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      FRANCE . CONSPIRACY AGAINST UNIVKB 3 AI . SUCTRAGR . Two propositions haw been presented to the Na . tioMl Assembly for modifications in Ihe electoral law . M . de l'Espinasse demands that no one shall be an elector unless he bas resided for two years in the commune in which he wishes to exercise that right ; that no one shall be declared representative , unless he has obtained the absolute majority of the votes given . He proposes , also , _ to inflict penalties on such electors who , without some legitimate excuse ,, shall refrain from voting . According to his system , the military electors would vote for the department in which they are born , and their votes be sent sealed up to the chef-lieux of the departments , and thrown into the urn and mixed with the other

      builetiRs . M . Bonrboosson proposes that vacancies in the Assembly shall not be filled up nntil the number of members shall have been reduced to 700 , except in cases where the representation of a department may have been reduced to one-half of its members . The Prefect of Police causes the existing laws as to ' vagabonds , ' persons without domicile , and foreigners , to be executed with great rigoar . The Gazette de France' of Wednesday says : — * The police last ninht visited several of the low lodging-houses of Paris , and arrested a number of individuals against whom information had been lodged with the authorities . '

      The Conspirators in Conclave . —An important meeting was he ' d on Wednesday evening at the P «! sce of the Council of State . About 230 reprefentatives of the majority were present . Amongst ins principal members who addressed the meeting ¦ wer e MM . Thiers , Berryer , and Piscatory . M . Thiers Bpoke in the name of a considerable portion of the majority , and declared that he and his political friends were firmly resolved to concur in the adoption of all measures necessary for the salvation of the cotmtry . He was , however , anxious to peertain , in a dist ' net and definitive manner , the intentions of the Right , and requested to be informed , categorically , whether the Legitimist representatives meant to support energetic measures intended for the public security .

      M . Berryer , in the name of the party to which he belonged , declared that the members of the Bight were unwilling to pledge themselves to the futurt , and would not lend their co-operation to the foundation of any establishment contrary to the interests of ibe party they represented . M . Piscatory censured very severely the amendsient presented by a dczen members of the Right , the object of which is to deprive the project ef law on transportation of its immediate and more necessary efficiency . The meeting soon after broke up . M . Thiers departing very sad ! ! !

      As the President of the Republic was proceeding to Versailles on Friday , to review the troops , one of the horses of his carriage fell in the Champs E ' yseei . A number oi idle fellows bard by began to sing to the air of * Des Lampions , ' ( alluding to the Republiqne Sociale et Democratique , ' ) 'Nous l ' anrons nous l ' aurons ! ' The horse being raised the Prince continued his journey . —Times . The * Franc-Parhur de la Meuse' states that three non-commissioned officers of the 29 th Regiment of the Line having been disarmed and sent off to Africa , "thirty of their comrades scaled the barrack walls and followed them , crying , ' Tive la Republique Democratique et Sociale . *

      A letter from Aucb , in the department of the Gers , states that thirty communal schoolmasters bare been dismissed from their situations since the law passed on the 11 th of January . Accounts from Bordeaux of the 8 th instant state that the Prefect of the Gironde bas suspended from the exercise of their functions , for two trontbs , a captain and a lieutenant of the National Guards of the commnne of Pecjard .

      Saturdat . — T" > e government has prohibited electoral meetings at the Salon de Mars , Montmartre , Salon du Font , and Chatillon . These meetings have been forbidden in virtue of the law of the 19 th of Jane , 1849 , relative to clubs and other public reunions . The motive assigned for the interdiction is , that * seditious speeches' have been delivered of a nature to excite the citizens to hatred of each other , and the rioting which took place at Chatillon in the beginning of the month of March last .

      In addition to tha above three more electoral clubs have been closed by order of the Minister of the Interior—that of . La Chapelle , including the Communes of Autvervillicrs and La Cour Neuve , and those of Boulogne and Montrouge , in consequence of 'seditious speeches' having been delivered there . M . Buvignier , the ex-member of the Constituent Assembly , who was returned en the election of the 10 th nit to the Legislative Assembly for the Saoneet-Loire , but who had hi 3 election invalidated , and the other defendants in the affair of the Solidarite

      Republicaine , were yesterday found guilty by the jary . MM . Buvigcier and Hizzy , the only two de . feudants who appeared in person , were sentencedtue former to one year ' s imprisonment and five years'interdiction of civil rights ; the latter to six months' imprisonment and interdiction of civil rights . The other defendants were condemned by default to two years' ioprisonmeut . In consequence of this verdict M . Buvignier cannot take bis seat in the National Assembly , if he shorid be returned for the Saone-et-Loire at the election of the 28 th inst .

      Militart Demonstration . —The government lias received accounts from Angers , which show that a revolutionary spirit exists in the army to a greater extent than has hitherto been imagined . A battalion of infantry , in passing through that city , was entertained at a fets by the Democrats . In the evening the soldiers , accompanied by the subaltern officers , paraded the streets of Angers , in company with the leading Democrats , and shouted ' Tive la Republique Democratique et Sociale ! ' The Minister of War has already sent off instructions for the immediate disbanding of the regiment , and the soldiers and subalterns are to be drafted into the regiments in Algiers .

      Frorara Particulars . —The news of the qib « order which took place two days ago in a regiment of infantry at Angers is confirmed to-day . The regiment in question is the 2 nd battalion of the 11 th Light Infantry . In was proceeding from Rennes to Toulon , on its way to Al giers . Before leaving Rennes the regiment was known for its democratic opinion , and when marching out of that town , it was accompanied b y a large body of the democratic party , who set up cries of 'Tivs la Repnblique Democratique et Sociale . ' The 11 th Light infantry was formerly in Paris under the command ef General Damesne , who was killed duriBg the great insurrection of June , 1848 . At tnat time General de Lamoriciere was so dissatisfied with the conduct of the regiment at the attack of the barricades of the Portes St . Denis and St . Martin , that be had it sent out of the capital .

      Incendiarism . —Scarcely a day has passed for ; ihe last fortnig ht or three weeks without bringing accounts from the departments of houses and corn stores being destroyed by fire . These are eo frequent that it is impossible to attribute them to anything else than the acts of incendiaries . Yesterday we had account of three such cases , in one of which not less than forty-five houses in a provincial town became the prey of the flames . This day we have an account of three more—one of them at Ronvres , nearDijoo , where , from the fact of a quantity of

      lucifer matches having been found in clearing out the ruins , it is evident that it was not through accident . - Another occurred in the arrondissement of Rennes , where seventeen houses were barnt to the ground ; and a third at Noisy-le-Sec , where a vast quantity of straw , bay , wheat , and barley was utterly consnmed . These fires are remarked to be the most frequent in the neighbourhood of Paris , and to occur particularly in houses where corn and hay are stored . It is believed that measures of an extremely coercive kind will be found necessary to putastoptotheevi ! .--2 W . ' .

      The Prefect of the Sarthe has dissolved the National Guard of St . Calais . Sunday . —The closing of Ibe electoral meetings was yesterday brought before the Assembly by M . Baune in the shape of interpellations ; and M . Baroche , the present Minister of the Interior , abowed judgment in declaring that he was ready at once to answer any questions which might be put , and to defend a measure for which he was willing to be responsible .

      M . Baune , in his short and very moderate speech , stated that the Paris electors , in the lawful exercise of their riglus , had , within the last few days , held meetings preparatory to the election . In these meetings the respect due to the law had not been violated in any one instance , and still the ministry tad thought proper to prohibit the exercise of the sacred right of meeting . He declared that such an act w * s an attack on universal suffrage , and a defiance to the dectora of P «« , who , by retumineMM . Cunot , YM , i&l De Hotte ^ a the iOth ef March ,

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      bad intended to give a lesson to the . government . He concluded by asking the reasons ' which had induced the Minister of the / Interior to interdict electoral meetings in five different districts ? : ; M . Barqchev after a short ¦ ' exprdiumi in which he stated that the attacks recently matfe upon him as an old clubbist were for the >¦ purpose ef throwing odium oa the government , approached the question before the Assembly . He founded his rig ht to suppress electoral meetings on the low of the 19 th of June , which gave power to the government to interdict clubs and otherpublic nMrfftprwhich might be of a nature to compromise the public safety , lie contended that the election meetings which had

      recently taken place were , in fact , dubs ; at which scandalous scenes had been enacted ; and he produced reports of the pob ' ce agen ts appointed to attend these meetings in supp ort of that position . Fromthe reports . it appeared that at these meetines not only electors , but strangers , and even women and children , were admitted , and that political questions were discussed which had nothing to do with the choice of candidates . By the system followed at these meetings , the election was doubled , for there was first the election of delegates , and

      those delegates had the selection of candidates . This he considered contrary to the constitution , which laid down that the election ought to be direct . He admitted that something of the kind was also done by the electoral union , but it was in a different way . At the meeting at Montmartre the President and another member appeared in red neckcloths and scarfs , and one of the speakers declared that there was no God but the sun . At the meeting ef the eighth arrondissement a celebrated sculptor had come forward as a candidate for being delegate , but the honour was refused to him because he was a

      proprietor ; in the eleventh arrondissement a candidate boasted of his having hunted gendarmes in 1830 , municipal guards in 1848 , and that he was the first to put up the red flag at the Hotel de Ville . In another meeting the Abbe Cha' . el said , ' Material prosperity and good fare is the real knot of the question . ' Let us in the first instance give full and entire satisfaction to the organs of the body . ' At another meeting one of the speakers spoke of the

      prisoners at Doulens ( Barbes , &c . ) as martyrs . At the same meeting a speaker complained that some people had 30 , 000 f . a year , while others had nothing and said that as before 1780 nobles had serfs and slaves , so at the present day the rich had serfs and slaves of a refined character . These were the only grounds adduced by M . Baroche for depriving the people of Paris of the right of holding election meetings , but in bis opinion they were so strong as to be a complete justification .

      M . Jules Favre replied to the speech of M . Baroche in a speech so clever , and so full of matter , that it would have made a deep impression on any body of legislators not determined to support the minister , whether the reasons given for his measures were good or bad . With respect to the right of the ministry to close the electoral meetings , he merely asked the question , ' If you have a right to apply the law of the 19 th June , 1849 , respecting clubs , to election meetings , why have you brought forward a

      bill which will confer on you the right which you are now using ? ' As regarded the facts alleged , he doubted if commissaries of police were the best or most impartial reporters of speeches ; and , as a proof of that fact , he stated that the sculptor who , it was said , had been rejected because he was a proprietor , was in fact rejected because he bad accepted from the government an atelier and other favours , when he was sufficiently rich to have one of his own . He was astonished that M . Baroche could have laid such

      stress upon the fact of a red neckcloth being worn by an elector , while one of his own most staunch supporters figured off at that moment in a magnificent scarlet waistcoat . This sally produced roars of laughter at the expense of M . Cunin Gridaine , who was sitting in his place at that moment in a magnificent flame-coloured vest , little expecting that it was to become the subject of such general attention . M . Jules Favre finished bis speech by pointing out ths want of confidence which the rulers of France show that they have in the cause of liberty , and rem i nded the house that those who had formerly been the flatterers of the people had now become their persecutors .

      M . Baroche then rose to reply . He admitted that he had formerly been vice-president of a club , but it was a dub of honndes gens , and he denied that , in accepting office , he had become a persecutor of the people . Several members then expressed a wish to address the Assembly , but M . Dupin declared the debate closed , and the order of the day was carried at once by a large majority , notwithstanding the protest of the Montagnards . The Socialist Candidate . —Last night the delegates of the Democratic and Socialist committee met at midnight , in conclave , to select a candidate on the Democratic interest for the Paris election of

      the 28 th of April . This meeting created considerable interest , from the fact that orders bad been issued on the previous evening for the closing of several additional election meetings , and it was supposed that similar steps would be taken to prevent the delegates from meeting . Tbe meeting took place in a large hall in the Rue de Chanme , Fail , bourg St . Antoine . Several members of the Extreme Left attended the meeting as delegates for their arrondissements , and among others MM . Cremieux ( formerly member of the Provisional Government , ) Vidal , De Flotte , &c . The Barnes of thirty candidates were brought forward , but those who appeared to have most chance were M . Emile

      de Girardin and M . Dupont ( de l'Eure , ) the latter of whom bas g iven rise to so much dispute within the last few days between the columns of the ' Presse' and' Yoix du Peuple / The thirty nameB were in the first instance reduced to sixteen ; those who had not the votes of a fourth part of the delegates present being at once struck out of the list . Among tbe names retained after the first ballot were —M . D'Alton Shee ^ M . Cabet , the lcarian , M . Dupont ( de l'Eure , ) M . Emile de Girardin , and Jean Daniel , a soldier of the 23 rd regiment of Infantry . The fact of this soldier being brought forward was not known till yesterday . The name of

      this latter candidate , until now , was perfectly unknown . Corn in Lower Brittany , of unknown parents , he ha 3 never known either his father or his mother . His childhood was spent in the humble employment of a shepherd , fie . afterwards made what is called the tonr of France , in order to perfect himself in the trade of a shoemaker , which he had embraced . At the age of twenty the conscription took him , and he has exercised since that epocb . during a period of four years , the functions of shoemaker in his regiment . His candidature was sup " ported with extreme warmth by the workmen-delegates ; so much so , - that he almost carried away the majority of the suffrages .

      All of a sudden a name was brought forward , of whom no one had spoken before . It was that of Eugene Sue , the celebrated author of the' Mysieres de Paris , ' the' Juif Errant , &c ., &c . On bis name being brought forward there was an immense sensation in the Assembly . Loud cries arose on all sides of ' Vive Eugene Sue ! ' ' Vive la Republique democratique ! ' and the excitement became so great tha t the sitting was for sometime suspended . At length a vote was called for , and the following was the remit : —

      Uumber of voters .... .... ' . 227 Absolute majority 114 For Eugene Sue . 143 Jean Daniel 80 M . Villegarde 2 Audry de Puyravan 2 M . Eugene Sue was consequently proclaimed candidate for Paris . Tbe proceedings did not terminate till half-past one o'clock this afternoon . Just as the proceedings terminated , it was announced tbat the hall of the Rue de Cbaume , in which the meeting had taken place , had been closed , like other places of meeting , by order of the authorities . A protest against this act of the Government was immediately drawn up , and the meeting separated in a state of great excitement .

      Monday . —The ordermongers fearing the defeat of their candidate , Foy , have withdrawn him and brought forward a new man , named Leclerc . M . Leclerc » a shopkeeper in the second arrondissement of PariB , and an old decore of July . At the period of the great insurrection of June , 1848 , he had a son shot by his side , while charging a barricade . He immediately went home , and brought out his second son to replace the one that had jnst been killed , and both father and

      son continued fighting till the insurrection was completely suppressed . The idea of bringing forward M . Leclerc was suggested on Saturdaj by the Legitimist paper , the ' Gazette de France . " It was contended by that paper that , as M . de Flotte had been brought forward by the Democrats at the last election , as the representative of iniurrection , it would be right to bring forward M . Leclerc at the present election , as a protest against that nomination . The idea ' bai been feept up by the lepresenutiTes of tbe CoMttrotiye preii , and will

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      no doubt be adopted by the whole of the Conservative party . fei ) . fe Tite 8 dat , 11 a . m . —The event of , chief ; imp « rf tance in the Assembly ' s Bitting ^ 6 f ^|^ esterday ^ was the vote by which : 300 , 000 francs were at one fell swoop cut off from ; the succours afforded ¦ 'to the condamnes . polUiqkei . ThiS will ' -createi immense irritation . The effect of the vote , it appears , will fall upon the fighters of July , 1830 , and February , 1848 . : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ " : '; ' , " M RBTUBN OF THE POPE TO ROME . : , WBDi ( ESDAy . — -The' Moniteur' publishes the following telegraphic despatch : — ? The Minister Plenipotentiary of France to the Minister for Foreign Affairs . / !

      ' The Pope entered Rome on Friday at four o ' clock . He was received with the most enthusiastic acclamations . ' . Some placards of a hi ghly inflammatory nature were fixed up in the Corso , and other conspicuous parts of the city a day or to before the Pope ' s entry . One was an address to the Romans on the coming of the Pope ; another on the same subject dated Naples ; a third , on the preparatives for his return , ridiculing in strong terms the pretended reforms in the administration of government which are stated to be ready for publication ; and a fourth on the affair of M . Gazzola .

      Yesterday in the Legislative Assembl y the close of the sitting was stormy in the extreme . The object of the Mountain was to procure a nominal division on the suppression of the succours to parsons condemned for political offences , a reduction which had been carried on the preceding day . For this purpose M . Schoelcher moved an amendment to restore that aid . This was aet aside b y the house voting the previous question . Hereupon IVirCharras made some fervent remonstrances against the implicit disavowal by the Assembly of the revolution of July and February . This called out M . Dufaure . M . Joty next brought forward an amendment for granting 600 , 000 francs to political prisoners . The previous question was voted by 406 against 211 .

      SWITZERLAND . ; r ... v - . According to the report of the - Swiss Federal Council , the Government of the Republic has ordered 550 members of the German Workmen ' s Union , belonging to sixteen different branches of the society , to quit the Swiss territory , and placed 214 members under the surveillance of the police . The result of the inquiry of the Government into the proceedings of these societies is stated as follows : — 1 . It is fully proved that the German workmen ; in Switzerland , were organizing themselves , and providing the means of carrying out , a revolution intended not merely to subvert the governments of Germany , but to destroy the whole present system of society , 2 . This revolutionary Propaganda , as

      the central society called itself , did not originate in Switzerland , and is not confined to that country . Its centreB are in Germany , France , and England . From these the twin-societies were called into existence , and are but links in the great chain of the Social Democratic Union . In Switzerland these bodies could act much more openly than elsewhere , and their objects were therefore better known ; but the leaders were for the most in foreign countries , and at any decisive moment in Germany only , the German contingent would have been withdrawn from Switzerland . 3 . It is proved that the unions were in close connexion with the fugitives from Baden and the Pfalz , and that the leaders of that insurrection were principally supported and assisted by them .

      ITALY . TURIN , April 19 th . —A signal victory has just been gained here in favour of the liberal cause , not only in Piedmont and in Italy , but also , though in . directly , in Europe . An assembly , composed of elements essentially conservative ( the senate of Turin ) , has nobly broken through the trammels of superstitious illiberality , and has boldly proclaimed , as it bas candidly admitted , the abandonment of an odious system of privileges hitherto in use .

      Tbe senate , in its sitting of yesterday , adopted by a majority of twenty . two votes ( fifty-one against twenty-nine ) the law proposed by ministers , and already voted by the Chamber of Deputies by an immense majority , that of the abolition of exceptional and special tribunals for the clergy , and on the tight of asylum in places of refuge , where the guilty were screened from punishment under cover of an inviolable shelter in certain religious establishments , churches , convents , and the like .

      Yesterday evening , some persons were desirous of making a flattering demonstration of their joy on the occasion , aud in honour of the Minister of Justice , Count Siccardi , who had brought forward the law , but the latter had declared , on a recent occasion , that he would not allow of public order being in any way disturbed , and that all public demonstrations would be prevented , no matter in what sense they might be made ; and in accordance with this resolution , the armed force dispersed immediately the groups from which proceeded any cries , which , however , fortunately , was not attended with any consequences of a deplorable nature . Tbe crowds ' formed on different points dispersed at tbe approach of the troops , and all was over in a short time .

      The Marquis A'Azeglio , the President of the Council of Ministers , thought it his duty to put on his uniform as a colonel of horse , and place himself at the head of a patrol of cavalry , going many rounds through the streets .

      GERMANY . A riot took place at Elberfeld on the 6 th , in consequence of a soldier having , in the execution of his duty , and after repeated warnings , fired upon and wounded a prisoner in the house of arrest , who persisted to disobey orders to retire from a window where he was haranguing a crowd in the street . In consequence of its being reported that the man had been shot dead without provocation , a mob collected , insulted in the grossest manner the two companies of the 16 th Infantry called out on the occasion , and might have proceeded to extremities had not the officers and men behaved with rare firmness and forbearance .

      A curious incident took p lace three or four days ago at Magdeburg , which may serve as a warning to amateur draftsmen , and which , at the same time , affords a very singular proof of the manner in which personal liberty is respected . A sentry on the ramparts , having perceived an individual occupied in sketching , alarmed the guard ; the delinquent was seized , sundry sketches of fortificationsof which every military schoolboy has done a dozen

      plans—were found upon his person ; and what was still more criminal , an Austrian passport . He was carried off prisoner to the citadel , and there de . tained until application was made to Berlin , to know what was to be done with the dangerous spy , who turned out to be a young officer of rank , travelling for bis amusement and instruction . The reply was , that he might be set at liberty , with an admonition to beware how he extended his studies to Prussian bastions and ravelines .

      The efficer arrested at Magdeburg turns out to be his Royal Highness Duke Eugene "Augustus' of Wurtemberg !! twenty-two years of age , ' son of Duke Frederick Eugene , the well-known Russian general . A cousin of the King of ¦ Wurtemberg--son of a Russian general—and an Austrian officer ! who , here is a syllogura sufficient to send the culprit for life to hard labour .

      GREECE . The 'Allgemeine Zeituh g' has letters from Athens ef the 2 d inst . The last French ateamer which arrived in that city from Marseilles brought a letter from M . Tricoupis , the Hellenic Ambassador at Paris . M . Tricoupis informs his government of the arrival of another Russian note , addressed to the Czar ' s Ambassadors in London and Paris , and dated from Petersburgh on the 23 d February , According to this note the Caar ' s government insists on the restoration of the cap . tured vessels before the affairs of England and Greece can be allowed to enter into further consideration . But if the vessels are not restored , adds Count Neaselrode , tbe Czar ' s government will not consent to recognise any of the proposals which Baron Gros may have to make .

      INDIA . We have received , via Trieste , intelligence of the arrival of the Oriental at Suez , on the 3 d inst ., with the Bombay mails of the 16 th of March . The expedition under Sir Colin Campbell against the mountaineers in the neighbourhood of Peshawur had not been attended with the expected results . Tbe expedition had returned to Peshawur . The Hindoo and Mussulman population in Merzapoor had risen against each other under the influence of religious fanaticism , and in the disturbances which followed the city was burnt to the ground . —The rest of India was profoundly tranquil . The sale of English manufactured goods at Bombay had been large at middling prices . Cotton and opium were dull . ,

      This intelligence was accompanied by a postscript from the Austrian Consul in Egypt , which we giro literally , u we rcciiTfld it , with the Kmwk

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      that it , in all probability ^ refers intelligence brought by the last ^ mail from \ Peshawur : — An Eng lish freecorps qfj ! 3 , 000 meitmet with a reverse fremfthe : rebellious ^ mountaine ' eM , in the Koad Paas ^ hea ^ Peshawur ^ in whichtw O Europ « an officers and 150 privates remained on the field , '

      AMERICAN AFFAIRS ; ( From the' New York Tribune' of April 2 nd . ) The proceeding of Congress for the last fortnight present nothing ' worthy of special comment / No subject of interest has occupied the attention of either house , but that of Slavery ; and on this all action is lost in an interminable war of words . — M . Sain Bois Le Comte , the minister of the French ¦ Republic , was presented to President Taylor on Monday , the 18 th iust ., in the presence of the whole Cabinet , The speech of M . Le Comte was marked by a conciliatory and temperate spirit , and was responded to by the President with cordial expressions of intercourse and friendly feeling .

      The Report of Hon . Butler f . King who visited California during the last Summer , as the Specia Agent of the Executive of the United States , bas just been published . It is a document of great interest and importance , presenting , a well-digested mass of information with regard to California , derived from personal observatien and authentic sources , and suggesting several practical measures for the consideration of the government . —According to Mr . King , the population of California in 1802 , was about 17 , 000 ; in 1831 , it amounted to a little more than 23 , 000 ; from this number it did not vary much for four or five years ; when it

      gradually increased , until the sudden rugh of immigra " tion in 1849 ; and at the commencement of the present year , it may be estimated at 115 , 000 Americans and foreigners , exclusive of native Indians . The Gold Region is between 400 and 500 miles long , and from forty to fifty miles broad , following the line of the Sierra Nevada . It embraces the extensive range of hills on the eastern border of the plain of the Sacramento and San Joaquin , which reach towards the East for fifty or sixty miles , and attaining an elevation of about 400 feet terminates at the base of the main ridge of the Sierra Nevada .

      Thespringsof the Sierra give rise to numerous streams , which , augmented by the rains and melted snow , expand into rivers , running in a westerly direction , and emptying into the Sacramento and San Joaquin , at the distance of from ten to fifteen , and in some cases of twenty miles from each other . The rivers in forming their channels , have come in contact with the quartz , with which the gold seems to have been originally combined , and cutting the gold into fine flakes and dust , leave it deposited among the sand and gravel of their beds . In the dry season a portion of these beds are found without water ; they contain large quantities of gold , in a coarser state than in the rivers , often in a smooth shape , not unlike pebbles . In the dry diggings , where quartz containing gold has cropped out , the gold is found in pieces of every size , from one grain to several pounds in weight . These diggings , in Bouse places , spread over valleys of considerable

      extent . The amount of gold collected in the operations 1848 and 1849 , is estimated at 40 , 000 , 000 dot ., one . half of which was probably carried out of the country by foreigners . Of this Bum , 20 , 000 , 000 dol . is supposed to have been taken from the rivers , although their richness has suffered no perceptible diminution , except in a few locations , which early attracted large bodies of miners . Gold has been found in twelve principal rivers , but the greater part of the above amount was taken from six or seven of them , when it was first discovered and most accessible .

      In regard to the regulation of the Gold District by the government , Mr . King suggests tbat the entire region ' should be preserved intact , not exposed to sale , and considered as the common individual treasure of the American people . He then recommends the appointment of a Commissioner of the Mines , with a sufficient number of assistants , with authority to give a license to any American citizen , on the payment of a moderate sum , for digging anywhere in the Territory for the space of one year . The discoverer of a new mine to be entitled to work it , or to dispose of it , under suitable regulations , by paying a certain per centage of its products . A portion of the money collected to be expended in the construction of roads and bridges , to facilitate cammunication between the mining districts , and tbe other parts of the country .

      The quicksilver mines of California are believes to . be numerous , extensive , and valuable . It is also suppoaed that the Territory centains large beds of silver , iron and copper ores ; but the information ia not sufficiently precise or definite en this point to warrant any satisfactory conclusions . DEATH OI SENATOR CALHOWH . The death of John C . Cnlhoun , the distinguished Senator from South Carolina , took place on Sunday , March 31 . This event had been long anticipated . Mr . Calhoun was born in 1782 . He was descended from an Irish family which 'emigrated to this country when hia father was about three years old . Ho recoived his oducation at Ynla College ,

      where ho gi'atuated in 1804 with distinguished honours , giving a brilliant promise of the lofty fame which ho has since achieved . He commenced the study of the law at the celebrated Law-School in Litchfield , Conn ., and completing bis preparation for the profession in his native State , he was admitted to the bar in 1807 , and rapidly attained to celebrity and large emoluments . In 1810 he was elected to Congress by an immense majority , and , taking hit ) scat in that body , at once assumed a high position in the ranks of the Republican party . In 1817 he was invited b y President Monroe to a place in hia Cabinet as Secretary of War , lie continued in this office for seven years , during

      which time he gave proofs of admirable industry great practical energy and skill , remarkable sagacity in the administration of affairs , and an integrit y which was never sullied by the breath of suspicion . He was elected Vice-President of the United States in 1824 , discharged the duties of that office , as presiding officer of the Senate , with eminent dignity and firmness , and , for the most part , with uncommon impartiality . On the accession of General Jackson to tho Presidency in 1828 , he was again chosen Vice-President , but the policy of General Jackson being widely at variance with his own , he resigned tha !) office in 1832 , and was immediately returned to tho Senate by the Legislature of South

      Carolina . In 1844 he resigned his seat in Congress and accepted the office of Secretary of State , which ho held until the close of President Tyler ' s administration . He was then re-chosen Senator , which office he filled until the time of his death . Mt . Calhoun enjoyed a veputatiott foe vig 6 i * , bdldriess and independence , not surpassed by that of any statesman in this country . His mind was addicted to great analytical subtlety in all its operations , and he followed the guidance of his logical convictions with an . inflexible severity , that made him formidable as an antagonist . His political views , even when most strongly tinctured with extravagance , were the necessary result of estabbliahed premises , which- had firmly planted them * selves in hiainterlect . In his policy he had primary reference to the claims and interest of the South , was never seduced into enthusiasm for the

      greatness and dignity of the Federal Union , and regarded tho institution of Domestic Slavery , as the > est foundation , of political liberty . " In all tho relations of private life , his character was beyond reproach . Of unsullied integrity , of rigid temper s anceand purity , of ahigh sense of justice and honor , it won the esteem and admiration of all to whom he was intimately known . With Clay , Webster and Benton , he formed acivele of statesmen which for nearly forty years has exercised tho widest influence on the political developments of this country . Differing but little in age , they survive their illustrious c ompeer and are now by universal consent at the head of American statesmen .. The Leg islature of Ohio adjourned on tho 2 otn instant , after a session of 113 dam Among the acts passed waB one for taxing banks in the same way as other property ; one creating a State Board of Education ; and an act for the Homestead

      ExAnother dreadful steam-boat accident occurred a few days since , between Buffalo and Niagara . The boiler of the steamer Troy exploded , when nearly iwenty persons were scalded to death or drowned , and about the same number were seriously wounded . ^ here nave been . two serious riota among the labourers on the canal , near Buffalo ; in quelling the latter of which four men weve shot , and nearly thirty taken prisoners . CONDKMNATION AND SENTENCE OF PROFESSOR WEBSTER TO DIE FOR THB MURDER OF DR . PARKMAN . The trial of Professor Webster for the murder of T > r Parkman was brought to a close on Saturday

      night , and tho verdict of . Guilty" recorded against the prisoner . The trial occupied eleven days , and was conducted with a deliberation , quietness , and freedom from excitement , almost unprecedented in the records of criminal jurisprudence . Luring its whole progress , the accused displayed a remarkable self-command , listening to the evidence with intense interest , but with perfect calmness , showing not the slightest consciousness of guilt , nor any emotion , from which , inferences could be drawn , and apparently unmoved by the weight of testimony , which was accumulating with slow and terrible certainty for to CvBdsmwUon , 1 \ & grc-uwte taken against

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      Dr . Webstar , and'the " a < JmissiQn that Dr . Parkman was at hislrpom ^ ih ' the-Medical College at two o ' clock pri ^ the day ; 6 fi hiatiliaappearance—that he was never f ; seen after , that time—that the remains found in the . College ' are identified as those of Dr . Parkman—and that tbTe notes ^ whioh were the cause of pecuniary ^ difficulty ,: between tho parties ; were found in poss ^ sion of . Dt . Webster , although no was shown to be destitute of funds for their payment . . . . . , : ¦ ..-..-The counsel for the defence endeavoured to set aside the proof of identity—to show that the

      prisoner was at Cambridge at the time alleged for his disposing of the remains—and to prove that Parkman had been seen subsequent to the hour of the murder as stated in the indictment . In commenting on the testimony , Chief Justice Shaw charged the jury in a manner highly unfavourable to the accused . They were absent-about three hours , and at eleven o clock returned with tho fatal verdict . Dr . Webster was sentenced on Monday , and his execution is appointed to take place at such time as may be determined by the Governor of the State . ,. ¦ . - ¦ ; . . '¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦

      • Tho result of tho trial was communicated to Dr . Webster ' s family at Cambridge on Sunday morning . The bearer of the agonising intelligence was Mrs . Prescott , the mother of the distinguished historian , and a half-sistor of Mrs . Webster . It was received with the most frenzied anguish , as an event of which there had not been the faintest anticipation . The shrieks and groans of the afflicted sufferers were heard to a great distance . They are the objects of the most profound commisscration and symyathy in every quarter . On Monday morning a letter of condolence was addressed to them , signed by the principal inhabitants of Cambridge , Pros . Everett , Pres . Sparks , the Professors in the University , and numerous other friends . Ineffectual solace in their hour of agony unutterable ! :

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      Shipwrecks . —Kingstown , April 13 . —The pilot boat Hawk towed into Kingstown a largo piece of a wreck , the side of avessol , found drifting between Lambay and the Kish ; it is black , withtwo narrow red mouldings ; a white flag was fastened to a rope which was tied on one of tbe * masthead stays . Tiio other pilot boats p icked up 107 boxes of soap fifteen miles S . E . of Lambay ; The schooner , Wonder , of Waterford , with coals from Cardiff , was lost with all hinds , during the late storm .

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      Medals Of Jambs Morison ,. ,•• ¦ . ¦ Thehygeist.

      MEDALS OF JAMBS MORISON , . , ¦ . ¦ THEHYGEIST .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 20, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1570/page/2/