICO . By the Royal Mail steam-ship Cambria , Captain Shannon , we have advices from New _Xonc id tbe 20 tb , Boston to the 2 ht , and Halifax to we 23 rd ult . respectively . , » _••¦¦ The cholera has re-appeared in the Mississippi . Th _stea mer Constitution , which arrived at St . ' " _ _---- - ¦ Z _^^ hir _^ _tltZ
_Loais on 15 th Nov ., from New Orleans , with emigrants , bad upwards of thirty cases of cholera on board , seventeen of wbich proved fatal before the steamer touched the landing . The steamer James Hewitt bas also arrived with a number of cases oi cholera on board . She was prohibited from landing , by the public authorities , and lay on the opposite side of the river . The cholera bad also again made its appearance at _Vicksburgh , Mississippi . communicate the intel
Advices from Nicaragua - ligence of the ratification by both Houses of the _Ltgialature of the contracts with Mr . White , representative of the Ship Canal Company , and of the treaty of aliiance _. vfriendship , commerce , _navigation , and protection : concluded with Mr . Squircr , the Minister from Washington . The government had also negotiated a treaty ceding to the United S tates the Island of Tigre , in the Gulf of Fon 3 eca , which was . to be immediately taken possession of by an American squadron . SHIPWRECKS AND EXPLOSIONS . — TWO HUNDRED
LIVES LOST . New Orleans , Nov . 16 . —A terrible steamboat explosion occurred here last evening . . The steamer LoiiBiana , bound to St . Louis , when about starting from her wharf , burst both her boilers , shattering her to atoms , and also badly injuring the steamers Storm and Bostona , that were lying alongside . The Louisiana was crowded with passengers , as were also the other two , wbich had just arrived . It is
supposed that , ' altogether , 160 lives were lost , besides many wounded . Already fifty dead bodies have been recovered . The Levee is strewn with the dead and dying , and hundreds of our citizens are around the melancholy scene , rendering all the assistance iu their power to those in whom a spark of life remains . Dead bodies , legs , arms , and heads are scattered in every direction , and the sight presented is most awful . It is at present impossible to ascertain tbe names or number oi those who are
_le . fc Nov . 17 . — Captain Kennon , of the steamer Louisiana , has been arrested , and held to bail iu the sum of 8 , 000 dollars . The explosion having been attributed to carelessness , a searching investigation will shortly take place . Many more dead bodies have _bsen found . The number of killed , it is believed , will reach 200 , besides many dreadfully wounded . They were mostly emigrants , on their way to settle in the Western county . Nov . 18 . —Another steamer called The Belle also exploded on the day after between New Orleans and Mobile , by which the engineer and several bands were killed , and several others more or less wounded .
A third steamer called St . Paul , bound from St . Louis to New Orleans , struck a log off Hook Island on Sunday , the 18 th of November , and sunk to her main deck . _Fourthly , tbe packet-ship Tuscarora , Capt . Turley , frora Liverpool for Philadelphia , went ashore about five miles south of Cape Henlopen main lighthouse , on the same day . She sailed from Liverpool on the 13 th of October , is heavily laden , and has between four and five hundred passengers . The crew left the vessel by means of a rope fastened to the Shore from the foremast . On Monday her main and mizeu masts were cut away and she was abandoned .
The fifth disaster happened on the 16 th ult ,, when the new steam-ship Eudora , which left New York for Rio Janeiro and California , sprung a leak when two days out , and went ashore on Ludlam beach , near Cape May on Thursday , and discharged Ue . r cargo iu surf boatB . She is valued at about 50 , 000 dollars , and tbe cargo about 20 , 000 dollars , which was principally insured in Wall-street . It was feared that some misfortune had happened to a sixth vessel , the Columbus steamer , frora Philadelphia to Charleston . She was considerably over due , and was last seen disabled off Cape _Hatteras .
CANADA . - — The British American League at Toronto had passed a resolution denouncing the annexation movement by a large majority . A telegraphic communication , dated Montreal , ' Nov . 19 th , says : — ' Serious troubles have taken place in the mining districts on Lake Superior , arising out of the difficulties between the Chippewa Indians and the government . The Indians can muster 1 , 000 warriors . One hundred soldiers , with artillery , have bten ordered from the nearest station to the scene of hostilities . The military department are making formidable preparations . '
MEXICO . —We have advices trom the city of Mrxico to the 20 tb of October , which , state that Volcara bad raised the standard of revolt in favour of Santa Anna in Concula . The insurrection , however , had been suppressed , and the leaders executed .
WEST INDIES AND THE PACIFIC . Jamacia papers and correspondence to the 7 th ult . have come to hand . Their contents represent the island as being healthy , and the season as very favourable to the cultivation of sugar . There is but one new feature in the position of the Legislature since our last advices , and that is that some progress has been made on the important question of retrenchment . Up to the 7 th Trinidad was tranquil , and order
has been restored by the measures of Governor Lord Harris . Atthe departure of the packet the Board of Council was occupied with the new gaol _iemulations , which , after several amendments and alterations had been made by the Chief Justice , were passed through committee . No further out . rages had been committed in the interior . ' Tbe minds of the people ' ( says a private letter ) « are a little more quiet since tbe riots of October , but they are still dissatisfied with the local government , and are wailing with great impatience for the _mothet
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country to take to grimtt ( : ea int 0 consideration ( Trinidad is placed in the most favourable situation for commerce , and her agricultural re sources are immense , but the one can never be taken _advantage of , nor the other developed , till a far different mode of government be awarded . ' In Hayti the Black Emperor Faustin was rei < m . ing with great pomposity . His Imperial Majesty had created ( besides the Princes and Duke 3 men . tioned in our last , advices ) 390 barons and 500 counts , many of whom were invested with the new orders of the Legion of Honour and that of Faustin . Several of the reports of officers pro . claiming the empire , in which their speeches are quoted , are extremely amusing _productionp . country to « _* mftces _; ntn _„ .., _,..
At Chagras the influx of travellers proceeding to and coming from California was still very great and promised to increase . The travelling expenses ' were again being augmented . The rainy season had made the roads very bad . Considerable quan . tities of gold were finding their way across the Isthmus by parties who were returning home _* jth o » mparatively small amounts . It was said tbat several mercantile houses in San Francisco were stamping gold for circulation . Everything wa 3 quiet on the coast , and trade pretty brisk .
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tainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and im . proved edition of th « " Silent Friend . " Ihe authors , in thus _sending forth to the world another edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their grati . flcation at the continual success attending tlieir efforts , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , exclu . sively of tlieir own preparation , have been the happy caus » of mitigating and _averting the mental and physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact ,
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AN EFFECTUAL CURE FOR PILES , FISTULAS , & c . _ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT . _3 _„ Ji _' P ° P ' et 0 " of tilt above Ointment , after years of acute suffering . P _^ ced Himself under tlie tr « ument of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Aberaotliy ; _u-as bv him restored to _HRrfcx- Hi _» _-iu _* ti nm ! w «„ 5 .. » j 7 * without the slightest return of the disorder , ovcr _^*^ _TS _^^ l- " i " \ ° _R _* " _* tt , VfiSt _WBto * _« f desperate eases , both _iiaid Z " of e _pZ-itt _^ _s _^ _X _SttSrCM _^ _te » n some ofihe » l fol _' vei _consideS „ ne . _Abertinn _fln _. _1 2 , 2 _^ _KLT hltr ( _^ _^ « _' _« V _^ he by tile desire of many who had been perfectly healed by its _applica-£ _* 3 _ISW " _A 0 tu >? f * fr _* e _w tluS 0 il _* trae » t 1 _»» » P « ad far and _irido ; even the medical profession , afirara _Sr _, ; , r s llle . Ointment is notonly a valuable preparation , but a never failing remedy in ef « rj stage ami anotyof that appalling malady . _¦> —o Sufferers from the Piles will not repent giving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might be nrottuceu , it the nature of the complaint Old not render those who have heen cured , unwillins to publish their names . bold in covered Pots at 4 s . Gd \ , or the quantity of three 4 s . Gd . pots in one for Us ., with full directions for use bvBar clay and Sons , _l-arrnigdon-street ; Edwards , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butler , 4 , Cheapsiue ; Newbery , St . Paul ' s ' Sutfam _BowChm-ch-jard ; Johnson , 68 , Cornhill ; Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; VUloughby and Co ., 61 , _mhopsgate-streetWith out ; Owen , 52 , _Marchmont-street , _Biu-ton-eresent j Eade , 30 . Goswell-street ; Prout , 221 ) , Strand ; llannav « nSrn , A " _Oxford-street ; Prentis , St , _Edgeware-road ; and retail by all respectable Chemists and Medicine _VeadcWin _LondSn V Be « iw to . _atk for « _ABEUNETHY'S PILE 01 KTMEST . " The Public are requested to b 8 OU their 2 uard a !" i „ 3 t noxious Composmons , sold at low Prices , and to _ebsorre that none can possibly be senuinc , unless the nam « _Irfo l _?^ _- * printed on the Government Stump affixed to each pot , 4 a . Cd . ; _ivbi _. h is the _M _^ S _^ _^ d _^ _KSS _^ _Jl it at , owing to th _« great expense ofthe Ingredients . " " ' yr " Bnaoiea to sell
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CORNS AND BUNIONS . PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND , Patronised by the Royal Family , Nobility , Cltrgy _, _d-e . Is a sure and _sseedy Cure for those severe annoyances without ciu « _iiw « , » u _«»* _«„• remedies for Corns / its operation is such as toKn _^^^ Sof _ffi _rf _?^ _5 _" 0 ° r lW 0 _™*™ <* ' Unlike all other _SueSt _^ _ffi _^ : _WeM _^ n _^ _tapoMof the greatest _eminence as , country , sp . aki j , / in High terms of t & _uahftmedy f oneth ~« _F _^ ato totters from £ ge . _itryTC _' _anl S Ju _& _, the stamp . A 2 s . 9 d , bos cures the most obdurat , CV » S ? * _ffeamne has _** * ** an _*» <* John _Fw m n Abernethy's Pile Ointment , Paul ' s Oor _^^ _^ _li _^^^ _W Chemists and Dealers in latent Medietas _t-1 ' ' _AbB ™* ft _J _'« M » lowtors _, aro sold by the follow " . , respectable le Barclay » nd Sons , _Farringdon-street : Edward ? 67 _^ p . „ i »» m . _, _p Paul ' s ; Sutton , _BowOhurch-yurd ; _Johnston § e _^ _S ?? _' _^ Butlcr > _*> _Cheapside ; _Hewtarv Sr it Wmou libyaudCo ., « l B \ s ho > _Vte _^ S ° _> and 68 . CovHhill ; Sanger , 150 ¦ offi _* J * . f aUe chemists and medicine v . _ndow in London . UHOra-street . p * _"e _** tls » _H _Edgoware-road _; and retail VaVwSeoU bU GSn ? j 4 _^ _J . C . _Bronne , 4 _« . _^ to Benton » Rhodes , Bell amdBrook , _Lwd _. R . c ! _Hay _/ _Meaical hSi _tSj _? « * _^ _" _^ iAnd , Hoxom , C . Has , 106 Bri _^ it a * . _£ * ., naB Birmingham ' ; * r - « u £ _& , _]&^ _Brighton _; Ferris and Co ., Bristol ; Haines , Br « n « rmr ? shift _Th _& _- f tett J _^ ' anfl Co . _BritomttepV " ft _S"SS son , Glasgow ; Simple , Greenock . v _^ _nmHereford * But _^^ er H _^ h wt ?* K V Ellinbur « J _^ enry , _Gwrisa _^ M _* derland ; Leader , Sheffield ; Deighton , Worcester ¦ Fraud _mVoi _. _S * _i _W * « GmM . _* 8 _« h J Yint and Car , Sun Sun town throughout ttie UnitedKinidom : vwumt _» _^ _Qui _, Dorchester . And _ejallrespestable _Chemists taenr _% UaiU Whq 1 w « _Aww-Momo . Boltou _BhuM _aidOe _,, _ftriitftti _, _Mieldeg _** _fc _* _.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 8, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_08121849/page/2/
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