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      TRANCE . MA ?« iFEiT 3 of the Mountaix . — The followingare extracts from a manifesto of ihe Mountain in reference to the forthcoming elections : — We shall not form an electoral committee , we shall not smd out lists or impose names . Full of respect for the initiative of the electors and the freedom of votes , we leave to those who possess the right the task of electing the men . But we consider it as a duty of conscience and party , as a sacred duty , indispensable even to the safety of the republic , to recall with the experience and authority which facts afford the principles which have served as a rule in the pastand which should so serve for the

      fu-, ture . The Constituent Assembly is nearly at an end ; henceforth its policy and its great work belong to historv . lis work , the Constitution , which admits the penalty of death and rejects the rig ht of labour , « e aecpt ' in judging it . We accept it in spite of its inconsistencies ' and im P erfcc » ons-fi « t , because it is the production of universal suffrage ; next , because it carries with it its own remedy in the first of its articles , that which allows the revision . Its policv has been illogical , like its work , violent in the interior , weak at the exterior , retrograde every , where . In short , ths Constituent Assembly has done

      what it could ; it has been what was to have been expected . Executed by a people which had just thrown off royalty , but who were still coder the yoke of misery and ignorance—two great tyrannies—it was naturally influenced by its origin , and produced imperfect measures . In February the people believed the words of those who came to them under the disuuise of shepherds . They took these royalkts , these liberals , these remnants of all reigns these men always on the surface ; and they deceived themselves with a confidence , a clemency which honours them , and which is explained by the

      intoxication of success , their political noviciate , and especially the generosity of their hearts . But now the apprenticeship has been gone through , the lesson received , aud the danger is flagrant . It is for the people to see to the legislature ; end it is time to do So . They can now choose with the necessary information—they know now with whom they have to deal—they see who are their friends and their enemies . They know those who really voted the laws of the < state of siege , of transportation , of caution money , of allrovpemenls , of clubs , of octrois , of the eleven hours' labour , of the six hundred thousand francs—and they know the republicans who voted the reduction of the salt-tax , of the postage , of the budget-, and who toted also tbe preamble of the constitution . The people can , therefore , judge the old men by their votes , and the new men by the programme which has been published .

      As regards foreign policy , in principle every nation is free and sovereign . Royalty is a power which exists—the republic a government of right . Every nation which may have needof us , which may demand fn m us assistance in recovering its nationality , should he able to count , in the limit of our resources , en our material and moral support , on our diplomacy and our army ; for the reason of France is the reason of liberty , and the army of France the army of liberty . Liberty , is not a privilege for us , it is a right for all , and right has no frontier . In virtue of the principle of the unity of right and the nnity of mankind , all nations are jointly responsible , citizens of the great human republic and as . such , free , equal , and brethren , like

      the citizens of the French republic France , then , can henceforth neither conquer nor enslave ; neither can she be a tranquil spectator , with arms in her hands , of the sad spectacle of slaves still struggling under the treaties of 1815 . Her principles , her pioraises , her past , her future , her honour , engage her towards Poland , Italy , Germany , and Hungary , towards all those who resolve like her to break their chains . The kings besiege , bombard , and put to ransom Paris , at Ptsth , at Milan , Vienna , Warsaw ; the republic cannot be the accomplice of kings against the people . It is a crime to do that when it can be prevented . The monarchy said chaeun pour soi , and it is dead ; the republic , which is the contrary of the monarchy , must live , saying cHacun vow torn J

      Oa the question of the domestic policy we find the following : In the interior , the same tagic . The people should he free and sovereign . At this moment the people are not , it is true , subjects of a king , but they are still the subjects of ignorance and misery , those two last , royalties , which are not unlikely tn bring back the other . The mau who is hungry is the slave of want ; the man of ignorance is the slave of error . He is consequently neither free nor sovereign . What is a sovereignty which cannot write its vote r what a liberty which depends on its bread ? Men then must be ( reed trom these two servitudes ; ihsv must be wrested from thesa two

      imperative tyrannies , which have already twice caused them to turn universal suffrage against themselves—on the lOih December , and 23 rd April ; they must be enfranchised materially and morally , in mind and body ; they must henceforth only depend on their reason and their will ; their double want of comfort and enlightenment must be satisfied—the double nourishment ( man does not live by bread alone ) must be given them—in a word they must be improved aud enlightened . How ? Bylabour and instruction . All the republic is therein . The Republican Martyrs . — ( From the Tivr . es . )—* The political convicts of Bourges passed through Paris on Friday morning at eleven o'clock

      on their way to the citadel of Doullens , situated seven leagues north of Amiens , and which was used under Louis Philippe as a state prison . They arrived at half-past ten o ' clock at the Orleans station , escorted by forty sergents de viile , and 100 men ol the gendarmerie mobile . Two companies of the latter had left Paris yesterday for the Sologne , to prevent any attempt at rescue being made by the numerous labourers belonging to the former ateliers nationavx of Paris , now employed in field works in that district . The cellular carriage in which the seven prisoners travelled also conveyed Huber , who ,

      on arriving at the station , was transferred into another vehicle , and brought to the Prefecture ol Police . The carriage containing the others , preceded by a regiment of dragoons , followed by a reg iment of cuirassiers , and surrounded by a large detachment of horse gendarmerie , proceeded across the Pont d'Austerlitz to the Place de la Bastille , thence along the Boulevards to the Porte St . Denis , and up the Rue de Faubourg St . Denis to the Northern Railroad station—all the avenues leading to which had been lined with troops of infantry from an early hour of the morning .

      Socialist Banquet . —A Socialist banquet was given on Sunday at the Rue de Martel . M . Joly , the Montagnard representative , presided . Another banqaet was given yesterday , at one o ' clock , by the female Socialists of Paris , A banquet will be given at Passy to General- Courtais , and the others who were acquitted at Bourges , on Sunday next . Red Republicanism in the Army . —Le Peuple states that a captain of the 24 th regiment of the line , forming part of the garrison of Bourges during the late State trials , has been placed on half-pay in consequence of his democratic opinions . The same journal adds , that an assistant-surgeon of the 42 nd has been ordered to join a regiment in Algeria , and to quit Bourges In twenty-four hours , sokly because he was seen to communicate tvith several democrats present at Bourges- - The entire National Guard of Toulouse has been dissolved . !

      A letter from Macon , says the correspondent of the Times , states that the troops in . that town forming part of the army the Alps , who had been ordered to march to the frontiers on the commencement of hostilities between the Austrians and Piedmontese set out with the greatest delight ; but , having leached Nantua , their commanding officer received a telegraphic despatch , ordering him to march his troops back to their original quarters . On their return to Magori on Saturday , the 31 st ult ., the soldiers hurried into the wine shops and expended all their money in drink , and then , by way of finale , broke everything they could lay their hands on in the shape of glass and crockery . They are said to have expressed themselves in rather a violent manner against the President of the Republic for the disappointment , and it was with difficulty their officers prevented a mutiny .

      M . Proddhox . —It is reported that M . Proudhon , sot choosing to pass the next three years in prison , has escaped from France . Another Prosecution of M . Proudhok ' s Paper . —M . Duchen , the editor ol M . Proudhon's journal Le Peuple , and M . Louis Menalr , were tried on Saturday for having published a libel in a series oifeuilletons , entitled 'Prologue of a Revolution . ' They were convicted , and M . Duchon was sentenced to three years ; and M . Louis Menair to fifteen month ' s imprisonment . They were further sentenced to pay jointly and severally a fine of 10 , 000 f . Ravages op the Cholera . —M . Marrast

      announced on Wednesday to the National Assembly the demise of three of its members . —M . Fayet , bishop of Orleans : M . Ballot , and M . Coulmaon

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      The latter end of last week , M . Dosne , father-m-la « . \ of Thiers , died after a few hours' illness . The total number of cases up to Saturday evening in the hospitals was 1 , 150 , of which 667 bad died . Laerange . the celebrated Afontairnard deputy , whn had been attacked with cholera , is pronounced out ° M . Thiers has been very seriously ill , and considerable anxiety has been felt for the result . He is stated , however , not to be in danger . [ How grieved re should ba if this villain was callei home to his father , the devil . ]

      Hopes and Schemes of the Royalist Conspirators . —The correspondent of the Times , writing from Paris , on Monday says : — * The Legitimists are in high spirits to-day ; indeed , at no period for many years past have they been so joyous , and , according to their own account , so full of hope . Electioneering agents have arrived from several of the departments , and they announce that public opinion is becoming every day more pronounced in favour of the restoration ef Henry V . Tbe Ligitimists count upon returning 250 pure Royalists to the new Chamber , and they are now meditating an appeal to the nation to decide by Universal Suffrage whether the old monarchy shall be restored . The partisans of the regency , of whom M . Thiers is said to be the chief , are in the meantime not idle ; and they prefer to believe that they will have a majority in the new Chamber .

      An American Expelled from Paris —The RepvJblique of Monday states ihat Mr . Brisbane , an American socialist , who has taken a leading part in tbe socialist banquets of Paris , lias received notice from the government to quit France within a delay ol forty-eight hours . The Vile French Government . —Le Peuple announces that the German refugees implicated in the events of Frankfort , who had been removed to Verdun , have been thrown into prison by order of the Min ster of the Interior . A body of from 200 to 300 Hungarians and Piedmontese refugees and deserters have entered France by the bridge of the Yar . Those who had arras have been deprived of them , and marched to Draguignau .

      GERMANY . refusal of the imperial' crotv . v BT THB KIFG CF PRUSSIA . The deputation of the Frankfort Assembly was received by the King this morning in the Rittersaal ol tbe Schl ' oss ; the President of the deputation , M . Simons , in a short address slated the important object of the mission with which he and his colleagues were entrusted , and presented to his Majesty the formal resolution of the National Assembly . The King immediately returned the following answer J—

      1 Gentlemen , the message you bring me has deeply moved me . It has directed my gaze to the King of kings , and to the sacred and august duties I have , as the King of my people , and a Prince among the mightiest of Germany . A look in that direction , gentlemen , gives clearness to the vision and certainty to the heart . In the resolution you have communicated to me I recognise tbe voice of the representatives of the German people . Your vocation gives me a title the value of which I know how to prize . If accepted , it demands from me incalculable sacrifices , and burdens me with heavy duties . Tbe German National Assembly has counted on me in all things which were calculated to establish the unity , power ,

      and elory of Germany . I feel honoured by their confidence ; and I am ready , by deeds , to prove that their reliance on my fidelity , love , and devotion to the cause of the country has not been misplaced ; but I should not jastify that confidence—I should not answer to the expectations of the German people—I should not strengthen the unity of Germany —if I , violating sacrtd rights and breaking my former explicit and solemn promises , were , without the voluntary assent of the crowned Princes and free states of our Fatherland , to take a resolution which mast be of decisive importance to them and to states

      which they rule . It will now lie with the several governments of the German states to examine the Constitution which the National Assembly has drawn up , and daclare whether it will be of advantage to all—whether the rights it confers on me will place me in the position to guide the destinies of Germany and realise the expectations of the people . But of this Germany may be certain , and you may declare it in every state—that if it needs tbe protection of the Prussian sword , I will , even without a summons , not hesitate to follow that course from which my Royal House has never departed—the course of fidelity and honour . '

      ( From the Times . ) Berlin , April 6 . — Yesterday was a ( lay of division and discord in the Chamber , amid which the Ministry escaped what would have been a vote of want of confidence by each fraction of its opponents neutralising the other . The Extreme Right voted against the motion for an address , and against every amendment without exception ; the Extreme Left , for different reasons , did the same ; and the Centre , split into eight sections , could not , of course , get a

      majority upon any one of its motions . The stormy debate was closed by a scene of uproar . The speech of lYaldeck was the most furious he ever delivered , and , it must also be admitted , the ablest ; tbere was a species of power in its audacity — in its total lack of respect or reserve as to anything . With the present Miniitry , he held all addresses , all votes of censure direct or implied , all parliamentary tactics to be useless ; it was ready with its bavonets to set all such attacks at defiance

      He denounced both the late and present Kings of Prussia , as having misunderstood and failed in their mission to Germany ; the only policy the House of Hohenzollflrn had ever understood was that of military despotism ; and by developing the military system to its utmost extent , it had totally dissolved and severed the German empire , which it found in a slate of decay . ' The spirit of the corporal ' s stick' was still the governing principle . Twice was the question put to Prussia last year whether it

      would place itself at the head of Germany—once in March and again in October , when at the siege of Vienna the call of deliverance echoed through the nation ; then the question was answered by the dissolution of the National Assembly ; now the question was put again , and answered by a refusal to recognise the complete validity of the German Constitution , though the House of Hapsburg was struck from the list of competitors for the Imperial Crown , not by its Sclavonian possessions , but its four bombarded capitals and its military

      executions . The violent declamation of M . "Waldeck was not calculated to allay the previous irritation . A brief aud temperate defence by M . Manteuffel was scarcely listened to ; the close of the discussion was agreed to , and then occurred the outburst on M . Bodelschwingh denouncing the revolution 'as a mere street fight , ' which compelled the president to suspend the sitting , all order being confounded , th audience of fie galleries taking part , by hooting aud hissing , in what was almost an affray .

      THE WAR IN HUNGARY . The following appeared in the Times and other papers on Friday week : —It appears that Bern has been beaten by the Russians , as was rumoured . After capturing Hermannstadt he was making his way towards Kronstadt , when he was met by the Russian army , numbering from 30 , 000 to 40 , 000 men . This force attacked and beat him . The Polish and Vienna Legions are said to have been annihilated . Bern himself fled io Debreezin ; and five of his Polish officers , Prince Waroniecki , Wronski , Podoletzki , Bilsky , and Dumansky , were taken and banged . Comorn still held out , according to the latest accounts received .

      The correspondent of the Times , writing from Vienna , April 3 rd , makes the following doleful confession of tbe falsehood of the above story : —Thus , the news which I gave about Bern ' s having been defeated by the Russians after the fall of Hermannstadt went the round of all our papers , and at last appeared in the Wiener Zeitung . Now , however , the whole affair is as positively contradicted as it was positively affirmed , and we are in doubt whether Rem is the conqueror or the conquered . It is a remarkable fact , that although the Wiener Zeitung and Lloyd of last night contradicted the intelligence given by one or two of their contemporaries as to the entrance of the Russians into Galicia , they do not say one word about their presence or absence in

      Transylvania . Many persons positively assert that Bern has not only not been defeated by the Russians , but that he is at this very moment in Hermannstadt and that the whole of Transylvania is in the hands of the Polish-Magyar army . The fortress of Comorn is not yet taken . The garrison consists of six companies of the Alexander Regiment , two companies of the Prussian Regiment , eight Honved battalions , 700 Honved Artillerymen , and about two squadrons of Hussars and Czikos . The whole strength may he 10 , 000 . The commanders of the fortress are Kossuth ' s brother-in-law , Messleny , and a certain Mockoff , a simple cannoneer before the outbreak of the rebellion , who now glories in the title of' Lieutent-jolonel . '

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      Victories of General Bem .. —Our letters from Vienna of the 4 th not only contradict the report of Bern ' s defeat , but state him to be complete master ot Transylvania . Bern captuied Hermannstadt , and took 1 , 000 Russian soldiers prisoners in it . The town was neither sacked nor maltreated in any way . Bern after taking Hermannstadt marched to Kronstadt , which the Russians evacuated without resistance . In fact , they were starved out of Transylvania ; and they stayed as lung as tbere were ,

      provisions or money . But the impossibility of transporting provisions from Wallachia compelled thera to retreat . The Saxon municipalities of Kronstadt and Hermannstadt , that five weeks ago signed a requisition to the Russians , as soon as Bem took these towns , drew up immediately an address of thanks to the Hungarian government at Debreezin for having delivered them from the Russians , who levied 1 , 000 florins per day in each town . Puchner has been driven into Wallachia . —Daily News .

      In Hungary , the insurgents have gained new strength by the publication of the Austrian constitution , by which the Hungarians would be subject to the same system of taxes as the German Austrians . In several villages the inhabitants burnt down their houses when the Austrians arrived , and the Magyar army is continually increasing . The first act of Bem at Hermannstadt and Kronstadt was to publish a general amnesty . On the 29 th the Imperialists , under General de "Welden ,

      attempted to take the fortress of Comorn , but were beafen back as far as Gran , after having sustained considerable loss . The garrison took possession of the besieging artillery , and took one battalion prisoners , after having routed the enemy , and driven them to a considerable distance . The ground in front of the fortress was strewed with the killed . There is no longer a corps of observation near Congo . The Wempfen battalion of Italian Grenadiers went over to the victorious Hungarians .

      Vienna , April 5 . —To-day a courier has been sent to St . Petersburg !! , to request a fresh succour , 60 , 000 men , it is said , to act against Bem . If these troops are granted they will he obliged to take their way by Galicia , as Transylvania has only four pas sagas by which an army can cross the mountain . These passages are occupied by Bem .

      THE DANISH QUESTION—COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES . Accounts from Hamburg of the 4 th inst ., state , that reports had reached that city of hostilities having been commenced , by the Danes landing 10 , 000 men on the Sundewitt . After a slight collision with the Schleswig-Holstein troops , the latter withdrew , and the Danes took possession of the Gravenstein . A few were killed , and about sixteen wounded . The Danes , to the number of 15 , 000 men , it is said , also entered Schleswig from Jutland , when the insurgent troops of "the duchy retired , and the Danes were left in the eccupation of Haderslehen .

      A letter from Flensburg , of the 3 rd , confirms the above intelligence , but gives the number of the Danish troops at 6 , 000 only . The skirmish lasted an hour aud a half .

      DESTRUCTION OF THE DANISH MAN-OFWAR 'CHRISTIAN VIII ., ' AND CAPTURE OF THE STEAM-FRIGATE 'GEFION , ' BY THE GERMAN BATTERIES AT ECKllENFORDE . On the even mg of the 4 th inst . a Danish flotilla , consisting of the line-of battle ship Christian VIII ., eighty-four guns ; the frigate Gefion , forty-two ; the bri g St . Croix , and the steamers Geyser and Skiner wereobservedapproachingEckrenforde . Atnightfall the flotilla cast anchor off Noer , in the bay . On the following morning , ad five a . m ., the brig and one of the steamers got under weigh , faking an easterly direction ; at seven a . m . the other vessels weighed ,

      and with a light breeze sailed into the port of Eckrenforde , where they opened a brisk fire on the batteries on shore , which was equally weU replied to , the firing never ceasing till one p . m . The fire of the northern battery ( vas silenced by the welldirected fire of the Geyser . At one p . m . the Christian VIII . ran aground in the inner port , and the rudder of the Gefion was shot away . A parliamentary flag was hoisted , and a notification sent to the effect , that if the batteries on shore would cease firing , so as to allow the vessels to retire , the town would be spared ; if not , it would be reduced to a heap of ashes . This was n-jscted ; but a truce of two hours was agreed upon by his Highness the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg Gotha . '

      At five p . m . the firing recommenced , the batteries firing red-hot balls , which set the Christian VIII . on fire . The crew in vaiu endeavoured to extinguish the flames , and thus the Danish colours of an cighty-four-gun ship were lowered to a four-gun Schlesvvig-Holsttin battery . At a quarter past seven the vessel blew up with about 200 of the crew on board , tbe remainder of the crew having got off . and surrendered themselves prisoners . The Gefion shortly afterwards hauled down her colours , and the German standard was hoisted in their stead . It is difficult to imagine what the real object of the Danish commander can have been . With the wind blowing right in shore , with no intention of effecting a landing , he risked the safety of the fbtilla entrusted to his care .

      Captain Meyer , the commander of the Gefion , is reported to have blown out his brains .

      ITALY . The Piedmontese Gasette of the 2 nd inst . states that certain intelligence has been received from . Milan that , by a new arrangement between General Radetsky and the Piedmontese government , tbe citadel of Alessandria will not be occupied by Austrian troops . The Concordia of Turin of the 2 nd states that a popular movement has broken out at Alhertville . Asti , Cuneo , Alessandria , Ve . rce . lli , and Casale have openly avowed their opposition to the terms of the armistice .

      Insurrection at Brescia and Recapture and Destruction of the City by the Austrians . — The Pensiero Italiano of the 31 st ulfc gives some additional information concerning the in . surrection at Brescia . The citadel , according to this account , continued to fire upon tbe town during the 24 th and 25 th , but on the 20 th it was taken by storm , and the garrison put to the sword . Letters from Turin announce that tbe city of Brescia has been recaptured by tbe Austrians , after an obstinate resistance . A contribution of 5 , 000 . 000 lire has been imposed on the inhabitants .

      Some accounts say that unfortunate city is burnt to the ground ; others , that after being battered for three days with the heavy siege pieces brought on purpose from Pescbiera ( the very cannon the Piedmontese had left there last year , and which were to have been returned to them ) , besides obusses and other artillery , they were still fighting in that part of the town not yet destroyed , the Austrians being obliged to besiege , as it were , every street and house , so desperate was the resistance , Bergamo had also revolted , but had been subjected by an overflowing force in two days . A whole division , besides artillery , had been sent by Radetsky to enforce subrois sion in these disturbed districts .

      The Opinione , of Turin , of the 5 th , states that Brescia , containing 35 , 000 inhabitants , is a heap ef ruins . The town was covered with barricades rising to the second stories . They were taken at the point of the bayonet after a fearful struggle Every inch of ground was disputed with rage . ' The massacre was great ou either side . One general has had his leg amputated , a colonel has been killed , and many officers have fallen . The account in the Ojn ' nione states that the victors began to

      ilp lage and commit excesses of every kind . The inhabitants who had survived the carnage entrenched themselves in the houses , Ihey were set on fire , and all perished in the flames . Never since 1542 ! ivben Brescia was taken by assault by the French , under the orders of Gaston de Foix , has a similar disaster been witnessed . The victor , adds the account , has imposed a contribution of six millions upon this heap of ruins , which once was a town . Como , on hearing of the fall of Brescia , laid down

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      INSURRECTION AT GENOA . t announced in our last number the popular ex . citement at Genoa . We have only unconnected scraps of intelli gence , which we give in the order received . The Genoa Gazette , of the 31 st ult ., states that the clergy of the city have taken arms , and many priests were preachiug in the churches with a crucifix in one hand and a musket in the other , adthe

      monishing people not to acquiesce in slavery . Private letters from Genoa , of the 2 nd instant , state that the National Guards of that city had driven out the garrison , and had taken possession of the fortifications . A Committee of Defence had been formed , invested with unlimited powers , composed of General Avazzana , the Deput y Constantin Reta , and the Advocate David Morchio . They had addressed General Fanti , commanding a brigade of Lombards , offering to receive the troops under bis

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      orders . They published an address to the deputies lately dismissed at Turin to resume their sittings at Genoa . They declared their determination not to separate from Piedmont , but that they would not recognise the armistice concluded with Marshal Radetsky . On the 2 nd , after a murderous combat , which lasted for several hours , the Piedmontese General de Azarta , who had the command of the garrison , was obliged to capitulate . The combat commenced on the evening of the 1 st , about four o clock , and continued without interruption during the whole of the night , the inhabitants having been forced by the inin order to

      surgents to illuminate their bouses , enahle them to cany on their operations . Both sides seem to have fought with great energy ; and , in consequence of the strong positions he ' . d by the troops , the result was for a long time doubtful ; but at length , towards ten in the morning , General de Azarta , finding that the strength of the insurgents was rather increasing than diminishing , while he himself was cut off from all hope of reinforcements , was obliged to capitulate . The lives of the troops were « pared , and the whole of the men were allowed to quit th ? place , with their arms , and with all the honours of war . There are , consequently , no troops notr in Genoa , which is entirely in the bauds of tbe

      insurgents . Genoa declared is a Stave ov Siege . —A royal ordonnance , dated the 3 rd , declared Genoa in a state of siege , and appointed General La Marmora to tbe command of the place , with all authority , civil and military . Orders had been given at Turin for the despatch of a . large quantity of artillery and infantry for Genoa . 8 . 000 troops had " already started to join General de la Marmora . Reported Re-Capture of the City . —Paris , Monday Morning . —The French government has received a telegraphic despatch , which announces that General La Marmora entered Genoa on the 0 th instant , at five o'clock in the afternoon , after a combat in the streets . He had previously taken some of the fortifications .

      The chiefs of the insurrection have taken refuge on board the French and English ships . THE ROMAN REPUBLIC—The news of the defeat of Novarra having been known at Rome on the 29 in ult ., the Constituent Assembly has named a triumvirate with unlimited powers , composed of Amellini , Saffi , and Mazzini .

      SPAIN . Madrid , April 4 . —The ex-King Charles Albert is in Spain , having arrived at St . Sebastian , from Bayonne , on the evening of the 2 nd ; on event which was telegraphed to the government yesterday from Tolosa . He is staying incognito , under the title of Count of Barges , and intends , it is stated , to emba . 'k at St , Sebastian for Lisbon ; but his ultimate destination is said to be the United States . A courier was fent off to him yesterday by this government , with the offer of an asvlum in any part of Spain which he might select as a residsnee .

      CANADA . The Rebellion Compensation Bill was finally passed by the House of Assembly on the 6 th of March . The Quebec Gazelle , in refutation of the charge that the bill has been imposed by a French Canadian majority , gives these statistics of the divisions upon it : — 'The four first resolutions were carried by yeas fifty-two , nays twenty ; and among the yeas are twenty-eight English ( including Irish and Scottish ) names : the fifth resolution ,-the principal one , by yeas forty-eight , nays twenty-three ; twenty , four English names being found among the former : the sixth , by yeas forty-eight , nays twenty-four ; the English votes beirg , in this single instance , equallv divided . On the division at the second

      reading of the bill , embodying the whole , there were twenty nays , and forty-six yeas ; twenty-one . of which , constituting a sufficient majority , were English . So much for ' our Frenm masters . " Memorials are to be poured in upon the Queen , to induce her to withhold the royal assent , Tiiere was a rumour at Washington , on the 13 ib , that an outbreak had commenced ; but it was not credited , and is only worth mentioning to explain an authentic declaration which the . United States government is said to have elicited—that General Wood should proceed to the frontier the moment it should be necessary , and promptly put down any attempt at sympathising interference by citizens of tbe Republic .

      WEST INDIES . From Jamaica we learn a most important measure of reform nas being agitated . The city of Kingston had taken the initiative in advocating the propriety of applying to her Majesty , praying her to grant th * island a constitution similar to that of Canada am ! the other North American provinces . Very large and influential meetings Lad been held on the subject . On the 5 th of March there was an insurrectionary riot in St . Lucia . The Governor and Council were

      temporarily besieged in the Council chamber . The police and special constables being ineffective to suppress the riot , the troops were called out . The insurgents then attacked the militaty with stones , who , after the . special constables had retreated , flic'd on the mob , and dispersed the disaffected blacks . A great many arrests were made , and order quickly restored . The weather was highly favourable in all the West Indian islands .

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      BIRTHDAY OF MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE . On the evening of the 0 th inst . a select company of ultra-democrats assembled to commemorate the birthday of the martyr , Maximilicn Robespierre . A substantial supper of old English fare having been done justice to , and the tables cleared , that staunch proletarian , James Grassby , was appointed chairman of the meeting . In the course ot' the evening the following sentiments were given : — '' The sacred memory of Maxhnilien Kobospicrro , the in " corruptible champion of the rights and happiness of the people . " Responded to by Julias Harms ? . "The memories of Marat , St . Just , Coutlion , llabeuf , ami all the apostles , heroes , ami martyrs of the French devolution . "

      Responded to by Edjcu . vd Sxai . i-wood . "Ifnmmv to liarbes , Albert , Unspail , Louis Blnno Caussidiere and all the proscribed and suffering victims of the fatal policy of ' moderation , ' and the perfidy and cruelty of the ever-infamous bourgeoisie . " Responded to by Charles Keen and Jonx AR . YOTT . " The Charter , the means , —Soeial Justice tho end . Honour to all the suffering advocates of the Charter . " Responded to by EdwiiV Gill and Jon . v Clark . After some other toasts had been drank the following was given by Julian IIauxey , in consequence of the person named therein , being allOUt to emigrate to America .

      "Health and prosperity to Charles Keen and his family . May our respected friend succeed in more elo . sely uniting the democrats of America with the democrats of England ; and may the American Agrarian lleformors succeed in establishing a veritable Republic—democratic and social . " Charles Kee . y responded , thanking his brother democrats for their good wishes , and assuring them of lus earnest endeswovjvs for the promotion oi democratic principles , under all circumstances . The " Marseillaise , " the song of Fraternity , & c , having ; been sung , the proceedings closed bv Henry Ross proposing a bumper to the health of the Chairman , which having been responded to and acknowledged , the company separated .

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      Thtj Choiv . ua i >< 1 \ vjus . —• The number of cliolora cases admitted into the hospitals in Paris during the last two days has diminished . It was 34 , white in the . three preceding days it was G 2 . The nvvmbev of cases in tiic different civil and military hospitals , from its first invasion , has been , according to the Union Medicate , 1 , 009 , of whom 563 have died . The mortality differs remarkably in the military hospitals from that in tho other similar establishments . Hitherto in the first it has been but a little more than one-third , while in tho others it has been 59 in 100 . This difference is explained by the dissimilarity between tho two classes , and more particularly by the fri ghtful mortality at the Salpctriere .

      in tins asylum for old age the disease continues its ravages upon » par with those of 1832 . Within the last two days there have been 89 new cases , which make the total amount to 419 , among whom there have been 279 deaths . It is mot only the infirm and incurable that are attacked ; the ward for lunatics which is filled with women of all ages , furnishes an equal number of victims . The persons employed in the infirmary and other parts « f the hospital have been attacked m great numbers , and two outdoor students m medicine have very nearly fallen victims to their zeal

      . The directors of the hospitals , who have been seconded by all tho medical men of the Salpetriere with the most admirable zeal and courage have cdme to the only resolution which can have eftcacy . jmdthalis to reduce the accumulation of o , uU 0 persons , the amount of its population , by disseminating them . All the women who are able to leave the establishment will be desired to return to their families ; and as Ion * as they remain out they will receive a daily relief of Io centimes . Notwithstanding the reports of the slight intensity and prevalence of the cholera , much alarm prevails respecting it in ram , several persons of note having already died of it . This fact alone is sufficient to

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      explain the public uneasiness . Io members of the Assembly arc said to have been attacked , five of whom arc already reported dead . Several cases of death by the epidemic among the upper classes have also been reported . Among the representatives attacked by cholera is II . Payer , formerly secretary to II . do Lamartine . —Galiyani ' s Messenger . Tobacco axd Mortality . —At the last meeting of tho Academic des . Sciences a paper was brought forward by XI . Curbonnel , upon the effects of tobacco on the workmen employed to make cigars and prepare tobacco . It would appear that out of -120 females whose husbands followed that- occupation , 350 had twins , * but with regard to health , out of 1 , 000 workmen 310 became emaciated to the highest decree , aud ( 51 in a secondary manner .

      Gexkiial roST-OrriCE , April , 18-10 . —Hcnccforw-ird , newspapers printed or published in anv of the Channel Islands , or in the Isle of Man , and sent by the post between any of such , islands and Great Britain or Ireland , or sent by the post in Groat Rritain or Ireland , will be liable to the full letter rates of postage according to the scale for charging inland letters by weight ; with the exception Of suck of the newspapers alluded to as may be printed in the French language .

      Try Eue You Despaih.

      TRY EUE YOU DESPAIH .

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      HOLLOWAY'S PILLS . CURE OF ASTHMA . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , a respect able Quaker , dated Creenagh , near Loughall , Ireland , dated September 11 th , 1848 . llEsracn ; o Vmbsd , — Thy excellent Tills have effectually cured ine of an asthma , which afflicted me for three years to such an i . vtent that I was obliged to walk my room at nkfht for air , afraid of being sullbcated if I went ' to bed bv cough and phlegm . Besides taking the Pills , I rubbed plenty of thy Ointment into my chest night aud morning . — ( Signed ! Benjamin . Uackie . —To Professor Ko [ . uwv \ v . CUKE OE TYPHUS EEVElt WHEN SUPPOSED TO BE

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      s *^^^ ^ T 1 IE EXTRA-// ' ' \ v - * - ordinary properties // -rf «>~ \\ of ?'" * medicine are thus / ' tfSiSr ^ b . \\ described by an eminent // fiPs ' ^ \ \ physician , who says : — ' / m $$ il & $ § £ Uvation of the action of i M ^& M jU ' ' S 1 ' ll . w , I mn dc-11 rf 0 J ^^^ f 7 ^ S ^ L IJte niiincd , in my opinion , l \ -- ^^^ P ? fMoW ^ Su // that tho fullowiiiL' ; ire ¦ ^ liilH « l &^ ' CaSl tV . // tueu' true properties : — Vw ^ ifesflsra / N Mm ' ^^ f "I'b-st—They increase \ A ^^^^^«§! l ^^^ y' ^ stvcttgtVi , whilst most NN ^^^^^^^ W ^/ 1 ' other medicines have a \ ^ A _^ S- ?<§ pJ >^ r weakening ell ' eet upon ^ . — - ^ the system . Let any one take from three to four ov six pills every twenty-four hours , and , instead of having weakened , they will he found to have revived the animal spirits , ami to liavc imparted a lasting strength to the body .

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      N PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE I . XCAPACITi ' , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MAUKIAGE . Twenty-fifth edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings on Steel , enlarged to 1311 pages , price 'is . Cd ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . lid ., in postage stamps .

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      use , It is illustrated by three coloured engravings , whic fully display the effects of physical decay . J Part the Third Contains an accurate description of the diseases caused b ; infection , and bv the abuse of mercury ; primary and so coudavy symptoms , eruptions of the skin , sore throat , in nainniatiunoftho eves , disease of the bones , . . -.. norrhwa gleet , stricture , Ac , ' arc shown to depend on this cause Their treatment is fullv described iu this scrti . ui . The ef fects of neglect , either " in the recognition of disease or ir the treatment , arc shown to be the prevalence of the virus in the system , which sooner or later will snow itself in ont of tho forms already mentioned , and entail disease in its most frightful shape , not only on the individual himsel f , hul also on the offspviug . Advice for the treatment of till these diseases and their consequences is tendered in this section , which , if duly followed up , cannot fail in effecting a cure . This part is illustrated by seventeen coloured engravings . Part tbe Pourth Treats of the prevention of disease by a simple application , by which the danger of infection is obviated . J : s action is simple , but sure . It acts with the virus chemically , and destroys ifts power on ihe system . This imju . rt .-iiic part of tbe work should be read by every young man entering into life . Part the Fifth Is devoted to the consideration of the Duties aud Obligations of the Married State , and of the causes which lead to the happiness or misery of those who have entered into the bonds of matrimony . Disquietudes and jars between married couples are traced to depend , in the majority of instances , on causes resulting from physical imperfections and errors , and the means for their removal shown to be within reach and effectual . The operation "f certain disqualifications is fully examined , and infelicitous and unproductive unions shown to be the necessary consequence . Tbe causes and remedies for this state form an important consideration in tins section of the work .

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      NO MORE TILLS , nor any other -Medicine —Dyspepsia ( Indigestion ) and Constipation , the main C . IUSOS of biliousness , nervousness , liver complaint , thitulency , distention , palpitation of the heart , inflammation and cancer of the stomach , nervous head-aches , deafness , noises in tbe head and ears , pains in almost every part ot the body , asthma , dropsy , scrofula , consumption , heart . burn , nausea after eating or at sea , low spirits , spasms , spleen , general debility , cough , inquietude , sleeplessness , involuntary blushing , tremor , dislike to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the head , exhaustion , melancholy , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts of selt-destructiuu , aud insanity , effectually removed" from the system , by a permanent restoration of the digestive functions to their primitive vigour , without purging , inconvenience , pain or expense , bv the

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 14, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_14041849/page/2/