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      0 * THE NORTHERN , STAR , _- ; _,. ; May 18 , 1850 .

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      FRANCE . la our last number we announced the introduction of the bill prepared for the - DESTRUCTION OF UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE . The following is the text of the bill itself : — Art ; 1 . In the twelve days which follow the promitigation of the present law the electoral list shall he drawn up in each commune by the mayor . Art . 2 . It shall comprise by alphabetical order : — 1 . All Frenchmen twenty-one years of age , in the enjoyment of their civil and political rights , and residing in the same commune for three years at least . 2 . Those persons who not yet having attained , when the list shall be drawn up , the conditions of age and domicile , - shall attain them before the list shall be definitively closed .

      Art . 3 . The electoral domicile shall be determined and proved : — 1 . By inscription on the list of personal tar . 2 . By the declaration of the father or mother in what concerns sons who , being of age , reside in the paternal house , and who , by app lication of Art .-12 , of April 21 , 1832 , have not been set down on the lists of personal taxes . 3 f . By tbe declaration of masters in what concerns servants or persons working habitually in the same house with them . . . 4 . By the exercise of public functions in a determined locality . 5 . By the presence in the army or navy .

      Art- 4 . The declaration of the fathers , mothers , or masters shall be made in writing on forms delivered gratuitously . This declaration shall be given to the mayor , and renewed each year from December

      lto 3 l . The fathers , mothers , and masters , who cannot make their declaration in writing , are to present themselves with two witnesses , resident in the commur . -, before the mayor , to make their declaration . Every false declaration shall be subject to a fine of from 100 f . to 2 , 000 l ' ., and an imprisonment of from six months to two years , and tbe interdiction to vote or to be elected during five years at least and ten years at most . Art . 5 . Whoever shall leave the commune on the list of which he is inscribed shall continue to be borne on that list for three years , with the condition of justifying , in the manner stated in Art . 3 of the present law , his domicile in the commune where he _shsii have fixed his new residence .

      Art . 6 . Shall not he inscribed on the electoral list —1 st . The persons mentioned in Arts . I , 2 . 3 , 5 , 6 , 7 , and 8 of the law of March 15 th , 1849 . 2 nd . The individuals mentioned in Art . 4 of the same law , whatever may be the length of the time for which they have been imprisoned . 3 rd . Persons , such as emriers , avocats _, & c , who have been condemned for illegal acts . 4 th . The persons guilty of violeuce to public agents , or of offences against the law , or _rioiinjt , or in clubs or secret societies . Art . 7 . Soldiers shall continue to he distributed in each locality in sections . - Their bulletins shall be collected and sent to the chief town of the department in a sealed packet , and inked up with the votes given in the sections of the _ehisf towns .

      Art . 8 . No person can be elected on the first ballot , if he has not obtained a number of votes equal to the fourth of the electors inscribed on tbe tablets of tbe lists of the department , and one half , plus one , of all the others . On the second ballot , which is to take place the second Sunday after the proclamation of tbe result of the first ballot , no person can be elected if he shall not have obtained a fourth part of the electors inscribed by the relative majority . On the third ballot , which is to take _, _placs the fourth Sunday after the day of the proclamation of the result of the second ballot , the election shall take place by a relative majority only , whatever may he the number of votes obtained .

      Alt . 9 . In case of vacancy from resignation , _iealh , or ether cause , the electoral college which is to fill lip the vacancy is to meet at a distance of six mouth ? . Art . 10 . In case the _totviss where the contingent personnel et molUier is paid in part or wholly from tbe municipal funds , the list of ihe tax payers for personal taxes , drawn up by the collector and his assistants , and which serves to determine the sum to he paid by the commune , shall be each year submitted to the municipal council . The inscription on the list of the tax payers shall he equivalent to that of the _personal taxation .

      _Tkansitort Article . —For the preparation of the electoral lists , drawn up in virtue of the present hill for tbe year 1850 , all tbe _reculations prescribed by the law of March 15 th , 1849 , in what regards delays and representations , shall be observed , and the lists shall be closed three months after the promulgation of the bill . The declarations spoken of by Art . 3 shall be made vritlin twenty days after the promulgation . Every individual who shall not have three years' residence in the commune where he shall happen to reside at the moment of the promulgation of tbe bill shall be inscribed in the electoral list of the commune where he previously resided , if he can prove three years ' residence in conformity with Art . 3 .

      The annual revision of tbe lists for the other years shall be made at the periods and according to the rules determined by Title 2 of the law of March 15 , 1849 . Tiie provisions of tbe law of March 15 , 1849 , shall continue in force for the elections of Algeria and the colonies until the promulgation of the organic laws spoken of in Art . 109 of the Constitution . The ' urgency' of the Bill was voted by an immense majority . —The division list , published by the ' Moniteur , ' puts us in possession of the names of those members who consider the bill as a violation of the constitution , for this must he regarded as the meaning of the votes of the minority . The number of this minority , only three short of 200 , and tbe _pressnee of Genera ! Cavaignac among them , prove that the uncompromising opponents of the

      hill want neither strength nor authority . The declared blame of the measure by M . Gustave de Beaumont , who nevertheless voted on the side of the majority , shows that important alterations will he proposed by a section of the tiers-parti . On the other hand , the decided praise awarded to the project by the 'Ordre' has led many to believe that Odillon Barrot will waive ail opposition . Neither Lamarline nor Victor Hugo voted , nor dees the name of _Larochejaqueliu appear in the division . Lamoriciere voted with the government on the previous question , and with the opposition on the urgency . A look of surprise and umbrage was visible along the benches of the Right , when Cavaignac , Lamoriciere , Bixio , Dufournel , and other members of the Constitutional Club rose up with the Mountain to vote against the urgency .

      The _'Voix _du People , ' published on Friday morning in large type , the names of tbe _committee 6 f the seventeen at the head of its number with this introduction : * It is important for Francs to know the names of those seventeen members of the royalist committee of public safety , who have governed the country for two years , and have just revealed publicly their sinister power in proposing the violation of the constitution , and the confiscation of universal suffrage . The new cry of the democrats is ' _oragnhalion of refusal to pay the taxes . '

      Two cases , writes the correspondent of the ! « Chronicle , ' were decided in the Paris tribunals on ' "Wednesday week , which afforded a curious exemplification of tho manner in which justice 13 administered under a Republican government . The first was that of M . Laugrand _, the editor of the « Voix du Peuple , ' who was brought before the Court of Assizes of the Seine , for an article in which he chose to make some sharp , and not at all untrue , strictures on M . Fould ' s financial scheme . The article was entitled _« Budget for 1851 . ' An attack , however legitimate , on a Minister of Finances , ¦ was not to be passed over . The jary found M . Laugrand guilty ( by default ) of * excitation to hatred

      andcontempt of the government of tbe Republic ;' and the court sentenced him to two years' imprison _, ment , and a fine of 4 , 000 francs . The other case was before the correctional police . The action was brought by M , Bareste _, a tailor , against M . Chenu , the notorious author of 'Lss Conspirateurs . ' M . Bareste charged M . Chenu with having accused him in his book of having asked tbe provisional government for two bombs and other combustables for the purpose of setting fire to the Marche du Temple . M . _Chenn was found guilty of having defamed M .

      Bareste , and for that offence was fined 25 f ., and ordered to pay lOOf . of damages . It is _evidently much less expensive and less dangerous in France to make an' attack upon the honour and consideration * of a tailor than to criticise a Minister ' s budget . Five members of the society called _SoUdarite _Republtcaine were sentenced on Saturday by the Court of Assize of Paris , two to one year ' s imprisonment , 500 francs fine , and deprivation during five yean of their civil rights ; and three to six months' _impriaanment , 300 francs fine , and interdiction of the civil right * daring three years .

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      M . Napoleon Buonaparte has presented to the President of the Legislative Assembly the following protest against tbe Electoral Law . : « TO THE ELECTORS OF TBB DEPARTMENTS OF THE SARTHE AND THE CHABENTE INFEBIBORE . ' Citizens , —The executive power has _l-resented a law which is a violation of the Universal Suffrage , in as far as it strikes from the lists several millions of electors . In these circumstances 1 now coroeto explain to you my conduct , because , after the part which I took in the election of the 10 th . of D c ., I should appear in the light of an accomplice of the eovernment , if I were not its adversary . 8 % eSg my convictions from no other source but my owl conscience , I have fulfilled a painful _dutyln depositing the following declaration on the bur of tbe Assembly :-

      eaux _„ . „_ . . " C onsidering that the sovereignty of the people is embodied in the universality of the citizens ; ¦ Considering that the sovereignty is inalienable and imprescriptible , and that no fraction can attribute to itself the exercise of that sovereignty ; 'C onsidering that the representatives _^ the people have no other powers lint those which the people have delegated to them ; < Considering that the mandatory law cannot annihilate the right of those granting the mandate without destroying the mandate itself ; < Considering that the . right of universal suffrage is a primitive right above all others ; ' Considering that the project of law , for the reform of the Electoral Law , if it were , converted into a law , would deprive an important fraction of the people of their sovereign rights ;

      ' The undersigned representative of the people declares solemnly that he persists in the line of conduct which he commenced , in demanding the previous question . 4 That in consequence , faithful to the principle of the sovereignty of the people and to the constitution , and not considering himself entitled to violate universal suffrage , he protests against the measure , which he considers revolutionary , by abstaining from taking any part in it . ( Signed ) ' Napoleon Buonaparte . '

      The address to the electors of the Sarihe and _Charente concludes by stating that M . Napoleon Buonaparte still hopes that the National Assembly will not consent to follow the advice given by dangerous councillors ; but that , if it should be otherwise , it will then be for the people to consider whether they should make arrangements to organise a system by which tbey can refuse to pay the taxes . The' National' publishes a table showing that the number of persons assessed for the personal tax is less by more than tbree and a half millions than the citizens at present entitled to vote . It makes out the same total of disfranchised voters at four millions eight hundred thousand . REPORTED INSURRECTIONARY Jf _OVBMBNT IN THE

      _^ SAONE ET LOIRE . ' _TheParia correspondent of the * Chronicle' writing on Monday states that the French Government has received serious news from the department of the Saone-et-Loire . A movement which broke out , originally in the shape of a strike of the miners of the Creuzot , has assumed a political character , and , at the period of the latest accounts from that quarter , between -five and six thousand of them were in full insurrection . The Government has despatched a strong force to Macon , the seat of the outbreak , and _declares itself to be quite prepared to put down the affair .

      STATE ( _HT , PARIS ( From the 'Daily News . ' ) Paris , Mondat . —Reports of a serious character have circulated to-day with regard to the hostile attitude of the population of the faubourgs . The Mountain and their organs , with the exception of the' Voix du Peuple / continue to protest against an appeal to force ; but the tail of the party is uncontrollably fierce , and threatens to poniard the socialist leaders who refuse to throw themselves into the movement . The plan of the insurrection as revealed to ministers is this : —The insurgents of the 11 th and 12 th arrondissements are to break ont at _night , and to storm all the gunsmiths' shops and depots of arms . These having armed themselves with what

      weapons tbey can get , and being joined by the main body of rehels , are then to march on the third , second , and first arrondissements , where the attack is to be vigorously conducted . Fire' is to be set to the houses in these quarters . Meanwhile the ministers have persuaded Louis Napoleon to retire to Fountainbleau . Therefore , unless some fresh incident sheuld intervene , we must be considered on the eve of an explosion . The government is _perfectly well-informed and wide awake . The most effectual measures have been taken , without the least outward display of force , for the suppression of any emeute . On all this , we may remark , that insurrections thus circumstantially announced , never take place .

      The petition prating the Legislative Assembly to throw out the Electoral Bill , which was drawn up at the house of M . _Goudchaux on Sunday , appears this morning in all the journals of the opposition . It is signed by tbe following members of the Constituent Assembly : Dupont de l'Eure , Marrast , Goudchaux , Corhon , David ( d'Angers , ) _Degousee , Hingray , Jules Bastide , Landrin _, Legandre , Martin de Strasbourg , Perree , Recurst _, Reynault , Vaulabelle , WaUerdin , and others , as well as by several thousand citizens . The ' Voix du Peuple , calls on all France to petition . _The'Patrte' mentions that a regiment of dragoons , in passing through the department of tbe Saone-et-Loire , was attacked by the peasantry , who hooted and threw stones at them , and that the regiment was obliged to charge its assailants .

      The municipal council of Marseilles has adopted a petition praying that , in case of disturbance , the seat of Government may be removed from Paris to some other town . The Greek Question . —A great sensation has been caused hereby an article in the'Patrie' on the recent conclusion of the Anglo-Greek quarrel , and the position in which the Erench Government finds itself in consequence of that solution . The article is the more important , as it is evidently derived from official sources , and may therefore be considered as the case of the French Government .

      To-day the affair created a complete panic at the Bourse , and , as usual , gave rise to a variety of rumours . Among others , it was said that the French Government bad given orders to M . Drouyn de Lhuys , its ambassador in London , to demand his passports , if an immediate and satisfactory explanation were not given . This rumour gained more credence from the fact that the Minister of Foreign Affairs ( General de la Hitte _, ) in his speech on the Affair on Saturday last , had declared that he bad demanded explanations on the subject , and that he hoped to be able to communicate them to ibe Assembly on Thursday .

      Wednesday . —Last night , by a decision of the Minister of tbe Interior , M . Boule , the great printer of the Rue de Coq-Heron , was deprived of his license as a printer . M . Boule was the printer of the ' Voix du Peuple , ' the * _Republique , ' the * _Estafette , ' and several other papers . The authorities have seized all the presses , and placed seals on them . In consequence of this arbitrary exercise of power , the editors of the * Estafette _, ' ' Republic , ' and Voix du Peuple * have issued a joint letter , in which they explain the reason why they cannot appear today . The mayor and the two adjoints of . the 3 rd arrowlissement of Paris , and all tbe officers of the National Guard who signed M . " Goudchaux ' s petition against the bill for the reform of the Electoral Law , have been dismissed .

      The editor of the ' Voix du Peuple' was brought once more before tbe tribunals yesterday for at . tacks an the government . In the one case the sentence previously pronounced against him of a year ' s imprisonment and a fine of 4 , 000 f . for an attack on M . Fould ' s budget was confirmed , and for the other he was sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment and a fine of 5 . 000 f . In the sitting of to-day MM . Colfavru , Mathieu ( de la Drome , ) and Anthony Thourert , presented numerously signed petitions against the Electoral Reform Bill . A good deal ot noise ensued , in consequence of which MM . Bourzat and Peanwere called to order .

      The President of the Republic , on the proposition I of the Minister of War , has removed M . Terchon froia the command ot the battalion of _sapeurs-porapiers of Paris , and replaced him by M . Vives , who was sent away by the men in a sort of emeute in the days of February . M . Terchon , on'that occasion , was named to tbe commando ? the men themselves . In a report to the President on the change , the the minister , says : 'A double cause , has induced me to propose to you this measure . On the one band , it will consecrate the restoration of the principle of the inviolability of command by the recall ; of , the superior officer in whose person it was disregarded ; on the other M . Vives pbsssesses in the highest degree the aptitude which the _T reorganisation of the new battalion rej quires , by the profound knowledge which he has

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      acquired of the wants of . the service , and of the interests of this - corps ' ; On the whole , the recall of M . Vives will he a lesson of high morality , which will place in evidence the value ef dismissals pronounced by revolt , and of appointments it may make , and at the same time it will be a pledge for the good and prompt reorganisation of a corps destined to render great services . ' Riots , but not of a serious description have occurred at Pamiers ( Ariege ) and Thuirs ( Eastern Pyrenees . ) Some disturbances have taken place at Sedan . The workmen met to protest against the invasion of the right of universal suffrage . Tho military , however , cleared the streets , and restored order ; seven or eight workmen were arrested .

      The latest news from Creuzot says that tho workmen continue the strike , but have not proceeded te any act of violence . The following case , which is given in some of the Paris papers yesterday , shows to . what extraordinary lengths . the government and the tribunals of France go to prevent the circulation of the opposition newspapers . A Madame Hourseaux , the wife of a farmer at _Fontenelles , near Nangis ( Seine et Marne ) , has a son in Paris who was in the habit of sending her newspapers occasionally . In April last , being at the fair of Nangis , she went to the Post-office , where she found a copy of the 'National ' and one of tho Voix du Peuple , ' to her address .

      In leaving the Post-office she met a friend , to whom , in the course of conversation , she lent one of . her papers . A gendarme who saw the proceeding instantly made a _proces-verbal of the circumstance . Madame Hourseaux , much to her astonishment , was brought before the correctional police for hawking newspapers without a license , and great was her astonishment to find that , though she explained that she was no hawker , that she was the wife of a farmer , that she had never sold a newspaper in her life , and that she only lent the paper in question to a neighbour whom she met in the street , she was sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment , a fine of 25 f ., and the expenses . An appeal was immediately entered against this judgment ,

      and the case came oh last week at _Provins , when M . Riviere was sent down specially from Paris to defend Madame Hourseaux . The efforts of the advocate were of no avail . The judgment of the court below was confirmed . Madamo Hourseaux was forced to pay the fine of 2 af , with tho expense of tho two processes , but she she was exempted from the month ' s imprisonment . In another case a gentleman in the department of the Pas de Calais , and who has recently'filled the office of Mayor of Boulogne , was fined 200 r . for giving his friends copies of a pamphlet which had been sent to him as a present from the author . The pamphlet had never been tho subject of a process .

      ITALY . The correspondent of the ' Times , ' a bitter enemy to the Republicans , and' the eternal calumniator of Mazz mi is forced to make the following admissions : — ROME , May 4 . — The whole vigilance of the Government seems to be exercised in stopping the English , French , and Italian newspapers at the post-office , which contain articles severely criticizing its policy or couduct . One day the Times' is excluded ; then comes ' Galignani _' _s , ' which has indiscreetly copied an offensive , article ; next the Turin and Florence journals ate suppressed in ' a mass ; so that often it occurs that not a single

      foreign paper is to be had for love or money . Of course the Papal government recompenses the faithful by an immaculate publication of its own called the ' Giornale di Roma , ' : wherein is most faithfully recorded every prayer that the Supreme Pontiff has uttered during the week , every church he has attended , and the edifying things done , by one Cardinal or the other , or by _Monsigsior this or That . All political news is very properly excluded from this 'Giornale ; ' for what do the citizens of Rome want of news , or is there anything more necessary in this world to be learnt than that we are to have high mass next Sunday at St . Peter ' s , or that vespers are to be chanted in

      full force at St . John de Lateran ? « Give to Cesar , ' our Lord said , ' the things that are Cesar ' s , and to God , the things that belong to God / and that doctrine is literally acted on here ; for as the Pope is Cesar in a temporal , and the representative of God in a spiritual sense , everything belongs to him , and is given to him , or to the Cardinals , which is pretty much the same . Still , all these precautions do not answer the end proposed , and I am eternally reraiuded by all that takes place of _that-bird who , when pursued , hides its head in a hole in the sand , believing that as it cannot see its pursuers its enemies cannot see it ; for , do what the Camarilla may , every offensive article finds its wav

      to Rome , and public curiosity is only ; quickened the more because a day ' s delay has occurred . We may be Roman Catholics respecting our religion , and anxious that its temporal government should respond to its divine mission , but we fare no better on that account , and we are as rigorously excluded as if we were the avowed enemies of our faith . The Camarilla cares not about public opinion at Florence . Turin , Vienna , Paris , and London . What is it to them that people are indignant at what is going on , provided nothing is said at Rome ? and so the voice of truth if never heard , and the same vicious course is pursued as if there was no echo beyond the walls ,

      and tbe Eternal City was one great tomb , ' over which oblivion ever reigns . You may judge frohi what I say that we are making no pi-ogress , and that the return of the Pope has been marked by no great act for which so many anxious souls were impatient . I am sorry to admit the fact , and to unite my very feeble voice to the general lamentation that is heard at every side . It is the absence of reforms that gives strength to the Mazzini factions , and makes the Republic still desired , and which maintains a fire that one day will break out with more than ordinary fury if a foreign garrison be removed .

      Some conflicts have occurred at Rome between the Austrian soldiers and the people . LOMBARDY . — Popular indignation has again been aroused by the repetition at Milan of pro . ceedings similar to those which occurred in August last , when several persons were publicly flogged with sticks and rods on the Piazza di Castello . A similar punishment was inflicted on the 27 th ult ., by order of the military authorities , on an Italian woman , with this difference , that the bench on which the unhappy creature was fastened . was placed in the courtyard and not iu the open street ,

      ' . ; GERMANY . The trial of the 122 persons charged with participating in the insurrection and riots at Elberfeld in May , 1849 , has just concluded . The President submitted at the cloBe of the proceedings , which bad extended over several days , 365 questions to the jury . Of the 122 prisoners eleven were found ' Guilty / some of sharing in . the insurrection , some of inciting to it , and others of destroying property .

      A man named Von Mirbach , who was the chief agent in the capture and imprisonment of M . Yon der Heydt , the brother of the Prussian Minister , for two days , as a hostage , with the threat held over him that he should be hanged instmiter if the government sent any troops into the town ,, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment ; Henseleif for inciting to rebellion , to ten years' deportation ; and the other nine to five years' imprisonment with labour .

      AUSTRIA . Vienna , May 5 .-The « Neue Miinchener Zoitung » has lifted the veil of _secresy which hung over the terms demanded by Russia for the military assistance afforded to Austria against the Hungarians . The object of Count Zichy ' _s mission to St . Petersburgh was the settlement of the terms , and the mode of payment . Austria pays for the Russian _in-TTT _^ _rSXTy . 3 , 700 , 006 silver roubles , or about _iaOO _. OOO sterling . Seven hundred thousand roubles are to be paid in salt , and the other three millions are to be paid in three equal annual instalments , with five per cent , interest until the third instalment is paid ,

      POLAND . Letters from the Polish frontiers stale that the project of fortifying Cracow is determined on , and some of the details are given . Near the city , aud m the direction of _Podgorze _, a strong entrenchment will be thrown up to protect the bridge , and on the left bank of the Weichsel , near _Pad * o ze _, a tetedepont will be constructed , the works to be completed mth as little delay as _possihlo . The fortress _wthe nght bank will be extended so as _Kh _« ni _f _^ ° mpleted wo tks at K _^ mienia , which will describe a considerable circle The scarcely enough for all the works laid down .

      SPAIN . _RpSf ;( _, F 00 LER 1 ES _--MAMID _. May 7 th .-Besra . es ihe numberless . religious solemnities that nave taken place to propitiate the Divinity in ' _fa-i vour of the _Queen ' _s-hopes , other , sacerdotal steps ; have been taken . -Yesterday , _theiholy girdle , . which tradition says the Virgin ' Mary herself presented to the city of Tortosa , and which is devoutly believed to be a specific in difficult obstetrical cases , was solemnly deposited upon the altar of the royal

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      chapeVaf ter being duly prayed over by an archbishop and two bishops . On the 28 th of last month , it had been demanded by tbe primate , pursuant to tbe Queen ' s request , and was _. _processionaiiy carried out ofthe city of Tortosa , followed by an immense crowd of people . It is to be placed on the Queen ' s bed for some hours before the time of her expected confinement . The general juntas of the _Biscayan provinces have had a solemn sitting under ' the old tree at Guernica , ' according to ancient custom . They have appointed a commission to go to Madrid , to do homage to the Queen as' lady of Biscay , ' at the birth ofthe child .

      GREECE . We learn from Athens of the 28 th ult ., that the mission of Baron _Gros had entirely failed ; the negotiations between that plenipotentiary and the English minister ( Mr . _Wyse ) were consequently at an end ; and Admiral Parker immediately ordered a renewal of the blockade , with a threat to bombard the Piraeus . The former was carried out with rigid effect for two days , when the government of Greece submitted unconditionally to the demands of England . Mr . Wyse then returned to Athens ; and the country was perfectly quiet when these accounts came away . The Minister of the Interior published the following circular :

      ; To the the Nomarks and _Eparks of the slate . — You have no doubt learnt from private letters and the journals of the re-commencement of hostilities by the English fleet . The government , gentlemen , considering that the interests of the country command it to put an end to the lamentable differences , is now engaged in removing existing difficulties . I am happy to inform you that every thing has been arranged between the governments of Greece and England * that all coercive measures have ceased , and will not _agpin be put in force . You will immediately make this news known to the inhabitants of the Communes in your district , to the intent to tranquillise their minds . Athens , April 27 , 1850 G . Notaris .

      AMERICAN AFFAIRS . Ma . Cai . _houn ' 8 Funebal . — Tbe funeral of Mr . Calhoun took place at Charleston , on Thursday , April 25 th . ¦ Business was suspended ,- banks , stores and public offices closed , and the buildings along the streets . arrayed in ; mourning . The mottoes , 1 South Carolina mourns , '' The ' Nation mourns , ' 1 The children of Old Ocean mourn for him , ' & c , were appropriately displayed . The . remains , au tended by the Committee of the Senate , arrived in the morning , by steamboat , from Washington ; they were _received at the landing by a military escort ; the remains were placed on a magnificent bier , twenty-three feet nigh to the top ofthe plumes , and drawn by eight horses clothed in mourning .

      On the arrival of the bier at the Citadel Yard , the body was formally delivered over to the Gover . nor ofthe State by Hon . John Y . Mason , Chairman of the Senate Committee , and by the Governor to the Mayor of Charleston . In the course of his reply to Mr . Mason , on receiving the . surrender of the honoured charge , His . Excellency alluded to the attention and devotion paid by Hon . Mr . Venable to Mr . Calhoun . during : his last sickness , and thanked him for them in the name of the State , In reply , Mr . Venable gave a brief account of the last moments ofthe honoured dead .

      The body was then taken to the City Hall , where it lay in state till the next morning under charge of a guard of honour . At ten o ' clock on Friday a civic procession was formed and proceeded with the remains from the City Hall to St . Philip ' s Church , where the funeral service having been performed by Rev . Christopher Gadsden , a funeral address was delivered by Rev . James W . Miles , to a crowded auditory . ' Outrages in Arkansas . We copy the following from the Washington ( Ark . ) 'Telegraph , ' in addition to which , it is reported at Little Rock , that Mr . Jonathan Irons was hung up by the mob ,

      until he was nearly dead , when he was cut down by some of his friends , and resuscitated . ' There is a rumour in circulation here that a company of Regulators in Montgomery County , in this State , a few days since ordered some persons residing in that county , among whom was a man named Taylor Polk , to leave the county ; and on their refusing to do so , endeavoured to enforce a compliance with their requisition by a resort to arms ,. and that two or three persons were killed , or dangerously wounded , in the contest which ensued . Polk , it is stated , was mortally wounded , and _ a man named Hughes and one other killed . ' _^

      frightful and fatal accidents . The ' New York Tribune' of April 30 ih reports that yesterday morning , at a few minutes past ten o ' clock , while a number of labourers were at work in the upper part of the old Chemical Bank building , removing the walls , and also a number of carpenters engaged below in the work of demolition , some of the props were cut or gave way , and a great portion of the walls and ceilings came down , burying a number of persons in the wreck . News was

      instantly sent to the Chief ' s office , the adjacent Police stations , and to the Mayor , and prompt measures were taken to rescue the sufferers . Seven of the unfortunate men were shortly dug out of the Tuins and found to be still alive , though severely injured . Almost at the same moment came that the walls of No . 35 , Water-street—the United States Bonded Warehouse , adjoining one of the warehouses burnt on Wednesday night—had also fallen in . This report proved but too true .

      A number of men—variously estimated from seven to eleven—had been engaged since an early hour in the morning in removing the burnt cotton , and clearing away the ruins of the store , and had made good headway in their work , when suddenly , at about half-past ten o ' clock , the gable of the buildingwhich had neither been removed nor braced—fell over , instantly burying the unfortunate workmen under many feet of bricks and mortar . In less than two hours five bodies were taken from

      the ruins . Four of these were found crushed down into a bole where they had been engaged in getting out cotton . They were jammed closely together , and their heads and faces were horribly mangled . The bodies were yet warm , but were bent up so as to he difficult to straighten . Two men had been previously got out—one dead and the other still alive . The latter was taken to the Hospital . His name is John Driscoll . Both of his legs were broken in several places , and his body is horribly bruised . He can hardly survive .

      Before night all but two persons were extricated . These two men , Michael Conner and Patrick Barry , are pretty surely under the ruins . Horrible Steamboat Disaster on the Ohio . —We find in the ' Cincinnati Dispatch' Extra of tbe 23 rd ult . the following details of a terrible disaster on the Ohio : — 'Our city was thrown into gloom on yesterday afternoon , by the arrival of the heart-rending intelligence that the steamer Belle of the West , on her way to St . Louis from this port , was burnt to the water ' s edge on Monday night at twelve o ' clock , two miles below Warsaw , Ky . and that in all probability from fifty to one hundred persons had perished in the flames , the Belle hadon board one hundred

      aud fifteen registered cabin passengers , notincludirg a number of children attached to families , whose names were not registered , and on deck there were about one hundred emigrants and others whose names had not been taken down . The fire was first discovered in the hold , by the smoke issuing from the aft hatchway , and is supposed to have been occasioned by carelessness in leaving a candle burning . Prompt efforts were made lo suppress the flames without giving the alarm , but the fire gained so fast that the officers and crew were compelled to yield to it . The engineer called to the pilot , through the trumpet , to run the boat ashore , which was immediately done , and the alarm was given . The greater

      portion of the passengers being asleep in their rooms , the officers of the boat rushed into the cabin , into which fire and smoke had already commenced pouring , and those that could not be awakened by the alarm , were dragged from their beds . The doors were burst open ; numbers , who were insensible from fright , were carried out by the crew , and , in fact , as we have it from an eye-witness , all connected with the boat periled their lives to save those on hoard . The boat was totally enveloped in flames , fore and aft , in less than four minutes , and amid the crackling'roar of the consuming fire , the shrieks of

      the hopeless , the doomed to certain death , were distinctly heard-the voicesi of men , women and _children—imothera , ' fathers and offspring , mingling in th _« roar of death and horror . The _steames Her . raann and Visiter brought up a number of the _surl ' vivore and a' portion of the freight that was saved . The _hbuses ' in Florence were filled with the sufferers ' , and every , attention' to . their comfort was bestowed by thecitizens . Mf . _Salsbury _, of Hanging ' Rock , who was on board a deck , passenger ;' says he knows of two families , one consisting of four and'tbe other of seven , who perished . They were from _Pennsylvania . _Numbewleapsd _oyerboardani _weredrowued ,

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      while others were awakened too late to escape the horrid death which surrounded them . The scene , as described to us by Mr . _Thbs . Rutherford , of this city , who , in company with Mr . _Thos . Lawaon , had retired to his berth but a short time before the alarm was given , was awful and heart-rending . So rapid was the progress of the fire , that notwithstanding the communication with the shore , it is estimated that not less than from fifty to one hundred passengers perished by fire and water . Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life . —

      An extra from the office of the ' True Democrat ' announces that the steamer Anthony Wayne blew up opposite Vermilion on the 21 st April . The Wayne came to Sandusky with ten _steerage passengers and twenty in the cabin . At Sandusky " she took from the train twenty-four passengers , which , together with . her crew , made seventy-four in all . The number ; of lost and missing is thirty-five to forty . Nineteen of the crew and thirty of the passengers were saved , and are in a fair way of recovery ;

      To Sir George' Grey, , Secretary Of Stat...

      TO SIR GEORGE' GREY , , Secretary of State . Sir , —Everybody is inquiring what those deputations of Doctors that are constantly with you demand ? It ia also asked , do the Doctors require to physic the public by act of Parliament , and that their fees shall also be paid by act of Parliament , or what is it they want ? In short , Sir , theBe constant attendances upon you make many people think " that there must be something rotten in the state of Denmark . " We have the honour to be , Sir , yours , & c . The Members of the British Collbok of Health . New-road , London , May 7 , 1850 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 18, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18051850/page/2/