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      PRANCE . M . Lefhnsoa , the editor , tndM . Chasjagae , the mblisber , of the ' RepHulicam da Centre , rfowe beea found guilty of publishing seditious amdes by the juiy 6 f the H « ute Vienne . The former wascondemned to « x months' imp risonment , and . 2 , 680 :. fine , and the Litter to fifteen dajs' imprisonment . and 200 f . fine . M . Le Bloys , the editor of the 'Salut da Pettyle , ' »« fonnd K uilly b * the same J "" ?' and condemned to one year's imprisonment and 2 ^> 00 f . fine . M : T . Bac , « ho had left the National Assemfcly without leave of absence , conducted the defence of tbe Iwt named gen lemsn .

      General Gemeau , who commands the army at Lyons , has forbidden the performance of Eugene Sue ' s * Jtdf Errant , ' on the ground that it is of a Socialist character . It had been performed thirty , fonr times ; and it was only on the announcement of the thirty-fifth performance that it was stopped . Paris , Friday . —The official proclamation of the three new representatives for the department of the Seine took place this morning , at half-past ten , in fcont of the Hotel de Ville . There was an immense display of military upon t ' . is occasion , the whole of the square in front of the Hotel de Ville being fitted \ rith troops . It had been announced that there Blight be some popular demonstration , and that the

      police were determined , if possible , tu find a pretext for a collision with the people . Everything , however , passed of with the greatest tranquillity , no attempt at disorder or agitation being apparently even thought o £ h . e persons collected in front of tie building- The-. Democrat ! c papers had warned their partisans not to show themselves at the Hotel de ViHe on . this occasion , as a plan was on foot to ensnare them into some hostile demonstration . The injunction was so well obeyed that scarcely 1 500 were present . The following is the definitive state of the

      poll , as this dav announced : — MM . Carnot . 132 , 797 , Tidal I 2 S . 430 Deflotte 126 , 982 Foy 125 , 643 LaHitte 125 ,-178 Bonjean 124317 The first three were accordingly declared representatives for the department of the Seine . The announcement was received with cries of ' Vive la RcpuJilicjue !* after which the few persons assembled quietly dispersed .

      The great question now is with respect to the Ministerial crisis . Yesterday evening Ihe President of the Republic tent tKrth-for M . Mole and M . Thiers , and after a ¦ Ii-sr t consultation be empowered M . Mole to form a Cabinet . A meeting was then called at the Elysee o * the following seven statesmen—the Duke de Brogue , Count Mole , the Count de Montalemhert , fi neral de St . Priest , M . Berryer , M . Thiers , and General Cntnganrier . The President of the Republic drew the a ttention of these gentlemen to the

      sJznmng sUte of affairs , and told them that he had ealted them together to ask their advice . After a consultation , which lasted till past two o ' clock this morning , the nature of which is naturally not made public , the result was that both M . Mole and M . Thiers declined either to undertake the task of forming a Ministry , or of entering the Ministry at all at present ; and " they recommended the President of tbe Republic not to make a complete change in bis present Cabinet , but to make sach modifications as mig ht be necessary to strengthen it , and to ensure the confidence of tfce country .

      Paris , " Saturday . — The « Moniteur' of this day publishes a decree , signed by tbe President of tbe Republic , da ? ed yesterday , appointing M . Barocke , ' Procurenr-General of the Court ot Appeal , as Minister of the Interior , in the room of M . Ferdinand Barrot , resigned . The Moniteur ' also announces the appointment of M . Ferdinand Barrot aB Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Turin , on a special mission , in the ' p laceof M . Lncien Murat .

      " It will be seen , from the above announcement , that all the negotiations , consultations , threats of resignation , &c , which have been the ta'fc of Paris for the last two days , have led to no greater result than this . AH the other Ministers are to reta-n their places for the present , but the 'Patrie' holds ont an expectation that ai some period , not yet determined , a further modification may be expected . M . Rover has been appointed Procureur-Generalof the Rf public in placex > l M . Barocbe .

      Some of the Conservative journals , and amongst others the ' Assemble Nationale , ' are denouncing by name tbe shopkeepers who voted for the Democratic candidates at the recent election , and calling Bpen tbe public to withdraw from them their custom , and never to enter their shops . . The Assemble Nationale' of this morning publishes the names of five of the raost fashionable tradesmen in the Rue de la Paix and the Rue Richelieu , as Laving voted for , the R ? d candidates , and announces that it intends to continue the list .

      In the Assembl y to-day , MM . Carnot , Flotte . Tidal , Dapont de Bussae , and some others of the newly-elected representatives , took their seats . M . Baroche , took his seat on the Ministerial bench formerly occupied by M . Ferdinand Barrot . The entry of these gentlemen created a great sensaiion in the Assemble . Paws , Sosdat . —The sitting in the Legislative Assembly was animated towards the close by an

      incident arisinp out of the unwarrantable course pursued by the AssembleRationale' newspaper , itt one of its articles yesterday . That journal thinks that the press has a right to designate by name the . owners of certain shops as having voted for the socialists , and to hold them up to public proscription on that account , fto man that is not blinded by part ; feeling can admit that certain shops are to be tabooed because of a political vote , unless in the most rnthless moment of revolution .

      M . F . de Lasteyrie urged this point in tbe Assembly yesterday wnh much force , and M . Jules Favre asked what was there to prevent a socialist journal from publishing in tura lists of tradesmen who voted against them . Reply to this wa 3 difficult and M . Baroche merely argued that the parties aggrieved mig ht , if they chose , obtain their remedy by a civil- acion-The point in dahate was too full of political warning n ) t < o create a storm , and M . Segur d'Aguesseau so * ed the whirlwind by crying out that the vote of Paris was a vote of war . * Your words , ' reiorted M . Favre , are those of an insurgent , * aud M . Dupio , " thinking like M . Favre , recited M . Segur to order . The Assembly then passed to tbe order of the day .

      PARIS , Monday . —Tbe ' Aloniteur' publishes a decree of tbe President of the Republic appointing M . Rover , late Advocate-General of the Court of Appeals in Paris , to be Attorney-General , in place of M . Baroche , who has been invested with other functions . A ruffionr baring been circulated that the Marquis de la Rochfjacquelin had voted for the Socialist candidates , the marquis has addressed a note to the papers , denying the fact ; be voted for M . M . La Bitte , Bonjeau , and D ' Arbouvil'e . Two more letters Lave beea addressed to ths' Journal des Debats ' from tradesmen in Paris , denying that they have ¦ voted for the Socialists .

      It is also denied on the part of tbe Duke de Levis that he has requested Legitimists to vote for the Socialists . It had been stated that the Duke had not onl y voted himself , but had induced others to do the same for the Socialist candidate . The' Maniteur du Soir' says troops continue to be sent to the frontier . It is stated that several reg iments of infantry in garrison at Paris have received orders to be in readiness to march this week for the north . The ' Presse' saj s that large badies of troops continue to be sent to tbe eastern frontier , and that several regiments at present in garrison in Paris are tinder orders to march in the course of the present week to the northern frontier .

      M . de Lamartine has written a letter to M . Charles Lagrange , the Montagnard representative , in which be asserts his belief , both from his own knowledge of the circumstances and from the loyal and straightforward character of Mr , Lagrsuge , that le is not in any way connected with the tragedy of the Boulevart des Capucines on the 23 rd of February . TsRAMtJy aud Terror . — The Prefect of the Manche has' suspended the communal schoolmaster at Cberburg from tbe exercise of bis functions . The Prefect of the Puy-de-Dome has dismissed the communal schoolmaster of Entraignes . The Prefect of the Allier has dismissed tbe communal schoolmasters of Breuil and Bresson .

      M . Moulinard , a printer at Meulan , has been arrested and lod ged in the prison of Versailles , on a charge of having printed certain seditious writings of Ledra Roliin and circulated them in Paris . $ ! && $£ ?* * ¦ the 'Democratic Jurassienne' has beea | ie » t « M »| tO ; i ^ prisonment for two months . indJfl ^ jjW ^ f ^ OOf ,, for having published a

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      seditious libel . A private of the 25 th Regiment of the Line was sentenced , by court-martial , on Saturday , to imprisonment for six months , for haTieg illegally disposed of thejjball ' cartridges . "distributed ; to him when placed on guard at the ; hotel ' ofihei President of the Republic pnthe 19 rtiof February last . ' - v > ¦ * v ' - V > ;' ¦ *> & ; n 6 . ; The ' ( Eil du Peuple , 'W the Echo du Pueple , ; Democratic journals published at Niort , that were prosecuted by the Attorney-General , have beea acquitted by a jury of that town . 1- , ¦ ,, The Prefect of tbe Saona and Loire has suspended

      M . Landolph , Mayor of Louhans , and ^ Bourgeois , his dupty , from the excise of their functw" . - The < Republ ' caine de la Dordogne' having £ e n seized afewVvs ago for an article P « W' ^ its columns , the editor has written * o the Pro cureur-General , stating that a . he was aware ^ under the present regime he would not be flowed to express his own sentiments , he bad KCOjwe ^ o books of established reputation and ft ;^ ^ ? rricl-in auastion was copied , without the alteration of a Single word , from the 225 th and following les o ? a work published by the AbbeLamenna . s

      Two hnndred and twenty-four of the insurgents from Belle-Isle landed a t Bona , in Algern on the 3 rd under an escort of gendarmerie . They were placed in the Casbah . On the 5 th another convoy arrived . Five or six of the insurgents , on landing , set up a shGUt of Vive la Republique Democraiique et Sociale . ' Five p rivate soldiers have been condemned to death by court-martial at Lyons , for having joined the insurgents in that city on the ! 5 lh June last . The Abbe Pons Gregoire , Senior Cauon of the Cathedral of Valence , in the department of the Drome , died their , on the 13 th inst ., in the 102 y ear of bis age .

      The ' Napoleon' announces that Strove , the German revolutionist , who had come clandestinely to Paris , has set out for Geneva , to be present at a great meeting of refugees which is to take place there . , Paris , Tuesday . — The * Op inion Publique confirms the reports relative to an intention on the part of the government to present several bills re . lating to the press , &c . ¦ We are assured , ' observes that journal , ' that the Ministry will present a bill on the press , with ihe object of increasing the amount of C&Utionmoney and re-imposing the stamp duty ; a bill on the jury , to modify the number of votes necessary to a verdict of guilty ; a bill on electoral meetings ; a hill Laving some resemblance to the Alien Act ; and a bill on transportation . '

      Ruxours in circulation go still further respecting the alleged changes in contemplation . It is that the National will declare itself a Constituent Assembly , and in this new character will revise the Constitution , prolonging the tenure of office of the President of the Republic , establishing two Cbauv bers instead of one , &c . Accounts from Montrouge , in the department of tbe Tarn et Garonne , state that a riot took place there on the 13 ih inst . in consequence of tbe authorities having ordered a tree of liberty to be cut down . It became necessary to emp loy the military force , and four of the rioters were arrested .

      GERMANY . The' Nsue Munc Zheneritung ' of the 14 th inst ., states from a telegraphic despatch , that the Austrian Cabinet has resoked to accede to the treaty of Munich ( which centralised Germany by means of a league between Austria and the four lesser German kingdoms . ) and that the said resolution of the Cabinet had obtained tbe sanction of His Maj-sty tiie Emperor . The German journals abound with the most contradictory rumours respecting the probabilities of a renewal of hostilities in the Duchies . So much is certain , that both parties are preparing for the

      worst . It is reported that a Congress of German Sovereigns will be held in April atDresden , toholdcounsel on German matters . The Emperor of Austria , and the Kings of Bavaria , Hanover , and Saxony will be present . BAVARIA . —A letter from Landau , of the 9 th inst ., in the Deutsche Zaitung , ' announces the condemnation by court-martial and execution of Count Fugger , an officer ofr the Bavarian artillery , who , it is stated , p layed a conspicuous part in the late insurrection in the Bavarian Palatinate .

      ITALY . ROME , March 10 . —Politically speaking , Rome ia now the city of the dead . The Cardinal Triumvirate have arrested every individual against whom the pretext for an accusation could be found , and as the prisons are all full , that crying abuse of their prerogative is at an end . We had a hope , founded on tolerably good information from Portici , that the Pope would return for the ceremonies of the Holy Week , but that is put an end to by letters now received , giving an account of tbe Consistory last held , in which all tbe Cardinals voted unanimously that tbe Sacred Pontiff must postpone his

      appearance until after Easter . What that vote means , beyond the fact that Pio Nono will not be seen in St . Peter ' s during the great festival of the year , it is impossible for me to say , and whether ' after Easter ' means the Sunday following or Christmas next , you can discover as well as the wisest man in Rome . If tbe Pope continues to remain away , he gives a practical proof that bis presence is not wanted in the Eternal City ; and if the Cardinals , for their own purposes , restrain the personal good intentions of his Holiness , people will at last say that they also can be dispensed with . In fact , everything connected with the temporal authority of the Papacy shows that a crisis is at hand .

      Gansral Gordova . Commander-in-chief of the Spanish troops , embarked at Civita Vecchia , for Barcelona , a few days ago . No more Spaniards now remain in tbe Roman states . The French army is now reduced to 13 , 000 men —that is , 9 . 000 at Rome , 1 000 in the district of Albano and Frascafi , 2 , 000 in the district of Viterbe , and 1 , 000 at Civita Vechia . The greatest discipline exists in tbe army , hut the Romans still continue their' sullen demeanour' towards it . They have no personal dislike either to the officers or

      soldiers . Questions have frequently been put to them , as to why they show such abhorrence , and the universal answer is , 'We have no personal dislike to the French as individuals ; their good-nature , and the gentlemanly bearing of the officers , merit all our sympathy ; but they have slaughtered our brothers and friends , to re-establish a clerical and absolute government ; they have disarmed ua , laid us prostrate , and by their physical power , expose us and onr families to an army of ahirri , with our hands handcuffed ; and these siirri dare not treat us thus , if they had mt French bayonets to ' support them . '

      TUSCANY . —The 'Nazionale' of Florence of the 11 th inst . states that the Tuscan Cabinet had demanded the mediation of Russia for the adjustment of tbe claim made by Lord Palmerston in favour of the British subjects who had suffered in their property during the popular disturbances at Leghorn .

      HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA . Pesth . —Lad ' wlaus Baron Bemer , Catholic bishop of Grosswardien , for taking part in the illegal diet held at Dsbreczin on the 14 th of April last year ; for complicity in its address to the agitator Kessuth ; for ordering processions with crosses on account of the Russian intervention ; and , for emitting circulars to the -priests in his diocese prescribing the revolutionary minister Horvath ' s form of prayer ; was condemned , after deprivation of the temporalities of his see and confiscation of his private property , to be banged . Marshal Havnau confirmed the legality of the sentencp , but from motives of humanity commuted it to twenty years ' fortress imprisonment in irons .

      Ludwig Hauk , of Vienna , formerly lieutenant in the Austrian service , for taking part with Bera , was condemned on the 31 st alt . to be hung . By order of Marshal Haynau , the sentence was immediately carried into execution . At the same time , twelve others were sentenced to death , and six to imprisonment for various periods . Tbe capital sentences were in all these cases commuted for imprisonment : five of the condemned bad their sentences entirely revoked . At Vienna , on the anniversary of the March revolution , considerable crowds having assembled at the

      cemetery outside tbe city lines to visit the graves of those who fell two years ago ; a battalion of grenadiers has been marched out to prevent any disorder-There is not , however , the least probability of any disturbance . The Polytechnic students having begged for a holyday , the director of tbe institution ' applied to Baron Welden for his counsel . The reply was , that notice should be g iven that if any student , excepting such as sent in a p hysician ' s certificate of illnea ? , was absent when the list was called over , his name should be struck off the books of the Polytechnic Institution . GREECE . Intelligence has at length arrived of the blockade

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      ° f ¦ theYiraus having ceased , and of the disappear-¦ ne » of all coercive measures except the retention of 'Some fifty small vessels , as security for the payment ofeuc h debts as the French government may award ^ bejustly due . ^ ^ ¦ ? ; Letters from the frontiers of Bosnia in the « Oe 3 terreichi 5 Che Correspondent , ' state that the small fortress of Bihacz has been conquered by the Bosnian insurgents . ; The garrison of . ' 150 Arnouts cap itulated , and was-allowed to withdraw to Banjalka . The great body of tbe insurgents was , Von the 8 th inar ., preparing to march from Todoro to Bihacz and Banjalka . / -

      UNITED STATES AND CALIFORNIA . No important business has fis yet been accomplished in Congress , the attention of both houses having been principally occupied with general discussions on the Slavery question , and its relation to the new territories which Beek for admission to the United States . : . - The health of Mr . Calhoiin still continues very precarious , and it can hardly be expected that he will be able to resume bis place in the Senate

      another session . He has been confined to the house for several weeks with an aggravated malady ; but this has not disabled him from intellectual exertion ; his mind is keenly alive to the engrossing question of the day ; and as tbe prominent ¦ champion of Southern views , he has cherished an intense desire to sustain them in the Senate , by an elaborate speech , although at the risk of bis life . _ ^ He is disappointed in this hops , his health absolutely forbidding the attempt .

      In the Senate , Mr . Clay ' s compromise resolutions have been again discussed . Mr . Clemens , of Alabama , took strong ground against them . , His speech was peppery and partisan , but afforded no new ar * gument . He was followed on the other side by Mr . Miller , of New Jersey ,. who made a sensible and manly address , and took moderate but decided ground in favour of the admission of California . In the house , during the same period , there have been at least a dozen speeches , but the lion of the week was the speech against slavery by Mr . Stevens , of Pennsylvania , a very able and prominent iran . He

      exhibited the utter absurdity of southern members , in comparing the prosperity of the slave-holding states with that of the free . ' Slavery , ' he said , ' is an evil in war as well as in peace . The country re ^ cognising it is , in a strict technical sense , a despotism . The slave is stripped of every right , and is the subject of despotic sway . The slaves of Athens were kings in comparisoni No northern man could be base or cowardly enough to allow slavery to spread over one rood of ground without being a traitor to liberty and a recreant , to God ! ' This speech produced a great sensation .. :

      Philadelphia , Mauch 5 . —The excitement in both Houses of Congress , during several days of last week , exceeded anything of the kind that can be remembered for many years past . The many hard sayings , and evan threats , of the southern members , however , are hardly worth dwelling on at any length , as in all justice they should not be regarded as other than the mere bluster and ebullition of , the moment , Both Mr . Clemens and Mr . Foote , in the Senate , took upon themselves to declare , that unles 9 a compromise were speedily agreed upon , nothing could save the union . In New York , in the midst of this congressional / uror , an iramense ^ ro-union meeting was held at Castle Garden , nearly 20 , 000 people

      being present , and similar meetings were also held in this and other cities . These expressions of popular feeling certainly produced an effect upon Con * gress , especially upon the north . Thirty-four members of the house ( southern ) were said to be banded together to embarrass and prevent any legislation until the slavery question be settled ; and several Washington letter-writers have declared that in the event of Mr . Doty ' s resolution , ' to prepare a bill to admit California as she is' ( without slavery ) , why , that they ( the southern members ) would immediately secede—nay , some of the writers actually stated that tbe Southern members of the house , or many of them , would even use arms

      But this to any rational man must appear absolutely laughable ; and I merely mention the rumours by way of showing how far ultraism will go , when 27 t extremis . In this condition of things , ' compromise appears to be the only remedy . Besides tbe compromise resolutions of Mr . Clay , Mr . Dickinson , of New York , intends to bring forward a plan ; but in the meantime Mr . Foote , of Miasippi , has moved that a committee of thirteen be appointed to take the whole subject of slavery , the admission of California , &c , into consideration , and to devise such a plan of general compromise as shall finally settle the entire matter . Mr . Davis , the colleague of Mr . Foote , agrees with this view ; also Mr . Barter , both of whom spoke in favour of the

      motion . Before the meeting of Congress yesterday morning , and after a recess of three days , it had been arranged in the Senate that Mr . Calhoun ' s speech on the slavery and Caiifornian questions , should be read by a brother senator , should that distinguished statesman continue so ill as not to be able to attend in his place . Accordingly , Mr . Calhoun made his appearance in the Senate yesterday , stated his inability to a ^ drefs the Senate in person , and placed his speech in the

      hands of Mr . Mason , of Virginia , who read it in the Senate for him . Is is a very able effort , enters into a full exposition of the rights of the South as guaranteed by the constitution , enforces those rights with much ingenuity , and intimates that all the violations of the constitution come from the North . He is for the Union ' under the constitution , ' but only—and this he urges earnestly and -eloquently , ¦ . bat the rights of the South be fully guaranteed ; to refuse the South her rights would peril the union , and probably lead to a dissolution .

      Mr . Calhoun in his address contended that ' the power of legislation for the territories resides in Congress , and that the people of California , in forming a government for themselves , usurped the power of Congress , and that their conduct in this respect was releilious and revolutionary ! ' A startling doctrine this . In the house yesterday the debate was continued with great warmtk . Mr . Van Dyke said that the North ' bad been called pickpockets , cut-throats , robbers , oppressors , aggressors , and enemies of their Southern neighbours . ' All this he repelled , and was remarkably severe upon the South . Mr . Hall is to speak to-day in the house , and Mr . Hale in reply to what he called Mr . Calhoun ' s romance of history in the Senaie . '

      In the house Mr . Doty formally withdrew his resolution , and substituted a bill for the admission of California , as already noticed . TUs debate on this bill will last for some weeks . The storm has , for the present , gone by , but the slavery question , it cannot be concealed , is as far from a settlement as ever . Mr . Sackett , of New York , commenced a de . bate on the admission of California against slavery , for he contended that the 'design of the framers of the constitution Was to limit , circumscribe , and finally to overthrow slavery . ' Other members followed in the debate , which will be long continued .

      M . Cabet , the founder of the Icarian Community at Nauvoo , has resigned the pleuary authority entrusted to him by the contract of the Colonists , and substituted in its place a Regency of six members "to be elected annually . A modification in the Constitution is proposed , bringing it into accordance with the Democratic Institutions of this country . The election under the new arrangement took place Feb . 3 rd , when M . Cabet was elected President of the Regency and of the Community . Ah address has been issued by the Hungarian refugees in New York to the American People , signed by Wimraer , Danburghy , Pragay , and other conspicuous Hungarian patriots , bespeaking a hospitable reception in this Free Republic for those who seek to rest frqm the labours of battle , while awaiting the day , reserved by Providence for the restoration of their country .

      A number of Hungarian refugees , including several distinguished officers of the army , thirty five in all , arrived in New York on the 24 th tilt ., ' after a passage of sixty-four days in tbe Mountstuart Elphinstone from Glasgow . , This increases the whole number at present in New York to sixty-six . The meeting between those who bad just arrived and their old companions in arms who were here tn welcome them presented a scene of the deepest interest . , , The second anniversary of the French Revolution of February was celebrated by a public banquet ol

      French Democratic Republicans , residing in New York , at which Gov . Ujhazy , Col . Pragay , and M'lle . Jagello were present as invited guests . Thf same event was celebrated by tho Socialist Republicans of all nations , more than five hundred persons assisting at the banquet , including many well-known refugees of oppression , from Ital y , Germany , Swiizerland and France . The sentiments and speeches at both these celebrations were inspired with the loftiest principles of Liberty , as well as characterised by remarkable ability . The friends of Land Reform , vho advocate th

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      distribution of the public domain among , actual settlers without charge , have held a meeting . a t Tammany Hall , in response to the measures ; pro . ; posed by-Messrs . WebBter , Walker , Cass , Houston , and other members of the United states Senate . Their princip les are making rapid progress among all classes of citizens ; thay g ' ain newstrength every ( Jay Their ultimate triumph is certain , and that probably at no distant day . A blow will thus be Struck at the general system of land . monopoly ; the freedom of the soil to all who can . cultivate ; it will be pr omoted ; and a guarantee secured of homes for tbe homeless which cannot fail to open a new social era in modern civilisation . Those tremendous : scourges—fire and waterhave recently proved very destructive in California-Bv the last arrival we were informed of the'burning - ' - the nublic domain allilOn » ¦« Ct « B

      of one-half of the city of San Francisco . And-now we have , by the arrival of tbe Alabama at New Orleans , news from San , Francisco fourteen days later , ti January 15 th-the princip al'item of which is , the submergence by a flood of the city of Sacramento . Only one . house , and that ., built on raised poles , was above the water , which was three or four feet deep . Immense herds of-cattle have been drowned-Hhe inundalion extending over the entire valley of Sacramento , " and varying from tweiitto fifty miles in bread th . from the Sierra

      y Nevado to the coast range of mountains . ^ Much miserv , starvation , sickness , and derth must be thf . natural resu'ts of this great overflow . The loss of property , at Sacramento city ; is estimated at 1 000 000 dols . The . sufferings / of ¦ the inhabitants there are described as dreadful . But one writer Consoles himself , by stating that this great fluod , while it destroys much property , ' will waab out the gold in immense quantities . ' brouaht five and

      The Alabama sixty- passengers , has 500 , 000 dol . worth of gold dust on frei ght Her mails will not reach in time for the English steamer , air our news from her being per telegraph from New Orleans . At Stockton the Americans at the mines had been attacked b y larjje bands of Chilians . Severn ! were killed on both sides , ' arid a number of Americans , who had been taken prisoners , were afterwards released . The excitement at San Francisco even was-great on this subject , and all the accounts say that the Chilians will be attacked in their . turn , and ; expelled from the country . Such a course would probably lead also to the expulsion Of Other foreign ( Spanish race ) gold tliguera . . ¦ ' ... ; . ¦ ¦

      Many of the emigrants to California have been sorely disappointed ; their prospects and hopes are blig hted , their health ruined , and . compelled to stay here , hopelessly dragging out the miserable remnant of their lives . You can ' scarcely imagine what suffering has been endured by a great many of the miners . Some have come ' out of the mountains mere skeletons , but . to . leave their bones in Stockton , Sacramento , or San Francisco . Some have come down with crazed' minds , some commit suicide , some kill themselves by drinking rum , some by gambling , some are shot and butchered in personal encounter , while many lie down and die in canons on the mountains , their frail bodiesjworn out by exhaustion and exposure . '

      There are many dangers to be encountered in going to the land of promise , and particularly round the Hum . Captain . Brown , of the schooner John Allejne , was taken prisoner near the Straits of Magellan by the Patagonians . He says , that he was a close prisoner for ninety-seven days , when he jumped into the water , ' and succeeded in swimming to an English boat . He afterwards went on board of a whaler , and finally reached the schooner Hopewell , from Boston , bound to San Francisco . Another letter is signed hy Captain Bourne , who gives an account of the murder of Captain Eaton , while trading with the Patagonians . Two men , named Sims and Douglas , were taken prisoners at the same time .

      Immense quantities of gold have been found by the Mexicans near Sonora , and it is thought that many of the United States emigrants will _ bend their steps in that direction . But in the " overland expeditions there is much danger , and we have just , received the account of another massacre of Americans between El Paso and tbe R « o Gila . Mr . J . Stickney , of Boston , arrived at his home a few days ago from San Francisco , with a large fortune ; and almost immediately committed suicide . The excitement of adventure aud prosperity had tumbled reason from her throne ..

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      POISONS AS MEDICINE . Memorial f .-f the Names of the 19 , 950 petitioners , to the House of Commons , against the Deadly Poisons , used as Medicine by the Doctors . London : British College of Health , Hamilton-place New-road . \ ' How many thousands of lives are there , mj- father would say , 'that come every year to be cast away ( in all civilised countries ht least , ) and considered as nothing but common air , in completion of an hypothesis ? ' ' In my plain sense of things , ' my uncle Toby would answer , ' every sMh instance is MURDER DOWNRIGHT , let who will commit it . ' ' There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , 'for , in tho Court of Science there is no such thinff as J / itrder , 'tis only Death , brother , "—Tristram Slutndy . The medical hypothesis , uncle Toby , in 'his plain sense of things , ' here anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , tlint 'Medicine is poison , and poison is medicine . This mercenary , heartless , ruthfnl hypothesis , by which ' human life is cast nway as nothing but common air , 'is as savage in spirit as it was barbarous in origin ;

      and it is , at this very da . y earned into deadliest practice , by the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemenco that ran be excited by insatiable cupidity ,. and by a most ravenous appetite for gain and guineas . But the hellish hypothesis , that' Meditinc and l ' oison are identical' must fee maintained and supported against all ' competition '—it must be carried into a wide-spread , fatal practice , although it may sweep and dissolute the earth as with tbe besom of destruction ! ' And why ? Because upon its maintenance and support , and practical application , depend the very existence of a highly respectable and profoundly scientific fraternity—an odious and abominable fraternity , whose consciences are educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of 'The Court of Science '—a court which is ruled solely by afavouredandfatal hypothesis that brooks no ' competition' and no ( lemur—a court in which ' there is sucli thing as murder— 'tis only DEATH , hrotbnr !!!'

      John Hunter said of poisons , that' they talte their place in the body , as if that place were allotted for them . ' Yes , 'horrid' mercury takes its allotted place in the glands , and in the bones—in the glands it excites scrophu ' . ous tumour ? , and the teetli it quickly reduces to caries . Trusic acid takes its allotted place in the heart , and there radically cures all palpitation by effectually stopping all pulsation . Alcohol takes its allotted place in the braiu , and by its action upon that organ induces mania , and all' the ills that flesh is heir to . Strychuino , and brueiue takes their allotted places in the muscles , in which tissues tliey frequently produce speedy and fatal spasms . The late Mistress Marie Manning had something more than a faint and glimmering insight into this Hunterian principle—yea , with high professional skill she carried it into full practical effect . She knew that , by a particular mode of administration , a bullet would find its allotted place in the brains of her fond admirer , Patrick O'Connor ; but , in the eyes of the

      professional , the skilful doetress degraded the science , bj uiiprofcssinnally blending , with her practice , the functions ofa grave digger . By tbe way , it would act as a very wholesome check upon tbu poisoning hypothesis , if the Legislature could compel the doctor — despite his professional sciuples and repugnance — to excavate the graves of his victims . Soyer does not possess more skill in catering fbi > thesqueamislinessofa fastidious appetite , than the doctors do in allotting poisons for the specific destruction of any particular organ in tbe human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons , a very learned medical Soyer , who has appended to his name tlic cabalistic letters , ' M D . ( query , Aaglke , ' Murderer Downright ? ' ) In this medical cookery book there is a receipt for poisoning , so definite and obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes , and charmed the heart , and feasted , even to surfeit , ' the imagination and longings of a Marchioness of Brinvilliers . See how the medical lecturer instructs his

      pupils to ring the changes on medical poisons : ' What I have confidence in recommending you to do on every simi . lar occasion is this —having obtained all the benefit which arsenic ( . ' ) . orany other remedy has the power to do in any case , change such remedy for some other constitutional power and change and change until you find improvement (!) to bo the result . e " * * In all such cases , then , you must change , combine , and modify your medicines and measures in a thousand ways , (' agrand ne-il of poisons , verily , ' ) to produce a sustained result . Arsenic (!) gold (!!) iron (!!!) mercury (!!!!) creosote ( M !!!) iodine (!!!!!!) opium (!!!!!!!) prussic acid (!!!!! H !) &g . (!!!!!!!!!) ( query —does this « &c ., ' here mean ' the virus of hydrophobia , and tho virus of the plague ?) iwiy be all advantageously employed , both as internal remedies and as local applications (!!! ' ) The sixth edition , ' stereotype , ' of the Medical Lectures from which the preceding extract is made , appeared in

      1845 It was in the year 1823 , that James Morison , the Hvceist , first raised his voice against the savage and . murderous application of poisons as medicines ; so that , great as has been the progress of Morisonian Hygeian principles imon"st the public tit largo , it would appear that at present they have had little influence in this respect at least—upon , medical theory and medical practice . But the public , 'in their plain sense off things , ' are daily becoming more and more alive to the jeopardy in which they are continually placed , tfii'QUgh the deadly chemicals with which the doctors essay to prop their failing trade . It appears by thcbuok , ' vtiiich has elicited these remarks on ' Poisons . in Medicine ; ' that in 1847 , 19 , 150 signatures were appended to a petition presented by Sir B ; Hall to the House of Commrns against Pharmaceutical Poisons , Considering that tlics ; signatures were made almost exclusively in Glasgow ,

      Kdinhurgh , and . in isolated parts of Devon , and a few other counties ; and considering that the public generally have since had the moat horrifiiug evidence of the baneful effects of medical poisons in Asiatic Cholera , we have a confident belief , that if due time and proper facilities were now given , in every city , town , village , and hamlet in the kingdom , for . a similar expression of public opinion , it would be found that tbe number of signatures would swell from some ' twenty thousand to several round millions . Still we consider that this book isa very appropriate and graceful' Memobul' to the 19 , 950 independent petitioners who did ! riot delay their signatures until this movement had become general and popnlar , and who maybe . regarded as fie pioneers in the humane and holy warfare against mei al poi »> ning . Had the House of Commons , in coml iince with the prayer of that petition , appointed a commission in 1817 ; and had chemical poisons been at once discarded from medical practice ; how goodjy Ajj ^' rjch-a

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      ¦ soil might have since been saVed ' -from thegrasp ' of ' . ' the ikiag of terrors , ' and from the ; graves of . the' rnurderedihdW many useful and vatuable fires might- stiU have been [ preserved to the cdmmunityi-how many fo'ridiand torecious relatives might stffihave cheered and gladdened thbinowidesolatehearthr :: m ! - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' <'¦< ¦ ¦ - ' :: . < -- " . f . ^_^ hthaTe ¦ h ^ ce _ been 8 a 1 « d ; Wm ? therms ^^ tte

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      ; Another New ^ Printino MACHiNE . ^ A ' nother exhibition has just taken place in-Paris , with the Hew Rotary Press which is worked by cylindrical motion , " and by a stereo type obtained from several sheets of paper madein ' a pulp , wliich gives more depth than is usually ^ obtained from Pl aster of Paris , and the printing is so perfect that even maps are roproducod . " from thesd ' . cylindrical stereotypes with the minutest accuracy . The invention is of a Mr . Worms , for many years a . printer in Paris ; it is patented in England and all over the Continent , and the exhibition took pl « c . e * ln the "largo " factory of Mr . Costes , in Paris , in the presence of magistrates and other authorities , and nmongBt them the directors of the society for tho encouragement of arts and

      sciences ; there were also , present : several of tiie principal printers , with the proprietor and printer of Oalignani ' s Messenger . All testified their satisfaction and admiration on what they saw ; the stereotype cylinder was got up in exactly fifteen minutes , and the printing on both sides quite perfect ; the speed was 15 , 000 copies per hour , which can be augmented by corresponding steam power . The rapidity ia owing to the printing on endless paper , not wetted , put on- rollers . Each copy is cut off with mechanical precision . The puper which was printed at this meeting-was the journal La Presse , but the same number of copies of tho largest English journal can bo produced by increasing the size of the rollers . The questions put by practical printers as regards the working of the machine and possible accidents , wore all fully solved satisfactorily , and it was generally admitted by all parties

      that the whole was superior to anything in existence , and that the simplicity of the process , together with the ' considerable economy , must form a new era and a complete revolution in printing in general ; such was the expression of Mr .: Lenormand and Messrs . jPirmin Didot , of European celebrity ; as besides the rapidity the economy m types is very considerable , it is only used on the pulp for the forming of the stereotype , and hot worked afterward ^ which Is the case on all machines in use at present ; where as the new machine occupies small space , is simple in its construction , and of greater production than the American machine , or the one of the Times ; the cost price is considerably less than those already mentioned . The journal La Presse has given the first order , and is so well satisfied as to have ordered a sufficient number for the entire adoption in their establishment , five men , of which two adults will do the same work as fifteen men did formerly .

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . March 23 , 1850 . —^— ' — ' ' ' —*""— gg === ! = ¦ ] ^ ¦ HEALTH WiffiRE ^ TTS ' snirkw-ri : . ' ¦ ¦ HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! -

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 23, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1566/page/2/