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FRANCE . . The details connected with the reception of the President , at the various towns he has visited in the coarse of his popularity hunting jeurnsy , constitute toe staple of the French intelligence this wefk , According to the correspondents of the 'Tunes '—* tao are , ' for the time be . iug , ultxa-Buonapartistsiis reception has everywhere been os the most enthusiastic and brilliant description . They are obliged to admit , that he has everywhere been greeted with theory 'Tivele Republic , ' while the anticipated exclamation , ? V . ve ie Emuerenr' has but rarely been heard , and when raised has been
wgoronsly responded to by the opposite party ; but they try to account fur this decidrdly republican manifestation of feeling by alleging that the parlies who cry for the Republic are hired for the purpose , and stimulated by liquor . The absurdity of the allegation is so evident that it would be waste of time to attempt its couiutation . One incident is ¦ worthy record ;—On visiting Fixiu he went to a bronze statue of the Emperor erected upon the estate of M . Noisot , a grenadier of the imperial guard , who accompanied Napoleon to the Isle of Elba . It appears that one of SI . Noisot ' s dearest friends is Coland Gurnard ,
now languishing in the prison of Doullens , m consequence of a sentence of the hi gh Court of Versailles . M . Noisot , influenced doubtless by a gene rous feeling , did not fail , after the ceremonious Compliments of reception , to allude to the painful position of his old comrade , and to solicit the exertimss - of the President in his behalf . Neither Louis Napnleon nor bis sune were prepared for such a serious close to the commonplaces of a formal reception . The President made answer with the offended air of One who finds himself trapped int .. an affront . It is sufficientl y well known that tne Constitution does not allow the President the prerotive of
ga . pardon ; nor was M . Noisot probably ienorantofwhitall France knows , but merely solicited the exertion of the President ' s good offices . The answer of Lonis Napoleon is thus given by the STS * y ° ' the P 5 ous hr ' ? e Which SLt J T dt ° lteE » P « w * erecting this JESJSl T ° 7- " Caress a reproach to SnJt " " from « PecUn S- The men o ! Jhotn you speak were condemned by the H igh Court of JD 5 t , ce ; it is the law which has attacked them and we must all respect it . When . he penod for amnesty shaU have arrived it will he for the Nauooai Msemh [ y t 0 decide on and not for ma : ' and the Prince tamed his heel
on . S 7 " V ° V ° f 0 rg 0 Uen that the g « ' « nment of Urns Napoleon had exerted itself to the utmost at the second and third reading of the Traiisoortation _ Bsll to insert a clause for the purpose of dipping off Colonel Gainard and his companions in captivity to Stouta-Mva . The law h , that in order to grant a pardoa , the attentive must obtain the concurrence of the Cons-il d'Etat ; but for an am-»« . * toe consent of the Assembly is requisite . As Guniari is admitted en all hands to have exortr-d himself to the utmost to prevent the foolish " „« - hr «* oi the 13 th of June , andonlv to hav * joined in it from a ial « feeling of honour , one could hard . ; have singled out a safer instance for pardon .
or one winch would be more popular ; andI to pro ! mist that the matter should be referred to the LonssiJ aEiat . would have been a conrse at once prufent , opportune , popular , and humane . But the occasion was lost ; the expressive reproach of the m'M \ A companion of his uncle ' s exile at Elba , that Louis Napoleon had proposed a measure for Iransp&rting iike a felon a sdlant and dis-iugutshed officer of the empire , must have gone home with snseuUriorcetotlie . markia the presence of tl > at lirojjza statua ; and the ungracious umbrage with which so -natural a req-iesz was received , ' will be longer remembered than the bits of ribbon which are haag upon frost-biiten remnants of the grande
At Cfaalon , after having , as usual , heslowed T . uc-. erflus decorations on the military , he turned towards the quay to embark , but was * waylaid by a group of weepisis females , who implored mercy Vor their sons and broiuers imprisoned for political motives . Tness Louis Napoleon treated more graciously than he did M . Noisot , and pr-atnispd he would propose the matter to the Conseil d'Etat . At all the various towns on tbe route to Lyons the usual hubbub of co-. flieiins ; cries arose . Oa landing in the sec 3 nd capital of Franca he was greeted by a siuuningshout of « Vive 3 a Republic ! ' from assembled thousands . 'Vive le President ; ' was also
heard . but « Vive Napoleon ! ' and ' Vive l'Empereurr were completely drowned in the larger and louder cries . The President went to the cathedral , where he bdrd mass ( it was the great feta of the Assumption , 23 d the day chosen by Napoleon to honour his own patron Saint . ) Then he repaired to the Prefecture , where he received the civil and military authorities , and renewed in the court the old soldiers of the imperial army , who hatl been gathered from all sides together for ibat purpose . The President , having bestowed numerous decorations , was on the point of retiriBg io repose himself , when a deputation of inhabitants irom La Guillolisre . said by ray
conservauve correspondent to amount to three thousand , presented themselves to pro : est against the digrespectful resolution of the majority of their municipal council , v , ho refused to visit the President . At a barque ! , in the Hotel de Ville . the ntxt day . he delivered a speech which has created considerable excitement among all parties , by its aUuiio-i to the date of the empire , and bis inieremiaHy claiming pywer on imperial djnastic grounds as * well as places Mngsrlf above the Assembly itself by virtue of the 6 . 000 . 000 votes , which raised him lo the office of President . The object of my voyaae ' m , by m jTeseace , to encourage the goon , to re-assure the alarmed , to judge by myself the sentiments ami va-j ' . s of the country . Tnis task needs your enn carrer . ee , and in order thai I mav obtain that con '
c ;; rrsnce , n is my duly to tell you what 1 am and what I wish . I am not the representative of a par v , wit the reprcientativs of two greal national rr . ar . ifestations which , in 1804 as weU as in 1848 , aimed at taving by order the great princi ples of the French revolution . ( Cheers . ) Proud , therefore , of ray origin a » d of my fla » , I will emain ( rue to both I will us entirely at th s ? rvice of the country , rchMber it demand from we abnfgation or perseverance . ( Cheers . ) Rumours of coups d ' etat have psrhaps reached you , gentlemen , but you did not believe them , and I thank you . Surprises and usurpation ; aayjie the dream of part es without support in tbe nation , bat ibe etect of six millions of suf-Uizrs execute ; , not betrays , the wishes of tbe rt'ople . '
A :. ? . 5 . M-ctf to the ( fficial accounts in the 'ilciniieaV wd f ? ke tbe lollowin ? description , given » A : > e . c-Trn spcwilfiit of I ! , ? ' EffBen . Mt , ' of the l .-fi-. ' nt s rrc ? : il ! on at Lynns on the lath in&t : — ' hi ^ . i a a .-Six hundred old soldiers of the . emp : ra have Mse-yKed at B&ikcr-ur ; five cr six liaw kept urn : i : nn :. rm . others are m blouses , with schakos
. ^ 30 , 000 c :. nt : i . yiaen , at least , have arrm : ;! a . Lyons from ihs departments of tl . e Ain , the here , and th Lni : . The curiosity is -nunenw tV . s talm psrfcct . On a ' , i sides ridicolous prcdamatiois tre placarded . Nine am . —The troops are formed in file froia the Chana to St . Jeau , following the quBTs « -. f the Saoise , crossing the stone biidge alon " sh « <»« ay of the revolution lo the entrance of the cathedral , b y the Pont Tilsit . Ten a m—L'Hiroii fldls , No . 7 , is in sight from the Observance
betweentuecsastsofFortSt . Jean and Pierre Seize . Li ihis vessel is the President of the Republic and ' j : is suite . The crowd colitcted on tl : e two hills iechvs him wish ad-afeuiug cry of « Vive la Repub-Lqus . He disembarks : the gamins cry ' Vive la I rn . ee ; the Peracbius (! he inhabitants of the quarter . ' wracbe ) cty Vive le President . ' F . ve or wm > " ^ ive rEmpereur' are faintly heard , but » o soon dro .. v 31 fcd by cries of « Vive Ja RepiAW r ^ l - " ? f ' ard hparer « ^ e W de ir n ^ ZT - fla ? , ; heira PErialea ie (¦ % " 1 Vi elaR tr taHn % &ff h * thrctcornered r ^ tt 2 KAss- srs S'Sffi 111 * srrds ' v : w ' p ^ S S . ^ ysj ^ ^ *"^^ .
• Trere are fen flags in the town ; hardly aa- but at the cabarets , which are all deeon ^^ 'JJJ kemg closed . \ Ye are m a state of siege ! All aio tte Ju « of march curiosity i § alive , A no entilUsl 3 SID « ¦' : .., Presder ..,, It any Buonapartist cry is uttered ll , e people are sdsnt , f any imperiallst J acclamaflon is raade Uis soon drowned in cries of -Vita la Repub'Generally the cries are rare , ' ^ c ept at the look SiiU ^ ?** SOme ^ * Vive I'Amnistie ! ' At SSSSS ^^' i ^* " ^
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moderates are the actors in this joust , for which they have been paid 1 , 200 francs . The principal occupation of the groguards has beec to present to the < nephew of tbe uncle so many placets . that the 15 th of Aagust may may be called at Lyons thejournee desplacets . ' In the square of tbe Pre feciure , atthebouseofa restaurateur at 25 sous , a second representation of the banquet of the gendatmes , mobiles , at the Elysee has been given . After drinking cries were uttered of Vive l'Einpereur , and the gnests showed themselves at the windows with their serviettes on their arms , glass in hand , and mouths full , shouting this imperial cry . No replies were made , the people laughed , and the agents of the police arrested ho one . In conclusion I mast tell you that the heroes of the day are the soldiers and the Republic and the empire of whem they made use fer the show .
Leaving Lyons the route of the President was to Strasbourg , where he wts to arrive on the 22 nd . Several officers of the National Guard at Strasbourg , who were appointed to receive him , have given in their resignation rather than comply with this duty . r / It is calculated that the journey of the President with his suit , costs 24 . 000 francs a day , taken from the secret funds and trom the President ' s income . M . Morin , the Republican candidate , has been returned for the canton of Thiron to the Council , general of the Eure-et-Loire . II . Duprom , the Socialist candidate , has beeu returned fur the canton 0 ! Valence to the Council-general of the Gers . M . de Balzac , the famous novelist , expired on Sunday night last .
A member of the Committee of Permanence has received a letter from the Prince de Joinville , which contains an explicit declaration of his opinion that the question for France can only lie between the legitimate monarchy and the republic ; but that a repnbiique princiere' is chimerical , end eannot last . As to the monarch y of expedients , which we have had for eighteen years , a second t . ial of it would be dangerous in tbe extreme . It should seem from this that Prince de Joinville has turned Legitimist .
M . de Larochejaquelin has written a cloudymisty letter to the Gazette de France' respecting what he terms 'The pretended Legitimist Congress ' at Wiesbaden . He denies that any special rendezvous' was given by the would-be Henry V . but states he was very gracious , though reserved ' to those who waited upon him . All that the writer lets out , as te the result , is that past divisions were condemned , and that they 'left , promising very cordially to use all their efforts to march as one man on all questions , ' and ' in the next session have the same eyes , feel the same conscience , and « ake an absolute direction . ' What tbe rule of Henry V . would be , if placed on the throne , may be judged of from the following , extracted from the Vif nnese correspondent of the' Daily News' : — 1
M . Benal , who keeps the leading hotel at Frohsdorf , has since the advent of the Count de Chambord and his court b ? en honoured with a great increase of company owing to the numbers of travellers who coran to pay their respests to the Count , especially in the spring . To meet this increasf of patronage by a corresponding liberality in the administration of his establishment , M . BsHal became a subscriber to most of the principal uewspapprs of Austria and Europe , a measure which be was able to carry out more completely , as his hotel is beyond the radias within which the existing press ordinances apply . 11 . Benal ' s premises are held on advantageous terms undtr the count
himself . A few days ago the host was astounded by a message from the cuunt , communicated through bis steward , to the effect that the lease , which would expire in the course of some weeks , would not he renewed . On inquiring the grounds upon which his most gracious Majesty King Henry V . had been advised to take this resolution so sorely afflictive to the interrogator , M . Benal was informed that the proceeding was intended to mark his Majesty ' s displeasure at the conduct of the inn-keeper in subscribing to subversive , and Radical newspapers , a dull journal published at Brunn being at the same time indicated , and h was added that his Majesty rewarded the buyers of such journals as contributing to maintain the cause in which they were published . Up to the present moment ail the
endeavours of the stricken hotel-keeper to procure a reversal of his sentence , which to him is almost one of death , have been in vain . He has volunteered the most solemn promises instantly and for ever to discontinue his subscription to the 'Presse , ' tun Brunn journal which had caused the difficulty , ' and to exclude from his establishment any papers which to * Majesty might be pleased to proscribe . The only reply vouchsafed is that the-king ' s resolution is unalterably fixed , and that he would be surrounded by 110 persons in any relation of whose political snundness he was not well assured . This little incident of tl-. e court at Frohsdorf appears to justify Napoleon ' s well-known words , applied to the ancestors of the Pretender : — 'Those people have learned nothing , have forgotten iinthir . tr . *
GREAT INUNDATIONS . IN BELGIUM . By the Belgium newspapers it appears that nearly tbe whole of the country lias been laid under water " , to the serious destruction of property of all kinds , though as yet bo great loss of life is reported . At Brussels the water lias been so high as to give serious anxiety . In many of the suburbs the water was five feec hi gh . The quays of the Charleroi canal bad been carried away by the torrents , and four men drowned at one place . In the Faubourg de Fiandre , fifty houses had been thrown down , and an immense number of cattle lost . Boats were to be seen navigating tbe streets in roassea . The whole of the suburb o ? Anderlecht was still under water , according to tbe latest accounts . In tbe fish market , a Urge ! , 0 H 5 e , in the occupa' . ion of Gerard and Co ., carriers , came dnwn with au immense crash , and fell
into the Senne . At St . Josse Tennoode . outside Brussels , the waters were still very high by last accounts . At La ? ken , the residence of the Kiric , they were on the increase . The communications ' between Brussels and the stations on the Northrrn Railway were all interrupted . It was not till late on Sunday evening that a train could get forward 10 Antwerp . Similar inteHi ence is given from a great , number of Olher towns . - Some districts are reported as entirely inundated . In the vicinity of Mons , tb ,, river Haine threw down a great part of ihe Mor . s and Manage railtvay , three enoimous breaches were made , aiul , of course , all communication Hopped .
The Independance B ? lge , ' dated Charleroi August 17 th , says : — 'All the lower town is under water ; the trilmtariesofthe Sambre haveoveifluffed and are so many torrents bringing down a deluge oi water . The railway is submerged , and the travellers by yesterday ' s train had to pass the night in tbe upper stories of the station . Tbe timber and sleepers , the property of the Erqueliimes Railway Company , have been carried away by the flmid , and plank ' s ^ billets , and logs , are evrrywhere scfn fl ; ating about , Stons of charcoal , corn , bay , and the newly-gathered harvest , have been carried awavbv the-torrent . '
The journals of the 19 th report » n increase during the night of the waters to the height of two feet and a half , and at half-past ten of that date not the least abatement was discernible . Several walls had fallen down . In the Rue de Seminaire , of Namur , the water was upwards of ten feet . in height ; . the gendarmerie were compelled to quit their barracks . The aspect of ibcSaiubre at its confluent with the Meuse is terrific ; the billows are dashing six and nine feet high . From Lille we learn that the Marque has overflowed and carried away t \ c harvest , h , that neighbourhood .. The brid ge over ihe rWcr was cairVd awaj just as a number of peasants were waichins the me of the waters from its summit . The panic * were saved without injury . Houses have fallen liefere the torrent nt Lille , and communications have been cut off m several ditectionsi
ITALY . The ' Constitutionnel' publishes the following from Ptome , dated tbe 10 th : —« A capita ! sentence has just been pronounced against a man named Pinto , who on the 2 nd ult . nssassinated l > is fatherin-law . This murder was attended with such alrncious circumstances that itappear 3 certain that the sentence will be approved of by the Pop ? , and that tV . e execution will take place after the . / c / c of the Assumption . This will be the first lime that PiuR IX . will have sanctioned a capital .. condemnation . Malefactors , however , have recently become so
audacious in their proceedings that severity has become , an imperious necessity . On Saturday last , a frightful attack was committed in , the environs of Rome on the family cf an advocate , who had taken up iheir residence in a country-house . In the evening of that dayi the advocate , afterfinishing his business in Rome , went as usual to his country house to pass the Sunday with his family , when he was met by his servant , who told him -that his honse' had been attacked by robbers wEo were pillaging it . The advocate , who was armed with a double-barrelled gen , oa coming to the house found the door guarded
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by two brigands , both or whom he immediately shot . He then entered the house , when he was suddenly surrounded by five or six men , with whom a desperate strugnle took place . He was overpowered by numhers and killed . The servant , in the meautirae , had run off to procure assistance , but unfortu . nately it arrived too late ; the rohbers had taken to flight . leaving behind them their two dead companions . The wife of the advocate was weltering in her blood but still breathing , and a little girl of nine years of age was hanging to a beam . She was immediately cut down , and hopes are entertained of saving her life . No clue has yet been discovered of the rohhers . There is much talk here of an arrest whieh
has just been made by the police at Naples of an individual who had arrived there under an assumed name , with an English passport . This individual passed himself for some one of consequence , and wa" provided with letters of recommendation and credit . A search at his hotel led to the discovery of very important correspondence with the principal revolutionists of France , Italy , and Germany . The port of Repetta was yesterday the sc *\ ne of a sanguinary quarrel between a liberated convict and a young man whose father had been killed bv the former .
The young man having been grossly insulted in a public-house by this fellow , prudently left the place to avoid a conflict , but finding himself closely pursued by the man , who had armed himself with a pitchfork , he in his own defence laid hold of a long knife , which was lying on a stall , and plunged it into the breast of his aggressor , and laid him dead at his feet . The young man immediately surrendered himself to the police , hut it is thought that the act will only be considered as justifiable homicide . '
PIEDMONT . The quarrel between the government and the Jesuits still continues . The latter , though stunned for a moment by the energetic measures of tbe Piedniontese government , are recovering from the blow . Their organ , the' Armnnia , ' has resumed its publication , and foreigo diplomacy comes to their a-d by demanding the expulsion of the refugees most hostile to the clergy . The government has just signed , at the dictation of the Austrian minister , an order for several of these to quit the Sardinian territory .
Meanwhile the Archbishop of Turin has found an imitator in Switzerland . M . Marillea , the episcopal conspirator of Fribourg , has ordered his clergy to abstain from all relations with the civil power , even before the tribunals , and authorises them to receive nothing from the state , that is , with the exception of pensions and benefices . On the 9 th inst ., about nine in tbe evening , an imposing demonstration was made at Alexandria , under the windows of the Peres Servite monks . The populace did not commit any acts of disorder , but gave the government distinctly to understand that the time had arrived when a religious order who consumed without producing anything could no longer be tolerated .
HANOVER . By order of the government the police has issued asteck-lrief ( writ of caption and pursuit ) against the twenty or more refugees who came from London to Altona for the purpose of offering tbeir services to the government of the Duchies , but were not only rejected , but ordered to q / iit the Holstein territory forthwith , under penalty of arrest . The slecHrief directs all Hanoverian authorities to arrest any of these individuals who may be met with , and , in , case they should be subject to any previous charges to commence their prosecution forthwith ; if not , to see that they be conducted , under escort , to their place of domicile .
AUSTRIA , Letters-from "Vienna of Augu 3 fe 11 th say : —An in creasing tiirience between our government and that of Sardinia Las shown itself of late . Its principal ground , apart from the . offensive tone in which the Turin papers are allowed to speak of the imperial government , is to be found in the growing influence of England , which seeks to injure the commercial iuterests of Austria in Sardinia . At this court , the government is greatly disappointed at the cold greeting , with which the late partial amnesty was received . It was expected that when the men of the October revolution were released from fortress imprisonment , the streets woul ring with ibe clemency of the Emperor ; but the enthusiasm was for the victims , and the government was only thought of in connexion with its half-kept
promise . It is utterly impossible to explain the singular policy of the Austrian cabinet , which , is continuing it 3 measures of oppression , while endeavouring to puff off its grace . Just as men are pardoned for their share in ihe events of 1848 , persons suspected of participation in the same insurrection , and wbo until the present momemt have betn unmolested , are seized , thrown into prison , and made the subjects of legal processes , and this is the conduct 0 ' the government , not only in Austria , but in Hungary .
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . Intelligence from Hamburg , under date the 12-th inst ., is to the effect that a naval engagement had taken place on the previous evening , between a Danish steamer and two Banish gun-boats and the Holstein steamer and two gun-boats . The fight was carried on at intervals till eight o ' clock on the morning of the 17 th , when the Danish force retired . One of the Schleswig gun-boats got on fire , but the flames were promptly extinguished . Neither army had thought proper to risk another battle .
GREECE . King Otho having resolved to visit his family in Bavaria , has appointed his wife regent during his absence , and this produced a ministerial crisis , two of the ministers having resigned . Every one of the public journals seems to think a crisis is at band . It is said the country is to be placed under martial law till tbe return of the King .
INDIA . By the last mail it is announced that Sir Charles Sapier has resigned '\ us command . The cause of bis early resignation of bib high and impiirtant office being , it is supposed , an assumption of authority on . his part beyond the limits of his office , i Sir Chailes conceives that this authority extends to the decision of all purely military questions , without reference to the head oftUe government , and in two or three cases that have come before him lias reduced his theory to practice . One
of these was the disbanding of the 6 Gth ] 0 . 1 ,, a measure' which is said 10 have bem resolved on and promulgated without once consulting the opinions of the Governor-General , who , while willing to defer to the superior military judgment and expert , eiice of the head of the army , could not allow his own precedence to be thus openly slighted without a protest . It is accordingly believed that the Gi > vernor-Gencral addressed an official wigging to Sir Charles Napier on his undue assumption of authority , which led him to tender his resignation .
One of the most noticeable events of the past three weeks is the mutinous . rising of a gang of Sikh prisoners , coming from Allahabad to Calcutta-. The river itt-amer Berhampooter , Captain Cawley . with the Kaleegunga cargo boat in tow , commanded by Mr . Stout , embarked thirty-nine Sikh '' . prisoners at Allahabad for Calcutta . " Among these . Weic Nara ' in Singh and Golab Singh , and some others 61 the most turbwlent Siklis , whom it wbs judged unsafe to leave in the neighbourhood of the Punjab . For security , they were placed in fetters , and then linked together by a single' continuous - chain ' : 'Hie guard placed over them consisted of eighteen " :-men ;' two being old and infirm naiks , eight gaol guards , and eight teeka burkundazes . There was a quantity ol bnecie on board belonging to government . The vessels started from Allahabad on the 18 th , and . arrived at Patnaon the 22 nd ;_ they took in coal and
wood , and about noon resumed their downward progress . After some hours the boats reached , a place called Fu ' twa , about ekht miles below the native town of ! Patria . ' The prisoners bad been , amusing themselves during the day ' with making inquiiieu respecting the gunduck , a stream which fall ' s into the Ganges opposite to Patna , its depth ; fords , direction , &c . When neav Futwa , two of . the " . prosoners solicited temporary relief from the connecting chain , and their request was complied with . In a moment , : a whistle from Nat ain Singh gave the signal ; to the whole gang to rise , and every man
sprung up , releasing himself as be could from the long chain , and rushing to the place of arms whore the guards had very considerately piled up their loaded muskets between themselves and , the prisoners . There were only four men on guard at the moment . These were quickly overpowered and disarmed , two were killed on the spot , one bolted with wounds , another without scathe . The Sikhs proceeded immediately to possess themselves of the arms . By this lime the alarm was given . Mr . Stout , of the ' Kaleegunga , ' roused by the clattering of the fetters aft , went to bbs the cause , and was immediately ; unaedj he , however , escaped forward , unharmed
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and notified thd fate of affairs to the steamer . Captain Cawley , with officers and passengers , crossed over the connecting beam to the cargo boat , but as they were -merely-armed with ¦ sticks and swords , they could do nothing against the loaded muskets pointed at them . The apparent inaction of the SikhB during this interval is explained by the fact that the liberated men were merely covering their comrades' efforts to extricate themselves . The Sikhs were nearly prepared for action , when their antagonists had fairly retreated to the steamer . They now commenced a rattling fire ' upon the steamer , and would have done great damage , but for the huge pile of firewood taken on board at Patna , and stowed
away aft , which served as a useful bulwark . A rapid search convinced the garrison of the Berhampooter that they had no arms on board fit to resist with , and as a storm from the freed Sikhs was imminent , a council of war resolved upon running the vessels ashore on the Patna bank . No sonner thought than effected , and the crew endeavoured to net ashore as fast as they could while doing so they were exposed to a severe fire from the cargo boat . One of the naiks and two of the gaol guards were killed all together , toothers wounded and three lascars . In the first shirmisb , two of the prisoners had been severely wounded ; they were , while still alive , thrown overboard in the river , by their
comrades . The Sikhs were now sole masters of the two boats . They then boarded the steamer , and found on board a sergeant ' s wife who had been unable to effect her escape . They were about to lall upon her , when Narain Singh interfered and saved her life and honour , though he could not prevent her from being plundered of all her property . A search was then instituted for the company ' s treasure chests , but ineffectually . The cabins and lockers were all rummaged and small sums of money abstracted . Slender provision as this was they were now compelled to turn their thoughts towards
escape , and finding themselves unequal to navigating > he steamer , they landed . Two boats were discovered and seized , and in them the larger body of the prisoners crossed to the side opposite Patna , making off in the direction of the Gunduck and Nepal . The officers and crew of the steamer made direct for Patna , and as soon as the alarm was given a large force was despatched to the spot and in search of the fugitives , both from Patna and Dwapore . Thirteen were recaptured , among whom is Narain Singh . There seams little doubt but the rest will also be taken , that is such of them as escape , starvation .
From Peshawar we learn that three officers ( Lieut . Pollock , and Mr . B . Sapte , assistant-commissioners , and Lieut . Miller , of the Guide Corps ) nearly fell into the hands of the Affreedies in the passes . They had determined on riding over to ihe post of Kohat , and had entered the passes when they were met by a special messenger from Captain Coke , 1 st Punjaub cavalry , commanding that post , advising ther return , as they were waylaid , i Fortunately they took his advice and returned-All our negotiations with the Affreedies have been broken off . . ¦
INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO . The ' Overland Singapore Free Press , ' of July 1 , says : ' Nothing of importance has occurred in Singapore during tbe past month , affording matter for remark , with the exception of some atrocious murders perpetrated on peaceful and unarmed fishermen and boatmen , in the Sirangoon river and near the Red-cliffs , by Malays , who appear to have been led to commit these crimes principally for tbe sake of the small quantities of rice and other articles in the possession of the parties attacked . ' Piratical attaeka are said to have been made by Chinese junks upon native trading vessels in the China Sea , near the entrance of the straits of Svn gapore . In both cases the pirates were urisuccesslul .
Reports are rife that the Siamese- are in a state of much alarm on account of the approaching visit of Sir James Brooke . JAVA . —The disturbances in Bantam seems to be nearly suppressed ,, and there are no accounts from the refractory district in Sumatra with the exception of a small expedition against a petty chief in one of the islands off that coast . The Dutch authorities at Sambas , it is reported
have lately been under the necessity of taking proceedings against tbe Chinese settlers on that part of Borneo , in consequence of their refusing to surrender a sampan pukat , which was introducing , opium into the Chinese districts , in violation of the opium monopoly enjoyed by the Sultan of Sambas . An attack had been made upon the Chinese , and it was reported that two or three Dutch officers had been killed or wounded , but according to last accounts the affair was still undecided .
COLOMBO , July 11 . —The leading event of the month has been a political demonstration on the pact of the burghers , resulting in strong expressions of loyalty to England ' s Queen and attachment to the British rule , and equally strenuous assertions of their dissatisfaction with many of the acts of the local government—especially of its head . Bad as matters have gone on under Lord Torrington ' s rule , we venture to assert that not half-adozen people in Ceylon would hear without dismay a confirmation of the rumour speculated on by our Indian cotnmporaries , to the effect that ( he island is to lie handed over to tlie East India Company . We trust no such doom is in store fur us . We . are now merely impeded in our onward ci . urse ; swamped in the company ' s over-grown dominions , we should be thrust back a century at least .
CHINA . By the last overland mail , we learn that the fatal epidemic prevailing at Canton and its vicinityis decreasing . The other news is unimportant , consisting mainly of struggles to evade 'custom ' s duties , and conflicts arising out of the smuggling of opium into the country .
NEW ZEALAND . ' W e have received papers from Auckland , New Zealand , to thelCih March . The 'NewZealander ' of that dale , after stating there had been reason to apprehend a long-drpadcd collision would take place on the 6 th , between the contending Wakaito tribes , gives a narrative ol some fearful manifestations that were mnde on that day ,, and when a conflict , in which .: scores , if not hundreds : of lives might have been lost , was , to all human appearance , averted only by the influence and exertions of Mr . Wallis , a missionary . Happily the affair ended in speeches of mutual defiance . The papers contain no other milter of any intcre&t . .
UNITED STATES . The Asia , Royal Mail steam ship , . arrived at Liverpool on Saturday ; having made ' . the run , in veiy boisterous weather , iu less than nine and a half days , from Boston . : In the Senate a bill has been introduced since the failure of the compromise of Mr . Clay . to establish the territorial government of New Mexico , and define the boundary of Texas . This bill , it is under stood , is likely to pass , as also one for the admission of California into the Union . The southern slave-holding influence appears to have abandoned its attempts to introduce slavery into the state 0 ! . California , or any other , but their object is to give Texas as much territory as' possible , in order to carve out of that Plough slave states to be adequate
to the ' preservation of'the much-coveted' balance of power ! ., ' If this can be done , the south will doubtless be satisfied . This possession of things is somewhat increased in interest . by the artivaiat Washington of a ' special messenger from the Governor or Texas to ' the ; President of the United States , informing him i > f the intention of . the Texans , to , support the \ r claim a by force of , arms . ' Fifteen , hundred' men have .. voltirit ' cered ' t ' o " proceed to Santa Fe ; arid 'fifteen thousand ' . ' wore were : ready . ' . \ Ve . uerceiva ' in this something ' of the ' ebaracter ' of , the . south . To make the threat .. planning , they resorted to the usual Uifcthod of . multiplying . b y , ten ; The President ' s message in reply is said to intimate his determination to resists any aggression on the part of Texas by . forcei ' of arms . ¦ .. - ... . ; . ; . ... ¦ . ..
Since the late successful competition of Collins ' s line of steamers wkli ' tliose of Cunard , the greatest enthusiasm , has been excited on the subject , '' A tiew irripuhe . has been given to steam navigation , and the lceeis ( if . some enormous ships have been laid . Among other designs on foot is that of n Mine of war steamers between New York and 'Baltimore to Liberia , on the coast of 'Africa , for the double purpose of suppressing the slave trade ' and colonising the negroes . The price of passage for free negroes over twelve years of age to beten dollars , -and for those . under , twelve yearafive dollars , The emicra tion is to be under the control of , the Colonisation Society . It is , understood , that , the , assistance of the governnjent . by a mail contract , and . some advances by the way will he required .,: The proposition meets With favour , and , haa been / reported . favourably to the House ; of Representatives . :
^ A very large steamer has been launched in New York to ply to San Juan de . Nicarague . It is not belteved that the route as at present intended tone used will be practicable before the lit of October . Ii
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It can be made bo the general impression is that the js ( Bv tius of . Panama will ' be abandoned by the America " ' , ; , , .:--: < : , '¦ The friv ol of . the Tehuantepee route are much pleased by ^ e promulgation , of a treaty with Mexico for the improvement of the transit in that direction . It has y * t to receive the sanction of the United States senate . The select committee of the United States senate , to whom was referred the subject of the personal altercation between Messrs . Benton and foote , on
the 7 th of April last , have at length made a report . It contains a very dry narrative of the facts , and expresses the opinion that Mr . Benton did meditate an assault upon Mr . Foote , and Mr . Foote had reason to think so ; that Mr . Foote retreat' d as Mr . Benton approached , and gained a position whence he could point a revolver with effect at his assailant , though he did not actually do so , In short , the committee came to the conclusion , that it was very wrongto indulge in personalities , or carry firs-arma in the senate , and concluded with recommending ; just nothing at all !
¦ The correspondent of the ' Daily News' says : — 1 Yest rday ( Monday , Aug . 5 ) a mob of German tailors , several hundred strong , being on a strike for higher wages , attacked a building where cheap work was done , and demolished the interior . The police , in attempting to arrest the ringleaders , were resisted . A serious battle took place , two of the tailors were killed outright , and several badly wounded , before the mob was quelled . There has been for the last few weeks a general organisation of th « labourers in this city , for the purpose of coercing their employers to allow them ¦ higher wages . In most instances their demands have been complied with . The ' tailors say that they work sixteen hours a day , and can only earn from four dols . to six do ! s . per week , while their employers make an enormous profit on the work which they perform during that
time . 1 It is a singular , circumstance that all these complaints come from the foreigners . Very few Americans , have anything to do with these proceedings , except . to give them particular direction , and to make them useful in a political point of view . The 1 Tribune' encourages all these complaints , and mixes up socialism with the advocacy of the rights of labour . Most of these strikers come to this country in a perfect state of destitution ; now they
demand a division of the profits of their employers . They are so flattered by our demagogues , that their heads are easily turned , and to hear them denounce the American ' aristocrats' with barricades and death itself , reminds us of the semes in the countries from which they have been expelled . They will prohaMy he brought to vote at the cext election for candidates who . will pledge themselves to favour their views , and this will be the upshot of the matter . ' . .
The ' New York Tribune , ' after giving the police version of the story which throws the blame , upon the tailors , give 3 that supplied by i ts' Labour Reporter' as follows : —• Our reporter learned last evening that a committee of German tailors , went on a visit to Bloomingdale yesterday afternoon , to get such tailors as had not joined the German , society to do so , as it was , rumoured two ' sub-contractors ' on ' Southern work we ' re dealing out coats at less than the rates . This committee was met by a
strong detachment of police and other persons , who attacked the tailors , killing two of them , dangerously wounding others ; twent \ -fiye arrests were made ; some of the wounded men were taken to the station and Hillenbrand ' s Hotel , where the society usually meet . It is said that on the assembly of these tailors an alarm of fire was raised , and a large body of firemen entered a' factory' shop and took out the . 150 coats to be made at low wages , which was the cause of the dispute . '
I he tailors are going to demand a strict investigation of this matter from the authorities as early as possible , and both the American and German Societies adjourned early , to meet at an early hour this morning . As usual there are hundreds of statements about this matter , and the truth can only be known after the trial . The tailors were not armed , which explains , aa they say , for the few police hurt ,-to whom they intended to do no violence . The clothes were taken to the Tombs . We leave the whole matter without comment .
The prospects of the cotton crop are decidedly unfavourable—the plant is from two to four weeks later than it was last season—the recent fine weather has caused it to grow luxuriantly but tendernot in condition to withstand a drought of heavy rains , and poorly adapted to meet a frost at any time during the month of October . Accounts from Georgia state that ' rain is much needed for cotton , ana it is beginning to dry up , scorched considerably . Corn , on the contrary , appears to be doing well , and there does not appear to be a doubt that the cereal crops will he great and of good quality .
The state of North Carolina , long a Whig state , has been carried b y . the Democrats . This is the result of the abolition movements made by some ol the Whig leaders at Washington .
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2 THtt NORTttPDM star . __ .:, _ ¦¦ . August 24 , 1850
On Physical Disqualifications , Generative Incapacity, And Impediments To Makmage.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MAKMAGE .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 24, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1588/page/2/
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