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FRANCE . . Paris . —Tbe progress of the President , since our last , has not been marked by any incident north mentioning , and he has now returned to Paris . He arrived on Thursday ni g ht at half-past eleven o ' clock . His arrival bad been announced for ten , and an immense crowd assembled in the Rne de Havre in the neighbourhood of the railroad station . A detachment of infantry occupied the spot , and two companies of the Chasseurs _d'Orleahs were stationed near the terminus . A squadron of Dragoons and one of monnted Carbineers escorted the President to ihe Elysee , in the neighbourhood of which a crowd was also assembled .
-Some of the indiscreet supporten of the President eontrived to get up a row , and we find that the press of Paris calls npon the government for an inquiry into the matter . . , _ j ; We are told that the « National and other demo _Ctatic papers call the attention of the authorities to some outrages which were inflicted upon peaceful citizens on Thursday night , at the return of the President , 'by a set of bandits dressed as workmen . This description is intended of course to apply to the Society of the Dix Decembre . It does not appear that the outrages of which these journals speak were very serious .
' M . de Girardin fills four columns of the ' Presse ' of Thursday last with an answer to the * National ' on tbe subject of the revision of the constitution M . de Girardin persists ia _advocating a revision , but in his great anxiety to be thought even more repub L ' can than the' National , ' wbich will see in him only a disguised monarchist , be declares tbat bis motive for desiring a revision is to afford a chance—he does not say that he indulges a hope—that by this means the institutions of the presidency , wbich he regards as too aristocratic , may be got rid of . A President , in the opinion of M . Girardin , i 3 a temporary king , a king in the third degree ; and , with his present ideas of government , he cannot tolerate anything which bas even in the third degree a resemblance to
monarchy . With him , then , the great object is to abolish tbe presidency , and he calls npon tbe democrats of all kinds and colours to insist npon a revision pf the constitution , and in particular addresses himself to tbe ' National , * whose personal hostility" to Lous Napoleon 13 well known , with a prediction that ' in spite of Art . 45 of the constitution , and whether universal suffrage be re-established or not , it will be again Lonis Napoleon who will be elected in 1852 . if before that time the institution of the presidentship be not abolished . ' This prediction , which M . de Girardin declares most be verified , will , he trusts , convince the' National' that itis throwing away its only chance by refusing to support the proposition for a revision of the constitution . On the
question of the right of revision , M . de Girardin insists as warmly as ever that it belongs entirely to the people , and cannot be fettered or limited in any way by the written dictum of M . _Marrast and his colleagues in 1848 . ' From the moment ( be says ) when the people obtained full possession of its sovereignty , it could exercise it as Lonis XIV . exercised his . Louis XIV ., in taking Colbert as _minister in 1661 , and keeping him till his death in 1683 . had entered into no contract for fonr years ; he kept him for twenty-two years , although he could have dismissed him on the day after he chose him . I have never understood sovereignty in any other way than this , whether it was called popular sovereignty or royal sovereignty . '
The leaders of the majority are determined to oppose the further augmentation ofthe President ' s allowance , and those who were foremost in voting the three millions will not hear of an extraordinary grant for the purpose of relieving him from fresh difficulties . It was rumoured that the President intended to take auother journey in thesontb of France , but tbis is contradicted on authority . The * Moniteur' says : — 'Some journals have announced that the President of the Republic intends to visit the south of France . This statement is unfounded . The season iB too far advanced for the President to think ef undertaking a third journey /
We fancy that his experience has not been bo satisfactory as to prompt him to another experiment , besides whicb these things are very costly in a pecuniary sense . The corporations of printers , and some other trades breakfasted together last week in tbe gardens of the Chateau Ronges . About 600 persons were present . Pierre Leroux presided . ' The permission demanded for the * banquet' was not refused by the Prefect of Police . The Nepaulese p rinces seem daily in better humour with Pam ; and their Oriental made of testi tying satisfaction with those who minister of their pleasures , b y stripping off and presenting tbeir gorgeous trinkets , is highly gratifying to the Parisians who are fortunate enough to attrack their approbation and secure their presents .
The Solon has returned to Toulon , from which port it departed some time ago , with secret instructions to the coast of Morocco . It now appears that the object of tbe expedition was to rescue Sidi-Caddour , a near relation of _Abd-el-Kader , from the bands of the Moors . Tbis chief , having escaped from bis prison at Fez , was received on board the French steamer at Rabat , and has come in her to Toulen , whence he will proceed to visit his imprisoned relation . The affair of General Haynau is exciting eoniderable attention ail over the continent . The ' Journal du Havre says : — ' A certain de . gree of agitation was remarked on Saturday morning at the railway station on the departnre of tbe eleven o clock train . It was rumoured in the
crowd that General Haynau was about to proceed to Paris by tbe train . Every eye was directed to an elderly man , of a military look , very corpulent , and with stern features ornamented witb immense black monstachios . ' it is Haynau , ' people murmured , * It is the Austrian butcher , it is the man who flogged women ! ' Fortunately some one was present who was able to state tbat the person in question was a Mexican general , M . Santa Cruz , who has been at Harve for some days . He cannot have been much flattered at being taken for Haynan , and exposed on the part of the population of GraviUe to an ovation like that which the' pacificator' of Hungary obtained in the brewhouse at Bankside . It will become
dangerous for persons having any resemblance to the too celebrated Austrian general to wear long monstachios . On Friday , for example , a gentleman going from Caen to Havre , by tbe Neustrie steamer , was supposed to be Haynao , and was very nearly subjected to disagreeable demonstrations . ' The ' Constitutionnel' has an article describing the meeting in London in honour , of the brewers and draymen of Bankside , who committed the outrage on General Haynau . After g iving an account of the speeches at this meeting , the Constitutional says : —
' The origin and composition of the meeting were disclosed by the ardour with which three cheers were given for Eossnth and Hungary , for Mazzini and the Roman Republic , for the French Socialists , for the German patriots , and for those ef Poland . The various bodies of emigrants mutually accorded to each other this easy testimony of esteem . So terminated this pitiable farce , worthy to crown the ignoble scene which had preceded it . Such acts are u 3 efnl to be pointed to , in order to show how tbe population of a great city can be exposed , hy the
exp loits of small groups of bandits , to be misunderstood or calumniated . If the attack on Marshal Haynan was really to be imputed to the English peopie ; if , above all , that same people , after having allowed a shameful outrage to be committed , had debased itself so far as to decree an ovation to the authors of this infamy , England oug ht to be placed in the lowest ranks of civilised nations . But , for the honour of the English nation and of the age we live in , that is not the case . In admitting thatthe heroes of Bankside have not decreed crowns to
themselves , they who have committed the outrage , andthey who have g iven it their approval , are mutually of the same value , and both together form only an exceedingly small and dispicable minority in the midst of two millions oi men . ' The government bas consented , in compliance witb the representations of the Committee of _Pervnanence , to institute an inquiry into the riotous -proceedings of the' Decembriseurs' on the night of the President ' s arrival before the terminus of the Rouen Railway .
_Mabshal Haynau . — M . Pierre Leroux proposed , at a democratic banquet , given a few days ago a toast te the health of the brewers at Backside * . The * A 8 sembIee Nationale' takes occasion from this circumstance to comment upon the barbarous instincts of the socialists ; but the toast was perfectly consistent with the philanthropic sentiments whicb M . Leroux bas always professed , and was as follows : — ' To the brewers of London , not for having committed violence , as the calumniators of the people say , but for having respected the life of a man who never respected the lives of his fellow creatures , and for having contented them-
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selves with markmg him with infamy - _^«» WgW spontaneously the horror and _distort , wtfh which his crimes had inspired them . _-T _^' - „ _.. _-,.- _£ _< It was reported _^ Wedn _^ fy- _«¦* . -- _>§ iW » t has declined to : £ omeforwardas candidate . for . the department of the jpher . _fe ; . _-v , _, # Z ' _^; 7 7 "' If we are to believe , the Opinion Publique' and the ' _UnionJv two > o ' f \ _threading organs of the Legitimists , it would appear that the partisans of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon are determined to resist any _proposition for the prolongation of the powers of Louis Napoleon .
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . The opening of the first regular session of the National Assembly of Holstein took place on the 9 ih inst , with as much solemnity as dignity . The deputies attended divine service , and , after calling forthe sanction and support of Heaven , repaired to the hall of meeting , and fell straightway to work . There was no pomp , no king , no court , no ceremonial , not even the firing of guns . In the present state of all minds tbis would have seemed frivolous and impertinent . At the church a distinguished divine , Mr . Wolf , preached a sermon in
which devotional and patriotic feelings were finely blended . This discourse produced an excellent effect , but that of Connt Reventlow , pronounced a few moments after in the hall of meeting , left a still stronger and more positive impression . Tbe calmness and strong decision with which the sermon was delivered are strongly characteristic of the entire body of this worthy people , standing as they do surrounded with afflictions and trials . One could hardly go from tbe hall after hearing this simple , noble , and moving speech without an inward assurance that the cause in which it was uttered was not one that could immediately perish .
Count Reventlow then presented several . bills in the name of the Staathalterscbaft , one on tbe law of recruiting , which provides that the government shall not call upon persons under twenty years of age to serve in the army , one on the budget , and one on a voluntary loan . Connt Reventlow added tbat the government did not contemplate proposing more laws , and recommended the states to follow its example , since they were not in a position to take in hand more business tban was actually necessary . -
The election of M . Bargum as president showed at once that on all leading subjects the chamber would be unanimous , since both conservatives and the opposition have voted for the ex-president of the Constituent Assembly . The first vice-president , M . Mummsen _, was taken from the conservative , the second , Dr . Gulich , from the opposition side of the chamber . Only sixty-six members were present had all the electoral bodies in Schleswi g been at liberty to return representatives 100 would have appeared . In the north of Schleswig , however , elections have been impossible , and even in the south many members have not been able to leave for Kiel .
The severest engagement that has taken place between the two armieB since the battle of Idstedt occurred on the 12 th inst , the Schleswig-Holstein hoops having made a reconnaissance towards Eckernforde and Missunde in a strong force , and attacked tbe bridge across tbe _Scblei at the latter point , but without success ; after cannonading the defences of the bridge on the north bank of the Schlei for more than an hour the artillery was recalled , and tbe troops supporting it retired along the line of country by which tbey had advanced during tbe day , bivouacking to the north of their
original positions . After the cannonade ceased , and as the troops sent forward with the batteries were retiring , the Danes , who had drawn in the bridge threw it across the creek again , issued from the entrenchments witb several field-pieces , and for some time considerably annoyed tbe Holsteiners , who were on the cbaussee to Eckernforde , and immediately south ef it , but they were in too great force to be pursued , and as soon as the Danes discovered the Btrengta of the battalions which bad not been engaged , they ceased the pursuit and regained their fortified position .
A cannonade in front indicated tbat tbe attack on the . bridge had began . The 2 d and 4 tb battalions were stationed to the south of the Eckernforde chaussee ; the artillery was on tbe rising ground overlooking the Schlei , beyond Cosel , supported by a body of Jagers , I do not know of what corps , and some infantry and cavalry ; bnt throughout the day the greater part of the line was not in action at all . The Danes bad abandoned the tete dupont on the south bank , bad withdrawn tbe bridge , and returned the fire of the Holstein fieldp iecps from the strong fortifications on the north bank ; the Schlei at this point is very narrow , not more than 200 paces across . To the west of the bridge were two Danish gunboats , which also took part in tbe action . It lasted from half-past fonr
till nearly six , wben , as no impression bad been made on tbe works , the firing on the Holstein side was stopped , and the guns brought back to tbe Eckernforde chaussee , towards the main body of the force . The whole were preparing to retire to their positions in the rear , when it appeared the Danes bad , with almost incredible celerity , again thrown the bridge across , and bad sent out a force with field-pieces in pursuit : they fired at the chaussee and expedited the retreat of the waggons of the train considerably : but finding the main body south of the road too strong , they did not continue the pursuit for any distance , and the Holsteiners retired towards Osterbye in good order . This was the close of tbe engagement . Tbe Holsteiners , as they retired , set fire to the Danish camp , and in two hours it was entirely destroyed .
Of the Iosb of the Holsteiners during the day no precise account can yet be given , the details must be supplied from the future official reports . To tbe left , against the town ' of Schleswig , nothing was attempted . Tbe Holstein artillery has propor . tionately suffered the most . The result of the affair may be briefly stated . The line of operations from point to point was extensive , and the number of wounded , killed and disabled may amount to about 200 of the Holsteiners , but it is only a rough guess . There has been no further movement . The Holstein troops bave returned to tbeir position at Duvenstedt .
Kendsburgh . —On the 14 th inst . the main body of the Holstein army , which had remained at Beckendorf on the whole of the 12 th and 13 th , waiting for the expected advance of tbe Danes , bave since returned witbin the lines of Witten and Bister . The Danes have not appeared since the last accoants . The government stated to the Assembly at Kiel , that the operations at Missunde had been to draw the enemy from his cantonments , and that Eckenforde bad not been retaken by the Danes , but abandoned by the Holsteiners in order tbat the enemy might not set fire to it from his ships .
An order of the day by General Willisen , of the 13 th , says * We bave obtained what we wanted , have driven the enemy from Eckenforde , Holm , Kochendorf and Huromelfeldfc , and destroyed his camps , and shown bim that he is not master of Schleswig .
HESSE CASSEL . We take from tbe German papers the details of a revolution which has just taken place in Hesse , and of the flight of the elector . Some of these particulars may have met the readers eye before , but we give them now consecutively and authoritively . M . Hessenpflug ' s elevation from the chair of a small university to the presidency of a small German State came just in time to save him from the consequences of a forgery , of wbich the Court of Appeal at _Greifswald found him guilty ; and the elevation to the premiershi p of a government of sucb a man was felt b y the people of Hesse as a national disgrace . The Hessian Diet , tardily convoked , and
convoked , too , for the sole and express purpose of granting supplies , recorded their want of confidence in a cabinet which was composed oi such budget , they refused to make an unconditional and unquestioned grant of money and power . They were consequently dissolved . Immediately after their dissolution a decree was published , by wbich the Elector in Council declared that all public burdens and taxes should , until further notice , be received by and in the interest of bis government . The Standing Committee which the dissolved Diet
bad appointed to watch over and to defend the interests of constitutional government protested against this decree as illegal and opposed to the spirit of . the Constitution , and steps were taken to obtain an injunction from -. the High Court of Appeal to counteract the late despotic measures of the Cabinet . It was then , when the country , though united in a legal opposition , was in profound peace , that M . _Hassenpflug obtained the elector ' s signature to a decree which imposed on the Electorate of Hesse tho burden of martial law .
The Courts of law , when appealed to , pronounced the proclamation of martial law to be illegal , and when a sergeant aad his troop appeared to execute some violent order they found themselves opposed
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by tbe messengers of justice , armed with injunctions and judicial decrees . They were thus compelled to withdraw from the printing presses and newspaper offices which they , bad seized ; the _perspns _/ vvhom tbey attempted ]*) arrest were instantlyfolaimed by the civic magistrates _^ who disputed their authority , and threatened _themTwith the consequences of tbeir illegal proceedings . The public prosecutor ; when applied to by the Committee of the Diet , preferred an impeachment against M . _Hessenpflug , and issued a warrant for bis attachment ; and although the execution of tbat warrant was impeded by some technical irregularities , it was easy to foresee that these objections would be removed , and that M . Hessenpflug would be compelled to take his trial on the charges of _mal-practices and treason , f
An earnest of his fate was given him by the arrest of M . Mulier , a commissioner , of police , who had consented to execute one of the illegal mandates which _Lieutenarit-General Bauer , the military commander , bad given him . He was accused by the party aggrieved and taken into custody . This was on the llth inst . The crisis was rapidly ripening , and M , Hassenpflug , who at length began to doubt the success of his ' energetic measures / would fain bave made his peace with the civic powers , whom he addressed in terms , of the most abject humility , justifying his late measures hy protesting ' tbat they were not indeed warranted by the condition of the country , ' but tbat 'the duty the Elector owed the Confederation and the Federal Diet' had
compelled him to conquer his own feelings and to afflict the country . On the 12 th inst ., affairs wore a still more sinister appearance . One of the Generals refused to obey orders , and left the service ; the arrest of Hassenpflug was hourly to be expected , and there was no relying on the soldiers . Thus opposed by the people , by the courts of law , by the civic magistrates , and retaining bat a weak hold on the soldiery , the Elector and his Premier knew that they could expect no helpfrom any of the otber German States ; and , in a state of intense fear , the Elector and his Minister fled to Hanover ,
where he arrived on the evening of the 13 th , and , after an interview with the King , on the following ' morning continued his fli g ht by railway to Minden and Dusseldorf , intending to repair to Frankfort and to implore tbe interference of the Federal Diet , wbich has of late been revived in that city under the auspices of Austria . At Dusseldorf he was warned by the police not to continue his journey by rail , as his presence in the train had transpired and as there was some danger of a demonstration on the part of the populace . Taking the hint thus kindly given him , the fugitive Prince left the railway and posted to Langenfeld .
M . Hassenpflug , who was not invited to accompany his master to Hanover , arrived at Rheda in Westphalia on the 13 th inst ., and on tbe following morning he took the train to Cologne . He was pale , and his features were distorted with fear and the fatigues of his journey . He informed his fellowtravellers that he was proceeding to Coblentz , but it was generally supposed that he intended to escape into Belgium . His presence in the train baying become known it was soon whispered at all the station . ** that the _'Hessen Such , ' ( _Hessen _s curse ) was a passenger in a certain carriage , aad everywhere public op _$ 9 rjn vented itself in groans and execrations . On
the arrival of the train in Dusseldorf the gendarmes on duty were informed of the presence of Hassenpflug , the convicted forger of _Greifsweld . One of the passengers , who bad paid a particular and by no means welcome attention to M . Hassenpflug ' s bearing and features , was canvassing the subject with one of the gendarmes , when the ex-Minbter unable _, to retain his pent-up emotion , addressed him with , ¦ I say , sir , why do you persecute me ? ' ' Sir , ' replied the passenger , ¦ I do not persecute you . I ' m just telling this man of the villanies of that scoundrel Hassenpflug . ' The gendarmes asked him for bis passport , and when the Minister produced tbat
document a voice was heard to cry , ' Look sharp , man , whether it is a good pa & sport ! You know he ' s a forger 1 ' Upon this M . Hassenpflug was arrested and taken to the police station , but be was subsequently allowed to proceed by post to Langenfeld , where he intended to wait for the Elector ' s arrival . Tbe Chief Burgomaster of Cassel published a pro clamation , declaring that , although the sudden departure of the Sovereign has given ground for apprehensions , the late negotiations between the military and civil boards bave removed all cause for anxiety , ' Cassel , ' according to the concurrent testimony of all German newspapers , ' remains in a state of the profoundest tranquillity . '
We have intelligence from Cassel to the 16 th At that date the country was profoundly tranquil General Bauer still commanded the troops . The ministerial impeachment process had not terminated before the Supreme Court of Appeal . It was announced on the 14 th tbat the Elector bad given orders to remove the court to Hanau . The civil authorities and military commander have agreed . From Frankfort we learn tbat tbe Elector arrived there on the 16 th , accompanied by Hassaenpflug . The Supreme Court of Appeal has thrown out tbe indictment against ministers for abuse of ofiice . Many of tbe higher as well as subordinate officials have been ordered to repair to Hanau , where the minister will fix the seat of government .
_HESSE-DARMSTADT . Our second chamber , says a letter from Darmstadt , of September lltb _, constituted its bureau to-day . Tbe democratic party , who all pride themselves upon their courtesy , gave the first Presidency of the chamber to Professor Hillebrand _, president of the former chamber , although he does not belong to their ranks , nor yet is he the best qualified for the post . Dr . Hillebrand , however , was too modest to ace * pt the speakership , and a second election gave that ofiice to M . Mohr , confessedly one of the most able men in the chamber , and a decided democrat . M . Hillebrand was then elected a vice-president , witb M . Lehne for his colleague . Tbe Constitutionnel party in the chamber consists of five members , two of whom are enable to attend its sittings .
HANOVER . On the evening of September llth a considerable crowd assembled in front of the British Hotel and the name of Haynau was soon heard above a storm of maledictions and hisses . As the rage and numbers of the populace were increasing , a body of police were sent from the nearest station , and two of the crowd were taken off , upon which the uproar became greater than before . At half-past eleven , three divisions of the city guard were turned out , who succeeded , after a time , in dispersing the crowd .
MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN . Sep . 16 . —A proclamation has appeared abolishing the constitution , and releasing from their oaths all who haye sworn to it . WURTEMBURG . The High Court of Justice of Wurtemburg has given its decision on the impeachment of the exminister of foreign affairs , Baron _vVatchter S p ittler _, on a charge of having violated tbe constitution . The court declares that there was no foundation for the impeachment .
AUSTRIA . The 'Austrian Observer' of Vienna of the 9 th ex . presses itself very indignant at the treatment of Gen , Haynau in London , and announces that the Austrian Ambassador at the Court of England has formally demanded that satisfaction may be given to his Government by bringing the offenders to trial . The projected political organisation of Hungary received the sanction of the monarch before his de . parture , and must Boon appear . Further amnesties have been granted in Hungary : eight of the Aua . trian officers who , having served against the state , were condemned to many years' imprisonment , have been liberated , and all the officers who were sen . fenced to imprisonment in irons have had their fetters knocked off . May not the London brewers claim some credit for this amnestv ?
. Sep . 15 . —The law on the organisation of Hungary is published . The country is divided into six provinces , to be administered by a governor residing at Pesth . The new organisation of Gallicia has received the imperial sanction .
PRUSSIA . Berlin , Sept . 14 . —On the 12 th , orders were sent to the commanders of several divisions to lead them to the Hessian borders ; to day instructions were given to the same officers , " through the telegraph , to march into _Hesse-Cassel in case the troops of the other states should enter the electorate . In all probability Prussian troops at this moment occupy Hessian ground . A resolution tending to that result was taken in the cabinet council held this morning at Sans Souci .
ITALY AND THE PAPAL STATES . The' Roman Journal * of the 4 th inst . announces the arrival of M . Wiseman in Rome . The civil tribunal bad sentenced Messrs . Armellini , Corhalli , ? _ahri , Guiccioli , and Manzoni to _reim-
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burse , within a delay of three days , a sum of 3 , 000 scudi , applied by them to the election of the members of-the Constituent Assembly . A | li : 7 _j _TbePjipefhadrellucedto _^ tbree _dayi-thequarantine imposed on vessels coming from . Marseilles . The 'Statutp' of Florence , of the 7 th , mentions Senator Lathi-sis the successor of Sigg . Cafpbquadri add Mazzei to the united portfolios of Worship and Grace and Justice . By an order of the Holy Office of Ancona , dated the 25 th of August , all Christians under twenty-five years of age , if male , and under thirty-five , if female , who are actually in the service of Jewish femUies ; are'to leave their places by the end of September . This order hasbeen specially notified to every Jewish family of the town . v '" "'
. M . _Octavius Gigli , Director of the Statistical Board of , the Ministry , of _, Commerce ,, bad been . _ar . rested for giving an asylnin to M . _Barbae who , having acted as commander of the , movable civic guard under the Republican _, government , was excluded from the' bent fit of the amnesty . . ¦ _f ; _, The proceedings against the murderers of Count Rossi , interrupted for some time , bad been resumed with activity . ' The real assassin was believsd to be in the hands of justice , but bis name was kept ¦ an / _tppfc ¦ . - * ' On the 5 th inst ,, a band of thirty-five highwaymen were tried by the Council of War , sitting at Bologna . Twenty-six were sentenced to death , and nine to hard labour . Ten of the former ,
being under twenty-one years of age , had < their sentence , commuted to bard labour , and the sixteen others were shot .
PORTUGAL . Such are the reports spread every day of revolutionary movements that it is difficult to say with any certainty how things are to turn out . It is an acknowledged fact that all the parties are at work ; if the object of the liberal party is solely to overthrow Count de Tbomar and his colleagues , to bring into office the Duke de Saldanha and another clique , I cannot say ; but as that party are persuaded that it cannot succeed in imposing a ministry upon tbe Queen except by some emeute , it is not surprising if
the friends of Saldanha in the army take a part in it . It is said that the Duke de , Saldanha has bad some interviews with . Count das . Antas and the leaders of the Progressistas . It is positively known that Saldanha , to avoid suspicion , has several times _leftCintirain the night to come to Lisbon to be present at certain interviews , and returned also tbe next night , the servants reporting the Duke as being unwell and keeping his bed . Want of money has been perhaps tbe strongest motive to prevent the explosion .
The dilapidated condition the finaces are in , and the haired M . Avila , Minister of Finance , has called down upon himself , have brought new embarrassments on the government .
SPAIN . . Various old home claims against the Treasury it is said are about to be settled , and the statement is confirmed hj a royal order . The sensation produced in political circles in general by the _result of the elections is very considerable ; 2 nd not only the defeated parties—I allude to tbe Progressistas and the Conservative opposition— but even the orthodox Moderados themselves are dissatisfied with the constitution and aspect of the new Congress . With the exception ofthe Balearic and Canary Islands , which return thirteen deputies , the result is known , The Congress consists of 349 deputies , and of the late Congress about half the members have not been reelected .
GREECE . TJie ' Wanderer' of Vienna has the following ac . count in a letter from Athens of the 3 rd , of the murder of M . _Korfiotakis , Minister of Public Worship and Instruction in Greece : ¦—¦ He had returned on the lst from a promenade with his wife and a Senator _Antoniades , In his house there is a cafe * , and when his carriage stopped a number nf persons were seated at the door drinking coffee . The senator first alighted ; the minister
followed , and presented his hand to bis wife to enable her to descend . At this moment a man approached M . Korfiotakis , and discharged in his heart a pistol loaded with six balls . The assassin fled , but was seized . He , however , broke away , and he threatened to stab any one who sbould touch him . He was , nevertheless , subsequently secured , as were also two persons known to he his accomplices . . The minister died some hours after . He had raised himself by his talent to his high position . He leaves a wife and four children without fortune . The
assassin is supposed to have acted from political ven geance . '
UNITED STATES . The steam-ship _Europa _, captain Lott , arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning , a few minutes after midnight . She sailed from Boston on the 4 th , and Halifax on the Gth inst . Her latest New York dates are of the 3 rd . No later news had been transmitted to Halifax by telegraph . The events of the week , the news of wbich reach us by the Europa _, are the execution of Professor Webster at Boston oa the 30 th August , and the arrival of Jenny Lind at New York .
In Congress the usual Appropriation Bill bas been passed by the house , providing for the current items of national expenditure . The bill for the abolition of the slave trade in the district of Colombia , on the motion of Mr . Clay , was made the special order of the day in the Senate for the following Monday . This was opposed by tbe advocates of slavery , but they found themselves in a minority of twenty , and the measure was adopted A committee appointed some months since to exa
mine the case of certain officers under Mr . Pols 8 administration , who were charged with improper interference in tbe elections , have reported that some persons , including tbe editor of tbe ' Union , ' had declined answering the questions of the committee , and it was proposed that they should be brought before the bar of the house for contempt . ' This useless question , ' says the ' . Tribune , ' has cailed forth no small bickering , and on other subjects nothing has been accomplished but an enormous amount of talk . '
Advices from Porto Rico state that an order has been issued by the government of the island for abolishing tbe dutieB on provisions ( excepting flour ) after the lst of October . Some other articles of prime necessity to the productions of the island were to be admitted free of duty . A destructive epidemic has made its appearance in Milwaukie , Wisconsin , causing one hundred and nine deaths in two days . It bears some resemblance to the cholera , but is supposed to be a species of malignant dysentery . It is confined , in a great measure , to the German population of the city .
Governor Bell ' s message to the Texan legislature on the subject of the difficulties with the general government , is a lengthy and rather bellicose document . After recounting the steps already taken in tbe matter , tbe Governor intimates the measures he things ought now to be adopted . < The Americans really seem to have a keener relish for the horrible than the English , which is saying much . Their papers are full of long and sickening details about Professor Webster ' s execution . These accounts are drawn up in the style of our _melo-dramas . We extract from the ' New York Herald ' the account of the last moments of the criminal .
The Last Hour . —Quahter-past Nine . — The Sheriff informed the witnesses to the execution tbat their sad duty was about to commence , and requested tbem to accompany him to the gaol . They walked arm in arm followed b y the reporters for the press , and spectators , into the corridors of the gaol , and to the door of Professor Webster ' s cell , which was thrown open . The Rev . Mr . Putraan then , in the presence of all assembled , offered a
prayer , Professor Webster being on his knees . When the religious services were concluded , the spectators who were invited in to hear it returned to the gaol yard . Dr . Webster was then pinioned , and a procession formed of the witnesses , preceded by tbe sheriff , with a cocked hat , and _swoid attached to his side . The sheriff directed tbe witnesses where to take their places . He then ascended the scaffold for the purpose of seeing that nothing was left undone .
Twenty-five Minutes to Ten _o'Clock . — Everything being ready for the execution , Professor Webster ' s arms were pinioned , and he was directed to take his place in the melancholy procession which was being formed . He did so . The high : sheriff led the way , followed by the gaoler and turnkeys ol Leverett . 8 treet gaol . Next came Professor Webster , supported by the Rev . Mr . Putman , whom the unfortunate man requested to stay . with him to the last moment , and constables Dexter and Easterbrook . Professor Webster walked firmly but dejectedly to the scaffold , amid the most profound silence . His step wm firm , andhi 8 countenance
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betrayed no emotion ;; " _£ e Jook _j _^ t _^ , the ground , and was apparently resigned ftothe'doom which _awaitedv-himvfHejwag \ _djemd in ; i plain suit of black ; but _hadyrio neckcloth . His frock coat was buttbned j thje greater paT _^ ofitbe _^ ay . _EiGHMEN , _f Minutes to _' -Ten / o'Ciock . — The _ropeiajplacearoundProfessor _^ _bster ' s neck , and the black cap put on . - An intense feeling is manifested by the spectators . ; Seventeen ( Minutes to Ten o'Clock . *—Tbe sheriff , addressing the people assembled , speaks as follows , holding in hia hand the warrant of execu * tion * . —! In , the name of the Commonwealth , of Massachusetts , and of the good people thereof , I now proceed to execute the orders contained in this death warrant . * ,
- The Execution . —The sheriff then turned ronnd , faced the prisoner ,. took a single step , placed bis foot on a spring—the part of the platform on which Professor Webster stood . fell , and the unfortunate man was hanging by the neck . The fall was about eight feet , - . and to appearance his neck was dislocated . He struggled but little , and evidently . suffered no pain . The only evidence of the death struggle which he manifested was a slight convulsive movement of the legs , which were , partially ' drawn up for an instant . In less than four minutes all Si < _ns of . life were extinct . - After remaining suspended just half an hour , Drs . Henry G . Clark and Charles H . Stedman examined the body , and
informing the Sheriff that life was extinct ; tbat . officer so declared it to the legal witnesses' and" spectators , aud at the same time thanked the witnesses , in the name ofthe commonwealth , for attending and aiding the officers of the law in the painful duty which had just been performed : A p ine coffin , ; painted black , was then placed beneath the body . The corpse was lowered , the rope removed from the neck , the lid of the coffin was nailed down , and the body was then removed to the cell which Professor Webster recently occupied , according to the Professor ' s express desire . It will remain there till
evening , and then be delivered to the friends of the unfortunate criminal . While living Professor Webster enjoyed the sheriff not to permit any person to look at his remains while they were in the goal . I understand that late in the evening the body will be taken to Cambridge ,, where arrangements will be made for the funeral , which will take place on Sunday next . The ; body will be , deposited in tbe family vault , at Mount Auburn , one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world . Everything connected with the funeral was arranged by Professor Webster himself .
Immediatel y after tbe execution took place , 1 was informed that Professor Webster was interrogated , shortly before the execution , as to whether he wished to make any further confession . In reply , lie said that he did not—that the last confession was true , and that he could not add to nor _substract from it . —He died , therefore , with the assertion that the killing of Dr . Parkraan was not premeditated—that in a moment of passion he struck him with a piece of grape vine—that death was the result , and that for the purpose of concealing tbe act , he attempted to dispose of the body in the manner specified . _.- ¦ - ¦ . ¦' . "
i MEXICO . The extraordinary session of congress , which had been awaiting the subsidence -of the . cholera , was opened on the 8 th of August , wben Don Luis Couto was elected president , and Don Jose Maria Blanco , vice-president , of the Assembly . All the journals unite in saying that the contest for the election of the president of the republic was being carried on with greater fury than was ever before known . In the capital it is stated that rumours ofa _pronunciamiento were rife , and that many of the military supposed to be implicated in it bad been ordered to quit the city . Eight journals had united in a protest against the election of General Mariano Arista as dangerous , unpatriotic , and even criminal . Several of them published details concerning the private life of Arista .
The cholera had appeared in Tamplco , but as yet was not so terrible in its ravages as elsewhere . At Vera Cruz the disease was rapidly declining , and in the capital it bad quite disappeared . The ' Eco del Comercio complains of the great suffering that prevailed in Vera Cruz , owing to the high price of flour and its bad quality . All descriptions of provisions were scarce , and apprehensions were entertained of a famine along the sea shore . Sugar was above tbe purchase of any but the rich . It was thought that the government would be called upon to abolish the duties upon foreign produce and allow it to enter free . The war in Yutacan was not so violent , heavy rains having fallen in many parts of the country .
CANADA . Tbe ruins in tbe neighbourhood of Craig and St . Lawrence _sts ., caused by the last fire , attract crowds ofthe curious , but I regret to say that there are few symptoms of rebuilding , though tbe season here compels such work to be performed before November , when the frost sets in . Tbe last fire will be more felt in a pecuniary point of sense by the middle classes than any we have yet had . The citizens are getting up a public meeting to pronounce precautionary measures for the future ,, but few , however , anticipate any benefit from the demonstration . The corporation have not power to interdict wooden buildings in the suburbs , and tbey will not widen the streets witbin the city limits—so we must await patiently for another extensive fire to convince the thickheaded tbat wooden buildings stuck close together are not adapted to a large town .
The Citizens are full of a proposed cheap trip to Boston . Only fancy , the railway kings offer to carry the Montrealers to Boston , show them all the rare sight ' s , and carry them back for -five dollars . The firemen are to go in a hody , and perhaps altogether some two thousand of our people will leave upon the third of September , the day appointed for the celebration . Tbe Yankee folk could not bave bit upon a more ingenious mode of inoculating the
Canadian masses with republican notions . Coaxing is a deuced deal cheaper than fighting ; These interchanges of civilities are fatal to colinialisra . When our mechanics see your villages , towns , shipping , railways and farms , they will p ick up ideas which will germinate and bear fruit , of which the longheaded Yankees know the full value . The celebration of this year will be the prelude to annual _interchanges of national civilitieB , but Montreal will be " come Bostonised by tbe operation .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 21, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_21091850/page/2/
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