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      . ; .. _ " . " .. FRANCE . : j The 11 th light infantry regiment , under orders for ] Algeria , met with a dreadful accident on the lfiftj instant , hear Augers , part of a battalion having ; heen precipitated into the Loire by the breaking down of a wire suspension bridge . The following farther particulars are given by the * Journal de Maine et Loire ' : — « A fri ghtful event has just occurred here . We write under the strongest feelings of distress . At eleven o ' clock this morning a squadron of hussars , coming from Nantes , had crossed over the suspension bridge of , the Basse Maine , without any accident , although the wind blew very heavily from the west and tbe

      river was very agitated . The last of the horses had scarcely crossed the bridge than the head of the column of the third battalion of the 11 th Light Infantry appeared on the other side . Reiterated warnings were given to tbe troops to break into sections , as is usually done , hut the rain falling heavily at the time , it was disregarded , and the battalion advanced in close column . The head of the battalion had reached the opposite side , the pioneers , the drummers , and a part of the band were off the hridge , when a horrible crash was heard ; the castiron columns of the right bank suddenly gave way , crushing beneath them tbe rear of the 4 th company , which , with tbe flank company , had not entered on

      the bridge . To describe the frightful spectacle and the cries of despair which were raised , is impossible ; the scene at the hridge of Beresinacan alone give an idea of it . The whole town rushed to the spot to give assis t ance . In spite of the storm which was raging , all the boats that could be got were launched to pick up the soldiers in the river , and a great number who were clinging to the parapets of the bridge , or who were kept afloat by their knapsacks , were immediately got out . The greater number of them were , however , found to be wounded by the bayonets , cr by the fragments of the hridge falling on them . Every one on the spot vied with each other in rendering assistance , and as the soldiers were got out they were led into the

      houses adjoining , and every assistance given . Those who were teo much injured to walk were placed on litters . All the authorities of the town , the troops in the garrison , and the officers and soldiers who nad escaped injury , had only one idea—that of rendering a'l the assistance in their power . A young lieutenant of the 11 th , M . Loup , rendered himself conspicuous for his heroic exertions ; and a youug workwoman , at the imminent danger of her life , jumped into the water , and saved the life of an officer who was just sinking , ft is impossible for us at this moment to estimate the number of lives that have been lost . Of those that escaped with their lives , there is scarcely one but has received wounds from the bayonets of his comrades . Several acts of devotion deserve to be mentioned . A

      journeyman hatter , named Turgis , who had acquired some notoriety iu the late political trials , stripped and jumped into the river , and , by his strength and skill in swimming , saved a great many lives . One of the soldiers , who had reached the shore unhurt , immediately stripped , and swam to the assistance of his comrades . ' The ' Precarseur de l'Onest / a paper of Angers , says on the 17 tb , the day succeeding the disaster , that the muster-roll of the battalion was called at

      ten in the morning in the court of the Academy , and that there were 219 soldiers missing , whose fate was unknown . Add to this that thirty-three bodies are lying in the hospital , which have been identified , and thirty wounded . Therefore the loss of the battalion amounts to 282 men , of whom there is every reason to believe that few survive beside the thirty ahead ? mentioned . It is . hoped , however , that many are lying in private dwellings ' still alive ..

      Military Demonstration . — It was at this very town of Angers that , a few days previously , another battalion of the same regiment had given way to a democratic demonstration , which is thus described in a local journal , the ' Journal de Maine et Loire * . —A battalion of the 11 th light infantry , en route horn Rennes to Toulon , entered our town on Sunday morning , the 7 th inst . A certain number of our democrats went to meet them . Tbe battalion was placed in barracks at St . Nicholas , at tbe extremity of one of our faubourgs . The soldiers were waited for on leaving their quarters , and a party of them were taken into

      the neighbouring wine shops . After drinking and singing for some time , they came out and continued their noiss on the outside . After the Girondins came . the Marseillaise and the Montagnards , accompanied with acclamations in favour of the democratic republic . Several passers by were struck and insulted . On the day following the same scenes were repeated until the moment for departure arrivrd , and the sound of the drums recalled the soldiers to their duty . When the regiment marched from the p lace , some of the demo crats accompanied it part of the way , raising cries of « Vive la Republique » Vive les democrats du lime Leger . *

      A scene of the same descriptien as tbat above narrated took place at Cahors , in the department of the Lot . Some non-commissiuned officers of the depot battalion of the 58 th , in garrison at that place , and others belonging to a battalion of the 44 th , passing through the town , assembled as usual to take a fraternal glass together . After copious librations , thev began to sing the ' Marseillaise , ' and various socialist songs . They were on their iness singing , when the commissary of police having interfered to put an end to the tumult , which had already drawn together a considerable crowd , they positively refused to obey his injunctions . He wished to arrest the most riotous among them , when he was grossly insulted , and swords were drawn . Several cries of * Vive la R ° pnblique Dimocratiqueet Sociale 1 ' were raised .

      The ' Courrier du Lot' states that when M . Jaffus , the commissary of police , went to the cafe , where the tumultuous proceedings were going on , and on the outside of which a considerable crowd had assembled , he found several sub-officers of the 58 ih ; two of them were standing on chairs singing seditious songs , the choruses of which were repeated by abjut fifty others of that regiment and the 44 th with great animation . As soon as he could obtain a hearing , the commissary requested that an end might be put to the noise , and observed that soldiers , particularly those who held a certain rank , ought not to set an e xample of disorder . To this the sub-officers of the 58 th replied that they would sing , and that it was no business of his ; whilst those of the 44 th replied in more respectful terms , and withdrew . Three sub-officers of the

      58 th raise-l seditious cries in passing before the commissary of police , and a serjeant made use of the fol ' awing insulting expressions , ' It is infamous that lhat canaille of a commissary of police should have prevented our singing , when we are under a republic . ' The sergsant was placed in the hands of the police authorities , but immediately afterwards four individuals of the town endeavoured to prevent his being taken to the Hotel de Ville . Seeing that they could not succeed in their purpose , they ran off to fetch some sub-officers , who came with sabres in their hands . One of them , a serjeantmajer , attempted to strike the commissary of police with his sabre , but his blow was parried by a garde champetre , and the commissary of police , in order to avoid bloodshed , told his agents to release the sergeant , and on the following day he and another were placed under arrest .

      The Socialist electoral meetings which were announced for Wednesday night , at the Salle Valentino and the passage Jouffroy , did not take place , notice having been served on the proprietors of those establishments from the Prefecture of Police not to open ihem for that purpose . The following address , by M . Eugene Sue , to the democratic Socialists of the department of the Seine , published in the journals of that party : * Citizens , —la presence of . tbe name of the venerable Dupont de l'Eure , presented io the electors as the affirmaticn and the consecration of the republic and of the revolution of February , I at first refused the candidatei-hip . Your delegates did me the honour of proposing me to your choice because they thought that my name might rally to it all the

      shades of the republican party . I accept this mandate as a duty , and I accept it with gratitude . If yon consider me worthy of representing , yon , my patriotism and my devotedness will be equal to the mission which you will confide to me . One remark on my past life . There are men who are happy enough to meet with truth at the first outset , instead of having to pass through error ; others less fortunate , and I am of that number , have to contend agamst the prejudicea of their epoch , against the influency the midst of which « hey have lived , and * rrjve at the knowled ge of true social principles only with time , and by study and experience . This is the reason why , twenty years ago , wnen I made my debut a ft writer , I misunderstood the principles to which I was at a later period to derate my tite-tbe

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      principles which I have since propagated and defended in my numerous works . IMu . 'WiHrrender me tbe justice to say tbat it is *' -neither , calculation nor ambition ^ whichhas ^ dictkted ' imy' -coniim Di ' i * have not ; wVdU ^ -for « hefmoi & W : ^ tli « ttny ^ to pass into'the ranks of the demb ^ Vicisociatists . As demooatf l ! profw fo t the rep > W ^ ^ X sal suffrage -ire-above thecatirice'orim ?;^" !' l ^ majority has no gore ' the right . to . alienate . the sovereignty of the people than man has a nghUo t iffi & S * . and put fo ^ h in theinownmanne the ' abstract principles of social scienc I ^ e to part fl hit end *

      Sed ^ ^ another , e . S ' to Unlarise -- thB : geneni » ^ f »?^ 8 , n ' Ind what here was practical in each-school . I am rsocialS from my heart , because I bavs wtnessed the cruel sufferings and the manly virtues of the people ; because I have seen tbe artisan and the peasant in want of bread in . oonsequenceof want of employment-existing with difficulty , they and their wives and children , on insufficient and uncertain wages ; because I have seen the old man , worn out with age and lahour , die without a plaoe of refuge in the most frightful misery i because 1 have seen the agriculturist , manufacturer , and tradesman ruined , and their families in despair , in consequence

      of the bad organisation of credit . I am a socialist from reason , because I am convinced of the insuffi . ciency of charity , of alms-giving , and of all palliative measures j it is necessary to destroy pauperism in the very bud , and to solve at any cost the fearful problem of misery . In the constitution of 1848 ; to which all good citizens should attach themselves , there is an article which contains in embryo the greater number of the ameliorations now claimed by the socialists ; I allude to Art . 13 . This article is conceived as follows : — ' The constitution guarantees to . the citizens liberty of work and industry . Society favours and encourages the development of work , by gratuitous primary instruction , professional education

      equality of relations between the master and work * man , institutions of foresight and credit , agricultural institutions , voluntary associations , and the establishment by the state , by departments and communes , of public works calculated to occupy unemployed arms ; society furnishes assistance to abandoned children , to the infirm , to the aged , without resource , to whom their families can afford no aid . That article , if executed in good faith and on a broad scale , guarantees to every one employment , education , and credit ; and , consequently , comfort , independence , and security both for the present and the

      fatare ; that article faithfully executed renders a !) social reforms possible , and may put an end for ever to the era of violent revolutions . Poor people and bourgeois , farmers , manufacturers , soldiers , and tradesmen , all children of the same family , we are bound to one another , if not in prosperity , at least in distress and misfortune . The future will idemnify us for the present—peace , conciliation , hope , oblivion of fratricidal struggles—for the country equally deplores all the children it has lost . < The enemies of the republic alone profit by our divisions : let ua unite ; let us labour in concert for our common happiness and for the consolidation of the republic '

      ' April 19 th , 1850 . Eugene Sue . , Saturday . —Everything is coloured by the excitement of the approaching election . The walls are covered with electioneering placards ; the newspapers are headed with the names and characteristics of their respective candidates . A much greater show of union and enthusiasm is made by the moderates in their support of Leclere , than by their adversaries in favour of Eugene Sue . But this is the result of art . The ' Voix du - People' of this morning denies the trait of heroism upon which the candidacy is founded , and details the real facts , or what it alleges to be sneb , in terms so circumstantial that the whole story , until presented in some more authentic shape , must be considered as highly embellished .

      The debate which took place m the Assembly yesterday was highly important . The Assembly adopted the principle of transportation for political offences . The place of transportation is to be the Valley of Waithau , in the Marquesas Islands . The ' Voix du Peuple' was seized yesterday at the Post-office , and in its offices , for having published au article signed Proudhon , entitled * Election of 28 th April—To tbe Bourgeeise , ' and referring also to tbe catastrophe at Angers . The responsible editor of the paper and the author of the article are to he prosecuted—\ . For exciting to hatred and contempt of the republic ; 2 . For exciting citizens to hatred of each other ; 3 . For excitations to the

      soldiers with the view of seducing therc from their military duties , and from the obedience they owe to their chiefs . The following is the article : — ' Will yen vote for civil war or for concord ? Civil war ? But who , then , would wage it for you ? Where would you find an array ? Who would ba your soldiers ? The army 1 here it is , made Socialist from the first io the last man . The army J it has received its democratic baptism in the waters of the Maine . A battalion of this young and brave army has been swallowed up , because it was being sent to Africa ; because , in order to go to Africa , it was made to fO round about ; because , this circuitous route had for pretext to withdraw it from the fraternal salutations of the republicans of Angers . God forbid that we should accuse the men in power of an atrocious perfidy ! They bitterly deplore , we are

      well aware , this frightful catastrophe ! But is it less true , that blindness in political matters engenders misfortune , and that the misfortune which occurs to a government is always attributed to it as a crime ? The Catholic church hasits legend of the forty martyrs ; they were forty Christian soldiersi whom the imperial reaction caused to perish by exposing them naked during the night in a frozen pool of water . Socialism will also have its legend , not of forty , but of four hundred martyrs ; there is progress in all things . They are four hundred young soldiers , whom the royalist reaction desired to punish , by a severe campaign , for their devotedness to the republic , and who lost their lives , marching in serried columns over the fragile bridge over the Maine . Is this enough of b ! ood ?—enough of dead bodies ? Is there stilll wanting a , supplemeat to the hecatombs of June . ' '

      Sunday . —In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-day tbe debate was resumed upon tbe remaining clauses of the transportation bill . The amendment proposed by M . Favreau was to restore Article 6 of the government bill , which had been expunged by the committee . This article conlaned an explicit declaration that the penal statute should not be retroactive . M . Savatu Laroehe supported the amendment of M . Favreau , proposing , however , to leave the con . victs the right of demanding transportation to Nonkahion , in case they preferred that island . M . de Vatimesnil maintained that the legislature ought not

      to interfere in the question , the solution of which belonged exclusively to the judicial power , He showed that the spirit of the amendment was retrospective . M . Baroche adhered to the arguments of M . Vatimesnil . and declared that the government would apply the law to persons already condemed if the Assembly did not decide expressly the contrary . He wanted an explicit declaration of the Assembly on this point . This statement of the Minister of tbe Interior produced a marked sensation , and was favourably received by the Right . In the midst of the movement produced by the declaration of M . Baroche , M . Odillon Barrot ascended the tribune and spoke against the retroactive proposition .

      The silting , protracted to eight o ' clock , was marked by a result of high importance . The retroactivity of the Transportation Bill was r jected by a majority of 6 i in a house of 666 . Thus , ministers who had set their hearts upon applying to the prisoners condemned by tbe High Court of Bourges and Versailles the new statute in all its severity , were defeated of their malignant intention by a large majority . ¦ M . Proudhon has been transferred to Doullens , for which place be set out yesterday morning accompanied by the two agents of police . All tbe newspapers of Angers were seized on Saturday , for the accounts they gave of the disasters of the 16 th inst .

      The number missing from the battalion ofthe lltb ; which was precipitated into the Main is 219 . 181 were interred on the 19 th iu the same grave . The number of wounded is fifty-seven . The river is dragged to discover the bodies of the remaining thirty-eight . The . only civilians who perished were two agents of the police , who were stationed on the bridge at the moment . Two sergeants of the 63 rd of tie Line at Wissenbourg , Alsace , paraded the streets of that town on the 15 th , shouting for the Democratic Socialist Republic , and carrying a red flag . The Mayor tried to arrest them , but was ill-treated .. They were how . ever at length arrested and conducted to prison . One of the sergeants had been formerly in the Garde Mobile .

      General Cas ' . ellane , on his arrival at Tours , bad expressed a wish to review the National Guards , and requested the Prefect to me . instructions to

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      that effect to the Colonel . The Prefect , however , having been informed tbat some of ^ the National Guards intended to avail themselves of ; the occasion to manifest their Socialist opinions byJcries in favour of the Democratic and Socialist BeBUbliC , thought proper to countermand th ' e . ; review , which was to have taken place simultaneously r with S that > of tbe troops of the garrison-. This measure ; excited the displeasure of the National Guard , " and the colonel and all the officers immediately tendered their resignation to the Prefect . . ; ' v , The 25 th Regiment of the Line is about to leave the garrison of Paris . The ' Presse' says ,. within the last fifteen days eleven privates of that regiment have been transported to Africa for holding democratic opinions . .- p ™ w ^ ZwxJ

      The ' National' states that the corps of Sapeurs Pompiers ( firemen ) of Paris are to be disbanded , in consequence of their Republican opinions . M . Emile Olivia , former Commissary of the Provisional government , and sucsequentlj , Prefect of the Boucb . es du Rhone and of the Haute Mame , was tried before the assize court of Draguigaan on the 13 th instant , for having opened a political club without permission . He was acquitted by the jury- ' . . . _ .... .

      Yesterday au order was Issued by-the Prefect of Police , that no evening papers should be sold in the streets of Paris , ' , excepting the government papers , the'Patrie' and the 'Moniteur du ... Soir . ' The consequence is , that the 'Evenement / the ' Estafette , ' and , I believe , the 'Gazette de France , ' are no longer to be procured . Intimation has been given to all those who sell papers , ' that if they should contravene the new order they will be deprived of their licences .

      Monday . —In the sitting of the Legislative Assembly this afternoon , the members of the cabinet appeared as usual on their bench . The debate was resumed on the Transportation Bill . M . Savatier Laroehe , at the request of his party , withdrew his amendment , which proposed that offenders convicted before the passing of iffe law should suffer transportation , if they preferred it , to their present punishment . ; ; , M . Pierre Lwoux proposed ah amendment allowing the families of transported convicts to follow . <

      M . Rodat ; the-reporter , said that in ( act the fannies might follow ; but to consign this" permission in a clause . of the act might cause serious embarrassment to the government and to the penal colony . M . Heurtier proposed an analogous amendment . M . Rouher , Minister of Justice , opposed the amendment , and demanded for the government entire liberty to decide upon what would be proper to do in such cases . M . de Lamartine then ascended the tribune , and supported the amendment on the ground of humanity . ¦; Heurtier ' s amendment was rejected by 361 against 302 .

      On the invitation of the commissaries of police , a certain number of news hawkers have had to present themselves at the Prefecture of Police , to obtain a renewal of their permissions . There the new permissions given to them state that they must confine themselves to selling the * Moniteur du Soir , ' the * Patrie , ' and the « Gazette of France . ' 'We caused it to be observed , ' say several of the dealers that we ordinarily sell 100 copies of the' Evene . merit' for ten of the ' Patrie , ' five of tbe ' Moniteur , ' four of the ' Gazette , and we demanded that the ' Evenement' and the' Estafette ^ should be added to the list . But we were told that if the police found on our stalls a single number of the Evenement , '

      our permissions should be immediately withdrawn . ' M . de Girardin went at half-past ten to the woman who sits before Tortbni's , and asked for a copy of the ' Evenement . ' She said she had not the ' Evenement , ' and could not sell it . The editor of the'Presse' then demanded the presence of a sergeant de ville to take note of the _ refusal ; a crowd collected , and soon after two sergehs de ville arrived . In their presence M , de Girardin , imperatively repeated his demand , and at lengththe poor woman sold a copy of the ' Evenement . The

      sergens de ville having made some observations to M . de Girardin , he replied , ' I am Emile de Girarciin ; arrest me and take me to the Prefecture of Police . ' 'Ifyou be M . Emile de Girardin , ' . replied one of the sergens de ville , ' you must know the way to the Prefecture , and do EOt require to be taken there . ' M . de Girardin then went away crying with much excitement , ' I made Cavaignac pay drar for my eleven days' imprisonment , and I shall know bow to make those who have done this pay also . '

      On the same subject the correspondent ofthe Chronicle' says : —Last night ( Sunday ) a considerable sensation was created on the Boulevards hy the measures taken by the Prefect of -Police to prevent the sale of the' Evenement' and the . « Estaffitte , ' evening papers . All newsvendors found in possession of either of these papers , and not being the possessors of shops , bad their papers seized , and were themselves conducted to prison . The sergens de vile examined every news stall on the Boulevards , and whenever they found copies of the proscribed papers they seized them , demolished the stall , and conducted- the proprietor to the Prefecture ' of Police . The only ground for these proceedings is that the papers in question oppose the Government . The' Evenement' is edited by Mr . Victor Hugo and his son .

      The Government has received accounts from Switzerland to the effect lhat M . Mazzini refuses to quit that country , notwithstanding the reiterated orders of the government . The French Govern ment threatens that if the Swiss Government cannot enforce its orders , other powers will do so in its stead . M . Charles Blanc has been dismissed from the office of Director of the Beaux Arts . He is suceedad hy Mr . de Guizard . ' Paris , Tuesday . —Yesterday in the Assembly M . Pascal Duprat demanded leave to put _ some questions to the Minister of the Interior with regard to some alleged arbitrary acs respecting the sale of journals . The Minister was about to reply , but the House decided by a large majority that the questions should be adjourned for a month . The sitting was concluded at a quarter past six o'clock .

      The Socialist meeting which was to have taken place yesterday , in the rue Martel was prevented by the police . Several soldiers were tried yesterday before a court-martial , sitting in Paris , for haying broken their muskets . When called on for their defence , they replied they bad acted so in order to be sent to Africa . The President told them that he would not grant them a premium for crime , and sentenced them to two years' imprisonment . Count Zamoyski , whose extradition had been demanded from Turkey , for being concerned in the insurrection of Hungary , has just arrived in Paris .

      The committee of the press having settled that a tax should be imposed on newspapers , was occupied yesterday with fixing the nature of this tax . Two systems were proposed : that of the government , which proposed the re-establishment of a stamp purely and simply , the stamp to be of four centimes in first rate cities , then of two , and one in smaller towns . The other consists in the application of one post-stamp to all papers . The latter system was favoured by the majority as the only

      one which would attain the fiscal end proposed . Several proprietors and directors of papers were heard in the presence of the Minister of Justice . They wished that the Paris papers should be subjected to a stamp of not more than two centimes for the capital , and four for the banlieu and departments . The committee will take a definite re . solution'on Thursday . The debate will come on immediately after the elections . M . Chasseloup Laubat is preparing the report .

      Wednesday . —Mr . Carlier continued to wage a war of extermination against the 'Evenement , ' which he causes to be seized whenever the sergens de ville can lay hands on it . As the police cannot venture to invade private dwellings for this purpose , the vendenses take refuge in the shops of liberal tradesmen , several of whom have offered to establish depots for the sale of the : persecuted evening paper . M . Girardin declares that the ' Presse' having been singled out for extinction , he will carry on a war of resistance against the authorities , in which he will shrink from no sacrifice . ! He reduces the already low subscription to six francs for three months ; and offers to take weekl y subscriptions at ten sous ,

      ITALY . An attempt was made on the night before the Pontiff's arrival , to burn down the Palace of the Quirinal , the abode of the cardiherl triumvirate . The windows of the Palazzo Chigi were on the same night , shattered by the explosion of a grenade in the street . All persons seeking admittance to , the Vatican Palace are submitted to the strictest' scrutiny of tbe Swiss guard . Precautions are taken to secure the life of his Holiness against poison .

      ' GERMANY . Berlin . — Dr . Eiehler , a well known public character has been Jried for offences against his

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      Grace of God Kingship of ( Prussia . The chief grounds ofthe indictment were , * his having , on tbe 25 th of June , 1848 ; arranged the procession of Jthe democratic Burger Verein of Mersebnrg , in honour of the fallen heroes of the Berlin revolution , and of haying , upon that occasion , talked of the * Infamous royal family : of Prussia . ' He . ; , xwas also indicted for having resisted the arrest and "for having incited the mob to attempt his release fry force . The three offences were fully proved , a » d , having been found guilty by the jury , he was sentenced to nine months ' fortress imprisonment with loss of civil rights . ^ firace of God Kinsshin of fP » u » sia . The chief

      _ GREECSLetters from Malta of the 13 th inst . slate that the contents of letters from Sir William Parker had become known there . The affairs of Greece were described as unfavourable . Baron Gros , it 'is believed , had written to Sir W . Parker that the affairs appeared to him teo complicated to enable him to assume the responsibility , unaided , of coming to any final decision . It was also reported that a short period had been allowed to Greece to meet the demands of England , or coercive measures would be adopted anew . . RuggieroSettimo , ex-President of the insurgent Government of Sicily , now residing at Malta , was confined by severe ill ness , and little hope was ' entertained of his recovery .

      TURKEY . Constantinople , April 5 . — -The Hungarian fugitives have left Broussa . for Kutaya ( Kiuiahie . ) Previous to their departure the Magyars drew up and forwarded to the Porte a protest against this proceeding . The . Poles did not join in the protest , General Dembinski remains ,, at Broussa until his nationality shall be decided . ' Achmet Effendi ar . rived in Bucharest on the 21 st ull . The Russians do not seem seriously inclined to quit Wallachia ; notwithstanding the orders they have received , they employ all sorts of evasions in order to , remain at least , until tbe Anglo-Grecian difficulty is settled . ,

      Count Sturmer has communicated to the Turkish government a despatch from Vienna , in which the TttvUvshoote la excepted ; he at once demanded an audience for resuming 1 diplomatic intercourse : The Grand Vizier replied that the Sublime ; Porte was very happy to find the Austrian government had adopted a more conciliatory tone ; but ; that being very busy just at that moment , ' he , would inform , , the Austrian ambassador in the course , of a few days , when it would be more convenient to receive hjm . The resumption of . diplomatic intercourse may therefore be regarded as-settled ., It is left exclusively to the Turkish government to determine when the fugitives shall be liberated . ;

      . WEST / INDIES . Tornado at the Bahamas . —As the Avon West India mail packet was approaching Nassau from Havannah , on the 29 th and 30 th of March , she experienced most strange and fearful weather . The barometer fell to ah extraordinary , degree , fierce gusts of wind swept over her , and she-was deluged with rain . On arriving at Nassau , on the 31 st , it was found that a ; terrible , tornado had passed over the island the day before , and bad swept the strong bnildingsand gigentictreesfromoff the earth ; Every vessel in the harbour , although they had not a shred of canvas on , were blown down , and literally buried in the water , while tbe tornado was rushing over them . Even a new vessel that was on the slocks

      was turned completely over . Such was the extreme rapidity of the tornado in passing over the island , that from the moment it was experienced approaching , to . thfe instant it had vanished , scarcely one minute had elapsed . . In the twinkling of an eye , as it were , it bad swept over the island with a fell and fatal swoop , and had prostrated houses , devastated fields , and destroyed human life . . ; . It appears that for three , days before the tornado happened the weather bad been rainy at Nassau . The showers were , however , genial , and were doing infinite service to the soil , which was bard and thirsty . On tbe fatal Saturday , the 30 th , ' the day ' says an eye-witness , ' was ushered in dark and cloudy , and the lowering horizon menaced rain . As the day wore on the clouds thickened , and the rain about mid-day began to fall in torrents . At a quarter to one in the afternoon there was a sudden lull .

      The horizon became darker than before . The barometer fell to 29 . 74 , and suddenly there was ' as the rush of a mighty river . ' On it came in irresistible and destroying strength from the south west . Bains Town first felt Us fatal influence . A great many of the frail . bouses of the poor industrious labourers and artisans residing in that locality bent and fell beneath the prostrating blast , burying in their ruins the hale and vigorous man and the weak and tender child . The spectacle was the saddest I ever beheld ; near fifty houses must have been thrown down . Ii was over the ruins of fallen fabrics and cabins , and over the mutilated fragments of furniture viith . which the roads and paths were strewed ,, that I had to wend my , way . Lamentation and weeping reached me as I neared some prostrated dwelling . I faw the dead bodies of two men and four children and two women who had received frightful injuries . '

      Grant's Town presents a mournful' picture ; many excellent substantial buildings have been partially demolished . The ruins were apparent on every side . In many of the yards were fragments of houses that had been blown there by the wind from a distance of more than a quarter of a mile ! The north-west turret of the chief justice ' s house was hurled to the ground , which it covered with its fragments . Many of the shingles were torn off the body of the house by the force of the wind .

      The walls and fences in the neighbourhood were prostrated . The kitchen in Mr . Tyne ' s yard , and an outbuilding , were thrown down , and the eastern portion of Mr . Armbuster ' s residence received injury . Mr . Fulford ' s house in East Shirley-street , and Mr . Rigby ' s in Culmer-street , were blown down . Mrs . Fulford , with one of her children , was in her house when it fell , but escaped . In East Bay-street several other nouses , had come to the ground .

      The admiralty agent and several of the officers of the Avon went over the ruins . It app ? ars from their observations that the breadth of space swept over by the tornado was very great , but the irresis . tible power of the latter , and the shortness of its duration , were most extraordinary . A small compact building which formed a blacksmith ' s shopin fact , a mere box , built with stone and brick in the most powerful manner—was literally torn to pieces and swept away . The governor of the Bahames had a narrow escape ; he was just about to take luncheon , but delayed doing so while he finished a letter ; just at that moment the tornado came , and swept that portion of his house where his luncheon was provided away . It is twenty-six years rince Nassau was visited by the justlydreaded tornado , the dire scourge of the tropics .

      Great Fire at Trinidad . —A terrible fire took place in Port of Spain , Trinidad , on the 7 th ult ., which destroyed property to the amount of £ 12 , 000 sterling . No such fire has happened there since 1808 . Had it not been for a miracle almost , the whole of the valuable portion of the business part of the town—the substantial buildings and the immense amount of property stored in them—must have been consumed to ashes , and . many of the most prosperous merchants reduced to bankruptcy , and numberless families involved in the general beggary and ruin . The fire broke out , there is every reason to believe , accidently , at about eleven o ' clock on the night of the 7 th ult ., ' and was not got under

      before six o ' clock the following moroing . It commenced in Marine-square , between Wainri $ ht ' s and Spalding's stores . As soon as the fire was discovered the alarm bells on all the churches aud chapels rang out , and a number of engines , were drawn to the spot . A portion of the 72 nd and 2 nd regiments were soon there also to work the engines and guard the property . The police , the stipendiary magistrates , the colonial secretary , and the Attorney-General also rushed to the spot for the same purpose . Wainright ' s stores , wherein 1 , 000 barrels of flour stood , Craddock ' s and Sauvagere ' s stores , Craddock ' s hotel , and Garcia's residence were destroyed . The ordnance department with a large

      quantity of shells loaded for use , and a variety oi other ordnance stores , were at one time in great peril . The shells were conveyed away , and eighty puncheons of rum were rolled on the quay to be thrown into the sea if necessary . The lower orders of the Port of Spain behaved nobly in reidering he . sistance ; even women were seen working like the men , and many of those engaged in , the Trinidad riots , bix months ago , were seen libouring disinterestedly in removing and guarding furniture and stores , and though they had an opportunity of purloining to an immense amount , nothing was lost . As soon as the fire was visible to the shi pping in the harbour all the crews of the merchant veesels came ashore , and rendered efficient assistance .

      Ashock Oi An Earthquake Was Felt At Smyr...

      AShock oi an Earthquake was felt at Smyrna athalf-past three , a . m ., of Wednesday , the 3 rd inst , whiolrcaused the greatest alarm . Tho noise which preceded the shock is described as most terrific .

      Ashock Oi An Earthquake Was Felt At Smyr...

      CuRE . ^ oBv . THBv . vWHob ^ iNQ-couon . — "I know , " said oii ^/ ofviiajr ^ pariBfi ' ioners , " what would cure him , but--m ' appen you- wouldent believe-me : '' ' Whatsis it , Mary ?; ' Tasked . " Why , I did everything that everybody told me . One teld me to get him breathed on by a piebald horse . I took him oversuohaway , to ' a'hors ' e at , and put him uhder ^ the-horse ' s " mouth ; but he was no better . Then > I was-teld to drag him backward through a bramblehush . I did so but this didn't cure 'him . ' Last of all ; 'I was teld to give him nine fried mice , fasting , in a morning , in this way : —three the first morning ; then wait three mornings , and then give him' three more ; wait threg mornings , and then give him three move . When ho had eaten these nine fried mice he . became quite well . ; . vThis would be sure to cure your child , sir . "—Notes and Queries . Cure ., * ob ,, THB ;> WH 6 ' oBiNQ-couon . — "I know"

      A Profitable SrEcuLATipN in Manchester Goods . —One of our ' leading Brazilian houses shipped a ' quantity'of Manchester goods , some months ago , to Buenos Ayres . Finding the market closed up , and no : sale for the articles , they wore roimportod , and the shippers recently sold them , in Manchester , at a profit at twelve per cent , after paying freight and all other charges .

      Beautiful Hair. ^Whiskers. &C, Versus Balp-Ni2ss, Weak, And Grey Iiaiu.

      BEAUTIFUL HAIR . ^ WHISKERS . & c , versus BALp-NI 2 SS , WEAK , and GREY IIAIU .

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      ROSALIE CO UPELLE S celebrated . PARISIAN POMADE is universally acknowledgf d as the only efficient preparation extant for the production of Whiskers , Eye-brows , ' < fcc , in so sliorf ' a time , as six ' or eight weeks , reproducing lost hair , strengthening and curling weak hair , and checking groyneBS at any time of life , from whaterer cause arising :- It has never been known ' to fail , and will be forwarded ( free ) with full in . structions , & c , on receipt of 21 postage stamps . ' ' l'Eil'lMOSilALS , & e . Miss Young , Truro , writes : — " It has quite restored mohair , which I had lost for years . "

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      brother chartlsts ! do not be beguiled . ,. ; ' ruptures : ruptures i ruptures i DR . DEi ROOS' astonishing success in the treatment and , euro of every variety of RUPTURE is ample , proof of the unfailing , efficacy of liis discovery , v-hich niust ere long entirely banish a complaint hitherto so prevalent . All persons so afflicted should , without delay , write , or pay a visit to Dr . DE R . who may bo consulted daily from 10 till 1 ; and 4 till 8 . —( Sundays excepted . ) This remedy is perfectly free from danger , pain , or inconvenience ,, may bo used without confinement , ia applicable to male and female , of any age , aud will be sent free , with full instructions , ifcc , ifcc , rendering failure impossible on receipt' of 7 s . in cash , or by Post Office orders , payable at the Holborn office ,

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      GRAVEL , RHEUMATISM , LUMBAGO , STRICTURE . : DEBILITY , Ac .

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      Bead this , and judge for yowsclvvs . GOOD HEALTH , GOOD SPIRITS , AND I , 03 f ( LIFE , SECUltED BY THAT HIGHLY ES TEEMED fOrULAlt REMEDY , PARR'S LIFE PILLS THOMAS PARR . ' ^^^^^ Bl ! S ^^^^^^ lfe ~"""'

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      , ^ EXTRAORDINARY .. S ^ UCCESS rvr ^?^ EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OP ^ T ^ ,: ; ., REMEDY { . . . m * JfE fl Which has never been known to / ai ' Z—^ _ . or . the money returned ^^ S » t ( d rjR .., DE ::. ROOS' : CONCENT !^ V GVTTMjrimnas , in ail ins ^^ TUD speedy and permanent cure , for everv m .-7 P ^ rci arising Jrom . soUtary habits , ' youthfulVeffi Bf * "sL ! and infection , Sauch as ; gonorrhoea , synhm ! , *<* C * from neglect of improper , treatment bv „ £ ^ wj 3 cubebs , and other deadly poisons , invariahiv „ 7 ' <* Paiu the followingjorme - of secondary ' & ££$ «* in s ^ . swellings In the bones ,, joints and gl anuR d- ' ^ ' "Hs 5 blotchesandpimples . weaknes of the «' , ? er « Wi 2 disease and decay ofthe nose , sore thrn-iV' ° ? of ln . ' side , back , and loins , fistula , piles Io } : I" » ns j 3 kidneys , and bladder , gleet , stricture V ^ - ^ of S » nervous and sexual debility , loss of mem nahveak „ e such d state of drowsiness , lassitude ¦ llwi „ ' atl « l finlff ' tion of strength , as unless skilfully arre ^ tlfi ernl Pl - ^ W a miserable death ! ¦ ¦ J urros ( e d . sooujend- Iuthepreoention and removal of the f ° toms . and as a restorativo ne m ,.., i .. .., lorogoim » .. _

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      f ) N THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND \ J General character of SVI'HILUS . STRICTURES , Allections of the PROSTRA . TR GLAND , VKXEG . EM . an 4 SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , ifcc ., followed by a mild , successful and espeditious mode of trea tmen t . Thirty-first edition , Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings ott Steel . New and improved Edition , enlarged to 16 ( i pages , . just published , prict 2 s . Gd ; or by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . Cd . in postage stamps . " TIIE SILENT PRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Spmptoms , Goncrrhxa ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27041850/page/2/