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      PRAKCE . The 11 th lig ht Infantry regiment , under orders for _Algeria , met with a dreadful accident on the 16 th instant , near Angers , part of a battalion having heen p recip itated into the Loire by the breaking down of a wire suspension bridge . The following further particulars are given by the 4 Journal de Maine et Loire ' : _—» . A frightful event haa just occurred here . We write under the strongest feelings of distress . At eleven o ' clock tbis 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 the west , and the river -was -very _a-nvaten . The last of ihe horses

      had _scarcely crossea the _bridge than the head of the column of the third battalion of the 11 th Lig ht 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 the bridge , wheni horrible crash was heard ; the castiron columns of the right bank suddenly gave way , crushing beneath them the rear of tbe 4 ih company , which , with the flick company , bad not entered on the bridge . To describe the frightful spectacle and

      the cries _^ _if despair which were raised , is impossible ; the scene at the 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 which was raging , all the boats that could be got were launched to pick up tbe soldiers in the river , and a great number who were clinging to the parapets of the bridge , or who were kept afloat hy their knapsacks , were _imaiediately get out . The greater number of them _were , howerer , 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 too much injured to walk were placed on litters . All the authorities of the town , tbe troops in the garrison , and 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 exer tions ; 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 ns at this moment to estimate the number of lives tbat have been lost . Of those that escaoed wilh

      their fives , there is scarcely one hut has received wounds from the bayonets of his comrades . Several acts of devotion deserve to he mentioned . A journeyman hatter , named Turgis , who had acquired some notoriety iu the late political trials , stripped and jumped into tbe 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 tbe assistance of his comrades . ' _. The ' _Precarseur de l'Onest , ' a paper of Angers , says on the 17 th , the day _succeeding the disaster , tbat the muster-roll of the battalion was called at ten in the morning in the court of the Academy , and that there were 219 soldiers missing , whose fate was unknown . Add to this that thirtv-three bodies

      are lying in the hospital , which have been identified , and thirty wounded . Therefore the loss of the battalion amounts to 2 S 2 men , of whom there is every reason to believe that few survive beside the thirty already mentioned . It is hoped , however , that many are lying in private dwellings still alive . Military Demonstration . — It was at this Tery town of Angers that , a few days _previously , another battalion of the same regiment had given way to a democratic demonstration , which is thus described in a local journal , the ' Journal de Maine et Loire ' . —A battalion of the 11 th light infantry , 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 . The 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 , aud a party of them were taken into the neighbouring wine shops . After drinking and singing for some time , they eame out and continued their noise on the outside A _« er the Girondins came tbe Marseillaise and the

      Montagnards , accompanied with acclamations in favour of the democratic republic . Several passers by were struck and insulted . On the day following the same scenes were repeated until the moment for departure _arrived , and the sound of the drums recalled the soldiers to their duty . Wben the regiment marched from the place , some of thc demo crats accompanied it part of the way , raising cries of ' Vive la _Republique « Vive les democrats du lime Leger . *

      A scene of tne same description as that above narrated took place at Cahors _, in the department of the Lot . Some non-commissioned officers of the depot battalion of the 58 ih , 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 Jibrationa , they began to sing the Marseillaise , ' and _Tarions socialist songs . They were on their iness singing , wben the commissary of police having interfered to put an end to the tumult , wbich had already drawn together a considerable crowd , they positively refused to obey his injunctions . He wished to arrest the most riotous

      among them , when he was grossly insulted , and swords were drawn . Several cries of ' Vive la K ° publique _Democratique et Sociale ! ' 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 feund several sub-officers of the 5 Sth ; two of tbem _^ were standing on chairs singing 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 _requeued that an end might be put to the noise , and observed

      that soldiers , particularly those who held a certain ¦ rank , ought nos to set an example of disorder . To this the sub-officers of the 58 th replied that ithey would _sing , and thatit was no business of his ; ¦ whilst those of the 44 th replied in more respectful 'terras , and withdrew . Three sub-officers of tbe _J 58 ih raised seditious cries in passing before the _^ commissary of police , and a serjeant made use of 1 tbe fol ' _owing insulting expressions , ' It is infamous Ithat ihat canaille at a commissary of police should lhave prevented our singing , when we are under a _mpublic' The _sergsant was placed in the hands of

      ithe police authorities , but immediately afterwards ffonr individuals of the town endeavoured to pre-Trent his bein _^ taken to the Hotel de Ville . Seeing tthat they could not succeed in their purpose , they iran off to fetch some sub officers , who came with asabres in their hands . One of them , a serjeantimajar , attempted to strike the commissary of police _iwith his sabre , bnt his blow was parried by a { garde champetre , and the commissary of police , in ( order to avoid bloodshed , told his agents to release ithe sergeant , and on the following day he and j another were placed under arrest .

      The Socialist electoral meetings wbich were aninonnced for Wednesday night , at the Salle Valentino sand the passage _Jouffroy , did not take p la c e , not i ce Ihaving been served on the proprietors of those _establishments from the Prefecture of Police not to open iihem for tbat purpose . The following address , by M . Eugene Sue , to the _democratic Socialists of toe department of ihe Seine , published in the journals of that party : ' Citizens , —In presence of the name of the veneixahle Dupoat de l'Eure , presented to the electors as _itlthe affirmation and ibe consecration of the republic iaand of the revolution of February , I at first refused 1 Xhe candidateship . Yonr delegates did me the _hontoour of proposing me to your choice because they ttlthought that my name mig ht rally to it all the

      _alshades of the republican party . I accept this manddate as a duty , and I accept it with gratitude . If _; yyou consider me worthy of representing you , my ppatriotism and my _devotedness will be equal to the Emission which yoa will confide to me . One remark ioon my past life . There are men who are happy eenough to meet whb . truth at the first outset , instead c of having to pass through error ; others less _fortuunate , and I am of that number , have to contend aagainst the prejndices of their epoch , against the _in-Jflaencem the midst of which they have lived , and _iaarnve at tbe knowled ge of trae social principles only -wwitfa time , and by study and experience . This is tithe reason why , twenty years ago , when I made my _ddebut as a writer , I misunderstood the principles to nwhich I was at a later period to devote my life-tie

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      principles whieh I have since propagated and defended in my-numerous works . You will render me the justice to > say that it is neither calculation nor ambition , _^ iich has dictated * my conduct ; -1 bave not waited for the morrow of the struggle to pass into the ranks of the democratic socialists . As democrat . I profess that the republic and the _unwersal suffrage are above the caprice of majorities ; the majority has no more tbe right to alienate'the _sovereigns of the people than man has a nght to alienate his liberty . As socialist , I do not 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 have endea

      traced out -to myself another part ; I - voured to popularise the general ideas of socialism , and what-there was practical in each school . I ani a socialist from my heart , because I ha _^ e witnessed the cruel sufferings and the manly virtues of the _people * because I bave seen the artisan aud the peasant in * w & nt of bread in consequence of want of employment—existing with difficulty , they and their wive 3 and children , on insufficient and _uacertain wages ; because I have seen the old man , worn out with age and labonr , die without a place of refuge in the most frightful misery ; because 1 have seen the agriculturist , manufacturer , and tradesman ruined , and tbeir families in despair , in consequence of the bad _organisation of credit , I ara a socialist

      from reason , because I ara convinced of the insufficiency Oi 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 , lo 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 f quality of relations between the master and

      workman , institutions of foresight and credit , agricultural institutions , voluntary associations , and the establishment by the state , hy _departments and communes , of public works calculated to occupy unemployed arms ; society furnishes assistance to abandoned children , to the infirm , to the aged , without resource , to whom their families can afford no aid . That article , if _executrd 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 aud the future ; that article faithfully _executed renders all

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

      • April 19 th , 1850 . Eugene Sue . Saturday . —Everything is coloured by the excitement of the approaching election . The walls are covered with electioneering placards ; the newspapers are headed with tbe 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 Peuple' 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 tbe ' 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 . Tbe place of transportation is to be the Valley of Waithau , in the Marquesas Islands . The' Voix du Peuple' was seized yesterday at the Post-office , and in its offices , for having published au article signed Proudhon , entitled ' Election of 28 ; h April—To the Uourgeeise , ' 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 _exiting citizens to hatred of each other ; 3 . For excitations to the soldiers with the view of seducing theia from their military duties , and from the obedience they owe to their chiefs . The following is the article : — _« Will vou 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 your soldiers ? The army ! here it is , made Socialist from the first to the last man . The array ! it has received its 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 tbe fraternal salutations of the republicans of Angers . God forbid that we should accuse the men in power of an atrocious perfidy t They bitterly deplore , we are well aware , this frightful catastrophe ! But is it less true , that blindness in political matters

      engenders misfortane , 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 exposing 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 . They are four hundred young soldiers , whom the royalist reaction desired to punish , by a severe campaign , for their devotedness to tbe republic , and who lost their lives , marching in serried columns over the fragile bridge over the Maine . Is this enough of b ' . ood ?—enough of dead bodies ? Is there stilll wanting a supplement to the hecatombs of June . '

      Sunday . —In the sitting of the Legislative _Assembly to-day the debate was resumed upon the remaining clauses of the transportation bill . The amendment proposed by M . Favreau was to restore Article 6 of the government bill , wbich had been _f-xpunged by the committee . Tbis article conta ned an explicit declaration that the penal statute should not be retroactive . M- Savatu Laroche supported the amendment of M . _Favrezu , proposing , however , to leave the convicts the right of demanding transportation to Nonkabion , in case they preferred that island . M . de Vatimesnil maintained that the legislature ought not

      to interfere in the question , the solution of which belonged exclusively to the judicial power . He showed that the spirit of the amendment was retrospective . M . Baroche adhered to the arguments oi M . Vatimesnil . and declared that the government would apply the law to persons already condemed if rhe Assembly did not decide expressly the contrary . He wanted an explicit declaration of the Assembly on this point . Tbis statement oi the Minister of the Interior produced a marked _Bensation , and was favourably received by the Right . 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 the Transportation Bill was r jected by a majority of 61 in a house of 666 . Thus , 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 hat been transferred to Doullens , for wbich place he set out yesterday morning ac companied by the two agents of police . AU the newspapers of Angers were seized on Saturday , for the accounts they gave of tho disasters of the 16 th inst .

      The number missing from the battalion ofthe lltb , which was precipitated into the Main is 219 . 181 were interred on the 19 th in the same grave . The number of wounded is fifty-seven . The river is dragged to discover the bodies of the remaining thirty-eight . The only civilians who perished were two _agenls 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 loth , shouting for the Democratic Socialist Republic , and carrying a red flit ; _. The Mayor tried to arrest them , but was ill-treated . They were howerer at length arrested and conducted to prison , One of the sergeants had beea formerly in tbe Garde Mobile .

      General Castellane , on his arrival at Tours , had expressed a wish to review the National Guards , and requested -the Prefect . to give instructions to

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      that effect to the Colonel . The Prefect , however , having been informed tbat 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 , thoug ht proper to countermand the review , which was to 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 toithe Prefect . The 25 th Regiment of the Line is about to leave ihe 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 consequence of their Republican opinions . M . Emile Olivia , lormer Commissary of the Provisional government , and subsequently Prefect of the _Boucbes du Rhone and of the Haute Marne _, was tried before 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 « _Estafette , ' 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 . — -In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly tbis afternoon , the members of the cabinet appeared as usual on their bench . The debate was resumed on the Transportation Bill . Af . Savatier Larcche , at the request of his party , withdrew bis amendment , which proposed that offenders convicted before the passing of thelaw should suffer transportation , if they preferred it , to their present punishment . M . Pierre Leronx proposed an amendment allowing ihe families of transported convicts to follow .

      M . Rodat , the reporter , said that in fact the famil _es 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 301 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 . ment' for ten of the' 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 sits before Tortoni'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 take note of 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 . ' .. 'If you be M . Emile de Girardin , ' replied one of the sergens de ville , ' you must know the way to the Prefecture , and do uot require to be taken there . ' M . de Girardin then went away crying with much excitement , ' I made Cavaignac pay drar for my eleven days' imprisonment , and I shall know how to make those who have done thi 3 pay also . '

      Oa the same subject the correspondent of the ' Chronicle' says : —Last night ( Sunday ) a considerable sensation was created on the Boulevards by tbe measures taken by the Prefect of Police to prevent the sale of tbe' Evenement' and the' Estafette , ' evening papers . All _newsvendors found in possession of either of these papers , and not being the possessors ot shops , had their papers seized , and were themselves conducted to prison . The sergens de vile examined every news stall on the Boulevards , and whenever they found copies 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 the papers in question oppose the Government . The * Evenement' is edited by Mr . Victor Hugo and his son . *

      The Government has received accounts from Switzerland to the _effect 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 offi-e of Director of the Beaux Arts . He is _suceedsd hy Mr . de Guizard . Paws , Tuesday . —Yesterday in the Assembly M . Pascal Duprat demanded leave to put a ' ome questions to the Minister of the Interior with regard to some alleged arbitrary acts respecting thc sale of journals . The Minister was about to reply , but the House decided by a large majority tbat the questions should be adjourned for a month . The sitting was concluded at a quarter past six o'clock .

      Tbe Socialist meeting which was to have taken place yesterday , in the rue Martel was prevented by the police . / Several soldiers were tried yesterday before a court-martial , sitting in Paris , for having broken iheir muskets . When called on for their defence , they replied they had 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 thera to two years' imprisonment . Count Zamoyski , whose extradition had been de . manded from Turkey , for being concerned in the 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 fixing the nature of this tax . Two systems were proposed : that of the government , which 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 . The 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 tbe presence of the Minister of Justice . They wished that the Pari 9 papers should be subjected to a stamp of not more than two centimes for the capital , and four for the banlieu and de . partments . The committee will take a definite resolution on Thursday . The debate will come on immediately after the elections . M . Chasseloup Laubat is preparing the report .

      Wednesday . —Mr . Carlier continued to wage a war of extermination against the ' Evenement , ' which he causes to be seiz ? d whenever the sergens d e v ille can lay hands on it . As the police cannot venture to invade private dwellings for this purpose , the ven d enses . take refuge iu 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 reduceB the already low subscription to six francs for three months , and offers to take weekly subscriptions at ten sous . ITALY .

      An attempt wag made on the night 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 night , 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 gnard . Precautions are taken to secure the life of his Holiness against poison .

      GERMANY . Berlin . — Dr . Eichler , 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 tbe indictment were , his having , on the 25 th of June , 1818 , arranged the precession of the democratic Burger Verein of Mersebnrg , in honour of the fallen heroes of the Berlin revolution , and of having , npon _. 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 a ttempt 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 .

      GREECE . Letters from Malta of the 13 th inst . state that the contents of letters from Sir V / illiam Parker bad become known there . The affairs of-Greece were described as unfavourable , Baron _Gros , it is believed , had written * o Sir W . Parker that the affairs appeared to him too 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 Setvimo , ex-President of the insurgent Government of Sicily , now residing at Malta , was confined by severe il lness , and little hope was entertained of his recovery . .

      TURKEY . Constantinople , April 5 . —The Hungarian fugitives have left Broussa for Kutaya ( Kiutahie . ) 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 DembinBki remains at Broussa until his nationality shall be decided . Achmct 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 Sturmer 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 . Ihe Grand Vizier replied that the Sublime Porte was very happy to find the Austrian government bad adopted a more conciliatory tone ; but that being very busy just at that moment , he would inform the Austrian ambassador in the course of a few days , when it would be more convenient to receive him . The resumption of dip lomatic intercourse may therefore be regarded as settled , lt is left exclusively lo the Turkish government to determine when the fugitives shall be liberated .

      WEST INDIES . TORKADO AT THE BAHAMAS . —A _« the Avon West India mail packet was _approaching-Nassau from Havannah , on tbe 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 swept over her ,-and she was deluged with rain . On 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 eartb . Every

      vessel in the harbour , although tbey had not a shred of canvas on , were blown down , and literally buried in the water , while the tornado was rushing over them . Even a new vessel that was on the stocks was turned completely over . Such was the extreme rapidity of the tornado in passing over the island , that from the moment it was experienced approaching , to the instant it had vanished , scarcely one minute had elapsed . In the twinkling of an eye , as it were , it had swept over the island with a fell and fatal 8 woop , and had prostrated houses , devastated fields , and destroyed human life ,

      It appears that for three days before the tornado happened the weather had been rainy at Nassau . The showers were , however , genial , and were doing infinite service to the soil , which was hard and thirsty . On the fatal Saturday , the 30 th , ' the day ' says an eye-witness , ' was ushered in dark and 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 Us fatal influence . A great many of tbe 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 . The spectacle was the saddest I ever beheld ; uear fifty houses must have been thrown down . It was over the ruins of fallen fabrics and cabins , and over tbe 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 bad 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 had been blown there by the wind from a distance of more than a quarter of a mile ! The north-west turret of the chief justice ' s house was hurled to the ground , which it covered with its fragments . Many of the shingles were torn off the body of the house by the force of the wind .

      The walla 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 _Culraer-street , were blown down . Mrs . Fulford , with one of her children , was in her house when it fell , but escaped . In East Bay-street several olher houses had come to the 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 the shortness of Us 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 governor ef tbe 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 tbat portion of his house where his luncheon was provided away . It is _twenty-t-jx years since Nassau was visited hy the justlydreaded tornado , tbe dire scourge of the tropics .

      Great Pike at Trinidad . —A terrible fire took place in Port of Spain , Trinidad , on the 7 ih ult ., which destroyed property to the amount of £ 12 , 000 sterling . No such fire 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 beliove , accidently , at about eleven o ' clock on the night of the 7 th ult ., and was not got under

      bafore six o ' clock the following morning . It _^ commenced in _Marme-square , between Wainri _^ ht ' s and Spalding ' s stores . As soon as the fire was discovered the alarm bells on all the churches and 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 llie spot for the same pur . pose . Wainright ' s stores , wherein 1 , 000 barrels oi flour stood , Craddock ' s and Sauvagere _' s stores . Craddock ' _s hotel , and Garcia ' _s residence were destroyed . The ordnance department with a , large

      quantity of shells loaded for use , and a variety of other ordnance stores , were at one time in great peril . The shells were conveyed away , and eighty puncheons of rum were rolled on the quay to be thrown into the sea if necessary . The lower _ordets of the Port of Spain behaved nobly in _rendering assistance ' even women were seen working like thc men , and many of those engaged in the Trinidad riots , six months ago , were seenlibouring disinterestedly in removing and guarding furniture and stores , and though tbey had 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 Shook Oj An Earthquake Was Felt At Smy...

      A Shook oj an Earthquake was felt at Smyrna at half-past three , a . m ., of Wednesday , the 3 rd inst , whioh caused the greatest alarm . The noise which preceded the shock is described as most terrific .

      A Shook Oj An Earthquake Was Felt At Smy...

      Otoe for tub _" _WMdnm-cdvQn . — "I know , " said one of my .. parishioners , " what would cure him , but : nVnppen _> you ;'/ . wouldent believe me . " "What is it , Mary V , ' 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 better . 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 givo him nine fried mice , fasting , in a morning , 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 he had eaten those nine fried mice lio -became quite well . This would be sure to cure your child , sir . "—Notes and Queries .

      A Profitable Speculation in Manchester Goods . —Ono 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 rcimported , and tho shippers recently sold them , in Manchester , at a profit at twelve per cent , after paying freight and all other charges .

      Beautiful Hair. Whiskers. &C, Ver S Us Baldness, Weak, Ano Gltey Hair.

      BEAUTIFUL HAIR . WHISKERS . & c , ver s us BALDNESS , WEAK , ano GltEY HAIR .

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  • 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/ns4_27041850/page/2/