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      men who were prevented from earning their bread honestly from want of employment . He also spoke of the means which might be adopted to give employment to liberated convicts , and to bring them back to the paths of honesty . He left the three delegates deeply impressed with gratitude for the solicitude evinced towards the working classes . " The same journal gives an account of a dinner given to the Parisian deputation , at which the Marquis d ' Epinay , the Count de Laferronays , the Prince de Montmorency , the Marquis Duplessis Belliere , and other noblemen were placed here and there among the workmen . This was very clever , and would , no doubt- have its effect for the moment .

      At the dessert the Prince entered the room , and the company all rose . Having filled a glass he said , " with a deep and vibrating voice—Gentlemen , I give you a toast : to France—to my dear country . " The toast was drunk with unbounded enthusiasm , especially by the working men , who are described as having been quite carried away by the spirit of the scene . Each one took away with him the glass in which he had drunk to the health , of the Prince . •* They hoped that Providence and France would one day allow them to drink to the health of the Count de Chambord in the country of his ancestors , and they , therefore , desired to provide themselves with , their glasses . "

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      THE TEXAN BOUNDARY QUESTION . On the 6 th instant President Fillmore addressed a long and important message to Congress on the question of New Mexico , accompanied by an official letter from Mr . Webster , as Secretary of State , to the Governor of Texas , replying to that official ' s letter on the boundary dispute of Texas . A New York paper , speaking of the message and Mr . Webster ' s letter , says : — '• • Both these documents have elicited the warm approbation of the whole country , with the exception of the portions which are red hot with slavery fanaticism . The President shows that his duty requires him to maintain the status quo , and guard New Mexico against the encioachments of Texas , until Congress shall have decided the question of boundary . That question he does not judge ; it is enough for him to know that Texas never had possession of New Mexico , that the United States conquered it ., and that the treaty of peace with Mexico bound the Union to protect the people of the Territory , and confer on them the rights of American citizens . Moreover , the United States have claims upon the unoccupied lands in the Territory which are not consistent with its abandonment to Texas , and , on these grounds , the President , in firm , yet temperate language , announces his determination to prevent and suppress any hostile demonstrations against

      New Mexico on the part of Texas . At the same time he urges upon Congress the duty and necessity of promptly settling the boundary question , and putting a peaceful end to the contest . This recommendation came before the passage of tiie Boundary Bill in the Senate , and doubtless helped it forward . The letter of Mr . Webster to Governor Bell contains a masterly argument of the question , and is every way worthy the reputation of its author . It is indisputable that the new Administration has most creditably met the wants of the crisis , and done all that could be asked for the prevention of any real

      trouble that may have been threatened in the south-west . Its policy is also in perfect accordance with that pursued by the previous Executive ; the tone of President Fillmore ' s Message is a little more diplomatic , and its language less condensed and positive than would have been employed by General Taylor , but otherwise there is no difference . The Message was received in the House with a great deal of bluster by the champions of the south ; and the ultra-slavery party , finding itself embarrassed , held a caucus , at which a Committee of Vigilance reported a series of resolutions of a violent character , but , as it would appear , no practical value . "

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      PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA . Prussia has accepted the Austrian proposition for the formation of a committee composed of plenipotentiaries of the various German states , to be entrusted with the management of the material affairs of the Confederation . The decision is likewise accepted as to the Mayence affair by a committee of arbitration ; but the Austrian demand to stop the march of the Baden troops until the division of the said committee of arbitration has been refused . Prussia has chosen the state of Oldenburg as arbiter in the Mayence business . The cholera has broken out in Prussia . In the small town of Torgau , containing only 7000 inhabitants , 40 cases in one day proved fatal . It has considerably decreased at Magdeburg .

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      KOSSTJTH'S LETTER TO GENERAL CA 8 S . Kufaya ( Asia Minor ) , May 25 , 1850 . GeneraI m—It is already ten months that I have the anguish of exile to endure . Nature has man's mind with wonderful elasticity endowed . It yields to many changes of fate , and gets accustomed even to adversity . But to one thing the patriot ' s heart never learns to inure itself—to the pangs of exile . You remember yon patrician of Venice , who , when banished , feigned high treason , that he might at least from the scaffold cast over the Rialto a glance once

      more . This fond desire I can easily understand . lean so the more , because yon Venetian , though exiled , knew his fatherland to be happy and great ; but I , Sir , carry the dolor of millions , the pains of a downtrodden country in my wounded breast , without having even the sad consolation to think that it could not otherwise be . Ob , had Divine Providence only from treason deigned me to preserve , I swear to the Almighty God the threatening billows of despotism would have fallen like foam from the rock of my brave people ' s breasts . To have this firm conviction , Sir , and instead of the well-deserved victory of freedom , to find oneself in exile , the fatherland in chains , is a profound sorrow , a nameless grief .

      Neither have I the consolation to have found mitigations of this grief at the hospitable hearth of a great free people , the contemplation of which , by the imposing view of freedom ' s wonderful powers , warms the despondent heart , making it in the destiny of mankind believe . * * * * . * * * It is not a coward lamentation which makes me say all this , General , but the lively sense of gratitude and thankful acknowledgments for your generous sympathy . I wanted to sketch the darkness of my destiny , that you might feel what benefit must have been to me your beam of light , by which you , from the capital of free America , have heightened my night .

      It was in BrousBa , G eneral , that the notice of your imposing speech has reached me ; in yonder Brouusa , where Hannibal bewailed his country ' s mischief and foretold the fall of its oppressors . Hannibal , exiled like myself , but still unhnppier , as he was accompanied in exile by the ingratitude of his people , but I by the love of mine . * ? ? * * ? Yes , General , your powerful speech was not only the inspiration of sympathy for unmerited misfortune , so natural to noble feeling hearts—it was the revelation of the justice of God- —it wat a leaf from the koob of fate , un-

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      THE WAR IN THE DUCHIES . Hostilities are still suspended . The position of the two armies remains the same . The news of the reoccupation of the towns of Toenning and Friedrickstadt by the Holstein troops is now contradicted . The Duchies have received no other assistance from Germany than the private subsidies of men , money , and other necessaries ; and , whilst on the one hand the Augsburg Universal Gazette speaks of a plan of the Bavarian Government to summon a congress of the German states , for the object of giving a mutual help to the Duchies , it is rumoured , on the other

      hand , by the German press , that , in consequence ot the Vienna Cabinet having adhered to the London protocol , 30 , 000 Austrians composing the Voralberg corps , commanded by the Archduke Albrecht , and the tenth corps of the German Confederation , are destined , if not already ordered , to enter Holstein , to eventually occupy the Duchy of Schleswig , and to destroy the army of the Duchies . But , if the Hi'lsteiners are lacking assistance on the part of official Germany , a new destroyer of human life has just began its ravages in their ranks , viz ., the Cholera Morbus . Fortunately for them , their

      adversaries are suffering more severely from the presence of the same disease . In stating this , we cannot withhold noticing the singular circumstance , that whenever the Russian hordes advance towards the west of Europe they always bring the fatal Asiatic plague . Thus , in 1831 , they brought it to Poland , from whence it spread over all Europe , England and France not excepted . Again , in 1849 , when they entered Hungary , itfollowed their footsteps , extend ing its fatal visit once more to England and France ; and now , when only some of their ships approached the eastern

      coasts of Schleswig-IIolstein , the dreadful pestilence has re-appeared , not only in Holstein , but also in Prussia , Denmark , and Sweden ; in thd two latter countries for the first time . In fact , the cholera accompunies them as once did the locusts the Tartars . Whenever the latter made an inroad into southeastern Europe they were always accompanied by clouds of locusts , so extensive and dense that they produced a partial eclipse of the sun ; and the fearful devastation they made in the fields was always followed by famine and pestilence .

      Whilst hostilities are suspended between the two belligerent parties , and the fatal strokes of the cholera have followed those of the cannon and the bayonet , Lord Palmerston lias thrown his diplomatic missile against the independence of the Duchies , viz ., a note despatched to the Prussian Government , in which he ¦ sails upon Prussia , in the terms of her treaty with Denmark , to interfere in Holstein , and , ? ' without delay , to use all the means at her disposal to induce the Lieutenancy of the Duchies to respect the engagement which Prussia hns contracted for Holstein as

      well as for the other members of the confederation . Hut to this note the Prussian Cabinet has replied : — «• That the invocation of the treaty referred to is a matter of surprise to the Prussian cabinet . None knows better than the mediating power ( England ) that the simple peace was expressly accepted in the supposition tnat events were to take their free course , and that the settlement of the differences between the Duchies and the King-duke was to be abandoned to the parties then in presence—the eventualities of a decision by force of arms being expressly taken into account . *'

      Another despatch has since been received at Berlin from Lord Palmerston , inviting Prussia to sign the London protocol . An answer was in preparation containing , of course , a refusal . According to General Willisen ' s detailed report of the 22 nd instant , based upon li > t » furnished by the separate regiments , the loss of the Schleswig-Hoistein army in the battle of Idstcdt , fought on the 25 th ultimo , was as follows : —Killed : 22 officers , 2

      surgeons , 36 subofflcers , 476 privates . Wounded ( now in the hospital of Rendsburg ) : 31 officers , 73 subofficers , 687 privates ; likewise wounded , and in Danish hospitals : 14 officers , 51 subofficers , 346 privates . Prisoners : 10 officers , 57 subofficers , and 1005 privates . The whole debt which the different German states owe to the Duchies for the support of the German troops in Holstein , during the years 1848 and 1849 , and which so many ( 23 ) of those states now refuse to pay , exactly amounts to 2 , 718 . 152 dollars ( £ 407 , 722 4 s . 5 d . )» the reimbursement of which would enable the Lieutenancy to preserve Holstein for Germany .

      . . „ ., .. _ . ___ , The following is a translation of the protocol agreed upon at the Foreign-office , on the 23 rd of August , 1850 , bv the plenipotentiaries of Austria , Denmark , France , Great Britain , Russia , and Sweden and Norway : — " The charge d ' affaires of Austria has announced tnat he has been authorized by his court to adhere in its name to the principles enunciated in the preamble and Article 1 of the protocol of the 2 nd of August , 1850 , as also to the declarations contained in the Articles 2 and 4 ; it being always understood that the stipulations of the above-mentioned protocol shall not prejudice the rights of the Germanic Confederation .

      " The Minister of Denmark , while he accepts with satisfaction the adhesion thus given by the Court of Austria to the protocol of the 2 nd of August , thinks it his duty to recal to recollection that it is well understood that the federal rights of Germany above mentioned can only regard the duchy of Holstein and that of Lauenburg as forming part of the Germanic Confederation . # ** The representatives of France , of Great Britain , of Russia , and of Sweden and Norway , while they unanimously render justice to the sentiments which have determined the court of Austria to adhere to the principles established by the protocol of August 2 in the general interest of peace and of the equilibrium of Europe , have taken note of the above-mentioned declarations . " Kolleb , D . Reventlow , E . Dkouynde Lhuys , " Palmebston , Bbunnow , J . T . Rehausen .

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      THE SOUTHAMPTON BANQUET . The banquet given by the Mayor of Southampton to the Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , took place in the Town-hall , on Monday evening . About 250 gentlemen sat down to dinner , including Sir Alexander Cockburn , M . P ., Lord Dudley Stuart , Lord George Lennox , several members of Parliament , and some twelve or thirteen mayors from different parts of the kingdom . The Mayor , in proponing the health of Sir A . Cock * burn and her Majesty ' s Ministers , " made some remarks on the ministerial policy of last session : — "Although the Ministry had not taken the road which many of their friends desired , they had trav < lied by a Bafe road , and for that the country ought to be thankful . ( Hear , hear . ) It was probable that many of the gentle *

      men who were present did not approve of Minister * Koinjr by the Parliament ^ train— (" hear , hear , " and laughter ) - . —they thought that too alow a rate of travelfing . ( Hear , hear . ) He believed many of those before him would be glad to induce the Ministry to take an express train—( a laugh ) , — and to travel with the engine of economy , and as they had one of her Majesty Ministers present to-night , he ( the mayor ) hoped that hon . and learned gentleman would impress upon his colleagues the imnortance of moving a little faster—( laughter and

      cheers ) , —for he believed that was the desire of a great majority of the people . The Ministry , perhaps , thought they were the safety-valve of the engine ; but he thought the true safety-valve was the people , and it was the anxious desire of the great majority of the country that the Government should travel a little faster , but not in increasing salaries—( a laugh ) , — otherwise they must be left far behind by the progress of the nation . ( Hear , hear . )

      The Solicitor-General , in acknowledging the toast , said : — ' He was quite sure he only spoke the sentiments of her Majesty ' s Government when he said that they were anxious to discharge their duties in such a manner as to maintain and promote all the great interests of the country . Allowance must , however , be made for the position m which the Government were placed . The Mayor had said that he did not quite approve of Ministers travelling by the Parliamentary train , but it was a very difficult thing to make all classes of the community go on at the pace at which the Mayor was desirous of travelling . ( " Hear , and laughter . ) There was this advantage in the Parliamentary train , that it was at all events a cheap one . ( Hear , hear . ) If they wanted to travel very rapidly , they would have to pay bo much the more dearly for it . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 31, 1850, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1851/page/5/