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FRANCE . [ The Che details connected with the reception , of the ijsidesident , at the various towns he has »( sited in « cot course of his popularity hunting jaurnjfy , coostixe the the staple of the French intelligence , this week , iccorecording to the correspondents of the , * Tieses 'mo aio are , for the time being , ultrs-Buonapartists—33 res reception has everywhere been ot the mest entusUustastic and brilliant description . They are I ' llictiuged to admit , that he has everywhere been
: ceeueeied with the cry - Vive le Republic , ' while the nticiiKcvpated exclamation , * Vive le Empereur' ha s Ht rat rarely been heard , and when raised has been ijigongorouslj responded tofcy the opposite party ; but iieyiey try to account for this decidedly republican uanaanifestation of feeling bv alleging that the parlies rrhorbo cry for the Republic are hired for the purpose , md nd stimulattd by liquor . The absurdity of the Hl e g lleggttoa is so evident that it would be waste of iimdme to attempt its confutation . One incident is sroflrorthy record
;—0 On visiting Finn he went to a bronze statue of Ihe he Emperor erected upon the estate of M . Noisot , u gn grenadier of the imperial guard , who accompanied ^ apfepoleon < o the isle of Elba . It appears that one nf If M . Noisot ' s dearest friends is Col « n < l Guinard , iiowow languishing in the prison of Doullens , in contieqteauence of a sentence of the hi gh Court of Ver * I lailiailles , M . Noisot , influenced doubtless by a gene ' "on-ous feeling , did not fail , after the ceremonious IMUCompHrnents of reception , to allude to the painful ¦ position of his old comrade , and to solicit the exer-: iio £ ions or the President in his behalf . Neither Louis
iNaNapnleon nor his suite were prepared for such a ¦ s enenoas close to the cooimonplaces of a formal reicepeptiou . The President made answer with the loffoffended air of one who finds himself trapped into : anan affront . It is sufficiently well known that the icoconstituiiou does not allow the President the prerogagatkeof pardon ; nor was M . Noisot probably igucnorant cf what all France knows , but merely solielicited the exertion of the President ' s good offices . TIThe answer of Louis Napoleon is thus given by the cccorrespoadent of the' Pays ' : — « I have come spontataneously to thank you for the pious homage which ycyon have rendered to the Emperor »» en-ctliig this sfstatnte *™ »>; . memwrf . Tou address a reproach to
Ollne which I was far from expecting . The men of wwhom you speak were condemned by the H' 8 C Court of Jnstice ; it i 3 the law which has attacked tlthem , and we must all respect it . When the pperiod for amnesty shall have arrived it will be for tithe National Assembly to decide on their fate , and nnotforme : ' and the Prince turned on his heel . 2 i 2 ? ow , it is not to be forgotten that the government oof Lonis Napoleon had exerted itself to the utmost a at the second and third reading of the Transportatvtion Bill to insert a clause for the purpose of 8 shi pp ing off Colonel Guinard and his companions in c captivity to Nouka-Jiiva . The law is , that in order 1 to grant a pardon , the executive must obtain the
< concurrence of the Conseil d'Etat ; but for an am-3 nesty the consent of the Assembly is requisite . As I Guinard is admitted on all bands to have exerted ] himself to the utmost to prevent the foolish out-I break of the 13 th of June , a nd onl y to have joined I in it from a false feeling of honour , one could i hardly have singled out a safer instance for pardon ; i or one which would be more popular ; aud to prol ; inise that the matter should be referred to the Conseil d Etat , would have been a course at once
prudent , opportune , po p ular , and humane . But the occasion was lost ; the expressive reproach of the faithful companion of his uncle ' s exile at Elba , that Louis Napoleon bad proposed a measure for transporting like a felon a gallant and distinguished officer of the emp ire , must have gone home with singular force to the mark in the presence of that bronze statue ; and the ungracious umbrage with which so natural a request was received , will be longer remembered than the bits of ribbon which are bung upon frost-bitten remnants of the granie
armee . A t Chal o n , after having , a s usual , bestowed numerous decorations on the military , he turned towards the qaay to embark , but was waylaid by a group of weeping females , who implored mercy for their sons and brothers imprisoned for political motives . These Louis Napoleon treated more graciousl y than be did M . Noisot , and pr o mi se d he would propose the matter to the Conseil d'Etat . At all the various towns on the route to Lyons the usual hubbub of conflicting cries arose . On landing in the second capita ! of France he was greeted by a stunning shout of' Vive la Republic ! ' from assent ' bled thousands . 'Vive le President'' was also
heard , but « Vive Napoleon ! ' and 'Vive rEmpereor !' were completely drowned in the larger and loader cries . The President went to the cathedral , where he heard mass ( it was the great fete of the Assumption , and the day chosen by Napoleon to honour his own patron Saint . ) Then he repaired to the Prefecture , where he received the civil and military authorities , and reviewed in the court the old soldiers of the imperial army , who had been gathered from all sides together for that purpose . The President , having beslowed numerous decorations , was on the point of retiring to repose himself , when a deputation of inhabitants from La Guiilotiere , said by my conservative correspondent to amount to three
thousand , presented themselves to protest against the disrespectful resolution of the majority of their munici pal council , who refused to visit the President . At a banquet , in the Hotel de Ville , the next day , he delivered a speech which has created considerable excitement among ail parties , by its allusion to the date of the empire , and his infereniially claiming power on imperial dynastic grounds as well as places himself above the Assembly itself by virtue of the 6 . 000 . 000 rotes , which raised him ( o the office of President . The object of my voyage is . by my presence , to encourage the good , to re-assure the alarmed , to judge by myself the sentiments andwantsof the country . This task needs your con currence , and in order that I mav obtain that con "
entrance , it is my duty to tell you what I am and What I wish . I am not the representative of a partv , but the representative of two great national manifestations which , in 1804 as well as in 1848 , aimed at saving by order the great principles of the French revolution . ( Cheers . ) Proud , therefore , of my origin and of ray flag , I will emaiu true to both . I will be entirely at th service of the country , whether it demand from me abnegation or perseverance . ( Cheers . ) Rumours of coups d ' etat have pe r h ap s reached y o u , gentlemen , but you did not believe them , and I thank you . Surprises and usurpations may be the dream of parties without support in the nation , but the elect of six millions of suffrages executes , not betrays , the wishes of the people . '
As a set-off to the official accounts in the Meniteur , ' we take the following descri p t ion , g iven by the correspondent of the' Evenement , ' of the President ' s reception at Lyons on the 15 th inst : — ' Eight am . —Six hundred old soldiers of the empire have assembled at Bsllecour ; five or six have kept their uniform , others are in blouses , with schakos . 30 , 000 countrymen , at least , have arrived at Lyons from the departments of the Ain , the Isere , and the Loire . The curiosity is immense , the calm perfect . On ail sides ridiculous proclamations are placarded . NSucam . —The troops are formed in file from the Ghana to St . Jean , following the quays of the Szone , crossing the stone bridg e alon g the quay of the revolution to the entrance of the cathedral , by the Pont Tilsit . Ten am—L'Hirondelle , No . 7 , is in sight from the Observance between the coasts of Fort St . Jean and Pierre Seize .
In this vessel is the President of the Republic and his suite . The crowd collected on the two hills ieceive him with a deafening cry of' Vive la Republique . ' He disembarks : the g amins cry ' Vive la Prince ;* the Perachtns ( the inhabitants of the quarter Perrache ) cry' Vive le President . ' Five or six cries of * Vive l'Empereur » are faintly hea r d , but are soon drowned b y cries of' Vive la Repuhlique ' from all sides . The standard bearer of the vietw de la vieille lowers his flag to the imperial eagle ( a flag of 1815 , ) and cries , taking off his three-cornered hat , * Vive la Repuhlique . ' The cortege commences its march , and crosses the file of troops . The officers cry , waving their swords , ' Vive la President ;' the soldiers rest generally silent , t hose who s p eak cry , * Vive le President . '
« There are few flags in the town ; hardly any but at the cabarets , which are all decorated , they having been ordered to do so by the police , under pain of being closed . We are in a state of siege ! All along the line of march curiosity is alive , but no enthusiasm . 'The people atfendasjledfiy ^ he ^ passing of the President . If any Bubnapartist cryjs , uttered the people are silent , if any'imperialist-acclamation is made it is soon drowned in cries of ¦ ¦* Vive la Repuhlique ! ' " '¦ ¦' - ¦ ; ¦'¦ ' X - VV 1 W * h " i
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The moderates are tbe actors in this jmst , for wtich they have been paid 1 , 209 francs . The principal occupation of the gro g wris has been to pre . sent to the ' nep hew of the uncle so many placets . that the 15 th of August may may be called at Lyons thejourneedesplacets' In the square of the Prefecture , at the house of a restaurateur at 25 sous , a second representation of the banquet of the gendarmes , m o biles , at the Elysee has bes-n given . After drinking cries were uttered of' Vive l'Eiupereur , ' and the guests showed themselves at the windows with their serviett e s on their arms , g lass in hand , and mouths full , shouting this imperial cry . No replies were made , t he peopl e laug hed , and the agents of the police arrested no one . In conclusion I mast tell you that the heroes of the day are the soldiers and the Republic and tbe emp ire o whom they made use fer the show .
Leaving Lyons the route of the President was to Strasbourg , where he wfis to arrive on the 22 nd . Several officers of the National Guard at Strasbourg , who were appointed to receive him , have g iv e n in t heir re s i gnation rather than comply with this duty . It is calculated that the journey of the President , with hfs suit , cos's 24 . 000 francs a day , taken from the secret funds and trom the President ' s income . M . Morin , the Republican candidate , has been returned for the canton of Tuiron to the Couucilgeneral of the Eure-et-Loire . M . Dupram , the Socialist candidate , has been returned fur the canton of Valence to the Council-general of the Gers . M . de Balzac , tbe famous novelist , expired on Sund a y ni ght last .
A member of the Committee of Permanence has received a letter from the Prince de Joinville , nhich contains an explicit declaration of his opinion that the question fur France can only lie between tbe legitimate monarchy and the republic ; but that a ' repuhlique princiere' is chimerical , and cannot last . As to the monarchy of expedients , which we have had for eighteen years , a second trial of it would be dangerous in the extreme . It should seem from this that Prince de Joinville has turned Legitimist . M . de Larochejaquelin has written a cloudymisty letter to the Gazette de France' respecting
rrfiat he terms ' The pretended Legitimist Congress ' at "W iesbaden . He denies that any ' special rendezvous' was given by the would-be Henry V . but states he was very gracious , though reserved , to those who waited upon him . All that the writer lets out , as te the result , is that past divisions were condemned , and that they ' left , promising ve r y c or diall y to use all their efforts to march as one man on all questions , ' and 'in the next session have the same eyes , feel the same conscience , and take an absolute direction . ' What the rule of Henry V . would be , if placed on the throne , may be judged of from the following , ex traced from the Viennese correspondent of the' Daily News' : —
' M . Benal , who ke e ps the l ea di n g hotel at Frohsdorf , has since the advent of the Count de Chambord and his court been honoured with a great increase of company owing to tbe numbers of travellers who come to pay their respects to the Count , especially in the spring . To meet this increase of patronage by a corresponding liberality in the admini st ra t ion of hi s e s t ablishm e n t , M . Benal became a subscriber to most of the principal newspapers of Austria and Europe , a measure which he was able to carry out more completely , as his hotel is beyond the radius within which the existing press ordinances apply . M . Benal ' s premises are held on advantageous terms under the count
himself . A few days ago the host was astounded by a message from the count , communicated through his steward , to the effect that the lease , which would expire in the course of some weeks , would not be renewed . On inquiring the grounds upon which his most gracious Majesty King Henry V . had been advised to take this resolution so sorely afflictive to the interrogator , M . Benal was informed that the proceeding was intended to mark bis Majesty ' s displeasure at the conduct of the inn-keeper in subscribing to subversive and Radical newspapers , a dull journal p ubli s hed a t B r un n b e ing at the same time indicated , and it was added that his Majesty regarded tbe buyers of such journals as contributing to maintain the cause in which they were published . Up to the present moment all the
endeavours of the strtciten hotel-keeper to procure a reversal of his sentence , which t o him is almost one of death , have been in vain . He has volunteered the most solemn promises instantly and for ever to discontinue his subscription to the ' Press e , ' the Brunn journal which had caused the difficulty , and to exclude from his establishment any papers which his Majesty mi gh t be p leased to proscribe . Tbe only reply vouchsafed is that the king ' s resolution is unalterably fixed , and that he would be surrounded by no persons in any relation of whose political soundness he was cot well assured . This little incident of the court at Frohsdorf appears to justif y N a pole o n s well-known words , applied t o the ance s tors of t he Pretender : —• Those people have learned nothing , have forgotten nothing . '
GREAT INUNDATIONS IN BELGIUM . By the Belg ium new s pap e rs i t a p p e a rs t h a t nearl y the whole of the country has been laid under water , to the serious destruction of p roperty of a ll kinds , though as yet no great loss of life is reported . At Brussels the water has been so hi gh as t o give serious anxiety . In many of the suburbs the water was five feet high . The quays of the Charleroi canal had been carried away by the torrents , and four men drowned at one place . In the Faubourg de FIsndre , fifty bouses had been thrown down , and an immense number of cattle lost . Boats were to be seen navi gating the streets in masses . The whole of the subnrb of Anderlecht was still under water , according to the latest accounts . In the fish market , a large house , in the occupation of Gerard and Co .. carriers , came down with an immense crash , aud fell into the Senne .
At St . Josse Tfiuuoode , outside Brussels , the waters were still very hi gh by last accounts . At Lat-ken , the residence of the King , they were on the increase . The communications between Brussels and the stations on the Northern Railway were all interrupted . It was not till late on Sunday evening that a train could get forward to Antwerp . Similar intelligence is g iv e n f ro m a great number of other towns . Some districts are reported as entirely inundated . In tbe vicinity of Mons , the river Haine threw down a great part of the Mons and Manage railway , three enormous breaches were made , and , of course , all communication stopped .
The ' Independance Bei ge , ' dated Charleroi August 17 th , says : — 'All the lower town is under water ; the tributaries of tbe Sarabre have overflowed and are so many torrents bringing down a deluge of water . The railway is submerged , and the travellers by yesterd a y ' s train had to pass the night in the upper stories of the station . The timber and sleepers , the property of the Erquelinnes Railway Company , have been carried away by the flood , and planks , billets , and logs , are everywhere seen floating about , Stores of charcoal , corn , hay , and the newly-gathered harvest , have been carried away by the torrent . '
The journals of the 19 th report an increase during the night of the waters to the height of two feet and a half , and at half-past ten of that date not the least abatement was discernible . Several walls had fallen down . In the Rue de Seminaire , of Namur , the water was upwards of fen feet in height ; the gendarmerie were compelled to quit their barracks . The aspect of the Sambre at its confluence with the Meuse is terrific ; the billows are dashing six and nine feet high . From Lille we learn that the Marque has overflowed and carried away tbe harvest in that neighbourhood . The bridge over the river was carried away just as a number of peasants were watching the rise of the waters from its summit . The parties were saved without injury . Houses have fallen before the torrent at Lille , and communications have been cut off in several directions .
ITALY . The ' Constifutionnel' publishes the following from Rome , dated the 10 th : — 'A capital sentence has just been pronounced against a man named Pinto , who on the 2 nd tilt , assassinated bis fatherin-law . This murder was attended with such atrocious circumstances that it appears certain that the sentence will be approved of by the Pope , and that the execution will take place after the fete of the Assumption . This will be the first time that Pius IX . will have sanctioned a capital condemnation . Malefa ct or s , h o w e ver , hate recently become so
audacious in their proceedings that severity has become an imperious necessity . On . Saturday last , a frightr ful attack was committed in the environs of Rome on t h e f a mily of an advoc a t e , who had taken up their residence in a country-house . In the evening of that d a y , t he advoca t e , after finishing his business in Rome , went as usual to his country . house to pass the Sunday with his family , when he was met by bis servant ; who told him : that his house had been attacked '¦ by robbers , who : were pillaging it . The advocate , who was a rmed with a double-barrelled gfln , on coming to the house found the door guarded
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by two bri gand s , both of whom be immediately shut . He then entered the house , w h en he wa s suddenly surrounded by five or six men , wi t h whom a desperate struggle took place . He was overpowered by numbers and killed . The servant , in the meantime , had run off to procure assistance , but unfortunately it arrived too late ; the robbers bad taken to fli ght , leaving behind them their two dead companions . The wife of the advocate was weltering in her blood , but still breathing , and a little girl of nine years ol age was hanging to a beam .. She was immediately cut down , and hopes are entertained of saving her life . No clue has yet been discovered of the
robbers . There is much talk here of an arrest which has just been made by the police at Naples of an individual who had arrived there under an assumed name , with an English passport . This individual passed himself for some one of consequence , and wa > -. provided with letters of recommendation and credit . A search at his hotel led to the discovery of very important correspondence with the principal revolutionists of France , Italy , and Germany . The port ot Repetta was yesterday the scneof a sanguinary quarrel between a liberated convict and a young
man whose father had been killed by the former . Tbe young-man having been grossly insulted in a public-house by this fellow , prudently left the p lace to avoid a conflict , bu t find i ng himself clo s el y pursued by the man , who had armed himself with a pitchfork , he in his own defence laid hold of a long knife , which was lying on a stall , and plunged it into tbe breast of his aggressor , and laid hi m dead at bis feet . The young man immediately surrendered himself to the police , but it is thought that the act will only be considered as justifiable homicide . '
PIEDMONT . The quarrel between the government and the . Jesuits still continues . The latter , though stunned tor a moment by the energetic measures of tbe Piedmontese government , are recovering from the blow . Their organ , the * Armonia , ' has resumed its publication , and forei gn di plomacy comes to their aid by demanding the expulsion of the refugees most hostile to the clergy . The government , has just signed , at the dictation of tho Austrian minister , an order for several of these to quit the Sardinian territory .
Meanwhile the Archbishop of Turin has found an imitator in Switzerland . M . Marillez , t he episcopal conspirator of Fribourg , has ordered his clergy to abstain from all relations with the civil power , even before the tribunals , and authorises them to receive nothing from the state , t hat is , with the exception of pensions and benefices . On the 9 th inst ., about nine in the evening , an imposing demonstration was made at Alexandria , under the windows of the Peres Servile monks . The populace did not commit any acts of disorder , but gave the government distinctly to understand that the time bad arrived when a relig ious order who consumed without producing anything could no longer be tolerated .
HANOVER . By order of the government the police has issued a « fecA-crie /( writ of caption and pursuit ) against the twenty or more refugees who came from London to AUona for the purpose of offering their services to the government of the Duchies , but were not only rejected , but ordered to quit the Ilolstein territory forthwith , under penalty of arrest . The steck-brief directs all Hanoverian authorities to arrest any of these individuals who may be met with , and , in case they should be subject to any previous charges to commence their prosecution forthwith ; if not , to see t ha t t hey be c onduc t ed , under escort , to their place of domicile .
AUSTRIA . Letters from Vienna of August 11 th say : —An in creasing variance between our government and that of Sardinia has shown itself of late . Its principal ground , apart from the offensive tone in which the Turin papers are allowed to speak of the imperial government , is to be found in the growing influence o f En g land , which seeks to injure the commercial interests of Austria in Sardinia .
At this court , th e gov e rnm e nt i s greatl y disap poicted at the cold greeting with which the late partial amnesty was received . It was expected that when the men of the October revolution were released from fortress imprisonment , the s t reets would ring with the clemency of the Emperor ; but the enthusiasm was for the victims , and the government was only thought of in connexion with its hall-kept promise .
It is utterly impossible to explain the singular policy of the Austrian cabinet , which is continuing its measures of oppression , while endeavouring to puff off its grace . Just as men are pardoned for their share in the events of 1848 , persons suspected of participation in the same insurrection , and who until the present momemt have been unmolested , a re seiz e d , thrown into prison , and made the subjects of legal processes ; and this is the conduct o < the government , not onl y in Austria , hut in Hungary .
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . Intelligence from Hamburg , under date the 17 th inst ., is t o t be eff e c t t ha t a nav a l enga g emen t b a d taken place on the previous evening , between a Danish steamer and two Banish gun-boats and the Holstein steamer and two gun-boats . The fi ght was carried on at intervals till eight o ' clock on the morning of the 17 th , when the Danish force retired . One of tbe Schleswig gun-boats got o n fire , but the flames were promptly extinguished . Neither army had thought proper to risk another battle .
GREECE . K ng Otho having resolved to visit his family in Bavaria , has appointed his wife regent during his absence , and this produced a ministerial crisis , two of the ministers having resigned . Every one of the public journals seems to think a crisis is at hand . It is said the country is to be placed under martial law till tbe return of the King .
INDIA . By the last mail it is announced that Sir Charles Napi er has resi gned his command . The cause of his early resignation of his high and important office being , it is supposed , an a ssumption of authority on his part beyond the limits of his office . Sir Charles conceives that this authority ex . tends to the decision of all purely military questions , without reference to the bead of the government , and in two or three cases that have come before him has reduced his theory to practice . One
of these was the disbanding of the 66 th B . N . 1 ., a measure which is said to have been resolved on and promulgated without once consulting the opinions of the Governor-General , who , while willing to defer to the superior military judgment and experience of the head of the army , could not allow his own precedence to be thus openly slighted without a protest . It is accordingly believed that the Governor-General addressed an official wigging to Sir Charles Napier on his undue assumption of authority , which led him to tender bis resignation .
One of the most noticeable events of the pest three weeks is the mutinous rising of a gang of S i kh prison e r s , coming from Allahabad to Calcutta . The river stpamer Berhampooter , Captain Cawley with the Kakegunga cargo boat in tow , ' commanded by Mr . Stout , embarked thirty-nine Sikh prisoners at Allahabad for Calcutta . Among these mre Narain Sing h and Golab'Singb , and some others o ! t b e mos t t u r bulen t Sikhs , whom i t ' was jud ged unsafe to leave in the neighbourhood of the Punjab . For security , they were placed in fetters , and then linked together b y a sing le continuous chain . Tlie guard placed over them consisted of eighteen men ; two
being old and in firm naiks , eight gaol guards , and eight teeka bmkundazes . There was a quantity of specie on , board belonging to government ; The vessels started from Allahabad on the 18 th , and arrived at Patna on tbe 22 » d ; tbey took in coal and wood , and about noon resumed their downward progress . After some hours the boats reached a place called Futwa , abou t ei ght miles below the native town of Patna . The . prisoners had ' been amusing themselves during the day with making inquiries respecting the gunduck , a stream which falls into the Ganges opposite to Patria , its depth , fords , direc t ion , & c . When near Fulwa , two of the prosoners solicited temporary relief frbm-the connecting
chain , and their request , wa s comp lied with . In a momen t ,, a whistle from Narain Singh gave ' the signal , to the whole gang to rise , and ev e ry man sprung up , releasing himself as be could from the l o n g chain , and rushing to the place of arms where the guards badvery considerately piled up . their loaded muskets between themselves and the prisoners . There were only four men on guard at the moment . These were , quickl y overpowered and disarmed , two . were killed on tlie . spot , one boiled with wounds , another without scathe . The Sikhs proceeded immediately to possess themselves of the arms . By this time the alarm was given . Mr ! Stout ; of the I'Kaleegunga , roused by - the clatteringof ^ he ' fet-( ers aft , went to see the cause , and was immediately assailed ; be , howe v er , escaped forward unharmed
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and notified this tale of affairs to the steamer . Captain Cawley , with officers and passengers , crossed over the connecting beam to the cargo hoat , but as tbey were merely armed with sticks and swords , thev could do nothing against the loaded muskets pointed at them . The apparent inaction of the Sikhs during this interval is explained by the fact that the liberated men were merel y c o v e ring their c o mrades ' efforts to extricate themselves . The Sikh s were nearly prepared for action , when their antagonists had fairly retreated to the steamer . They now commenced a rattling fire upon the steamer , and would hare done great damage , but for the huge pile of firewood taken on board at Patna , and s t ow e d
away aft , which served as a useful bulwark . A rapid scorch convinced the garrison of the Berhampooter that they had no arms on board fit to resist with , and as a storm from the freed Sikhs was imminent , a council of war resolved upon running the vessels ashore on tbe Patna hank . No sonner thought than effected , and the crew endeavoured to set ashore as fast as they could ; while doing so they were exposed to a severe fire frqn ) the cargo boat . One of the naiks and two of the gaol guards were killed all together , to others wounded and three lascars , In the flrst . sbirmish , two of the prisoners had been severely wounded ; they were , while sull alivethrown overboard in the river , by their
com-, rades . The Sikhs were now sole masters of the two boats . They then boarded ihe steamer , and found on hoard a sergeant ' s wife who had been unable to effect her escape . They were about to / all upon her , when Narain Singh interfered and s aved h er life a n d hon o ur , though he could not prevent her from being plundered of all her property . A search was then instituted for the company ' s treasure chests , but ineffectually . The cabins and lockers were all rummaged and small suras of money abstracted . Slender provision as this was they were now compelled to turn their thoughts towards
escape , and . finding themselves unequal to navigation the steamer , they landed . Two boats were discovered and seized , and in them tbe larger body of the prisoners crossed to the side opposite Patna , making off in the direction of the Gunduck and Nepal . The officers and crew of the steamer raad >' direct for Patna , and as soon as the alarm was given a large force was despatched to the spot and in search of the fugitives , both from Patna and Dinapore . Thirteen were recaptured , among whom is N ar ain Sing h . There seems little doubt hut the rest will also be taken , that is such of them as escape starvation .
From Peshawur we learn that three officers ( Lieut . Pollock , and Mr . B . Sap t e , assistant-commis s i o n e rs , and Lieut , Miller , of th e G uide Corps n e arl y fell in t o th e hands of t he Affre ed ies in t h e passes . They had determined on riding over to the post of Kohat , and had entered the passes when they were met by a special messenger from Captain Coke , 1 st Punjaub cavalry , commanding that post , advising ther return , as they were waylaid . Fortunately they took his advice and returned . All our negotiations with the Affreedies have been broken off .
INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO . The ' Overland Singapore Free Press / of Jul y 1 , says : 'Nothing of importance has occurred in Singapore during the past month , affording matter for remark , with the exception of some . atrocious murders perpetrated on peaceful and unarmed fishermen and boatmen , in the Sirangoon river and near the Red-cliffs , b y Mal a ys , who appear to have been led to commit these crimes principally for the sake of the small quantities of rice and other articles in the possession of the patties attacked . ' Piratical attacks are said to have been made by Chinese junks upon native trading vessels in the China Sea , near the entrance of the straits of Sin gapore . In both cases the pirates were unsuccessful .
Reports are rife that the Siamese are in a state of much alarm on account of the approaching visit of Sir James Brooke . JAVA .- —The disturbances in Bantam seems to be nearl y suppressed , and there are no accounts from the refractory district in Sumatra with the exception of a small expedition against a petty chief in one of the islands off that coast . The Dutch authorities at Sambas , i t is repor t ed
hav e latel y been under the necessity of taking pro . ceedings against the Chinese settlers on that part of B or neo , in consequence of their re / using to surrender a sampan pukat , which was introducing opium into the Chinese districts , in violation of the opium monopoly enjoyed by the Sultan of Sambas . An attack had been made upon tbe Chinese , and i t was reported that two or three Dutch officers had been killed or wounded , but according to las t accoun t s t he aff air wns M , ill undecided . '
COLOMBO , July 11 . —The leading event of the month has been a political demonstration on the part of the burghers , resulting in strong expressions of loyalty to England's Queen and attachment to the British rule , and equally strenuous assertions of their dissatisfaction with many of the acts of the loc a l government—especially of its head . Bad as matters have gone on under Lord Tar . rington ' s rule , we venture to assert t that not half-adozen people in Ceylon would hear without dismay a confirmation of the rumour speculated on by our Iii'lian cotemporaries , to the effect thai the island is to be handed over to tbe East India Company . We trust no such doom is in store for us . Wp . are no w mer e l y impeded in our onward course ; swamped in the company ' s over-grown dominions , we should be thrust back a century at ( east .
CHINA . By the last overland mail , we learn that t he fa t al ep idemic prevailing at Canton and its vicinity is decreasing . The o ther news is unimpor t ant , c o n s i s ti n g mainl y of struggles to evade custom's duties , and conflicts arising out of the smuggling of opium into the country .
NEW ZEALAND . "We have received papers from Auckland , New Zealand , to the 16 th March . The ' New Zealander ' of that date , after , stating there had been reason to apprehend a long-dreaded collision would take place on the 6 th , between the contending ^ Wakaito tribes , gives a narrative ol some tearful manifestations that were made on that day , and when a conflict , in which scores , if not hundreds of lives might have been lost , was , to all human appearance , averted only by the influence and exertions of Mr . Wallis , a missionary . Happily the affair ended iu speeches of mutual defiance . The papers contain no other matter of any interest .
UNITED STATES . The Asia , Royal Mail steam ship , arrived at Liverpool on Saturday , having made the run , in very boisterous weather , in less than nine and a half days , from Boston . In the Senate a bill has been introduced since tbe failure of the compromise of Mr . Clay to establish the territorial government of New Mexico , and define the boundary of Texas . This bill , it is understood , is likely to pass , as also one for the admission of California into the Union . The southern
slave-holding influenc e app ea rs to have abando ne d its attempts to introduce slavery into the state ol California , or any other , but their object is to give Ttxas as much territory as possible , _ in . order to carve out of that enough slave states to be adequate to the preservation of the much-coveted balance cf power . If this can be done , the south will doubtless be satisfied . This possession of things is somewhat in c r e ased in in t er est b y the arrival at Washington of a special messenger from the Governor ot Texas to
the President of the United States , informing him of the intention of the Texans to support their claims by force of arras . ' Fifteen hundred' men have volunteered to proceed to Santa Fe ; and * fifteen thousand' more were ' rcitdy . We . perceiva in this something ot the character of the south . To make the threat olarming they resorted to . the usual method . of multiplying by ten . The President ' s message in repl y is said , to intimate his determination to resist any aggression on the part of Texas by , force of arms ; .
' Since the late successful competition , of Collins ' s line of steamers with those of Cun ' ard , the greatest enthusiasm has been excited on the subject . A new impulse has been g iven t o steam navigation , and the keels of some enormous ships have been laid . Among other designs on foot is that of a line oi war steamers between New York and Baltimore to L i b e ria , on the coast of Africa , for the double purpose of suppressing the slave trade and colonising the negroes . Theprice of passage . for free negroes over twelve years of age to be ten dollars ; and for
those under twelyeyears five dollars , Theemigration is . to . be under the . control of the Colonisation Society . It is understood lhat tbe assistance of the go ve r nment b y a mail , contract , and some advances by the way will be required . .. Thepropositidn meets with r faypur , and , has been reported' favourably to t he Bouse of Repreaentatives ' . '" ::. '" ¦ '"' "'' " i A very large ' steamer has ' been launched in New York t o pl y to San Juan de Nicarague . ' I ' t is not believed that the route as at present intended to he used will be practicable before the 1 st of October . If
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, t can be made so the general impression is that the Isthmus of Panama will be abandoned by the Americans . , The friends of the Tehuantepec route are much pleased by the promulgation of a treaty with Mexico for tbe improvement of the transit in that direction . It has yet to receive the sanction of the United States senate . The select committee of theUmted Slates senate , to whom was referred the subject of the personal altercation between Messrs . Bent o n and Foo t e , on the 7 th of April last , have at length made a report . It contains a verv dry narrative of the facts , and expresses the opinion that Mr . Benton did meditate an assault upon Mr . Foote , and Mr . Foote bad reason to think so : that Mr . Foote retreat d as Mr . Ben-^^ - - - „
ton approached , and gained a position whence he could point a revolver with effect at his assailant , though he did not actually do so . In short , the committee came to the conclusion , that it was very w ronz t o ndul ge in p ersonalities , or carry fire-arms in the senate , and concluded with recommending jus t n ot hing a al l ! _ _ The correspondent of the' Daily News' says : — 'Yert rday ( Monday , Aug . 5 ) a mob of German tailors , se veral hundred strong , being on a strike for higher wages , attacked a building where cheap work was done , and demolished the interior . The police , in attempting to arrest the ringleaders , w e re resisted . A serious battle took place , two of the tailors were killed outright , and sev er al badl y w ounded , before the mob was quelled . There has
been for the last few weeks a general organuation of tV labourers in this city , for tbe purpose of coercing their fitnployers to allow them higher wages . In most instances their demands have been complied with . The tailors say that they work sixteen hours a day , and can on / y earn from four dots , to six dols . per week , while their employers make an enormous profit on the work which tbey perform during that time . ' It is a singular circumstance that all these complaints come from the foreigners . Very few Americans have anything to do with these proceedings , except to give them particuW direction , and to make them useful in a political point of view . The
' Tribune' encourages all these complaints , and mixes up socialism with the advocacy of the rights of labour . Most of these strikers come to this country in a perfect state of destitution ; now tbey demand a division of the profits of their employers . They are so flattered by our demagogues , that their heads are easily turned , and to hear them denounce the American ' aristocrats' with barricades and dea t h i t self , reminds us of the scenes in the countries from which they have been expelled . They will proliaMy be brought to vote at the next election for candidates who will pledge themselves to favour their views , and this will be the upshot of the matter . '
The New York Tribune , ' af t er g iving the police version of the story which throws the blame upon the tailors , g ives tha t supp lied by its' Labour Reporter' as follows : — ' Our reporter learned last evening that a committee of German tailors , went on a visit to Bloomingdale yesterday afternoon , to get such tailors as . had not joined tbe German society t o do so , as it was rumoured two ' sub-contractors ' on Southfirn work were dealing out coats at less than the rates . This committee was met by a
strong detachment of police and other persons , who attacked the tailors , killing two of them , dangerously wounding others ; twent < -five arrests were made ; some of the wounded men were taken to the station and Hillenbrand ' s Hotel , where the society usually meet . It is said that on the assembly of these tailors an alarm of fire was raised , and a large body of firemen entered a' factory' shop and took out the 150 coats to be made at low wages , which was the cause of the dispute . '
The tailors are going to demand a strict investigation of this matter from the authorities as early as possible , and both the American and German Societies adjourned early , to meet at an early hour this morning . As usual there are hundreds of statements about this matter , and the truth can only be known af t er the trial . The tailors were not armed , which explains , as they say , for the few police hurt , to whom they intended to do no violence . The clothes were taken to the Tombs . We leave the whole matter without coramfnt .
The prospects of the cotton crop are decidedly unfavourable—the plant is from two to four weeks later than it wgs last season—tbe recent , fine wea . ther has caused it to grow luxuriantly but tendernot in condition to withstand a droug h t of heavy rains , and poorly adapted to meet a frost at any time during the mouth of October . Accounts from Georgia state that ' rain is much needed for cotton , and it is beginning to dry up , scorched considerably . ' Corn , on the contrary , appears to bs doing well , and there does not appear to be a doubt that the cereal crops will he great and of good quality .
The s t « te of Nor t h Carolina , long a Whi g sta t e , has been carried by the Democrats . This is the result of the abolition movements made by some ol the Whig leaders at Washington .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 24, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24081850/page/2/
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