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FRANCE . On Tuesdav evening last the President , on re-- - A ™ the banquet at Poitiers , repaired w : th a WB * ££ X lo the Promenade de Blotuo . which S SStop of the old walls . Here a dis-IZ of firewrks took place . In the meantime the banquet-hall having been , with that dexterity peculiar to French artists in the decorative branch , converted into a ball-room , the President opened the dancing with the wife of the Prefect , and presently after retired . On Wednesday morning the President reviewed the National Guard of Poitiers and the troops in garrison there ; immediatelyr after
which he left by the train for Chatellherault , where abrcakfast had been prepared , and where , „ , important incident marked his arrival . This little town Contains a thick industrial population The National Gaard at the Railway Station , immediately on the President's arrival , set up one universal shout of « Vive la UepuWique P The inhabitants joined in this demoiistratieu . From tbe station to tbe Hotelde-Ville , the manifestations in favour of the Republic assumed a character of seriour hostility against the person of the President , whose carriage was besieged by a furious mob , shouting 'A has Napoleon ! ' The Paris police was very numerous and
Strong , andjthe sergens-de-ville , acting with decision , arrested some of the National Gaards who uttered the hostile cry . Thus tbe riot was curbed until the President reached the place appointed / or his reception . Meanwhile the rain fell in torrents . At breakfast , in answer to the mayor , who deplored the tumult , the President declined the flattering terms in which that functionary attributed to him all the good done iu the last three years , and gave all the credit to the whole party of order . This admission was loudly cheered . It was after the mayor , in a speech somewhat highly spiced with personal compliments had proposed the health of Louis Napoleon , that the latter returned tranks in the following words : —
'Gentlemen , —In thanking the Mayor for the « ltind words which he has just addressed to me , I cannon attribute to myself alone the happy results which he has pointed out . My conduct during the last three years may be summed up in a few words . I placed myself resolutely at tbe head of the men of order of all parties , and I have received from them an efficacious and disinterested co-operation . If there have been some defections , I am ignorant of them , for I go forward without casting a look
behind . There must be an impulse and an aim . My impulse is the love of my country ; my aim is to make religion and reason prevail over Utopias , and to give heart to the good cause , that it tremble no mare ia the face of error . This result will be obtained , if we follow throughout France the example of Chatellherault , and if we forge arms not for insurrection and for civil war , but to increase the strength , the greatness , and the independence of the nation . '
The ' Moniteur' contains decrees for assembling the Electoral Colleges of the Lot and of the North on the 27 th ult , in order to elect members in the room of M . de Saint Priest , deceased , and of Gen . de la Hitte , resigned . There are thus to be five elections within the present month , three of which are fixed for next Sunday . The results may bo already anticipated , for the ' National' announces that in tbe * Seine and Marne not only have the electors in their local meetings pronounced for abstention , hut several citizens , whose candidateship stood the best chances of success , had declared that their consciences would not permit them to accept
bom a fraction of citizens a mandate which tbe constitution puts in the hands of all . In tbe upper Vienne the republican representatives for the department had engaged their fellow citizens to abstain from voting , and their counsels had been backed by their own constituents . In the Dordoane , at a meeting of delegates from the cantons at Perigneux . it was resolved that the democrats should not present themselves at the voting places , the nine representatives for the department had , like their colleagues representing the upper Vienne , engaged their constituents not to vote . Thug then are the Republican party unanimous for abstention . '
The 'Assembled Rationale affirms that tbe northern , courts have formally offered to Rome , Naples , and Tuseanny any aid these governments tnay require against revolutionary movements . M . de Melon ' s report on the petitions was read On Saturday to the Commission . The total number ti signatures , marks , and adhesions to the 30 th ot June " , inclusive , is stated by the reporter to be
1 , 123 . 625 . At the fete in celebration of the inauguration of the statue of Jeanne Hacbette the President of the Republic had on his right M . Dupin , President of the National Assembly ; on the left M . Boulay , Vice-President of the Republic ; opposite to him frere the Bishop , the Mayor , and tbe Prefect . At the dessert the Mayor proposed as a toast , ' To the President ! to the elect of the 10 th of December , the heir of the most illustrious warrior ! ' which he introduced with the following speech '•—' Your presence within our walls recalls the remembrance of the visit of the First Consul in 1802 .
It excites the same enthusiasm and the 'ante sentiments of gratitude . To yen we are indebted for the tranquillity which we now enjoy . Tbe wise measures which you have taken and the force and energy of tbe government have put anarchy to silence . Order , disturbed hy a convulsion which shook society to its very foundation has been re « established . Credit revives , and commerce and industry have resumed their free course . Thanks be to you for all these blessings . * Vive le President ! Vive Ia France !' The Pesident replied as follows : —
* Gentlemen , —The honourable Mayor of Beauvais will pardon me for confining mysfli to me . ely thanking him for tbe nattering words which he has just addressed to me . In replying to it , 1 should fear to change the reliaious character of this fete , which by the commemoration of a glorious fact accora . plished in this city , presents a nigh historical lesson , It is encouraging to think that , iu cases of extreme danger . Providence frequently reserves to one alone to be the salvation of all , and , under certain circumstances , it has even chosen that b > ing from among the softer s ? x , as if it wished , hy the weakness of the instrument , to better prove the empire of the soul over human affairs , and to % ! :-,-. v ; hxt z c & m ?
does not perish when it is cameo :.. » with ardent faith , inspired devotedness , And deep caaviction . Thus , in the fifteenth century . * i * . U a few years of interval , two women , obscure but animated with sacred fire , Jeanne d'Are and Jeanne Hacbette , appeared at the most desperate moment to fulfil a hoiy mission . One had the miraculous glory of delivering France from a foreign yoke , the other inflicted the dif grace of a retreat on a prince who . in spite of the eclat and extent of his power , was only a rebel and a maker of civil war . And yet , to what are these actions reduced ? They did nothing else than show to Frenchmen the road to honour aud duty , and how to march in it at their head . Such
examples must be honoured and perpetuated . And , therefore , I am happy to think that it was the Emperor Napoleon who , in 1806 , re-established the ancient custom , so long interrupted , of celebrating the raising of the siege of Beauvais . The reason was this , that for him France was not a factitious Country bom of yesterday , enclosed within the narrow limits of a single period or solitary party ; she was a nation which had become great by 8 . 'i 0 years of Monarchy , and no' less great after ten years of revolution ; labouring for the fusion of all interests :-, ancient and modern , and accepting al > kinds of glory without regard to time or cause . We have fullv inherited these sentiments , for I
hebold here representatives of all parties ; they come here , as I do , to render homage t «> the warlike virtue of a period to tbe hi roism of a woman . ( Loud applause . ) Let us drink to tbe memory of Jeanne Hachette !' The speech was followed by loud and reiterated shouts of Vive Napoleon !« Vive le President ! Fifteen copies only of the report of M . de Tocqaevill ? ate printed , to be placed in the hands of the Members of the committee . The report is made with much tact in the Republican sense , and has been approved by M . Odilon Barrot , M . de Coreelia , m . Baz ? , and M . de Afcrnav , the four democrat * members of the committee " , thus placing M . de Brogue and the monarchists in a minority of ™ a lb Z debate on U itt l ° e committee commenced on Tuesday last .
Tocqueville ' s report havin g been , under the llnCtat « d of seereay . distributed to ' thememWs . A oa Commute of Revision , on Tuesdav the debav , 3 a the report commenced . It h understood f ,,-na a pravate source that this document is one of tae aiOit remarkable state papers eTer i 8 suerf f tbe r . a ; - , cnal printing bouse ., The elevation of its aty ! e ass . ' 5 ts philosophical tone will tend , it is < aid to P act- it above < he reach of th « sharp criticiMn to wh ::- : i will « ct fail to be sobj-ctrd by the nmm .-z ' alz parties . Even Ocih .-n Bairot finds the tx-ai . 3 , 3 R-publican ions end spvcr adfccsion to
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legality carried to the verge of excess , and criticises it as less favourable to the President than a just consideration of his services and a calm weighing of the circumstances of the crisis might warrant . In a word Odilon Barroi finds his former colleague of the foreign department too indulaent to the constitution . The report , although containing much that is to the advantage of Louis Napoleon , is likely to be regarded with little favour at the Elysee , from the decided and uncompromising protest against the least deviation from legality . This is in fact the must important feature of the document . De Toequeville admits that there is a strong popular movement throughout the country in favour of the
re-election of the President , although he repudiates the number of signatures to the petitions as the / allacious test of public opinion . Hence he derives the pressing necessity for removing the dangerous contradiction between tbe possible decision of the nation and the dictates of the constitution , Many other vices exist no doubt in the constitution ; but this defect alone would be sufficient to call tor revision . On the other hand , there is a general disposition throughout the country to regard the revision of the constitution as the chief , if not only remedy for the universally prevailing distress , uneasiness , and alarm
as regards the future . But if the revision cannot he obtained in a legal way , M , de Tocque . yt lle expresses his most emphatic conviction that it is the duty of the Assembly t < i uphold without flinching the strict letter of the law , the least deviation from which opens a breach from the ruinous overflow of revolution , and sets all that has been gamed by the party of order at hazard . And he says that the only bulwark between society and anarchy is the law , the arbitrary change of one iota , one comma of which destroys the virtue of tbe whole fabric , which will crumble immediately to
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SWITZERLAND . The Federal Council of Switzerland has drawn up a decree for tbe execution of the railways proposed by Mr . Stephenson . One line is to traverse tbe country from the lake of Constance to Geneva , passing by Zurich . A branch line is to run from this trunk line to the Basle Railway , to unite with the German and French lines . Another line is to proceed from the lake of Constance to Coire , in tbe Orisons , to be prolonged afterwards across the Alps by Luckrnanier into Lnmbardy . The total length of these lines is to be ( 350 kilometres ( 4051- English miles ) , and the expense 102 , 123 , 000 tr ., or 157 , il 2 fr . per kilometre .
ROME Accounts from Rome dated June 25 , state that all Rome is just now interested in the struggle between General Gemeau and tbe Papal authorities with regard to tbe occupation of the localities demanded by the former and refused by the latter , and , although force is on the side of tbe French , it is generally believed that they will have to knuckle under to the ecclesiastics in this as well as in so many other disputed points . The reply of President Bonaparte , to whom the litigant parties forwarded despatches , requesting him to arbitrate between their claims , arrived here two or three days ago , after having been ardently expected on
both sides . It appears that the French government , whilst protesting its good- will towards the Holy see , and its firm determination to uphold the cause of religion , justifies the measures taken by General Gemeau , and explains the necessity and right of the Commander-in-Chief to insure tbe safety of his army by occupying positions of strategic impor . ranee ; at tbe same time , if I am rightly informed , the general has been instructed not to push his claims so far as to take forcible possession of the Quirinal palace , if not voluntarily yielded up by his holiness . The independence of the sovereign is to be so far respected , that his apostolic residence is not to be actually invaded by his faithful allies .
No doubt , whatever concessions are mane by tbe French President to the coun of Rome , at the present juncture , must be mainly attributed to his desire to conciliate the body of the clergy in France , and to make sure of their support in the approaching struggle for prolonged power on his part . The most simple way for the Pope to save his palace from General Gemeau ' s clutches would , of course , be to remove into it himself ; but , unfortunately , he has had a most desperate aversion for tbe place ever since the memorable attack of the 16 th of November , 1848 ; besides which it would have rather too barefaced an appearance of defiance , if he were to step into it just when the French have
demanded it , as if to say , ' Now that I am inside , turn me out if you dare . ' There is , however , another method of arranging matters , which will save tbe decorum of bis Holiness , and yet effect the purpose he has at heart . It has been mentioned , as a scheme likely to be realised , that , after the grand festival of St . Peter ' s , which takes place on the 29 th , the Pope will feel inclined for a little trip into the country , and will select his palace at Castel Gandelfo for a few day ' s villeygiatura , after which he will return to Rome ; not , however , to the Vatican , but to the Quirinal Palace , for which
change he will have an admiral pretext in tbe more lofty situation and purer air of the latter , it being well known to those who have any experience in this climate that there is more danger in going for a few days to the pure air of the hills , and then re . turning into the sluggish atmosphere of tbe lower parts of Rome , than in passing the summer months entirely in the capital ; so that the Quirinal would be considered as less different from the country than the Vatican , which is in a low unhealth y position . Preparations have been going on at the Quirinal Palace some time for the reception of his Holiness .
All sorts of rumours are prevalent witb respect » e the arrival of fresh troops , and two regiments are expected at Civita Vecchi , but up to the present moment we have no news of any having entered that port . The 53 rd of tbe line , whose officers objected to seeing French patrols beaded by papal sbirri , is to be sent either to Africa or Corscia .
ITALY . The Milan official < Gazette' of the 30 th ult , contains the following : — ' The Republic of San Marino became , after the occupation of Ancona , and the re-establishment of the Holy See , the refugee of ^• grants of all countries , and particularly those v no formed the band of the celebrated Condottiere Garibaldi . They were then subsequently joined by a crowd of individuals guilty of common offences and crimes . The Pontificial Government having addressed remonstrances to that effect to that Of Sau Marino , the latter not only acquiesced in the
demand to expel the political refugees as dangerous for the tranquillity of the adjoining provinces , hetaagjuxg to the Holy See , but vrorami & $ T . sfcA to deliver up to the Pontificial authorities tbe criminal offenders . The government of San Marino , with that view , applied for the assistance of the Austrian troops , who entered its territory on the 25 th ult ., and evacuated it on the next day , the 26 th , at four o ' clock a . m .. The political refugees , thirty-three in number , awaited at Rimini means of conveyance to the places they had themselves chosen , and the other class of individuals were in the hands of justice '
GERMANY . We learn from Frankfort-on-tbe-Maine that a Leipzig journal contains the information ( hat the military committee of tbe Diet will propose to the ' Engere Rath ' to concentrate two armies of observation on the banks of the Rhine , one being stationed on the left bank . Each of them to number 40 . 000 men , and to be composed solely Of Prussian troops . A third corps to be stationed in the North of Germany , as a kind of reserve for the armies on the Rhine . All three to be paid and provisioned at the expense of the confederation .
The police in Dusseldorf have been engaged during the past week in active searchtngs after copies of the poet Freiligrath ' s ' political and social lays ; ' not finding anything in the warehouses of the booksellers and printers , they intruded themselves into the dwelling of the poet himself , where their labour was equally vain . When will these absurd German governments learn that they only increase the importance of the works they seek to destroy by making them appear dangerous to the existence of a monarchy upheld by one hundred and flltv bayonets ?
Tbe annual festivities which take place at Whitsuntide , in Frankfort , were unusually gay this season , from 20 , 000 to 30 , 000 persons of all agr . n were collected under the shade of magnificent beech and fir tree * ; some in large circles eating and drinking , which indeed seemed to be the chief occupation of all ; others were cosily stretched in parties nf six or eight under the cover of bushes , whose branches were b ^ nt towards each other at ihe topi so as to fnrro a pleasant arbour ; many ol the younger individuals were wandering in wel ' - assorted couples throueh the by-paths of the forest . In the centre of the most frequented spot was an open space , roped off , within which countless hatless ruddy youths were twirling partners of the other sex , whose dusty white dresses and oersBtra-
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tion-streaming faces , bore evidence of the intensity with which they sought to make a fatigue of pleasure . The less happy Frankforters whom political events have driven from their homes and their annual picnic to labour in foreign countries , were not forgotten in the mirth of their old companions . Young women dressed in white , accompanied by a man bearing a hat , appealed to the charitable nature of the participators in this scene of fun ' for assistance for the German fugitives ; ' to receive which a regular recognised committee was in a ' -
tendance . Many kreutzers and half-florins found their way into the hats . Throughout the whole day nothing unpleasant occurred in this vast as . semblage of the very classes which German governments fear so much ; all was order , decency , and sobriety . Not one drunken man was seen . A case of robbery with violence did tako place , but the perpetrators belonged to the reoogniaed keepers of order . Two Bavarian soldiers fell upon a lady and gentleman wandering in an out-of-the-way part of the forest , and ill-treated and robbed the latter of his watch and chain—a valuable commentary on the machines of government in Germany in general .
HAMBURG . Jrar 2 . —The Assembly of Burgesses refected , yesterday , a bill relative to now rigours against the press , which had been submitted by the Senate . DENMARK . A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg , of the 3 rd inst ., announces the receipt of intelligence from Copenhagen . The Danish ministry had given in its resignation en masse . The capital was much agitated . It is supposed that there will be modifications in the constitution of 1848 . Count Moltke has been charged with the reconstitution of the ministry , whose programme is to be comp ) tt > : unity of the Danish monarchy—the assimilation of Schleswig and Hoistein , Germany cannot , however , allow the absorption of Hoistein into Denmark .
SWEDEN AND NORWAY . The repeal of the clause of the fundamental law which prohibits Jews from settling in Norway , may probably lead to tbe conclusion that they are thereby permitted to settle in the country ; such is not the case . In order to prevent the Jews from acting upon a mistaken idea of this kind , the Swedish journals call particular attention to the fact , that the change introduced by the Storthing into tbefundamental law is inefficient so long as the private law of the kingdom remains unchanged . So much , however , has been gained by the abolition of the obnoxious clause by the Storthing , that the possibility of a change in the private law of the kingdom is contemplated . But till this has been done no Jew will be permitted to settle in the kingdom , and every Jew who visits the country must provide himself with the usual pass .
SPAIN . The following telegraphic despatch has been received , dated Madrid , 2 nd inst .: — ' Yesterday , at a late hour , M . Pidal presented to the Congress a proposition to delay the adoption of tbe regulation of the debt . Although it was unexpected , and several deputies of the majority were absent , the go vernment obtained a majority of 129 votes to 56 Nine members have to-day given their adhesions to the vote of the majority . '
GREECE . Accounts from Athens of the 24 th ult , received via Trieste , state that tbe Greek Senate had unanimously adopted a vote of censure on the ministry , The unanimity of the vote caused surprise , aa Only a few days before ten new senators had been created .
TURKEY . Constantinople . — Cartal , a village on the Asiatic shore , opposite to Prince ' s Islands , had been completely destroyed by fire . The Sultan immediately sent Ismail Pasba , Minister of Commerce , to the spot to provide for the relief of the inhabitants and the reconstruction of the town . Earthquake shocks continue at Rhodes and Makei . Stamboul , June 23 . —The news from Bosnia , brought by the courier to-day , informs us that no traces of the rebellion exist . All is quiet . News from Odessa gives a report that 2 , 000 Russians , occupying a small isle in the roades of Astrabata , where the Russian flotilla of war is allowed to be stationed , have been suddenly attacked by the Turcomans of Stepes , and put to the sword ; and that at the same time three Russian men-of-war
near the island were burned . 1 his is supposed to be tbe first symptom of an alliance concluded between Chamil Bey and the Turcomans of Stepes , of China , and Bochara . Some are of opinion that the grandees of these countries have exercised influence over and driven the Turcomans to action .
THE KAFFIR WAR . The screw steamer Bosphorus arrived at Plymouth ou Monday at six p . m ., from the Cape of Good Hope , which she left on the 31 st of May . The aspect of affairs seems to have taken no definite turn in favour of either party . It was expected that hy the time of the departure of the next packet some more decisive movement will have been made by Sir Harry Smith , Tbe following is the monthly summary of the « Cape Town Mail' of May 31 : —
' During tbe past month no military movements of great importance have taken place , but the war has been gradually assuming an unfavourable aspect which has given rise to much anxiety . Sir Harry Smith has remained during the month at King William ' s Town , from which place he haj continued to send out patrolling columns in different directions , constantly harassing the hostile Kaffirs , driving them from their strongholds , destroying th ^ ir kraals , and occasionally capturing some of their cattle . Except in one instance , tbe Kaffirs have avoided an engagement with the troops , having been rendered by frequent defeats more cautious than they showed themselves at the commencement of the war .
' While these movements have been going on in British Kaffraria , a sudden change of weather has occurred followed by important results . On the 4 th inst ., tbe drought which bad before prevailed in and beyond the frontier districls was succeeded by heavy falls of rain in some places , and of snow in others . In and about Colesberg , the Orange River Sovereignty , and the mountainous parts of Kafficland , tbe ground has been covered with snow , and the weather has been extremely inclement . The cattle and sheep iu Albany and the neighbouring districts have perished by thousands . The Amatoia mountains , have been covered with snow to their bases , and tbe Kaffirs have been compelled to leave them
and drive their cattle to the low ground . Some , it would appear , have proceeded eastward , across tbe Kei ; others have driven their herds northward , into Tambokieland ; and a considerable number have entered the colony actoas Kei & kamma . Marauding bands of Kaffirs , more numerous and daring than they have before shown themselves , have within tbe past month spread over the frontier districts , from the Orange River to the sea . Several farmers have been killed in the district of Albert ; others have been obliged to quit their farms or camps and retire into the interior of the eolony . In Albany , several farm-bouses have been burnt , in the vicinity of Graham ' s Town some waggon-trains attacked , and numerous depredations committed . The Kat River
district and tbe adjoining country have been again occupied by the Kaffirs and rebel Hottentots , who have re-possessed themselves of Fort Armstrong . A body of them was attacked and routed , with considerable loss , by a small force under Captain Fisher , the officer commanding at Eland ' s Post . Major-General Somerset himself subsequently moved into that district , with about 900 men , and took post in the Blinkwater , and afterwards at Philipton , in the Kat River settlement , but found himself still unable to check tbe ravages of the numerous hordes of marauders by whom the country was infested . The colonial patrols had also been active and fre . quently successful in pursuit of the plunderers , but were worn out by the incessant and labourious exertions required of them .
WEST INDIA AND MEXICO . The Clyde arrived at Southampton on Sundav last . She brings fifty-four passengers ; amongst them is Lord Harris , late Governor of Trinidad . Amongst her cargo is specie to the amount of 884 , 804 dols . from Panama and Vera Cruz , of which 9 , 624 dols . are on account of Mexican dividend ; also ten cases of animals and birds , for the Zoom , gical Gardens , as a present from Lord Harris . Only 200 , 000 dols . of the specie brought home by the Clyde were from Mexico . From the Isthmus we l < farn that large numbers are leaving California ,
particularly since the fire . At Santa Martha there was a rumour that two of ( he provinces had openly revolted to annex themselves to the republic of Equador , and that a force of 10 , 000 men had been voted by the House of Assembly at Bogota to mafce war on that republic . Prom Dejnerara wa [ earn that during the last fortnight the weather in the colony had been dull and wet . The only important event that bad occurred was the bringing forward of a motion by an unofficial member of the Court of Policy on the ( ubject of reform , At Barbadoes the weather had been favourable ; tbe yield will be
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about 31 , 000 hogsheads . At Trinidad , Lord Harris had received a number of valedictory addresses previous to his departure . The last act of his lordship ' s administration was to announce that the estimates and plans for bringing the water of the Maray into the Port of Spain had been approved by the home government . No measures appear to have been taken to mitigate the cholera at Jamaica , notwithstanding the sufferings which the Jamaicans have undergone .
CANADA . Accounts from Toronto , dated June 21 , inform us that a series of resolutions , proposed by the Hon . W . H . Merritt ( late president of the executive council ) , were adopted without any opposition by the House of Assembly on the subject of a hue of steamers between Liverpool and Quebec . The object of these resolutions is , to order an address to be presented to the Queen , praying for the extension of similar aid and encouragement in tbe establishment of a line of steamers between Liverpool and Quebec to that now extended to the Cunard line , upon the condition that tbe provincial legislature will confer upon the proposed line similar aid to that which the American government has extended to tbe Collins line of Atlantic steamers , under such regulations as the imperial and provincial governments may deem most advantageous to promote the desired object .
The total value of imports in Canada for the year ending the 5 th of January , 1851 , according to Custom-house returns , was £ 4 , 245 , 517 . But a per centagemay be added to this to allow for smuggling , and entering invoices at less than their actual value . Of these , £ 2 , 407 , 980 , were from Great Britain ; £ 1 , 113 from British West Indies ; £ 96 . 404 from British North American colonies ; £ 1 . 648 . 715 from the United States ; and £ 91 , 303 horn other foreign countries . The total value of exports during this period was £ 3 , 235 , 948 . Of these £ 1 , 200 , 849 were ta Great Britain ; £ 202 , 194 to the British North American colonies ; £ 2 , 094 to British Wast Indies ; £ 1 , 237 , 789 to the United States ; and £ 27 . 070 to other countries . To these may be added tbe value ol the ships built at Quebec during tbe year , as they are principally built fer sale in Great Britain , say 32 , 043 tons , at £ 10 per ton , £ 320 , 430 .
AMERICA . The Royal Mail steam-ship America arrived at Liverpool on Monday morning at six o ' clock , bringing the mails from the United States , Canada , and the lower provinces . She left Bos Ion on tbe 25 th , and Halifax on the 27 th , andbrings ninety-six passengers , with intelligence by papers and telegraph down to the 27 th . A treaty has been formed between several of the tribes of Californian Indians and the United States Commissioners , by which the former bind
themselves to refrain from all acts of aggression on the whites , and also to live on peaceful terms with the other Indian tribes . They relinquish the title to the lands they held , and consent to occupy four townships between the Mercedo and Tuolumne Rivers . The United States agree to provide for the comfort of the Indians , to cherish the arts of peace , and to furnish the means of education and improvement ; The day after the execution of tbe treaty , the Indians removed to their new homes , under the superintendence of the commissioners .
The conflagration in San Francisco was of a very destructive character , but perhaps not to the extent that was at first anticipated . Nearly all the goods which were on shore , and the buildings in which they were stored , were consumed . The business portions of San Francisco are completely destroyed . with the exception of a few solitary warehouses at each extremity of the city . The value of the merchandise destroyed is supposed not to exceed 1 . 000 , 000 dollars . The shipping in the harbour was saved .
We have before alluded to a project said to have been formed by some Californian adventurers , for taking possession of Lower California , with a view to its annexation to the United States . A rumour has recently been set on foot that agents of the Mexican government have arrived in this country authorised to sell Lower California , Sonora , and Chihuahua to the United States , with tbe hope of improving the embarrassed finances of Mexico , and preserving her national existence , at least , for a time . If this report should prove . to be
wellfounded , there is no probability that the American government would entertain the proposition . Colonel Graham , tbe principal astronomer at the head of the scientific corps attached to the Mexican boundary commission , was with his party , at tbe last advices , on the way from San Antonio to El Paso , far the purpose of joining the commission . He was provided with a complete outfit of astronomical and surveying instruments , and important scientific results are expected from his great experience and distinguished ability .
We learn by the latest advices from Oregon that treaties have been made with the Yamhill and Luckaimuke Indians , by which the Indian title is extinguished to » H the lands north of Mary's River , between the Willamettee and the Coast Range of Mountains . The coal discovered in Oregon proves to be of a superior quality , burning with an intense heat , and leaving no residuum but light red ashes . The quantity is said to he inexhaustible , and it can be delivered on the Columbia River at less than ten dollars per ton .
The intelligence from the gold mines of Oregon was favourable . Most of the miners are able to make from six to twelve dollars a day . In the opinion of competent judges the mines will pay well for the next fifty years . A good deal of injury has been caused fn that part of the country by the ravages of the Indians , who cherish a deadly hostility towards tbe whites . A conspiracy has been discovered at Caraccas , for the purpose of changing the government of the country . It was the design of the plot to get rid of the President and the other chief officers of the
Republic . Several of the conspirators , belonging to the first families of the city , have been arrested , and were awaiting their trial . Those who have not yet been arrested have fled from the city , or remain in concealment , fearing the extraordinary powers with which the President is now clothed . T he plot was revealed by two of the members , who betrayed their confederntPSi Serious fears are cherished ot a revolution in New Granada . There is little security at present for life or property in Bogata . Robbery and assassination are committed in tbe most shameless manner by an organised band of ruffians belonging to the Liberal party . Congress has done nothing to prevent these outrages , although strongly appealed to by the sufferers .
Immediate secession in South Carolina is rapidly absorbing itself into gradual secession . Already a series of union meetings have been held , and so disgusted have the people become ( says a New York papery with secessionist that hut very tew demonstrations in that direction have been made recently . Hon . Armistead Burt , a member of Con gress , has joined tbe union ranks . Several papers which have heretofore advocated some kind of secession , have changed materially tbe tone of their sentiments . Union meetings will be held over tbe State on July 4 th . The reformers are advocation various constitutional reforms , and demand that the people should have the right of voting for election of President , Governor , and other state officers , now chosen by the legislature .
The new constitution of Ohio has been adopted by a much larger majority than was anticipated when it was presented to the people for acceptance . A separate vote was taken on a provision prohibiting any license by the state to traffic in intoxicating Hquors , and it has been adopted .
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1848. * The Pnpe Has Directed That The F...
. The Pnpe has directed that the fifty-two busts of celebrated men that have hitherto graced the palace of tbe Minister of Agriculture shall be placed in the public walk of the Pincio at Rome . Queen Victoria intends to present to the Emperor of Austria a magnificent dinner service composed of poralam and marble , which she purchased at the Great Exhibition for £ 1 , 000 sterling , in re . turn for the superb album which she received frem the Emperor .
1848 * On the 21 st ult . the Austrian arms were hoisted with great ceremony and military display over tbe gate of the Austrian Consulate at Fefrara , as a reparation for the insults offered to them by the people of that town on tbe 2 nd of November ,
In Hesse another Electoral decree has restored the Chief Cnmtof A ppeal to the form in whtPh it existed before the law of June 17 , 1848 . By that law the Chamber was empowered to appoint cer tain menbers of the Court , and it obtained the right of choosing its own President . The ^ e changes the decree states , are violations of the right of the Sovereign to appoint all the officers of the State judicial or military , and contrary to the constitution '
1848. * The Pnpe Has Directed That The F...
of the Bund itself . The law of 1848 is therefore ^ The Yburn and Taxis post monopoly for the imrdom of Wurtemberg has passed into the hands of the State by purchate from the agnates of the familv . The government has paid them 1 , 300 , 000 florins ' for the renunciation of their privilege . The Spanish armv counts , besides , about 700 Generals 217 Colonels , 1 , 076 Lieutenant-Colonels and Commandants-WOO officers , besides the retired class . . .. _ , ,. __ 28 th ult
The ' Roman Observer' of the . announces the conversion to the Catholic faith of an English lady , Miss Edmunds , who was received into that church by Moiwignor Talbot , Cwduwl Cagiano de Azevedo administered to her the sacrament of confirmation on the 26 tU in the Church of St . Juhn and St . Paul . On Thursday week M . de Fabregue was brought up before the correctional police for assaulting M . de Mirabeau with a horsewhip in the streets , and sentenced to one year ' s imprisonment and fifty francs fine .
A dispute has taken place between the French authorities and the British vice-Consul at Rouen , on thesubject of the succession of a Mr . White , who died suddenly in that town without leaving any heirs , and whose property was then claimed both by tbe state and by tbe representative of England , as a British subject . The seals which were put on the furniture and papers of Mr . White have been removed by the jttge de paix . in presence of the British Vice-Consul , and a strict search made , but no will was found . The affair will now undergo a thorough judicial investigation , in order to ascertain to whom the property belongs , as the deceased died intestate .
Letters have been received at Bremen , dated Archangel , June 14 tb , which confirm the intelligence which had been already received of the destructive fire which had taken place there . Unhappily , tbe roost wealthy and best part of the city , inhabited by foreign merchants , and which escaped four years ago , is now reduced to asbes . All tbe houses which have an export trade , have , without exception , lost their warehouses . The merchants are insured to a considerable extent , and business is carried on as usual . A wing of the Military Hospital , tbe Foundling , the theatre , 133 wooden houses , the German Evangelical School , a large printing office , and fi » e police offices are destroyed . The corpse of only one individual has been found .
The Steele Reports That A Sanitary Congr...
The Steele reports that a Sanitary Congress « to be held immediately at Montpellier . Each of the Mediterranean powers will be represented ' . at it by a diplomatic or consular personage , and by a medical matt . Greece atol the island of Malta will have their delegates , aim it is supposed that tbe great powers ef the North will also take part in the Congress .
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n-RATIS ! GRATIS ! GRATIS !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 12, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_12071851/page/2/
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