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      FRANCE . It seems that the project of law on pensions io the labouring classes is creating a considerabledegree of excitement . It is stated ( says the' Siecle' ) that the President of the Republic had charged the minister of commerce and _aariculture with presenting the project of law in question to the Chamber , without informing the rest of the cabinet of the

      fact . M . Ddtnas , in order to palliate anything unusual that might be found in this conduct , communicated the project of law to the Committee on Public Assistance . Hence , great discontent of the President on the one hand , and of the ministry on the other , M . Fould , especially , being very much annoyed bv the steps taken by hi . Dumas . Hence , also , rumours of M . Fould ' _s resignation . It _^ is no _> v said that the project of law will meet with many obstacles that it will not be presented .

      Amongst the petitions , which were rejected in the Assembly , on Saturday , was one for replacing on its pedestal in the Court of Louvre , tbe statute of the Duke of Orleans . The resignation of their posts given in by M . De Lamor iciere . envoy at Vienna , inspires tbe * ConstitutioneV now the organ of the Elysee _, with the following reflections : — « The resignation of these two diplomatists may be regrettedfor the sake of cur external affairs . But does it not confirm the words of the President of the Republic , when he

      said that France did not see the influence of the elect of Dec . 10 ? Those whom he hid named as his representatives abroad did not feel that influence either ; and they considered themselves , it seems , not as the representatives of the President of the Republic , but of the ministry . The policy inculcated in . the message will change all this . Whoever will accept such functions henceforward must represent the policy of the President , and the duration of diplomatic functions may be at least as long at tbat of the presidential power , attributed by the constitution .

      There is now no mistake about the President's meaning-. He will have men devoted to his _person , and none other . This portends ill for the duration of the present ministry . The War against TnE Press . —The ' Democratic Pacifique' was on Thursday seized by the authorities , for staling that the President of the Republic had not paid his subscription of 50 , 000 f . to the ' Cites Ouvriers . " The legal charge alleged _against tbe paper is—1 st , an attack against the person of the President of tbe Republic ; and 2 tlly , excitement to hatred and contempt of the Government of the Republic .

      The responsible editor of the Socialist journal the ' _Pavsan' lias just heen condemned hy the Court of Assizes ot the Aisne to one year ' s imprisonment and 8 , 000 f . fine , and , in consf quence of its not being his first offence , the journal bas been suspended for two months . More Persecutions . —The correspondent of the Daily News' writes : —M . 3 ? . Barrot , is preparing a system of repressive laws against the spread of socialism , which I fear may have for result to fetter the press of this country still mora than it is already , but of which no exact details have as yet transpired .

      It will be remembered that the papers spoke some time since of the arrest of an _Englishman mmed Forbes , wbo had taken an active part in the Roman insurrection , and who _subsequently reached Genoa with , the other refugees . I understand that the real cause of h ' 13 arrest and detention is the charge against bim of being the bearer of letters from Mazzini to two persons , also well known in the Italian revolution , named Zam ' oianca aud Campana , and which letter , I am told , requested their co-operation in some coup de 7 _ttain . —Times .

      Duels . —Paris , Saturday . —The duel pending between M . Pierre _Uonaparte and M . de Rovigo , _tiiok place this morning with swords . The former having received several slight _wouuds , succeeded in disarming the latter . M . Bonaparte wished to _guiititme the duel with pistols , bet the seconds of M , de Rovigo refused to acceds io the proposal . Another duel took place on Sunday , in a field near the railroad station at St . Germain , between IL Pierre Bonaparte and SI . Adrien de la Valette , principal editor of the ' Assemhlee Nationale . ' This

      meeting arose out of a letter by SI . Pierre Bonaparte to II . de la Valette , on the _subj ct of an article which bad appeared in his journal , of which he was not the author , bnt of wbich he had assumed the responsibility . The terms < if the letter being considered insulting , SI . de la Valette deiaanded satisfaction of M , Bonaparte . After firing a shot each at twenty paces , the affair was declared terminated , and the parties left the ground . In _consequent of these frequent duels arising out of debates in the Assembly , it is said the Attorney General will _demand authority to

      _proseeale-Paris , Monday . — Some very important measures were introduced by the Ministers in the sitting of the Assembly to-day . The Minister of the Finances brought in a hill for the purpose of authorising the bank ef France tt , increase the circulation of its notes to 525 millions of francs . The Minister of Commerce brought in a bill for tbe establishment of a pension fund for old

      men . The Minister of War brought in a bill for tbe formation of an additional battalion of the foreign legion , into which tbe men in the six battalions of thc Garde Mobile , wbich are to be disbanded on the 31 st of December , will be allowed to enter . The Minister of Public Works brought in a bill demanding a credit of 75 , 000 " ., for the arrangement ofthe old Chamber of Deputies as a place of meeting forthe Legislative Assembly . Some difference is said to have arisen between

      ths President of the Republic an i Lord _Isormandhy _, on the subject of the recall ofthe French fleet from the _Levant . Lord Normandby , it is said , wished the President to join England ia obtaining some further concessions from Russia in favour of Turkey , which the President declined . Upon this Lord Normandby accused Prance of deserting England at the mo ment when the latter was taking a decisive attitude . This rumour requires confirmation . A number of Legitimists , assembled at a house in the Rue Runfort , were arrested on Sunday night by a body of city sergeants , supported by a company of tbe line .

      MM . Cremieux , Michel ( de Bourges , ) and Jules Favre , representatives of the people , and the other advocates engaged in the defence of the prisoners of Versailles , with the exception of M . Coralli _, and M . Henri Arman . _l , are cited to appear on the 5 th of December before the Council of Discipline of the Order of Advocates , to answer for their conduct in protesting _against tbe decision ofthe High Court and abandoning the defence of the prisoners . The Council is competent to inflict the graduated punishment of admonition , reprimand , censure , suspension , and expulsion from the Order , according to the offence committed . Paris , Wednesday . —In the Legislative Assembly yesterday tbe bill relating to coalitions , which has been so long under discusuon , was definitively adopted .

      Arrest cf Legitimists . —The 'Moniteur du Soir' of yesterday evening contains the following : — ' The police having some time since received information that unauthorised political meetings were held at No . 16 , Rue Ruraford , about ten o ' clock on Monday night several commissaries of police , accompanied by a brigade of sergeus de ville and a company of troops of the line , went to the bouse and arrested sixteen individuals . Among tbe persons

      arrested are mentioned an ex garde du corps , two police agents recently dismissed , and an ecclesiastic attached to the church of St . _Sererin . The persons arrested were taken to the prefecture , and several commissaries of police were occupied the whole night ia interrogating them . Searches were made at all their respective residences . An investigation bas been entered into , and the _whsle of the party placed at the disposal of the Procureur of ibe Republic '

      GERMANY . _HtoaABttrrsr of a _bopttob between Austria AND PRUSSIA . The main feature of intelligence from Germany is an important telegraphic despatch from Berlin Austria , it seems , has protested in the most formal manner against the meeting of the German Diet at Erfurt , and bas threatened to interfere by arms , if necessary , to prevent it . The Prussian government , on the other hand , firmly persists ia its resolution to c _nvokethe Diet in January . The oroject of law to that effect , as prepared by the Council of _Adminiat ation , fixing tbe 31 st of January far the date , and Erfurt for the place of tbe assemblv , was approved of in a Cabinet Council held at Berlin . Prussia has replied to the threat of _Aust-h by saying that she _iru brave her anger . The following is a translation ofthe celegraphicdespatch : — 'Berlin , Friday Evening , Nov . 23-* l hare just been informed , from an authentic

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      source , that Austria has addressed a formal protest against the convocation of tbe Parliament , and threatens armed intervention . Hereupon the Council of Ministers definitively _vated the electoral law for the new parliament , and then decreed an answer , in which the rights of Germany are energetically maintained , and in which it is declared that they are prepared to meet armed intervention . The answer has already been despatched . ' The ' Prussian Moniteur , ' wliich has just been issued , contains the protocal of tbe Council of Administration of the 17 th of November , decreeing the 31 st of January for the elections , for the Parliament . '

      It will he in the proportion of one for 100 . 000 souls in all large states , and that in cases where tbe remnant exceeds 50 , 000 , this remnant will he calculated as entitling the state to elect an additional member ; for example , Saxe Weimar , whose population exceeds 260 , 000 , will elect three members . All states also whose population amounts to 50 , 000 , and is less than 100 , 000 , as for instance the three Anhalts , Lnbeck , & c , will he entitled to elect one deputy each . The population is given in round numbers according to the latest census . " Same of States . Population . Deputies . Prussia 16 , 100 , 000 161

      Baden 1 , 400 , 000 14 Hesse ( Electoral ) 750 , 000 8 Hesse ( Ducal ) 860 , 000 0 Saxc Weimar 260 , 000 3 S . ixe Gotha 150 , 000 2 Saxc SIciningcn 170 , 000 2 Saxc _Altenburg . 130 , 000 1 Shwarzburg Sonderhausen 60 , 000 1 „ . lludolstadfc ... 70 , 000 1 Reuss , elder branch 34 , 000 1 „ younger 80 , 000 1 Mecklenburg Schwerin ... 530 , 000 3 „ Strelitz 100 , 000 1 Oldenburg 230 , 000 3 Anhalt Dessau 05 , 000 1

      „ Bernberg ... 50 , 000 Coethen ... 45 , 000 1 Brunswick 270 , 000 3 Hamburg 200 , 000 2 Bremen , 730 , 000 7 Lubeek 50 , 000 1 Nassau 425 , 000 4 Lippe "ffaldeck 00 , 000 1 „ Detmold ... 110 , 000 1 „ _Sehaumburg 35 , 000 1

      Total population of 26 States 22 , 9 S 0 S 8 K > 230 The population of the two _HohenzoIIerns . whose position is not yet defined , may be taken at 67 , 000 . Now . supposing the above cyphers to be tolerabl ; . correct , and that the number of deputies be returned in the proportions now fixed and given above , it shows that Prussia will be represented by 161 , and the twenty-five states , not including the HohenzoIIerns , by seventy-five _deputies , letving a preponderance of eighty-six in favour of Prussia , so that if Prussians are Prussians , and animated with the > 1 ghtest spirit of nationality , or _particularisms as it is called , it is needless to observe that the smaller

      states wonld be attached as mere appendages to the cars of the dominant power . Supposing , even , tbat Hanover aud Saxony had not withdrawn , or were to be compelled to resume their adhesion , either by their Chambers or theforce of events , the supremacy of Prussia would not be seriously affected , for the population of Hanover and Saxonv , taken at a maximum , cannot exceed 1 , 800 , 000 and 1850 . 000 respectively , which would give eighteen deputies for the former , and ninett en for the latter , or thirty _, seven for both , still leaving a majority of forty-nine in favour of Prussia .

      Prussia . —The prosecutions for publishing and ciiculaling the resolution of the section of the National Assembly after its dispersion during the state of siege , denying the right of the Braudenburgh Ministry to raise or dispose of the public taxes , was decided . The accused parties were inhabitants of ihe district of Liebeuwalde . None of the facts were denied , and the State prosecutor pressed for a verdict of guilty on the charge of attempting to excite the people to revolt against the authorities . As ihi 3 prosecution is the first of a series , the decision of the jury , which was a full acquittal of all the accused , is important .

      Hamburgh , Nov , 23 rd . —You will remember the treatment experienced by the Prussian soldiers , while marching through , here , some months ago , in consequence of which we are still _burthened with the maintenance ef a large body of Prussian troops . One of the results of those proceedings was the introduction into the convention by the senate of a bill for the purpose of punishing press offences in a more immediate and direct mode than by the law of defamation . This law first was put in force before the lower court on the 10 th ult . The editor of the ' Freyschuls' was fined fifty marks ( about £ 3 . ) wiih costs , for au article _ajainst the King of Prussia Yesterday three other actions were brought by the

      public prosecutor against the editor of the 'Opponent ' for as many articles tending to excite hatred and contempt towards tbe highest authorities of the city , and calculated to offend foreign governments in friendly relations with Hamburgh ( id est the King of Prussia . ) Dr . Gallois was the counsel for the defence in the first and second , and Dr . _Triton in the third cause . Dr . Trittan Bought to prove the truth of the allegation of bis client tbat the senate had imposed oh tbe people , for that it bad not performed its promise of introducing the constitution as fixed by the Constituent Assembly . He had for his purpose requested the court in writing to summon all the members of the association as witnesses for the defence . Before he opened his pleading the presiding judge observed that the court could not admit tbe plea of the truth of the libel , because it

      would tend to defame the honour cf the _highest authority in tbe state . Dr . Trittan said he was not prepared with any other defence , and t' t he must protest against the suppression of tb' . ruth , and by so doing denying justice to the « ccused party . As he was very much applauded by the audience , the judge ordered the court to be cleared . When the proceedings were resumed , Dr . Trittan insisted upon proving the truth , but was not allowed to do so . The President asked the defendant whether he would defend himself , but be declined , for want of legal knowledge . Two other advocates were vques ~ _= _* i to defend him . One said he would not plead befo . ? . snJa a court ; the other , that he could only follow Dr . Trittan in his defence . The public prosecutor proposed to adjourn until Monday _, next , to which the court agreed . This affair is , of course , creating a good deal of sensation .

      ITALY . ROME , Nov . 15 . —This is the anniversary of Count Rossi ' s assassination , and to-morrow that of ihe attack on the Quirinal . Some demonstration has been feared , and strong patrols parade the city after dark . All is , however , quiet , and the Pope ' s return is again announced as likely to take place before the end of the month . Tbe Roman correspondent of the ' Daily News , ' says : — ' A curious anecdote has been communicated to Hie from a town in La Marca , svhere an Austrian

      officer was billeted in a private bouse . The master of the house had a fowling-piece in his possession , aud lately shot a bare with it , offering the product of bis morning ' s sport to his Austrian guest . ' I accept yoar bare freely , ' said the officer ; but how did you kill it ? Here are the marks of fire-arms . I shall be obliged to accuse you of concealing prohibited weapons ; I regret it hut it is my duty . ' He did so , and by tbe time that the hare was ready for the officer ' s table bis unfortunate landlord was undergoing fifty bastinadoes . '

      PIEDMONT . —Letters from Turin of the 21 st ult , announce that the chambers were dissolved on that day by a Toyal proclamation , which at the same time convoked new ones . The elections will take place on the 9 ih inst ., and the new houses will meet on the 20 _ib .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . The ' Ost Deutsche Post , ' which seems to look upon the partition of Turkey as imminent , modestly urges Austria to secure the right bank of the Danube to its mouth , since it is too late to come in for any share of the spoil oa the left bank , and to encourage the disposition of Bosnia to revolt from the Porte . Vienna , Nov . 21 . —The ambition of the Servians to form a separate nationality , and to have a distinct territory assigned to them , has at length heen gratified . The last decree , which the Emperar signed before his departure for Prague , established the Servian woiwo

      deship as an independent province , with an independent Servian administration , a landtag of Us own , and all the privileges which belong to a crown laud of the empire . The banat of _Ttnieswar and the Servian districts of Rnnia and Mok , willoe included in the woiwodeship . The Emperor will be styled _grand-woiwode _, and the novernor , to which post , General Mayerhoffer is in . pointed , vice-woiwode . This measure of the eo-Ten-seat , however liberal it may appear towards the _iemaus , is a fresh and important spoliation of the kingdom of Hungary , which loses thereby the most fertile portion of its territory , emd those rich d _.

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      luvial deposits of the Save , Drave _, Danube , and Theiss , which make this region one of the most abundant corn countries in the world . Nor does the injustice 9 top here , but a considerable population of German settlers , who both as traders and farmers , and in all other respects _aie superior to the Servians , are handed over to the sway of a race whose i « noiance avid harliaiism they despise . A petition was extensively signed hy these substantial colonists , praying that they might be saved from this misfortune , hut the tyranny of the Servian functionaries prevented its circulation . The most

      considerable Servian emigration into tbe region of the new woiwodeship took place in the reign of tbe emperor Leopold I ., who in . 1690 allowed between thirty-six thousand and thirty-seven thousand Servian families of the Greek schismatic religion , under the guidance of their ' patriarch Arsenius Cernowics to settle ou the ; lands between the Save and Drave , and at the mouth of the Theiss , which 150 years of Tuikish domination had not perhaps done much . to improve . The independence of their church , free exercise of their religion , right to choose their own patriarch and woiwode _, and to have tlieir internal affairs

      administered by Servian magistrates , were privileges bestowed upon the emigrants in reward for the aid wliich they had brought against the Ottoman invaders . The peace treaties of Carlowilz and Passarawitz , which abridged the sway of the Turk still further , gave a proportionate room to the Servians to indulge their nomade propensities . The same rich soil was held hy the Daco-Roman , but neither lie nor his Servian neighbour knew how tn use this blessing of nature until Vhe German colonists came , and the abundant crops which repaid his energetic toil taught these ruder . . ' occupants to enrich themselves by imitation ' . '' ' But the warlike Magyar asserted meanwhile his 'dominion over all

      alike ; and , finally , the union of this country , with Hungary under Joseph IL , established , the undisputed supremacy of the _Maitvars , The dignity of woiwode was abolished after George lirenkowich had fallen prisoner into the hands of the Hungarians . The Servians ceased to have their affairs managed by functionaries of their own race . ' But whatever may have been their retrenchment which took place in their liberties during the period of the Magyar rule , there is no doubt that the recent Hungarian revolution would have given the Servians all they could rationally desire ; although Kossuth did not lend a very favourable ear to their claims for aft independent nationality . In fact , Kossuth was too good a

      statesman not to see the impracticability of such a scheme , and too upr ' mht a man to promise what would turn out a mere illusion . He said that he knew of no Servian territory in Hungar _^—that he only knew of a population speaking the Servian language mixed up with other races , Vallacks , Germans , _Slavonians , Magyars , who , by the concession of a Servian territory , must be subjected to the same grievance of which the Servians themselves complained ; £ nd that the system of granting separate nationalities would completely cut up and destroy the Hungarian monarchy . The present policy ' of Austria having precisely this end in view , no one can . doubt that the present boon to the Servian nationality is an effective step in the promotion of that policy .

      Numerous detachments of Honveds continue to be escorted over the Styrian . frontier of Hungary , southward _^ to Italy .. As- _KJagenfurt lies in their way and Gorgey is supposed to be no great favourite with the Hungarian soldier ? , since tlie results of the surrender at _Vilagos became apparent , fresh rumours of plots for the purpose of abridging tbat tra'tor _' s existence have latterly been spread , and whenever a company of Honved officers pass through the place , extraordinary precautions , it appears , are taken hy the authorities to secure his person against all attack .

      TURKEY AND RUSSIA . The * National Zeitung' publishes the following translation of the speech which M . Kossuth is soul to have addressed to the Hungarian refugees on the occasion of their departure from Widdin . Anything respecting Kossuth iu the Austrian papers must he received with doubt : — ' Gentlemen , —I am happy to be the hearer of the greetings and blessings of the good and glorious Sultan . ( Cheers . ) A messenger from ( he great Monarch arrived here yesterday , bringing the joyful news that the Sultan has resolved not to listen to Austria and Russia's' demands for our surrender . ( Groans . ) No _. 'the S ' tiltah has sworn by the Prophet _lliat he will protect u _^ atany hazard ,

      even at the risk of the _overthrpvv _^ pf his ' empire . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , it is now certain that we are to leave Widdin . The war for which we yearnthat war whioh alone can liberate our poor country —the war which hitherto was doubtful—it is now certain . The question of tbat war , of its outbreak , I say , is now but a question of time , and its commencement will be determined hy Fuad _Fftentli , —for such is the ohj'Ct of his mission to St . _Petersburg . My brethren ! the snn has not yet set ! there are slill some rays of light ! a nobler part remains slill for us . The Hungarian emigration is of high importance in the politics of Europe . To deserve that importance is our task—which , though difficult , is most

      glorious ! But do not fear , ray brethren , that we stand alone—as we did ; that we are disowned , as we were . No , indeed . We are held up by Turkey , by England , and by _France . Public opinion in England , in tbe Parliament and without , has , indeed , for a moment become doubtful of us . But why ? Because some of us have adopted tbe Mahometan faith . But what these men did , finds some excuse in the prevailing desire to make proselytes ; and , besides , whatever they did they did as men , not as Hungarians . As men tbey will have to bear the consequences , and not only they but also certain people in this city of Widdin who ur & ed them to this step . But that is all . A letter which I wrote to the noble

      Lord Palmerston , and the unremitting labours of an English friend ( Mrs . Thomson ) have served to place the question in its true light , and the organs of the British press , of all parties , raised their voice in our favour . Gentlemen , I am enabled to assure you that England and France are for us , and that they have declared that , allied with the Most High Porte , they will fight for the liberty and independence of our country . In consequence of these important events the Most High Porte has resolved to send the Hungarian emigrants from Widdin to Shumla . Shumla is , according to my opinion , if not the best ,

      at least the most advantageous place for the Hungarian emigration , for in the case of a war against Russia and Austria , we shall be enabled to proceed to and cross the Danube at _Bustshuk , and to reach our country , where hundreds of thousands of kind hearts and stout arms wait for us to rid the earth from the wretched remains of a bloodthirsty dynasty , which exhibits the just curse of an angry God by those atrocious deeds which in its frensied blindness it perpetrates against a poor and helpless people . Rut if Shumla were threatened—though , indeed , there is not much fear of that—there are fourteen

      British vessels in the Dardanelles , prepared to take us to England , where we are sure of a kind treatment , for Great Britain—to speak with Lord Palmerston , has not indeed orders and ribands for a murderer like Haynau ; but that noble country can admire and respect the remains of a gallant nation wbich prevailed against and shook to its foundation the firm and towering stronghold of tyranny . ( Cheers and shouts of the Turks , ' Bin jasha Kossuth ! ' ' Bin jashaDemhinski 1 ' or ' May Kossuth live a thousand years 1 ' & c . ) When silence was restored M .

      Kossuth proceeded ; I have bat a few . words to add . To prevent disorders thc Most High ' Porte wishes the emigrants to form a corps under my leadership . ( Loud cheers . ) If it is your will , gentier oen _, I consent . ( Cheers . ) But I wish for harmony aud order , for without these our corps cannot exist . That corps is to be a military institution , which I will do my best to improve . To prevent the possibility of any violence on the part of the Russians , we are to journey by land . To defray the expenses of that journey , the High Porte has sent me 241 , 000 piastres , as a Bairam ' present for the emi grants . '

      The 'Times' states that :-A long : letter has been received from a certain high personage in Constantinople respecting the quarrel between Turkey and Russia . The letter , though not of recent , date ( the 28 tb ult ., ) gives some interesting details respecting that affair . It states the intention of the Czar to demand the expulsion from the Turkish territory of not only the Hungarian _refugoes , but of others who have been for some time under the protection of the various foreign Legations at the Porte . Among them one person in particular is named , who was the agent of a distinguished and well known Polish

      _i o Jeman ofthe highest rank . The demand for his expulsion was made so far back as last year by the Russian Ambassador , and referred to the French Minister , who stated that he was ready to withdraw his protection from the person in question the moment any single fact was proved which showed he had been implicated in any acts hostile to tbe _Russian Emperor . The demand of the general expulsion of these refugees is again made , and it is said that , if not attended to , a pretext will be made of their continued residence at Constantinople for the occupation of Mo . daYia and WaUachia b y the _Mtim

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      _troons during the winter , where they will be mainled without any burden on tbe Russian treasury . The 'Daily News' gives the following from Vienna _i-Leiters of the 10 th from Constantinople Son fresh subjects of dispute between Russia and Sev i" consequence of the energy with which the Sd _diplomacy of England and France has ollowed up its victory on the refugee question . It is said that the Porte not only insists upon the evacuat _i on of the principalities of the Danube by the _Russhns but is also determined , after the expiration of the stipulated term , to withdraw those concessions in favour of Russian commerce over other nationB which at present exist .

      Withdrawal of Sib W . Parker's So . uadron From the DARDANKi . _fc' -s .-Orders have been _swi out to _Vice-Admiral Sir W . Parker , Bart ., G . C . B _., to retire from the Dardanelles with the fleet under his command , and o proceed lo Malta . — Herald .

      RENEWAL OF TEE WAR IN AFRICA . The 'Moniteur A _' gerien' of the 15 th ult . contains the following : — .,..,. u i j A courier from Zaaicha arrived at Algiers by land on the evening of the 13 th . The passage by Bathna and Setif is very long ( 150 leagues , ) especially with the precautions which have to be taken between Biskara and Bathna ; we have consequently only news to the 2 nd . At that date General Herbillon was not informed of the approach of all the remforcements which had been directed towards Zaatcha . He only expected Colonel Canrobert , and continued the siege works , whilst energetically repulsing attacks from the outside . We have tothe 30 th and 31 st of

      dav details of two affairs on October . The first day the cavalry , who operated in the interval between the oasis of Tolga and that of Parfar , was attacked by a much superior cavalry force , and numerous infantry soldiers showed _theraielves around the oases . General Herbillon immediately caused the cavalry to act , and the plain between the two oases was rapidly cleared by vigorous charges of the 3 rd Chasseurs and 3 rd Spahis . Their retreat having been followed , a second charge , as vigorous as the first , caused the most audacious assailants to bite the dust . Night arrived , and two companies of infantry sufficed to keep the eaemjr in respect . Tbe charges only cost us three , b _» _riI and three wounded . In the same day , at the trench , and in cutting down the palm trees , we had n ne wounded , two of whom were officers . On the 31 st to the

      of October , the General having returned _aame ground with his cavalry , supported by mountain mortars and three companies of infantry , to reconnoitre tbe enemy , the combat was commenced . A mass of cavalry and infantry quitted all the oases . The 200 chasseurs and spahis of the column made brilliant charges , trot am ongst the . enemy , and overthrew a great many of the chiefs . The artillery caused numerous lo « ses to the enemy . The enemy had more than fifty killed and a considerable number wounded , against three killed and seventeen wounded of our troops . After these affairs a conference took place between the Scheick EI Arab and one of the chiefs of the revolted wandering tribes who had combatted . An understanding could not be arrived at . The arrival of the expected reinforcements might , however , make these tribes , so little accustomed to such sanguinary _comba's ,

      display more conciliatory dispositions . All the reinforcements were not likely to he collected before the 12 th or 13 th ult ., so that we shall probably not have important news before the 25 _ih ult . by land , and the 27 th ult . by sea . Since the receipt of the last despatches the situation has improved hy the voluntary withdrawal of the force collected by the Marabout Si Abdel Afidh in the Auress . . We , however , attach little importance to this withdrawal , which is probably temporary ; there must be serious combats to put an en : _l to the disturbances which agitate the subdivision of Bathna .

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . We are in receipt of journals from Cape Town to the 28 th of September , six days later than those previously received . OnSaturday the 21 st a special raeetiug of the Anti Convict Association was held at eleven o ' clock . The Governor ' s answer to the letter , adapted by delay ' s meeting , was expected at 2 p . m ., but does "ot appear to have been received . It was published , along with a proclamation , declaring that the Governor would take upon himself the responsibility o f preventing the convicts from landing till he received an answer from Earl Grey to a despatch , still in the colony , in an ' Extraordinary Gazette , ' on Monday the 1 . 4 th of September .

      A meeting of thc Anti-Convict Association was held on the 25 th , at . which the following resolution was passed : —• The letter to his Excellency the Governor , adopted at a former _meeting , and his Excellency's reply is published in a ' Gazette Extraordinary ' was submitted to the meeting , and it was unanimously resolved , ' Tbat the whole bar be consulted on the question of ihe legality of sending away the Neptune raised by his Excellency . ' At both the meetings of the association ( on the

      22 tid and the 25 th ) it was unanimously resolved '"That the pledge not to hold intercourse with the Neptune or furnish supplies to the naval station or government so long as the vessel remained at the Cape , should be strictly enforced , witb the following exceptions , recapitulated by Mr , _Mtbawn on the 22 ud : ' There is an express resolution declaring that clergymen , judges , medical men , gaolers , and executioners , may perform their functions upon the convicts without coming within the pledge . '

      At the meeting on the 22 nd the following statements were made : — ' Mr . Waterraeyer stated tnat he had learned that yesterday afternoon a requisition had been sent to the navy contractor at Simon ' s Town for 750 lbs . of meat : and the answer given was , that he could not get meat himself from Cape Town . — Capt . Vanrenen said : Mr . Breaks , the victualing agent , had come up to town to-day , complaining that he could not get milk for bis' breafast , ( Laughter . )—Mr . Faure observed , he had been informed that the 6 th regiment had been ordered to draw their rations last night . It should be seen to , that these were not given to the convicts . —Mr . "Villiers stated thai ; this was not correct . The 73 rd had drawn their rations at night , according to an established arrangemeat ; the 6 th drawing theirs in the morning . '

      The governor is stated to have observed to the gentleman who waited upon him : « You will have a very bad dinner if I go without , I tell you candidly . ' The reply to this insinuation was a resolution on the part of the Cape Town Association , to instruct and encourage the rural inhabitants to withhold supplies , even though themselves and their families should be left to subsist upon the rice in the Cape Town stores . In letters from Cape Town it is stated that the governor and Commodore Wyvill were compelled , in the then state of affairs , to have bread made in their own houses .

      WEST INDIES . The Royal West India mail packet Teviot , Capt . Hewett , arrived at Southampton on Tuesday . The Teviot experienced terrific weather in the Gulf . She was unable to communicate with the shore during three days that she was off Vera Cruz , on account of the " tempestuous state of the weather . She was obliged to call at Tampico , the second time for mails , also on account of the weather . JAMAICA .-The new Revenue Bill had passed the three branches of the Legislature , and matters had _apparentl y assumed a more favourable _appearance , and there was an expectation that the business of the island would be nroceeded with .

      TRINIDAD . —• Order appears to have been restored . The flank companies of tbe 72 nd Highlanders , 150 strong , arrived at _Port-of- Spain on the 12 th of October .

      Cities Forthe Working Classes. The Feeli...

      CITIES FORTHE WORKING CLASSES . The feeling which appears to have been excited in London on the subject of improved _dwelling for the poor has found an echo in Paris . « La _Presse ' of Tuesday publishes what it justl y styles a novel list o shareholders . Ths lists contains the names cf upwards of eleven hundred persons of every rank and condition of life who have taken shares of from 25 to 1 , 000 francs each in a society called' La Soeitts da Cities Ouvrieres , ' which has for its object to build improved _lod ging-houses for the poor not only m Paris but apparently in every large city of the repubhc

      The capital of this society is to be six millions of francs of £ 240 , 000 , sterling . It is lindfr . the patronage of the President , who is said to take ahvely interest in its suecess , Its aim , says'La Presse , is to provide for the residents of our ¦ < . _£ whole 8 Gme , well . a . redlod ging 8 , atpr : cesbelowtboSe which they now pay for a single chamber in unsman _K h 0 USe J S ' The l 0 _W " i « consist of a sraa l k , _tchen and two bed chamber * , and also of a summerwi ,, _^^ _^ _«««( * hich in summer mil serve the purpose of ventilator and gardens . The ground floors will be _arranged of _whare-rooms _, shops , _aad work . room . E

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      building will be constructed to contain 40 or 50 familei , al & vatory , an establishment of _baths and an asylum hall to receive the children during the necessary absences of tbeir mothers at their avocations . The furnished rooms will be let at 6 , 8 , and lOfr . a month to the workmen and workwomen who may not have tbe means of purchasing furniture . Of this payment a portion will be appropiated to the rent of the apartment and a portion to payment for the furniture , which will , however , belong to the occupant after a certain amount has heen paid up . There will be a great ball in each building , which will be used as a general warming place . It will also be used as a place for holdings meetings in the district in which it is situated , if it be hired for .... _. ., _- . . .. aci or 501

      that purpose . In connexion with these edifices , it is also intended to establish registries of servants and work-people , so thai those who want labourers may find them , and those who desire to be hired may inscribe their names . Already one of these lodging houses is in course of construction in the seccond arrondissement , and Us exterior , though without luxury , is not wanting in a certain degree of elegance . It will be seen from this account that the lodging house scheme of Paris surpasses in many particulars anything of the kiud which bas been proposed in England . The arrangements for work-rooms , and for the care of young children ; the plan of providing decent and suitable furniture , which each

      occupant may purchase by small weekly instalments ; the arrangements of a hall , or meeting room , whereby coals and candles are saved to the tenant ; and the proposed registration ol working mrn and servants ; all these are tinmen's whieh have never entered into the plans of those who have started the lodginghouses of our metropolis and manufacturing towns-It may at first be thought tbat such arrangements would rather apply to a _higher class of working people than those whose reception is contemplated in our model lodging-houses . But the proposed rents of the apartments would appear to negative this supposition . Six , eight , and ten francs a month is surely low enough for the accommodation proposed to be provided , and scarcely too high for any workman in tolerable constant employment .

      The greatest difference , however , in the Paris projflct , from that which is in operation upon this side the Channel , consists in the mode of its organisation . In Paris the scheme is entered upon as a speculative investment ; in England , what we are doing is being done mainly by the donations ofthe charitable . The difference in the titles of the institutions indicates very forcibly the difference in the design . The " model lodging-house" certainly sounds very humble by the side of " la Cite Ouvriere . " The French , in truth , have gone a step beyond us , even as regards the principle of the plan which we projected . The " model lodging-house" of England was designed to be what its name sufficiently imports—a " model "

      to future builders of dwellings for the poor . It was designed to show those who constructed houses for the labouring men that it was quite possible to supply them with dwellings of a superior character and accommodation at rents not higher than they at present pay for unwholesome rooms , and with returns quite a * great in proportion to the capital invested . It was said , and we believe with justice , that no man was lodged more expensively than the poor man . Measuring the accommodation afforded by cubic feet it was found that the inhabitant of the Rookery paid afar higher proportion to price for his miserable room in St . Giles , than the peer paid

      for his magnificent palace in _Belgravia . It was determined to show that tbe poor could be lodged not merely at a cheaper , rate , but in a better way , for the money whicb they paid . But it was not , we believe , contemplated to de more than demonstrate this position . The task of working it out might , it was thought , be left to the natural public eompetith n . Our French neighbours , however , understanding that , in point of fact , these model lodging-houses are successful pecuniary speculations , form a company to carry them into operation on an extremely extensive scale . We believe the circumstances of Paris fully warrant this . We have not at hand the bouse

      statistics of that great city , but we know that there are domiciled in it no less than 75 , 000 workmen and 60 , 000 workwomen , besides 30 , 000 working people who reside without its walls . 'Adding to these 100 , 000 for their children , and 5 , 000 for the unclassed population , we have a total of nearly 270 , 000 souls who must be classed as the poor of the metropolis of France . It cannot but be that , out of such a population as this , wellsituatedlodgindhouses , arranged as 'La Presse' proposes , must ling tenants . Probably , however , it will he found in Pars , as it has to some extent been found in London , that the immediate effect of tbeerection of theselodging houses is to raise the standard of accommodation in their immediate vicinity . It is a natural consequence of offering a better article forthe same price ,

      that those who have been selling inferior qualities should raise the standard of their commodities . We could point to one or two instances in which the lodging-house keepers in the neighbourhood , of new model lodging-houses have improved upon the accommodation they provided very soon after the model lodging-houses were opened . And in this , we think , the great advantage of model lodging _, houses , in this country at least , will consist . To provide lodgings for all the working people of a metropolis would be impossible , but by placing a lodging-house on the new principle in any quarter in which it may be possible and advantageous so to _« o , an example will be set and an improved standard created , which , in the course of time , tenants will insist upon their landlords looking to .

      We may , therefore , take this opportunity of expressing our gratification at hearing that in such parishes as Paddington and Lambeth model lodginghouses are to be erected mainly frora the reseurces of the localities , and under the superintendence of gentlemen who take active parts in the charitable concerns of their respective districts . We are persuaded that the Bishop of London could not have done a wiser nor a better thing than to bave suggested the appropriation of the thank-offerings of last Thursday fortnight to this purpose , in cases where such offerings were not otherwise required . To raise the standard of the poor man ' s feelings , the very first thing to be accomplished is to provide

      u : _ - - _• . ! _ i . li him with a better habitation . You may elevate his tastes by providing him with means of instruction and amusement out of doors ; but no per * snanent good effect can be expected to be produced if you send him back from out-door improvement to a dirty and miserable home . The public baths and washouses , by removing one great source of discomfort to tbe working man , are doubtless doing infinite service . But we may carry measures of amelioration still further ; and one of the first means of practical improvement that presents itself is certainly to better the condition of the labourer in the abode in which he seeks repose after his long day ' s toil is done . —Express .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 1, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01121849/page/2/