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      FRANCE . la the Assembly ' s sitting of Thursday last the Louse proceeded to discuss the taking into consideration of M . St . Beuve ' s free trade motion . MM ; Baroche and Faucher demanded the adjournment of the debate in consequence of the absence ot M . Buffet , Minister of Commerce , M , Si . Beuve opposed the adjournment ; M . Thiers , who wished to speak in this debate , also objected to putting it off , as next week he should not be able to attend . The assembly decided by a large majority against the adjournment demanded by the government . M . St . Beuve thtn developed , irs a long speech , his plan , which is to place France in the road of that free

      trade policy , the example of which has been set bj England . He proposed the suppression of all duties upon alimentary substances , and upon raw materials ; the abolition of all prohibitions , and the establishment of a protective duty not exceeding ten per cent , upon goods partly manufactured , aud not exceeding twenty per cent , upon goods entirely manufactured . Al . There replied on the part of the Protectionists , and was warmly congratulated by hh friends . The motion wa 3 lost by 428 to 199 . The club of the Rue des Pyramides held a

      meeting on Friday night to consider the course to he adopted in the debate on revision . M . De Broglie and M- de Montalenibert explained that by the new form of the motion , implying a wish for total revision , was meant that the electors and the constituent mig ht exert their fnll sovereignty without limitation . The meeting accepted the new foira oi the motion , and en ^ asied several members to speak in the debate . Among those who consented weri MM . de Broglie , de Montalembert , Coquerel , de Goulard , and Lestiboudois .

      An e vening paper publishes a manifesto of Maz-2 ini and Ledru RolHn to the Wallachian population , The central electoral committee of the Haute * Vienne , composed of delegates of all the cantons of the department , decided in a meeting held at Limoges on the 26 fn ult ., that the candidate of all shades of the party of order should be M . Eugene BaUitta . The parly o ! the Mountain have declared their intention to abstain from voting . The number of signatures to revision petitions from the Eure-et-Loire , according to the latest accounts , amount to 13 , 000 , ' Tina department , ' says the 'Journal de Chartres , ' * will send at least 20 , 000 signatures to the National Assembly in favour of the revision of the Constitution . ' The Marne has already furnished over 53 . 000 , and the Meuse 30 . 00 U signatures .

      The train which was bringing the government engineers and representatives of the Orleans and B urdeaux Company from Foitiers to Tours after the Ceremony of delivering over the line to the company , met with an accident near Dange . The locomotive came in collision with a paviour ' s club ftbicta lay on the rail , and ran off the line . Fortunately it was only followed by one carriage , the chains having broke . No one was hurt ; bat the fifty passengers \ r ere detained eleven hours at Dange . M . Meroy , a Paris tradesman , has presented to Colonel Vaudrey , in order to be laid before the Assembly , a mass of petitions in favour of the prolongation of the President ' s powers , signed by 11 . 452 tradesmen and workmen of the department ef the Seine .

      Notwithstanding the statement of the telegraphic despatches which follow , it is said by an eyewitness that the President was received coldly , and without any marks of enthusiasm , both at Poitiers and in the other parts of bis journey . The following telegraphic despatch bas been received from Poitiers : —* The train of inauguration arrived at Poitiers at half-past three , An immense crowd assembled about the terminus and Bflluted the President with their acclamations . After the benediction of the locomotives , the President passed through the city to the prefecture . The deputation of sit departments , and the inhabitants of the neighbouring country show the

      same solicitude as the inhabitants of Poitiers to receive worthily the head of the executive power . ' The following is ' the speech of the President a iPoitiers;— ' I look upon the future of the country without fear , since its preservation trill always depend upon the will of the people freely expressed and religiously accepted . I invoke therefore with all my wishes that solemn moment when the powerful voice of the nation shall overcome all opposition , and do away with all animosities , for it is fraught with sadness to the revolution , disquieting society , raiding leaps of ruins , but yet still leaving the same

      wants , the same passions , and the same elements of disturbance . When we reflect upon the territorial unity which the persevering efforts of the monarchy have bequeathed to us—when we reflect upon this unity , political , administrative , and cemmercial , "Which the revolution bas bestowed upon us , we leel astonished that society , possessing the elements of power and prosperity , should often expose itself to destruction . Might we not then regard as true the saying of the Emperor , " That the old world is at an end and that the new one is not yet formed ? " Without knowing what that future will be , let us now perform our duty , by preparing solid foundations for its erection . '

      The opposition press has not failed to make the most of the revelations disclosed by the incident in the Chamber on the haras of St . Ciond . Nothing seizes public curiosity more vividly than anything lying on the dtbateable ground between public and private life . Consequently when M . Frichon in narrating the visit of the committee to the park of St . Cloud , began to talk of the charming and luxurious pavilions which had been constructed since the President ' s election , apparently with the design of serving for a superior destination to the Etables , half the Assembly looked morose and the other half malicious ; just a 3 if the republican president were indulging the sumptous foibles of

      another Sardanapalus . The plain truth of the matter teems to be that a large tract of pasture enclosed for the breeding stud of Louis Philippe , became a woria too wide for the shrunk haras of the republic . Hence half the ground with an adjoining piece of the park was granted to the Preeident on a short Jease from January 1 , 1850 , to May 10 , 1852 . The President ' s respect for the constitution clearly appearing in the term of the lease , raised a good deal of hilarity . But when the gentlemen of the committee wanted to examine these elegant dwellings

      , destined surely for no quadrupeds , they stumbled all fit once upon a sentry , who barred farther investigation , and they then retired with whispered speculations upon the mysteries of St . Cloud , Mi Magne , the Minister of Public Works , applied the match to the explosive tendency of the Assembly to break fairly ont into laughter by gravely assuring the house that the President hunted no game in the national domain of St . Cloud hut what he had Stocked the preserves with himself . So finished this delicate incident .

      To-day the Assembly rejected the motion , as amended in committee , of Emile de Girardin for applying fee papers with an authentic official account of the debates in the chamber and law proceedings . The hudget of the Assembly for * 52 was then passed . A credit of £ 8 , 400 was voted for the publication of M . Perret ' s work on the catacombs of Rome . No debate of the least interest took place .

      PORTUGAL . The Dauntless frigate , Capt . Halstead , arrived on Saturday merning at Spithead , with dates from Lisbon to the 23 rd ult ., and having the Prince oi Saxe Cuuurg , brother to II . R . H . Prince Albert , on board . All was quiet at Lisbon . The Montrose mail steamer , with the English nails of the 17 th nit ., arrived in the Tagus on the 21 st nit ., and left for Cadiz and Gibraltar on the 22 nd ult . Our correspondent writes as follows : — 4

      It has been stated that the Cabralites rested all their hopes of foreign intervention upon inducing the belief that the Septembristas wished to dethrone the Queen and declare a republic ; this iismg fedea , a piot nag oeen got np Qf „„ j fl ; nature , which must also be laid upon the broad houlders of that odious paity ; it is no less a one £ niff taw * '•» lthe Mm * at formin * ESK ^^ 'Stt

      ff ^^ sj of 31 am against reli gion , the throne 2 a ' he present organwatton of society / The belief i , en ? devoured to ba indicated , that the documnts were sent from Seville to Evan , from the latter place to Etas , the grand focu 3 of CabralisU in . trigne , and from thence they found their way to I » iibon . Tha correspondent of the 'Eatandarte ' lava he has seen many copieg . Thu is not doabted ,-out under nhat rinnnajtincea he bit seed them is

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      Sera r t - They wish U t 0 be belieTed tbat IhP ! L ' n Spain > and Saldanha in Portugal , are me iwo great heads of the embryo Republican party . ' a yecree has hgen p ^ igjjg ^ atat . that ag the "roe necessary for carrying into effect the process relative to the election of deputies , mentioned in a simultaneous decree ( that of the 18 th , for regulating the elections , and which is not yet published ) , the meeting of the Cortes is postponed to the 15 th of November . The decree in question is very voluminous , and will be published by piecemeal . The American frigate did not salute the French flag on her arrival in tbe Tagus ; a misunderstanding between ( he two governments on the subject of the islands in the Pacific is the alleged cause .

      Sir R . Pakenbam had his first audience of the Queen on the 18 th ult ., at a private court at Necessidades , which was attended by the Cardinal Patriarch , the principal officers of the royal household , the gentlemen of the chamber , the Ministers and Councillors of S < ate , the Honorary Ministers oi State , and many others . The Queen , King , Duke of Saxe Coburg , and others of the famil y atsisted at the procession OJ Corpus Chrlsti on the 19 th ult . The troop 9 made a pleasing and martial appearance . Several French and English naval officers , and some English gentlemen , desirous of getting near , were kept back by one of the municipals , which being seen by Don

      Francisco de MJlo , son of the Duchess de Mello , and who commanded the 2 ad Cacadores , that officer immediately rode up , and desired that the officers and gentlemen might pas 3 , and they were allowed to choose their places , which kindness was warmly acknowled ged by both French and English officers . Both officers and troops conducted themselves extremely well , which was the more remarkable , as last year the troops , particularly the battalion of the charter , behaved like brutes to the people , even beating them . Benevolence and civility appear to be infused into the soldiers under Saldanha ' s government , while brutality and overbearing appeared to be considered as the best exercise of their functions under the Cabral ministry .

      SPAIN . In the sitting of the Chamber oa the 2 / th ult ., the debate on the vote of confidence having been brought to a close , the motion was carried in favour of ministers by a majority of 184 against 31 , In the sitting of the 25 th ult ., Esteban Collantes made a furious attack upon Bravo Murillo . Bertram de Lis was replying when the post closed . In tbe Senate there was a debate upon the floating debt , upon which no decision was arrived at .

      GERMANY . Information has been received at Hamburg of an extensive conflagration in the Russian city of Archangel . The foreign merchants' quarter was almost entirely consumed , and severe losses are entailed upon the insurance offices of * St . Petersburg . It is reported by many papers that the Danish Minister , M . Reedlz , who arrived on the 22 nd ult . at Kiel , has been referred , both by Prussia and Austria , to tbe two Diet ' s commissioners , Count Mensdorf and General Tbumen , as , on the renewal and prolongation of their commissions , the sole representatives of Germany , with reference to the settlement of the SchlesTrig-HoIstein affairs . This intelligence is , if true , exceedingly important , as it virtually makes the SehlesKig-Holstein- question a purely German one . M . Reedtz has had several conferences with the commissioners .

      It is stated tbat Prussia has forwarded to the Diet at Frankfort a demand in form to the effect that the Prussian non-German territories incorporated in 1848 into the confederation may be separated as before . This shows no tendency on the part of Prussia to admit Austria ' s non-German states . It is announced that a congress of delegates of the German governments will shortly assemble at Goiha to draw up regulations relative to the conditions to be imposed on residents in Germany . It appears to be certain that the Minister intends to proceed against all tbe functionaries who have resisted the execution of the ordinance relative to the convocation of the provincial states .

      Accounts from Frankfort state that Austria in reply to Prussia ' s demand for the disincorporation of her non-German states , expresses her determination only to concede the point if the unanimity of all the German states with which the incorporation was passed is obtained for the reversal of that measure . Public attention in Germany is just now particularly excited by the manifesto and statutes of a secret communist society which have just been published in the ' Dresden Journal . ' These documents in themselves are calculated to awaken curiosity , but prove of far greater importance by reason of the strenuous endeavours of the German government to turn them to acconnt . For some time the German

      newspapers have diurnally brought us word of arrests , domiciliary visitations , and seizures of paper 3 , all of which are said to be directly or indirectly consequences of tbe discovery of the communist society aforesaid . A slight examination of the manifesto is , however , sufficient to show that the society is of very limited extent , and that by far the greater number of arrests , &c , which have taken place can have no real relation to its discovery . The governments in truth are working the little fact , magnifying it in order to draw from it an exaggerated significance and utility , thus making good the words of Machiavelli , speaking of secret societies and conspiracies which are prematurely discovered :

      1 These , ' said that great master of policy , ' in the end do really injure those against whom they are organised ; for the victorious " government in seeking to turn a discovered conspiracy to an unfair account always goes too far ; the innocent are punished , the occasion is seized to get rid of inconvenient men ; and in rendering the unoffending responsible for those who have not conspired , a host of malcontents is created . ' Already , before our very eyes , we see this effect produced . A secret communist society is discovered , and the first consequence is , a razzia on all the men with whom one could hope to find papers interesting to the government . Documents which seem to prove the existence of a secret

      society of workmen have been found , and at once all societies of' turners '—that is to aay , public associations of gymnastic amateurs , are prohibited . The consequence is clear ; Machiavelli foresaw it . By-and-bje the secret society will be forgotten ; bat men will never forget that the police may at any moment enter and seize their most private papers—they will never forget that it is not permitted them to pursue the favourite and manly diversion of gymnastics in associations which alone can furnish the means o ! those exercises . General Klapka is a very terrible personage to the German police . He is discovered in several parts of Germany almost at the same moment : he

      is said to be concerned in every one of the numerous plots with which ministers and monarebs are terrified into re-actionary measures ; bis name and military qualities form a chapter for themselves in the numerous revolutionary documents which the police now aud then discover with so much cleverness . Last summer General Klapka was said to have been in Hamburg and Holstein , endeavouring , with Arnold Ruge , to incite the Schleswig-Holstein soldiers to mutiny against the interference of Austria and Prussia ; within the last few days the gallant defender of Comorn is discovered by the

      police to he meditating a descent upon Dusseldorf . The general has formerly lived in Dusseldorf and is well kno * n there , and as he is stated to have bad his passport vised in Paris , the whole affair would seem to deserve no credit . Nevertheless , instructions have been given to tbe police on the route between the Prussian frontier and Dusseldorf to be watchful and to secure his person . In connexion with this proposed visit of General Klapka , may perhaps be the numerous domiciliary visits and arrest 3 made by tbe police in the Bhine provinces , in Heidelberg , Darmstadt , Mayence , c , within the last three days .

      HESSE . An important decision has been pronounced in the Constitutional question between the Ministry of the Electorate and the recusant officers and civil officials . The permanent Committee of the Cbam . her , after the process against it was commenced , referred all the points in dispute to the juristic faculty of the University of Gottingen . That learned body has just pronounced its decision . It declares that the legal right is on the side of the government , as according to the 95 th article of the Constitution , it was not bound to procure tbe consent of the Permanent Committee of the Chamber to tbe publication of the decree of September , 1850 , respecting the continued levy of taxes , &c . This was the point on which the whole Constitutional conflict in the

      Electorate turned . The officials , therefore , who refused to carry out the decree administratirel p , and the officers of the army who prospectively refused to support the government in case the support of the armed force was required , are declared by one of the nvjnest legal au thorities to have been in tbe wrong . The Committee of the Chamber has also refered its « M to the legal facujty of tbe V « rer % of HeideJ-

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      berg , and it » stated Us decision will entirely coincide with that of the faculty of Gottingen , and establish the question of tight even more strongly on the part of the government . The official ' Gazette' of Cassel , of the 27 th ult . publishes , under the date of the 26 th ult ., the consent of the Elector to the grant of an amnesty .

      THE PAPAL STATES . It is slated , in a letter from Rome of the 20 th ult , that the garrison of Rome is to be increased by 1 , 500 men more . It adds that General Gemeau having demanded , in consequence , of the Papal government the occupation of several military posts the latter has granted some , but refused others ' among which were the Collegio Romano and the Pontifical palace of the Quirinal . The Austrians have advanced to Otricoli . Monsi gnor Matteucci was , while visiting tbe prison of San Michele at Rome , accosted by several political prisoners with violent insults and imprecations , and one of them threw a bottle at him , which sli ghtly wounded the reverend prelate . It is believed ap . Aglo-French company , at present represented a , t Rome bv M . Montclar , will undertake the execution of the great railway line from the Adriatic to the Tuscan line

      A letter from Rome , of the 20 th , in the ' Constitutionnel , ' contains an account of several events calculated to produce disturbances , which the correspondent attributes to the Mazzinians . Ii confirms the fact of the explosive cigars we mentioned a few days ago , and adds that a strict inquiry having been set on foot by the police , several parcels of cigars were found in the very magazines of the government , sealed with the government seal ) and charged with fulminating powder contained in a small tin tube , In consequence of this discovery several arrests have been made . Signor Bonifazi , a bookseller , had bis premises set on fire , but disastrous consequences

      were happily arerted by timely assistance . Since then he has received threatening letters menacing him and bis family with death . The police , according to this letter , have some hopes of discovering the murderer of Signor Evangelisti , a man having been discovered lurking near the house of Colonel Nardoni , armed with a double-edged stiletto , which exactly corresponds with the sort of weapon which the surgeons declare bas been used in stabbing the above-mentioned victim . Two brothers , named Cincinnati , have been condemned by default to bard labour for life for having thrown stones at some French soldiers at Frascati , one of whom has since died of a contusion received in consequence .

      Tbe ' Bologna Gazette , of the 18 sb , gives an account of an encounter between two detachments of Papal troop 9 and six robbers , in the vicinity of Bologna . Three soldiers were wounded by the fire of their adversaries , but one of the latter having been killed , the others took to flight and escaped . Accounts from Some , dated the 24 th ult ., state that the city was in the midst of those gorgeous processions which take place in various parts of the city every afternoon during the week , dis * tinguishing it from all others in the year by the endless display of colossal crosses , pictured saints , banners , bands oi music , trains of clergy regular and secular , and religious confraternities of all colours and in all sorts of costumes , remarkable

      even in this country of spiritual pageantry . To say tbat they excite a great deal of enthusiasm amongst the people would be perhaps an erroneous statement , but at any rate they attract a considerable number of spectators , especially of the lower sort , and they generally pass off in a very decent and orderly manner . That of the parish of St . Lorenzo , in Lucina , however , on the afternoon of Thursday last , formed an exception to the general rule , a tremendous turmoil amongst the crowd having thrown the procession into disorder ere it was mote than half way ont of the church . The bearers of tbe ponderous crosses and standards , staggering under tbe weight of their uur . tb . eus .

      were unable to resist the impetus and rush of tbe spectators , who seemed impelled by sudden fury or sudden madness , to rout the whole concern ; the piazza was strewed with sacred implements , the actors and spectators in the procession fled in every direction , and the very eminent Cardinal Barberini , who , with the rear of the train , waa aa yet in the churcb , took it into his head that a revolution had commenced outside , and could not be prevailed upon to resume his part in the ceremony until loag after tranquillity had been restored . Tbe fact was that a pickpocket , discovered in the act of picking a gentleman's pocket , took refuge from hi 9 pursuers by plunging deep into the ranks of a

      caped , hooded , and tasselled confraternity just issuing from the church portico ; bis headlong rush , and that of his captors , appeared like a murderous onslaught to the ecclesiastics , who are in perpetual fear of some such tragedy , and who consequently consulted their safety by flight , communicating their panic to the outer circles , until the French soldiers cocked their muskets and prepared for a volley ; but tbe Roman band , whose leader had perceived the cause of the fray , and gave the signal for a lively strike up , soon inspired all parties with confidence and harmony again . The cricurastance would not

      be worth mentioning , were it not to show the excessive terror displayed by tbe priests on the occasion ; a terror arising from the consciousness of the little love or spmpathy towards their order which the conduct of the present government has produced amongst the masses . The stairs of the neighbouring palace of the Duke Fiano were crowded with refugees , amongst whom . wa& & bishop , who hastily did away with the insignia of his rank by pocketing his gold chain and detaching the band and tassel from his hat , perhaps reserving them as propitiatory offerings or spolia opima to the murderous mob below .

      Brigandage is not yet exterminated in the northern provinces . A bloody engagement took place on the 17 ttt ult . between robbers and Papal soldiers in the territory of Bologna . Some armed outlaws had been seen in the morning going from Caste ! de ' Britti towards Ciagnano , where they entered a houae situated in a spot called Belvedere . Toe fact being reported to the military detachments stationed in Maggio and the Compana , the first censisting of a sergeant , a corporal , and five privates , and the second of a corporal , four privates , and a gendarme , they set out to capture the brigands , who , six in number , armed with double-barrelled guns , made

      good their position in the house , and defended themselves for some time , until they retreated in the direction of Monte Calderaro , leaving one of their number dead , but carrying off another who was wounded . The dead robber was recognised as Felice Scheda , nicknamed Feliciore and Anguillone , one of the most notorious of the late Passatore ' s followers , for whose head a reward of 500 dols . was offered . His corpse was carried to the Campana , and then to Bologna . Valuable rings were found on his fingers , shoes , articles of dress , ammunition , a knife , and a beautiful double-barrelled gun were found in the house abandoned by the brigandes ; The soldiers had one corporal and two privates wounded

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      RUSSIA AND POLAND . Letters from Warsaw give a corrected account of the statement tbat has appeared in nearly all the German papers , relative to the compulsory delivery of plate , in return for a certain sum of money ; a statement which caused great excitement . The facts of the case are these : —The Minister of Finance finding nearly all the financial resources of the country exhausted , and being , however desirous of levying an equitable tax , considered those persons who were able to have plate would be best able to pay a tax upon it . The tax he accordingly imposed , and although it has created so » e dissatisfaction , it is , however a tax which touches the rich , and that , too , in exact proportion to their property ; the poor are in no wise affected b y it .

      TURKEY . AdviceB np to the 15 th ult . state that important news has been received from Daghistan via Trebizonde . All the correspondence from Tiflis gives more or leas the details of the successes of the mountaineers over the RussianBi who have suffered immense loss . The leader of the Daghlees in Mahomed Emin , the naib ( or lieutenant ) of Shei h Chamil , who , at the head of 25 , 000 picked men of the warlike tribes of the Abedjeks , and other independent tribes of the Western Caucasus , had at . tacked the Russian entrenchments of the Chenis , and driven the Russian troops , under the command of General Cerebrianoff , beyond Themer . The en .

      gagements which took place were bloody and disastrous , and the Russians suffered se severely that all tbe spare waggons of the army were barely sufficient to carry their wounded away . Their loss , according to an impartial statement , is calculated at 5 , 000 in killed and prisoners . The mortality in comparison is by fat greater among the officers than among the privates . Tbe position of the Russian army is very insecure at present , en account of the communications between Themer and the Kouban being intercepted , and owing to the vigilance of the Daghlees it is impossible to send reinforcement ! in tbat direction for tome time jet , Tbe mountaineers bout it prcicot of befog well supplied with , auma . '

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      nitlnn and arms , and ready to continue the war " ainst the invaders of their homes throughout tbe Se summer 8 ea 8 on , By the above it is clearly a 3 Ce tained that the Russians have made no progS whatever in the conquest of the Caucasus this ye Turkish fleet has quitted its anchorage in the arsenalfor the Bosphorus Twelve fire ships . have been fitted ap and manned , and it is said tbat a cruise in the Archi pelago will be undertaken , and . n « a visit oaid to Alexandria . P society tolh . study of Turkish literature and division of useful knowledge has just been m . ti-S The intention of the government is to en-™! Srt the study of the Oriental languages by grant-? T 5 ! ia £ » edaU to those who compile good SnK works , either in Persian , Turkish , or Arabic . ,. Tmi A 1 ° """

      INDIA . Bv the overland mail we have the usual files , and nur correspondence in advance to the following Sa es -Bombay , the 25 th of May ; Calcutta , the 15 h : aud Madras the 17 th of May . It is currently rumoured and believed tbat the G overnor-General intends to return to Calcutta immediately after the rains . The reason assigned for fl " is that he has disapproved of some of the mea . mrea of the Bengal government ; but it may be that the real cause is his having received a strong hint fro m his honourable masters that it would ' more to their interests if he wandered less from home than he has been in the habit of doing . No doubt the demands on his lordship ' s attent . on made by the affairs of the far north west are less Lftnt and im perious now than they have hitherto been , and he can devote himself more than he has heretofore been able to do to the affairs of Lower Bengal j

      . . , ... .. .-, Tbe noble marquis has , it is said , recommended that the chief mag istracy and post mastership at Calcutta each worth about £ 3 , 600 per annum , shall not as heretofore be confined entirely to the civil service . It is most probable that these offices will be in future conferred on gentlemen of the uncovenanted service on a much reduced scale of salary . The postmastership at each of the presidencies has always been looked as a fat sinecure which ought to be abolished , the actual duties having for years past been performed by the deputy . It is different , however , with the office of the chief magistracy , the duties of which are very arduous and responsible . The most proper person to be se lected to fill this very important situation is an English barrister , aa a perfect knowled ge of the criminal law is absolutely requisite to a proper performance of the duties .

      A series of most destructive hurricanes have just occurred to the South of Bombay between the line and 15 deg . N . latitude . The first near Ceylon , and another at Madras , in which no fewer than fifteen vessels and eighteen human lives have been lost . ..,, ' . We have to record the loss of another vessel by fire in the Hooghly . On the 13 th ult . the clipper Ariel was burnt off the mouths of , the Hooghly , when cargo to the value of £ 100 , 000 was destroyed . The Buckinghamshire , Kurramany , Ardaseer , and Ariel , have all been burnt in these seas within two months , and all , save the Ardaseer , which is doubtful , have been destroyed by incendiaries at a loss of little short of a quarter of a million pounds sterling .

      We regret to mention that cholera has been very prevalent in Bombay ot late , and has commute " ) sad ravages amongst the Europeans on board the Ajdaha steam frigate in our harbour , where nearly all the cases proved fatal , one midshipman and seven European seamen having fallen victims to this dreadful scourage of the human race . . The epidemic disappeared immediately the Ajdaha was sent to sea for change of air , she having since returned to port with a clean bill of health . The'Delhi Gazette' newspaper reports the occurrence of a melancholy accident near Hurreepoor on the road to Simla on the 30 th ultimo in the following terms . Lieutenant H . P . Sale , of the 13 ^ h

      Native infantry . Adjutant of the Nusseree battalion stationed at Jutog , went down towards Kalka for the purpose of meeting a detachment escorting treasure from that place . After encamping near the river at llureepoor , he strolled up the hill in the neighbourhood with his gun , whilst the men were cooking their dinner ; he had not been long absent , when , to the surprise of the Goorkhas , he fell frora a tremendous height into the river close be them . The roan who was with him Bays that he begged of his master not to go so near the edge of the preci p ice , that whilst speaking to him his foot slipped , and that in falling he caught at a tuft of grass , which

      gave way , and the unfortunate young man was precipitated down the kbud . He lived about a quarter of an hour after , but quite insensible . Mr . Apothecary Law arrived very opportunely just after the accident , and rendered every assistance in his power . Mr . Law remained on the spot until life was quite extinct . The deceased was the youngest son of the late Sir Robert Sale , and his untimely death has cast a g loom over a large circle of friends , by whom , as well as tbe men of his regiment , he was much esteemed . He was buried at Subathoo on the evening of the 1 st ultimo .

      The Governor-General is by no means popular in India . It is complained that ,.. ( bough , extremely fond of display and .. magnificence ( ntw silver .. state howdahs , and so on ) at the expense of the Company , he is himself by no means given to hospitality to the extent expected from a Governor-General . Lord Dalhousie , too , is accused of unduly favouring his fellow-countrymen and personal friends in the dispensation of his patronage . He has recently occasioned , much dissatisfaction in the Nizatn ' z army by appointing a young officer of his

      own staff to a brigade in it over tbe heads of many much his seniors , who had served in the Nizam ' s army for many years , and were , consequently , generally considered entitled to succeed to its brigade commands . It cannot , however , he denied that Lord Dalhousie is one of the most able men of business that have ever come to ,, India and that , with the assistance of the . Lahore Board , he has succeeded in settling and organizing the Punjab better and with more enlarged views than any newly-acquired Indian province was ever settled before .

      The Arab mercenaries are becoming all-powerful in the Nizam ' s territories , and there is no doubt that nothing but our ' protection prevents the Nizam being deposed and an Arab dynasty es Wished .

      AMERICA . By the Royal mail steam ship Asia , we have advices from New York direct to the 18 th ult . She brings £ 223 , 000 in specie on freight . The steam ship North America , announced to sail from New York on the 17 th ult . " for Ireland , and whose anticipated arrival has lately caused such extensive preparations and induced so many sanguine hopes in that country , had Buddenly been withdrawn , the Galway route not having proved sufficiently attractive . We extract from the Tribune' the following account relative to the withdrawal : — ' For the last three weeks it has been advertised that this Btenmer would sail frora this

      port direct for Galway , Ireland , on . the 17 th of June . In commemoration of the new enterprise an Irish flag was presented to her captain by a wealthy gentleman , and much gratification was expressed by our Irish citizens at the prospect of a direct steam communication with their native country . But notwithstanding these preparations , the North America did not sail as advertised , and it was announced on Monday that she had been sold . She bad steam up , and fuel and provisions for the voyage , and her passengers were coming on board whey they were informed that her destination had

      been changed . Of course there was much excitement among those who were o n board and the crowd tbat had gathered to witness the departure of the steamer , and many threats were made against her and her owners , but we believe nothing serious occurred . It was the intention of those who controlled her to despatch her as advertised , but at eleven o'clock yesterday they received an offer to purchase her from Cornelius Vanderbilt , wh ch they concluded to accept , as they had engaged but lew passengers for the excursion to Galway . These were offered tickets for the Pacific , and we believe

      this arrangement was generally satisfactory . It is understood that the North America has been pur . chased for the purpose of beinjr placed on the route from San Francisco to Raelejo , in connexion with the Prometheus oa this side . She will leave for tbe Pacific in a few days . ' The ateam ship Alabama , arrived at New Orleans on the 14 th ult . with advices from California to the 14 th ult . The following ia the telegraphic communication : — ' A terrible fire had occurred in San Francisco , laying in ashes property to the amount of from twelve million dollars to sixteen million dollars . Among the buildings destroyed are tbe-Cnsrom-bouse , Union , Parker ' s , National , New WorM , City , Delsaonico ' i ana ^ Ei-change

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      Hotels ; also Rose ' s buildings and the offices of the steam ship company ; The fire also spread to the shipping , burning a large number of vessels that were lying a ttne wharves . It was first discovered in Clay-street , and ran through about one dozen blocks , quickly spreading to other parts of the city the greater part of which is a heap of ruins . The buildings on Hunter , George , Main , Centre , and El Dorado streets , are reduced to mere shells . Every newspaper office in the city except the 1 California ' was destroyed . The utmost consternation prevailed during the fire , and thousands were turned out of house and home , having lost

      their all . Measures were about being adopted to relieve the distressed . It is feared that a number of lives have been lost . Business was not thought of and San Francisco presented a sorrowful and heart-sickening picture , A great fire has also oc . curred at Stockton , the loss from which was estimated at overone million dollars . The news from the mines continues of a cheering character . New discoveries were daily made , and the prospects of the miners hig hly favourable . Those working with the quartz crushing machine were reaping a rich reward . In some instances the average per man was thirty dols . to fifiy dols . pec day . Lynch lawis still in force , and several new examples have

      occurred . The Washington correspondent of the ' New York Herald , ' writing relative to postal arrangements , mentions tbat , from the 6 th of July , there will be a regular exchange between the United States and the British provinces of New Brunswick , Cape Bret on , Nova Scotia , and Newfoundland at the same rates established for the United States and Canadian mails . ¦ By the United States Mail Steam-ship Pacific , Captain Nye , we have received advices from New York to the 2 lst ult . The Pacific brings 150 passengers , aud 1 , 000 , 000 dolls , in specie . Large numbers of Chinese were arriving at San Francisco .

      Serious fears were entertained at New York that the conflagra tion at San Francisco , so destructive to goods shipped from New York , joined to insurance losses , would embarrass many firms . The news brought by the steam-ship Asia of the burning of a great part of San Francisco is now confirmed . The loss is estimated at 12 , 000 , 000 dollars . About 1 , 000 buildings were destroyed , and three-fourths of the business districts had been consumed . An earthquake had been felt but no damage resulted . Over 600 buildings had been recommenced to be built . From Baltimore we learn that the dry weather was doing serious iDjury to the Virginia tobacco crops .

      Jamaica accounts , of the 13 th ult ., announce a fresh outbreak of cholera , mare especially at Westmorland , Falmouth . Deaths were numerous , though the disease does not appear to be as malignant as last year . 259 Africans had arrived from the 8 th . His Excellency the Governor had prorogbsd the parliament to the 15 th of July . Much rain had fallen . ^

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      A It is now ascertained that gold in considerable ouantities exists in the state of aine ( but the labour of getting it is scarcely compensated by the gain . General Georgey is said to be engaged at Klagenfest , with the composer of a large political w » rk on the Hungarian revolution , which is to appear at Hamburg . Ram Lall , the famous Muttra banker , who recently gained the great opium case on appeal to the Privy Council , has just presented s thousand rupees ( £ 100 ) to the Bombay School of Industry . It is announced that tbe question of Abd-el-Kader ' a captivity is on tbe point of receiving a satisfactory solution .

      The * Weiner Zsitung * publishes a list of thirteen persons , all of the working classes , who have been sentenced by the courts-martial of the city , for various offences of a trivial nature , chiefly for using threatening language relative to the Government in the Open Street -, the sentences vary from twenty-five strokes with tbe cane to six weeks' imprisonment . A M . Schramm has been condemned to six months' imprisonment for publishing the tax-refuaing' resolution of the Prussian National

      Assembly in November , 1848 . In Spire a priest , named Tafel , has been displaced and suspended from the exercise of all spiritual functions for a speech delivered in the Frankfort Parliament in 1848 ! M . Sehramm had , of course , long since disappeared , and was condemned in contumaciam ; but the priest , with the stain of that sinful oration upon him , has quietly performed all his duties as a pastor for three years . Justice is slow in Germany without being sure . The number of persons formally sentenced , years after they are beyond ail reach of the German law , is positively

      ridiculous . A sad accident occurred near Poitiers . M . De Gazes and Mademoiselle de Villars , whilst bathing in the Vienne on the 24 th , were carried away by the current and drowned . Madame de Cazes , who had been likewise in imminent danger , was saved . The last number of the ' Bulletin of the Laws of the Austrian Empire ' contains an ordinance of the Ministers of Finance , dated June 20 , 1851 , on the subject of the abolition of the lines of

      customhouses on all the Crown lands of Hungary . After the 1 st July the custom houses between Hungary and Transylvania on the one side , and those o / Lower Austria , Moravia , Silesia , and the Buckowina , on the other , will be completely abolished . On the frontier between Hungary and Cracow on one side , and Styria , Carintnia , and illyria , on the other , the existing custom-houses will be retained provisionally for carrying out the regulations relative to the salt trade .

      Several arrests have been made at Erlau . It is thought that a conspiracy against the government has been discovered . The conspirators were in the habit of meeting in a cave , and were mostly pavtiaans of Kossuth ; thirty or forty of them have already been brought in here . The number of persons compromised is said to be considerable . At Chemnitz a depot of arras , many muskets , and two cannon have been found .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1633/page/2/