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      France. Paris, Sokdat.—Strong Detachment...

      FRANCE . Paris , _Sokdat . —Strong detachments of the 36 th and 53 rd Regiments of Infantry of the line , amounting to 1 , 000 men , embarked on tbe 15 th at Tonlon / or Civita Vecchia . Tbe reinforcement io the Roman States amount to 5 , 000 men . The Bishop of Blois lies dangerously ill . Letters from tbe department of tbe Pyrenees state that snow has fallen in large quantities , and though the days are fine , yet during the nig hts the frost is severe .

      Mokdat . —The ' Moniteur' announces that the Attorney-General has commenced a prosecution against tbe directors of « La Mode , ' and against M . de Besselievre , who signed an article containing an offence against the President of the Republic . Tbe two battalions of the National Guard of _YflleneuTe-sur-Lor _^ have been disbanded and dis-A letter from Brodeaux of the 18 th inst . announces the arrival there of a veBsel from Canton , having on board a curious collection oi Chinese arms and costumes for the Museum of Paris . The municipal elections of Bayonne have been annulled , in consequence of not having taken place in conformity with the electoral law of the 31 st of May last .

      The responsible editor of 'La Mode' and M . Charles de Besselievre bave been prosecuted by the _Procureur of the Republic for an article of Oct . 19 tb , entitled— 'Whim of a Republican of the Committee of Twenty-five '—Containing passages of offence against the person of the President of the Republic . Paris , _Taesday—The ' Evenement' reports that M . Guizot will come forward as candidate for the Cher . M . Montalivet and tbe Mayor of Bourges are likewise mentioned as candidates . The ateliers de construction of tbe Strasburg Railway were destroyed on Sunday night by fire and materials of great value consumed .

      HESSE CASSEL . WiiHEtvsBAD , Oct . 16 th . — The Second Hayxau . —The improvement which suddenly commenced in onr affairs has been as suddenly arrested in its course . M . Elwers required a thorough change in tbe system of government ; and as interior policy determines In nearly every state in Germany the outward relationship of tbe _government to the two great powers , a liberal administration of Hesse Cassel would have implied at least friendship with Prussia , and a renunciation of the Austrian intimacy . Of course the Elector , who does not want a degree of good sense , most have understood this before he summoned M . Elwers . Perhaps

      his irresolution is the result of the influence of Count Bechenberg , who has just arrived from Bregenz , who , we may he sure , would omit no persuasions to induce bim to hold with Austria ; if no other reason , for this , that the Cassel vote is indispensably necessary to keep up a quorum at the diet . However the national cause is much nearer victory tban it was afew days ago . The elector has proclaimed his dissatisfaction with Hassenpflug , in a way that will for ever , prevent the exercise of power by that _mniater . Hassenpflug is _likely to become such . another wretched wandering outcast as Haynan . And yet the man , with good abilities , has had fine opportunities . He was exceedingly covetous . Hence

      fraud and forgery , and hence his last year ' s bargain with the Elector to do the dishononrable work of that prince in consideration of a well-assured annuity of 4 , 000 thalers . It must be a secret satisfaction to the reactionaries of England , especially to tbose who delight in deriding our first faltering steps in the path of freedom , to know that a minister can be engaged to coerce a state for less than tbe salary of a foreman in a respectable manufactory . Hassenpflug must now betake himself either to Vienna or to London ; perhaps the former would be the safer place , but certainly his presence will not be tolerated in any other part of Germany . T 7 e receive the most melancholy accounts of the utter disorganisation of the government service at Cassel , owing to the division in tbe departments

      consequent npon tbe summoning of several high-placed functionaries to Wilhelmsbad . _Letters are unanswered , permissions , directions , applications , are aU thrown aside until it shall please the lord of tbis realm to let the state engine resume its work . No absence of the Elector or his ministers effected this mischief , bnt probably Hassenpflug forgot this time to he selfish , and out of sympathy for the petty tyrants of Europe determined that Germany shonld not behold the dangerous spectacle of a people governing itself withont the sovereign and a pack of titled and highly-paid ministers . Out of tbe 200 officers who tendered their resignations not more than twenty are possessed of private property , a fact which ought not to be forgotten by the future historian of Hesse Cassel . A letter from Wilhelmsbad . dated Oct . 18 , says :

      1 The first proposals of M . Elwers have not been accepted , but it is not considered that the Elector will be able to fall back npon Hassenpflug and his two companions . It is stated that M . Duysing is again summoned to Wilhelmsbad , a circumstance which seems to indicate that tbe Elector is preparing to secure his own and his country ' s peace by a ministry which knows how to govern within the limits of the constitution . In connexion with the asserted comtemplated abdication ofthe Elector it is now stated thst the intention of that sovereign was to follow the example of his father , by sharing the government with bis successor . The Prince Frederick of Hesse was to have been made co-regent and actual governor , " while the Elector would have resided at Frankfort . '

      A letter dated Cassel , Oct . 18 th , says : — 'Preparations for the election of a new assembly are bow making throughout the land , so tbat it is quite possible that the new chamber may meet in three weeks or a month . Now is the time for the Elector io show whether he is really inclined to an honourable and constitutional adjustment of the present differences , or whether his professions of legality were only intended to mislead the ignorant and credulous . The latest information which has arrived from

      Cassel states tbat owing to certain difficulties , which are not mentioned , Elwers bad returned to Cassel , hut had again been summoned to Wilhelmsbad , together with Councillor Schoffer . The resignation of the officers is said to have produced a terrible effect on the Elector , and to bave been the chief cause of the change in his mind . The * Kreuz Zeitung , ' the advocate of unlimited obedience , finds in tbe resignation of these officers renewed reasons for opposing the proposal to make the army take the oath to the constitution . The Prussian constitution expressly provides that the army shall not be sworn .

      HANOVER . Oct . 18 th . —The new ministry has not yet been able to assume the reins of government . The capital question , tbat wbich bas chiefly led to the resignation of M . Stuve , namely , tbe affairs of Hesse , was set considered so clear that the new ministry could assume the responsibility of supporting intervention in the face of all Germany . Thus , this morning hesitation still prevailed at the palace . The eight battalions , with the cavalry and infantry , ordered lately to hold themselves ready to march towards Hesse , have received no further instructions .

      MECKLENBURG-SCHWER 1 N . Hamburgh , Oct . 19 th . —The agitation provoked in the Grand Dncby of Mecklenburg , by the total subversion of the constitution agreed on by sovereign and people in lSi 9 , and sworn to by the chief magistrate ofthe state , is daily gaining breadth and depth . The attitude of the population and army of Hesse is not likely to calm this _feelings There is no doubt but tbat for the presence of a Prussian army , which has its quarters at _Boizsnburg , ostensibly for the purpose of observing events in Holstein , grave disorders would break out .

      BADEN . The official gazette contains a decree prolonging the state gf siege for four weeks ; a provision is added , that no summary punishments are to exceed the measure of two months' imprisonment . BAVARIA . A . letter , dated Aschaffenburg _. _TJct . 17 , states that tb ** . entire second army corps , consisting of eight Vanity , four cavalry , and two artillery regiments , ' ¦¦ _sj'jiLcr wiih four _rfle battalions , have received _anlcrs to hold themselves ready to march at a moment ' s notice . All officers and men absent on leave were _recalled , so tbat every company numbers 117 men . Tbis movement is regarded as the first result of the late conferences at Bregenz .

      DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . Advices received are from the 15 tb . Our dragoons surprised and _hrotsght in a _Dan-sh cavalry piquet tbis morning from the neighbourhood of Kropp . The prisoners were an officer and three men . The resort of men to the Schleswig-Holstein standard since the government announced the intention of increasing thearmy , is very great . Tht _aatual numbers are very properly concealed at

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      present but many persons will be astonished m Ike course of a month at the army which the duchies will have on foot . The temper of the people after repeated disasters is marvellous , xt is doubtful whether in any otber part of Europe such fortitude and resolution would he displayed under circumstances equally trying . Tbe enemy however , is not idle . Colonel _Flendaburg , chief of the Danish staff , is displaying on the fortifications in Schleswig all that great technical and strategetic address for which the French school

      is so famous . The Danes are throwing up works on the west and south sides of the Island of Fehmarn and mounting them with heavy guns . The garrison there consists of 1 , 000 men . The enemy being determined that we shall not again take advantage of the Suderstapel position , had laid the districts under water . The peasants' houses are 80 many islands in a watery waste . Cattle and sheep are carried away or drowned , and the fruits of the earth destroyed . The inundation extends as far as Norderstaple and Erfde .

      Hamburg , Oct . 19 th . —With the exception of the usual outpost forays , and attempts to surprise picquets aud patrols , all remains quiet in the Holstein lines . Volunteers continue to arrive in considerable numbers , and so soon as the old battalions are _recomputed to their full strength—that is , to 1 , 500 mea—it is probable that new or reserved battalions will be formed . The Danish journals of the 16 th state tbat orders have been issued for the return to Copenhagen of all the Danish ships of war , except the smaller craft , in consequence of the advanced season ofthe year , and its accompanying storms , which render it nearly

      impossible for vessels to hold to the coast . The _« Berlingske' announces that ten inhabitants of Frederichstadt were killed and thirteen wounded , during the bombardment ; their families will doubtless be provided for by the Stadtholderate . The same report says that , of 506 dwelling-houses inthe town , 137 , valued at 364 , 720 marks , have been completely burned to the ground ; that 285 have been more or less damaged to the amount of 153 , 030 marks ; and that only two houses in the whole town remain completely uninjured . The Russian fleet , lately in the Schleswig-Holstein waters , has returned to Cronstadt .

      The Schleswig Holstein papers contain an address of thanks from the army to the young * women of Arolsen , a town in the Waldeckerlande . Ths address commemorates not only the patriotic industry ef tbese girls which has produced stockings for the soldiers in the camp and lint for the hospitals , as well as saleable articles for the baziars and lotteries , established to increase the funds of the _Schleswig-Holsteiners _, but the self-denial which has led them to forego customary articles of diet in order to be able to lay by the amount saved as an offering on the altar of freedom .

      PRUSSIA . Berlin , Oct . 20 th . —The Emperor of Russia , is in Warsaw , for the purpose of conferring with his vassal , the Emperor of Austria , and of giving his powerful advice on the most vexed of all questions —tbe German constitution . Count Brandenburg , the president of tbe ministry , has been despatched by the King of Prussia to procure , if possible , the entire neutrality of the Emperor , in case the dispute concerning Hesse Cassel should become more serious tban a mere exchange of insulting despatches .

      The earthly remains of the poet Stieglitz have been brought to Rome , and interred by the side of those of his unfortunate wife , who , in 1835 , deprived herself of life . Kinkel , the poet , is in Spandan , doomed to a confinement worse than that of the grave . He is not permitted to see any one , to read , or write ; books , or pens and ink are prohibited in the strictest manner . His cell is his tomb . He never leaves it . The felons confined within the same precincts are permitted daily exercise ; the political offender who has broken no laws but tbose against which the divine spirit of mankind rebels , is immured day and night within a cell not so large as those in the model prison at Pentonville . He complains of cold , and bas in vain requested , nay , begged for warmer clothing . Unless milder treatment is adopted towards him the unfortunate poet will soon lie by tbe side of his departed colleague .

      ROMAN STATES . Rome , Oct . 10 . —A Wholesale Military Execution . —A wholesale military execution took place here yesterday morning npon the persons of six offenders , charged with having been the principal agents in a horrible tragedy whicb sullied the streets of Rome with blood last year , during the early part of the siege . When the Neapolitans were at Albano , subsequently to the defeat of the French on the 30 th April , the defence of the southern walls became naturally a point of anxiety with the Roman government , and therefore the vineyard walls and cottages were levelled in the immediate vicinity of the city , whilst the provisions , wine , horses , and

      arms , they contained were brought In , so tbat they might not fall into the power of the enemy . No doubt such a measure was calculated to irritate the rustics , especially as the military patrollers did net always use courteous manners in the execution of theBe perquisitions , one of whicb , in a vineyard near the « Casa d' Spiriti , ' or _« Haunted House , ' brought on a quarrel , which ended in the death of the cultivator of the vineyard and the capture of three of his nephews . This was on the 3 rd of May , 1849 , and it was stated at the time that some of the patrol had been killed by a party of Jesuits in disguise , but from tbe judicial proceedings it appears that the so-called Jesuits were bona tide

      countrymen , and that none of the military were killed . The patrol consisted of carbineers , or gendarmes , and national guards , led by a sergeant of Masis ' s regiment . The latter suggested the story of the countrymen being Jesuits in disguise , which being supported by tbe discovery of some medals and crucifixes about their persons , was eagerly caught up by the furious populace , who crowded round the prisoners and their escort , loudly demanding Lynch law . Near the Colosseum , the advocate Galletti , then general of tbe carbineers , met tbe mob , and having learnt the cause of its excitement , gave orders tbat the prisoners should be

      forthwith conducted to the Castle of St . Angelo . These directions the escort attempted to obey , but on the piazza before the Bridge of St . Angelo , the ferocity of the ' people burst all bonds , and tbe . miserable prisoners were hewn to pieces and thrown into the Titer , when within a hundred yards of being saved . It is said that the first blow was given by a carbineer , who wa 3 informed tbat the prisoners were disguised Jesuits , and had killed a soldier of his regiment ; but this did not clearly result from the judicial inquiry . Altogether tbe affair was a complete furor pqputi , and the whole blame rests with the inventor of the

      calumny wbich so excited the vindictive feelings of the mob . Those who suffered condign punish ment yesterday were the sergeant in question , three carbineers , and a marble polisher , all from tbe Roman provinces , and a butcher , 22 years of age , a Roman born . The four military men confessed , received the last attention of the monks who accompanied them in tbe carts , and were shot before the otber two , wbo obstinately refused to listen to tbe exhortations of tbeir spiritual comforters . Tbe butcher saluted his acquaintances amongst the crowd , and joked with them on the beauty of the weather ; and the marble polisher turned bis bead away from tbe priest , exclaiming 'I die a true

      Italian . ' After some aelay the mangled bodies of the four first criminals , one of whom , having risen after the general discharge , was obliged to receive five other successive shots , were taken before the two impenitents to hasten their determination —the horrid spectacle induced the butcher to receive the sacrament , but the other remained obdurate to the last , and was shot without being reconciled to the church . The Roman troop 3 alone were present at the execution , which took place opposite the Temple of Vesta ; the carters who brought the criminals were disguised in long white gowns and masks , whilst the monks were arrayed in long black garments of a similar form , leaving only their eyes visible .

      Oct . 14 th . —Yesterday was productive of two sad events ; the drowning of five Trasteverini , who were crossing the Tiber in a boat opposite the Temple of Vesta 5 and a quarrel between Roman gendarmes and French soldiers at the Pace , near Piazza Navona , when _Babres were drawn and _aorae severe wounds iufiicted . There seems to be a great deal of discontent in the corps of gendarmes at present . Tremendous discontent bas been excited in Tuscany by the virtual abolition of the constitution , and the subsequent restrictive measures adopted by the government-.

      One of the favourite schemes of the Papal court at tbe present moment is the re-conversion of the wealthy and powerful British empire to the Roman Catholic faith , and the Roman journals ( that is to say , the only two papers tbat are allowed to appear ) teera with accounts of wholesale Proselytism amongst all ranks of British subjects , but especially

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      amongst aristocratic families , Pnseyite clergymen ' and university dignitaries . NAPLES , Oct . 14 . —The domestic events of Naples are confined to a continued system of police persecution , contemptible and impolitic . A Neapolitan youth , arriving a few days since from France , brought with bim a book containing ' A History of the Events of Rome from 1815 to ' 50 . ' The police immediately carried the offending _stripping off to prison , and after being detained there for a month he was compelled to pass sixty days in a religious house . Another example of the petty tyr anny practised in Naples occurred under my own eyes . A fisherman of the Cbiaja had painted his

      boat green , red , and white , the usual colours of the pleasure barques from time immemorial in the bay of Naples . A capo lamro informed the ignorant offender tbat he was a carbonera . _< Why , ' said the government spy , ' you've painted your boat as a revolutionist would have suggested . ' ' How ? ' exclaimed the fisherman . ' Don't you know that green , white , and red are the colours of republicans ? If you do not pain black or white , I will bave the boat burnt , ' The fUUerm & n ieplte * _* _- _* with Neapolitan vivacity , ' I have seen those , colours round the royal flag ; but I suppose we are all in mourning now , so I must paint myb oat black . '

      Another example of the absurd proceedings ol the police may be gathered from the fact , tbat no one is allowed to carry a common hazel stick , as it is considered a mark of republicanism ! With such trifles , and with such absurdities , the executive of the Neapolitan government is now employed whilst the king is kept in lively personal fear by those who surround bim at _Gaets ; - where His Majesty has taken to reside surrounded , by troops . The state trials continue , and in a few days it is expected tbat the fate of the accused will be settled .

      SPAIN . Madrid , Oct . 16 . —It is confidently stated that the government here have sent off orders to the authorities of Cuba , to suspend the carrying into effect the sentences passed against some of the Americans taken at Contoy , and that there is reason te hope that this cause of strife will be ultimately got rid of by their being set at liberty , as the great majority have already been .

      INDIA AND CHINA . A telegraphic despatch has arrived , from Trieste , containing a summary of India and China news . The dates of the intelligence are—Bombay , September 17 th ; Calcutta , September 7 ; Singapore , September 2 ; and Hong-Kong , August 24 : — c There was a total dearth of events of political importance , and the profoundest tranquillity reigned throughout India . The works on the Calcutta Rail _, way had been at last commenced . Sir Charles Napier was to begin his homeward journey from Simla on the 5 th of November , and the Governor-Genera ] was expected to return from Konawur to Simla at the end of September . It waa then expected that his lordship would visit the Punjaub . According to a report , which was considered very doubtful , SirH .

      Laurence was said to have fallen , during his travels in Cashmere , into the hands of a tribe , who had detained him in captivity . - A mutiny had broken out among some of the Nizam ' s native troops . The cholera was still prevalent in Scinde , Mooltan _, and some districts of India . From Singapore we learn that Sir James Brooke had sailed from Siam on the 3 rd of August . The Indian and Chinese seas are still infested with pirates . The intelligence from China is unimportant . We are glad to state tbat the health of the troops in Hong Kong was improving . The difference between the Chinese and Portuguese at Macao had not been arranged . A sufficiency of rain had fallen in Bengal and the greater part of India , with the exception , however , of Bombay and Poonah . '

      AMERICA . Liverpool , Sunday . —The Royal mail steamship Niagara , Captain Ryrie , arrived in the Mersey at half-past nine , with advices from New York to the 9 th inst . The Cambria arrived at Boston on the 3 rd inst . Tbe Niagara has 300 , 000 dollars in specie on freight . The steam-ship Hermann , from Southampton , arrived at New York on the morning of the 9 th inst . The United States steam-ship Atlantic arrived at New York at eight a . m . on the 9 th inst . The Lotus , from Bremen , went ashore On Carritucket Island on the 2 nd inst . Upwards of £ 5 , 000 sterling in gold-dust had been received at New York from California .

      Our accounts from Washington are unimportant . Sir H . Bulwer had denied the assertion tbat he had endeavoured to procure the recall of Squier . Great alarm prevailed amongst the coloured population of the northern cities , and hundreds had fled to Canada . San Francisco accounts of September 1 st state that the prospects of commerce were auspicious . Rich fruits were being yielded by the mines and quartz rocks . The Fugitive Slave Bill was creating great excitement , and several arrests had taken place . Nothing else of importance had transpired in the political world .

      NEW SOUTH WALES . The advices from Sydney extend to the lst of August . The only important item of intelligence that we can glean is to the effect that on the 27 th of July the declaration of the result of tbe poll in the election of a representative in tbe legislative council for the city of Sydney was made by tbe mayor , who announced that the numbers were , for Dr . _Laig , 970 ; for . Mr . Holden , 945 ; being a majority of twenty-five in favour of Dr . Lang , who was consequently declared duly elected . At the conclusion of the Doctor ' s address , he was dragged home in bis carriage by some of the more energetic of his partisans , the horses having been removed by them for that purpose .

      '«""••» The Murders By Poison At Laughar...

      ' _«""••» THE MURDERS BY POISON AT LAUGHARNE ,. CARMARTHENSHIRE . Last week we gave the result of the inquiry into the cause of death of the servant girl ; of Mr . F . Severne , of Laugharne , and the protracted inquiry before the coroner as to the death of the lady of that gentleman has at length been brought to a close , at which the following additional evidence was produced : —Mr . John Hughes , the coroner of Carmarthen , and who is also a"surgeon , deposed to having made an analysis of a packet containing sugar of lead , which he received from Police-sergeant Sears . Tho words " sugar of lead" were written on the paper . Ho analysed it with the view of detecting arsenic , but found it to contain nothing but superacetate of lead , with a small portion of sulpher . —Margaret John deposed that she

      resides at St . Clears , and has been in the habit of going backwards and forwards to Mr . Severne _' s . _itemembei' 8 tho period of Mrs . Severno ' 8 death . Saw Mrs . Severne the day after the fair , she was then very well . Knew Betsy Gibbs very well . They had some conversation together on a Saturday afternoon , after Mrs . Severne ' s death ' , It was before Rebecca Uphill ' s death . It was on the day that warning was given to Betsy Gibbs . She cried , and said sbe should be oblige to leave . She also " aid that MrB . Severne , in her lifetime , had said to her that she hoped that she ( Betsy Gibbs ) would bo Mr . Severne's second wife . Witness told her not to grieve , that sho would get a nother place quite as good . Betsy replied that she thought she

      would be obliged to leave Brixton ( Mr . Severne ' s house . ) Witness never saw her afterwards , —John David deposed that he went up to Mr . Soverne ' s on the Sunday that Mrs . Severne died . He saw Betsy Gibbs afterwards ; she began crying , and said sho had lost her mistress . Witness asked her how long Mrs . Severne had been ill . Betsy Gibbs said thai she had not been ill long , but she was unabled to go to church with master because she ( Mrs . Severne ) had drank a pint of whisky that morning before her master went to church . Witness did not believe her , and thought she was telling lies . Betsy Gibbs said that she herself had given the whisky to Mrs . Severne . Sho also said that Mrs . Severne got up about eleven o'clock , but was almost immediately

      compelled to go to bed again . Sho also told witness that she herself had given Mrs . Severne somo broth about one o clock , a short time beforo her master returned from church . The two other servants then camo down into the kitchen , and Betsy Gibbs did not say anything moro . On the day of the funeral witness had some further conversation witb her , and she ( Betsy Gibbs ) then told him that on tho Thursday before her mistress died sho ( Mrs . Severne ) drank two pints of whisk y . —At this period of tho inquiry , Mr . 'Severne , who was present , in a stato of great agitation addressed the

      Coroner , and denied in the most emphatic manner that Mrs . Severne had drank any whisk y on the day of her death ; and as to her drinking any whisky on the Sunday morning , it was an utter imposibility lor her to have done so without his _knowledge as he had seon her a very short period previous to ' his going to church . —The Coroner replied tliat Mr . Severne ' s own evidence contradicted the statement of BetBy Gibbs , and that it only showed that she was exceedingly anxious to account for tho death of Mrs . Severne . —William Corrick deposed that he was in the kitchen before twelve o ' elook at noon when Betsy Gibbs told him her mistress was very poorly ; but she said nothing cUo then . Witness

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      went out , and in the afternoon went to chapel . On his return he went into tbe kitchen , and Betsy Gibbs and himself were alone . She came down stairs from Mrs . Severne ' s room . Witness asked her , "How is mistress now ? " She replied , '' She is very poorly , " and added , " She will not bo long now . " Another time , when witness had some conversation with Betsy Gibbs , she told witness , before Rebecca Uphill ' s death , that "She smelt the smell of a corpse in the room , and that Rebecca Uphill would not live . " On the night of Rebecca ' s death , Betsy Gibbs said to bim , after she waa dead , " I am so _tjlad that Mary Harry is here , as her father may say that I gave her something , " meaning Rebecca Uphill's father . The Coroner then viewed the whole of the evidence , and the jury , after a short consultation , returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Elizabeth Gibbs , who stands already committed for the murder of Rebecca Uphill .

      Bxtessiye Robbery Of Jewellery In The St...

      BXTESSIYE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY IN THE STRAND . Hardly nas the great excitement caused by the late numerous provincial robberies and burglaries began to subside than it ia again roused to perhaps a still greater pitch than before by the fact that a large jeweller ' s and silversmith ' s in the Strand was entered in the middle of Monday night , and property stolen therefrom to the amount of between £ 2 , 000 and £ 3 , 000 . The house in ' which the rob . bery was committed is on the left side ofthe Craven Hotel , Strand , directly facing the Golden Cross coach-yard ; and the shop from which the valuable property has been abstracted belongs to Messrs . Clapham and Williams , silversmiths and jewellers , _nnn of the oldest established houses in the Strand .

      The hour at which the robbers must have entered is supposed to be about three o ' clock , but how an entry was effected there is not the sli g htest circumstance to show . The property stolen is diamonds of great value and other precious stones , which were not set , also a great number of rings and watches . There is not the shadow of a doubt but that plate was the desideratum with the burglars , as Messrs . Williams and Clapham are celebrated for their massive plate services , but fortunately in this they were doomed to be disappointed , as the greater portion was removed from the front shop into an inner shop , and there safely encased in a plate chest . As far as the robberies are known , it is stated that the whole of the plunder mieht be placed in a man ' s

      pocket . The robbery was first discovered on Tuesday morning , about seven o ' clock , when the shopman came as usual . To his _astonishmeut the right door was ajar , slightly fixed , and , on pushing it open , he discovered thafc the carpet and chairs bad evidently been moved from the position in which he had left them tho previous evening , about ten o ' clock . He immediately raised an alarm , and , calling for the constable on the beat , they immediately made a search , but the robbers had of course fled before daylight appeared . Information was at once given at Scotland-yard , also at Bow-street , and from the latter place Inspector Dodd at once hastened to the snot . He made all the necessary

      inquiries , and then dispatched Sergeants Thompson and West to take charge of the affair . Inspectors Lund and shaw , the two detective officers , also made an examination of the premises , and already have tbey attached suspicion to two parties . It would , of course , be unadvisable to mention the names of the suspected persons , as that might defeat the ends of justice ; but at all events these officers are quite satisfied , from tbe clue which they have already discovered , that they will be able to place the delinquents at tho bar of justice before another three days have passed . The robbery has created the greatest excitement amongst the numerous silversmiths with which the Strand abounds .

      Mutiny, At Ska.—The English Barque Resol...

      Mutiny , at Ska . —The English barque Resolution , Captain James Carmichael , which has arrived at Malta from Alexandria , laden with a cargo of wheat bound to England , put into that port chiefly on account of the mutinous conduct of a part of the crew , who refused to work the ship or give any assistance when the vessel made water ; declaring they would sooner seo her go down than take * spell at the pumps . On coming into port , the vessel being short handed , and a sudden gush of wind at the time catching her , she nearly got on shore , whilst the five mutinous seamen were sitting in the long boat enjoying the situation of the vessel . The master lost no time in landing the men in the Lazzaretto , where thoy were arraigned before a magistrate and condemned to one month ' s imprisonment for their mutinous behaviour , and another month for refusing to proceed in the ship .

      A Nkw Fire Alarum . —An opportunity was afforded on Tuesday of witnessing a new and ingenious contrivance for giving alarm in caso of lire . It is the invention of a genleman named Robinson , of Great Queen-street , Westminster , and consists of a series of gutta percha strings , which are intended to be so fixed throughout the different compartments of a house or warehouse that they shall communicate with a bell attached to the outer door . These strings of gutta percha are made to intersect each other in various directions , so that the application of fire to any part of them will cause them to break ,- and thus make the bell ring by depriving it of the support it receives from being in close contact with the street door . The principle is a very simple one , and if adopted in warehouses and other largo establishments , where a person might be employed to adjust the apparatus _. muy prove advantageous .

      Tuebapeotics,—The History Of Medicine Is By No Means Flattering To Science. It Is Questionable Whether More Is Kno01 Diseasestneir At Mis

      _Tuebapeotics , —The history of medicine is by no means flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is kno 01 diseasestneir at mis

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      wn , cause , ana men * cure , moment , than in the time of Galen ; itis certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been condemned as _failiu-es . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? * At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subject of treatment are almost a 3 numerous as thu practitioners thomselves .

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      _^ . ., „„„„ _ , T n , _TPfiwAOK . IJNDBB _B 0 IAL _PATRWfAOB . DR . LOCOCK'S MEDICINES . V Small Books * _containing many hundreds of properly authenticated Testimonials , may be had from every agent . The success of these medicines is unexampled—they are taken with equal benefits in hot as in cold climates , and their use has consequently extended all over the world , where , in every principal city or town , an agent for their sale has been established . _^ ¦ _»_»' ... This great celebrity has " tempted many to counterfeit them in various designing ways , so that it has become necessary to admonish purchasers to be very cautious , as some shopkeepers even copy the name , with a slight variation , calculated to mislead an unguarded person ) , andm the form of LOTIONS , '' PILLS , ' < fcc „ attempt to pass off imitations . , ., . , All such Counterfeits may be guarded againfstby simply observing that no Medicine ia genuine but _WArnitb _, and that the words , * DIi . LOCOCK'S WAFERS , ' , are on the Government Stamp outside each box . As a further guide to tbe Public , a description oi each of Dr . Locock ' _s Genuine Mhhcines w below . DR . LOCOCK 3 IJENUINB _iajs . un ; _ircto _u > _vy . _v _...

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      TBS BLOOD Our bodies have been entirely formed , art now forming , and will continue to be built up during Lfe from the Blood . This being tiie case , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for without this purity , disease will show itself in some way or the other . It is universally admitted that this Medicine will purify tiie Blood better than any other , and will conquer Disease .

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      (\ N THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND _vy General character of SYPHILUS , STRICTURES Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , < tc , followedby a mild , successful and expeditious mode of treatment .

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      Messrs . R . andL . PebbtandC _» ., Surgeons . _mariT _^ _^ Messrs . R . and L . Perbt and Co ., Surgeons , may h , suited as usual , at 19 , Berners-street , _Oxforflfgh ? '' London , from eleven to two , and from five to _e _uSH the _evenlnsr ; and on Sundays from eleven to one . —g * _tationFeefl . _^* " * THE CONCENTEATED DETERSIVE _Eflfltefl _* AN _ANTI-STPHILITIO BEMBDY , _^* Is recommended in Syphilis and Secondary Sympw , searches out and purines the diseased humours from . J " blood , and Cleanses the system from all deteri , _^ causes . Its influence m the restoration to health of «•? sons labouring under the consequences which _InovitSK follow contamination is _undeaiable , and it also _constihSJ aeertain cure fo rscurvy , scrofula , and all cutaneous _«« _£ tions . Its active principle * we transmitted by the medij £ of the circulating fluid throughout tha entire frame , _Z even penetrate the more minute vessels , removing and .. pelling in its course all corruptions and impurities fr 0 m the vital stream , so as altogether to eradicate the virus Z disease , and expel it with the insensible _perspiratu ' through the medium ofthe pores ofthe skin and uri nei Price Us ., or four bottles in one fer 33 a ., by which lis is saved , also in £ i cases , by which will be saved £ 1 _y , ' To be had at the London Establishment

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      IMMENSE SUCCESS OP THE NEW _MOBJ OF TREATMENT . 1 As adopted by Lallemand , Ricord , DislandH _, « others , ofthe Hopital des Veneriens a Paris , a >' . $ _noH uniformly practised in this country by _TVALTBR DE ROOS , M . D ., 35 , Ely Puce , " Holborn Hill , London , author op THE MEDICAL ADVISEE , 144 pages , an improved edition of which is _recently published " , written in a popular style , devoid of technicalities , and ad . dressed to all those who are suffering from Spermatorrhea , Seminal Weakness , and the various _disqualifying forms of premature decay resulting from infection and jouthfrj abuse , tbat most delusive practice by which the vigour and manliness of life are enervated and destroyed , even before Bature has fully established the powers and stamina of tha constitution .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26101850/page/2/