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      HOLLOWAY'S PILLg . CURE OF ASTHMA . Extract nf a , Letter from Mr . Benjamin MacUic . a respectable Quaker , dated Crecn . tgli , near Loughall , Irckiml , dated September Ilth , ISIS . Respected Fkiexd , —T 1 iv excellent Pills have effectually cured me of an astliina . which afflicted me for ti : «? c year ' s to such an extent that I was ohliged to walk inv mom at niifht fur air , afraid of boititr suiibeated if I wont ' to bod by cough and iihlcgm . Besides taking the . l'ills , I rubbed plenty of t ! iv Ointment into my chest night ami morning . — ( Signed ) Besjashs Mackie . —To Professor IIoli . oway . CUKE OF TYPHUS FEVER WHEN SUVPOSEU TO BE

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      N PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE . Twenty-fifth edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings on Steel , enlarged to lni ! pages , price ' 2 s . Cd ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . Od ., in postage stamps . THE SILENT FRIEND ; a medical work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the system , produced by excessive indulgence , the consequences of infection , or the abuse of mercury , with observations on the inarmed state , and the disqualifications which prevent it ; illustrated by twenty-six coloured engravings , and by the detail of cases . By K . and L , TERRY and Co ., 19 , licrncrs-street , Oxford-street , London .

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      nso . It is illustrated by three coloured tnt'ravi . 'isrs , wliic'J use . It is illustrated by three coloured engravings , wbic'J fuily display the cll ' ccts of nhvsied decay . Part the Third Contains an accurate description of the diseases caused by infection , and by the abuse of mernir . v . ; primary and seeoiularv symptoms , eruptions of the skin , sore throat , innVimimitiuii of the eyas , < lise ; we ot ' the ?> .-Ht > s , sonorrhosa , gleet , stricture , Ac , arc shown to depend wi this cause . Their treatment is fully described in this section . The effects of neglect , either in the recognition of disease or in the treatment , are shown to bo the prevalence- of the virus in the system , which sooner or later will show itself in one of tile l'lnns already mentioned , and entail disease in its most frightful shape , not only on the individual himself , but also on the olrspring . Advice for the treatment of all these diseases and their consequences is tendered in this section , which , if ilulv followed up , cannot fail in eftVctinfj- a cure . Tin ' s part is illustrated ? jy seventeen coloured t-iijjrarinjjs . l ' . ii-t tUc Fourth

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      \ TO MORE PILLS , nor any other Medicine . JL \ —Tty * pepsi ! i ( Indigestion ) and Constipation , the main causes of biliousness , nervousness , liver complaint , rlatitlauey , distention , palpitation of the heart , iiiilumiiuuion aud cancer of the stomach , nervous hcau-aches , deafnes ? noises in the head and ears , pains in almost everv part or the body , asthma , dropsy , scrofula , consmnptii / n , licnrt . burn , nausea after eating or at sea , loir spirits , spa « ms spleen , general debility , coujli . inquietude , sleeplessness , involuntary blushing , tremor , dislike to sociesy , uurhuess for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood U > the head , exhaustion , melancholy , grouiidlcss fair , imlcci .-iun , wretchedness , thoughts of sclt-utstructiou , ami insanity , effectually removed from the system , by a nerm .-im-nt restoration of the digestive functions to their primitive visual- , without purciiw . inconvenience , pain or expense , bv ti ; i !

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      FEAACE . M anifest j of the Mountain . — The fcllowjyfr ar « extracts from a lna-nfesto of the Mountain in ° r 8 ferer ; ce to the forthcoming elections : — « We slssli not form an electoral committee ; we shall flat Sciid oat lists or impose names . Full ol respect lor the initiative of the electors and tlie freedom of votes , we leave to those who possess the right the task of electing the men . But we consider it , as a dutv o' conscience and parly , as a sacrt-d dntv , indispensable even to the safety of the republic to recall with the experience and authority which facts al&rd the principles which Lava served as a rule in ifae pastand which should so serve for the fu «

      , ture T ' ie Constituent Assembly is nearly at an end ; hecceforsh its policy and its great work belong to irisiotT . I » -ork , the Constitution which admits the vnAlx of death and reacts the right of labour le acVpt ' in judging it . We accept it in spite of Kinconsistenries and imperfections-first , because it is the production of universal suffrage ; nest , team- it carries with it its own remedy in the first of its articles that which alleys the revision . Its Tjolicv has l-een illogical , like its work , violent in tie interior , wk at the exterior , retrograde everywhere , la short , ilia Constituent Assembly has done what it could ; it has been what was to have been esaected . Executed by a people which had just

      thrown off royalty , but who were still under the yoke of misery and ignorance—two great { yrannje 3 jt was naturally influenced by its origin , and produced imperfect measures . In February the people believed the words of those who came to them under the dissuise of shepherds . They took these royafcts , these liberals , these remnants of all reisns these men always on the surface ; and they deceived themselves with a confidence , a clemency ¦ which honours them , and which is explained by the intoxication of success , their political noviciate , and especially the generosity of tteir hearts . But now the apprenticeship has been gone through , the lesson received , and the danger is flagrant . It is for the

      peop le to seetothelogUlatura ; and it is lima to do 80 . Th ; y can now choose with the necessary in / ormaiipn—ihey know now with whom they have to deal—they see who are their friends and their enemies . They know those who really voted the laws of the state of siege , of transportation , of caution money , of attroitpements , of clubs , of octrois , of the eleven hours' labour , of the six hundred thousand francs and they know the republicans who votfd the reductim ol the salt-tax , of the postage , of the budget , and who voted also the preamble of the constitution . The people can , therefore , judge the old men by their votes , and the new men by the programme which has been published .

      As regards foreign policy , in principle every nation is free and sovereign . Royalty is a power which exists—the republic a government of right . Every nation which way have needof us , which niay demand fivm us assistance in recovering its nationality , should be able to count , in the limit of our resources , on our material and moral support , on our diplomacy and our army ; tor the reason of Frauce is the ' reason of liberty , and the army of France the army of liberty . Liberty , is not a privilege for us , it is a rig ht for all , and rig ht has no frontier . In virtue of the principle of the unity of right zaA the unity of mankind , all nations are jointly responsible , citizens of the great human republic , and as such , free , equal , and brethren , like

      the citizens of the French republic . France , then , can henceforth neither conquer nor enslave ; neither can she be a tranquil spectator , with arms in her hands , of the sad spectacle of slaves still struggling under the treaties of 1815 . Her principles , her piomises , her past , her future , her honour , engage her towards Poiand , Italy , Germany , and Hungary , towards all those who resolve like her to break their chains . The kings besiege , bombard , and put to ransom Paris , at l ' csih , at Milan , Vienna , Warsaw ; the republic cannot be the accomplice of kings 2 sainst the people . It is a crime to do that when if can lie prevented . The monarchy said cliacun pour soi , antl it is dead ; the republic , which is the contrary of the monarchy , must live , saying cRacim

      pour tons I Ou the question of the domestic policy we find the following : In the interior , the same l . igic . The people should be free and sovereign . At " this moment the people are not , it is true , subjects of a king , but they are still the subjects of ignorai . ee and misery , those two last royalties , which are not unlikely to bring ' jack the other . The man who is hungry is the slave of want ; the man of ignorance is the slave of error . He is consequently neither free nor sovereign . What is a sovereignty which cannot write its vote ? what a liberty which depends ou its bread ? Men then must be freed irom these two

      servitudes ; they must be wrested from these two imperative tyrannies , wltiea have already twice caused them to tarn universal suffrage against themselves—on the 10 th December , and 23 rd April they mu % t ba enfranchised materially and morally , in mind and body ; they must henceforth only depend on their reason and their will ; their double want of comfort and enlightenment must be satisfied—the doable nourishment ( man does not live by bread alone ) must be gives them—in a word they must be improved and enlightened . How ? By labour and instruction . All the republic is therein . The Repbblicaj ? Martyrs . — ( From the Tttx . es . )—• The political convicts of Bourgas passed

      through Paris on Friday morning at eleven o ' clock On their way to the citadel of Dou ' . lens , situated seven leagues north of Amiens , and which was used under Louis Philippe as a state prison . They arrived at half-past ten o'clock at the Orleans station , escorted by forty sergenis de mile , and 100 men of the gendarmerie moUle . Two companies of the latter had left Paris yesterday for the Sologne , to prevent any attempt at rescue being made by the numerous labourers belonging to the former ateliers nationaux of Paris , now employed in field works iu that district . The cellular carriage in which the

      seven prisoners travelled also couveyed Huber , who , on arriving at the station , was transferred into another vehicle , and brought to the Prefecture of Police . The carriage containing the others , preceded by a regiment of dragoons , followed by a regiment of cairassiers , and surrounded by a large detachment of horse gendarmerie , proceeded across the Pont d'Austeriiiz to the Place de la Bastille , thence along the Boulevards to the Porte St . Denis , and ap the Rue de Faubourg St . Denis to the Northern Railroad station—all the avenues leading to which had been lined with troops of infantry from an earlv hour of the morning .

      Socialist BAxacET . —A Socialist banquet was g iven on Sunday at the Rue de Martel . M . Joly , the ilonlagnard representative , presided . Another banqaet was given yesterday , at one o ' clock , by the female Socialists of Paris . A banquet wiJl be given at Passy to General Courtais , and the others who were acquitted at Bourges , on Sunday next . Bed Republicanism in the Army . —Le Peup ' . e states that a captain of the 24 th regiment of the line , forming part of the garrison of Bourges during the late State trials , has been placed on half-pay in consequence of his democratic opinions . The same journal adds , that an assistant-surgeon of the 42 ud has been ordered to join a regiment in Algeria , and to quit Bonrges in twenty-four hours , solely because he was seen to communicate with several democrats

      present at Bourges . The entire National Guard of Toulouse has been dissolved . A letter from Macon , says the correspondent Of the Times , states that the troops in . that town forming part of the army the Alps , who had been ordered to march to the frontiers on the commencement of hostilities between the Austrians and Piedmontese Bet out with the greatest delight ; but , having reached Nantua , their commanding officer received a telegraphic despatch , ordering him to march his

      troops back to their original quarters . On their return to Maqon on Saturday , the 31 st ult ., the soldiers hurried into the wine shops and expended all their money in drink , aad then , by way ol finale , broke everything they could lay their hands on in the shape of glass and crockery . They are said to have expressed themselves in rather a violent manner against the President of the Republic for the disappointment , and it was with difficulty their officers prevented a mutiny .

      M . PaoBDHON . —It is reported that M . Proudhon , sot choosing to pass the next three years in prison , lias escaped from France . Another Prosecution of M . Proudhon ' s Paper . —M . Duchen , the editor ot M . Proudhon ' s journal Le Peupte , and M . Louis Menair , were tried on Saturday for having published a libel in a series of / eaflfefons , entitled ' Prologue of a Revolution . ' They were convicted , and II . Duchon was sentenced to three years ; and M . Louis Menair to fifteen month ' s imprisonment . They were further sentenced to pay jointly and severally a fine of 10 , 0007 .

      Ravages of the Cholera . —M . Marrast announced on Wednesday to the National Assembly the demise of three of its members . —M . Fayet , bishop of Orleans , * M . Ballot , and M . Coulmann

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      The latter end of las : week , M . D . ssne , fat » er-in-la « of Thiers , died after a few hours' illness . The total number of cases up to Saturday evening ill the llOSpitals was 1 , 150 , of which 667 had died . Lagrange , the celebrated Montasnard deputy , who had bien attacked with cholera , is pronounced out of danger . M . Thiers has been very seriously ill , and considerable aDXi « y has been felt ior the result . lie 1 stated , however , not to be in danger . [ How grieved « e should be if this villain was called home to his father , the devil . ]

      Hopes and Schemes of the Rotalist Conspirators . —The correspondent of the Times , writing from Paris , on Monday says : — ' The Legitimists are in hig h spirits to-day ; indeed , at no period for many years past have they been so joyous , and , according to their own account , SO full of hops . Electioneering agents have arrived from several of the departments , and they announce that public opinion is becoming every day more pronounced in favour of the restoration ef Henry V . The Ligitimists count upon returning 250 pure Royalists to the new Chamber , and they are now meditating aa appeal to the nation to decide by Universal Suffrage whether the old monarchy shall be restored . The partisans of the regency , of whom M . Thiers is said to be the chief , are in the meantime not idle ; and they prefer to believe that they will have a majority in the new Chamber .

      An American Expelled from Paris —The Repuhligue of Monday states that Mr . Brisbane , an American socialist , -who has taken a leading partintbe socialist banquets of Paris , has received notice from the government to quit France within a delay ol forty-eight hours . The Vile French Government . —le Peuple announces that the German refugees implicated in the events of Frankfort , -who had been removed to Verdun , have been thrown into prison by order of the Min ' sier of the Interior . A body of from 200 to 300 Hungarians and Piedmontese refugees and deserters have entered France by the bridge of the Var . Thoss who had arms have been deprived of them , and marched to Draguignau .

      GERMANY . REFDSAL OF THE IMPERIAL CROWN BY THE KING Of PRUSSIA . The deputation of the Frankfort Assembly was received by the King this morning in the Rittersaal of the Schloss ; the President of the deputation , M . Simons , in a short address stated the important object of the mission with which he and his colleagues were entrusted , and presented to his Majesty the formal resolution of the National Assembly . The King immediately returned the following answer : —

      « Gentlemen , the message you bring me has deeply moved me . It has directed ray gaze to the King of kings , asd to the sacred and august duties I have , as the King of my people , and a Prince among the mightiest of Germany . A look in that direction , gentlemen , gives clearness to the vision and certainty to the heart . In the resolution you have communicated to me I recognise the voice of the representatives of the German people . Your vocation gives me a title the value of which I know how to prize . If accepted , it demands from me incalculable sacrifices , and burdens me with heavy duties . The German National Assembly has counted on me in all things which were calculated to establish the unity , power ,

      and alory of Germany . I feel honoured by their confidsnee ; aud I am ready , by deeds , to prova that their reliance on my fidelity , love , and devotion to the cause of the country has not been misplaced ; butl should not justify that confitlence-I sbould not answer to the expectations of the German people—I should not streng'hen the unity of Germany —if I , violating sacred rights and breaking my former explicit and solemn promises , were , without the voluntary assent of the crowned Princes and free states of our Fatherland , to take a resolution which must be of decisive importance to them and to states

      which they rule . It will now lie with the several governmenis of the German stales to examine the Constitution which the National Assembly has drawn up , and declare whether it will be of advantage to all—whether the rights it confers on me will place me in the position to guide the destinies of Germany and realise the expectations of the people . But of this Germany may be certain , and you may declare it in every state—that if it needs tke protection of the Prussian sword , I will , eveu without a summons , not hesitate to follow that course Irom which my Roj al House has never departed—the course of fidelity tiid honour . '

      ( From the Times . ) Berlin , April 6 . — Yesterday was a day of division and discord in the Chamber , amid which the Ministry escaped what would have been a vote of want of confidence by each fraction of its opponents seutralising the other . Tlie Extreme Right voted against the motioa for an address , and against every amendment without exception ; the Extreme Left , for different reasons , did the same ; and the Centre , split into eight sections , could not , of course , get a majority upon any one of its motions . The stormy debate was closed by a scene of uproar . The speech of Waldeck was the most furious he ever delivered , and , it must also be admitted , the ablest ;

      there was a species of power in its audacity — in its total lack of respect or reserve as to anything . With the present Ministry , he held all addresses , all votes of censure direct or implied , all parliamentary tactics to be useless ; it was ready with its bayonets to set all such attacks at defiance . He denounced both the late and present Kings of Prussia , as having misunderstood and failed in their mission to Germany ; the only policy the House of Hohenzollprn had ever understood was that of military despotism ; and by developing the military system to its utmost extent , it had totally dissolved and severed the German empire , which it found in a slate of decay . ' The spirit of the corporal's

      stick' was still the governing principle . Twice was the question put to Prussia last year whether it would place itself at the head of Germany—once in March and again in October , when at the siege of Vienna the call of deliverance echoed through the nation ; tken the question was answered by the dissolution of the National Assembly ; now the question was put again , and answered by a refusal to recognise the complete validity of the German Constitution , though the House of Hapsburg was struck from the list of competitors for the Imperial Crown , not by its Sclavonian possessions , but its four bombarded capitals and its military executions .

      The violent declamation of M . Waldeck wa 3 not calculated to allay the previous irritation . A brief and temperate defence by M . Manteuffel was scarcely listened to ; the close of the discussion was agreed to , and then occurred the outburst on M . Bodelschwingh denouncing the revolution ' as a mere street fight / which compelled the president to suspend the sitting , all order being confounded , th audience of t ' ie galleries taking part , by hooting aud hissiug , in what was almost an affray . THE WAR IN HUNGARY .

      The following appeared in the Times and other papers on Friday week : —It appears that Bern has been beaten by the Russians , as was rumoured . After capturing Hermannstadt he was making his way towards Kronstadt , when he was met by the Russian army , numbering from 30 , 000 to 40 , 000 men . This force attacked and beat him . The Polish and Vienna Legions are said to have been annihilated . Bern himself fled to Debreezin ; and five of I 113 Polish officers , Prince Waroniecki , Wrouski , Podoletzki , Bilsky , and Duiuausky , were taken and hanged . Comoro still held out , according to the latest accounts received .

      The correspondent of the Times , writing from Vienna . April 3 rd , makes the following doleful confession of the falsehood of the above story : —Thus , the news which I gave about Bern's having been defeated by the Russians after the fall of Hermannstadt went the round of all our papers , and at last appeared in the Wiener Zeitung . Now , however , the whole affair is as positively contradicted as it was positively affirmed , and we are in doubt whether Bern is the conqueror or the conquered . It is a remarkable fact , that although the Wiener Zeitung and Lloyd of last night contradicted the intelligence given by one or two of their contemporaries as to the entrance of the Russians into Galicia , they do not say one word about their presence or absence in

      Transylvania . Many persons positively assert that Bern has not only not been defeated by the Russians , but that he is at this very moment in Hermannstadt and that the whole of Transylvania is in the hanxU of the Polish-Magyar army . The fortress of Comorn is not yet taken . The garrison consists of six companies of the Alexander Regiment , two companies of the Prussian Regiment , eight Honved battalions , 700 Honved Artillerymen , and about two squadrons of Hussars and Czikos . The whole strength may be 10 , 000 . The commanders of the fortress are KosButh ' s brother-in-law , Messleny , and a certain Mockoff , a simple cannoneer before the outbreak of the rebellion , who now glories in the title of' Lieutent-jolonel . '

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      Victories of General Bem . —Our letters from Vienna of the 4 th not onl y contradict the report of Bern ' s defeat , but state him to be complete master or Transylvania . Bem captuted Htrmannstadt , and took 1 , 000 Russian soldiers prisoners in it . The town was neither sacked nor maltreated in any way . Bem after taking Hfirmannstadt marched to Kronstadt , which the Russians evacuated without resistance , in fact , they were starved out of Trausylvania ; and they stayed asLug as there were

      provisions or money . But the impossibility of transporting provisions from Wallauhia compelled them to ¦ etrcak The Saxon municipalities of Kronstadc and Hermannstadt , that five weeks agp signed a requisition to the Russians , as soon as . Bsm took these towns , drew up immediately an address of thanks to the Hungarian government at Debreezin for havine delivered them from the Russians , who levied 1 , 000 florins per day in each town . Puchner has been driven into Wallachia . —Daily News ,

      In Hungary , the insurgents have gained new strength by the publication of the Austrian constitution , by which the Hungarians would be subject to the same system of taxes as the Gef man Austrian ? . In several villages the inhabitants burnt down their houses when the Austrians arrived , aqd the Magj ar army is continually increasing . The first act of Bern at Hermannstadt and Kron * stadt was to publish a general amnesty . On the 29 th the Imperialists , under General de Welden ,

      attempted to take the fortress of Comorn , but were beaten hack as far as Gran , after having sustained considerable loss . The garrison took possession of the besieging artillery , and took one battalion prisoners , after having routed the enemy , and driven them to a considerable distance . The ground in front of the fortress was strewed with the killed . There is no longer a corps of observation near Congo . The Wempfen battalion of Italian Grenadiers went over to the victorious Hungarians .

      Vienna , April 5 , —To-day a courier has been sent to St . Petersburg !) , to request a fresh succour , 60 , 000 men , it is said , to act against Bem . If these troops are granted they will be obliged to take their way by Galicia , as Transylvania has only four pas sag . js by which an army can cross the mountain . These passages are occupied by Bern .

      THE DANISH QUESTION—COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES . Accounts from Hamburg of the 4 th inst ., state , that reports had reached that city of hostilities having been commenced by the Danes landing 10 , 000 men on the Sundewitt . After a slight collision with the Schleswig-Holstein troops , the latter withdrew , and the Danes took possession of the Gravenstein . A few were killed , and about sixteen wounded . The Danes , to the number of 15 , 000 men , it is said , also entered Schleswig from Jutland , when the insurgent troops of the duchy retired , and the Danes were left in the accusation of Hadersleben .

      A letter from Flensburg , of the 3 rd , confirms the above intelligence , but gives the number of the Danish troops at 6 , 000 only . The skirmish lasted an hour and a half .

      DESTRUCTION OF THE DANISH MAN-OFWAR 'CHRISTIAN VIII ., ' AND CAPTURE OF THE STEAM-FRIGA IE 'GEF 1 ON , ' BY THE GERMAN BATTERIES AT ECKUENFORDE . On the eveniag of the 4 th inst . a Danish flotilla , consisting of the line-of battle ship Christian VIII ., eiglily-fWguns ; the frigate Gefion , forty-two ; the brig St . Croix , and the steamers Geyser and Skerntr wereobserved approachingEckrenforde . Atuightfall the flotilla cast anchor off Noer , in the hay . On the following morning , at five a . m ., the brig and one of the steamers got under weigh , faking an easterly direction ; at seven aim . the other vessels weighed ,

      and with a light breeze sailed into the port of Eckrenforde , where they opened a brisk fire on the batteries on shore , which was equally well replied to , ' . he firing never ceasing till one p ^ in . The fire of the northern battery was silenced by the welldirected fire of the Gayser . At one p . m . the Christian VIII . ran aground in the inner port , and the rudder of the Gefion was shot away . A parliamentary flag was hoisted , and a notification sent to the effect , that if the batteries on shore would cease firing , so as to allow the vessels to retire , the town would be spared ; if not , it would be reduced to a heap of ashes . This was rejected ; but a truce of two hours was agreed upon by his Highness the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg Gotha .

      At five p . m . the firing recommenced , the batteries firing red-hot balls , which set the Christian VIII . on fire . Ihe craw in vain endeavoured to extinguish ihe flames , and thus the Danish colours of an fighly-four-gun ship were lowered to a four-gun Schlessvig-Holstein battery . At a quarter past seven the vessel blew up with about 200 of the crew on board , the remainder of the crew having got off , and surrendered themselves prisoners . The Gefinu shortly afterwards hauled dawn her colours , and the German standard was hoisted in their stead . It is di flic ult to imagine what the real object of the Danish commander can have been . With the wind blowing right in shore , with no intention of effecting a landing , he risked ihc safety « f the flotilla entrusted to his care .

      Captain Meyer , the cotnmauder of ( he Gefion , is reported to have blosvn out his brains .

      ITALY . The Piedmontese Gazette of the 2 nd inst . spates that certain intelligence has been received from Milan that , by a new arrangement between General Radetsky and the Piedmontese government , the ciladel of Alessandria will not be occupied by Austrian troops . The Couco >; dia of Turin of the 2 nd states that a popular movement has broken out at Albertville . Asti , Cuneo , Alessandria , Vercelli , and Casale have openly avowed their opposition to the terms of the armistice .

      Insurrection at Brescia axd Recapture and Destruction of the City by the Austrians — The Pensiero Itattano of the 31 st ult gives some additional information concerning the insurrection at Brescia . The citadel , according to thi 3 account , continued to fire upon the town during the 24 th and 25 th ,- but on the 26 th it was taken by storm , and the garrison put to the sword . Letters from Turin announce that the city of Brescia has been recaptured by the Austrians , after an obstinate resistance . A contribution of 5 , 000 . 000 lire has been imposed on the inhabitants .

      Some accounts say that unfortunate city is burnt to the ground ; others , that after being hattered for three days with the heavy siege pieces brought on purpose from Peschiera ( the very cannon the Piedmontese had left there last year , and which were to have been returned to them ) , besides obusses and other artillery , they were still fighting in that part of the town not yet destroyed , the Austrians being obliged to besiege , as it were , every street and housej so desperate was the resistance , Bergamo had also revolted , but had been subjected by an overflowing force in two days . A whole division , besides artiU lery , had been sent by Radptsky to enforce submission in these disturbed districts .

      The Opinione , of Turin , of the 5 th , states that Brescia , containing 35 , 000 inhabitants , is a heap of ruins . The town was covered with barricades rising to the second stories . They were taken at the point of the bayonet after a fearful struggle Every inch of ground was disputed with rage . The massacre was great on either side . One general has had his leg amputated , a colonel has been killed , and many officers have fallen . The account in the Opinione states that the victors began to piland commit of

      lage excesses every kind . The inhabitants who had survived the carnage entrenched themselves in ^ the houses , they were set on fire , and all perished in the flames . Never since 1542 , when Brescia was taken by assault by the French , under the orders of Gaston de Foix , has a similar disaster been witnessed . The victor , adds the account , has imposed a contribution of six millions upon this heap of ruins , which once was a town Como , on hearing of the fall of Brescia , laid down its arms .

      INSURRECTION AT GENOA . We announced in our last number the popular excitement at Genoa . We have only unconnected scraps of intelligence ! which vre give in the order received . The Genoa Gazette , of the 31 st ult ., states that the clergy of the city have taken arms , and many priests were preachiug in the churches with a crucifix in one hand and a musket in the other ,

      admonishin g the people not to acquiesce in slavery . Private letters from Genoa , of the 2 nd instant , state that the National Guards of that city had driven out the garrison , and had taken possession of the fortifications . A Committee of Defence had been formed , invested with unlimited powers , composed of General Avazzana , the Deputy Constants Reta , and the Advocate David M orchio . They had addressed General Fanti , commanding a brigade of Lombards , offering to receive the troops under his

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      orders . They published an address to the deputies lately dismissed at Turin to resume their sittings at Genoa . They declared their determination not to separate from Pirdmont , but that they would not recognise the armistice concluded with Marshal Radevsky . On the 2 nd , after a murderous combat , which lasted for several hours , the Piedmontese General de Azartn , who had the command ef the garrison t was obliged to capitulate . The combat commenced on the evening of the 1 st , about four o ' clock , and continued without interruption during the whole of the night , the inhabitants li&viag been forced by the

      insurgents t 0 illuminate their bouses , in order to enable them to carry on their operations . Both sides seem to have fought with great energy ; and , in consequence of the strong jJOBitions held by the troops , the result was for a lon ^ time deubtful ; but at length , to ffards ten in the morning , General de Azurta , finding that the strength of the insurgents * as rather increasing than diminishing , whiie he himself was cut off from all hope of reinforcements , was obliged to capitulate . The lives of the troops were « pared , and the whole of the mp . n were allowed to quit the place , with their arms , ap . d with all the honours of war . There are , consequently , no troops no tv in Genoa , which is entirely in the hands of the

      insurgeiuSf Genoa declared in a State of Siege . —A royal ordonnance , dated the 3 rd , declared Genoa in a s tate of siftge . and appointed General La Marmora to the command of the place , with alt authority , civil and military . Orders bad been given at Turin for the despatch of a large quantity of artillery and infantry for Genoa . 8 000 troops had already started to join General de

      la Marmora . Reported Re-Capture of the City . —Paris , Monday Morning . —The French government has received a telegraphic despatch , which announces that General La Marmora entered Genoa ou the 6 th instant , at fiva o ' clock in the afternoon , after a combat in the streets . He had previously taken some of the fortifications . The chiefs of the insurrection have taken refuge on board the French and English ships .

      THE ROMAN REPUBLIC—The ner / s of the defeat of Novarra having been known as Rome on the 29 ih ult ., the Constituent Assembly has named a triumvirate with unlimited powers , composed of Amellini , Saffi , and Mazzini .

      SPAIN . Madbid , April 4 . —The ex-King Charles Albert is in Spain , having arrived at St . Sebastian , from Bayonne , on the evening of the 2 nd ; an event which was telegraphed to tlie government yesterday frotn Tolosa . He is staying incognito , under the title of Count of JBarges , and intends , it is stated , to embark at St . Sebastian for Lisbon ; but his ultimate destination is said to be the United States . A courier was tent off to him yesterday by this government , with the off jr of an asjlura in any part of Spain which he might select as a residence .

      CANADA . The Rebellion Compensation Bill was finally passed by the House of Assembly on the Gth of March . The Quebec Gazette , in refutation of the charge that the bill has been imposed by a French Canadian majority , gives these statistics of the divisions upon it : — 'The four first resolutions were car * ried by yeas fifty-two , nays twenty ; and among the yeas are twenty-eight English ( including Irish and Scottish ) names : the fifth resolution , the principal one , by yeas forty-eight , nays twenty-three ; twentyfour English names baing found among the former : the sixth , by yeas forty-eightj nays twenty-four ; the English votes beirg , in this single instance , cquallv divided . On the division at the second

      reading of the bill , embodying the whole , there were twenty nays , and forty-six yeas ; twenty-one of which , constituting a sufficient majority , were English . So much lor ' our Fremh masters . '' Memorials are to be poured in upon the Queen , to induce her to withhold the royal assent . Tiierc was a rumour at Washington , on the 18 tb , that an out-Itreak had commenced . ; but it was not credited , and is only worth mentioning to explain an authentic declaration which the United States government is said to have elicited—that General Wood should proceed to the frontier the moment it should be necessary , and promptly put down any atlp . mpt at sympathising interference by citizens of the Republic .

      WEST INDIES . From Jamaica v < e learn a most important measure of reform nas being agitated , The city of Kingston had taken the initiative in advocating the propriety of applying to her Majesty , praying her to grant th - ; island a constitution similar tu that of Canada ant ! the other North American provinces . Very large and ii . fluential meetings had been held on the sul'ject . On the 5 th of March there was an insurrectionary riot in St . Lucia . The Governor and Council were

      temporarily besieged in the Council chamber . Ihe police and special constables being ineffective to suppress the riot , the troops were callsd out . The insurgents then attacked the military with stones , who , after the special constables had retreated , fired un the mob , asd dispersed the disaffected blacks . A great many arreats were nif . de , aud order quickly H-storei ? . The weather was highly favourable in all the West Indian islands .

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      BIRTHDAY OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE On the evening of the Gth inst . a select company of ultvn-ucinocvats assembled to commemorate the birthday of the martyr , Mnxiinilicn Robespierre . A substantial supper of old English faro having been done justice to , and the tublos cleared , that staunch proletarian , J .-imes Gr . issby , was appointed chairman of the meeting . In the course of the evening the following sentiments were given : — ' Tlie sjicml memory of Mtixiimlicn Ilobospiovi'o , the in ' corruiitiblu t-liainiiiuii of the rights and hajipiness of the Ijeople . " Responded to by Jvlux IIah . vev . "The memotivs of ilnmt , St . Just , Coutlion , J 5 : il > euf , and all the apostles , heroes , and martyrs of the French Revolution . " Responded to by Edmund Stallwood .

      • 'Honour to Havbes , Albert , Haspnil , Louis lUiinc * CaussWii-re anil nil the proscribed anil suft ' ering victims of the fatal policy of'moderation , ' and the perfidy and cruelty of the ever-infamous bourgeoisie . " Responded to by Cjiaiu . es Keen and John Ak . vott . " The Charter , the means , —Soeial Justice the end . Honour to all the suffering advocates of the Charter . " Responded toby Edwin' Gn . r-and Jons Clark . After some other toasts had been drank the following was given by Julian IIarxey , in consequence of the person named therein being about to emigrate to Amovica .

      "Health and prosperity to Charles Keen and his family . May our respected friend succeed in more closely uniting the democrats of America with the democrats of England ; and nuiy the American Agrarian Reformers succeed in establishing a veritable Itunublic—democratic aud social . " CiunLBs Keen responded , thanking his brother democrats for their good wishes , and assuring them of his earnest endeavours for the promotion of democratic principles , under all circumstances . The " Marpeillaise , " the song of Fraternity , &c , having been sung , the proceedings closed by IIe . vhy lloss proposing a bumper to the health of the Chairman , which having been responded to and acknowledged , the company separated . .

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      The Ciioluka is Paris . —The number of cholera cases admitted into the hospitals in Paris during the last two days has diminished . It was 34 , while in the three preceding days it was C 2 . The number of cases in the different civil and military hospitals , from its first invasion , lias been , according to the Union Medicate , 1 , 009 , of whom 563 have died . The mortality differs remarkably in the military hospitals irom that in the other similar establishments . Hitherto in the first it has been but a little more than one-third , while in the others it has been 59 in 100 . This difference is explained by the dissimilarity between the two classes , and more particularly by the fri g htful mortality at the Salpetriero . In this asylum for old age the disease continues its ravages upon a par with those of 1832 . Within the last two days there have been 89 new cases , which make the total amount to 419 , among whom there have been 279 deaths . It is not only the infirm and

      incurable that are attacked ; the ward for lunatics , which is filled with women of all ages , furnishes an epal number of victims . The persons employed in the infirmary and other parts of the hospital have been attacked in great numbers , and two outdoor students in medicine have very nearly fallon victims to their zeal . The directors of the " hospitals , who have been seconded by all the medical men of the Salpetriero with the most admirable zeal and courage , have come to the only resolution which can have efficacy , and that is to reduce the accumulation of 6 , 000 persons , the amount of its population , by disseminating them . All the women who are able to leave the establishment will be desired to return to their families ; . and as long as they remain out they will receive a daily relief of 75 centimes . Notwithstanding th « ssspor-ts of the slig ht intensity and prevalence of theebolera , much alarm prevails respecting it in Paris , several persons of note having already died of it . This / act hIqw is Buffiejent ft

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      explain the public uncAsiness . 15 members of the Assemblv are said to have been attacked , live o whom are already reported dead . Several cases ot death by the epidemic among the upper classes have also been reported . Among the representatives attacked by cholera is M . Payer , formerly secretary to M . do Liimartme . —Gaiigani ' s Messenger . Tobacco axd Mortality . —At the last mooting of the Acadoniie des Sciences a paper was brought forward by M . Carbonnel , upon the effects ot tobacco on the workmen employed to make c igars niu prepare tobacco . It would appear that out of 420 females whoso husbands followed that occupation , 3 oO had twins ; hut with regard to healcli ) out of 1 , 000 workmen 310 became emaciated to tlie highest decree , and G-t in a secondary manner . = ~ 7 ~ T ¦ ,.. ¦ i ..... . ni ,

      &E . \ i : iur , Post-Offick , April , 1849 .--Ilencefor-W'ird , newspapers printed or published in any of the Channel Islands , or in the Isle of Man , and sent by the post between any of such islands and Great Britain or Ireland , or sent by the post in Great 2 i 2 "Itaiu or Ireland , will be liable to the full letter rates of postage according to the scale for charging inland letters by weight ; with the exception of ' such of the newspapers alluded to as may be printed in the French language .

      Rffomgu Iuteiugcurf*

      rffomgu iuteiUgcurf *

      Tby Eke You Despair.

      TBY EKE YOU DESPAIR .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR , _____^__ J ^ EL ^ i . i a ii win « i » i » i i " ** " '' '" ' ' "" ' """ ~ ' ~ ' nso . It is illustrated by three coloured tnt'ravi . 'isrs , wliic'J use . It is illustrated by three coloured engravings , wbic'J

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 14, 1849, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1518/page/2/