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      FRANCE . ( FROH OUR OWtf CORRESPONDENT . ) Paris , ^ October , 19 « Considering the unwearying exertions of the Government , and the Bonapartist propagandism that . has for some months been energetically carried on in the faubourgs , the demonstration on Bonaparte ' s entry into Paris on Saturday may be considered a decided failure . It is true there was little open hostility displayed , but how . was much of that possible under the circumstances ? There were

      plenty of triumphal arches , with Bonapartist mottoes , and eagles , and imperial crowns , and it was endeavoured to show that these were the spontaneous dedications of the people of Paris . But they were unable to effect this . Before the hour at which I now write , everybody in Paris knows that these triumphal arches were raised under the direction of the ministry . Some adornments were got up by the proprietors of the theatres * and by some servile tradesmen , eiiher in receipt of , or in hopes of obtaining , the custom of " Son Altesse Imperiale" By " Vive V Empereur " ' ' these , of course , meant Vive la boutique .

      Two hours before Bonaparte ' s arrival , the streets were occupied by the deputations from the banlieue of Paris , those of the departments of the Seine-et-Oise , and of the Seine-et-Marne ; the corporations of the Halles , &c , and the men employed on the public works . Those poor devils who had been pressed into this evidently disagreable part , looked as serious as if they had come to take part in a funeral ceremony , and their whole deportment was so clumsy and ridiculous , that their appearance was greeted with shouts of laughter from the crowds on the pavements . The poor fellows did not raise a single cry ; they seemed utterly ashamed of the position in which they were placed .

      Bonaparte ' s arrival was notified by the discharge of cannon . After the official receptions had taken place , the cortege set out . Bonaparte was preceded by the mounted National Guard , one regiment of Hussars , a squadron of Guides , and two regiments of Chasseurs . He himself followed at a short distance , and the rear was brought up by two regiments of Lancers , two regiments of Dragoons , two regiments of Cuirassiers , the Gendarmerie ,, and the mounted Republican Guard . '

      He bowed very graciously to some ladies who waved their handkerchiefs at the windows , and , indeed , he might well salute them graciously , for he had no excuse for bowing to anybody else . There ¦ were almost no cries . Even the soldiers , who , it , is well lcnowiij received express injunctions to cry Vive l JLmpereur , were silent , and merely presented arms . Probably each man thought that amidst the shouts of others , his own silence would not be remarked . This fact of the silence of the troops , taken in conjunction with the recently discovered democratic conspiracy in the 43 rd regiment of Infantry , is significant .

      ? From the Bastile to the Faubourg du Temple , there was no cry whatever . In the Faubourg du Temple , there were loud cries of Vive I ' Empereiir . On the Boulevard , between the Faubourg du Temple and the Faubourg St . Martin , there was an evident desire to cry Vive la Republique ; but those who ventured to do so , as "was done by several working men , at a short distance from where I stood , were instantly pounced upon by the sergens de ville who struck the offenders brutally . The Republicans had recourse , in many instances , to the cry of Vive le President de la

      Republique , strongly accenting the last word . From the Port St . Denis , the cry was Vive Louis Napoleon . From the Port St . Denis to to the Faubourg Montmartre , there was no cry . Alonsj . the Faubourg Montmartre there were occasional cries of ViveVJEnipereur , but these were by no means numerous . You may take this as a sample of the " enthusiasm , " which the government journals say was displayed along the route . The barefaced falsehoods contained in their descriptions of the entry into Paris enables us to judge of the veracity of the reports of the journey in the provinces .

      Since Saturday , I have been told by several persons resident on the Boulevards , that police-agents called at every house , to collect subscriptions for the spontaneously" erected triumphal arches . The names of those who refused to subscribe were entered in a book ; so that without doubt they will hereafter suffer for their contumacy . The same trick was resorted to with respect to the illumination at night . The inhabitants were called upon individually , and told that they mmt illuminate . Some of my friends had their houses brilliantly illuminated by the agents of the police . These were not quite so hardly served as they who had to procure the lamps at their own expense .

      Some little things have turned up to prove how false is the boast of the Decembrists , that the man of the coup d ' etat was greeted enthusiastically by the whole population . The occupiers of the houses in the streets through which Bonapartejwas to pass , were previously given to know that they would be held personally responsible for the conduct of every inmate . They were informed , also , that their windows must all be kept open , and it would be < dl the more pleasing to the authorities if only women appeared at them ! This will show the terror the rascal lives in . And he has

      reason : the Reoublicans nnnnt- flmnm » ct tWi . nnmun ,, »« ,. « u ,, reason ; the Republicans count amongst their number men brave enough and devoted enough to sacrifice themselves , in order to rid their country of such a monster . Besides the . vile placards of the Decembrists , there was last week posted ud on the walls in the revolutionary faubourgs , the following verses : — "Tils flatteui's , en avant , ne vous arretez pas , ' De drapeaux sur sa tete elevez une voute , Brulez tous les pavfums du monde sur ses pas , A pleines mains jetez les bouquets sur sa route .

      ' Vos drapeaux ne sauraient Toiler tous nous malheurs ; Nous ne purifirez avec la tnyrrhe et l ' arabre Tant de corruption , pas plus qu ' avec vos fleurs , Tous ne pourrez caelier tout le sang de Decerabre . * Persecution and arrests continue in the provinces . A citizen , name d Julian , was lately arrested in the Commune of the Gers , and I learn from the Courrier du Gers , that Madame Pujos and her tjva daughters , have also been arrested . A Government that stands in fear of woman , must be weak indeed ! :

      The Bourdeaux speech , placarded on every wall , has given occasion to our wags to exercise their propensity for punninoy at the expence of « I'Altesse " . From the passage in which he says , " vous tous qm voulez commemoi U Men de la patrie , vous etes mes soldats ? ( All you who surround me , and who desire * " Forward , vile flatterers , and raise . an arch of banners abo \ ie his head . Burn

      every perfume along his path , and scatter bouquets , on his route . . Your banners -will not veil all our woes ; you will not purify so mucli corruption with myrah and amber ; neither wth your flowers will you conceal the blood spilt in December . " : :

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      the Vox del Teublo , was garroted on the 29 thTjT ^? ::::: ^ so affected his mother that she died next day of o p Ilis e % iti tion so disgusted the commander of the British Tliis O mond , that when that vessel left the harbour he ? teanier ]{ !¦ " ' hoisted . It appears that the number of judo * Jin *«* * , his execution was equal to those who voted for ' it * 1 V ° tG ( 1 a iiiin . decency under these circumstances could not inrlJ , a Se 4 ! l to-jbrcgotheirrevenge . ; ¦ UUce ^ autl ^ . Much emotion has-been awakened here by th r ¦ ** duct of the Cuban authorities towards the A- Cat ' c ° n Several vessels from " this country have been detained " ? ¥ * the crew and passengers being treated with considt-r M Searcllft ( i The Crescent City was lately boarded by a number f " " y of them , in their'proper character , searchih * the , e S 0 I « e dressed in plain clothes , acting as spies . On ° hj s j 'es sel » oilier captain M the Crescent City allowed them to « J \ v ? yaSe ifo

      , but told them that if they did not make considerable 1 es * l , shore , they would stand a very fair chance of beiJ ^ ' ° ° i New York , as his time was quite up . . ' conve yed io Several similar outrages have been committed Tl was stopped , and search was made for an American ' "' was said to be on board . None such was faiinH \ , ? nsi 5 eer > lv l » o man , a passenger , who had a passport , was taken w J" r ' "s" " ) | - " * " « - "g , v .. , .... ^ .. x « « , ^ uaj | jui i , vvus laKen Drisrm

      remains in confinement : and the letter-ba-r of the V , ' ' ? til 1 to the office of the Political Secretary , where it vT tai > " Immediately afterwards , the Count de Pozodalia and VT ^ ' Mr . Jose Frias , were arrested and imprisoned * in iheM ' whether in consequence of the discovery of anv il ) Ml letter-bag of the Cornelia is not known . Both J !! i " ulle highly respected by the Cubans . oenuemen Were

      Immediately on the arrival of the American bark tin * rrn Harold , two bodies of police were placed on board oh she was ordered to be unloaded at once , it havino- hem ( l that she had arms on board , However , none were found * 1 * ** The haughty Spaniards go so far , it is said , as to threaten » r , to allow the Crescent City , when it arrives , to enter the W Mr . Smith be retained as purser . They had better be ai l '' cautious , or they will get Jonathan ' s ( dander up ; and if ill !? they may soon have occasion to sing small . " >

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The General Screw Steam Shi pping Company ' s Hail packet Bosphorus , Captain Benson , arrived on Saturday mornina < ci left the Cape on the 6 th of September . A correspondent " - ! I . Cape writes : — L « General Catheads expedition beyond the Kei has returned , after burning kraal of the chief Knli , and capturing 10 , 000 head of cattle , some horses C < &c . . His Excellency , has expressed Himself highly satisfied , not only with i ' result , but with the conduct of the troops , burghers , and others- his obia * U declares , has been fully attained . The Waterkloof and many of the frontier ' tricts are still infested with Caffres and rebel Hottentots . Hitlialder their At and the celebrated Macomo , have , it is said , made overtures of psace and inthopinion of those best competent to judge , the war is now on its last les » "

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      Australian advices have arrived by the overland mail . From Sydney they roach to the 29 th of July , being : four weeks later than those previously received . From Port Philip they are ' to the 17 th of July . In each case they fully confirm the recent statements regarding the yield of gold both in New South Wales and Victoria .

      As . regards the Mount Alexander Mines , in the latter colony , it appears thatthe escort for the week ending the 3 rd July was expected touring 100 , 000 ounces , leaving 40 , 000 ounces ' in the Commissioned tent to be brought on the next occasion . From the influence of these supplies ' the' price had fallen to 60 s . or 6 & . per ounce , although the miners , beinsr now rich , were generally indisposed to press sales . It was estimated that there was at least

      1 , 000 , 000 / . of unemployed money in the hands of labourers . At the various mining localities of New South Wales the result continued to be increasingly satisfactory , although the reports from the sister colony caused everything like ordinary success to be treated with indifference . Several parties connected with the companies formed in London had arrived at Sydney , and had proceeded to the Bathurst district . The markets were cleared of most kinds

      of provisions as fast as arrivals took place . Wheat was 8 s . 6 d . per bushel , flour 23 / . per ton , and ' hay G / . per ton . Gold at Sydney was higher than at Port Philip , " the quotation being 64 < . for the Turon gold , and 65 s for that of Mount Alexander . The Port Philip accounts of the prospects of the wool crop are very unfavourable , and corroborate the remarks in a letter quoted a few days back . " Whole herds / ' it is said , " will be driven to the

      diggings for slaughter , and the fleece and . the fat will he burnt . On many stations next season no attempt to shear sheep will he made , " In fact , it seems that labour of any kind was almost wholly unprocurable . Among other curious circumstances connected with il ' state of the markets , it is mentioned that the price of bricks at Melbourne was 10 / . a thousand , and it was believed that both bricks and coals would be profitably imported from England .

      The editor of one of the local papers states that it only requires proper machinery to work the quartz , in order to develop the surpassing richness of this portion of the Australian gold fields . W total shipments of gold to . the 26 th of July had'been 1 , 759 , 74 « ., reckoned at the price of 65 s . per oz . Gold was selling atG 3 s . OU to 65 s ., and the exchange against gold was 12 per cent , discount , me Legislative Council was occupied with the New Duties Bill . The letters from Adelaide , South Australia , are to the . Oin o June , but they furnish litde news of importance . A person « a claimed thereward of 1 , 000 / . for the discovery of a gold neia < Broughton , about 110 miles distant , but an expedition totnes P had proved his statement to be a fabrication , ihe Aop market was entirel y drained of goods , and many . articles leic . higher nominal prices than at Port Philip , owing to the forced dilation of the gold assaved in the colony .

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      ' . EARTHQUAKE AT SANTIAGO DE CUBA , ' ¦— r The West India . mail in October invariably brings w *® 0 ™^ , some terrible convulsion of the elements in the _ Webt Whirlwinds , hurricanes , or earthquakes , alway s visit that i region in * August or September , and so thickly studded is ^ iibbean Sea with islands , that the full force of the destrUC . " land or taiions is usually felt on land , and on some unfortunate ^^ other their whole force is generally spent . This year t « ^ ^ the northern islands have been subjected to earthquaKes ^ ^ alarming nature . At Jamaica , in particular , severalter of have been experienced : but it is at the western end or

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      like me the good of the country , you are my soldiers ) , the u of the voulez was seratched out , making it volez , so that the passage read thus : " AH you who surround me , and who steal like me . " What I stated some weeks since , relative to the " appeal to the people" for the empire ; and the election taking place oh the 2 nd of December , will be found to be in the main correct . To-day ' s

      Moviiteuv , contains a decree convoking the senate for the 4 tli of November . The preamble , of the decree , states that : " % f- a change of Government should result from its deliberations , the senatus consultum , which it shall have adopted , will be submitted to the ratification of the French people . " > On the legislative-body will devolve the duty of casting up the votes . Dignified duty for the legislative flunkeys that !

      M . de Gaste , a naval engineer , has addressed to the Senate a petition against the empire , wherein he shows that a revolution will assuredly follow "its proclamation , since the peasantry will naturally expect Louis Napoleon to at once deliver them from all their ills when he is Emperor , and nobody to dispute his power . He will not , ; and cannot do so , so that his popularity and his empire will inevitably fall to the ground , and that in a very short space of time . .

      Bonaparte has liberated Abdel-Kader , who has to reside at Broussa , ; in Turkey . The Sultan will , therefore , b . e again the jailor of a victim of European despotism . The Einir swore on the Koran never to disturb the French in Africa . He pointed out to Bonaparte the verse which forbids the breach of sworn faith , even when \ he . oath is taken to infidels . What said Bonaparte to this ? lie who broke all his oaths , even to the " faithful ?"

      GERMANY . Prussia . —M . ManteufTel has forwarded to the Prussian Ministers at foreign courts a second justificatory document , explaining the circumstances which led to the sudden breaking up of the recent conferences at Berlin , He takes more than one occasion in this circular to remind the coalesced States that the way is still open by which they may honourably resume their old relations with Prussia . .

      The ' correspondent of the Cologne Gazette states that the ministry had resolved to send to the Kreuz Zeiiung a notice , once for all , that its hostile treatment of M . Louis Bonaparte would not be permitted . The Prussian minister to the French Republic , who has , been absent from his post on account of ill health , returns to Paris immediately . The Kreuz Zeitung of the 13 th states that in future all matters of purely provincial interest will-be discussed only in the provincial diets , and then executed by royal ordinance . This report , notwithstanding its respectable origin , needs confirmation . Such a practice would reduce very materially the functions of the chambers ;

      The Berlin correspondent of the Allgemeine Ztituvg has been arrested and expelled from Prussia . Frankfort . —The Senate of . Frankfort has given effect to one of the latest resolutions of the Germanic Diet , and abrogated the political equality of the citizens prescribed in the new constitution . New elections are to take place , and only Christians will be allowed to vote . -

      Hesse Cassel . —We continue to hear of the oppressions of Hassenpflug at Cassel . His last feat has been to ruin a number of inn-keepers and other trades , obnoxious for the part they took in the general resistance to his arbitrary measures , by depriving them of their licenses .

      DENMARK . On the 9 th , the President of the Ministry submitted . to the Chamber their budget of the whole monarchy for the ensuing year . It shows an . income . for the whole monarchy of 13 , 821 , 736 R . thalers , and an expenditure of 12 , 960 , 400 11 . thalers , or a surplus of 861 , 336 R . thalers . Under these favourable circumstances the finance minister intends to defer the introduction of an

      incometax . ITALY . Rome . —Letters from Romagna state that the Singlgaglia trials will be followed by similar prosecutions at Ancona , Jesi , Pesaro , and Fano . Piedmont . —M . Henry Dameth , editor of the Avenir of Nice , had been ordered to quit the Sardinian dominions at the request of the French Government . The Avenir of Nice of the 13 th states that a . considerable number of French lefugees , who had stopped at Nice after the events of the 2 nd of . December , have been removed into the interior by order of the Piedmontese Government .

      Tuscany . —A letter from Florence of the 12 th , in the llisorgimento . of Turin , states that the reading of the'documents . produced by Guesrazzi m his defence still continued in court . The correspondent observes how surprising it is that Guerrazzi should have gained the confidence of the republicans so as to make them believe that he entered into their views , and would be their instrument , when it appears from the documents produced , that he kept a sharp watch over them by means of the police , and that he carried his distrust of them so far as to require the reports of the proceedings of their clubs arid conventicles to be brought to him every evening regularly .. The correspondent is of opinion ' that the inability of Guerrazzi to dominate that party is ' clearly proved .

      Naples . —A letter dated Naples , of the 10 th , addressed to the Mediteraneo of Genoa , states that none of the persons capitally convicted for participation in the events of the 15 th of May , 1848 ,. would be executed , and that it was very probable the King would ere long grant a general amnesty .

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      Persia . —A telegraphic despatch from Trieste , agreeing with the tenor of letters , from Syria ,, states that the Ottoman " troops and the Druses have come into open conflict . The first combats have had no decisive result . The Seraskier has advanced with his forces to . Kleiba ..

      Algeria—Accounts from Algeria state that on the 18 th ult . a strong force was marched against the tribe of the Ouled Mahbouq , at 12 leagues to the south of Constantina , who had given frequent cause of complaint to the French by their revolts , and their retusal to-pay their taxes . The tribe was completely surrounded . It resisted , but after a combat in which it lost 50 men killed or wounded , it was entirely defeated , and several thousand oxen , sheep ,, and camels were seized . The loss of " the French was two killed and four wounded .

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) mi " . ¦ ¦ , New York , October 6 th . Tnis week 1 have no domestic events to record , and the intelligence from abroad is altogether uninteresting , except that from Oubfty which is important and excitingv Fracciola , the printer , of

      News From The Gold Digotgs.

      NEWS FROM THE GOLD DIGOTGS .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 23, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1701/page/2/