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FRANCE . Tfce' Moniteur du Soir' states that fiye soldiers were arrested on Thursday near the Column of Jnly , where they had placed a crown of immor-The trial of the Legitimists who * ere anested some time since in the Rue de Itumford , on a charge of eonspiring to overthrew the Republic , was concluded before the Assize Court on Thursday . They were found guilty of having formed a secret society , and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment , varying from one month to six days .
A . -rat quantity of Socialist pamphlets were seized on the 25 th ult ., at a bouse at Marennes ( de Sevres ) They were immediately handed over to the Attorney-General . ' The editor of the « Ban Homme , ' a Socialist journal of Le Mans , M . Mancan , has been found guilty by the jury , and sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment and a fine of 2 , 000 f „ for ' calumny' against the Commissary of Police . The Prefect of Bordeaux has dissolved tbe National Guard of Liboume . . ' _ Accounts ironi Severs of the 28 tU ult ., state that incendiary fires are becoming of alarming frequency in the Nievre i
. _ . . . , _ , The responsible editor of the' Independent o . Vannes was tried a few days ago before ihe Court of Assizes of the Morbihan , for having published articles ; attacking the Catholic religion , exciting dtizens to . hatred of the government , & c . He was acquitted on all the charges except one — of having published an article in verse , bv a M . Colin , addressed to tbe insurgents of Beiie Isle , and justifying offences described as crimes by the law . On this he was condemned to tta days' imprisonment ind lOOf . fine . The same sentence was also passed 0 » Colin .
M . Faures , ex-editor of the ' Pe * nle Souvenir of Lyons , who was in custody on k charge of publishing seditious articles , esraped on Monday week from the gendarmes . As he was behig conveyed from a court martial , where his presence had been re quired , to prison , be was met by some friends , who begged of him to accept an invitation to breakfast . They pressed him se strong that the gendarmes aVioweiibun to go , and went with him . After breakfast the friends insisted on giving the officers wine , and Euro , on pretence of . catting the *•»« . £ <>* u P ' 8 , l Pf away by the back doer . The escape is supposed to have been lanned .
p Asoxhbb Democratic Victory . —The election for the department of tbe Vosges has terminated in favour of the Democratic candidate . M . Guilgot , the democrat , obtained 31 , 195 votes , while General Raonl , the Government candidate , obtained 23 , 779 votes . The carious part of the affair is , that General Raonl is dead . He died on the Thursday before the election , but his death was not known to the electors . Had the majority been in favour of General Raonl , there would , according to the law of France , be another election . Soma time since that M . Victor Hennequin , one of the editors of the ' Democratic Pacifique , ' was
condemned by the criminal court of Paris to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 2 . 000 f ., foi saying ( what was true . ) that the President of the Republic bad not pad up his subscription 50 , OOOf . to the cites ouvrieres . The excessive injustice and severity of the case created considerable sensation . II . Hennequin appealed , and the Court of Cassation has quashed the whole of the proceedings , on the ground that they were irregular . Paris , Sunday . —M . Vidal , who was recently elected as representative for Paris , was elected at the same time in the department of the Lower Rhine . He has intimated his intention of making hu option for tbe Loser Rhine , so that there will be a new election for Paris . M . Emile de Girardin ias already announced himself as a candidate for Paris on the Republican interest .
The moderate papers begin already to cry out against M . Vidal for making bis option in favour of the Lower Rhine , instead of for Paris ; and to complain that the ohject of the Socialists is ' to keep np the agitation of tbe capital , and to revive the passions which were beginning to be extinguished . ' It is only two days since the same papers were taunting the Socialists with not daring to risk another election in the capital , and proclaiming that they were sure to be beaten . The facts appears t » be , that M . Vidal had given a promise to his supporters in the Lower Rhine to elect in favour of that department , in the event of his being twice elected , and that they now hold him to his bargain .
The petition of the delegates of the provincial journals against the law on the press was presented on Monday to the committee charged to examine that lav . 'La Presse' announces that the Minister of Finance has resolved to propose a duty on paper on its removal from the manufactory . Several arrests were made on Saturday evening at a house in the Rue Soufflet , where a secret meeting was held to organ ? S 2 a subscription for the dismissed Socialist schoolmasters . Eighty persons are in custody at the Prefecture de Police , and some important papers , arms , and revolutionary emblems were discovered at their residences .
Tuesday . —Yesterday , tbe ' Voix du People' wai seized for an article entitled ' Malthusiasm and Socialism . ' The * Moniteur , * in announcing that fact , says that its r < sponsible editor is to be prosecuted—first , for an outrage against the religion the establishment of whiflh is legally recognised in France ; and , secondly , for an attack against the principle of property . The National Guard of Lfrigmm ( Aude ) have been dissolved by decree of the President of the Republic
GERMANY . Munich , March 21 . —Last night the patrols in tbe street were doubled , and precautionary measures adopted , fears being entertained that theprohibition of all newspapers in the public-houses , and taverns will cause public disturbances . SWITZERLAND . The delegates of certain societies of German workmen were arrested a few days ago at Morat , in Switzerland , and their papers were seized . It appears from them that they were in communication with several German associations relative to a new armed expedition against the Grand Duchy of Baden . In consequence of this discovery tbe Federal Council had taken severe measures to prevent the execution of the design .
ITALY . ROME , Mabcu 20 , — Tbe result of the late elections in Yrance has filled the more zealous upholders of despotism in the Papal dominions with dismay , and they begin again to anticipate some unpleasant compV . c . 'ion of events in that quarter , by which the final and undisputed restoration of the reigning Pontiff to the independent throne of his predecessors may be delayed and endangered , if not altogether hindered .
The probability of Rome being ' honoured' with the presence of " the Papal court so long as the French army garrisons tbe city is , of coarse , di minished by the threatening aspect of the Parisian horizon , but it is not in France alone that the progress of socialism affords ground for serious apprehensions amongst the partisans of governments of ancien regime . Here , also , although communism and socialism are almost words without meaning , SO little have they been brought under public consi . deration , the republican principle is obtaining a steady development ; the followers and agents of
Mazzini are unwearying in their propagandist labours , and secret societies , the inevitable consequences of a tyrannical and oppressive form of government , are multiplying in numbers and importance , in spite of their members being now and then thinned by exile or imprisonment . One of these societies , entitled the « I talian Association / has the following ostensible ends in view , which are distributed in prospectuses printed at a sotdistmt ' Itali an Typography * as audaciously as it neither censor of the press , siirri , or prisons were in existence in the city .
The Italian association tends to unite in one common idea , both as to means and end , all those elements of Italian action which aspire to effect the liberty and the independence of Italy . Every member of the association must consider it to be based upon the following articles : —1 . To sacrifice to the common good every sentiment of private interest or self-Jove . 2 . To lend all possible aid in educating and instructing . 3 . To labour in the propagation of the Unitarian republican principle . 4 . To demonstrate to the people their rights and « tew duties . 5 . jo combat immorality under whatsoever aspect it aay present itself . 6 . To iake espetaal care of the children and youth ef the poorer classes . 7 . To wear national dresses so as to cncoiragcttenjinrifMturers of them , and furnish
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bread to such of our people as work in the manufactories of national cloths . 8 . To employ those artists who ' give proofs of iovinjf liberty : and the independence of their country . 9 . To : assist every one to earn his daily bread honourably by the sweat of his brow . 10 . To . « er wthe association by every means , at every time , and in every P ' * - The Roman governmen t , fully aware «*«*•*" istence and activity of these secret societies ^ em lHieuce auu activity «» . „»— ------ . . '' / nm such from
, ploys various hostile measures against as , want of evidence , it cannot attack with the carnal weaoons of the police . The printing offices ? f the SL J * ^^ fz ; sSZ the vile sect of Mazzini—the Lent preachers imeign g ainst Slaved maxims of J ^^ Z the altar—Father Bernardino , in the lasnionauie nnrch of San Carlo , holds forth . upon the danger „ f I Xral opiniors with an unction never ye disnlaved whilst warning a flock from the perils of So Zrtak-polilks have everywhere usurped the nlacfo ^^ religion in the house of God-the ririSaUrms of the church are brandished against ¦
temporal foes— t t And pulpit , drum ecclesiastic , Is beat with fist instead of a stick .. Whilst these m eans are being adopted for the conversion of such sinners as have still a lingering tendency for the transitory glories of the Roman eagle , other plans are pursued for the fortification and preservation of those whose political faith u considered as but little tainted by the late revolutionary events . All the government clerks , employes in the different ministerial departments , and paid
officials , who have survived the shears of the councils of censure , all the officers and ssldiers remaining in the army , every one in fact who takes g overnment pay ( with the exception of the spies and sKrri , whose finD attachment to the Papal sway needs no such confirmation ) are obliged to resort in detachments to monasteries and confraternities of different religious orders , where , for eight days , they undergoe a vigorous course of expnrgatory doctrinal diet , prayers , fasting , and exhortations , known by the denomination of spiritual exercises . ' Monsignor Gazzola , editor of the newspaper entitled « Progresso , ' during the republic , and author of several pamphlets against the papal government , and the Pope himself , of tremendous severity , has just been condemned to imprisonment for life .
We learn from the * Giornale di Roma' that Monsignor Bedini , Pontifical Commissary Extraordinary if the Tour Legations , has issued a circular prohibiting functionaries of any class from expressing their political opinions against the government , and directin ? that strangers shall not be admitted into the pontic offices to converse with the officials , unless upon business .
THE LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS . NAPLES , Feb . 24 th . —The insufferable dullness and g loom which have reigned in this fair city for some weeks past , malgre the Carnival and the usual balls and gaieties , have at last been dispelled by the excitement caused by one of the finest eruptions of Mount Vesuvius ever known . For some twelve or fourteen days , the mountain has been in labour , giving manifest indications , by groans and wailings , of bringing forth speedily something more than a mouse . On the 6 th , volumes of smoke and vapour , with occasional sheets of flame , were succeeded , from time to time , by awful subterranean rumblings ; and
on the morning of the 7 th the lava made its appearance , running down the mountain , on the side of Torre Annunziata , in seven or eight distinct streams-On the evening of the latter day , a party of us ascended to the Hermitage , and tbence , on foot , with guides and torches , to the cone , from whence a fine view was obtained of the lava at a white heat , as it was pumped out of the crater , and thence bent its way in the direction of Pompeii and the Bosco Reale . This ascent was very fatiguing and disagreeable , and one of the party had a narrow escape of fracturing a limb by a fall . During the night of the Sth -the roaring and bellowing of the crater kept most people from enjoying their rest , and on the whole of the
9 tb , volumes of smoke , lava , and vapour , together with huge stones and serriae , were ejected without intermission . On the evening of this day a special train was announced to leave Naples at six o ' clock for Torre Annunziata , returning at eleven . About four hundred natives and foreigners availed them , selves . of this opportunity ; and a strong party of Inglesi , with guides and torches , and mules and donkeys , proceeded from the station at Torre Annun ziata to the Bosco Reale , which is about five miles , vhrough narrow lanes and country roads . There was no cause for apprehension , however , as the government had taken care to send strong bodies of troops , both horse and foot , for the protection of
life and property , and the preservation of order . The sight that met our view on our arrival at the Bosco was grand in the extreme . The lava presented a frontage of about at least a mile and a half , and was advancing slowly but steadily and surely , and devouring everything in its way . On the road we had met parties of poor peasants carrying beds , chairs , pots and pans , and other moveable furniture , which they had been able to save from the devouring liquidthe women and children rending the air with their groans and cries and supplications to the good San Gennaro , the patron saint of these parts . These poor wretches were thrown on the world homeless , penniless . By the time of our arrival , w hich was
shout nine o ' clock , the lava had taken complete possession of the wood , having devoured aboat half of it . At times a row ' of three or four hundred saplings caught fire , simultaneously , producing a vivid flame that lighted up the country for miles around . Some splendid full-grown ilex , oak , and ash trees , offered in the ponderous trunks a momentary resistance ; but it was to no purpose ? the larger ones generally exploded with a loud report and a leap of twelve or fourteen feet in the air , to be consumed like tinder on their descent . It was curious to observe , when , from a sudden rash of lava , which always occurred after a temporary obstruction , how the larger trees j < ave out tens of thousands of little jets of steam from the knees and elbows of the smaller branches . It was
owing to the roots and trunks coming immediately and suddenly in contact with the lava , and before the whole tree had had a preparatory roasting previously to its final combustion . In these cases the tree generally exploded ; those , on the contrary , that had bad their initiatory grilling , generally bowed tbeir heads slowly and majestically , dying , like Caasar , in their dignity . As this novel and brilliant spectacle quite absorbed our attention , the majority of us lost the return train to Naples , and we decided to pass the night on the spot . There was no moon , but tbe stars shone clearly , and the sky was cloudless ; a cold tramontana , however , on one side , and the insupportable heat of the advancing furnace on the other , made it necessary for us to keep revolving from time to time like bottle-jacks before the lava , to obviate being frozen on one side and baked on the other . At about three o ' clock in the
morning the eruption was at its height . The amount of lava was quintupled , and the masses ef stones which shot up into the air descended with a reverberating crash . -It was the discharge of these stones which caused a noise that rendered our voices inaudible . I can only compare it to the concussion produced by the broadside of a threedecker . Tbe ground at times trembled under our feet , and a wailing , sobbing , distressing sound seemed to indicate that nature was undergoing a horrible subterranean convulsion ; and thus gave vent to the ' throes and throbs' of her agony . At about four o ' clock the destroyer advanced to a farmhouse and outbuilding , which seemed from their
solidity , being built of rubblestone , and joined with the well-known Roman cement , likely to offer a stout resistance . And here the lava seemed to he endowed with consciousness and instinct . No sooner did it feel the momentary check than it commenced rising like the wa ' ter in the lock of a canal , and from being at its arrival about twelve feet deep , speedily rose to abeut thirty ; and attacking the bomb-shaped solid stone roof of the main building , and at the same time running in at the windows and doors , caused a ratification and condensation of air , that made the whole concern sauter with a terrific report . A very serious accident nearly occurred at tbe time , from the incautious curiosity of a ' freeborn' citizen of the States . When no traces
of the farm or offices was any longer visible , being covered by a smooth surface of liquid fire , the poor agriculturist , the proprietor , together with hia jposa , their children , and some half-dozen louts , set up a yell , and beat their breasts , and tore their hair in the true Neapolitan fashion . Instead of saving as much as they could from destruction beyond their mere bidding , they did not attempt to remove a single thing ; tbns all the doors and fittings , man . gers , troughs , also about an acre of cabbages , car . rots , and celery , together with various gates and farming utensils , were allowed to be destroyed . There was ample time to move thote things , but they preferred howling and calling on San Gen . Bars either to do it for them or stop the torrent of Uvi .
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A still more interesting and affecting spectacle was presented about an hour after by the destruction of a small church embosomed in thii hapless wood . The lava here , as , at the farm , had a rather tough job from the extreme solidity of the edifice ; and with a sort of instinct and conscious } pride in its own irresistible power , it dashed forward to the attack , despite the moans and chants of a parcel of Franciscan ; friars connected with the church , and of the mute sorrow of the poor cwre . KThe ornaments of the altar , together with the pictures , statue * , and finery of the Virgin and the patron saints , and the parish records , bad all been removed ; but tbe incessant entreaties of the cur / failed to induce his
parishioners to put their shoulders to two fine doors , and lift them off their hinges to a place of security , which they could easily have done . The bells also might have been saved with little exertion . No ; the Virgin or the patron saint would either appear corporeally , that is vi ibly , and stop the sacrilegious destroyer , or the edifice would resist and go scatheless . From time to time the bells were tolled mournfully , and ewe , monks , and parishioners chanted tbe funeral dirge of the sacred edifice where most had been baptized , and which . was associated with all the prominent parts pf their little secluded lives . The lava here insinuated itself into the crypt of the building , therahy undermining it so that it
Was literally a temple rent in twain , ' the two nearly equal portions of which rocked and tottered to their base , and then fell—b « Ury , bells , and all—into , the burning gulf . Several passages , of the « Inferno ' : ef Dante were called to recollection this night , and the divine poet ably describes what here palpably and tangibly represented hell , though upon earth . For half an hour an intense dark green flame played over where once stood the doomed edifice , caused perhaps by the fusion of the belUmetal below . . In other parts blue flames of various degrees of intensity and depth of colour , played and flickered about . All night parties arrived from Naples , who , had missed the train ; and the wood was glittering with
torches approaching and receding in the distance . The arrival of a large body of priests , mounted on all the available jackasses and mules in tbeneigbbour . hood for miles round , caused an immense '; sensation among the rustics , as there was ' . little , 'doiibt these worthy men would soon settle the business of the ruthless ^ euemy , and put .. things to rights ; so to it they went—clergy and laity ; ,: and , on our departure from this scene of desolation , and woe , the welkin resounded with the exertions of some hundreds of pairs of lungs . Much of the beauty of the effect faded on the approach of daylight ; and when we left , which was at exactly half past six in the morning , the lurid glare and vivid brilliancy of the lava
was succeeded by a black carbonaceous dulness , with only here and there a deep red glow ; the volume of lava had also diminished , and the crater wai hushed . Nature seemed to have a slight intermission of her pangs , to be resumed the following even , ing . On our return to Naples ; we learned that a tragedy of another and a more sanguinary kind had been enacting elsewkere during the night . Hundreds visited the crater itself , and the mountain was literally dotted with little bright starlike points , ascending and flitting like will-o ' -the-wisps . The effect was picturesque in the extreme . A party of American officers of the squadron here , with characteristic and national rashness and curiosity ,
approached too near , and one of the officers , a fine handsome young fellow , received a mass . of hot calcareous matter on , the right shoulder , which stripped the flesh to the bone as far as the elbow . There was no actual fracture , but the hosmorrhage was so violent , and so long a time elapsed before be received proper medical aid , that be lies with little hope of recovery . All the Galenic skill of the place is tending him . He is only two-and-twenty , and remarkably amiable and handsome , and quite the pet of the squadron and of the ladies . He holds the position of Commodore ' s naval aide-de-camp , and is a lieutenant in rank . Only a few nights since we had seen him at a ball , the gayest of the gay , his fine
manly form and features making him almost ' the observed of all observers . ' But another accident , within ten yards of the same spot , and almost at the same time terminated fatally . The victim of his rashness was a Polish officer , who received a mass of stone of some tons weight , on the left thigh , which caused a compound fracture , and there he lay and bled to death , his blood running down into tbe very crater itself , wbereit boiled , and hissed , and steamed . A Neapolitan gentleman , who related the particulars to us , nearly lost his life in his exertions to bring the body down the side of the mountain , for at tbe time the lava and stones fell in all directions thick
and fast . Another individual , a native , had the dexter side of his lower jaw completely removed by a stone , which was shot obliquely out of the crater while he was stretching ever peering into its fiery depths . The catalogue of contusions , abrasions , and lesions on tbat eventful night would nearly fill one of your columns . Tbe ladies were everywhere in the van of danger and fatigue , and some have not come off scot free . The sex have a great deal more courage than we men are willing to give them credit for . This Is proved here daily by tbe intrepidity small and delicate women show , in their ascents ; true , it is to gratify curiosity—a strong instinct on dit in their nature .
The whole of that magnificent and extensive wood , Bosco Reale , is now destroyed ; not a vestage remains ; and-the fair crops of springing wheat , the pasture and arable land , where are they ? They no longer form a part of this earth ' s surface . The face of the country to within a short distance of Pompeii is changed—the roads , tbe landmarks , the means of communication from one point to another , are obliterated—all lies buried under a superstratum of from twelve to fifty feet of lava . It is generally admitted
that in any other country the exertions and energy of the people would have saved nearly the whole of tbe timber , and much else that is now lost . Twenty men could have cut the trees in a line faster than the lava approached , which might then have been carted off by others , and relays of about the same number would thus have saved property worth several thousand pounds—a kind of property very valuable , too , here , where firewood is so dear . The lava has now nearly reached the sea , and it is said covers a superficies of abort fourteen miles .
SWEDEN . Letters from Stockholm announce that by a general order the Swedish navy is put on a footing of war . The object of the measure is not known , but it is generally believed to be merely precautionary against all the eventualities which the present complications nv ht bring about . SPAIN . At Madrid all tbe opposition journals were confiscated on the 23 rd ult ., for animadverting on the braldom in which Narvaez keeps the Queen . A USTRIA AND HUNGARY . Arad . —Three more sentences of death have been passed , but they have been commuted into imprisonment in irons from fifteen to twenty-one years . One of these sentences was upon a former magistrate .
RUSSIA AND TURKEY . The Austrian ' Wanderer' states , from . Galatz . of the 3 rd inst ., that the aspect of affairs continues to increase in gloom .- The Russian troops have not left the Danubian principalities . General Luders is expected at Galatz ; he is to review some regiments which were lately quartered on the banks of tbe Deiniper . An unusual activity prevails at Sebasbpol . The fleet has been placed on a war footing , and the workmen in the docks are employed night and day . The Russian government has offered to enlist Grecian sailors under most advantageous terms to tbe latter . A great many sailors have come from tbe islands of the Archipelago , and en | aged to serve for two years .
We learn by letters of tbe 9 th ult . from Constantinople that the Hungarian-Polish ' renegades' passed tbe Dardanelles on the 7 th on their way to Alexandrette . The steamer Taif is waiting at Varna for the Russian Poles , who are to go to Malta . We have advices of the 6 th from Brussa , in the province of Natolia , according to which all preparations were being made for the removal of Kossuth and followers to Kintahia . The exiles are to be sent off in troops , composed of both Poles and Hungarians ,
instead of being separated as was at first proposed . The refugee question is not yet definitively settled . Austria demands that tke period of detention should be five years ; Turkey proposes one year . The ' Wanderer' states that there can be no doubt that the Russians will for the present continue to occupy the Danubian Principalities . Omar Pasha , Commander-in-Chief Of the Turkish troops . tbere , who'is now at Bukarest , behaves with great coolness to the Russian authorities .
GREECE AND THE LEVANT . From Salamas , we learn , under date of the 21 st of March , that nothing had , as yet , been done in the way of settlement of . the pending differences , as Baron Gros had not yet made himself fully master of the subject . Meanwhile , Sir William Parker re-
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tains possession of tDBH tWrty-five ; prizes , to the ruin of the owners , as well of ships as cargoes ; and what with the shortness Of provisions and the bitter cold Prevailing ( thermonieter as low as 38 deg . ) rib inconsiderable degree of discontent prevailed amQng ' the Greek crews , : who are bordering ou desperation at tbe idea of the misery and famine which must reign in their families . Malta , March 26 .-r ? The French steamer of the loth , from Naples , brought here a Mr . G . B . Naudi . It appears that this Naudi was arrested at Palermo , and found to be the bearer of some of Mazzini's 11 1 in liiTi V 1 " " '" ] 1
pamphlets , and also of letters from some Italian re . fugees in Malta , to some parties in Palermo . As a blind to the police , these letters and papers were addreased to the English consul at Palermo , who , of course , repudiated all , knowledge of Mr . G . ti . Naudi , or / the parties who . sent . them . One , of the letters stated , that this Mr . G . B . Naudi was a ' sworn brother in whom implicit confidence could be placed . ' The Sicilian authorities sent him to Naples in a steamer of war , and Mr . Temple believing , or feigning to believe , that he , Naudi , was what he stated himself to be , a Maltese . merchant , who went to Palermo ori business , and took charge of these
letters and papers , innocently and without a knowledge of their contents , interceded with the Neapolitan authorities for his release , and he was sent bete in the French steamer . The Malta government addressed a letter to the President of tbe Chamber of Commerce , upon this subject , with the president ' s reply . These letters have drawn forth rejoinders from Mr . Naudi , in a paper called the' Avvenire , ' the organ oi a club named the 'Circolo Maltese / of which he is a member . In consequence of thi " affair , three refugees , the Marquis Milo , Signore Alberto Sichera , and Signer Bottari , have received notice from the police , to prepare to quit the island ; nine others are also said to be implicated .
INDIA . News from Bombay , by the Overland Mail , to the 2 nd of March , brings the following ;—The . « Delhi . Gazette' of the 23 rd of February , contains the following particulars of an expedittbtl against the Affredies : — ; . * We have letters from Peshawur , dated the 14 th inst . from which we gather that there-was skirmishing both on the 10 th and lltb , on the way from Muttunee to Kohat , and on the 13 tb , whilst the
force was returning through the passes . The 31 st Native Infantry and Coke's Infantry have suffered severely , the latter are said to have behaved splendidly . Ensgn W . II : Sitwell was killed ( cut to pieces , ) and Lieut . Hilliard , 23 rd , severely wounded , Only three or four European sold'ers were wounded , they are said to have gone to their work very steadily and did not fire until sure of their mark . The shrapnel ) , from Fordyce ' a guns , astounded the insurgents more than anything else .
'The expedition seems to have been completely successful ; no . regular stand was made by the enemy , but a galling and uncertain fire was kept up in the passes . Six villages have been destroyed , and of course a number of the enemy , the amount of whose loss it is impossible to ascertain . correctly . A-force has been left to occupy the pass near Mut tunee—one correspondent , says a party of Pollock ' s levy , another , that a detachment of the Rifles and Coke's Punjaub Infantry are in charge . 'The Commander-in-Chief and . the Kohat expe . ditionary force returned to Peshawur on the Hth inst . Head-quarters was to commence its march back , in two or three days afterwards . '
Just as the mail was about to close , letters from the Jullundur Doab reached Bombay , to the effect that in the affair at Kohat with the Eusofzyees , our people were considered to have had the worst o ' f it . Ensign Sitwell , of the 31 st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry , was killed , being literally hacked to pieces . One of his arms was cut off and fixed to a spear head as a trophy . Lieutenant flillard , of the 2 ord Bengal Native Infantry , was wounded dangerously , if not fatally , by a shot through the lungs , and 150 men killed and wounded . No results have been obtained , and it is surmised that operations on a large scale will be resumed . The Commander-in-Chief , who was with the force , had , it was started , returned to Peshawur .
UNITED STATES , CALIFORNIA , AND CANADA . ( From the 'New York Tribune , ' of March 20 th . ) Since our last issue , the United States Congress has been principally occupied with the discussion of Slavery , and the kindred topics which have been the leading subjects of interest during the present session . Three important speeches have been made in the Senate by Mr . Calhoun , Mr . Webster , and Mr . Seward , presenting an elaborate and powerful statement of the widely-differing views maintained by those gentlemen respectively and arguing the whole question of Slavery and the territories in the various aspects of which the complicated and exciting subject is susceptible .
[ Here follows a summary of Mr . Calhoun ' s speech , which is . already familier to our readers . Ed . A . 5 . ] On Thursday , the 7 th ult , the floor and galleries of the Senate Chamber , were crowded with a vast assembly , drawn together by the announcement that Mr . Webster was to address ' the Senate at tbat time . His speech , which was one of his most deliberate , if not most able performances , is far from being satisfactory to the public sentiment of the North . It was unworthy of bis distinguished fame , and fell short of the demands of the occasion . Mr . Webster contended that the insertion of the Wilraet Proviso , prohibiting the introduction of slavery into the
Territories in any bill for their government , was nugatory and useless . Texas had been admitted , with her slave institutions ; it had been provided that all new States formed out of her territory should be slave States ; but at the same time , slavery was excluded from California and New Mexico by the law of nature , which had erected impassable barriers to its introduction within their limits . He maintained that every portion of the territory in this country had a fixed and immutable character , which no legal arrangement could modify . For this reason , he would no more apply the principle of the Wilmot Proviso to the government of California than he would to that of Canada , in case she should seek for
admission to the Union . In allusion to the question of fugative slaves , Mr . W . argued that the North had failed in her duty to the Constitution by refusing her aid in their capture and delivery . The South had cause to complain of this neglect . The duty was imposed by the Constitution , and the North was bound to fulfil it . In like manner the public agitation of the subject at the North has been conducted in a manner not only to vitiate the vernacular of the country , but to produce needless excitement and irritation . Mr . W . concluded his speech with an impassiened eulogium on the value of the Union , and an earnest appeal to the patriotism and philanthropy of the Senate , to abstain from every measure that shall be hostile to its duration .
Mr . Seward , in one of the most important and eloquent speeches which have been made in the Senate during the present Session , adopted a different course of argument from that of either of the two distinguished Senators who preceded him . on the Slavery question . He maintained the immediate admission of California into the Union , replying at length to the various objections which have been urged against the measure . Amoug the reasons which he advanced in favour ol the reception of California , he dwelt on the importance of unity , between the different portions of the country , now extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific , and composing a numerous population , speaking the same
language , having the same origin , and cherishing common sentiments and principles . In view of the position , the power , the capabilities of America , among the nations of the world , he regarded disunion as inadvisable , presumptuous , and not to be thought of for a moment . California was now a cooiplete State . She could never become anything less—could never again be a province or colonycould never shrink into the dimensions of a Federal dependent territory . If she was not received as one of the sister States of the Union , she would soon set up far herself . She bad many motives for independence ; if she did not contemplate it , it was because she did not expect rejection ; if she chose it , we had no power to prevent it . We could not reach her by rail or steam . She could defy our
army and navy . Nor would she go alone . Oregon , with the western declivity ot | he Sierra Nevada , and tho entire Pacific coast would follow in her footsteps . Mr . S . was opposed to all compromise on the subject of slavery . He would not surrender any portion of human freedom for the gold and power of the western El Dorado . He had perfect confidence in the perpetuity of the Union . He could discover no omens of revolution . There would be ho revolution , but one that began and ended in Congress , He should , therefore , vote , directly for the admission of California , without conditions , qualifications , and without compromise . Alarge meeting has been held in the Broadway Tabernacle , for the adoption of measures with reference to the permanent relief of the Hungarian refa .
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gees . His Honour , ' MayprfWdodhulli presided at the . meeting , which was addressed by Horace Greeley , John Van Buren , oNathaniei B . Blunt , arid others ; ; A committee ; wag appointed to . receive subscriptions in aid of the Hungarians , on whose behalf the meeting was / called ... It ; irproposed to raise ' a sum of at least 10 , 000 dels ., and apply it to the purchase of lands in the West , with agricultural implements , seeds , animals , and supplies , sufficient for the establishment pf the exiles on their own farms , where they . ' may ^ be joined by their families , unless recalled to Europe by political changes . n 1 iiiii ^ iriT ^ Thiiiiiliiiii hi ' m
The expedition in search of Sir John Franklin , which has been started by private subscri ption in this city , is to consist of two or three schooners suitable for the navigation of the-Arctic Seas , of from seventy to ninety tons burden . Lieut . De Haven , who was attached to the Exploring Expedition , has accepted the command of the enterprise , and will sail with his company from this pert about the 1 st of May ., . ' " . A disastrous fire occurred at Buffalo oh the 10 th inst . destroying several public buildings and fifteen or twenty private houses and stores , making a total loss of 300 , 000 dols . The property destroyed was in the most beautiful part of the city ;
The trial of Prof . Webster for the murder of Dr George Parkman , commenced yesterday in Boston . Between fifty and sixty witnesses on each side are in attendance , and the Court-room is thronged with an immense crowd ' of spectators . No disclosure * have yet been made to , the public to relieve the subject from its original dismal obscurity . The late Municipal Elections in Canada have resulted iii favour of the Annexation candidates . The dates , from the City of Mexico are to the 19 th ult . There was a prospect of peace between the Indiana and Yucatecoes . Gen . Mejia had been obliged , by ill health , to resign his post as Commandant General of Durango .
The news from Texas is to the 1 st inst . The Indians continue their aggressions on the white travellers . The legislature , which recently adjourned , has passed an act : for the great Pacific Railroad , granting the right of way to the government , and giving to the builder every alternate section of the public land on which the roadraay pass , to the extent of five miles on each side . An act has also been passed extending the time for filing claims against the late Republic to September , 1851 , and barring all claims not filed by that time . We have dates faom San Francisco to Feb . 1 , a fortnight later than those given in our last issue There is no additional news of importance .
Dreadful Steamboat Disaster ; — Bai . ti . more ; March 12 th . —The 'Alabama ( Montgomery ) Journal , ' received this evening ,, has a full account of the dreadful accident to the steamer Orviile St . John . She burnt about four miles below Montgomery . It is supposed that there were 120 pesons on board , many of whom leaped into the river and were drowned . Others perished in the flames , and others were crushed by the guards of the boat . The ladies threw themselves into the river , and most of those on board we re burnt . Mrs . Hall , with her daughter in her arms , was drowned . The clerk of the boat ( Mr . Mear ) in attempting to save her was nearly drowned .
The only article on board that was saved , was the trunk of Col . Preston . There was a number of returned Cah'fomians on board who lost their all . Col . Rodman Price of the United States Navy , agent from California , lost his baggage , with which were 250 , 000 dols belonging to the government . Mr . Maul , a returned Californian , was very severely injured . F . H . Brooks of Mobile , rumoured to have been lost , was saved . In addition to the money lost by Mr . Price , were 10 , 000 dols belonging to Mr . Knowland , and a large sum by Mr . Schmidt .
A considerable portion of the sum in charge of Mr . Price was gold dust , in the safe , and may be recovered . The clerk of the boat has furnished the following list of the names as far as ascertained : — Lost— -Mrs . Hall and daughter , supposed of Augusta , Ga . ; Mrs . Vaughan , Miss Vaughan . Mrs . M'Cann , Mrs . Haley , Mrs . Wright , and one or two others ; Messrs . M'Cann , of South Carolina ; T . C . Carson and son , of Dallas county ; Judge Lindsey , of Mobile ; Thomas Stephens , printer , of Camden ; and four others , ^ whose names were unknown . Hugh Hughes , mate ; Peter , steward ; Esther , the chambermaid . The second cook and eight negroes were saved , also all of the crew with the exception of the second mate . Another account supposes that there were fifty lives lost and 600 , 000 dols . Many persons are still missing ,
National Reform Association.—In Pursuanc...
National Reform Association . —In pursuance ef the recommendation of a meeting' of reformers , held in the City of London , on Thursday * December 20 , 1849 , Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., in the . chair , to hold a conference of the friends of reform from all parts of the kingdom , the Council have decided that the Conference shall be held in Crosby Hall , Bishopsgatc-street , on Tuesday , the 23 rd , and Wednesday , the 24 th , of April next , the sittings to commence at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . The objects of the ponference will be to receive reports from delegates in reference to the progress of the reform movement ; to devise means of carrying out with promptitude and vigour the objects of the association , and to complete the arrangements for realising the fund of £ 10 , 000 , required for the present year ' s operations . —Baity News .
Brotheit Chartists! Do Not Be Beguiled. ...
BROTHEIt CHARTISTS ! DO NOT BE BEGUILED . KUPir / RES : RUJPTUBES ! RUPTURES ' DR . DE ROOS' astonishing success in the treatment and cure of every variety of RUPTURE is ample proof of the unfailing efficacy of his discovery , which must ere long entirely banish a complaint hitherto so prevalent . All" persons so afflicted should , without delay , write , or pay a visit to Dr . DE R . who may be consulted daily from 10 till 1 ; and 4 till 8 ( Sundays excepted . ) This remedy is perfectly free from danger , pain , or inconvenience , may he used without confinement , is applicable to male and female , of any age , and will be sent free , with full instructions , & c „ & c ., rendering failure impossible , tn receipt of 7 s . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holborn office , A great number of Trusses have ieen left behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy , which will be readily given to any one requiring them after one trial of it . Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps . Address , Walter De , Roor , 35 , Ely-place , Ilolborn-hill , London . In every case a cure is guaranteed .
Immense Success Of The New Remedy , Which Has Never Yet Failed.—A Curt Effected Or The
IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE NEW REMEDY , Which has never yet failed . —A curt effected or the
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DR . WALTER DE ROOS , 35 , Ely-place , Holborn-hill , Loadon , from many years SXpevienee at the various Hospitals in London and on the continent , is enabled to treat , with the utmost certainty oi jure , every variety ef disease arising from solitary habits , excesses , infection , such as gonorrhoea , gleet , stricture , and syphilis , or venereal disease , in all their srages ,-ivhich , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gravel , rheumatism , indigestion , debility , . skin diseases , pains in the kidneys , bach , and loins , and finally an agonising death . a *
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, y ^ ,, ^ Ir Mankind are liable to on « aiseas .. ^; - ^^ or if them nm < . „ ,. „ _ .., " ^" . . ase more tw 7 > - ^ : ' ""¦"> "Olborn T „ , Ir Mankind are liable to on « aiseasp ^ ^^ or if then are any particular affections of th > » Nu wo reqmre to have a knowledge of over H . e hl "ll « n ? 5 tainly that class of disorders twaWln ^ $ * $ proved edition of the "Silent Friend » n ne ndS ' thus sending forth t » the world another :, ? «> ors i medical work , cannot refrain from oxSlS « H fioafaoa at the continual success attai aCM * ST * which , combined with the assistance of 2 ^* e-K sively Of their own preparation , have been tl ' , nes - «& of mitigating and averting the mental and nW *^ ^ attendant on those peeul ar disorders - X « ^ Nta ? that suftering hu / anity mun al % . ft »» Stt »& advantage from duly qualified memlL . « AV n * to » i 5
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Read this , and judge for yourselvvs . GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND L 0 S 8 LIFE , SECURED BY THAT HIGHLY ES " TEEMED POPULAR REMEDY , PARR'S LIFE PILLS , THOMAS PARR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 6, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06041850/page/2/
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