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      2 Ttfe Northern Star. August 9, 185l

      2 TTfE NORTHERN STAR . August 9 , 185 L

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      France. The Following Twenty-Five Member...

      FRANCE . The following twenty-five members of tbe Legislative Assembly have been elected to form tbe Commission of Permanence during the vacation : —Didier , General Cha ng wmer , "Dufougeraw , Sauvaire , Bnrthelemy , De Montigeny , Bgrryer , Vitet , poujonlat , DeMelun , Passy . Druet-Desvaux . D'Olivier , Gouin , Bernardi , Da Montebello , Bocher , De La Tourette , Admiral Cecille , Rulliere , Hubert , De Lisle , Boin « -villiers , Ds Kermarec ,. Da Bar , Grouchy , and De Mottematt . . The Lord Mayor and others invited by the Parisians have arrived in Paris , and have been received with the greatest cordiality and hospitality .

      The final poll in the elections of the Nord pre-Bents the following result;—Electors inscribed , 145 , 000 ; voters , 60 . 457 . M . Waisse ,. ministerial candidate . 41 , 912 ; M . Delaroyere , legitimist candidate , 11 , 917 ; blank tickets and lost votes , 6 , 628 . 21 . Waisse having obtained more than oae-forth of the votes inscribed was proclaimed representative . £ . 628 electors having abstained , indirectly , in depositing blank tickets ; and 85 . 000 having abstained , directly , by taking nopartiriihe ballot , the total anmber of abstentions is 91 . 600 .. The Councils of Arrondisement commenced their sessions on Monday . Those of Rouen , Chateauroux , and Montreiul-sur-Mer have voted tbe revision of the constitution . _ * '

      The trial by courUmarliol of the offenders concerned in the ' plot of Lyons began on Tuesday last . Tbe accused are fifty in number , fourteen of whom have taken flight . ; MM . Ctetnieva and Michetl e Bourges will plead on behalf of the prisoners . The' Moniteur do Soir' says that the workmen of the salt-works of Bajnac , near Agde , department of the Herault , demanded a few days ago ,, an increase of wages , but tbe directors could not grant it . They accordingly struck work , and caused a notification to be published that they would not : allow the ' sall in the works to be removed . They then barred the roads leading to the place , in order to prevent other workmen from arriving . The judicial authorities , however , caused the ringleaders in the affair to be arrested .

      The Lord mayor and party have been sumptuously entertained , and there has bsen nothing but festivity ever since they entered Paris . They have been io Versailles and St . Cloud , where ^ he Lord Mayor was introduced to the President . All kinds of peop le were present : Russians , Poles Hungarians , and a Chinese Mandarin . '¦ ' . On Tuesday tbe Marquis of Normanby received the English visitors , and in tbe evening a grand ball

      took p lace at the Hotel de Yule ,, where dancing tras kept up until five o ' clock in the morning . All persons seem to bare . vied with each other as to who should show the representatives of the City of London , end the Exhibition , the most attention . When the : Lord Mayor visited the Aseembly the sentinels duly presented arms , and the moment he entered , representatives rose and uncovered , a mark of respect which they have never shown to foreign princes , ot their representatives .

      PORTUGAL . We have advices from Lisbon dated July 29 th . It appears plotting still goes on at Elvis , and the disaffected military there hold communications with those at Badajos . The inhabitants take no part in it ; on the contrary , they are devoted to the government . A little plotting has been manifest among a few sergeants of the 9 tb Cacadores in Lisbon , but the good spirit of tbe soldiers of the regiment checked it without difficulty . No farther acts of political insubordination have taken place .

      A short time since some of a detachment . of Lancers ( that are usually stationed at Cintra . when the Queen is there ) got drunk , and descanting upon politics , proclaimed their attachment to Costa Cabral ( the Count de Thomar , ) saying they were always faithful to him , aud disliked Saldanha , as well as many other things . which their disordered intellects caused them to throw out to the consideration of some infantry who were with them . The latter took a different view of things ; but neither party being able to convice the other in the arena of debate , a battle royal took place , which drew together more combatants . Captain Higge , one of the officers , used his endeavours to put down the tumnlt by fair means ; that , however , failing ,

      he attempted to cut one man down , when the others , maddened to fury , made a rush upon him , and he narrowly escaped with his life . The Queen sent for Saldanba , and told bim a guard was sent to her to protect her , but they only frightened her , and therefore she desired them to be removed ; the dnke said they should he punished , but . the Queen replied , she considered herself safer with the people than with the troops , and thwelote . m & ttl tbe latter to be removed : nothing farther has transpired of the incident . How wonderful a change ! from Cabralista despotism her majesty is becoming quite a democrat , and wishes to place her safety in tbe good sense and affections of the people .

      ITALY . THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT IN ROME . A correspondent of the ' Daily News / says : — ' This is the season when Rome is periodically deserted . After . a . winter so barren of foreign visitors I leave you , therefore , to judge of its desolat ion . Rome indeed presents an sspect in every v ? ay calculated to deter the peaceable , quiet-loving traveller from taking up even a temporary residence in the holv citv . Whether in search of

      repose or in the pursuit of pleasure or knowledgeunless tbat kind of knowledge to be derived from the study of political convulsions—I can as well conceive an idler' taking op his residence at the foot of Vesuvius when it exhibits unmistakeable signs of impending eruptions , as at Rome * . No doubt there may be much to instruct a political Pliny , unmindful of the danger and discomfort with which , the prospective confusion threatens him / but there is no less to astonish and disquiet the pacific traveller ..

      « On arriving at Rome—I mean on BTfting in hotels wholly tenanted , when tenanted at all , by Americans and Englishmen—and on the very , day of your arrival , you hear of the "Invisible Go . ^ eminent . " 'What is tbe " invisible government "—a mere creation of the fancy of your valet de pi ?¦ ¦ No ; tbe mysterious impression he endeavoured to convey is confirmed by the banker , tae ~ librarian ,, and the talkssero who drives you through the Corso . The " invisible government" is spoken of universally

      with more reverence than is shown in England for the House of Commons , and far more respect than the French National . Assembly popularly elicits . You canhot . be many days ' in . Rome witout feeling tbat its government is unequally divided between three powers—the French commanders who are abhorred ; the Pope ' s administration which is despised ; and the invisible government , all-pervading all-permeating , the most potent of tbe three , because its power is founded on the' unanimous sympa by And voluntary obedience of the people .

      ' I would fain believe that anything which coh < stitutes a check on the ' shameless persecution and rapine in which the Papal authorities indulge , is beneficial ; and-1 cannot but admit that this extrar ordinary secret' combination is directed by men whose moderation is creditable and systematic , but it is fearful to . think that au irresponsible agency should be Bubterraneously at work , upheaving ^ the very ground under one ' e feet , and' placing every man ' s life and fortune at the disposal of a hidd "

      tribuniL- . ' Legally ,, or I should rather say overtly , you have arbitrary annoyance to endure from the French authorities , in addition to every kind of vexation aud extortion at the hands ofthe . Pope ' a _ officials . Extra-Iegally , you have ' to obey the mandates of this invisible government which very often are not placarded on the walls , because every one ,, in . Rome makes a point of ' ascertaining them , * Being informed . tbat i could . obtain a real Havannah cigar on the square where Torlonia lives

      at the head government-office for the sale of tobacco ( which of course is a monopoly ) , ' I repaired thi her . The shopman ( if so I may venture to call him , for probabl y , as a government officer , he is an ecclesiastic ) handed me his wares witb .. somewnatof the expression of gratified . VurpriscT with which a misanthropicdruggist- might have retailed toVhatfS . ?^ ° f araei ? ic or fotaiMfoii silver lloketr ^ . astom er- Ibad not seen any one Xril ? f ° \ Wa 8 true ' but th ™ $ * tbe fact MturaUy enough accounted for by The exfrenie

      aoticins the black looks Of nas ^ R hv I , 7 T , » mine inn ;" - -hat here £ ? Wi r - iched y ^ l ^ . ^^ AS ^ S no one smokes-it is forbidden by the invisihV ™ temment . " • What is the inSible govefn " ment to me ? " » Wiiatis it to « 3 ? S etSre notsuioke . If yon could be knowa . h / S ^ fi ! as a foreigner , you would at mosfconl yrun the risk of havmgyour coaMauVton .: off , and ' your See " daubed with a tar brush , as happened to anenter-. . - " - ' - : , ; . ' - " - •> . " -. ' 4 . *

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      prising young French dandy ; Ot you mig ht get bonneted , like your countryman A * * * » or . be glad to abjure the practice , like B— , when rj ,. found himself taken . for a sbirro , arid learned , tbs character of the sbt ' rri , the refuse of the . galleys , which , from the want ot hett «> tlw ' 5 i $ ti $ rtetfl .-ment is driven to employ . " '¦ " . . ' ' Unwilling to incur penalties which others seemed so solicitous to avoid , but vexed and suffering from corns , I walked into a shop in the Condotti to buy a Stick , " It is useless to take that one ^ siry-or anything thicker than this , " said the vendor , substituting a switch for the , substantial staff 1 had selected :, ! ' you . do not seem-to know that the French commandant has forbidden , under pain of court martial , the use of anything thicker than the tube of a tobacco pipe . "

      * S 6 ,-the invisible-government forbade my smoking ! The French government of Rome prohibited the nse of a staff whereupon to lean ; and when the next day I attempted to make an excursion from the city in sheer digust ,. I was detained two hours at the barriers by the papal police who guard the entrance into and exit from the pontifical city under the ' protection of the French detachment , and who had the impudence to demand a fee for their dili . gence in expediting the examination of our dearlypurchased passports .

      ' These are a few innumerable such vexations in which remonstrance or complaint ia useless . Mr . Freeborn , the British consular agent , is very nalurally disinclined to take up cases which would absorb his whole time in the unthankful and unsalaried office which he fills . -It would be nattiri . ously useless to apply to Mr . Petre ( nominally at . tached to the Tuscan legation , to avoid tbe penalties of prcemunire , ) who receives . £ 600 per annum for his residence a * Rome , but , is so . bigotted an ad herent of the Pope that his despatches , as a refer , ence io the blue book will show , are a servile paraphase of the papal bulletins , in direct contradiction to Freeborn ' s letter's to the Foreign-office , and to facts within the knowledge of every English resident in Rome . Surely we might employ . £ 600 of the public money more advantageously , and evade a statute , if needs must be , to some better

      purpose . 4 " invisible government" I found , to my . surprise , to be an extensive and complete organisation , pervading Italy , but more peculiarly developed in Lombardy and Romagna , having for object an Italian unite - and independence , and possessing its funds , revenues , arms , soldiers , agents , and police . Mysterious , but unfailing in , operation as the Wehmgerieht of the middle age , it ; differs from ; the WehmyerkM , from Carlionaroism , and all other previous associations that I ; know of , in ibis respect , that , a . whole nation seems conspiring . 1 verily believe that three out of four individuals in Rome and the chief parts of Roraasna are enlisted in this society , and daily proofs are afforded that the conspiracy pervades' every , department ' of . the . state , the police , \ the . . army , the post-officefl and the very antechambers of the Vatican . ¦ >> -. .

      ' It is on this account tbat the whole papal garrison , except some companies , was . recently turned out of Rome . It has its regular' press , distributing thousands of its flying sheets with all the regularity which attends the delivery of a London paper ; yet so extensive are the ramifications of complicity that neither press , printer , writers , nor distributors , have ever been seized . The chief of the police said the other day , in answer to the reproaches of Cardinal Antonelli , " Formerly we watched tbe liberals ; now we are watched by them . " ; 'No arrest is ever effected which has been a few hours preconcerted , and no denunciator transpiring , so accurate and extensive is ' the knowledge of the invisible

      government . In flagrant cases assassination . overtakes the accuser . This is shocking ; but it must be admit ted that the flogging of women by the Austrian commander , has ceased since the warning posted on the . walls , and the death ofthe commandant of Lodi for disregarding it . Nothing in fact , but the strong reprobation of this ever-recurring invisible government , ' which haunts .. us everywhere andal } things here , prevents the extension of this mode of retribution into Sicillian vespers . This mysterious agency seems to have secured a subordination as wide asits extension , I am credibly informed that its levies in Romagna are regimented and officered and I know that its revenues in the form of a na '

      tional loan are regularly levied to meet its current expenses and provide a store of arms aud ammunition for the day of insurrection ,.. 1 If Pius sends us from Rome his , bulls , his cardinals , and his bishops , the invisible government acts in blind obedience to the orders of its expatriated heads , which cause far more real disquietude to the board of cardinals than any aggression bis Holiness has attempted ought reasonably to be

      casion to our bench of bishops . The French are just ' on , tbe worst terms , with' the papal government , and there'i . s in fact but one single point oh . which . any two of the . three powers virtually ruling . Rome at this moment are agreed . That is to say , that tbe invisible' government on the one side , and the Pope . and his cardinals on the other , heartily concur in wishing the withdrawal of the French garrison from Rome whatever be the conse quences . ' 'S . '

      A letter from Rome , in the * Venice Gazette' of the 31 st olt ., states that everything considered , the friendly feeling which formerly existed between the papal authorities and the French garrison no lon g er exists , although great pains are taken on either side to dissemble the true state of affairs . The total occupation of the palace of the holy inquisition has undoubtedly contributed . to aggravate matters . The French . authorities have , taken possession of all the sulphur in pow . der existing in the warehouses of the manufacturers , and had . it transported , to the Castle of St . Angelo , without : paying the proprietors anything , on the plea that they only keep it in deposit . Consequently , the merchants wbo cannot sell their stock , loudly complain of this measure , but in vain . The French have also transported to the castle of St . Angelo all . the artillery belonging to the papal army .

      LOMBARDY . The ' Milan Gazette , ' of the 31 st ult ., publishes a notification from the military commandant of Lombardy , which , . after announcing that the proclamation-: of MarchlO , 1849 , establishing the state of siege , is again in vigour since the late proclamation of Marshall Radetsky , fixes a period of eight days lor the delivery of arms and ammunition to the competent military ^ authorities , after which time any person having such articles , in his possession , without a special licens , ? , will be treated with air the rigour of military law .

      NAPLES . Our advices from Naples state that the material for the trials of the accused of May 15 th is . now complete , and has been officially published . The pamphlet opens with praises of the King , and the terrible extremities to which bis Majesty was pushed by the factious opposition of a few ; in fact , the disasters of May ; 15 tb , 1848 J are . narrated without the cause , nor is the royal pardon mentioned which loU lowed . : ¦ ... . Whilst the deputies were discussing the manner of proceeding on . the opening of the parliament the enemies of the ., constitution were , employed hvexciting the people to revolt , and the barricades were

      formed—10 , 000 troops quietly looking on at a dozen boys " heaping together fragile barriers . ' Prima facie , ' ibis is a strong justification , ' of bis Majesty ' s " conduct on that awful day—thepeople were in revolt , a few boys and a few national guards were opposing : the opening of Parliament . The fight took place , and the royal troops followed up their victory by unnecessary bloodshed and plunder , which was eventually stopped by the remonstrances of Admiral Baudin , whose fleet was then in the Bay of Naples , ' Without accusing bis Majesty with the ' sin of omission ! in not promptly dispersing the deluded Victim ' s of revolt , let us see what follows . Nine days after tbe the 15 th of May'the following royal decree appeared : — .. > .. .

      'Neapolitans ! Profoundly pained by the horrible events ofthe 15 th of May , our greatest desire is to ameliorate , as much as is humanly possible , the con . sequences : Our most firm and immutable will is to maintain _ the . constitution . ' of the 10 th of February , 1848 , pure , immaculate from eyery description of attack . Such being alone compatible viith the real and present necessities of this part of Italy—such shall be the sacred ark in which the destinies of , our loved subjects and our crown are placed . The legislative chambers shall again be immediately

      convoked , and the . wisdom , firmness and prudence which we shall expect from them will materially asn sist us in grave and useful reforms . Heturn / then , to your ordinary occupations ' , believe in the fulness of y ou r souls , in pur . loyalty , in our religion , and iour sacred and spontaneous oath , and -lire in the fullest certainty that our incessant occupation shall be to abolish as sooa as possible , together wilh the sitae of siege , thememoryot the unhappy events which haveafilicted us . - - , , - .-.. . . . , . ( SiguicD . Ferdina ^ do 11 /

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      . ^ ft ia the solemn promise and pardon published * + few davs after the disasters of May , couched in language * which is only , 6 urpassed by the awful oath of the constitution . -And yet forty-five men , who have remained in prison more than two : years , are now brought id trial . More than 600 were taken with arms in . their bands , but only forty . fiveare accused . On looking over the names , we . find they are ex-deputies and government officials , conspicuous for their constitutional opinions , and like- the celebrated forty-two oflhe last trials , victims ot political hatred , and no doubt like them will be sent to the galleys in chains . These gentlemen have already revealed enough to prove that" the real authors of the street fight do not appear .

      The parliament was again called ; its conservative cbax » cter „ and PiQderatvon may he seen in the records of that assembly . Several useful reforms passed , but never received . the signature of the King . At length- the finance was to be voted . '; the King then closed the parliament , and shortly after , out of 104 deputies , twenty-four were thrown into prison , and fifty-two exiled themselves from the Tvfo Sicilies , ' in' alf seventy-six victims . The reaction bad now triumphed ; the King felt himself sure , of the army , and the , events of Europe no longer threatened from without . The ; old , corrupt police

      machinery was recalled , and the irritated hounds of despotism have since hunted the whole kingdom for the last two . years , ; crowdingi the prisons , and ruinin g families in all directions ..: It is enough to be denounced by a tpy , -to be thrown into prison , and eventually moved to the galleys . Toerio a ' nd his companions already wear the chain , \ and others will assuredly Wadded to these early victims . It is a crime to mention the word constitution -rit is high treason to refer to that unity of . Italy wbich . his Majesty solemnly contracted with Charles Albert ..

      THE STATE TRIALS . : The great tragedy at Naples is UQt yet oven the curtain dropped but for a short time , and we are to witness anew trial by . those judges whom the pamphlets of Mr . Gladstone introduced to . us , and on victims not less . illustrious than Baron Poerio . We learn by the latest intelligence from Naples that the late minister . of commerce and agriculture , Antonio Scialoja , is to be tried , or rather , that he is to be sentenced to the galleys . 1 M . Scialoja ; a born Neapolitan , was professor of political economy at Turin . He made , himself generally beloved by the gentleness ot bis temper , and . by , "the ... moderation of his i Views .

      Hewas a free trader and a constitutionalist , and as such the greatest enemy :. of-, violent revolutions . His 'Trattatoi Elementare di : Economia Politica' contains the substance of his "lectures , and is a proof ofthe practical turn of his : mind . His position in Turin was a pleasant one in every respect , when the revolution in 1848 broke out ; but mindful of his native country , he returned , to Naples in March ' , 1848 , / ' though- ; with , the intention not to fix himself . on , 8 Atreacherous .. a soil ' . . ' After his . arrival there he had an interview with tlietKing , who , by the advice ' of his ministry , < had " , appointed Scialoja to a high judicial office . A few days later , on the 7 th of'April ; he was named Minister of

      Agriculture and Commerce . An enemy of Anarchy not less than of despotism , at a moment when both these extremes were to ' be dreaded , he did all he could to ' , uuite . the different parties in one great interest ,, loftier : than all the others—viz ., the national interest for the independence of Italy . But the dynastic intrigues , the religious apprehensions , and the disturbances ^ excited by the agents of the enemy , destroyed this noble enterprise , so . little appreciated ' . by . the foreign press . ' The deplorable events of the 15 th of May , 1848 ,. in Naples severely tried Scialoja ' s hopes , ; He , saw that the reactionary party would avail itself of the unsuccessful attempt of a few hundred madmen , who evident \ y were

      under-foreign influence , and he withdrew from office . Unwilling .: to use other arms than these of words and of persuasion , he-resorted to both ; wriu ing for the press , and lecturing on political economy to refute the doctrines of- Socialism . . The government stopped ; these lectures . ' But : Scialoja was member of . the parliament ; he bad therefore the tribune , and he denounced from it all those seeds of corruption and of absolutism which soon were to grow and bring , such bitter fruits in his unfortunate country . Now . who could , believe that sixteen months after he . left office he was imprisoned in September , 1849 , under the pretence that he had been implicated in the disturbances of the 15 th of May . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' . : ¦ ' <¦ -

      A man like Scialoja , who . anxiously longed for the peaceful development of freedom , and who loved national independence even more than freedom itself , how could he-be a , party to tb . el 5 lo . of May—to this first blow against liberty and independence ? How could he participate in this mad attempt , which served'but despotism , and blighted every hope of progress ? Rut it is enough to say , that he baa now b een nearl y two y ears iu . prUon , and , th & Uhe Neapolitan judges were not able to find false witnesses against him . . He often , but in vain , implored the judges to try him , that he might thus have the opportunity of defending himself . Now , after a preliminary imprisonment of twenty-two months , he

      will be dragged before the court , not to be judged but to be condemned . For in countries where justice is not administered , by jury , and . where the judges can be dismissed from office , at the pleasure ofthe King , a judge is nothing more than a commissioner , a mercenary , a bravo , who , instead of the stiletto , destroys you by the false interpretation or application of a law in order to please his master , But Scialoja was minister at the time when the constitution was in full vigour , and was acknowledged by the King himself . / The minister should

      therefore have been tried . by the ? House of Peers when impeached by the Commons . Instead of this he | will be tried by a corrupted court , by a starchamber .- But it ia yet more strange that those few hundred men who fought on the 15 th of May in the streets of Naples , and who were taken priaouMs , arms in hand , have all been -dismissed without any punishment , without' any law suit . Absolutism seems in fact desirous to prove grateful to . those very men for the inad enterprise , which was escited by foreign enemies to whom / they served as tools . .

      , ; GERMANY .-. A committee has lately been established in the Diet for the publication of the reports ofthe . Diet ' s proceedings J that is to determine in each case what should be published ,, and what . should be suppressed . ' .

      . ELECTORAL HESSE . ' The central -eourt-tnartial of Hesse presented an animated spectacle on the 24 th .. On the criminal bench were seated seven of the magistrates ,, dressed in their full robes . They were the President and six of the judges of the Criminal Chimber of the . Tribunal of ; Rothenburgh , who were accused of having passed sentence in the month of October last upon Mr . Faber , a government " functionary in a public ^ otfice , of three months' imprisonment , for having violated the constitution , of 1848 , which constitution , said the articles of accusation , were already abolished in fact . - V-

      The President of . tbeiTribunal of Rothenburgh rose and stated , in the name . of himselfand his colleagues , that they considered it beneath their dignity to defend themselves against such , an accusation ; that the constitution was in full .. Vigour at the time . Mr . Faber was sentenced ; that he had been eit ed before the Tribunal of Rothenburgh on the requisition of the Public Ministry ; that the sentence passed was in < entire accordance . with the laws of the country ; and that it had been pronounced upon the conclusions drawn ' by the Procurator of the State ; and finally , Mr . Faber had acquieBCed In the judgment , siud . had even voluntafUy rendered himself prisoner for the purpose of undergoing ' . the imprisonment to which he had been sentenced . , i

      . The court-martial condemned the seven magistrates to . eight months' imprisonment in a fortress . This decision , passed by a tribunal composed chiefly of strangers , that is Ho say , of ' Bavarian military officers , ha s p roduced . a very great sensation at Cassel .

      NOWAY . A popular tumult hasTtaken place ; at Ringenike , in consequence oi the " arrest of a man named Knudsen , for -having taken part in the . workmen ' s meeting in Christiauia , Troops had beensent thither , -

      • ¦ AMERICA . '¦• By the Canada steam-ship we have dates from New York to the 22 nd ult ; ; The cholera is prevailing to a considerable extent id several o » Mbe western states . A number of fatal eases have o ^ -curred * in various to . wns of Illinois , Indiana , Missonlri , and Ohio , and the pestilence appears to be spreads witn alarming rapidity ; ' . The city of New York was visited on the night of Saturday ,-the 19 th ' u , f < r " a T , severe thunderstorm , which did' co"u « derabie ' damage , ' jlahy deaths from sun-stroke . \ recorded in the papers . ' Repeated ; " Iksurbeci " wn ™ . CyBA . ~ The report is that there has been ^ conflict between five or six hundred of the people QMhat place and the

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      troops , in which the latter were defeated . Troops were sent to disperse them , but they were repulsed with the loss of their commander , and twenty-eigbt killed and wounded . The insurgents had retired to the mountains and fortified ^ themselves ., Other towns followed the lead , and in a few days the whole eas . tern- part of the island will be in a state of revolution . The government have been seeding troops te Matanzas ih ? past week , but it seems they did not call there , as something more urgent pressed thero eastward . The Havannah papers say little on the subject , and it is understood the government are doing all in thefr . power to prevenUhe true state ot tliines becoming ' bnown . Ouv pmftte iett « rs 8 tate that tne new 8 P P er reports ' are somewhat exaggerated .

      A -banquet- was given -on the 21 st-uH . to T > r . Hutrhes ; R . C . Archbishop of New York , in . celebratiort of his return from Europe . Nearly 200 of the principal Roman Catholics of New York were pregent at the Astor-house on the occasion . ; The first toast , as at the entertainment in Liverpool to the same personage , was , -The Health ofthe Pope . ' The hon . Daniel Webster , Secretary of State , proposed as a toast , ' Relig ious Toleration and Charity . The festivities were kept till an early hour in the

      morning . - . ' ,... . Another fugitive slave case had recently occurred . A negro named Daniel Hawkins , was arrested at Lancaster , and on being taken before the United States Commissioner , was ordered to be sent back to his owner in Maryland . Great excitement existed , but no violence was offered in , oiiposition to the law .- _' ... '_

      ¦ '• • THE LEVANT . The Oriental Company ' s steamer Tagus arrived at Southampton on Tuesday with ship letter-bags from Cons tantinople , Smyrna , Malta , and Gibraltar . - "When she left Constantinople there had been no change in the determination of the Turkish government to liberate Kossuth on the 15 th proximo . It was understood that he would be conveyed to Malta in a government steamer , and would arrive at Southampton about the 5 th of Octeberor November . - ""

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      On the 10 th of June a Sydney man named John Jenkiii 8 ,. aft ' fls Simpton , / was detected in carrying off a safe / from anoffice on Long Wharf ,, San Ftancisco , and after a struggle was . arrested in . his boat . ¦ He was immediately taken . before the Committee of Safety , consisting of 100 or . 200 ; citizens ,- tried , found guilty , and sentenced to be-hung within au hour . A minister was sent for , who endeavoured to administer consolation , but whose efforts were entirely disregarded by the hardened convict . At two o ' clock at night he was taken to the public Plaza by the committee , and therflsult . i 8 :: thus . given by . the '; Heraldv of the nexthmorning i : —* ' Arrived at the , flaa- staff , some were . climbing , upit to arrange

      thebalter , whenan . earnestcry . 'was'raisedfby . sqme present— ' For God ' s sake hot to'hang him on the liberty pole . ' The appeal was heard , and those in charge of the execution mounted the beams on the south porch of the adobe ; a rope was stretched across between two of the supporters , to the middle of which a block and pulley were . fastened ; . another rope was run through this , with a noose at one end . Volunteers were called for to man the other end . The prisoner , who had not spoken a word , as far as we . could hear , during the whole . march and the dreadful , preparations going on before him , was taken by . his guard beneath the beam , the noose adjusted around his neck , and , in . an instant , at ten minutes

      past two o ' clock , he was jerked high into , the air ; and hung dangling from the beam . ? He was a very tall , stout , heavy-man , and . bis . struggles were violent , and , contmue . d several minutes . Gr . duaily they ceased ; and he swung slowly . round and round . Those who were > executing him held steadfastly on the . end of the rope , keeping it tense and allowing no . interference ., . They , beldi . bim . lthus for twenty minutes ., when , no doubt , the effort being very great , or . the . rope , stretching , ; lhe banging wretdi imperceptibly lowered until , his feet hung several inches below the top of the railing ; No effort was

      made to avertibis fate .: Several hundred persons were on the ground at the time of tbe execution " . When we . left , at half-past two o ' clock , he was still hanging ,, and a proposition had ' been offered to appoint a committee to hold hiai there until daylight . The hardened man walked to the gallows smoaking a cigar , and had dropped the . stub : before he was launched into eternity . The rope-was adjusted about his neck , by Captain Wakeraan , well remembered in New York for having sailed away from tbat city with the ateameriNew World while the sheriff ' s officers were on board . ¦;

      The 'Madrid Gazette , ' of the 31 st ult ., publishes a return showing that the receipts of the treasury in the month of . June last amounted -to 98 , 750 , 924 reals , being 3 , 919 . 008 more than in the corresponding month . of si 850 . This , however , is less by 2 , 217 , 632 reals than tbe estimane in the budget . The Minister of ; Finance at Rome has issntd a notification , dated the 24 th ult ., announcing that the paper-money of the late Republican govern ment , representing twenty-four baiocchi ( abont forty-five centimes ) , will continue to be received at all public offices until the . 14 th of August ; after that date , they willcontinue to be received at the Ministry of Finance at Rome until the 24 th , after which thev ace to he valueless .

      A letter from Rome of the 24 th ult . announces that the Governor of Lugx > has been arrested upon the singular charge of being an accomplice of . the brigands . who infest the country , notwithstanding the great zeal he displeyed a few months agO against the band of II Passat ore ; a zeal wbich the government was on the point " of rewarding with a medal : of Merit ,, when .. these strange accusations . were brought against him . - ; - ' . The « Kolner Zeitung has 'letters from PesUi 01 the 30 th ult . J stating that M . Rbsenyha * ., an agent of the Hungarian emigratibn , / who bad / returned from Pau to Hiirigary , has been asrested , and . ' that he : committed . suicide-to avoid the consequences of his activity : in behalf of the revolutionary propaganda . .

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      , Queen's .Theatre. The Performances Thi...

      , QUEEN'S . THEATRE . The performances this week commenced with Pauline , a translation from , the " French , which still continues to attract a good ' . house . Miss Rogers , as Pauline , and Messrs ; Green and'Chester , a s Count de Beuzeval and , Lucien de Nerval , sustained the principal characters ,-and appeared to give satisfaction . . The secbnd : piece , The , Two , Gregories , kept the house in a roar , of laughter ; but , the chief attraction of tbe . week is TTificin ' s d rama o f Leo l a , pr the'Corsican Maid . It abounds in picturesque situations hnd startling effects ; Mr .. Green , as Hamend

      Beeph , a returned convict with a small remnant of humanity left in his .. heart , played" with more than his usual abilities , / [ Mr . Chester , as Azrael , a man wrapped in . gloom ' and mystery , supposed by tho superstitious , to be possessed of an- " , evii . eyo , " sustained his well-deserved reputation . Miss . Rogers as Leola , "th ' e Qiieen ' of the Hills , appeared greatly to advantage , and . lboked the character exceedingly well . The closing scene of the second act , when tho poor'blind' Erpa . and her convict father appear enveloped in the ruins of their blazing dwelling , produced ' a thrilling effect . The whole piece was exceeding well , played , a . nd deserves success .

      ROYAL , POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . ' TTe . aroh ' appy , to find that the lectures of the Professors at this establishment still , meet ' -with that encouragement they , deserve , by the thousands of anxious listeners who daily , crowd the ! lecture rooms for instruction and amusement . ' Dr .. Baohhoffaer is still , engaged in . delivering his lecture on Men . Foucault ' s ; rotation of ; the .: earth , with numerous experiments and , observations thereon ., The chemical lecturer , ~ Mr . Pepper , continues his subject , tho chemical properties ofthe gems iu the .. Crystal Palace .,. Tiievarious ' apparatus deposited here for cooking by gas , ave highly , interesting and : curious , and is demonstrated on lor the benefit of the visitors daily . Mr . / Froderick . Chatterton also delivers lectures on tho : histpry of , the Harp , iu which he details many anecdotes highly interesting and in . structive , the discourse being , illustrated by the vocal powers of Miss Blanche Young , R . A ., which gives an agreeable finish . to tho ' whole , -i ; ... :

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      It is stated in diplomatic circles in Paris , that the Sovereigns of the minor German States purpose visiting Vieuua in the course of tho present months ; and-that tho visit is connected with politics ; ' '" , ; . " :: ' ¦ : '¦ '• • • " HwtOWAT ' s TlLIS , A MOST" ExTKiOilDlSAM " - CuBB OF ilEOrsV L ' FFLCTEn Ut TUEB . Use . —Mr . George llowlcy , of Tobago , had suftercd ; fioin . this disease for , upwards of five years , duriujj . wJik-h period he uuderwont tho operation of tapping live times ; his malady wasinost skilfully treated by several practitioners , notwithstanding which ile got gradually worse , his Strength and health failiiig . so fast as to render any hope of recovery almost vain J ' ns n lust resource he tried Ilolloways I'ilis , and by ¦ pcrsevcriiiir in their use , according to the directions affixed to each Box ho was completely cured , in a few months , and is now re ' - storedto a ., good state of healtli .-Sdld by all druecists and at rrofeesor Hellowny ' s esUbhsbwvnt Sit , fetrand I London .: ; . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ .- — . > ' - , ' !

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      LIVERPOOL .-SERIOTJS CHARGE AGAINST THE SECOND MATE OF . A PACKET SHIP —COMMITTAL JOB , ; MAIS SLAUGHTER . It appears that , about six o ' clock on Saturday evening last , a boy about fifteen years of age , named Alfred W . . Gibbs , was , along with , nine more of ihe crew , furling sails , on the ; foretopsail yard ofthe packet-ship : Guy'Mannering , " now lying in the Bramley Moore Dock , Joseph Ryder , the second mate on board , let go tho topsail halyard , and the yard giving way , Gibbs ; fell on tho dock . Ho got his left leg and thig h broke n , was carried to the Northern Jlospital on a stretcher , and died in less than two hours afterwards . An inquest was held before a highly respectable jury , Captain Cook , the superintendent of pilots , being foreman . Ryder , the second mate , was present in custody during the inquiryr " '" - ' /"""""""'" ' " "''"' / _ "' '

      .. , Bruce M'Kinney said bo was chief brBcer of tbe Guy Mannering . —The / deceased was a boy on board , not an apprentice ,, as no apprentices are taken on board American' ships . ' Tho vessel sailed from New . York ; . on 'the - 10 th of July . On the voyage to Liverpool there was a great deal of unpleasantness between the prisoner , the captain , and the crew . This arose from the prisoner getting liquor improperly ; he and the crew often quarrelled * Tiio ship arrived in . Liverpool on 'Thursday week last , and went on Saturday into Bramley Moore Dock . About . half-past five . on Saturday evening witness sent several of the hands of tbe ship , to furl the foretop-sail , The deceased was one of the n ' unioer .- They were seventeen in number , being nine

      of the crew , three boys ,- the boatswain , third mate , a coloured . man , and two labouring- rten- belonging to the . stevedores ... About ten minutes after they had gone up witness heard tbe third mate , who was then'on the foretopsail yard , ' sing out , " Slack the f o r eto p sail hal y ards , so that wecan biint the sail . " Ona . of the hands , whose name is John Murray ; was going " up the larboard fore-rigging at the-time . Witness ealled : him down , and told him to slack the foretopsail halyards , and to be careful how he did . so . lie went to the' halyards and got hold of them . The prisoner was then standing-in the larboard gangway , and ho shouted to Murray to go aloft , and said that ho would slack the halyards for them . Witness ordered tho

      prisoner not to touch tho halyards , because there waa a' man there who would slack them . . The prisoner went forwards to the halyards ' . ' Instantly witness heard the third mate , who was on the yard with the deceased , ; sing but , " Look out for yourselves—the second mate has got hold of the hal-/ " Liverpool 2 ' . ' , _ . . yards . " 'At that moment witness' heard tho yard coming down , ran forward , . and said to the prisoner , "My God , see what you have dono now ; you have killed somebody ; " and he said , " Somebody be , —— , " or a , phrase like that , perhaps it might / be worse .. The yard came down close to the cap / ' Several' of the people' on the . yard jumped into the rigging and saved-themselves .. One wos thrown into the top , and the deceased on to the

      'deck . .. ; AV . itness observed . that the prisonei- was in liquor , : but he knew what . no was , doing and what he was saying . Wont , then on to the topgallant forecastle ^ and there found' the deceased , lying on his back . He was moaning heavily , and complained of hislieart ; his arm , and his "leg ; The prisoner then came and stretched out the arm and leg ef the deceased , and witness told hirn-to keep away , as he ' bad done harm enough .-,. Prisoner then began cursing him , and after deceased had been carried to the-hospital / he was given into custody . ' Jf ' the halyards had' not got entangled , every oheof the bauds on tho yards would most pvoeably have been

      killed ., That ; morning , ; when engaged in sundry jobs ,.. the prisoner said to tho boys , that he would kill them if he did hot leave the ship . He said that alt the good men had left , and the good ones had stopped . One of tho two boys went away , and tho otheiv ' whowas a Frenchman / and could notspeak ' <; ood English , remained to { .-scrub the ship ' s sides : Tho deceased assisted-him . The witness then heard the prisoner say he . was bound to kill a Frenchman , for lie hada fine once tb pay for ono . Witness thought he was only in fun .- During-the afternoon of Saturday , when moving the ship , hoard the prisoner say he was bound to kill somebody and get his name up ..

      ' Daniel Deverin , John Owen , and a number ofthe seamen oh board , were called and gave similar testimony . ; The jury returned ' a verdict of " Manslaughter against Ryder , and he was committed to Kirkdale under the coroner ' s warrant , to -take his trial at the ensuing assizes .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 9, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09081851/page/2/