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    FRANCE . The . esse of tbe Socialist paper published io Paris , under the auspices of MM . _Lsdru-Rollin , Mazzini , Louis Blanc : and the other political exiles now in London , under the title of * Le Proscrit , Journal de la Repnhbque _Univereelle , ' came before the Court of Assays ot the Seine last week . The prosecution was against M . Brutinel-Nadal , the editor of the paper 1 At . Briere _, the printer ; and M . LedruRollin , ( per cordumaee _. ) the author of with

    tbe article incriminated . They were charged an attack on the respect due to ibe laws ; with an attack on ihe rights and authority of the National Assembly ; with exciting the hatred and contempt of the government of ihe Republic ; 8 nd with encouraging civil war . After a long trial they were all found guilty . M . BraUnel-Nada was . « _Wjed to six months' _imprisonment , and a fine of l _. OOOf . if . Briere , io _fif-een days' _impnsoDment , and a fine of 500 * . j ' and M . _Lrfru-R « l '«* ( m _** a _* ience ) to a jear _ _imurisonBieni , and a fiue ol _6 , wm . _uis Napoleon in Alsace has

    Tberecepiionof _Lbeen such as mast have clearly demonstrated to his mind , however reluctant to accept such a conrictioa , that not tbe least portion of that sympathy once so largely felt io this Gsrman province of France ' -at the prisoner of Ham , remains , among the _indns rious population , for tbe wo _uId-be-Emper-r . Th < - seriousness of the disturbance at Besanc / m is admitted to day by all correspondences . But still greater mortifications awaited the President on bis progress through the department of tbe Haut-Rhin . From Beltort to Colmar bis journey seens to bave been more like running ihe gauntlet of a series of hostile

    demonstrations than the feted progress of the head of the state . S _* gloomy was tie outlook , and so dispirited was the Prince , thai he was fain to admit the personal protection of Gen . de Castellane after be bad left tbe military jurisdiction of tbat officer , and accepted his escort as far as Mulhausen , although the general stated , in a telegraphic despatch , that be should not accompany Louis Napoleon beyond Besangon . In fact , Castellane bung universally held up as a scourge and bugbear to tbe democrats , it was _hop-d that the terror of his name alone might do much in _quelling the hostile

    manifestations of socialists . News of the unfortunate explosion at _Besnagftn had preceded tbe President into the next _department or the Haut-Rhin ; and when tbe prince _arrived at Belfort , on tbe 19 th , he fonnd it expedient to shorten his stay as much ss passible in that town , where the socialists were evidently prepared to mar , as much a 3 possible , the official welc ime by noisy expressions of tbeir attachment to the republic At Mulhausen , the mayor and _anthnrities were in the utmost apprehension of _gn outbreak , aud respectfully expressed these fears to the P « esident _' s party .

    Mulhausen contains a large working population , chiefly employed in calico printing . The authorities and the employers did their utmost to secure a good reception for him but totally failed . On bis way he visited Thorn , where there was a very strong socialist demopstratioa . 5 , 000 workmen _assembled to join in this . Among other cries was ieard ' Vive le Safivaee _univer _^ el 1 ' ' Vive Cavaignac ! ' The other part of the population were cold , silent , and indiffe . en _* . The corps oi pompiers and the artillery of the national guard were remarkably vehement in their clamarous protests 5 gamst ths policy of the President ' s government .

    The review in the _spach-us meadows outside Mulhausen was accompanied by similar democratic manifestations . K Co ' . mar the President was not received better tban at Mulhausen , although the servility of the authorities redoubted in proportion to the alienation and coldness of the people , the mayor and his colleagues coming out to meet the party two or three m _* . _l-s 'rom the city . Delegates from tbe several guilds were each honoured with a few words from tbe President . But in the city bis reception was so bid as to occasion tbe most alarmlog reports to be circulated here . It was said thai attempts had beea made upon his life , and so forth . Little eredit was attached to the these , as will bave been perceived by the slight effect which they had on the Bourse , because everybodv knows here .

    that nothing can be further removed from the plans of tbe socialists t ! an to ofivr personal violence to Louis Napohon . T _& e unpopularity of his government does not yet take the form of tbat bitter personal hatred which incites to criminal attempts . Tbey judge , with how much correctness is easily inferred from bis career , that he is a man without political character , and the tool of parties , with the chiefs of which be has no bond of communion , — no tie of sympathy or interest ; tbe most hostile expressions used against him in the democratic prints are rather of _contempt iban anger . However the lieutenant-colonel , the major , and the greater part of the officers of the national guard resigned , in order to mark their disapprobation of the _Presidents policy .

    Along tbe roads throughout Alsace , bands w ? re organised to give the President a cliarivari as be passed . The greater pait of these were youths armed with whistles . Ths moderates attribute these concerts to the presence of M . Flocon , member of tbe provisional gnv ; -rnuie _* u , at Colmar , who gavthe mot d ' ordre to the socialists of the _department . At Mulhausen , a brawny fellow , armed with a cudgel was arrested on the charge of deterring the well disposed from crying ' Vive le President !' At Strasburg , where he arrived on tbe 21 st , the

    authorities received him in all due form . Ths streets through whieh he passed were crowded to ercess ; every window was occupied by _ele _^ _antlydreEsed lauie 3 . The _National Guard assembled in great numbers , and _received the President with freqaent cries of 'Vive la Repuhbque ! ' mixed witb those of' Vive le President" The President gave evident signs of emotion ; probably the souvenir came across his memory of the last time be passed through the same streets as an _i-xile , whereas uow he pranced gaily forward as chefde I ' etat .

    A _msmner of the Chamber of Commerce , M . Erchmann ( one of the persons that figured lately in the _repnblican process at lleiz ) , took occasion , like M . _Naisot , of Fisin , to call the attention of tbe President to the condition ot _thuse who had been condemned to imprisonment , thus making an appeal to bis clemency . The President replied , that none better than lis knew the pain of being a pri soner , bnt that it w . _ti necessary that order should be _re-estsblisbed before he could think of recommending their being set at liberty . ' At the banquet in the evening , his speech was directed against the Socialists , whose demonstrations against him in Besangon , and other places , were smarting in his memory . After dinner , the rooms of the _prefecture were crowded with ladies in ball dresses . Bat the event which created must

    sensation was a hula surprise , which certainly does honour lo the waggery of tbe Strasburgers : A tremendous display of fireworks had been got up on tbe rampart ofthe Porte des Juifs opposite tothe prefecture and theatre . The President ' s aunt , the Grand Duchess Stephanie , fired the train v . ith her own fair band : bm _imagins the disappointment and chagr in ofthe President ' s party , when they saw opposite lo them , in immeus ? . blazing characters , ? Vive la Repub ! que . ' Orders had been given thai it should be 'Vivele President , ' but General Thouvenln , who commanded the artillery o ; the National

    Guard , the body wnich had the getting up of i his flaming compliment , made the small , and not _altogether , perhaps , unintentional blunder of putting * Repub'ique' in the place of' President . ' Just as Nelson turned his blind eye to the admiral ' s _signal for _reireat , so did General Thouvenin lurn a deaf ear to tbe request of M . Mocquart , tbe President ' s Potemtin . When questioned open the matter be replied that * Vive la Repuhbque ! ' was the device in most consonance with the feelings of the _citizens of Strasburg . Many of tbe Strasburg ladies , however seemed to enjoy the sight excessively .

    Oa the following day a round of reception commenced , at which 350 _tffiesrs of the old empire , the mayors , deputy-mayors , and other suthorities were present . Tbe crowd outside _recetod every retiring deputation witb sboats of ' Vive la _republique !' The leading incident of the second day at Strasburg , was tbe grand review of the troop 3 and tbe Rational Guard . The National Guard was very numerous , and cried'Viva la Republique 1 ' while the troops set up the rival shouts of' Vive le President V The Polygon , wbere the review took place , _js a vast space between the Rhine and the gate of _Austcriitz . Aa immense crowd of people bordered the . whole way from ths city , and raised the shnut o / _. yive _^ la Republique . ' At the moment of his _ix _. lival at the Polygon a _yonng medical student advanced-ami cried _» A bas le President ! ' He wss

    _jprnjaedigtely arrested . l _^ _sbuU _^ ap pearibat a grave cisenmstance _ocew « 5 _Tat ffcyons , which was passed over ; or at all § Tf « _tg only slightl y _gUqcjed to , by the _ccrrespoa-

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    _dence from that city . _Tue'Lyomv Gazette' of the 18 V / e aJ , _eUay 8 t . tea that the P _^ enU _^ dgone . * i , A ™ v Rmisse . but we were at that time _^ _X 2 _P »*»* * r _"f We ignore _*"_„; -.. _ our readers what we have rea 3 _- _JTrn _^ l _^ o"by of _credit On his _ar-^ _WSSr-t li cwh Rouses the _Pres-dent was received by the cure of the place , who made him a complimentary speech . The mayor , in his turn prepared to read a speech , when all of a sudden the crowd , breaking through the barrier , which was too weak , separated him { rom tbe President . At this moment one might see compact masses , whicb , extending from the extremity of the great street of the Croix Rousse to the middle of the place , bellowed out the cry of' Vive la

    Republique : '—a cry mixed with seditious clamours , whicb we shall abstain from repeating . There was a momen : of alarm ; but the police and the cavalry ol the escort having released the President , he was enabled to continue his way towards the house of M . Auherthier , which is fortunately quite close to the barrier . On bis arrival there the President _presented the cross of honour to M . Auherthier , and we feel tbat we are the echo of the whole city in saying that it unanimously applauded the distinction conferred on that excellent man . But during the short visit of the President the cries , the bellowing , tbe clattering of rage redoubled in the streets . The President , who was to have visited several ateliers , several schools , and tbe Marie of the Croix Bousse , disgusted , no doubt , witb such a reception , did not proceed further . He immediately returned to Lyons , where the banquet of the chamber of

    commerce awaited him . The'Courtier de Lyons' confirms this account , and adds tbat some of the men went close op to the President , and called ' Vive la Repnblique Demo _, cratic et Sociale ! ' ' A has _les Aristos ! ' ' Vive lea Rouges ! ' and other cries of the same nature . At Nancy an incident occurred which excited a good deal of _attention . A tremendous row occurred at the ball given in that city . An officer of ihe National Guard , advancing towards Louis Napoleon

    _requested bim to shake bands . The President , i < seems , was not in a humour to let such a freedom pass , and , declining the favour solicited , replied : ' I am not in the habit of giving my band to every one . ' Hereupon tbe officer set up a shout of 'Vive la Republique ! ' in . which all present of that way of ' ( linking joined . But the-parly of the President , having the advantage in point of force , vehemently demanded that the officer should be turned out , a measure whicb was set about without tbe least

    ceremony , for the offender against etiquette was forthwith collared by one of the President ' s suite , and , alter a violent tussle between the contending parlies , thrust out of the festive meeting , while the entourage of the President raised the victorious shout of * Vive Napoleon ! ' As tbis untoward accident seemed to dash tbe spirits of the ladies , tbe President told them to be not at all alarmed at such a trifle , but to continue their dancing gaily . Nevertheless , a ( treat portion of the company disappeared , and loud cries of' Vive la Republique ! ' were heard outside in tbe street . In tbe evening he went to the theatre , but the cries of Vive la Republique' were also numerous . The police took several into custody for crying Vive la Repnblique . '

    The equanimity of the President was considerably disturbed at Muz . In the evening a numerous deputation of officers ef the National Guards came to the hotel were he was lodged , and asked to see the President of the Republic . As soon as Lmiis _Napn-Icon appeared , after a short address by their spokes man , the whole party set up a shout of' Vive la Republique . " The President replied : ' Messieurs , if this is a manifestation which you come to make here , it is an improper ( inconvenanie ) one . If in these cries I am to see counsels , I seize this occasion to tell you that I accept none from any person . ' Alter which he retired into the interior of his apartments , while the deputation was shown down stairs with as little csremonv as tbey _deseived .

    At _Poni-a-Meusson the President passed tbe Na . lional Guards in review , during which the cry of ' Vive la Rspublique l' was almost incessant . One company _evsu thundered out the ' Marseillaise , ' the captain giving the example . This scene onlyceased when the che f de _bataillon interfered , and on the Minister of Commerce remonstrating with the offending _officer on the gross impropriety of allowing his men to sing when under arms . At the end of the review the cry of * Vive la Republique !' was replaced by tbat of' A has les rate ! ' Punt-ajf ousson is a countrv of vine Growers .

    The funeral of M . de Balzac , the corners of the pall were held by M . Victor Hugo , M . Alexandre Pumas , M . Sainte-Beave , and M . Baroche , the Minister of the Interior , who , without receiving an invitation , came to pay a last compliment to the literary merit of the deceased . Victor Hugo who was enthusiastically cheered by tbe body of ouvriers present , made an eloquent speech over the remains of bis departed friend . After the ceremony a great number of _workmpn _, who had heen anxious to be piesent at the . funeral of the great writer , and show that the people recognised their share of the

    national loss , followed M . Victor Hugo , aud at the ate of tbe cemetery suddenly saluted the living writer with the warmest acclamations . The great _paet was immediately surrounded and applauded hy the whole crowd , who cried , ' Vive the decoder o ' ; he liberty of the press , " Vive the defender of the people , ' and * Honour to Victor Hugo . ' As M . Hugo entered his carriage the people pressed forward to the door , each anxious to seize the band of the orator , who in turn was deeply affected . The cries of 'Vive la Republique , ' were warmly and unanimously repeated .

    Sixty Belgian workmen bave been sent out o f Pari' by M . Carlier , escorted by gendarmes , to gain the Belgian frontier . There is no country where Frenchmen enjoy so much liberty as in Belgium . M . Auguste Dupont , formerly member of tiie _Constituent Assembly , has been shot through the head in a duel , at Perigueux , with Dr . Cbavoix , member of the Legislative Assembly . The dispute between them is said to have thus originated : M . Cbavoix is a member of the Mountain ; Jii . Dupont was a member of tbe Constituent Assembly , who had trimmed round to conservatism , and become the editor of a paper , ' L'Echo de Vesone , ' in the department of the Dnrdogne , which is represented by M . Chavoix . It seems that the bailiff of M . Cbavoix acting upon general orders , had ejected during the absence of his emalover a tenant from his small

    holding for a debt or _fourteen franc ? . The moderates cf the department which is distinguished for bitter party _feeling , did not fail to use tbis instance ot unfeeling rigour on the part of the socialist landlord as a weapuu _against the socialists generally , and against the representatives which t ! : ey had returned for the Dordogne in particular . In the controversy which ensued , the pen of M . Dupont and the columns ef the ' Echo de Vesone' became the chief medium for the public expression of conservative feeling on this subject :. A subscription was opened for paying the _culfivot ; r ' s debt , with the ex _pense-a ef ej _? ctment . The hst was soon covered with nara « s , appended to many of which were severe reflections upon the cruelty of M . Chavoix , who is possessed of considerable wealth . Upon bis arrival in the Perieord , M . _Cbavsix addressed a letter tn the 'Echo de Vesone , ' in which he stated that his

    agent had _acud in this instance without a special order , and only in virtue of general instructions . Some sharp expressions against the editor accompanied this explanation . M . Dupont printed the _lcitjr at length , and replied to tbe personalities in s corresponding tone ef _bitterness . On the 20 th M . Chavoix deputed a couple of friends to procure an apology for llie offensive expressions in the editor ' s commentary . Two friends were appointed by M , Dupont , who refused , on the part of their principal , to retract anything until M . Chavoix had withdrawn the word ' _canieapt' in bis letter . All attempts at an arrangement having failed , the two adversaries

    met tbe same _fiveuinj ; , at a mile from Perigueux , to decide their quarrel by arms . The weapons chosen wfre pistols . They fought at twenty-five paces . M . Chavoix won tbe throw for the choice of position ! and M . Dupont for the first fire . Dupont fired and missed . Chavoix , declaring that he could not see clearly , waited rill the smoke of his adversary ' s discharge passed , and fired at an _interval of some seconds . His ball struck ihe forehead of Duaont , who fell stark dead upon the plain without uttering a cry or groan , flis body was brought about midnight to his house in Perigueux , and the next day followed by a long train of partisans on tbe road to Puyferrat , where the interment took place .

    On the 20 th the Duke of Bordeaux , the Legitimist pretender , gave a dinner of a hundred covers at _Wiesbaden , to wbich sixty workmen arrived from Paris by irafode-pfaitir were invited . Seme ofthe latter tarty brought their wires , among whom one dre 3 sid up in a Vendean costume at . tracted much _attii t an . TIn following resolutions have been come to at Wiesbaden by the Count de Chambord and twenty .

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    eight Legitimist deputies-who were present . To abandon the policy , of conciliation ; to oppose the prolongation of the powers of tbe President ot the Republic ; To consider M , Berryer as the directing chief of the party ; -and to blame and disavow the acrimony displayed by "the' Gazette de France . ' Several members of the National Assembly , and two generals , old friends -of the Orleans family , left Paris for Brussels , on a visit to the Prince de Joinville , who has arrived in _Ihat city , and taken np bis residence at tbe Hotelde Sax ? . It is supposed that tbe abject of these visits is to dissuade the Prince from coming forward as another claimant for the power of misruling France .

    Louis Philippe , previous to his death presented to tbe state the _Standish collection of pictures , the posession of which was confirmed to him by a recent _award of the _Cunsi-il d'Eiat . Tne Nepaulese Ambassador and his suit have produced some excitement in Paris by tbeir georgeous costumes , pearls , and diamonds , but seem greatly _dissatisfied that Republican France bas paid them so little attention , compared with that they received in Monarchical England . The political prisoners under sentence of transportation for life , and who are now confined at Doullens , are , itis said , to be removed to the citadel nf _Belle-isle-en-Mer , that place having been fixed on by a decree of the President of the Republic as ihe place of confinement for prisoners under that sentence .

    A Socialist named Gerber has been arrested at Strasburg on a charge of having conspired against the life of the President of the Republic . Two ar rrsts have taken place at Nancy , connected witb the same , alleged plot . A Socialist named Robert , nicknamed ' Bonnet Rouge , ' was sentenced by the Court of Assize ofthe _Otse , on the 26 th inst ., to imprisonment for thirteen months , for having insulted the President of tbe Republic on his passage through Pontoise on the 10 th of June last .

    What Next?—M . Carlier , the Prefect of Police , to whom the inhabitants of Paris are so much indebted for the perfect tranquillity which prevails , has succeeded in putting an end to a serious strike amongst the cotton printers of Puteaux and St . Denis , and has _seiz « d 40 , 000 f _., the fund by which the operatives were to be supported whilst out of work _.

    ITALY . The correspondent of the' Daily News' says : — ' My forebodings were correct as to the signification to be attached to the virtual concession made to _Austria , in tbe exiling from Turin Bianchi Giovine , tbe talented fditor of the 'Opinione' newspaper . It turns out to but too true that Austria is secretly _threatening the government of this country with an intervention , an occupation similar to that of Tua cany , if Piedmont does not satisfy tbe requirements of the reactionary governments of Austria and France , backed by Russia , in putting down the con stituiional liberties its people enjoy , either by openly abolishing the statutes or constitution granted by Charles Albert , and sworn to by his son the reigning

    monarch ( a 3 at Naples , ) or by rendering it a dead letter by violating its most essential guarantees iu oractice , by prosecutions of the press , and arbitrary acts against the liberties of the subject ( as in France ) It is now averred as well as evident that Austrian diplomacy has fomented the quarrel between Piedmont and the Papal government in respect to the Siccardi law against tbe immunities and privileges of tbe clergy , and that the late conduct of the refractory primate , Archbishop Franzoni , on tbe occasion of the minister Santa Rosa ' s death , was not only in accordance with the views of Austria and the bigoted Jesuitical party now paramount in France ( tbat of Montalembert and Thiers , ) but was the result of a preconcerted understanding and agreement between them . '

    ROME . — The ' Constitutionnel' states that several persons have been arrested for a supposed conspiracy to assassinate the Pope , on Assumption day , by throwing crystal balls filled with explosive substances into his carriage when on his way to church to pronounce the benediction . The discovery of the plot prevented all danger . There was some agitation on the following Sunday , as it was supposed that there had been a plot against the Austrian Ambassador , on the anniversary of the birth ofthe Emperor . A strong armed force was placed near his Palace to protect it , and in the evening some arrests weie made .

    LOMBARD ! . An irruption oftheMclla occurred on the 14 th inst , in the province of Brescia . It has devastated the fields , destroyed houses , and caused much loss of life . The diligences for Milan , after having encountered great danger in the road from _Bnurg to St . _J-an , near Brescia , were obliged to make a detour to arrive at their destination , which they only did after having been forty-eight hours on tbe road , owing to the vast extent of country flooded .

    TWO SICILIES . A letter from Naples of the Hth inst , says , ' You have read the account of the Italian flags which have been hoisted in several places of Sicily , but you are doubtless not aware that political demonstrations have been made at _Cozensa , Poienza , and other places in Calabria . In the first of these towns about fifty young men assembled , crying ' Long live the constitution and the King . ' Others soon joini-d them , and thus formed an imposing mass . The troops-then were ordered out , and made several arrests , hut the must singular part of the affair is , that Niniziante , informed of the affair , ordered the prisoners to be set at liberty , saying that tbe cry of 1 Long live the constitution * was not an _offrnce . Shall we see Nunziante superseded , like Haynau _, for ioo much clemency ?

    SPAIN . Madrid politicians are aow busy electioneering , and many meetings , and what Cobbett calls' lots o ' jaw , ' are daily taking place- The moderado party appears to be unanimous and well organised ; their liberal opponents appear more disposed to destroy one another than to do essential harm to the enemy . The committee for the general elections has published an address to the constituencies calling on them to support the liberal cause . Although the government has organised the _registry in such a manner that there is little chance lor the election of men of liberal principles , yet no opportunity shonld be lost of a struggle . This address is signed by Becerra , La Serna , and other _progresistas .

    There have been several meetings of electors belonging to extreme parties , in which violent attacks have been made upon the moderate liberals , It seems probable that these men will rather vote for the friends of government than for their old chiefs . It is probable that but for the firm hand of rlar _v-iez , the same disorder would be shown among the mnderados , but the severity shown to all _backsliders from the government keeps the hate of rivals smothered . Were it not so we should see moderado

    _candidaies opposed by others of the same opinions , and many a scamlel brought io light in the heat of an election . The cabinet has decided upon employing four steam frigates of 500 horse power each in tbe packet service between the isle of Cuba add the mother country . A great fall of snow-has taken plate in tbe Pyrnees . This crcumstancc , h y rendering the mountain defiles almost impassable ' , will tender the existence of bands of robbers more precarious than ever .

    the Corunna papers mention a fact that shows in what a state of ignorance and brutality the _Ga'lician labourers are still plunged . The aeronaut , Madame _Sanges . who had made an ascension iu her balloon , distended near the village of Betangos . Here the peasants , with a stupid , old fanatic priest at their head , brutally assaulted the poor woman , alleging she was the devil , and had she not been defended by some more civilised than the rest , she would probably have been killed . The governor of Corunna has rendered the village , pecuniary responsible for the damage done to tbe balloon , and has sent the culprits to prison .

    SAXONY . By an order of the Minister for Public Instruction , twenty-one professors of the Leipzig University are directed to be suspended froni their functions as deans or members of the Senate , whereby they lose their votes for the election ofa member . to the First Chamber . This measure is tha result , of ihe recalcitrancy of these twenty-one professors , who not only refused in the first instance to obey the injunction for proceeding to the election , but declared the letter of convocation to be illegal _aiidttuconstitutional . \ This is partof the system of terrorism pursued towards everyone that exhibits the least inclination towards liberalism . , '

    HESSE CASSEL , ¦ A decree of tbe Minister of the Interior , dated the lain inst ., summons the newlv-elected Chamber to meet on the 22 nd inst . In so far as it is possible to judge the democratic , or at all events the opposition party , will have a large majority , so thatM . Hessenpflug will find himself in the same predicament as before the dissolution . *

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    The government has failed on all sides to bring its adherents into the chamber . The sovereign issued au electioneering bill , in which he accused the committee of his parliament with falsehood , and further , thought it not beneath him to travel through the land to influence the electors . The clergy were tet to work , for as elsewhere , so in Hesse , absolutism naturally seeks an aid in hypocrisy and Jesuitism . Tue Elector , thanks to his enormous civil list , has been able to make a shift hitherto , but now bis chest is empty , and be may not touch the taxes . The new chamber will most certainly refuse to grant new taxes while the present ministry is retained . What will the elector do ? The question would be very easy did it run—what should he do ? He ought ,

    according to tbe _constiiution to which he has sworn , to dismiss the hated ministers , and form his council of men to whom the chamber would be willing to grant money . Should he attempt the open subver _sion of the constitution he cannot , so we are assured from Hesse , count on the assistance of his troops , and still less so upon those of Prussia . ButM . _Hassenpflug is not without hopes of support . He has _brought his government to the aid of the Bund uow in turn he seeks help from the plenum , Bavariantroops , so we learn , are to march into Hesse . Let this be permitted and we shall see in Hesse , and soon in Germany , the end of constitutional government ; and not long afterwards would follow the en J of princely _domiuation . for only in the constitutional form is this now possible in Germany .

    Another trial upon charges of high treason , for having carried arms in Baden against the Prussian troops , came on upon Wednesday , and ended by verdicts of guilty , and condemnation to ' death by tbe axe . ' Tbe accused were two brothers , named Wittenberg ; the one an ex-petty employe ( assistant _questor , ) and tbe other a roaster shoemaker ,

    DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . The hostile armies have suffered severely from ( he attack of cholera , and active warfare has heen suspended in consequence .

    GREECE . Affairs in this country seem in a state of complete confusion . Both the church and the state dignatories are at war with King Otho . Tbe term of the legislature expires on the 8 th inBt ,, says the correspondent of the ' Daily News , ' and the King , under these circumstances , goes away from tbe country in a mysterious manner , and for an unlimited period , after making arrangements ( involving the most unexampled and voile . nt

    assumption of arbitrary power , ) for at least a prolonged absence , witli an empty treasury , the country ovetiun with banditti , the regular army disaffected an incompetent and _villanous ministry ( or rather no ministry , ) no legislature existing , and the elections still hanging over the heads of the people as a stone to crush them . It is said that there is a complete organisation on the part of the Camarilla , in case the elections arc held , to carry them all , by a coup de force , throughout the country , excluding every independent candidate , without exception !

    UNITED STATES . The Canada brings news to the 16 th inst . The accounts from Washington are of a very important character with regard to the slavery question , and state that the California Bill , had received the formal sanction of the Legislature . A bill establishing a territorial government in New Mexico had also passed . On the 6 th inst . President Fillmore addressed to the Houses of Congress a long and important message on the question of New Mexico , accompanied by an official letter from Mr . Webster as Secretary of Stale , to the Governor of Texas , replying to that minister ' s letter on tbe boundary dispute of Texas . The message is lengthy ; we therefore extract the following summary of it from a New York

    paper : — ' Both these documents have elicited tbe -warm approbation of the whole country , wiih the exception of the _portions which are red hot with slavery f anaticism , The President shows that his duty requires bim to maintain the status quo , and guard New Mexico against the encroachments of Texas _, until _Congress shall have decided the question of boundary . That question he does not judge : it is enough for him to know that Texas never had possession of New Mexico , that the United States conquered it , and that the treaty of peace with Mexico hound the Union to protect tbe people o '

    the territory and confer on them the rights of American citizens . Moreover , the United States have claims upon tbe unoccupied lands in the territory which are not consistent with its abau donment to Texas , and on these grounds , the President in firm , yet temperate , language announces his determination to prevent and suppress any hostile demonstrations against New Mexico on the part of Texas . At the same time he urges upon _Congress the duty and necessity of promptly settling the boundary question and putting a peaceful end to the contest , This recommendation came before the passage of the Boundary Bill in the

    Senate , and , doubtless , helped it forward . Tlie letter of Mr . Webster to Governor Bell contains a masterly argument of the question , and it is every way worthy the reputation of its author . It is indisputable that the new Administration has most creditably met tlie wants of the crisis , and done ail that could be asked for the prevention of any real 'rouble that may have been threatened in the southwpst . Its policy is also in perfect accordance wiU . that pursued bv tbe previous Executive ; the tone

    of President Fillmore's message is a little more diplomatic , and it 3 language less condensed and positive than would bave been employed by Genera ! Taylor , but otherwise there is no difference . The message was received in tbe houss _> . with a great _dftil of bluster hy the champions of the South and the ultra slavery parly , finding itself embarrassed , held a caucus , at which a committee of vigilance reported a series of resolutions of a violent character , but , as it would appear , no practical value . '

    On the Oth the Senate approved by a majority the bill introduced by Mr . Pierce , giving Texas 10 , 000 , 000 dollars as indemnity , with a line altogether more favourable than that proposed by the Compromise Bill . The formation of the Cabinet waB completed . The United Statps Cabinet is constituted as follows : —Secretary of State , Mr . Webster ; Secretary of the Treasury , Mr . Corwin ; Secretary of the Navy , Mr . Graham ; Postmaster-General , Mr . Hall ; Secretary of the Interior , Mr . _M'Kennan ; Scretary of War , Mr . Conrad , * Attorney General , Mr . Crittenden . Some conversation bad taken place in Congress relative lo the formation of a steam line between New York and Mexico .

    Intelligence had been received from Havannah relative to the remainder of the Culm prisoners . Seven of ihem are to he liberated in the course of the month ; the other three are to have eight years of the chain gang . This is the wind-up of Lopez ' s piratical invasion of Cuba . There were unauthenticated rumours afloat of a second Cuban expedition in preparation . ; and a Strang * : story of a plot to _dissever the union 'in which Lopez was said to be implicated . It was asserted at New Orleans on the 10 th iust , that Governor Bell had issued commissions in Texas fur raising troops in almost every country to march for Santa Fe , on the lst of September . There was some prospects ofan Indian war on the frontier .

    The State elections in progress throw some faint _MgM on the prospects of parties in the congressional contest . In Missouri the elections were going in favour of the Whigs ; 114 had been reported , and the result of forty-six was unknown ; on the returns made thera were sixty Whig * -- - lo thirty-two followers of Mr . Benton , and twenty-two democrats opposed to him . In North Carolina the democrats have a majority oi filty-oiie on joint ballot iu the legislature , _I-i Kentucky-the democratic gain was small and not sufficient to shake , the Whig preponderance in the state . In Indiana' the democrats are said to have a majority of twenty in the legislature , and of about as many in the convention to revise the constitution of the state ¦ ' •• ..

    GAniBALm in -America . —Gen . Garibaldi is in New York suffering severely from rheumatism , though slowly recovering . He bas addressed a letter to the _Ual-an committee declining the proposed demonstration in his honour , not only because the slate of his health will not permit his receiyiriir it but from motives of personal modest v . The pa ' rioi hero say ? , 'No such public exhibition is necessary to assure , Ge of the sympathy of my countrvmen , ol he American people , and pf all true _Republicans _h

    , the misfortunes which I have suffered , or of the cause out of which they have flowed . ' S _^ , a Pahlic »« wwfc » tatton of this _feelins might yield much gratification to me , nn exile from my native land , severed from my children , and mourning , the overthrow of my country ' s freedom by means of forei gn interference , yet believe me tliat I would rather avoid it , and be permitted , quietly arid humbly , to become a citizen of this great Bepublic

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    of Freemen , to sail under its flag , to engage in business to earn my livelihood and await a more favourable opportunity for the redemption of my country from foreign and domestic oppressors . ' The Committee in announcing his refusal of the proffered honour , state—* Of twenty-five millions of Italians , five millions alone have been able to maintain the sacred banner of Liberty ; the other twenty millions have fallen again under an oppression more _ferocit'Us than before . For them the knowledge tbat their popular champion had heen welcomed by the greatest people , in the world , wou'd bave been a con solation , the same as for a prisoner looking through the grating of his cell to see afar off a powerful man , whose gestures ol sympathy show him to be a friend . •_• - ' _ : » u ., » l

    • Although your kind intentions bave not been carried into effect , nevertheless , oh generous citizens , we feel the debt of gratiiu-ie to you . Nor can we complain of the modi _st * - ' of Gen . Garibaldi , which more than his feeble health has thwarted our projects . Our high esteem , our love , and our hopes in him are by no means diminished . We are perfectly certain that when the pity and justice of God shall cause the miseries ol the peuple , and the iniquities of their oppressors lo cease , Garibaldi will rush to the assistance of his belovr a country . His sword will again become a terror and , we hope , will carry destruction to the verv roots of tyranny .

    A fire has taken place at the prison of Sing Sing in this State , destioymga portion of one wing of tbe prison , including several mechanic shops belonging to the establishment , A portion of tbe convicts laboured with tbe greatest zeal in putting it out . Thee olera continues to exist in a comparatively mild form in some places in the Western aud Middle States , hut has not appeared in other quarters . At Cincinnati and _Fiusburg it is far less fatal than last year _; ai Harper ' s Ferry aloae its ravages have been considerable .

    Two steamers have arrived from Charges , bringing news thirteen days later ftotri California , with some two hundred passengers and about three million _dullars in gold . Tne general aspect of things , commercial and political , in the new state is satisfactory . San Francisco is rapidly recovering from the late t ire and will gain in appearance and solidity by the disaster . Real estate still maintains its prices , and the buildings now erecting are mostly fireproof . Business is dull for the moment , but there is no doubt of its revival , as ihe season advances . The trouble anticipated with fureign miners has not taken place and will not . IVy refuse to pay the

    tax levied on them , and the people agree that they are right and that ihe impost is too large ; the collectors no longer endeavour to enforce it , A good deal of complaint is made at t _.-. i * delay of Congress , but the assertion that _Cali'ornia would set up for herself independent of the Uni'rd States , is repelled in puulic meetings , aiid by _sev-.-ral of the journals , A good deal of excitement has ! een caused by a report at Marysville ami _Sacramento city of a place called Gold Lake where the precious stuff could be procured with _ease in _untit-atd of abundance . Ten

    ounces were reported as the yield to a panful , and men were said to | iain a _thousand dollars in a day . The distance from Marysville was said to be 200 miles , and a large emigration at mice set out for the place , with provisions and mules , the price of which rose greatly in consequence . But tbe adventurers were disappointed and wandered about vainly in search ot the Lake . The excitement of course died out or rather reacted ag dnst the author of the report , said to he a crazy man , and there was danger of his being hnched . _Subsequent reports , however , confirm the first news , and the tide will no doubt

    mm again . The diggings generally are not yielding much just now , the water being high in many places . Several murdei ' s have heen _cutimitted in various diggings , but otherwise good onier is maintained . Coal of good quality bas been found in Calitomia * nd Oregon . The progress of civilisation seems to bs rapid among the mines , tspHcially as regards luxuries culinary and putative . The present poprlanon of the State is reckoned at 121 , 000 . The health of the country is generally good . In Oregon gold mines have aUo been _discovered , and that territory is improving with rapidity .

    The ' Tribune' says—* A riot among a body of German tailors in New York city has excited a good deal of attention and cast some odium upon the efforts now making by tbe industrious classes for the improvement of their _condition . The tailors have ior some days been on a strike , snd on Monday week some hundred Germans as . ciubied around the house of one who persisted in _v-oiking at the objectionable rates and proceeded to chastise his contumacy _. The police interfered and there was a brief fight , in which weapons were employed wiih fatal effect , two persons receiving mortal injuries .

    Some forty of the rioters were arrested and now await their trial . Tbe mass of ttu- trades have publicly disavowed all participation or sympathy in this outrage , wbich they ( eel to be chiefly injurious to themselves . The tailors also condemn the folly ol these extemporaneous revc-Itiiiomsfs , most a ! whom have been hut a few months in the country and cannot speak English , The trade is entering upon a more judicious course in the organisation of an extensive working association , by lnioch the workmen will receive the product of their toil undiminished by the employer ' s profits .

    There never was such a great , movement among the New York Industrials , and neatly every trade is organised . AU are regulated by c- _ntial organisations and co-operate most harmoniously . A singular affair which has taken place a * Washington has produced there the most intense fXciteinent . It seems that the police have long sus pected Mr . W . L . Chaplin , of Albany , a respectable gentleman , aged about fifty , and well known as an Abolitionist and the editor of * Chaplin ' s Port folio , ' an abolition paper , of being concerned in favouring the escape of slaves to the Free States . Ou Thursday morning last he paid his bill at ihe hottl

    in Washington , -where he bad beea staying , and left in his carriage driven by a free black of that city . Tm 8 police , who watched his movements , _asceitained that he had not left tbe city , and prepared to intercept him on the _northwaid read . In the evening he took in three runaway _slaves , belonging io Messrs . Thoombs and Stephens of Geurgia ; the negroes had been for some days concealed in the city wailing a chance to escape . When the _carriage arrived ia _Sprattsbiirg _, a town of Man-land some seven or eight from Washington , the officers suddenly appeared , seized tl' . e horses' beads , and thrust a _raithrough the fore wheels , thus stopping ail advance .

    Chaplin seeing that they were taken , called on tht negroes to defend themselves , and a despemtc _finh ! took plsce , though the darkness of ihe night prevented the shots fired from being fatal . As ii was , several wounds ware given and received on hotli sides , and it is admitted tbat tlie fugitives fought bravely . They were _armed with revolvers and Bowie ' knives . Chaplin was first mastered , some Qve or six men flinging themselves upon him as be leaped from the carriage , . Or . _n of the ncgrces

    escaped , but , being hurt , lias since given himself up . Chaplin is in prison at Washington , and he will be given up to the authorities of Maryland for tria :. Hia punishment will be severe , as the court will act under tbe idea of stopping all sucb aid to fugitive slaves , which is thought to be more frequ nt ihan it really is . He says he is only sorry that he did not succeed . An attempt has been made to connect the affair with tlie 'National Era , ' _auiuiii-Slavery paper published at Washington , biutheie was uo ground for it .

    CANADA . The Canadian Parliament wns pibrcgned on tin-10 th inst . by the Governor-General in the presence of a _, ' argc assemblage , including over two bundled of the citizens cf Buffalo , whom the Provincial and Municipal authorities at Toronto bave been feasiiii _;; and making much of in return for tbe civilities tbey paid Lord Elgin and his suit somo time since , iii announcing the prorogation his Excellencv , in the Queen ' s name , assented to 207 bills , among which were an Act for the transfer and management of the Provincial Post-Office , Acts to equalise Assessments , to establish Free Banking , to impose twenty per cent , on foreign reprints of English copyrights ; to incorporate _^ company for the _setllement ' and moral improvement of tiie coloured population , to make

    the selection of jurors by ballot , giving municipalities power to issue or withhold _tavernHcenses . In his speech his Excellency said he would carry ihe _Post-Oflice law into effect without unnecessary delay . lie expressed satisfaction at the addresses proposed by either house , expressing , loyalty to the throne and attachment to the institutions ' of the province ; and expressed confidence that the sentiments of the address are those of the great body of the people , lie _congratulated Parliament on " the improvement of the . revenue , lis avowed great satisfaction with his . visit to the Welland Canal , and gratification at , the courtesy of the citizens of Buffalo on that occasion ., lie recommended the members , when they returned home , to promote measures of practical Utility .

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    ION PTXVSIfiAT . _TiTann > _ttotd . _mmvto _npHEtfATiun _^ _. _HSEBSif , _^ QUALIFICATIONS , generative INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE . _ThvrtY-fivst edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six _Anatomi . cal Engravings on Steel , enlarged to 198 pages , price 2 a . Cd ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . Cd , In postage stamps . THE SILENT FRIEND ; a medical work on tho exhnuation and physical decay ofthe system , produced _byexcesmivo _Indalgcnce _, the consequence * of infection , _ertheabuae of mercury , with _oeservatien ' , on the marrried state , and the di _^ _ualificationa Wnich prevent it ; illustrated by twenty-six coloured nn-

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    Brother Chartists ' . Beware of " Wolves in Sheep ' s Clothing !!" Sufferers are earnestly cautioned against dangerous imitations of these Pills by youthful , self-styled doctors , who have recourse to various schemes to get money ; such for instance as professing to cure complaints fov IDs . only _advertisng in the name of a female , and pretending to give the character of persons trom their writing , and what is equally absurd , promising to produce hair , whiskers , & c , in a few weeks ; but , worst of all , ( as it is playing with the afflictions of their fellows ) , daring to infringe the proprietors' right by milking truthless assertions , aud advertising a spurious compound under another , the use of which will assuredly _brinjr annoyance and disappointment . _EXTltAORDLNAltY SUCCESS OF THE _JiEW REMEDY !!

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 31, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_31081850/page/2/