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      FRANCE . The Mesintara committee of surveillance met on Friday Itst . M . Joly , sen ., presided ^ After sitting for an hour they sent the following note to the republican journals : — 'The committee appointed by tie republican opposition has assembled to-day . The celrn which prevails in Paris and in thedepariments trill reassure public opinion . The attitude of the people contrasts admirably with all the violent excitations of a portion of the press of the great party of order . ' The committee had adjourned till next Friday .

      The Mayor of Poitiers , M , Orillard , who , it may "be remembered ., made & republican speech to the "President of the Republic at the opening of the railway there , has been removed from his office . The occasion for his dismissal is a letter written to the president of the' Cercle des Ecoles , ' enclosing a copy of a decree of the prefect of Vienna , interdicting the club . In that letter the mayor said that he wished to soften as much as possible the rigour of the decree , and regretted that he had not been able to prevent it . The prefect complained

      that the letter implied disrespect to his superior authority , and hence dismissal , in which tbe mayor's two assistants are included . These removals have been followed by the resignations of the Secretary General of the < Maine , ' and eight of lie municipal councillors , so that the local administration of Poitiers is in a state of complete disorganisation . M . Laaartiue has written two articles in the * Pays' against the presidency of the Prince de Joinville , which he says would be deplorable for tbe epublic , deplorable for royally , and deplorable for he prince .

      THE TE 1 ALS AT I / IOKS . The attendance of the public at the court-martial 03 Thursday was quite as great as on the preceding day . The accused were brought in at twelve o ' clock , And the judges took their seats shortly after . All the accused except Pasta refused the advocates assigned to them by the comt . M . Gaillet , the advocate charged to defend Pasta , jgid that as the public prosecutor had abandoned the accusation against him he would not address the Court . But he had to declare , in the name of all ilia colleagues , that none of them intended to speak . The accused had stated to them their reasons for declining their assistance , and they found nothing disrespectful in it . But they would remain to afford them their counsel if it should be required .

      The President . —Accused Pasta , what have ;_ you to say ? Pasta . —Nothing ; I don't even know why I am here . The President then asked all the accused severally if they had anything to say , and they all answered in tbe negative , with the exception of Th o ur e l , who said—A profound sentiment , which I share , has rendered mute the eloquent and devoted advocate who was to have presented my defence . I Shall , therefore , be silent . But I will say that I remain convinced that as men of honour , independent and free , and whose conscience is not subject to the state of siege , yon will not forget that yon render justice in the name of God , of the French people , and of the Republic . The President . —Gentlemen of the Court and

      advocates , have you nothing more to say ? And yon , accused , have you anything to add to your defence ? No one answered . The judges retired to deliberate at half-past twelve , and returned into court between six and ¦ even in the evening . The President then , ' in the name of the French people ( the guard presenting arms ) , delivered the judgment . The accused , as is usual before courtsmartial , were not present . The reading of the judgment occupied an hour and a half , the details being repeated for every one of the accused . After setting forth the constitution of the Court and the

      names of the judges ( one of them a sergeant-major ) , Sud the manner ra which the trial had been conducted , this document stated that the questions which the court had examined were : —1 . Was the accused guilty of having taken part in a plot at Lyons for the purpose of destroying or changing the government of the Republic ? 2 . Was that plot followed hy an act committed , or commenced , for preparing the execution of it ? 3 . Was the same accused guilty of having taken part in a plot formed at Lyons , for the purpose of exciting civil war by arming the citizens against each other ? 4 , Was that plot followed by an act committed , or commenced , for preparing the execution of it ? 5 . Was the same accused guilty of having formed part of a secret society ? As to Gent , there was an additional

      question—Was the accused guilty of having been the chief of a secret society ? The decision of the court on these questions was . that twelve of the accused were not guilty , aud that the others , thirty-Bis in number , including those in flight , were guilty . The accused acquitted were—Belliscer , Nouis , AurioI , Daillan , Marion , Pinet , Alcibiade Malleval , Vacheresse , Pasta , Caussonel , Andr e , and Esteoule . The condemnations passed on tbe accused declared guilty were in virtue of articles 87 , 89 , and 91 of the Penal Code , 13 of the decree of the 28 th of July , 848 , on secret societies—the said articles being modified with respect to some of the accused , by article 463 of the Penal Code , 1 and 2 of the Law of Germinal , Aa . 7 . These condemnations were as follows : —

      Transportation . —Alphonse Gent , Albert Ode , Longomazino , De Saint Prix , Antoine Rey , Carriers , Saillant . Fifteen years' « detention : '—Moategut . Ten years' detection : '—H . DeJscAuze , B o uvi e r , Barbut , Daumas , Marescot , Salabelle , Lamorthe , nd Mortanier . Five y ea rs ' ' detention : '—Borel , Chevassus , Grill , Isidore , Gent , Jean Frornent , Robert , Maistie , Pierre . Malleval . Five years' imprisonment , five years' deprivation Of civil rights , and l . OOOf . fine : —Meric . Two years' imprisonment , five years' deprivation of civil rights , and l . OOOu fine :-Beridot , Jonvenne , Petitbon .

      A year ' s imprisonment , l . OOOf . fine , and two years' deprivation of civil rights : —Sauve , Bonsir-Ven , Churpentier . ^ Six months' imprisonment and two years deprivation of civil righis : —Dapoat , Carle . ' A ye a r ' s imprisonment and lOOf . fine : —Thonrel ( fay the minority of four . ) ( Detention is wha * tbe French law calls afflictive ctbtfamante . h is more severe than ordinary imprisonment , and subjects the offender after his release to the surveillance of the police for life . ) Just as the President had terminated the read , ing of the judgment a loud cry of' Vive la Republique was heard . ' The President—Whence comes that cry ? Captain Montlouis , the officer on duty . —From the prison , Colonel .

      The President . —Send a commissary to cause justice to be respected . The President hen said that the Court ordered the public prosecutor to read the judgment to the accused in presence of the guard assembled under arms , and to the acquitted in presence of tbe guard assembled without arms ; also , to inform the condemned that the law granted them twenty-four hours to appeal to the Court of Revision . lie added that the public prosecutor was to see the judgment executed . The public prosecutor then went to the prison find read the judgment .

      In the vicinity of the court large crowds were assembled , but the military precautions taken prevented any demonstrations , and the rain having begun to fall heavily caused them after a white to disperse . The following letter- has been addressed by the condemned to all their counsel : — 'Dear Citizens , —At our first call you hastened to give us the fraternal support of vour eloquent and republican voice before the exceptional tribunal w which we were delivered up . You have made andvnn ^ Saclificf con > Pa « * »» lewith jour riigmtv , Jerious X ret ' red froralhe bar ' ° <* eyan ^ Cv * £ ' ° Lcons . cien <* . of right , and of libertv T 7-, ?„ ; ,- ' . CMMr ' OI " 5 t a ™ oi that t in

      which an , fn ! - , me ' a ^ even that act S Part had 2 nH ,- ' . ? W *™™ decision on ^ -Sirasi r incd ^ rresolutions . Mn J ? at P » nciples , and in between vou for ^ i fu ^ . S- ^ S exUt its safety ^^ J ^ t ^^ SScred union of all her children if £ ? i *? aat when the court-martial is about to prSon ? £ MO W * on us , that , seated on tSj"SSS # tere the remembrance of you encouraa ™ rr tel" * ' * nd &&* ¦ *** us' have ^ dressed to ; ou tlft solemn fmzJe » f our g ™ titarJe and of our un . changeable d ^ ctedac , * - fie assured that whether within b ? Hs or at liberty . JT ? are and shall remain .

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      your rsost affectionate brethren and your most constant friends . Your devotedness , your friendshi p , and the sympathies of the people for whom we suffer , and infinite joys to the triumph of those on whom irons are about to fall , and reserve inexhaustible consolations for the temporary tortures of tWhe who will be exposed to them . We embrace you with all our hearts . The Prisoners of the Conspiracy . '

      ( Signed ) Thouret , A . Gent , Chevarsus , Card Borel , Maistre , Grill , Caussanel , Merle , jun ., Auriol , Berthoumieux , Petibon , J . Gent , Belisier , H .. Delescluse , Dupont . Bouvier , Robert Montegut , Nouis , Michel Beridot , Ode , Barbut , iDaillains , Langomazino , Doin , Vacheresse , Pinet , Jean , Louis , Daumaa , Chamard , A . Maleval , P . Maleval , Jouvere , Sauve , and Marcon . '

      The condemned prisoners at Lyons have all de . cided to appeal to the Court of Cassation . Four of the prisoners , viz ., Dupont and Carle , sentenced to six months * imprisonment , and Sauve and Thourel , to a year's imprisonment , have not appealed . It is rumoured that the proceedings of the Commission of Surveillance are likely to be interfered with by the authorities , on the alleged ground of that Commission degenerating in t o s cl u b , and of the illegality of the members of a fraction of the National Assembly holding periodical sittings with the same object for which a regular Commission of Permanence has been named by tbe whole Assembly , and in conformity with the Constitution .

      In the Council-General of the Eure on tbe 30 th of August , a vote for the total revision of the constitution being proposed by twenty-one councillors , amongst whom were MM . de Broglie "Vatimesnil , Suchet d'Albufera , and Lefebvre Durufle , considerable sensation was caused hy a vehement protest against the proposal by M . Dupont ( de PEure . ) The venerable president of the pro . visional government declared that the vote was at once dangerous and illegal ; that it was an infringement of the legislative power , in open violation of the 111 th article of the constitution ; that it was the setting up of a rival power to the legislature , and an attempt to provoke the country to fresh revolutions .

      GERMANY . Berlin , Aug . 27 . —An official announcement has just been issued by the local authority of the province of Brandenberg , informing the public that the 71 st and 78 articles ' of the 'Industry Ordinance ' ( which empower certain magistrates to withdraw from their holders , whenever they may think fit , licenses for printing and publishing ) , are not abrogated but still exist in full force , and adding , by way of explaining the consistency of these articles with tbe new law of the press , that the power of withdrawing licenses is not to be regarded as penal , and therefore requires not the award of a law tribunal to sanction it , but has reference solely to the qualification , or rather want of qualification , of the

      person against whom it may be directed ; that the full verification of the qualifications of any journalist can only appear after his publication has existed for some time , when , should it become manifest that he offends thereby the public morality by publishing anything that has a tendency to corrupt youth , to bring the government into contempt , or to weaken in any way authority , it must follow as a logical consequence that such person is not duly qualified ; that he has received his license under false pretexts ; and that the government , the sole judge in this matter , is therefore imperatively called upon , as the guardian of the morals and happiness of the people , to take his license at once from him , as from an unqualified person .

      This , without any exaggeration , is the substance of the document . Such wanton scorn of the common sense and common understanding of any peopie we believe was never , before exhibited in an official shape in any country in the world . But the government having bad for some time its neck galled by a constitutional collar , and having now got rid of this constraint , is like a horse let loose in a meadow , it neighs , kicks up its heels , snuffs up the air , & c , and commits all sorts of frolicksome absurdities , in its joy at being at last free from' law , ' and at liberty to range at will through the spacious fields of uncircumscribed ' authority . ' The government have forbidden the conductors of the ' Cologne Gazette' to comment upon public affairs .

      The Elector of Hesse Cassel has decorated his Prime Minister , Hassenpfiug , with the grand cross of the Golden Lion . Tbe same honour has been conferred on Minister Uhden , one of the late federal commissioners . The editors of the defunct journal ' Awake ! ' are to be brought to trial for continuing to publish after the suppression of all journals during the continuance of martial law . A locksmith in Ristatt has been condemned to t hree mon th s ' imprisonment 'for endangering public order , by having on bis parlour walls revolutionary portraits , ' and to an additional two mouths for purchasing democratic lottery tickets . The Austrian troops , while occupied at St . Paul ! on the occasion of the late disgraceful outrages , caused by their interference with the people , h ave returned to their old quarters at Altona .

      ITALY . The Constituzionale ' of Florence , of the 22 nd , ult . announces that the three Aldboroughsivho , it will he remembered , were arrested some time ago at Leghorn for a conspiracy against tbe government , have been given up by the Austrian military authorities to the tribunals at Leghorn . A letter from Naples of the 21 st , received by a respectable mercantile firm at Lyons , states that the little town of Barile , in the kingdom of Naples , has been destroyed by an earthquake , that all tbe houses had been swallowed ixy , and that at the hour of writing 700 dead bodies had been dragged out from the ruins .

      Further letters from Naples confirm the above news . At Serrento a violent shock was felt on tjieUth , and several houses were damaged . But the province of Bassilicata bas suffered most from the scourge , as many houses , and even whole villages , have been transformed into heaps of ruins , and many lives lost . Tbe people are panic struck , dreading tbe return of the calamitous earthquakes of 1798 , which were repeated during a period of nine months .

      STATE TRIALS AT NAPiES . The trials of May 15 having been suspended for the moment , the Special Criminal Court has been occupied with other political offenders of a more bumble condition . Thisprocesso is called ' tbe 5 th of September * and the history of these trials runs as follows : —After the parliament was closed hy the Prime Minister Bozelii , tbe tool of the King , a crowd of police spies and paid lazzaroni , headed by a priest , collected round the rojal palace and shouted ' Long live the King ! Death to the Nation . ' The priest carried a white banner . This crowd paid by the reaction , was met by another group , headed by an old police agent , Ciofii , who

      had been condemned in olden times as a thief , and was now in pay of the court . 'Down with the constitution , ' shouted these men , 'Long liv e the King ! ' The two groups had scarcely met when a crowd of people collected , shouting * Long live tbe King and the constitution . ' A battle ensued , and the reactionary mob retired to the royal palace . As the movement failed , the government at once threw the whole blame on the police authorities , and some lost their places accordingly and were disgraced . The authorities then began to imprison

      those who had resisted the reactionary mob ; and eventually more than forty persons were imprisoned . Of course the real instigators of the fight were not called upon . The priest who beaded the lazzaroni with the white flag is in high favour to this day . The constitutional party is now accused—( the old story)—of endeavouring to destroy the actual government , and oppose the royal authority . The crown lawyer asks from the judges various periods at the galleys for these prisoners . The accused appear to have anticipated their fate , and told the judges bo in satirical language .

      ± he Neapolitan government is now in a state of dissolution . The Minister of Finance has declared the impossibility of meeting the expenses of the state w ' nh the present revenue . The sale of paper ( government stock ) is not sufficient to meet the charges created by an army of 20 , 000 and a police machinery with an army of spies . The land tax , already twenty per cent , cannot be increased , and it is dangerous to add to the existing charges paid on consumable articles . No Neapolitan government since the days of Masaniello has ventured to create revenue from bread and fruit . M . Fortunata , the Minister of Foreign Affairs , has sent in his resignation , and refused to attend the late cabinet council at Gaeia where his Majesty still remains .

      Mr . Gladstone ' s ' letters * have circulated in MS . throughout the whole kingdom . Tbe camarilla are highly indignant , and the member for Oxford by that corrupt set is called a repuMicano , fl / i epithet they apply to any one who speaks the t ruth , whether it be on religion or politics . The

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      Neapolitan journals ( and there are none but those paid by the government ) have not yet noticed Mr . Gladstone ' s revelations . Tbe following anecdote illustrates the alarm felt by the police authorities at the present moment . A country gentleman came to Naples on a late occasion for the purpose of seeking medical advice . He had broken his arm ; it was ^ necessary to avail himself of some surgical mechanism . He writes to his wife—' The machine is nearly completed ; by the blessings of God our troubles will not last much longer—all is going on well . ' The letter was opened at the post-office and the writer thrown into prison . The surgeon found himself called on by tbe police authorities to give an account of this terrible machine . _ .

      The Opinione' of Turin , of the 26 th ult ., quotes tbe following letter from Florence of the 22 d : — ' Tbe sons of the late Lord Aldborougb , confined at Leghorn by order of the Austrian military authorities , under the imputation of having printed and circulated incendiary proclamations , have been handed over to the ordinary tribunals . After their arrest , the British Envoy protested , in tbe name of his government , against their being tried by court-martial . An English steam frigate , which anchored about the same time before Leghorn , gave additional force to the protest of the Minister . '

      THE PAPAL STATES . A letter from Borne of the 24 th ult . g iv e s an account of the trial of the persons accused of having taken a part in the destruction of the carriages belonging to the ' Cardinals in 1849 . The number of accused was upwards of fifty . The correspondent says that although the sentences have not been published , there are several condemned to the galleys for life , and many others to the same punishment for a limited term . He also

      gives an honourable testimony to the Triumvirs of the Roman Republic , by stating that Signer Armellini saved the carriages of Cardinal Brignole from destruction , and . that Signor Mazzini did the same in favour of a Cardinal who bad fled to Gaeta , it being thus proved that the carriages were destroyed by the fuiy of the populace , which the Triumvirs were unable , though willing , to stem . The letter concludes by saying that the authors of the outrage upon the Canon Marzolini are in the bands of justice .

      . AUSTRIA . The Emperor , in a letter to Prince Schwarzenberg , says , * As the responsibility of the cabinet , as it now stands , is devoid of legal distinctness and exactitude , my duties as a monarch induce me to relieve ministers from tbe doubtful political position in which , as my counsellors , and aa the highest executive organs , they are now placed , by declaring that they are responsible to no other political authority than the throne . ' And he informs him in another epistle' That he finds it absolutely necessary that tbe question of the maintenance and of the possibility of carrying out the constitution of the 4 th of March , 1849 , should be taken into ripe and serious consideration /

      HUNGARY . There is a report that the dissensions between the Croat and Hungarian soldiers are daily increasing , and that they led to a bloody conflict in the neighbourhood of Verona . The papers remain silent on such events , but the letters from Italy mention it as a fact . In Hungary the gendarmerie have had several conflicts with the peasants , and a tragedy which in the month of June happened at Szent Maria , near Gross-Waradin , is soul-stirring . The following are the facts : —At a peasant ' s wedding , when the procession of the betrothed was moving towards the church , the gendarme

      approached the bride and summoned her immediately to divest herself of the red , white , and green ribbons which she bad in her tresses , according to the custom , of the country girls , saying that these colours were revolutionary . The bridegroom objected , saying that alter the ceremony the bride would comply with the desire of the gendarme , but that now they could not keep the priest waiting at the altar . The gendarme retired , the procession proceeded to the church , but at the moment when the bride was kneeling at the steps of the altar to receive the benediction the gendarme rushed forward and cut her tresses and ribbons with scissors

      from her head . In Hungary it is considered a great insult to a female to cut her hair , it conveys the notion of infamy . Naturally an affray took place ; the gendarme was assailed by the bridegroom , other gendarmes arrived in aid of their fellow o f fic i al , the people , though without arms , rushed upon them , and the result was the slaughter of seven men , three gendarmes , and four peasants , among them thebridgroom and the brutal assailant of the bride .

      PORTUGAL . Advices from Lisbon , dated the 29 th ult ,, stale that another serious conspiracy , which was to have broken out at Yizeu , and had extensive ramifications , bas been rendered abortive . Three nore Miguelite meetings have taken place . Decision not to go to the urn . The elections of the electoral commissioners are in the gross in favour of government and Septembristas .

      PIEDMONT . It is stated that in consequence of the excitement which prevails in Piedmont , the Austrian go vernment has determined to form an army of ob servation upon the Piedraontese frontier , and that orders have already been given for the cantonment of the troops . The ' Croce di Savoia , ' says that the court of Naples is at this moment concerting with the courts of Vienna , Rome , Modena , and Parma , to make known to the public , by a joint proclamation , that the Italian governments , far from having degenerated into violence and cruelty , have but exhibited a forbearing , and perhaps excessive , moderation in using the legitimate right of self-defence .

      It has been notified to the Italian refugees that in future they can only be permitted to reside in Piedmont , by conforming to certain regulations . Every refugee must apply for a ticket which will specify that the bearer is a political emigrant , and will state the place of his abode . The aid granted by the government to the refugees will not be paid except to the holders of tickets which must be vised every month .

      SPAIN . Advices from Madrid , dated the 24 th ult ., state that the ' Clamor Publico' was seized on that day . It is reported that M . Juan Martinez Villergas kas been arrested for the publication of a pamphlet , entitled 'A parallel between Generals Espartero and Narvaez . ' The journals that have been seized ( ' Clamor , ' ' Heraldo , ' and ' Epoca' ) declare that they will hereafter abstain from all political comments .

      TURKEY . Advices from Constantinople , dated the 16 th ult ,, stats that AU Pacha has given a written assurance to tbe Austrian ambassador that the Porte , after having well weighed all circumstances , has decided not to liberate the refugees now at Kintaia before the 1 st of January , 1852 ; at which period fresh negotiations maybe set on foot . However , Soliman Bey has at the same moment received official instructions from the Porte fo inform the refugees that the American government bas placed tbe steam-packet Mississippi at their disposal , and that it will be in waiting for them at Gemlek on the 1 st of September . How are these contradictions to be reconciled ?

      The correspondent of the ' Daily News' has the following gratifying information , dated the 16 tb ult ., from Constantinople : —The liberation of Kossuth is now decided upon by the Sublime Porte . In spite of all the threats of Russia and Austria , the Porte stood her ground , and when remind e d b y theEnglish government of its promise , the Divan replied , ¦ We keep it . ' Kossuth is , therefore , to be released- 'on the 13 ih of September . His

      intention , as far as I could ascertain , is to proceed first to England , to leave there his children , and to provide for their education , and , after a stay of a fortnight , to sail to the United States , there to express his thanks to the Congress and the President . But the captain of the steam frigate Mississippi , which bas waited for Kossuth since the month of June , objects lo this arrangement ; he wishes to cr . rry Kossuth without delay to New York . I do not know , therefore , whether vou will have the

      pleasure of seeing the mighty man—who , even when in prison in Asia Minor , fri ghtens the Czar and the Kaiser—be / ore December .

      | AMERICA . By the Europa we have advices to the 22 ud ult ., There is nothing of importance however in the New York papers , which are for the most part occupied with the congressional and presidential election movements in various parts of tbe Union . In Kentucky , according to the most authentic recent accounts , Mr . Powell , the opposition candidate for governor , was elected by a' small majority . Mr . Thom p son , the Whig nominee for lieutenant-governor , has gained his election by a majority of 600 or 700 votes . A congresBbasl election bas taken *

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      place in Arkansas , from which we have received only a few scattered returns . These show that the contest has been quite close . In Alabamaf two Secessionists and five Union candidates have been elected to Congress . In Tennessee , the Whig Inumph is comp lete . In North Carolina , as far as heard from , the Whigs have five and the opposi tion three in the congressional delegation .. In Indiana , the Whigs have two and the opposition eight . The movements of the President of the United States have been looked upon with some interest by politicians , and the question of the next Presidency seems a choice topic in political' circles . All , however is dark , and , on the Whig side , whether Webster or General Scot will be victorious seems doubtful . .

      . , The cholera has broken out at Louisville , Ky ., vn a very malignant form , and also in aome of the interior towns of the state .

      CANADA . The law of primogeniture in the succession of real estate has at length been abolished in Upper Canada . This is the most democratic measure that has been passed during the present parliament , and it cannot fail to exert a highly beneficial influence on tbe future condition of the province . A set of resolutions has been passed , granting fifty acres of land each to certain companies of enrolled military pensioners from England , whom it is intended to station in different parts of the province . It is intended that they shall be ready to act as a local police , and also to be employed on the public works .

      CUBA . The news from Cuba is still of the most contradictory character ; the Havanna papers intimate that the revolution is crushed , but personal arrivals and letters describe the island as in a state of internal revolt , and that on the arrival of Lopez the revolution would be inevitably successful . The New Orleans papers speak of 3 . 000 men as watting to embark , including a number of Hungarian officers .

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      A serious accident has taken place on Lake Ontario . A number of ladies and gentlemen went out yachting , and were capsized . The consequence was the loss of sixteen lives . A court-martial sat in Paris on Friday , for the trial of Captain Fourchard , aide-de-camp to General Millet , commanding the 4 th sub-division , accused of assaulting a brazier , and beating him with a h or s ewhi p , in the court-yard of the Hotel de France , at Melun . The officer , a chef-de-batallion , who conducted the prosecution , stated that the captain was a brave and meritorious officer , but

      that he was of a hot temper , and had the misfortune to fancy that he saw in every ill-dressed person an enemy of society . In this instance , the only provocation imputed to the brazier—who had no business at the hotel—was that he approached too near the person of the officer , and refused to go away when ordered . Captain Fourchard called upon the court to acquit him , and maintained that he had done nothing but what was necessary to maintain the dignity of his own character . He also said that the brazier would have put up with the flogging if he had not been instigated to complain by the Mayor of Melun . The court found the captain Guilty , and sentenced him to pay a fine of £ 8 and the costs of the . proceedings .

      Since tbe return of the Duke of Satrano to the Vice-government of Sicily fifteen hundred persons have been shot on political suspicion , or on the accusation of spies . The Austrian Commandant at Imolahas forbidden ladies to wear bonnets or caps with red or blue ribbons , under penalty of the Christian form of bastinado . Confidential instructions have been forwarded by the Spanish government to all the prefects in the provinces , recommending them to watch the movements of the Democratic party .

      The ' Correire Mercantile' of Genoa publishes a list of seventy-three persons , formerly ministers of tbe King of Naples , and Deputies of the Neapolitan parliament , whoare now in prison or suffering exile . Persecution in Madagascar . —The latest accounts from Madagascar inform us that the fury of the sovereign , which recently burst forth , continues to rage against the native Christians . Among other instances of cruelty , it is stated that four nobles have been burned to death for the testimony of Christ—that fourteen were killed by being thrown over a precipice—and that four have been imprisoned

      for life . A few have purchased their lives by renouncing their profession of disciplesbip . One of those who remained faithful , ou being placed at the edge of the precipice , et : treated time to pray , ' as , on that account ( he said ) I am to be killed , ' This being granted , he prayed most fervently ; after which he addressed his executioner , and spoke in the strongest terms . ' My body ( said he ) you will cast down this precipice , but rov soul yon cannot , aa it will go up to heaven to God . Therefore is it gratifying to me to die in the service of my Maker . '

      The' Opinione' of Turin announces military evolutions on a large scale , representing tbe battle of Montenotte , which , in 1796 , opened Italy to the invasion of the French . On the 1 st September and following days , two Piedmontese regiments are to occupy the villages of Dego and Spigno , and two batteries the heights of Upper and Lower Montenotte , The Aosta brigade will represent the Austrian army , under Beaulieu ; the brigade of Savoy the French army , under La Harpe , and the 17 th Regiment the division under Massena , General La Marmora is entrusted with the general direction of the evolutions .

      The ' Milan Gazstte' of the 28 th ult . announces that the brigadier of carabineers , who , in 1849 , arrested Ugo Bassi ( who acted as chaplain to Garibaldi ' s troops , and was shot by the Austrians ) , has been assassinated at Commachio . The' Tuscan Monitors' publishes a series of regulations issued by the minister of worship at Florence on the 28 th ult ., concerning the right of censorship reserved to the bishops by the new concordat . By these regulations every bishop has the right of censorship over ecclesiastical works to be published within his diocese ; a work rejected by one bishop cannot be approved b y ano th er , and there is no appeal from the decision of a bishop in such matters .

      The treasurer of the head corporation school of Bremen , who held large suras of money in trust for that establishment , as well as for othe institutions , has been arrested , charged with ( mb zz'ing upwards of 120 , 000 tbalers . The arres of this man , whose name is Ilaase , who was an lderman of the city , and a most esteemed member of the corporation , created quite a sensation . A . negro of high rank is at present in the City of Dusseldorf ; " it is Baron de Rame & u , Minister of Trade and Commerce to Faustin I ,, Emperor of Hayli . He is on his way to Hamburgh , whence he will proceed to Paris , and subsequently , to Loudon , on business . He ia a person of

      considerable information , speaks French well , and is thoroughly conversant with the state of Europe . The ' Giornale di ltoma' gives an account of a most singular meteor which was remarked on the 19 th ult ., lifter sunset , in the vicinity of tbe Volscian Appenines and the Alban mountains . The phenomenon was ushered in by sudden flashes of light , shooting frem two distinct points of the eastern horizon behind tho Hemic mountains , near Monto Port ' mo . The colour of the light greatly resembled that of tbe Aurora Borealis . After some

      time a splendid fiery globe , apparently as large as the moon , when seen at the horizon , rose to the altitude of about thirty degrees . From the roseco loured li ght it cast upon the adjoining clouds , it was evidently above them . It continued its course , describing something like a parabola , from west to east for some time , and at Inst burst with the noise of thunder , scattering thousands of luminous fray merits around , which soon disappeared . The phenomenon had been preceded by several falling stars in the same quarter of the Heavens .

      A lottev from St . Petersburgb says , that the Geographical Society of that city is displaying great activity : —• Scarcely has the expedition which is sent to seek out the sources of the Nile returned , when the society is preparing a new expedition , having for its object to explore the peninsula of Kamskatka . Tho Count de Czupski is to have the direction of this new attempt , and hehas subscribed 20 , 000 francs a year towards the expense . A DnEAnruL Mdrder has been committed nt bfc . Sebastian lhe victim is a young Jady named Brunei , daughter of the British Vice-Consul there a Spanish gentleman . The murderer is an officer in the army , named Vito , who had professed an attachment tor her , but her parents were opposed to his Paying his addresses to her . She wasdanr-mrr

      at a bail held at a theatre on Friday night , wi t h a son of die Marquis of Gavira , when the officer , who had come from Onate to tho ball , on her passina before him , smddent y drew forth a dagger , ami gave , her two stabs , which laid her dead on the spot . He ms seized , aud will be judged by courtmartial , and doubtless shot . I believe that Senor Brunet , father of the unfortunate ravw lady , is at present in Eogland , ^/«( Wcf Z « e r .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 6, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06091851/page/2/