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      fRAWCB . Another plat has beeni discovered ^^ g ^ Paris , and , as it is said , Ledru RaUm feftnptfcatea in ft . Iu connexion with tins plot we . toM the 'following on the * uth . onty of two frendt legitimist papers : — A warrant had been teued ferthe apprehension of M- Anthoine , who tob er a' $ » ye & in the rifice of the ' Vols . < 4 a Prosdft . * . Y , ffc « n t"he commissioner of police unwed at the r , { 8 ee to execute the warrant , he found "ML Autbr / iae ia company with MCarre , wao is Ira tJrot ' acHBvkw . SL Carre .

      explained the reason for aia betag there , which was , | h & t on tbat ^ vesry day liis dwghter was to be marked to a tensive o £ II . -Asi'thome , . ' and the . lait ^ r -farting l-. fttfcortly before the commencement o ine ceremetv , a ^ d not riming aosoon as was expected , M . 'Carrehad cooe to the newspaper-office to look for imn . * Wiale this conversaUon was w £ , M Mirrfw is brought to M . Antheine a fS ^ ie hadfmtteu to Udru MUn and iliSSat it might be forwarded . The letter as -immediately opened by the commissioner of Z , ) ice who found teat it contained a request for f ^ af . from m . Ledru Roiira to support a canvass * a his favour for the presidency . This letter was the commissioner

      laid upon the chimney-piece while drew up his proses verbal . A few minutes afterwards it had disappeared . The commissioner se arched MM .. Marcliaia end Atithome to no purpose , but M . Carre being a magistrate , he did net feel authorised to search him . On M . Carre being about to leave , however , the commissioner begged him to stay a little longer , and then M . Marcnais , talking to M . Carre , " expressed his regret to find hi mself implicated in the matter . M . Carre told him not to alarm himself , that after a three months ' imprisonment the accusation , would be withdrawn , tha t it was a melancholy state of things , but that was the sort of justice to which they must become accustomed after the events of Lyons . M . Carre then insisted upon leaving , and was allowed to do so ; but before he left had told the coffimissiouM

      that M . Anthoine lived in bis house , Rue Montaigne , No . 27 . The police immediately went there to make a search , and were received by M . Carre's son , who , after some hesitation , admitted that M . Anthoine had never lived- there , and that his domicile was at -Saint Monde . It is asserted that M . Router , the minister of justice , is much struck by the recital of these facts , and that if they should be confirmed by a judicial report , he will cause M . Carre to be cited either before the Court of Appeal , or before the united chambers of the Court of Cassation to explain his conduct . M . Carre was formerly President of the Court of Justice of Tours , and afterwards Prefect of the Indie aud Loire . He was appointed to his present position by M . Cremteux , when the latter was Minister of Justice .

      - The arrests continue . a seizure of arms was made on Friday under the following circumstances : —At two in the afternoon a waggon , belonging to Direz and Co ., curriers , Rue Ponceau , entering Paris by the barrier oi Bercy , was stopped for the usual' octroi' examination . A package and several cases addressed to a grocer in Paris , were declared to contain coffee and Chicory , but on examination of one of the cases , it was found that underneath a layer of chicory several fowling pieces and pistols , many of the latter revolvers , were concealed . Tha wajgon being taken to the nearest military post it was discovered that all the cases contained arms . Notwithstanding the suspicious nature of these circumstances , which are ia course of investigation , the latest accounts of the affair tend to show that it is unconnected with politics .

      Further disturbances have taken place in the Atdeche , in consequence of the determination of the authorities to prevent the usual annual fetes from being held . The result of the deliberations of eightv-one Councils general is now known . Of these , seventy : fUe have pronounced in some form or another fof the revision : sixty-five have voted for legal revision according to the 111 th article of the constitution in other words , they are favourable to revision , ' pro . vided a majority of three-fourths of the Assembly will vote for it ; and such a majority , or any thins

      approaching to it , is universally admitted to be out of the question . Five only have asked especially jor the revision of the article forty-five , which renders the President ineligible to be re-elected ; and of these , but one has demanded in terms the prolongation of the powers of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte . One has asked for the re establishment Of traditional and hereditary monarchy ; four have ¦ TOted against any revision ; and two have declined to express any opinion upon political subjects . Accounts remain to be received from four councils only , namely , those of Card , Isere , Morbihan , and Rhone .

      The ' Debate' carries the namhsr of arrests to 178 , of whom the greater part are Germans ; and it IS not known to what extent these arrests may not be pushed . It is more than likely that the proceedings just engaged in have been undertaken with the ¦ view of fri ghtening away foreign workmen , and thus getting rid of one element ol danger before the year 1852 . It is worthy of notice that these foreign workmen have been arrested in groups in the different cafes they were in the habit of frequenting . Thus forty-five were arrested in a cafe in the Kue

      Faubourg Poissonitre , twenty-five in another near the Post-office , twenty in a cafe in the Palais Royal , aad so on . It would thus seem that upon information to the Prefect of Police that at such a cafe , being frequented by foreigners from such and such a country where they drink , sing sougs , and talk politics , which imply little deference for the Pope , the King of Naples , or the Landgrave of Hessfi , warrants arc afonce issued , and the communists , as fliey are all taken for granted to be , walked off to prison , to the great satisfaction of foreign governments .

      ^ The dismissal of General Cteny { ram active service for having gone to England without special permission on the occasion oi the religious celebration of King Louis Philippe ' s death , has occasioned considerable excr-ement and much surprise . It is true that the dismissal is perfectly justifiable according to the written rales of the service , but the rule in question is as formal , and as seldom acted upon , as the strict rule of police , by which a passport is requisite to go to Versailles or St . Cloud . The harshness of the measure is the more remarked , because General Oeny is notoriously a legitimist , and merely went t j England out of respect " to the roval familv .

      At the last election for a representative of the department of the Hants-Vienne the legitimists abstained from voting , in order to make way for the election of the E ' . rseon candidate . Twenty Influential members of the legitimist party have now published an address to the electors " of that deT partment , te inform them that abstention can no longer be the policy of the legitimist party , and that the time has come when ihey must actively support their opinions . All strangers arriving at Paris with the intention of remaining there are now required to procure within three days a permit de sejour . Eight days are accorded for this purpose to these foreimiers who already reside in Paris . The non-performance of this requirement will bs followed bv expulsion .

      ^ This ordinance does not applv to travellers not intending to regain at Paris and " who are provided with passports . Sevenfy-nine out of eighty-four of the Councils General have voted for revision in some form or Other , The ' Evenement' was seizf d on Tuesday last for an article headed « A Confession , ' and a " prosecution is directed against the responsible editor and M . F . V . Hugo , the writer of the article , for exciting to hatred and § con : empt of the government of the Republic . About forty of the foreigners receinlv arrested Dave baen set at liberty , upon the understanding that they are to quit Franca tvilh the least possible delay . *

      * o . I C ? , rrectiona ! Tribunal of Blois lias just coin flawed Barnabe , gardener ; Verra , a dyer and ^ Mnami , a wme-shop-keeper , the first to ten months imprisonment and 50 fr . fine , and the omertwo to one month ' s imprisonment and JG < r writWc' ° \ havin S " m thek Possession anarchical their C *«» ' ««» " ««» which were found at th « r nouses when visited b y the police on the

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      NA ? LES . -: offic - , i j 0 Urna \ ( A ^ , 29 th , ) con . tftfffB an article of defiance , directed equally agttnat her Majesty ' s government and Mr Gladstone , First against the member for Oxford , who is accused of exaggeration and falsehood 5 and , Secondly , against her Majesty's minister as repre . sented by Lord Palmerston . The government organ promised < victoriously' to clear his Sicilian Majesty ' s advisers by a reply to Mr . Gladstone ' s letters . The official article says : ' Had : no , t the speech from the throne assured us that her

      Majesty ' s government was in friendly relations '; with foreign powers ,-we should have doubted such' to be the case , from . the character of Lord '' Palmawton ' s reply to Sir De Lacy-Evans . ' Mr . Gladstone ' s assertions are then designated as 'false , absurd , and iniquitous culumnies . ' .. We . are then reminded that Lord " PalhTeritpn has violated diplomatic etiquette , by distributing-Mr . Gladstone's letters amongst the foreign governments . The public is told to expect from authentic documents' a full refutation of Mr . Gladstone ' s assertions .

      - ROME . —Our accounts from Rome , among many melancholy instances' of the tyranny tb ' which the unfortunate Romans , are subjected , mentions that poor Calandrelli , the flower of - valow . and honour , after many months of the harshest treatment in the prisons of the Castle of St . Angelo and St . Michel , was as length condemned either to death , or to imprisonment for life . By the-intercession of the Prussian government , this sentence was commuted to perpetual banishment , but although a considerable time has elapsed , Calandrelli still languishes in confinement . The four young men who were condemned to twenty years' imprisonment for burning Bengal lights on the anniversary of the republic , have also obtained the favour of banishment instead

      of their former sentence . The unfortunate Ercoli , who was condemned to twenty years in chains , for having found fault with a person who was smoking a cigar , has died of despair in'the dungeons of Narni . Application has been made to introduce a body of Swiss , Spanish , German , Neapolitan , and other foreign mercenaries into Rome , to be under the orders of either the Masgiordomo or of the Prefect of the Sacred Palace . But the French commander , will not listen to such a proposition ; - The 21 st French regiment lately arrived is much more republican than the regiment it has replaced . The government is uneasy attbe state of opinion amongst the troops , and the people , oppressed in every ' way , ' is irritated to the . hjghest degree .

      GERMANY . It ia stated on' good authority that a radical change in the constitution of the Prussian army is in contemplation , as both the Frankfort Diet and the Prussian government think its present constitution may be eventually dangerous to authority . To show whence this feat arises , it will be necessary to remind our readers how the Prussian army is constituted . Every able-bodied man-in Prussia is a soldier . Those who have received a collegiate education are obliged to serve one year in the line , and all others

      three years . Of . these one year and three year soldiers the army of Prussia , excluding of course officers , is entirely composed . After' the expiration of their term of service these soldiers are sent to their home to follow their respective civil crllings , but thef cease not to be ' soldiers ; they belong then to the Landwehr , are every year drilled and exercised in military manoeuvres , and continue in this sort of militia service till they arrive at the age of fifty , when they are transferred to the' Storm' veterans , who can only be called upon to take arms to repel invasion , or on some equally pressing emergency .

      Thus , it will be perceived , by its present constitution , the soldiery of the Prussian army undergoes almost a complete change every three years . But in these three years the recruit has become expert in all military exercises , has acquired much military knowledge , and , when thus accomplished , the government loses his services ,-and the people , it may be , not the state , gains a stout soldier . The danger incurred by despotism is thus two-fold t 1 st , it possesses no physical-force arm on which it can confidently rely ; and , 2 ndly , a military population is formed with which it may have to contend . But the Prussian array has always been lauded by the King and his Minister for its loyalty .

      The distrust which it is now prospectively awakening must originate , therefore , in some prospective policy much more stringently despotic than Prussia has as yet ever known . A standing array like that which other countries possess will be substituted , it is said , for the present military organisation . But exceedin ? dangerous will be even the attempt to effect this change . And of this the government are aware , for it is to be brought about by gradual , almost imperceptible , steps . Nevertheless , however desirable , however essential for the purposes in view , a mercenary

      anticitiz-m force may be , its realisation is doubtful . The hazard is too great . The whole army and Landwehr , which constitute the ministry ' s whole strength , would declare against it . Any serious mention of the project would raise a nest of hornets about the ears of the court ; and with a deep suppressed discontent , wide spread throughout the nation , to alieniate the affections of the army , to drive them to make common cause with the people , is what no cabinet will be found sufficiently demented to do ; though it is hard to say what theManteuffel cabinet will not do , or where they will stop , in their heedlong backward course .

      The Frankfort Diet has taken its first resolution , says the ' Augsburg Gazette , ' irt commercial affairs . ft has adopted as the basis of deliberation in these matters , the resolutions of the Dresden Conferences , The Augsburg Gazette' says that the Diet has again called special men together , to give it special information on the subject . The same journal affirms that the Diet have come to the formal resolution , that it has authority to establish a common priheiple on which to act in regulating the constitutions of the divers states .

      The Hanoverian correspondent of the ' Deutsche Allgenieine Zeilung * repeats the annOUtlCemeU that in the sitting of the Frankfort Diet of the 23 rd , ult ., the ' fundamental rights' of the German people , as they were laid down in the Paul's Church Assembly , were abolished . This act , however , it is to be remarked , did not take place in a plenum , or full sitting , but was a resolution of the Engere Rath , and was not decided on unanimously , but by a majority of twelve . To this resolution was appended the expressed expectation of the Bund , that any states where these rights are still acknowledged would lose no time in formally

      abrogating them ,. that the federal power might not be under the necessity of doing . this in the name of the confederation . But , as this act was neither the act of thejjfenum , nor carried by unanimity , it is legally binding on those slates only which adopt it voluntarily , though it is not probable it will meet with any rrsiHance . fi If it do , it will Only he for the sake ot asserting the invalidity of majority resolutions , and the validity alone of those which are sanctioned by unanimous votes . The resolution of the Bund on the subject , says the 'Preussische Zeitung , ' has been officially communicated to all the states of Germany .

      BELGIUM . , . The Belgian Chambers havejirat been prorogued somewhat suddenly - It may be recollected that a short time since , the ministry resigned office in consequence of the Chamber refusing to sanction a new tax on successions . After upwards of a fort night spent in negotiation with the heads of divers parties , the Hint ; found it impossible to bring a cabinet into existence ; the old ministers were induced to resume their seats , and the obnoxious law passed with some slight changes . The . o-iposition did not , however , give up the game , and had succeeded in defeating the ministry 011 the Succession Tas Bill in the Senate .. The result has been U \ e prorogation Of the Chambers . TURKEY .

      XOSSDTH . The United States steam frigate Mississippi , the largest steam frigate in the American navy , while on her nay to Constantinnple to receive Louis Kossuth , the Hungarian chieftain , and convey him to America , ran ashore ori the night of the 21 st uit . on the point off St . James ' s Castle , in'Smyrna Bay ' close to the light-house . The Euxine happened to be passing at the time , and with three other vessels , attempted to tow her eff , hut they were unable to ' accomplish it . Such was the force with which the Mississippi had ruu ashore that some nortion of her keel was literary hi gh and dry . It is ' probable that

      she is not off yet , and if she has experienced rough weather she has been in the Utmost danger of being wrecked . To get her off at all it was believed that everything would have to he taken out of her . Ji is probable that ' this sad disaster will , alter the . present destiny of Kassuth , and instead ot heini ? Ja ^ n direct from Tuvkev to the United States , hfs wanes will be gratified - by visiting England first . •¦ " ¦ f * * I ' P rahttWe , no ' w that Kossuth will embark at Dardanelles on board-the Peninsula and Oriental , . otdpany g steamer Tagus which calls there OH the

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      20 ft of this month , and if so Kossuth , Ma fa » il 5 » and ' ihis distinguished fellow . captives , willarnw \ tn Southampton "Water about the 5 th of next month . By the Levant mail we have received Constantinople journal * of the 24 th ult . Several changes have just taken place , in the Turkish ministry . The Capitan Pacha ( Soliman Pacha ) has been replaced by Mebemet Ali , the brother-in-law of the Sultan , and formerly Minister of "War . The Minister of Finance > had been also removed , and replaced by Nazif Pacha , who had before . filled that post , and whose . ' bad management had led to an inquwy * which is not ' _ yet completed . of the of the ail it

      - Atthelime departure m was still understood that' on ; the' 1 st September , the refugees of Kutahia were to leave that place for jeumelk , in the- Gulf of- Macedonia , where they would ' embark on board a Turkish ' steamer , which was to : convey them to the ' Dardanelles . Here they expected the American steam-frigate the Mississippi would await their arrival ; but this , as m consequence of the accident experienced by that vessel , is now doubtful , The persons who will . accompany Kossuth and his family are M . Leromi , his private secretary ( a Tuscan ;) Generals Pen-eel and Wisosky , and Count Bat ' thiany ; the three last have their families with them ^ Twenty other superior officers will also follow Kossuth . ¦

      PERSIA . : Among the passengers by the Euxine ( which arrived last Saturday ) . was his Excellency Skefiah Khani an ambassador from Persia to the court of St . James . He was the second foreign ambassador which arrived at Southampton in . the Oriental Company ' s steamers during last week , Count Lavradio , the Portuguese ambassador , having landed at Southampton from the Montrose a few days previous . As an accredited ambassador direct from the court , of Teheran has never been kttOWn in this country some considerable interest was . excited in Southampton by the arrival of his excellency . He is a fine handsome man , about forty years of age . He was dressed in the costly and picturesque costume worn by the highest ranks in Persia / The sleeves and collar of his cloak were ornamented

      with gold embroidery ; the clasp of his girdle was studded with diamonds , and a brilliant star was suspended on his breast . He wore the high conical cap of the'Persian country . He was accompanied by a dragoman and a servant .. Ah ' extensive suite accompanied him from Persia ( o Turkey , nearly the whole of which he took leave of at Constantinople . On arriving at Southampton , the ambassador claimed the courtesies from the government autho . rities , ivaiiably accorded to the accredited representatives of foreign countries . Unfortunately ,

      however , the Custom-house authorities had received no notice of his anticipated arrival ,, nor any Treasury ordtr to pass his'baggage , consisting of about thirty packages , without examination . His excellency stated that Sir Stratford Canning , our ambassador at Constantinople , was aware of bis mission to England , and had engaged to acquaint the English government with it . It appears that the Persian Ambassador was stopping with Sir Stratford during his stay in Constantinople . Of course all the courtesy which the .: authorities at Southampton could show the ambassador conshtent with their

      imperative duties were shewn him , and telegraphic announcements to the government department * in London were sent by them stating the . arrival of the ambassador and soliciting immediate instruction how to act . Although the Shah of Persia is independent of the Sublime Porte , the Ottoman viceconsul at Southampton , Mr / Jourdain , telegraphed to the Turkish embassy , and almost immediately received instructions from M . Mussurus , the Turkish ambassador , to pay the representative of the Shah every respect and attention , but unfortunately these instructions came too late , for his excellency had left Southampton for London by an early train , apparently displeased with his 1

      reception in Southampton , ' and leaving all his baggage in possession of the Custom-house authorities ' . Un his arrival at the railway station , to proceed to London by the 11 , 30 a . m . train , the railway authorities paid him every respect , and the superintendent of the station gave him a co « jie for himself and secretary . Tfte ambassador reached Constantinople byway of Trebisond and the Black Sea . During his voyage in the Euxine he sat at table in the saloon with the other passengers , and was not more particular in his diet . than liberal , Musselmen usually are . He drank his tea out of a glass

      tumbler , making it sweet and hot , without milk or cream . He rigorously abstained from ' wines and spirituous liquors . He smoked much . His manners on board during the voyage were extremely gentlemanly , aud he is evidently a man of education and refinement . He cannot speak English . His secretary , and who acted as dragoman , is a true horn Persian , and was educated in India . After the depariure ' of his excellency from- Southampton , orders were received there from the . government to allow him all the rights and privileges accorded to ainbas sadors of the highest rank .

      CUBA . By the Africa we have news from Cuba via New York , dated the 27 th of August . The intelligence which we have of the movements towards and in Cuba is up to this moment very contradictory , but highly important ; There is no doubt but that considerable accessions to the forces of the invaders from the United States are going on , and the steamer Pampero , which took out Lopez , has not only appeared boldly off Havana , and been signalled from the Moro , but has landed her forces , and returned to the southern coast for more . Two

      or three steamers have also taken over reinforcements . It would seem that the fifty Americans who were taken in launches by the Spanish Admiral , were on an expedition to capture a icrt ; this is one account . Another , however , says that they had captured a fort , and finding they were not joined by any of the Creoles , they attempted to escape . Our latest intelligence from the island by the way of New Orleans and Savannah is to this effect ; —Lopez , after appearing off Havana , landed at Moretty , twelve miles from Bahia Honda , and took possession of the town of Las Pom . Directly a column of 800 troops proceeded by sea to attack him , and a battle was fought on the 12 th of the month at San Mieuel , near Las Posas . The steamer

      Pizarro , which was a part of the expedition , in the meantime grounded at Bahia Honda , and was in the dilemma of being wrecked or captured . Lopez fought two battles and won them ; he then advanced to San Diego de Nities , 'to secure the fruits of his victory . The Spaniards admit their loss to have been very severe—some four or five hundred . " On the contrary , the Spanish accounts say the battle was renewed , and L . oppz defeated . and taken prisoner . We have also reports that Lopez ' s-forces have largely ihcreased"in" number , and that people were openly leaving Havana with the intention of joining : him . That a great part of the island is in a state of insurrection , we cannot well doubt , and the result setms yet to be doubtful .

      The President has returned suddenly to Washington , and called his cabinet together in the emergency . A United States steamer , with a messenger , is by this time gone to Havana . Meantime a most riotous feeling has been displaying itself at New Orleans . As soon as the news of the death of the ' fifty Americans was heard a mob proceeded to the office of the Spanish newspaper , ' La Patria , ' sacked it , and destroved all its printing materials . They proceeded to the Spanish Consul s office and treated it in the same maimer , and then , destroyed all the Spanish ci gar shops kept by Spaniards . This feeling is said to have been produced by the arrival of the dead bodies of two of the officers who had been shot , aud the pretence that the Spanish Consul had re / used id deliver up some letters written by the killed on the eve of their massacre .

      A \ e are informed , by later accounts , that one of the Spanish account , by the Empire City , which arrived at New Orleans from Cuba , states that on the day after the execution of the Cuban invaders the Spanish forces encountered Lopez and gave him battle , which resulted in the . total annihilation of the American sympathisers . . At New York , in spite of the utmost efforts of the patriots , the Cuban excitement had much diminished , and could only be revived , it was believed , by a confirmation o / the mutilation of the remains of the fifty prisoners who were shot . - The invasion itself is countenanced by few of the journals of the Union . ; ' but the shoolmg of the prisoners is lair , en ted by all .

      The mail steam-snips plying between New York and Ifavannah and Chagres are being armed . The Cherokee , which sailed last week from New York for Chagres , via Havannah , went well armed , having on board ten fine guns , siz of which were for the Falcon . This has arisen OUt Of the mistake committed by the Spanish ship ? of war firing across the bows of the Falcon , which gave great offence to the Americans . CANADA , From ^ British America , we lean ? that a bill

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      MOW before the Canadian legislature , which places j the Seignerial tenure upon a different footing , though it will neither be abolished nor commuted . The effect of this bill will be to relieve the tenants of many of their burdens . It provides that no future concessions of land shall be made at a rate exceeding four sous rent to the acre . This is not to interfere with the rents now paid , which a » 0 " *' . many instances to twenty wra an & ctt . ., *»« out had passed a second reading at-our last dales , by a majority of over thirty ; The legality , of the rectory patents is to be tested by an-appeal to the judicial tribunals , either . the public or the rectors to have the right of appeal to the Privy Council in England ; the expense of the suit on both sides beinir borne by' the province . ... . . g CAPE-OF GOOD HOPE ,

      ¦; - . > ; THE KAFFIR WAR , By the Hellespont mail steamer , Captain Watts , which left the Capeon the lstdf August , we have the following intelligence : — .. ; , ; . ' ¦ t . In the last . accovmii it was . mentioned that Sir Harry was said to be preparing ,, on the 21 st of June , for an important mOvementj by , which he entertained ^ hope of being able 16 bring the war to a close . The movement in question proved to be , as was ' anticipated , ' a simultaneous advance of the several divisions of the ; army upon the enemy ' s strongholds in the 'Amatolaa ; These operations occupied six days , from the 24 th to • ¦ the 30 th of Juneand resulted in the defeat 'and dispersion of

      , some large bodies of the enemy , and the capture of upwards of 2 , 000 head of cattle ; The troops had hardly withdrawn from the Amatolas , when the Kaffir ' s and Hottentots descended , from their fastnesses and poured into the colony , iu overwhelming numbers . The whole country between those mountains and the village of Somerset was overrun by the hostile bands . At one time that village was in imminent ' danger from the vicinity of a body ; of several hundred'Kaffirs , ' under the chief Macomo . In answer to pressing demands for aid , Major Gen . Somerset , who hadbee ' n engaged in another successful patrol in the Amatolas , was dhected to proceed

      against the enemies within the colony . He accordingly removed his head-quarters' from Fort Hare fb Fort Beaufort , and has been , down to' the date of the last advices ; engaged iu scouring the country in thatquarter . and endeavouring to check the ravages of the enemy . Ihthis object he . has . been only partially successful , ; th . e . numbers and . activity of the natives being so great as to render the incessant and arduous exertions of his troops insufficient to restrain them . The effort ' s made by the colonists to defend their property have also been in a great measure unavailing . ' The wide tract of country between the Baviaan ' s and Kat . Rivers has been

      completely devastated ; . the dwellings of the inhabitants hsve been burnt , aud—according to ah estimate that has been forroed-rabout 20 , 000 merino sheep , 3 , 000 head of cattle , and / three hundred , horses swept away , within the past six weeks .- Several of the farmers . have been killed In defending their homesteads ; and > many ,-despairing of relief , were withdrawing into the colony , Not a few , it is said , have determined to cross the northern boundary , and « trek , ' or emigrate , beyond the limits of the-British dominion . '"

      The difficulties of the commander in chief have been much increased by the refusal of most of the colonial volunteers of the v levies' to continue in the field after the expiration of their six months' term of enlistment , which expired at the commencement of the present month . The majority of these volunteers were Hottentots from the western districts Orders were subsequently issued for raising au auV ditional force of 1 , 000 volunteers in the western districts . The levy' was in progress ,, and . several of : i e recently-discharged volunteers have reenlisted , together with some new recruits ; but it is doubtful whether the whole number required will-be raised ;'

      From the country beyond the northern boundary the latest intelligence is calculated to excite much anxiety . The British resident , Major Warden , in interfering to cheek the quarrels among the , native tribes ' , who ' were causing much bloodshed and devastation , has suffered a repulse , accompanied with a loss of 100 of his native allies . AUSTRALIA .

      THE GOLO IN NEW SOUTH WALES . Advices have been - received from Sydney up to May 29 tlu and from Bathurst up to May 24 th , by theTeviot . They were obtained from the ship Thomas Arbuthnot , which touched . at Pernambuco on her way from . Sydney to England . \ Some of the crew of her Majesty ' s steamer Acheron were sent home in her to work her quickly in order to convey to the English government the important intelligence that a gold mine had been discovered at Bathurst . The utmost confusion and excitement

      prevailed at Bathurst , and hundreds of persons were going to the diggings , A thousand pounds worth of gold had arrived in Sydney from the gold mines within the last two or three days . Provisions at the diggings had risen to ' ah . enormous price . Great dissatisfaction prevailed amongst the miners on account of government having overlooked the Claims of Mr . Hargraves . The miners at present at the diggings are 1 , 500 in number . ' Many are getting from £ 20 to £ id worth a week . In digging for the gold , rubies have been discovered in the Manning River .

      The following extracts from the' Empire , 'Sy dne y paper , of the 2 lst , 22 nd , aud 23 rd of May last , with respect to the discovery , are of interest : — , ' The sum of the information contained in the letters from Bathurst is , that there is gold , but . great uncertainty and difficulty in getting it . The following is an extract ' of a letter ' from an extensive landholder iu the Bathurst district : — . " ' We are all in the greatest excitement here , eomefrom joy , some from despair , aiiticipatingfaraine ' disease and death . I am glad to hear the military are , coming up j . we . shall sadly want , them . Went to the diggings , and in three hours got one ounce of gold in one bright lump . Carriage is so high I am afraid we shall not be able to get ; Up supplies . "' Another letter received by asSydney merchant , states that rock salt has been discovered in the

      search for gold . A regular company is at work under the auspices" of a member of Council , whose daily operations average in their result a full ounce par man . ' ' The ' * Maitland' Mercury' states'that ' gold has been discovered in the tract , of country , situate between-Snmmerhill on the south , ' and Dubbo on the nonb , and known ' as the "Wellington district . The more authentic accounts warrant us in believing that one large piece of nine ounces , and two or three snj & U pieces of s 3 veTa \ ounces weight , and some pounds of grain , ' and dust have already been Sound by the parties fengaged in digging there . 'Three apprentices who fan . away from Bathurst returned in a few , days with 1 . 7 ounces of gold , which sold for £ 51 .

      Considerable quantities of gold . and gold dust were waiting at Bathurst when the Thomas Arbuthnot left Sydney , until an escort should convey it to the latter place .. The above-mentioned ship has a piece of gold on board weighing 4 $ lbs . ; it is from Bathurst , and is intended to ha placed in the Great Exhibition .

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      According to letters from . Berne of . the 29 th uU . the damages caused in the canton by recent inunda . lions are valued at 2 , 400 , 000 fr ., or ' about .-eOO . OOO Subscriptions are open all oyer . Swiizerlann . to cover the losses of the inundation . The city of Berne has already subscribed 12 , 000 fr . . , ' . \ ' Advices have .. been received by the , way of Boston , from Kingston , 'Jamaica , to- the 11 th ult ., aj . d . from British Guiana to ' . ' the ' 26 * . h of July . The progress of the cholera in Jamaica was arrested , snd the disease was gradually disappearing frdm the island . The smallpox had ' made its appearance on some ' of the estates iu ' theua'rish ' of-Trelauhv .

      An attempt has been made by some of the populace Of Georgetown , Guiana , tointroduce Lyhcli law . A man indicted for the murder of a female v , bs acquitted of the charge , but found guilty Of manslaughter , . and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment . This did not satisfy the mob , who endeavoured to take the : law into their own hands , and execute capital punishment upon the prisoner . They were wiih difliculty repulsed by . the police ] and the ring-leaders were subsequentl y arrested ' and ' punished by , imprisonment . ' It is estimated that the sugar crop" 6 f 1851 , on the islur . d of Barbarities , is the largest ever raised on that island . It amounts from 38 , 000 to 39 COO l » f ¦ nnn » ' ^ f P ° rtS t 0 Jul >' 15 had amou"t « 1 to J / , 000 hogsheads . : --. ; <• ¦

      JJ ) nJ ? r , ^^ . ^ describes as follows the mjlj-K b ! " «« J 0 f £ ho Two doilies : •« m tin cs J r the t * l force of tho army ' amountrS Eff ^ M ^' a r ^

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      is five ' y && M . In time " of war the army may be raised to 64 , 237 men . The christening of the infant child of the Puke and Duchess de Montspensier in the palace at Seville , took place with , great pomp , and the Cardinal Archbishop of Seville officiated . The Duke d'Aumalo was godfather , and not fewer than twenty-six names were given to the princessamongst them were those of Marie Amelie . The Duke de Montpensier , as delegate of tho Queen , sahsequenfcly invested the royal child with the ribbon -of the Order of Maria Louisa . A ' ' frightful / ' eruption of the long dormant volcano of the Pelee Mountain , in Martinique , took place during the night of Tuesday , August 5 th Like the * great and memorable eruption of the St . Vincent Soufriere , in 1812 , the phenomenon at Martinique is described as Haying-been , accomoi

      panied with" a noise r ro mo approacn . thunder , still nearer and nearer , with a vibration that affected the feelings , and hearing . ' It appears , however , that , beyond a layer of grey sand , gritty particles of calcined earth , and fevilla , found in the morning upon the streets , houses , and shipping , as having been thrown forth by the volcano in the night , the people of St . Pierre were , up to our accounts , uninformed of the effects of the p henomenon . ; , t . ¦ . ; , On occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the Grand Duko of Baiden , his highness signalised tho day by an act of extended clemency . All , the judicial proceedings pending against person ' s who were compromised in the , last revolutionary movements have been abandoned , and ninety individuals , who had been already condemned for political offences , had a plenary pardon granted them . ' A Philadelphia journal records the recent observance in that city of the phenomenon of rain wit . rVmif . nlnilfls .

      ' A Mechanics' Institute ' Given To A To...

      A Mechanics' Institute ' Given to a Tow * . — Some timb since , Lord Seymour purchased the Gate House , in ' tho High-street , Totnes , and , at . a cost of about £ 1 , 000 presented it to the townsmen , fitly furnished for . a mechanics'institute , library , and reading-room . The principal , residents of all parties and sects have acknowledged the gift by a public dinner'to " Lord Seymour , at' which "all political questions were carefully avoided , " and the generosity' of the chief guest , was tho topic of friendly speeches and conversation . The Census in Ireland . —On Monday a corrected Parliamentary paper of the Census in Ireland was printed . The decrease is ^ twenty per cent , between 1841 and 1851 . In 1841 the total number of persoriswas 8 , 175 , 124 , and on the 31 st of March last 0 , 515 , 794 , being-a- decrease of 1 , 059 , 330 , or twenty percent . . : .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 13, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_13091851/page/2/