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      France. The Practice Of Making A Demonst...

      FRANCE . The practice of making a demonstration at the funeral of Socialists stems to be extending . From seven thousand to eigi-t thousand brothers of the * Cioit Riusse ' at Lyons formed the mournin g cortege , on Mond a y last , of a Socialist named Matfaey , who , on his quilling the world , declined receiving the consolation of religion . His interment COBseq-ieally took place without a clergyman being in attendance . It was considered that so large an

      assemblage rendered it necessary to take precautions against any violation of the peace ; and General Castellane took his measures accordingly . The ceremony passed off tranquilly : no cries were uttered , and no speeches made . General Castellane , considering that these repeated manifestations , however peaceable they may be , are a cause of alarm to the population , ' and of much fatmte to the troops , has issued a proclamation limiting to three hundred the number of persons that can he present at any future interment .

      Further accounts from St . Amand , in the Wtevre , state that the Prefect reached the town at ei ght o ' clock in the morning , wi t h t he ' chasseura a cfceval ' and four brigades of gendarmerie . This military force , it appear * , was indispensable . The Mayor had been exposed on the 15 th to the grea-Jest danger , as also the Sub-Prefect . Tbe arrival of the troops pat an end to the disturbance ; eighteen ringleaders were forthwith arrested by order of thePrefect , and conducted to Cosue with a strong escort . Their departure-produced a great effect on tbe peop le who had corre in from the surrounding country . The informations taken on the spot by the law officers show , it is said , beyond a doubt , the existence of a plan on the part of the people to g « t op an emeute wherever the conscription was going on .

      Several more arrests have since taken place , and the number of prisoners now amounts to sixtyei ght . M . Victor Hugo ha * pledged himself to the students that , if his health permit him , he will support , in his place in the Assembly , the petition in favour of the restoration of M . Michelet to his chair ia the College de France . Another demonstration on the part of the students has taken place , and sixty-five of them hare been arres ted . Another professor had been dismissed onthe ground of denying the existence of the Supreme Bein * , & c .

      Democratic demonstrations on the occasion of tbe conscription have taken place at St . Ganvcrn , Chablis , Fleury , Liroche , Chatsaubilain , and va r iou s other p lace ? , and , in some mis l ed cases , hare been connived at by the authorities . In two other places , the elections for the municipal authorities have terminated in favour of the Socialists . The Assize Court at Toulouse baa just acquired the editor of the ' Civilisation , ' who was brought to trial for ha-jinf * written what was considered a most insulting and disrespectful article against the President ; and the editor of the ' Gazette de France' has also been acquitted on tbe same charge . These portentous warnings must show the 'friends of order * thai ' something mast be done . '

      A horrible occurrence on Saturday in the Champs El ysees , has made the gay and giddy denizens of this capital pause in their career of folly and frivolity . Whilst the gaudy tclittering throng of Carriages ia trip le ro w s wa s on Sa t urday g liding along this delightful promenade , and all was j o y and thoughtlessness , an admirably appointed equi page , rira * n b y a pair o f t h o r o ug h-bred horses , was seen driving rapidly up the saddle drive , wheuthe catiiage suddenlv stopped , a lady who was

      beautifully dressed , rushed ou t , disdaining the aid of the footman , drew a pistol from her bosnra and discharged it at her heart . This frightful event occutring in tbe broad and garish eye of day , attracted a large assemblage of p e op le , and from the depths of tbe crowd a shrill cry of despair was heard ; it Came from a gentleman , whose appearance bora evident marks of having had au altercation with a female . He rushed to the spot and found that it was his wife . Jealousy is assigned as the cause cf this dreadful act .

      The people in the provinces are becoming more and more obstreperous . The government , on Tuesday last , received accounts of a rising at Grenoble , and at Nirces there has been a tremendous outbreak . There are vast numbers of Protestants in the neighbourhood , and several of them having taken refuge in an auberge from their Popish persecu t ors , these latter assembled round the house and cried out , * Throw us those cursed Protestants out of the window , and let us cut their throats . ' There was a noisy debate in the Assembly on Monday last respecting the proposed expedition to Cabylia , in Algeria , which is , in fact , the Cape of

      Good Hope , of France . After much opposition the expedition was agreed to by a majority of 378 to 268 . A few days back , at Parignargues , when the drawing for the conscription too ! : place , the young men who drew unlucky numbers paraded through the town , displacing flags dressed out with thyme , but the Prefect of the Gird interfered and stopped the procession . At night , ban ever , thpy a <* ain appeared and , it is said , brutally assaulted several persons in the streets , wounding one man severel y wi t h an axe . Several persons have since been arrested . At St . Andre ( Ardeche ) some processions have also taken place and the cry of ' Down with all aristos , spies- and whites . '

      Amongst the documents distributed to the Assembl y was the report of M . Coquerel on M . £ . di Girardi u ' s proposition to abrogate the laws of April Win , 1832 , and of May 26 th and June 27 th , 1848—Chat is , tbe laws interdicting a residence in France to the members of the two branches of the Bourbon family and to the transported of June . The report recommends the Assembly not to entertain the proposition .

      PRUSSIA . The anniversary of ths Berlin revolution on Toesday , the 18 th , did not pass quietly . During the whole of tbe morning and afternoon the numbers of persons who p il grimagf d to the graves of those who fell on the barricade's ia 1843 , and who are buried ia the Friedricksbaiu , passed quie t ly in and ou t of the churchyard , without the slightest attempt at disturbance , or expression of ill will towards the police and military- Of both these forces large bodies were ia the imaitdiate neighbourhood . Towards evening , however , as the palice report says , less motion was observed am ? ng the visitors ; they collect'd more in laree knots , and several said to be

      dra-iken personages were seen to make themselves prominent by antics aud sneechifjins . Tbe police authorities instantly o ; dered the church yard t o be clea-sd . The mob obzyed with perfect goad humour , hat in pasaing through tbe narrow inlet through the LannsbeTS

      shoulders of the outsiders of the mob . A portion of the latter retorted with strong arguments , but ¦ were unsupported by the rest , and their resistance ended in the clutches of the police . The mass of t he peopl e s epara t ed and re t urned to t heir homes the mom ? nt they effected a passage through the gate . More than fifty persons were arrested , several of whom are said by the papers to he wounded . There can be no doubt that had the i- ) ji .-d eious aud unwarranted interference of the police not taken plae \ or had they tried the effect of Casimer Pompier ' s method of dissolving niolis hy water—the Berlin steam fiYe-enpin- ; would be ussfal—the disturbances comp lained of by the authorities would not hare occurred . But it has br-.-m asserted that tbe

      disturbances were not ha'f serious enoug h t o p lease these same amborities , and that nothing would suit the porj-tiscs of those in pnter at this moment better tfcan another opportunity of saving the state by nipping a pretended itisurr / ctiun in the bad . The good sense of the people has saved them perhaps from worse evils tban a few wound * on the backs and heads of an individual or two . Tbe public prosecutor has * app lied tothePresifait tf tie Second Chamber for permission to prosecute deputy H , rI . ori for the clients of his confiscated pamp hlet entitle , } , A Letter to Peasants and Citizens .

      Aco-her neaan of repression has been taken against th *> -fl jtng bookselhrs / as thev are called or tbe hawkers at j . arnals and pamphlets . All ie- 'ps-s of p Lj cea of public resort have been n quired by tfw circular of tbe pr aidant of the police to detail iuh persons if they come into t- eir premises , and s' -nd fnr lhd proper officers to give them into custody . The circular wiii not be obeyed by one tenth of the persons to whom it is addressed . The commission of the Second Chamber appointed to examiae the draught of a collected criminal code

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      ban concluded its labours . The task , was divided ia sections among jurists of known ! ability . They report in favour of retaining thei puuiafiment of death , m Prussia beheading , is fixed as the mode of inflicting it , except ini the ; -Rhine provinces , where the guillotine has been introduced ; .. ; Prussia ( says the Cologne Gazette' ) has yielded tbe point of the sole presidency to Austria . That paper maintains that this concession is not one of mere precedency of honour , but one that entirely nullifies the parity , even though the subordinate

      demand of Prussia with respect to the joint ad minis tration of tbe affairs of tbe Diet should be acceded to . The same journal says that it is no longer a secret that Prince Schwaizenberg has made promises to Bavaria which the Prince declares he must , under all circumstances , make good . Austria , therefore , claims for Bavaria a hi gher position in the Diet than she has yet held . Prussia rejects the demand ; but Hie interchange of , a few notes , says the ' Cologne Gazette , ' will probabl y settle this matter too to the satisfaction of Austria .

      GERMANY . The cabinet of St . Petersburgb , it is said , has addressed a note to the cabinet of Vienna , s t rong ly objecting to the entrance of the whole Austrian tymarchy into the Bund , without the consent of all the parties to the treaty of 1815 . The Austrian Ministeral papers announce that arrangements have been made with Prussia on the question of the Presidency . Austria will preside in tbe Diet , and the two Powers will share tbe Presidency of the Executive Committee .

      Our advices from Dresden are cf the 20 th inst . They g ive no hopes of a speedy settlement of the German queation with respect to the differences between Prussia and Austria . Nevertheless it is stated that the Committees continue their sittings and their labours , and that the fourth Committee in particular is on the point of comp le t ing its report on the organisation and competency of the Federal Court of Arbitration . A plenary sitting was expected to take place ia the course of the present week .

      The situation of affairs in Electoral Hesse does not appear to improve . The military tribunals continue to condemn civil functionaries and members of the Commission of the States . The attitude of the inhabitants appears to be still hostile to the government of the Elector .

      ITALY . In the northern provinces the Passatore still bids defiance to the Austrian and Papal forces , as well as tbe flying columns of gendarmes who are perp etually , in search of him . He is supposed ; how . ever , to have had a narrow escape on the first of this month , in t he nei ghbourhood of San Giuseppe , in Veltana . The gendarmes stationed at that post were informed ' that four unknown individuals bad been seen carrying arms and travelling in three of

      those light cars called oirrocciiu , against which the commissary-general of the province lately issued an edict . The gendarmes immediately set out in the direction indicated , but only came up with the supposed brigands at nightfall , when some shots were exchanged , after which ' the brigands effected their escape , leaving behind them the three birroccini and two of their horses , which were tak e n possession of b y the gendarmes . From information collected on the subject it appears positive that the Passatore himself was in une of the cars . No

      expedition of any importance has been recently undertaken b y tbe marauders , on account of the danger of betrayal to which the chiefs would be subjected , throug h t he price of 3 , 000 dollars , which has been offered by the police authorities for each of their heads ; but as this premium was onl y made payable during the space of one month , it is apprehended that at the termination of that period the bands will come out again from their mountain fastnesse s , as well as from their secret residences in the towns and villages .

      TURKEY . A letter from Constantinople , of the 6 th says : — General Dembinskt arrived here last week , from Kutayab , where he left his fellow-prisoners , expecting the arrival ef the commissary of tbe Porle and tbe agent of tbe internuncio , who were to bring the Emperor of Austria ' s amnesty . General Dembinski was perfectly well received at the French embassy . He does not , as was reported , intend to stay at Constantinople , but will embark in the next mail steamer for Paris . He has been visited hy all tbe Refugees of distinction here , both Poles and

      Italians . On the evening of his arrival a company of Refugee musicians , called Garibaldi ' s band , gave him a serenade , and at the intervals between the airs shouted' The Republic for ever 1 Down with the Aastrians ! ' in which they were joined by the crowd of Refugees . General Dembinski did not seem OVer * flatterEd b y this demonstration , and is even said to have severel y blamed it . Curiously enough , Garibaldi ' s band , after serenading General Dembinski , went to tbe Russian palace , where there was a ball , and , for the usual fee , played all ni g ht while the Russians and Austrians danced . '

      Advices from Bessarabia state that 70 , 000 Russian troops have entered that province . Advicps from Agram state that the insurrection in Bosnia is spreading with fearful rapidity .

      UNITED STATES . We have received late advices from Ameriaa up to the 12 th . There is nothing particular in the political or general advices from the United States . On tbe 21 st of January a battle was foug ht a t San Jose , which lasted for six hours , between the oppo s ing forces of Guatemala and San Salvador . The latter ( aided by Honduras ) were si gnall y defea t ed , arid the victors were about marching on San Salvador , under General Carrera , wliea our advices left .

      The ; fugitive slave law in Boston is becoming more complicated than ever . Mr . Charles G . Davis , whose case came on alter that of Mr . Elizur Wrig ht , was acquitted for want of evidence . James Scott , a coloured man , was next examined , and bound over for trial in the sum of 2 , 000 dola . Two similar cases still remain to be disposed of . Robert Morris , jun ., a coloured lawjer , and J . H . C ) burn , cl ot hes dealer , were also arrested , on a charge of aiding in tbe rescue of the slave Shadrach . On the

      o t her band , George Liiut , U . S . district attorney , has been arrested and held to bail in the sum of 10 , 000 do ' s ., on a writ brought by Burton , the coloured man recently arrested in Salem . George T . Curtis , U . S . Commissioner , and Patrick Riley , Deputy U . S . Marsha ! , have also been held for trial in 10 , 000 dols . each on charge of arresting the fug itive Shadrach , The grounds upon which these suits are broug h t are , that the fugitive slave law is unconstitutional , and that the offhers prosecuted acted without authority .

      JAMAICA . The government of the island has distributed . - £ 15 , 000 to the parishes of the island where cholera has appeared . The cholera still prevails to some extent in the interior of the inland . About six o ' clock in the morning of the 25 th of February a fire breke out in the New Town , P o r t Royal , t he p lace where formerly her Majesty ' s ships were vic t ualled , but recently used ss the coal depot . The stores , t hree in number , which were laden with coals , and the house of Mr .

      Manley , late purser in charge of the victualling depot , were burnt to the ground , and the whole mass of coals , amounting to many hundred tons was at one time in a stale of complete combustion , and defying all efforts to subdue it for nearly twelve hours . The loss ' to the government is estimated at considerably more than . £ 6 , 000 . Tbe origin cf the fire is . stated to be spontaneous combustion of some patented fuel , as the flames were first seen to issue from among the mass of that material . Every body , soldiers , sailors , and civilians , exerted themselves nobly , and eventually put a stop to the ravages of the devouring element .

      BRITISH GUIANA . Tbe files by the present mail are chiefly filled with r-ports of the proceedings of the Supreme Criminal Court for Demerara and Essequibo , a second libel case , which attracted a good deal of public attention , against G . A . M'Kidd , printer and publisher of the Coloaist' newspap .-r , firstly , for the publication , and , secondly , for the republication of an alleged scandalous and defamatory article in that journal against the Governor , in relation to the

      dis-( isral of certain tenders , in the course of last year , for the supply , of forage , saddlery , & c-, for the u-e of ihe police " force . This second case was brought toaciosf , the jury acquitted Mr . M'Kidd . The Governor had been examined in the course of the : rial ; and on this the jury returned the following veriict : — « Not GuMiy ; but we do not believe his excellency the governor had any other motive in dealing with the tenders than those stated by , him in the evidence on the trial . '

      INDIA . A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Lahore on the 31 st ult . , a previous one of lesser moment having been experienced on tbe 17 th , both here anil

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      at Moottan . Another seems to have been felt at the latter place on the 9 th ., on the same day that an euthquake cccurreAat ' and \ around ^ Calcutta ; i A shock much more violent than any of these . wasexperienced at Chittagpng , on the 7 th . ' A boat ^ was destroyed b y fire ori the Siitlej , about the 25 tb , iii which Major Clarke and Captain Sorrell , of her Majesty ' s 14 th dragoons , were descending the riverproperty to the value of £ 1 , 800 , chiefl y , g ift & ( or parlies at home , is said to have been lost in the flames , auda woman and her : child j ^ ere burnt to death . Gomra , was at Agra on tbe 8 th ; The boy Very , who murdered the poor man Knox in the icehouse , was hanged at Calcutta ; on the 30 th ult . A

      serious robbery to the extent of nearly £ 10 , 000 has been committed on tbe Oriental Bank . Notes to this amount had been put away the previous evening , and the safe containing them put into the strong room in which itwasusually kept , both , as was averred , locked up hy the native cashkeepers ; Next morning the locks were found open , and the money gone ; . as they had sustained no injury , it seems doubtful if they were ever locked ,, and suspicion attaches to those entrusted with cjosing them . Tbe numbers of the notes having been advertised ; and intimation made that they would be refused payment

      on presentation , the principal native money ' lenders from the bazaar assembled at the Bombay Bankthe Oriental has ceased to issue notes—to ascertain whether those on whom no suspicion of connexion with tbe robbery fell would , be subjected te loss by the stolen notes coming accidently into tbe r hands , as the whole of the holders of the notei of the Bank insisted on having them cashed on the instant if there was to be any risk ; and the assurance was accordingl y g iven that all notes presented by innocent holders would bs accepted . No trace as jet of the robbers has baen met with : susnicion rests on

      the native servants of the Bank . We take the following from the' Delhi Gazette ; , ' of the 29 th ult ., in reference . to tbe annexation of , a portion of the Nizam ' s dominions to the British . territories : —•* We have been informed on good autherity , that final orders were received by the last mail from the Court of Directors for , tbe immediate annexation of the Hyderabad territory . This determination of the Court has noi doubt been hastened by the inability of the Nizam to settle the debt owing to our Government , and as the ! intentions of governmen t , in the event of further delay , have been f -ir some time no secret , - the Calcutta and Bombay journals having several firms broadly hinted at the probabilitv of this denouement in the event of the

      Nizam not meeting his . engagements , it is to be hoped all will be quietly settled . We ; believe that a cer t ain time was allowed b y the government for the payment of the debt , which has now become something considerable , and according to . our contemporaries the stated period elapsed some twenty days sin c e when a letter was addressed by the Resident , callint * for immediate payment , and : the onl y rep ly vouchsafed was a call upon 'tbe Minister of Finance t o supp ly funds , which , with that easy grace peculiar t o cour t iers , they promised to do , well knowing at tbe time that their promises were , as they have always proved in this matter , made without any prospect of their being performed within the specified time .

      CHINA . The Pekia Gazette' announces the degradation , by the Emperor of Key i ng , the former Viceroy of Canton , along with another mandarin of hi gh rank at the Imperial Court , The reasons assigned arje the disposition these individuals have , shown , and the views they have expressed , with reference to ' the propriety arid policy of cultivating friendly relations with foreigners . The circumstance , if correct , affords ail indication of tbe feelings of the Emperor and bis present advisers towards foreigners .

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      The Ex-Governor Of Bagdad, Nedjib P Ac H...

      The ex-governor of Bagdad , Nedjib P ac ha , died a few bays back , at the aae of eighty-seven . He was one of the richest men in Constantinop le , one of the principal ulemas of the capital , Imam Zade , member of tbe Council of State , and leader of tbe retrograde party . He was carried off very suddenly , and was buried wi t h great pomp . The city of Levissi , in the island of Rhodes , has been destroyed by an earthquake . - From a report presented to the First Chamber in Prussia it appears that the State has guaranteed interest varying from three to five per cent , on capital invested in railways to the amount of 37 , 150 , 000 thalers . During the past tear 11 , 373 , 263 t halers have been spent by the government in assisting the construction of railways . / .

      Thursday last was the 49 th anniversary of the creation of the Legion of Honour by . the . Emperor Napoleon , and the 36 th of bis arrival in Paris from Elba . The number , of members of the Leg ion of Honour on the 30 th of November last was 51 , 706 , of whom seventy were grand crosses , 197 grand officers , 921 commanders , 4 , 496 officers . Out of the total number , ten grand crosses receive 5 , 000 f . each ; fifteen grand crosses , twenty . tliree grand officers , and twenty commanders , . receive each 2 , 000 f . ; seventeen grand crosses , fifty-one grand officers , 141 commanders , 358 ifficers , receivepacb 1 , 000 .-. ; and 16 , 427 simple members receive 250 C According to tbe law of the 15 th of May , 1850 , salaries can only be accorded with decorations to t he amoun t of 100 , 000 f ., but in time of war , and for acts of bravery in war , their limit may be exceeded . In 1850 , ninety-six nominations of this kind were

      made . It is announced that in the course of next month three grand festivals will be celebrated in Switzerland—namely , the anniversary of tbe entry of , the canton of Z-. rich into the Helvetic Confederation ; at Geneva , the lie federal , and a third festival at Berne . .- , The Baree Daab Canal , with its branches , now in process ; of , construction in India extends over a length of 450 miles ; it will water an area of above half a million of acres now barren , and supp ly occupation and support to probably a couple of millions of people . It will cost at first halfja million sterling , with a charge of £ 20 , 000 a year ''" for maintenance , yielding yearly a direct income of £ 120 , 000 , or twenty-four per cent ., with probably , tw ice as much in indirect return . The moment that this

      project was started , and p lan s ar ra n ged f o r c a rrying it out entrusted to the executive , government turned its attention to the moral and intellectual condition of t he peop le . It appeared by inquiry that there was no foundation whatever for . t he belief so generally entertained of the universality of brooding apathy and ignorance amongst the . Sibks } that iii the Lahore division , in particular , a large number . of children are at all times being instructed , and a strong desire for information prevailing amongst tbemjof which it was most important to take advantage . In the Lahore division there were frmnd to be 1 , 385 school s , with a gross attendance of 11 , 500 pupils , or on an average of about eight at each . In the city iiseif there are 28 , 692 hou s es and 143 schools , wish an attendance of -2 , 243

      pupil ? : of these sixteen are devoted to the instruction of AIaborr . edan git Is , ; and there are no fewer than 128 of these taught to read the Koran—the teachers are females . At Kussor and its neighbourhood there are 102 schnols , with 843 pupils . In Umritsir there are 15 , 206 ; hou 8 es , forty schcols , and 861 pupils ., The papulation of the , Lahore district amounts to about two and a half millions , and about one-third of a million ( 388 , 271 ) of hotli sexes are believed to he of an age fit for school : ofithese , 194 , 135 are males , of whom 11 , 500 or six perjeent ., are aheady at school—about two per cent , more receive private insiinctiosi—say el glit per cent , in all ; a state cf matters broug h t t o pass by t he Sikhs themselves , and eminentl y creditable to thus we have been accustomed to call barbarians , but still leaving amp le room for the labours of the

      schoolmaster . ' It app ? ars by a Dresden paper that there . any at present one hundred and ninety journals In Saiony , ei ghty-nine of which are political . . Amongst the latter , onl y those publish e d in the cap ital and Lei psic , and a few provincial ones , give leading arti cles ; tbe remainder contenting themselves wih a simple narration of facts . The majority of the p ' 6-litical journals follow at present a conservative

      tendency , others a constitutional one , ( in the seuie i , f the so-called Gotl-. a or Von Gagern party , ) and a few only profes : radical princi ples . The diminution in tbe nnrobpr of the last category must be ascribed ( in spite of the assertions of the ' Dresden Journal ' to tbe contrary ) to the working of the pies-law of June , 1850 . Twelve decidedl y radical , and lomothers half radical ceased since the appearance o . that law . In addition to those ex'inct radical journals , the publication of some eleven others had been

      prohibited , and a few others are liable everyday ( in consequence of the former convictions ) to incur the same fate . According to a Hamburg paper the Danish leet consists of five-ships of the line ( three of ehjbtyfour guns , one of eighty , and one of sixty-i x ;) seven frigates of from forty to fotty-eight / tins ,

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      one of sixty , and one of forty-four j four brigs of from twelve to sixteen guns ; four sloops of from twenty to twenty-two ; one barque of fourteen ; three schooners , two cutters , six steamers ( of altogether 860 horse poweri ) one screw , steamer of 260 horse power and twelve guns ; and eig hty-six small craft . ... It is stated from Toulon that the Austrian troops ia the Papal-States have received considerable reinforcements . _ ' ,

      The washerwomen of [ the Seine orf ' Saturday elected their queens by Universal Suffrage * Every washing-boat or washhouse presented its candidates ; not exceeding three in number , and from those the quoen was elected . When the queen was proclaimed , she had to make choice , of a king . and then their majesties were , invested with g ilt crowns , and sceptres of palm-leaves put in their hands , after which all the washerwomen escorted them in triumph to their respective quarters . The procession was accompanied by a band of music , and in the evening there was a grand banquet and . ball . Tbe queens were in every case handsome women .

      Explosion Of An American Steamer — Cinci...

      Explosion of an American Steamer — Cincinnati , March 7 tb . - ; The steamer Oregon , bound down from Louisville , while passing through the sliute of island No . 82 , at one p . m . on the 2 nd inst ., burst her boiler , with a tremendous report , carrying away the forward cabin and upper deck , and killinj * and wounding sixty persons . She was heavily . laden , and bad from eighty to 100 passengers , who had juit finished dinner , and were mostly collected in the hall and on the forward guards , at the time . She took fire after the explosion and burnt to the water ' s edge , and being in the channt-1 and under way would have consumed all those on board but for the assistance of the Iroquois , which was wooding within a mile of the Oregon . Upon

      seeing the explosion Captain Lee , of the Iroquois , gave orders to go to the relief of the Oregon . But few minutes elapsed before she was alongside the Oregon . The flames bad just burst through the hurricane roof .. Men , women , and children were collected together on the afterpart of tbe boat , without the means of . getting away : but by jumping into the river . The shrieks of tbe women , the trenzy of the men , ready to leap overboard -to avoid the more horrible death by fire , and the groans of the scalded and d y ing , and the piteous-lowing " of the cattle , baffle description . ; . Captain Lee ran to the bow of the Irqiiois aft of the Oregon ; and ladders being placed from tbe upper deck of the Oregon to the lower deck of the Iroquois , all on board the burning

      vessel , who were able to walk , got off , the Iroquois b ' einijall the time in great danger of taking fire . Captain Montgomery was the last man to leave the wreck , which be did just as the Iroquois was backing away . fhe parting of the boats caused the ladder t o fall , and precipitated Captain Montgomery into the river , from which he was rescued , but with several bruises . The clerk ' s office was en t irel y blown away , together with the books and papers of the boat . George Brown , ' first clerk ' , was in ' the office at the time of the explosion , and «* -as killed . The waiters in tho cabin were at dinner , arid all were killed except the steward . Eight white firemen were killed . It is' impossible to give a correct idea of tile loss of life , nothing having been left whereby

      to ascertain names . The floor of the Iroquois presented an awful sight . Trie Oregon was scuttled , but it proved useless , as the burning of the upper works caused her to rise faster than the holes A-ould allow the introduction of water to sink her . The steamer Bulletin came upsooii after the accident occurred , and endeavoured to extinguish the flames bymeans of her engines , ' which , however , proved abortive . The passengers of the Bulletin afforded much aid , and remain ed" aboard ; the Iroquois until they reached . Memphis , when the sufferers were taken to the hosp i t al , many of them in the agonies of death . The Iroquois had on board twenty-five of the scalded , eleven ' of "horn died before reaching Memphis . —iVeui York Herald .

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      : TOOTHACHE PREVENTED .

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      CURES FOR THE UNCUltED ! HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , orKhig ' t ¦ Evil . Extract of a letter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1350 . Sib , —My eldest son , when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neek , which after a short time-broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , andprescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , aud a third under tho eye , be . sides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital

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      AN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND ) J General character of SYl'IULUS , STRICTURES . Affeet . on . ssf the PROSTRATE GLAiYi ) , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and boilv , Mercurial excitement , Ac , followed by amild , successful and expeditious mode of treatment .

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      IMME . VSE SUCCESS OF . TIIE SEW JiCDE OF TREATMENT . ** 0 , 211 CURES LAST YEAR !!' . As adopted by Lallemandi Ricord , Dc s l a ndu , and other s , of the Hopital des Venericns a Paris , a , \ d , Mf uniformly practised in this country by

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 29, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29031851/page/2/