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      FRANCE . The 11 th light infantry regiiEent , under orders for Algeria , met with a dreadful accident on the 16 th instant , near Angers , part of a battalion having been precipitated into the Loire by the breaking down of a wire suspension bridge . The following farther particulars are given by the « Journal de Maine et Loire ' : — ' A frightful event has just occurred here . We write under the strongest feelings of distress . At eleven o ' clock this morning a squadron of hussars , coming from

      "Nantes , had crossed over the suspension bridge of the Basse Maine , without any accident , although the wind blew very heavily from tbe west , and the river was very agitated . The last of the horses had _scarcely crossed the _bridge than the head of the column of the ** third battalion of the 11 th Light Infantry appeared on the other side . Reiterated warnings were given to the troops to break into sections , as is usually done , but the rain falling heavily at the time , it was disregarded , and the battalion advanced in close column . The head of the

      battalion had reached the opposite side , the pioneers , the drummers , and a part of the band were off tfcr bridge , when a horrible crash was heard ; tbe castiron columns of tbe right bank suddenly gave way , crushing beneath them the rear of the 4 th company , wbicb , witb tbe flank company , had not entered on the bridge . To describe the frightful spectacle and the cries of despair wbich were raised , is impossible ; the scene at tbe bridge of Beresina can alone give an idea of it . The whole town rushed to . the spot to give assistance . In spite of the storm whicb was raging , all the boats that could be got were launched to pick up the soldiers in the river , and a great number who were cling ing to the parapets

      of the br idge , or who were kept afloat by their knapsacks , were immediately got out . The greater number of them « rere , however , found to be wounded by the bayonets , or by the fragments of the bridge tailing on them . Every one on the spot vied with each other in rendering assistance , and as the soldiers were got out they were led into the houses adjoining , and every assistance given . Those who were tea ' much injured to walk were placed on litters . All the authorities of the town , tbe troops ia the garrison , aud the officers and soldiers who

      had escaped injury , had only one idea—that of rendering _a'l the assistance in their power . A young lieutenant of the 11 th , M . Loup , rendered himself conspicuous for his heroic exertions ; and a young workwoman , at the imminent danger of her life , jumped into the water , and saved the life of an officer who was just sinking . It is impossible for us at this moment to estimate the number of lives that have been lost . Of those that escaped with their lives , there is scarcely one but has received wounds from the bayonets of hia comrades . Several acts of devotion deserve to be mentioned . A

      journeyman hatter , named _furgis , who had acquired some notoriety in the late political trials , stripped and jumped into the river , and , by his strength and skill in swimming , saved a great many lives . One of the soldiers , who had reached the shore unhurt , immediately stripped , and . swam to the assistance of his comrades , ' The ' Precursenr de _l'Onest _, ' a paper of Angers , says on the 17 tb , tbe day succeeding the disaster , that the muster-roll of the battalion was called at

      tea in the morning in the court of the Academy , and that there were 219 soldiers missing , whose fate was unknown . Add to this that thirty-three bodies are ly ing in tbe hospital , which bave been identified , and thirty wounded . Therefore the loss of the battalion amounts to 282 men , of whom there is every reason to believe that few survive beside ike thirty already mentioned . It is hoped , however , that many are lying in private dwellings still alive .

      Military _DisMonstoatioi *' . — It was at this very town of Augers that , a few days previously , another battalion of the same regiment bad given way to a democratic demonstration , which is thus described in a local journal , the * Journal de Maine et Loire * . —A battalion of tbe 11 th light infantrj , en route from Rennes to Toulon , entered onr town on Sunday morning , the 7 th inst . A certain number of our democrats went to meet them . Tbe battalion was placed in barracks at St . Nicholas , at the extremity of one of our faubourgs . The soldiers were waited for on leaving their quarters , and a party of them were taken into

      the neighbouring wine shops . After drinking and singing for some time , they came out and continned their noise on the outside . After the Girondins came the Marseillaise and the Montagnards , accompanied with acclamations in favour of the democratic republic . Several passers by were struck and insulted . Oa the day following the same scenes were repeated until the moment for departure _arrivrd , and the sound of the drams recalled the soldiers to their duty . "When the regiment marched frora the place , some of tbe demo crats accompanied it part of the way , raising cries of ' Vive la Repuhlique I Vive les democrats du lime Leger . '

      A scene of the same descriptien as that above narrated took place at Cahors , in the department cf the Lot . Some _non-cornsiissioDed officers of the depot battalion of the 58 _tb _, in garrison at that place , and others belonging to a battalion of the 44 th , passing through the town , assembled as usual to take a fraternal glass together . After copious _librations , they began to sing the 'Marseillaise , ' and various socialist songs . They were on their kneiis singing , when lhe commissary of police having interfered to put an end to the tumult , which had already drawn together a considerable crowd , they positively refused to obey his injunctions _, fie wished to arrest the most riotous

      among them , when he was grossly insulted , aud swords were drawn . Several cries of ' Vive la _K-pubJique _Dsmocratique et Sociale J' were raised . The Courrier du Lot' states that when M . Jaffus , the commissary of police , went to . the cafe , where the tumultuous proceedings were going on , and on the outside of which a considerable crowd had assembled , he found several sub-officers of the 58 ih ; two of them were standing on chairs sing ing seditious songs , the choruses of which were repeated by about fifty others of that regiment and the 44 th with great animation . As soon as he could obtain a hearing , the commissary requested that an end might be put to _thfnoise , and observed

      that soldiers , particularl y those who held a certain Tank , ought not to set au example of disorder . To this the sub-officers of the 58 th replied that they would sin '*; , and that it was no business of his ; whilst those of tbe 44 th replied in more respectful terms , aud withdrew . Three sub-officers of tbe 58 ih raised seditious cries in passing before the commissary of police , and a serjeant made use of the fol _' ewing insulting expressions , ' It is infamous that that canaille of a commissary of police should bave prevented our singing , when we are under a republic' The serpant was placed in the hands of

      the police authorities , but immediately afterwards four individuals of the town endeavoured to prevent his being taken to the Hotel de Ville . Seeing ihat they could not succeed in their purpose , they ran off to fetch some sub-officers , who came with sabre 3 in their hands . One of them , a serjeantmajer _, attempted to strike the commissary ef police with his sabre , but his blow was parried by a garde champetre , and the commissary of police ' , in order to avoid bloodshed , told his agents to release the sergeant , and on the following day he and another were placed under arrest .

      The Socialist electoral meetings which were announced for Wednesday night , at the Salle Valentino and the passage Jouffroy , did not take place , notice having been served on the proprietors of those establishments from the Prefecture of Police not to open them for thai purpose . The following address , by M . Eugene Sue , to tbe democratic Socialists of tbe department of the Seine , published in tbe journals of that party : ' Citizens , —In presence of the name of the venerable Dupout de l'Eure , presented io the electors as the affirmation and the consecration of the republic and of tbe revolution of February , I at first _reftmed lhe candidateship . Yonr delegates did me lhe honour of proposing me to your choice because they thought that my name might rally to it all the

      shades of the republican party . I accept this mandate as a duty , and I accept it witb gratitude . If yoa consider me worthy -of representing ' yoo , my patriotism and my devotedness will be equal to the Hussion which yoa will confide to me . One remark on my past life . There are men who are happy enough to meet with truth at thefirst outset , instead of having to pass through error ; others less fortunate , and I am of that number , have to contend against the prejudices of their epoch , against the influence in the midst of which they have lived , and arrive at the knowled ge of true social princip les onl y withtime _, and by study and experience . This is tbe reason why , twenty yeare » g 0 when j made Mut i * a writer , I misunderstood the principles to fvbicb i * _/* s at a _Itferp-mo- } to devote nT-fife-tbe

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      principles which I bave -since propagated and defended in my numerous works . You will render me the justice to say thai ft is neither calculation nor ambition which has dictated my conduct ; I have not waited for the -sorrow of the struggle to pass into the rank ' s ot the -democratic socialists . As democrat . I profess that the republic and th e universal suffrage are above the caprice of majorities ; the majority has no more the right to alienate the sovereignty of the § eop le than man bas a right to alienate his liberty . As socialist , I d o no t belong specially to any school- Theorists agitate questions of pure doctrine , and put forth in their own manner the abstract principles of social science . I have traced out to myself another part ; I have

      endeavoured to popularise the general ideas of socialism , and what there was practical in each school . I am a socialist from my heart , because I have witnessed the cruel sufferings and the manly virtues of the people ; because I have seen the artisan and the peasant in want of bread in consequence of want of employment—existing with difficulty , they and tbeir wives and c hildren , on insufficient and uncertain wages ; because I have seen the old man , worn out with age and labour , die without a place of refuge in the most frightful misery ; because 1 have seen the agriculturist , manufacturer , and tradesman ruined , and their families in despair , in consequence of the bad organisation of credit . I am a socialist from reason , because I am convinced of the

      insufficiency of charity , of alms-giving , and of all palliative measures ; it is necessary to destroy pauperism in the very bud , and to solve at any cost the fearful problem of misery . In the constitution of 1848 , to which all good citizens should attach themselves , there is an article which contains in embryo the greater number of the ameliorations now claimed by the socialists ; I allude to Art . 13 . This article is conceived as follows : — ' The constitution guarantees to the citizens liberty of work and industry . Society favours and encourages the development of work , by gratuitous primary instruction , professional education equality of relations between the _master and workman , institutions of foresight and credit , agricultural

      institutions , voluntary associations , and the establishment hy the state , by departments and communes , of public works calculated to occupy unemployed arras ; society furnishes assistance to abandoned children , to the infirm , io the aged , without resource , to whom their families can afford no aid . That article , if executed in good faith and on a broad scale , guarantees to every one employment , education , and credit ; and , consequently , comfort , independence , and security both for the present and the future ; that article faithfully executed renders all

      social reforms possible , and may put an end for ever to the era of violent revolutions . Poor ppople and bourgeois , farmers , manufacturers , soldiers , and tradesmen , all children of the same family , we are bound to one another , if not in prosperity , at least in distress and misfortune- The future will idemnify us for the present—peace , conciliation , h o pe , oblivion ef fratricidal struggles—for the country equally deplores all the children it has lost . The enemies of the republic alone profit by our divisions : let us unite ; let us labour in concert for our common happiness and for the consolidation of the republic '

      • April 19 th , 1850 . Eugene Sue . Saturday . —Everything is coloured hy the excitement of the' approaching election . The walls are covered with electioneering placards ; the newspapers are headed with the names and characteristics of their respective candidates . A much greater show of union and enthusiasm is made by the moderates in their support of Leclerc , than by their adversaries in favour of Eugene Sue . But this is the result of art . The ' Voix du Peupie' of this morning denies the trait of heroism upon which the candidacy is founded , and details the real facts , or what it alleges to be such , in terms so circumstantial that the whole story , until presented in some more authentic shape , must be considered as highly embellished .

      The debate which took place in the Assembly yesterday was highly important . The Assembly adopted the principle of transportation for political offences . The place of transportation is to be the Valley of "Waitbau , in the Marquesas Islands . The' Voix du Peupie' was seized yesterday at the Post-office , and in its offices , for having published an article signed Proudhon , entitled ' Election of 28 th April—To the Bourgeoise , ' and referring also to the catastrophe at Angers . The responsible editor of the paper and the author of the article are to be prosecuted—1 . For exciting to hatred and contempt of the republic ; 2 . For exciting citizens to hatred of each other ; 3 . For excitations to the

      soldiers with the view of seducing _theta from their military duties , and from tbe obedience they owe to their chiefs . The following is the article * . — Will you vote for civil war or for concord ? Civil war ? But who , then , would wage it for you ? Where would you find an army ? Who wonld be yonr soldiers ? The army ! here it is , made Socialist from the first to the last man . The army ! it has received Us democratic baptism in the waters of the Maine . A battalion of this young and brave army has been swallowed up , because it was being sent to Africa ; because , in order to go to Africa , it was made to go round about ; because , this circuitous route had for pretext to withdraw it from the fraternal salutations of the republicans of Angers . God forbid that we should accuse the men in power of an atrocious perfidy ! They bitterly deplore , we are

      well aware , this frightful catastrophe I But is it les- true , that blindness in political matters engenders misfortune , and that the misfortune which occurs to a government is always attributed to it as a crime ? The Catholic church has its legend of the forty martyrs ; they were forty Christian soldiers , whom the imperial reaction caused to perish by fxposing them naked during the night in a frozen pool of water . Socialism will also have its legend , not of forty , but of four hundred martyrs ; there is progress in all things . Tbey are four hundred young soldiers , whom the royalist reaction desired to punish , by a severe campaign , for their devotedness to the republic , and who lost their lives , marching in serried columns over the fragile bridge over the Maine . Is - this enough of blood ?—enough of dead bodies ? Is there still ] wanting a _supplement to the hecatombs of June . '

      Sunday . —In the sitting of the Legislative _Assembly to-day the debate was resumed upon tbe remaining clauses of the transportation bill . The amendment proposed by M . Favreau was to restore Article 6 of the government bill , which had been expunged by the committee . This article conta ' ned an explicit declaration tbat the penal statute should not be retroactive . M . Savatu Laroche supported the amendment of M . Favreau , proposing , however , to leave the con . victs the right of demanding transportation to Nonkahion , in case they preferred that island . M . de Vatiraesnil maintained that the legislature ought not

      to interfere in the question , the solution of which belonged exclusively to the judicial power . He sbowed that the spirit of the amendment was retrospective . AI . Baroche adhered to the arguments of M . Vatimesnil . and declared that the government would apply the law to persons already conderaed if the Assembly did not decide expressly the contrary He wanted an explicit declaration of the Assembly on this point . This statement of the Minister of the Interior produced a marked sensation , and was favourably received by the Ri ght . In the midst of the movement produced by the declaration of M . Baroche , M . Odillon Barrot ascended the tribune and spoke against the retroactive proposition .

      The sitting , protracted to eight o ' clock , was marked by a result of high importance . The retroactivity of tbe Transportation Bill was r jected by a majority of 64 in a house of 666 . Thu 9 , ministers who had set their hearts upon applying to the prisoners condemned by the High Court of Bourges and Versailles the new statute in all its severity , were defeated of their malignant intention by a large majority . M . Proudhon has been transferred to _Doullens , for which place he set out yesterday morning accompanied by the two agents of police . All the newspapers of Angers were seized on Saturday , for tbe accounts they save of the disasters ofthe I 6 th inst . . *

      The number missing from tbe battalfon ofthe 11 t h , which was precipitated into the Main is 219 . 181 were interred on the 19 th in the same grave . The number of wounded is fi ' _ty-seven . The river is dragged to discover the bodies of the remaining thirty-eight . The only civilians who perished were two agents of the police , who were stationed on the bridge at the moment . Two sergeants of the 63 rd of the Line at Wissenbourg , Alsace , paraded the streets of that town on the 15 th , shouting for the Democratic Socialist Republic , and carrying a red flag . The Mayor tried to arrest them , but was ill-treated . Tbey were however at length arrested and conducted to prison . One of the sergeants had been formerly in the Garde Mobile .

      General Cas ( ellane , on his arrival at Tours , had expressed a wish to review / the [ National Guards ; and requested the Prefect to gire _inductions to

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      that effect to the Colonel . The Prefect , however , having been informed that some of the National Guards intended to avail themselves of the occasion to manifest their Socialist opinions by cries in favour of the Democratic and Socialist Republic , thought proper to countermand the review , which wa s t o have taken place simultaneously with that of tbe troops of the garrison . This measure excited the displeasure of the National Guard , and the colonel and all the officers immediately tendered their resignation to the Prefect . The 25 th Regiment of the Line is about to leave the garrison of Paris . The ' Presse * says , within the last fifteen days eleven privates of that regiment have been transported to Africa for holding democratic opinions .

      The National' states that the corps of Sapeurs Pompiers ( firemen ) of Paris are to be disbanded , in conspquence of their Republican opinions . : M . Emile Olivia , former Commissary of the Provisional government , and subsequent ! ; Prefect of the Bouches du Rhone and of the Haute Marne , was tried hefore the assize court of Draguignan on the 13 th instant , for having opened a political club without permission . He was acquitted by the jury- .

      Yesterday an order was issued by the Prefect of Police , that no evening papers should be sold in the streets of Paris , excepting the government papers , the'Patrie' and the 'Moniteur du Soir . ' The consequence is , that the 'Evenement ; ' the ¦ Es tafette / and , I believe , the Gazette de France , ' are no longer to be procured . Intimation has been given to all those who sell papers , that if they should contravene the new order they will be deprived of their licences .

      Monday . —Inthe sitting of the Legislative Assembly this afternoon , the members of the cabinet appeared as usual on their bench . The debate was resumed on the Transportation Bill . M . Savatier Laroche , at the request Of his party , withdrew his amendment , which proposed that offenders convicted before the passing of the law should suffer transportation , if they preferred it , to their present punishment . . . M . Pierre _Lerorx proposed an amendment allowing the families of transported convicts to follow .

      M . Rodat , the reporter , said that in fact the _famines might follow , but to consign this permission in a clause of the act might cause serious embarrassment to the government and to the penal colony . M . Heurtier proposed an analogous amendment . M . _Rouher , Minister of Justice , opposed the amendment , and _demanded for the government entire liberty to decide upon what would be proper to do in such cases . M . de Lamartine then ascended the tribune , and supported the amendment on the ground of humanity . Heurtier ' s amendment was rejected by 361 against 302 .

      On the invitation of the commissaries of police , a certain number of news hawkers have had to present themselves at the Prefecture of Police , to obtain a renewal of their permissions . There the new permissions given to them state that they must confine themselves to selling the * Moniteur du Soir ' the ' Patrie , ' and the ' Gazette of France . ' ' We caused it to be observed , ' say several of the dealers ' that we ordinarily sell 100 copies of the ' Evene . men t' for ten of tbe Patrie , ' five of the 'Moniteur , ' four of the ' Gazette , and we demanded that the ' Evenement' and the' Estafette' should be added to the list . But we were told that if the police found on our stalls a single number _, of the « Evenement , '

      our permissions should be immediately withdrawn . ' . M . de Girardin went at half-past ten to the woman who _siss before Tortoiri's , and asked for a copy of the ' Evenement . ' She said she had not the ¦ Evenement , ' and could not sell it . The editor of the'Presse * then demanded the presence of a sergeant de ville to lake note ol the refusal ; a crowd collected , and soon after two sergens de ville arrived . In their presence M . de . Girardin imperatively repeated his demand , and at length the poor woman sold a copy of the 'Evenement . The

      sergens de ville having made some observations to M . de Girardin , he replied , ' I am Emile de Girardin ; arrest me and take me to the Prefecture of Police . ' 'Ifyou be M . Emile -de Girardin , ' replied one of tbe sergens de ville , ' you must know the way to the Prefecture , and do not require to be laken there . ' M . de Girardin then went away crying with much excitement , ' I made . Cavaignac pay dt-ar for my eleven days' imprisonment , and I shall know how to make those who have done this pay also . '

      Oa the same subject the correspondent of the ¦ Ch ronicle' says : —Last night ( Sunday ) a considerable sensation was created on the Boulevards hy the measures taken by tbe Prefect of Police to prevent the sale of the' Evenement' and the ' Estafette , ' evening papers . All newsvendors found in possession of either of these papers , and not being the possessors of shops , had their papers seized , and were themselves conducted to prison . The sergens de vile examined every news stall on the Boulevards , aud whenever they fou n d c o p ies of the proscribed papers tbey seized them , demolished the stall , and conducted the proprietor to the Prefecture of Police . The only ground for these proceedings is that tbe papers in question oppose tbe Government . The' Evenement' is edited by Mr . Victor Hugo and his son .

      The Government has received accounts Irom Switzerland to the effict that M . Mazzini refuses to quit that country , notwithstanding the reiterated orders of the government . The French Govern ment threatens that if the Swiss Government cannot enforce its orders , other powers will do so in its stead . M . Charles Blanc has been dismissed from the office of Director of the Beaux Arts . He is _suceeded by Mr . de Guizard . Paris , Tuesday . — -Yesterday in the Assembly M . Pascal Duprat demanded leave to put Borae questions to the Minister of the Interior with regard to some alleged arbitrary acts respecting the sale of journals . The Minister was about to reply , but the House decided by a large majority that the questions should be adjourned for a month . The sitting was concluded at a quarter past six o ' clock .

      The Socialist meeting which was to have taken place yesterday , in tbe rue Martel was prevented by the police . Several soldiers were tried yesterday b e f o re a court-martial , sitting in Paris , for having broken their muskets . When called on for their defence , they replied they bad acted so in order to be sent to Africa . The President told them that he Would not grant them a premium for crime , and sentenced them to two years' imprisonment . Count Zamoyski , whose extradition had been demanded from Turkey , for being concerned inthe insurrection of Hungary , has just arrived . in Paris .

      The committee of the press having settled that a tax should be imposed on newspapers , was occupied yesterday with fining the nature of this tax . Two systems were proposed : that of the government , _v-hich proposed the re-establishment of a stamp purely and simply , the stamp to be of four centimes in first rate cities , then of two , and one in smaller towns . Tbe other consists in the application' of one post-stamp to all papers , The latter system was favoured by the majority as the only

      one which would attain the fiscal end proposed " Several proprietors and directors of papers were heard in the presence of the Minister of Justice . They wished that the Paris papers should be subjected to a stamp of not more than two centimes for the capital , and four for the banlieu and departments . The committee will take a definite resolution on Thursday . Tbe debate will come on immediately after the elections . M . _Cilasseloup Laubat is preparing the report .

      Wednesday . —Mr . Carlier continued to wage a war of extermination against the 'Evenement , ' which he causes to be _seized whenever the sergens deville can lay hands on it . As the police cannot venture to invade private dwellings for this purpose , the vendenses take refuge in the shops of liberal tradesmen , several of whom have offered . to establish depots for the sale of the persecuted evening paper . M . Girardin declares that the ' Presse' having been singled out for extinction , he will carry on a war of resistance against the authorities , in which he will shrink from no sacrifice . He reduces the already low subscription to six francs for three months , and offers to take weekly subscriptions at ten sous .

      ITALY , An attempt was made on the ni ght before the Pontiff's arrival , to burn down the Palace of the Quirinal , the abode of the cardinerl triumvirate . The windows of the Palazzo Chigi were on the same ni ght , shattered by the explosion of a grenade in the street . . ' _-. All persons seeking admittance to the Vatican Palace are submitted to the strictest scrutiny of the Swiss guard . Precautions are taken to secure the life of his Holiness against poison .

      GERMANY . , _Berlin . . — - Dr . Eichlef , a , well known public character ' has been tried for _offences against his

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      Grace of God Kingship of Prussia . The chief grounds of the indictment were , his having , onthe 25 th of June , 1848 , arranged the procession of the democra tic Burger Verein of Mersebnrg ( > in honour of the fallen heroes of the Berlin revolution , asd of having , upon that occasion , talked of the ' Infamous royal family of Prussia . ' He was also indicted for having resisted the arrest and for having incited the mob to attempt his release by force . The three offences were fully proved , and , having been found guilty by the jury , he was sentenced to nine months ' fortress imprisonment with loss of civil rights . , ., , n _' . _-, mi ,- „ hint

      GREECE . . Letters frora Malta of the 13 th inst . state that the contents of letters from Sir William Parker had become known there . The affairs of Greece were described as unfavourable . Baron Gros , it is believed , had written io Sir W . Parker that the affairs appeared to him teo complicated to enable him to assume the responsibility , unaided , of coming to any final decision . It was also reported that a short period had been allowed to Greece to meet the demands of England , or coercive measures would be adopted anew . Ruggiero Setlimo , ex-President of the insurgent Government of Sicily , now residing at Malta , was confined by severe il ' n e _ss , and little hope was enterlained of his recovery .

      TURKEY . Constantinople , April 5 . —The Hungarian fugitives have left Broussa for Kutaya ( Kiutaliie . ) Previous to their departure the Magyars drew up and forwarded to the Porte a protest against this proceeding . The Poles did not join in the protest . General Dembinski remains at Broussa until his nationality shall be decided . Achmet Effendi arrived in Bucharest en the 21 st ult . The Russians do not seem seriously inclined to quit Wallachia ; notwithstanding the orders they have received , they employ all sorts of evasions in order to remain at least , until the Anglo-Grecian difficulty , is settled _.

      Count Stumer has communicated to the Turkish government a despatch from Vienna , in which the Turkish note is excepted ; he at once demanded an audience for resuming diplomatic intercourse . The Grand Vizier replied that the Sublime Porte was very happy to find the Austrian government had adopted a more conciliatory tone ; but that being very busy just at that mobnenr , he would inform the Austrian ambassador in the course of a few . d a ys , when it would be more convenient to receive him . The resumption of diplomatic , intercourse may therefore he regarded as settled . It is left exclusively to tha Turkish government to determine when the fugitives shall be liberated .

      WEST INDIES . Tornado at the Bahamas . —As the Avon West India mail packet was approaching Nassau from Havannah , on the 29 th and 30 th of March , she experienced most strange and fearful weather . The barometer fell to an extraordinary degree , fierce gusts of wind _sweptjiver ber , and she was deluged with rain . Oh arriving at Nassau , on the 31 st , it was found that a terrible tornado had passed over the island the day before , and had swept the strong buildings and gigentictrees from off the earth . Every

      vessel in the harbour , although they had not a shred of canvas on , were blown down , and literally buried inthe water , while tbe tornado was rushing over them . Even a new vessel that was on the stocks was turned completely over , Such was tbe extreme rapidity of the tornado in passing , over the island , that from the moment it was experienced approaching , to the instant it had vanished , scarcel y o ne minute had elapsed . In tbe twinkling of an eye , as it were , it had swept over the island with a fell and fatal swoop , and had prostrated houses , devastated field s , and destroyed human life . '

      It appears that for three days before tbe tornado happened the weather bad been rainy at Nassau . The showers were , however ,-genial , and were doing infinite service to the soil , which was hard and thirsty , On tbe fatal Saturday , the 30 th , ' the day ' says an eye-witness , < was ushered in dark nnd cloudy , and the lowering horizon menaced rain . As the day wore on the clouds thickened , and the rain about mid-day began to fall in torrents . At a quarter to one in the afternoon there was a sudden lull . The horizon became darker than before . The barometer fell to 29 . 74 , and suddenly there was ' as the rush of a mighty river , ' On it came in _irresistible and destroying strength from the south west . Bains

      Town first felt its fatal influence . A great many ol the frail bouses of the poor industrious labourers and artisans residing in that locality bent and fell beneath the prostrating blast , burying in their ruins the hale and vigorous . man and the weak and tender child . Tbe spectacle was the saddest I ever beheld ; near fifty houses must ; have been thrown down . It was over the ruins of fallen fabrics and cabins , and over the mutilated fragments of furniture with which the roads and paths were strewed , that I had to wend my way . Lamentation and weeping reached me as I neared some prostrated dwelling . I saw the dead bodies of two men and four children and two women who had received frightful injuries . '

      Grant ' s Town presents a mournful picture many excellent substantial buildings have been partially demolished . The ruins were apparent on every side . In many of the yards were fragments of houses that bad been blown there by the wind from a distance of more than a quarter of a mile I The north-west turret of the chief justice ' s house was hurled to the ground , which it covered with its fragments . Many of tlie shingles were torn off the body of the house by the force of the wind .

      The walls and fences in the . neighbourhood were prostrated . The kitchen in Mr . Tyne ' s yard , and an outbuilding , were thrown down , and the eastern portion of Mr . Armbuster ' s residence received injury . Mr . Fulford's house in East Shirley-street , and Mr . Rigby ' s in Culmer-street , were blown dawn . Mrs . Fulford , with one of her children , was in her house when it fell , but escaped . In East Bay-street several other houses had come to tbe ground .

      The admiralty agent and several of the officers of the Avon went over the ruins . It appears from their observations that the breadth of space swept over by the tornado was very great , but the irresistible power of the latter , and thc shortness of its duration , were most extraordinary . A small compact building which formed a blacksmith's shopin fact , a mere box , built with stone and brick in the most powerful manner—was literally torn to pieces and swept away . The g overnor ef the Bahames had a narrow escape : he was just about to take luncheon , but delayed doing so while he finished a letter ; just at that moment the tornado came , and . swept that portion of his house where his luncheon was provided away , It ia twenty-six years since Nassau was visited by the justlydreaded tornado , the dire scourge of the tropics .

      Great Firb at _Trij _* idad . —A terrible fire took place in Port of Spain , Trinidad , on the 7 ill ult ., which destroyed property to the amount of - 612 , 000 sterling . No such tire has happened there since 1808 . Had it not been for a miracle almost , the whole of the valuable portion of the business part of the town—the substantial buildings and the immense amount of property stored in them—must have been consumed to ashes , and many of the most prosperous merchants reduced to bankruptcy , and numberless families involved in the general beggary and ruin . The fire broke out , there is every reason to believe , accidently , at about eleven o ' clock on t he ni ght of the 7 th ult ., and was not gut under

      before six o'clock the following morning . It commenced in Marine-square , between _Wainright ' s and Spalding's stores . As soon as the fire was discovered the alarm bells on all the churches aud chapels rang out , and a number of engines were drawn to the spot . A portion of the 72 nd and 2 nd regiments wero soon there also to work the engines and guard the property . The police , the stipendiary magistrates , the colonial secretary , and the Attorney-General also rushed to the spot for the same pur . pose , Wainrig ht ' _s stores , wherein 1 , 000 barrels of flour stood , Craddock ' s and Sauvagere's stores . Craddock ' s hotel , and Garcia ' s residence were destroyed . Tbe ordnance department with a large

      quantity of shells loaded for use , and a variety ol other ordnance stores , were at one time in great peril . The shells were conveyed away , and eighiy puncheons of rum were rolled on the quay to be thrown into ' tbe sea if necessary . The lower orders of the Port of Spain behaved nobly in _reidering assistance even women were seen working like the men , and many of . those engaged in the Trinidad riots , six months ago , were seen hbouring disinterestedly in removing and guarding furniture and stores , and though they bad an opportunity of purloining to an immense amount , nothing was lost . As soon as the fire was visible to the shipping in the harbour all the crews of the merchant vessels came ashore , and rendered efficient assistance .

      A Shock Or An Earthquake Was Felt At Smy...

      A Shock or an Earthquake was felt at Smyrna at half-past three , a . m ., ofWedne 3 day , the 3 rd Inst , which caused the greatest alarm . . The noise which preceded the _ahocft is described as most terrific .

      A Shock Or An Earthquake Was Felt At Smy...

      Cure *? ob thb _WnoopiKG-cor / Gir . — "I know , said one of my parishioners , " what would cure him , but m ' nppen ybu ' twouldeni believe me . " "What is it , Mary ? " I asked . "Why , I did everything that everybody told me . One teld me to get him breathed on by a piebald horse . I took him ever such a way , to a horse at , and put him under the horse ' s mouth ; but he was no belter . Then I was teld to drag him backward through a bramble bush , I did so ; but this didn ' t cure him . Last of all ; I was teld to give him nine fried mice , fasting , in a morni n g , in this way : —three the first morning , * then wait three mornings , and then give him three more ; wait , three mornings , and then give him three more . When ho had eaten these nine fried mice he became quite well . This would be sure to cure your child , sir . "—Notes and Queries . filJDP Wnn i » nn _**!»/<«« . _»/¦'« .. _«•« IIT _Irnnn "

      A Profitable Speculation in Manchester Goods . —One of our leading Brazilian houses shipped a quantity of Manchester goods , some months ago , to Buenos Ayres . Finding the market closed up , and no sale for the articles , they wore roimportcd , and the shippers recently sold them , in Manchester , at a profit at twelve pcr cent , after paying freight and aU other charges .

      Beautiful Hair. Whiskers, «S-C„ Versus Bald Ness, Weak, And Glley Hair.

      BEAUTIFUL HAIR . WHISKERS , « _S-c „ versus BALD NESS , WEAK , and _GllEY HAIR .

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      GRAVEL , RHEUMATISM , LUM 11 AGO , STRICTURE , DEBILITY , & c . DR . BARKER'S " p U R I F I C P I L L £ ¦ L have long been well known as the only certain cure for pains in theback and kidneys , gravel , lumbago , rheumatism , gout , gonorrhoea , gleet , syphilis , secondary symp . toms , seminal debility , and all diseases of the bladder and urinary organs generally , whethertheresultof imprudence or derangement of the functions . In every form and variety of eruptions of the skin , scorfula , scurvy , and rheumatism , gout , & c , the _greater part of which arise trom diseased urine ( the painful and fatal results of wliich are too well known , ) these Pills are eminently successful . By their purifying action they have a salutary influence on the system , thereby preventing the numerous ' ills that flesh is heir to , ' arising from impurities ofthe blood . To nil clnsscs of sufferers they are confidently rccommended , as they have never , in any instance , been known to fail . The Purific Pills may be obtained through most respectable medicine venders . Price Is . Hd .. 2 s . 3 d ., and ' s . Cd . per box ; or will be sent , free , with full instructions tor use , on receipt of tho price in postage stamps , b y Dr . Alfred Barker . —A _considerable saving effected by purchasing the larger boxes . .

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      Read this , and judge for yourselvvs . GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND LONG LIFE , SECURED BY THAT HIGHLY ES TEEMED POPULAR "REMEDY , PARR'S . LIFE PILLS THOMAS PARR .

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      fiN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND \ J General Character ' of SYPIIILUS , STRICTUKES _, Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL mi SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS ofthe face and body , Mercurial excitement , ibe ., followed by a mild , successful and espeditious mode of treatment .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27041850/page/2/