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      FRANCE . M . Le _Franfiois , the editor , and M . Chassagne _, the publisher , of the ' Republicain du Centre , ' have been found guilty of publishing seditious articles by thejury of the Haute Vienne . The former was condemned to six months' imprisonment , and 2 , 000 f . fine , and tbe latter to fifteen days' imprisonment and 200 f . fine . M . Le Bloys , the editor of the Salut _iga Peupie / -was found guilty by the same jury , and

      condemned to one year ' s imprisonment and 2 , 000 f , " fine . M . T . Bac , -who had left , the National _Assem-T » ly without leave of absence , conducted the defence of the last named gentleman . _< General _Gemeau , who commands the army at Lyons , has forbidden tbe _pK-oimance of Eugene Sue ' s ' Jaif Errant / on the ground that it is of a Socialist character . It had been performed thirty _, four times ; and it was only on the announcement of the thirty-fifth performance that it was stopped .

      Pabi 3 , F 1 UDA .-Y . —The official proclamation of the three new representatives for the department of the Seine took place this morning , at half-past ten , in front of the Hotel de Ville . There was an immense display of military npon this occasion , the whole of the square in front of the Hotel de Ville being filled fifth troops . It bad been announced that there Blight be some popular demonstration , and that the police were determinid , if possible , to find a pretext for a collision with the people . Everything , _how-Brer , passed of with the greatest _trauquillity , no

      attempt at disorder or agitation being apparently even thought of bv persons collected in front of the building . The Democratic papers bad warned their partisans not to show themselves at the Hotel de Ville on this occasion , as a plan was on foot to ensnare them into some hostile demonstration . The injunction , was so well obeyed that scarcely I 500 were present . Tbe following is tbe definitive state of the poll , as this day announced : — MM . Carnot ..... 132 , 797 Vidal 128 . 439

      Beflotte . 126 , 982 fby 125 , 643 La IGtte 125 , 478 Bonjean 124347 The first three were accordingly declared _representatives for the department of the Seine . The announcement was received with cries of ' Vivela _"RepnbliqueP after which the few persons assembled quietly dispersed . The great question now is with respect to the ministerial crisis . . . _

      Yesterday evening the President o f the Republic lent both for M . Mole and M . Thiers , and after a hurt consultation he empowered M . Mole to form a Cabinet . A meeting was then called at the _Elysee Of the following seven statesmen—the Duke de Broglie , Count Mole , the Count de Montalembert , General deSt . Priest , M . Berryer , M . Thiers , and General Changarnier . The President of the Republic drew the attention . of these gentlemen to the alarming state of affairs , and told them that he had

      called them together to ask their advice . After a consultation , which lasted till past two o'clock this morning , the nature of which is naturally not made public , the result was that both M . Mole and M . Thiers declined either to undertake the task of forming a Ministry , or of entering the Ministry at all at present ; and they recommended the President of the Republic not to make a complete change in his present Cabinet , but to make such modifications as might be necessary to strengthen it , and to ensure the confidence of the country .

      _Pabis , Saturday . — The * Moniteur * of this day publishes a decree , signed by the President of ihe Repnblic , dated yesterday , appointing M . Baroche , Procureur-General of the Court of Appeal , as Minister of the Interior , in t he r oo m of M . _Ferdinand Barrot , resigned . The « Moniteur ' also announces the appointment of M . Ferdinand Barrot as Envoy Extraordinary aud Minister Plenipotentiary at Turin , on a special mission , in the _' place of M . LHcien Murat .

      It will be seen , from the above announcement , that all the negotiations , consultations , threats of resignation , & c , which have been the ta'k of Paris for tbe last two days , have led to no greater result than this . AU the other Ministers are to retain their places for the present , but tbe Tattle' holds ont an expectation that at some period , not yet determined , a further modification may be expected . M . Rover has been appointed Procureur * General of the Republic in place of . M . Baroche .

      Some of the Conservative journals , and amongst others the ' Assemble Nationale / are denouncing by name the shopkeepers who voted for the Democratic candidates at the recent election , and calling upon the public to withdraw from them then-Custom , and never to enter their shops . The Assemble Nationale' of this morning publishes tbe names of five of the most fashionable tradesmen in the Rue de la Paix and the Rue Richelieu , as having voted for the R _** d candidates , and announces that it intends to continue the list .

      In the Assembly to-day , MM . Carnot , Flotte , Vidal , Dupont de Bussac , aad some others of the newly-elected representatives , took their seats . M . Baroche , took his seat on the Ministerial bench formerly occupied by M . Ferdinand Barrot . The entry of these gentlemen created a great sensation in the Assembly . Paris , Sunday . —The sitting in the Legislative Assembly was animated towards the close by an

      incident arising out of the unwarrantable course pursued by the ' _AssembleRationale' newspaper , in one of its articles yesterday . That journal thinks that the press has a rig ht to designate by name the owners of certain shops as having voted for the socialists , and to hold them up to public proscription on that account . No man that is not blinded by party feeling can admit that certain shops are to be tabooed because of a political vote , unless in the most ruthless moment of revolution .

      M . F . de _Lasteyrie urged this point in the Assembly yesterday with mnch force , and M . Jules Favre asked what was there to prevent a socialist journal from publishing in turn lists of tradesmen who -voted against them . Reply to this was difficult , and M . Baroche merely argued that the parties aggrieved might , if they chose , obtain their remedy by a civil action . The point in debate was too fnll of political warning not io create a storm , and M . Segur d'Aguesseau sowed the whirlwind by crying out that the vote of Paris was a vote of war . ' Your words / retorted M . Favre , « are those of an insurgent / and M . Dnpio , thinking like M . Favre , recalled M . Segur to order . The Assembly then passed to the order of the day .

      PARI S , Monday . — The ' Moniteur publishes a decree of tbe President of the Republic appointing M . Royer , late Advocate-General of the Court of Appeals in Paris , to be Attorney-General , in place of M-Baroche , who has been invested with other functions . A _rnmour having been circulated that the Marquis de la Rochejacquelin bad voted for the Socialist candidates , the marquis has addressed a note to the papers , denying the fact -, he -voted for M . M . La flitte , Bsnjeau , and D'ArbouviUe . Two more letters havebeen addressed to the'Journal des Debats ' from tradesmen in Paris , denying that they have voted for the Socialists .

      It is also denied on the part of the Duke de Levis that he has requested Legitimists to vote for tbe Socialists . It had been stated that the Duke had not only voted himself , but had induced others to do thesame for the Socialist candidate . The * Moniteur du Soir " says troops continue to be sent to the frontier . It is stated that several reg iments of infantry in garrison at Paris have received orders to be in readiness to march this week for the north . The ' Presse ' _sajs that _largebsdies of troops continue to be sent to the eastern frontier , and that several regiments at present in garrison in Paris are under orders to march in the course of the present -week to the northern frontier .

      M . de Lamartine has written a letter to M . Charles Lagrange , the _Montagnard representative , in which he asserts his belief , both from his own knowledge of the circumstances and from the loyal and straightforward character of Mr . Lagrange , that he is not in any way connected with the tragedy of the Boulevart des Capucines on the 23 rd of February . Tyranny and Tkrror . — The Prefect of the Manche bas suspended the communal schoolmaster at _Cherburg from the exercise of his functions . The Prefect of the Pay-de-Dome has dismissed the communal schoolmaster of Entraigues . The Prefect of the Allier has dismissed the command scboolmastere of Breuil and Bresson .

      M . Moulinard , a printer atMeulan , has been arrested and lodged in the prison of _Veraailles , on a charge of having printed certain seditious writings of Ledra Rollin and circulated them , in Paris . The editor of the ' Democratic _JoriMienna' has been _aentenced ta 4 _msm-iWMat for two months , and to pay * fine of l _, 500 f „ for having published a

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      seditions libel , a private of the 25 th Regiment oi the Line was sentenced , by court . martial , on Saturday , to imprisonment for six months , for having illegally disposed of the ball cartridges distributed to him when placed on guard at the hotel of the President of the Republic on the 19 th of February last . X The ' ( Eil du Peupie / and the ' Echo du Pueple , ' _Demoiraticjeurnals published atNiort , that were prosecuted by the Attorney-General , have beeu acquitted by a jury of that town . , - The Prefect of the Saone aiid Loire _hassuspendea MLandolhMayor of Louhans , and M .

      Bour-. p , ! _geois , his dupty , from the excise of their functions . The ' Republicaine de la Dordogne baying been _seized a few days ago for an article published _w its columns , the editor has written to the Pro . cureur-General , stating that at he . was aware that under tbe present regime he would not be allowed to express bis own sentiments , be had _^ recourse to books of established reputation , and that the articl-in question was copied , without the alteration ofa single word , from the 225 th and following pages of a work published by the Abbe _Lamennais in 1843 .

      Two hundred and twenty-four of the insurgents from Belle-Isle landed at Bona , in Algeria , on : the 3 rd , under an escort of gendarmerie . They were placed in the Casbah . On the Sth another convoy arrived . Five or six of the insurgents , on landin g set up a shout of Vive la Repuhlique Democratique et Sociale . ' Five private soldiers have been condemned to death by court-martial at Lyons , for having joined the insurgents in that city on ' . he 15 th June last . The Abbe Pons Gregoire , Senior Canon of the Ca t hedral of V a lence , in t he de p ar t men t of t he Drome , died their , on the 13 th inst ., in the 102 year of his age .

      The' Napoleon' announces that Struve , tbe German revolutionist , who bad come clandestinely to Paris , has set out : for Geneva , to be present at a great meeting of refugees which is to take , place there . Paris , Tuesday . — The 'Opinion Publique " confirms the reports relative to an . intention on the part of the government to present several bills re . lating to the press , & c . 'Weare assured / observes that journal , ' that tbe Ministry will present a billon the press , with the object of increasing the amount of cautionmoney and re-imposing tbe stamp duty ; a" bill on the jury , to modify the number of votes necessary to a verdict of guilty ; a bill on electoral meetings ; a * 'iU having some resemblance to the Alien Act ; and a bill on transportation . '

      Rumours in circulation go still further respecting the alleged changes in contemplation . It is that tbe National -will declare itself a Constituent'Assembly , and in this new character . will revise the Constitution , prolonging the tenure of office of the President of the Republic , establishing two Chambers instead of one , _-J-. c . Accounts from Montrouge , in the department of the Tarn et Garonne , state that a riot took place there on the 13 th inat . in consequence of the authorities having ordered a tree of liberty to be cut down . It became necessary to employ the military force , and four of the rioters were arrested .

      GERMANY . The'Neae MuncZheneritung " of the 14 th inst ., states from a telegraphic despatch , that the Austrian Cabinet has resolved to accede to the treaty of Munich ( which centralised Germany by means of a league between Austria and the four lesser German kingdoms , ) and that tbe said resolution of tbe Cabinet had obtained the sanction of His Majesty the Emperor . Tbe German journals abound with the most contradictory rumours respecting the probabilities of a renewal of hostilities in tbe Duchies . So much is certain , that both parties are preparing for the worst .

      It is reported that a Congress of German Sovereigns will be held in April at Dresden , to hold counsel on German matters . The Emperor of Austria , and the Kings of Bavaria , Hanover , and Saxony will be present . BAVARrA . —A letter from Landau , of the 9 th inst ., in the' Deutsche Zeitung / announces the condemnation by court-martial and execution of Count Fugger , an officer of the Bavarian artillery , who , it is stated , played a conspicuous part in the late insurrection in the Bavarian Palatinate .

      ITALY . ROME , March 10 . —Politically speaking , Rome is now the city of the dead . The Cardinal Triumvirate have arrested every individual against whom the pretext for an accusation could be found , and as the prisons are all full , that crying abuse of their prerogative is at an end . We had a hope , founded on tolerably good information from Portici , that the Pope wonld return for the _ceiemonies of the Holy Week , but that is pnt an end to by letters now received , giving an account of the Consistory last held , in which all the Cardinals voted unanimously tbat the Sacred Pontiff must postpone his

      appearance until after Raster . Wbat that vote means , beyond the fact that Pio Nono will not be seen in St . Peter ' s during the great festival of the year , it is impassible for me to say . and whether ' after Easter ' means the Sunday following or Christmas next _, you can discover as well as tbe wisest man in Rome . If the Pope continues to remain away , he gives a practical proof that his presence is not wanted in the Eternal City ; and if the Cardinals , for their own purposes , restrain the personal good intentions of his Holiness , people will at last say that they also can be dispensed with . In fact , ' everything connected with the temporal authority of the Papacy shows that a crisis is at hand .

      General Gotdova , commander-in-chief of the Spanish troops , embarked at Civita Vecchia , for Barcelona , a few days ago . No more Sp aniards now remain in the Roman states . The French army is now reduced to 13 , 000 men —that is , 9 , 000 at Rome , 1000 in tbe district of Albano and Frascati , 2 , 000 in the district of Viterbe , and 1 , 000 at Civita Vechia . The greatest disci pline exists in the army , but the R o man s st ill continue their' sullen demeanour' towards it . They have no personal dislike either to the officers or

      soldiers . Questions have frequently been pat to them , as to why they show such abhorrence , and the universal answer is , 'We bave no personal dislike to the French as individuals ; their good-nature , and the gentlemanly bearing of the officers , merit all our sympathy ; but they have slaughtered our brothers and friends , to re-establish a clerical and absolute government ; they have disarmed us , laid us prostrate , and by their physical power , expose us and onr families to an army of sbirri , with our hands handcuffed ; and these sbirri dare not treat us thus , if they had not French bayonets to support them . '

      TUSCANY . —The ' Nazionale * of Florence of the 11 th inst . states that the Tuscan Cabinet had demanded the mediation of Russia for the adjustment of the claim made by Lord Palmerston in favour of the British subjects who had suffered iu their property during the popular disturbances at Leghorn .

      HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA . Pesth . —Ladislaus Baren Bemer , Catholic bishop of Grosswardien , for taking part in the illegal diet held at Debreczin on the 14 th of A pril last year ; for complicity in its address to the agitator Kessuth ; for ordering processions with crosses on account of the Russian intervention ; and for emitting circulars to the priests in his diocese prescribing the ievelntionary minister Horvath ' s form of prayer ; was condemned , after deprivation of the temporalities of bis see and confiscation of his private property , to be hanged . Marshal Haynau confirmed the legality of the sentence , but from motives of humanity commoted it to twenty years ' fortress imprisonment in irons .

      Ludwi g Hauk , of Vienna , formerl y l i eu t ena n t in the Austrian service , for taking part with Bern , was condemned on the 31 st nit . to be hung . By order of Marshal Haynau , the sentence was immediately carried into execution . At the _Bame time , twelve others were sentenced to death , and six to imprisonment for various periods . The capital sentences were in all these cases commuted for imprisonment ; five of the condemned had their sentences entirely revoked . At Vienna , on the anniversary of the March revolution , considerable crowds having assembled at the

      cemetery outside the city lines to visit the graves of those who fell two years ago ; a battalion of grenadiers has been marched out to prevent any disorder-There is not , however , the least probability of any disturbance . The Polytechnic students having begged for a holyday , the director of the institution applied to Baron Welden for his counsel . The reply was , that notice should be given that it any student , excepting such as sent in a physician ' s certificate of illness , was absent when the list was called over , his name should be struck off the books of the Polytechnic Institution . GREECE . IateUigence bu at length arrived of the _bloclua ' e

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      the Piraeus having ceased , and of the disappear-¦ nce of all coercive measures except the retention of " ome fifty small vessels , as security for the payment i of sucb debts as the French government may award to be justly due . TURKEY . Letters from the frontiers of Bosnia in the ' Oesterreichische Correspondent / slate that the small fortress of Bihacz has been conquered by the Bosnian insurgents . The garrison . of 150 _Arnouts capitulated , and was allowed to withdraw to Ban--jalka . The great body , of the insurgents , was , ori the 8 th inst ., preparing to march from todoro to Bihacz and Banjalka .

      UNITED STATES AND CALIFORNIA . No important business has as yet been ac . com plished in _ConRvess , the attention of both _housts having been principally occupied with geueral discussions on the Slavery question , arid its relation to the new territories which seek for admission to the United States . The health of Mr . Calhoun still continues very precarious , and it can hardly be expected that he will be able to resume his place in the Senate

      another session . He has been confined to the house for several weeks with an aggravated malady ; but this has not disabled him from intellectual exertion ; his mind is keenly alive to the engrossing question of the day ; and as the prominent champion of Southern views , he has cherished an intense desire to sustain them in the Senate ,, by an elaborate speech , although at the risk of his life . He _= is disappointed in this hope , his health absolutely forbidding the attempt .

      In the Senate , Mr . Clay ' s compromise resolutions havebeen again discussed . Mr . Clemens , of Alabama , took strong ground against them . "His speech was peppery and partisan , but afforded no new , argument . He was followed on the other , side by Mr . Miller , of New Jersey j who made a sensible and manly address , and took- moderate but decided ground in favour of the admission of California . In the house , during the same period , there have been at least a dozen speeches , but the lion of the week was the speech against ; -slavery by Mr . Stevens , of Pennsylvania , a very able and . prominent roan . He

      exhibited the utter absurdity of southern members , in comparing the prosperity of the slave-holding states with that of tbe free . 'Slavery / he said , 'is an evil in war as well as ih peace . The country recognising it is , in a strict technical sense , a despotism . ; The slave is stripped of every right , and is the subject of despotic _swayi The slaves of Athens were kings in comparison . No northern man could be base or cowardly enough to allow slavery to spread over one rood of ground without being a traitor to liberty and a recreant to God ! ' This speech produced a great sensation .

      _Philadelphia ., March 5 . —The excitement in both Houses of Congress , during several days of last week , exceeded anything of the kind that can be remembered for many years past . The many hard sayings , and even threats , ofthe southern members , however , are hardly worth dwelling on at any length , aB in all justice tbey should not be regarded as other than the mere bluster and ebullition of the moment . Both Mr . Clemens and , Mr . Foote , in the Senate , took upon themselves to declare , that unless a compromise were speedily agreed upon , nothing could save the union . In New York , in the midst of this congressional furor , an immense pro . vmi 6 n meeting was held at Castle Garden , nearly 20 , 000 people

      being present , and similar meetings were also held in this and other cities . These expressions of po _< pular feeling certainly produced an effect upon Congress , especially upon the north . Thirty-four members of the house ( southern ') were said to be banded together to embarrass and prevent any legislation until the slavery question be settled ; and several Washington letter-writers have declared that in the event of Mr . Doty ' s resolution _^ * to prepare a bill to admit California as she is' ( without slavery ) , why , that they ( the southern members ) would immediately secede—nay , some of the writers actually stated that tbe Southern members of the house , or many of them , would even use arms But this to any rational man must appear

      absolutely laughable ; and I merely mention the rumours by way of showing how far ultraism will go , when in extremis , In this condition of things , compromise appears to be the only remedy . Besides the compromise resolutions of Mr . Clay , Mr . Dickinson , of New York , intends to bring forward a plan ; but in the meantime Mr . Foote , of Missippi , has moved that a committee of thirteen be appointed to take the whole subject of slavery , . t he a dmiss i on o f California , & c , into consideration , and to devise such a plan of general compromise as shall finally settle the entire matter . Mr . Davis , the colleague of Mr . Foote , agrees with this view j also Mr . Bader , both of whom spoke in favour of the motion .

      Before the meeting of Congress yesterday morning , and after a recess of three days , it had been arranged in the Senate that Mr . Calhoun ' s speech on the _Blavery and Californian questions , should be read by a brother senator , should tbat distinguished statesman continue so ill as not to be able to attend in his place . Accordingly , Mr . Calhoun made bis appearance in the Senate yesterday , stated his inability to address the Senate in person , and placed his speech in the

      bands of Mr . Mason , of Virginia , who read it in the Senate for him . Is is a very able effort , enters into a full exposition of the rights of the South as guaranteed by the constitution , enforces those rights with much ingenuity , and intimates tbat all the violations of the constitution come from the North . He is for the Union ' under the constitution / but only—and this he urges earnestly and eloquently , that the rights of the South be fully guaranteed ; to refuse the South her rights would perilthe union , and probably lead to a dissolution .

      Mr . Calhoun in his address contended that ' the power of legislation for the territories resides in Congress , and that the people of California , in formin g a government for themselves , usurped the power of Congress , and that their conduct in this respect was rebellious and revolutionary I' A startling doctrine this . In the house yesterday the debate was continued with great warmth . Mr . Van Dyke said that the North ' had been called pickpockets , cut-throats , robbers , o pp ressors , a gg r e ssors , and enemies o f the ir Southern neighbours / All this he repelled , and was remarkably severe upon the South .. Mr . Hall is to speak to-day in the house , and Mr . Hale in reply to what he called ' Mr . Calhoun ' s romance of history in the Senate . ' In the house Mr . Doty formally withdrew his resolution , and substituted a bill for the admission of

      California , as already noticed . The debate oh this bill will last for some weeks . The storm has , for the present ,- gone by , but the slavery question ' , it cannot be concealed , is as far from a settlement as ever . Mr . Sackett , of New York , commenced a de bate on the admission of California against slavery , for he contended that the ' design of the framers of the constitution was to limit ,, circumscribe , and finally to overthrow slavery . ' Other members followed in the debate , which will be long continued .

      M . Cabet , the founder of tbelcarian Community at Nauvoo , has resigned the plenary authority entrusted to hira by the contract of the Colonists , and substituted in its place a Regency of six members to be elected annually . A modification in the Constitution is proposed , bringing it into accordance witb the Democratic Institutions of this country . The election under . the new arrangement took place Feb . 3 rd , when M . Cabet was elected President of the Re g enc y and of t he C o m mu n it y .

      An address has been issued by the Hungarian refugees in New York to the American People , signed by Wimmer _. Danburghy , Pragay , and other conspicuous Hungarian patriots , bespeaking a hospitable reception in this Free Republic for those who seek to rest from the labours of battle , while awaiting the day , reserved by Pro v idence for t he r est o rat i on o f their country . A number of Hungarian refugees , including several distinguished officers of the army , thirty-five in all , arrived in New York oh the 24 th ult ., after a passage of _sixty-four days in the Mountstuart Elphinstone from Glasgow . This increases the whole number at present in New York to sixty-six . The meeting between those who had just arrived and their old companions in arms who were here to welcome them presented a scene of the deepest interest .

      The second anniversary of the French Revolution of Feb r uary was celebra te d by a public banquet of French Democratic Republicans , residing in New York , at which Gov . Ujhazy , Col . Pragay , and M'lle . Jagello were present as invited guests . The same event was celebrated by the Socialist Republicans of all nations , more than fiee hundred persons assisting at the banquet , including many well-known refu g ees of o pp re ss i o n , from Italy , Germany , Switzerland and France . The sentiments and speeches at both these celebrations were inspired w i t h th e loftiest principles of Liberty , as well as characterised by remarkable ability , I _Thefrienda of Land Reform , _vlnjadvocite ths

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      distribution of the public domain among actual settlers without charge , have held a meeting at Tammany Hall , in response to the measures pro . posed by Messrs . Webster ; Walker , Cass , Houston , and otber _^ members of the United states Senate , their principles tire making rapid progress among all classes of citizens _; thay gain new strength every day . Their ultimate triumph is certain , and that probably at no distant day . A blow will thus be struck at the general system of land monopoly ; the freedom of the soil to all who , can cultivate it will be ; promoted ' , and a guarantee secured of home ' s for the homeless which cannot fail to open a new social era in modern civilisation . i

      Those tremendous scourges—fire and waterhave recentlyprovedverydestructive in California * By t he las t , arrival we were informed of the burning of one-half of the city of . Saw Francisco . And now we have , by the arrival of the Alabama at New Orleans , news from San Francisco fourteen days later , to January 15 th— -the principal item , of which is , the submergence by a , flood of the city of Sacramento . Only one house , and t hat built on raised poles , was above the water , which was three or four feet deep . Immense herds of cattle have

      been drowned—the inundation extending over the entire valley of Sacramento , and varying from twenty to fifty miles in breadth , from the Sierra Nevado to the coast range of mountains . Much misery , starvation , sickness , and derth must be the natural results of this great overflow . The loss of property at Sacramento . . city is estimated at 1 , 000 , 000 dols . The sufferings of the inhabitants there are described as dreadful . . But ; one writer consoles himself by stating that this great flood , while it destroys much property , « will wash out the

      go ld in immense q uan tit ies . The Alabama brought sixty-five passengers , and has 500 , 000 dot . worth of gold dust on freight Her mails will not reach in time for the English steamer , all our news from her being per telegraph froni New Orleans . At Stockton the Americans at the mines had been attacked by large bands of Chilians . Several were killed on both sides , and a number of Americans , who had been taken prisoners , were afterwards released . The excitement- at San Francisco even was great on this subject ,: and all the accounts say that the Chilians will be attacked in their turn ,. and ; expelled from the country . Such a course would' probably lead also to the expulsion of other foreign ( Spanish race ) gold _diggers . . ;

      _ Many of the emigrants io California have been sorely disappointed ; their prospects and hopes are blighted , their health ruined , and compelled to stay here , hopelessl y dragging but the miserable remnant of their lives . You can scarcely imagine what suffering has been endured by a great many ofthe miners' Some have come out of' the mountains mete skeletons , but to leave their bones in Stockton , Sacramento , or San Francisco ; Some have come down with crazed minds , some commit suicide , some kill themselves by drinking ram , some by gambling , _sometore shot and butchered in personal encounter , while many Jie down and die in canons on the mountains , their frail _bodiesjworn out by exhaustion and exposure . '

      There are many dangers to be encountered in going to the land of promise , and particularly round the Horn . Captain Brown , of the schooner John Alley ne , . was . taken prisoner near the Straits of Magellan by the Patagonians . He says , that he was a close prisoner for ninety-seven days , when he jumped into the' water , and succeeded in swimming to an English boat . He afterwards went on board of a whaler , and finally reached the schooner Hopewell , from Boston , bound to San Francisco . Another letter is signed by Captain Bourne , who gives an account of the murder of Captain Eaton , while trading with the Patagonians , Two men , named Sims and Douglas , were taken prisoners at the same time .

      Immense quantities of gold have been found by the Mexicans near Sonora , and it is thought that many of the United States emigrants will bend their steps in that direction . But iu the overland expeditions there is much danger , and we have just received the account of another massacre of Americans between EI Paso and the Rio Gila . Mr . J . SHckney , of Boston , arrived at his home a few days ago from San Francisco , with a large fortune ; and almost immediately committed suicide * Tbe excitement of adventure and prosperity had tumbled reason from her throne .

      Poisoss As Medicine. Memorial Ofthe Name...

      _POISOSS AS MEDICINE . Memorial ofthe Names of the 19 , 950 petitioners , to the Ilouse of Commons , against the Dead ! - / Poisons , used as Medicine by tbo Doctors . London . - British College of Ilealth , Hamilton-place _New-road . "How many thousands of lives are there , ' my father ivould say , 'that come every year to be castaway ( in all civilised countries at least , ) and considered as nothing but common air , in completion © fan hypothesisV 'Inmy plain sense of things , ' my uncle Toby would answer , ' every such instance is MURDER DOWNRIGHT , let who will commit it . ' * There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , ' for , in the Court of Science there is no sueh thine as Murder , 'tis only Death , brother , ' '—Tristram Shandy . The medical hypothesis , uncle Toby , in 'his plain sense of things , ' here anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , that'Medicine is poison , and poison is medicine . ' This mercenary , heartiess , ruthful hypothesis , by which' human life is cast away as nothing but common air , ' is as savage in spirit ' as it was barbarous in origin ;

      and it is , at this very day carried Into deadliest practice , by the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemence that can be excited by insatiable cupidity , and by a most ravenous appetite for gain and guineas . Hut the hellish hypothesis , that' Medicine and Poison are identical' must be maintained and supported against nil ' competition '—it must be carried into a wide-spread , ¦ fatal , practice , although it may sweep and desolate the earth as with the besom of destruction ! ' And why 1 Because upon its maintenance and support , and practical application , depend the very existence of a highly respectable ond profoundly scientific fraternity—au odious and abominable fraternity , whose consciences are educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of 'The Court Of Science '—a court which is ruled solely by a favoured and fatal hypothesis that brooks no ' competition' and no demur— a court in which ' there is sucb tiling as murder— 'tis onlv DEATH , brother !!!'

      John Hunter said of poisons , that' ihey take tlieir place in the body , as if that place were allotted for them . ' Yes , 'horrid' mercury takes its allotted place inthe glands , and in the bones—in the glands it excites scrophulous tumours , and the teeth it quickly reduces to caries . . Prusic acid takes its allotted place in the heart , and there radically cures all palpitation by effectually stopping all pulsation . Alcohol takes its allotted place in the brain , and by its action upon that organ induces mania , and all' the ills that flesh is heir to . ' Strychuine , and brucine takes their allotted places in the muscles , in which tissues they frequently produce speedy and fatal spasms . The late Mistress Marie Manning had somothing more than a faint and glimmering insight into this Hunterian principle—yea , with high professional skill she carried it into full practical effect . She knew that , by a particular mode of administration , a bullet would find its allotted place in the brains of her fond admirer , Patrick O'Connor ; but , in the eyes ofthe

      professional , the skilful doetress degraded the science , bj unprofossionally blending , with her practice , the functions ofa grave digger . Hy the way , it would act as a very wholesome check upon tho poisoning hypothesis , if the Legislature could compel the doctor — despite his professional scruples and repugnance — to excavate the graves of his victims . Soyer does not possess more skill in catering for the squeaniishness ofa fastidious , appetite , than the doctore do in allotting poisons for the specific destruction of any particular organ in tbe human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons , a very learned medical Soyer , who has appended to his name the cabalistic letters , * M 1 ) . ' ( query , _^ ln _^ liM , * Murderer Downright ? _' ) In this medical cookery book there is a receipt for poisoning ; so defimto and obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes , and charmed the heart , and feasted , even to surfeit , the imagination and longings of a Marchioness of BrinvilHers . See how the medical lecturer instructs his

      pupils to ring the changes on medical poisons : 'What I have confidence in recommending you to do on every similar occasion is this-having obtained all the benefit width amnie (/' . or any other remedy has . the power to do in any case , change such remedy fov some other constitutional power , and change and change until you find improvement (!) to be the result . * * . * * In all such cases , tden , you must change , combine , and modify your medicines and measures in a thousand ways , ( ' a grand peal of poisons , verily , ' ) to produce a sustained result . Arsenic (!) gold (!!) iron (!!!) mercury (!!!!) creosote ( "it !) iodine (!!!!!!) opium (!!!!! !!) prussic acid ( 'it !!!!!) -fee . (!! I !!!!!!)( query —does this '< L c „ 'here nie ' a ' n tho virus of hydrophobia , nnd the virus of the plague , ?]\ _rnay oe all advantageously employed , both as internal remedies and as local applications ( . !!! ' ) The sixth edition , ' stereotype , ' of the Medical Lectures from wbich the preceding : extract is made , appeared in

      1815 . It was in the year 1823 , that James Monson , the Hygeist , ' first raised lus voice against the savage and murderous application of poisons ns medicines ; so that , great as has been the progress of _Morisonian Hygeian principles amongst the public at large , it wouldappeur that at present they have had little influence in this respect at least—upon medical theory and medical practice . But tiie public , ' in their plain sense ofJ things , ' are daily becoming more and more alive tb tho jeopardy in which they are continually placed , through the deadly chemicals with which the doctors essay to prop their falling trade . It appears by tbe book , wbich has elicited these remarks n ' Poisons in Medicine ; ' that in 1847 , 19 , 180 signatures were appended to a petition presented by Six B . MaUto the House cf Commons against Pharmaceutical Poisens . Considering that _thess signatures were made almost exclusively , in Glasgow ,

      Edinburgh , ond in isolated parts , of Devon , and a few other counties ; and considering that the public generally have ' since had the most horrifying evidence of the baneful 1 effects of medical poisons iu Asiatic Cholera , we have a confident belief , tliat if due- time and proper facilities were now given , in every city , town , village , and hamlet iu the kingdom , for a similar expression of public opinion , it would be found that the number of signatures would swell from some twenty thousand to several round millions . Still we consider that this book is a very appropriate and graceful ' Memorial' to the 19 , 950 independent petitioners who did not delay their signatures until the movement had become general and popular , and who maybe regarded as the pioneers in the humane and holy warfare against ma i ai _pois-ming . Had the House of Commons , in oomt inea with £ w prayer o £ that petition , appointed a commission in 1847 ; and had chemical poisons been at oneii discarded from medical practice , how goodly and rich a

      Poisoss As Medicine. Memorial Ofthe Name...

      soil might have since been saved from the grasp of the king or terrors , ' and from the graves of tha _murdsredhow many useful and valuable lives ' might stiU have been preserved to the community—how many fond and precious relatives might still have cheered and gladdened th © nowdesolate hearth ! . _- ' , ¦ ¦ c .

      Anoihkb New Printing Machine.—Another Ex...

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      sc i ences ; th ere were a l so p resen t sever a l o f t he principal printers , withtho proprietor and printer of Oalignani ' s Messenger . All testified their satisfaction and admiration on what they saw ; the stereotype cylinder was got up in exactly fifteen minutes , and the . printing on both sides quite perfect ; the speed was 15 , 000 copies per hour , which can be augmented by corresponding steam powor . The rapidity < is owing to the printing oh endless paper , not wetted , put on rollers . Each copy is cut off with mechanical precision . The paper which was printed at this meeting was the journal La Presse , but the same number of copies of the largest English journal can be produced by increasing the size of the rollers . The questions put by practical printers as regards the working of the machine and possible , accidents , wero all fully solved satisfactorily , and it was generally admitted by all parties

      that the whole wns superior to anything in existence , and that the simplicity of the process , together with the considerable economy , must form a new era and a complete revolution in printing in general ; such was the expression of Mr . Lenormand and Messrs . Firmin Didot , of European celebrity ; as besides the rapidity the economy in types is very considerable , it is only used on the' pulp for the forming of the stereotype , and not worked afterwards , which is tho case on all machines in use at present ; where as the new machine occupies small space , is simple in its construction , and of greater production than the American machine , or the ono of tbe Times ; the cost price is considerably less than those already mentioned . The journal La , Presse has given the first order , and is so well satisfied as to have ordered a sufficient number for the entire adoption in their establishment , five men , of which two adults will do thesame work as fifteen men did formerly .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 23, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_23031850/page/2/