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FRANCE . Paris —The progress of the President , since our last , has not been marked by any incident worth mentioning , and he has now returned to Pans . He arrived on Thursday night at half-past eleven o'clock . His arrival had heen announced for ten , and an immense crowd assembled in the Rue de Havre in the jjeig&ooarhood of the railroad station . A detachment of infantry occupied the spot , and two companies of the Chasseurs d'Orleans were stationed near the terminns . A squadron of Dragoons and one of mounted Carbineers escorted the President to the Elysee , in the neig hbourhood of which a crowd was also assembled . .. .
Some of the indiscreet supporters of the President contrived to get up a row , and we find that the press Of Paris calls upon the government for an inquiry into the matter . We are told that the' National' and other demo cratic papers call the attention of the authorities to some outrages which were inifcted . upon peaceful citizens on Thursday night , at the return of the President , ' by a set of bandits dressed as workmen . ' This description is intended of ; course to apply to the Society of the Dir Decembre . It does not appear that the outrages of which these journals speak were very serious . M . de Girardin fills four'columns of the Presse '
of Thursday last with an answer to the ' National ' on the subject of the revision of the constitution M . de Girardin persists in advocating a revision , but in bis great anxiety to be thought even more repnb lican than the' National , ' which will see in him only a disguised monarchist , he declares that his motive for desiring a revision is to afford a chance—he does not say that he indulges a hope—that by this means the institutiens of the presidency , which he regards 33 too aristocratic , may he got rid of- A President , in the opinion of M . Girardin , is a temporary king , a king in the third degree ; and , with his present ideas of government , he cannot tolerate anything ' which has even in the third degree a . resemblance to
monarchy . With him , then , the great object is to abolish the presidency , and he calls upon the democrats of all kinds and colours to insist upon a revision Of the constitution , and in particular addresses himself to the ' National , ' whose personal hostility ^ to Lotus Napoleon is well known , with a prediction that in spite of Art . 45 of the constitution , and whether universal suffrage be re-established or not , it will be again Louis Napoleon who will be elected in 1852 , if before that time the institution of the presidentship be not abolished / This prediction , which M . de Girardin declares must be verified , will , he trusts , convince the National that it is throwing away its only chance by refusing to snpport the proposition for a revision of the constitution . On the
question of the right of revision , M . de Girardin insists as warmly as ever that it belongs entirely to the people , and cannot be fettered or limited in any way by the written dictum of M . Marrast and his colleagues in 1848 . From the moment ( he says ) when the peop le obtained full possession of its sovereignty , it could exercise it as Lonis XIV . exercised his . Louis XIV ., in taking Colbert as minister in 1661 , and keeping him till his death in 1683 , had entered into no contract for four years ; he kept him for twenty-two years , although he could have dismissed him on the day after he chose him . I have never understood sovereignty in any other way than this , whether it was called popular sovereignty or royal sovereignty . '
The leaders of the majority are determined to oppose the further augmentation of the President ' s allowance , and those who were foremost in voting the three millions will not hear of an extraordinary grant for the purpose of relieving him from fresh difficulties . It was rumoured that the President intended to take another journey in the south of France , but this is contradicted on authority . The' Moniteur' says : — ' Some journals have announced that the President of the Republic intends to visit the south of France . This statement is unfounded . The season is too far advanced for the President to think of undertaking a third journey . We fancy that his experience has not been so satisfactory as to prompt him te another experiment , besides which these things are very costly in a
pecuniary sense . The corporations of printers , and some other trades breakfasted together last week in the gardens of the Chatean Rouges . About 600 persons were present . Pierre Leroux presided . The permission demanded for the' banquet' was not refused by the Prefect of Police . The Nepaulese princes seem daily in better hu . aonr with Paris ; and their Oriental mede of testi lying satisfaction with those who minister of their pleasures , by stripping off and presenting their gorgeeus trinkets , is highly gratifying to the Parisians who are fortunate enough to attrack their approbation and secure their presents . The Solon has returned to Toulon , from which
port it departed some time ago , witn secret instructions to the coast of Morocco * It now appears that the object of the expedition was to rescue Sidi-Caddour , a near relation of Abd-el-Eader . from the hands of the Moors . This chief , having escaped from his prison at fez , was received on board the French steamer at Rabat , and has come in her to Toulon , whence he will proceed to visit his impri * soned relation . The affair of General Haynau is exciting coniderable attention all over the continent .
The ' Journal du Havre says i— ' A certain degree of agitation was remarked on Saturday morning at the railway station on the departure of the eleven o clock train . It was rumoured in the crowd that General Haynau was about to proceed to Paris by the train . Every eye was directed to an elderly man , of a military look , very corpulent , and with stern features ornamented with immense black moustachios . ' It is Haynau / people murmured , ' It is the Austrian batcher , it is the man who flogged women 1 ' Fortunately some nne was present who was able to state that the person in question was a
Mexican general , M . Santa Cruz , who has been at Harve for some days . He cannot have been much flattered at being taken for Haynau , and exposed on the part of the population of Graville to an ovation like that which the' pacificator * of Hungary obtained in the brewhouse at Bankside . It will become dangerous for persons having any resemblance to the too celebrated Austrian general to wear long moustachios . On Friday , for example , a gentleman going from Caen to Havre , by the Neustrie steamer , was supposed to be Haynau , and was very nearly snbjected to disagreeable demonstrations . '
the Constitutionnel' has an article describing the meeting in London in honour of the brewers and draymen of Bankside , who committed the onttage on General Haynau . After giving an account of the speeches at this meeting , the ' Constitutional says : — ' The origin and composition of the meeting were disclosed by the ardour with which three cheers were given for Kossuth and Hungary , for Mazzini and the Roman Republic , for the French Socialists , for the German patriots , and for those of Poland . The various bodies of emigrants mutually accorded to each other this easy testimony of esteem . So terminated this pitiable farce , worthy to crown the ignoble scene which had preceded it . Such acts are useful to be pointed to , in order to show how the
population of a great city can be exposed , by the exploits of small groups of bandits , to be misunderstood or calumniated . If the attack on Marshal Havnan was really to be imputed to the English people " ; if , above all , that same people , after having allowed a shameful outrage to be committed , had debased itself so far as to decree an ovation to the authors of thh infamy , England ought to be placed in the lowest ranks of civilised nations . But , for the honour Of the English nation and of the age we lire in , that is not the case . In admitting that the heroes of Bankside have not decreed crowns to themselves , they who have committed the outrage , and they whe have given it their approval , are mutually of the same value , and both together form only an exceedingly Email and dispicablfi minority in the midst of two millions of men . '
The government has consented , in compliance with the representations of the Committee of Permanence , to Inst itute an inquiry into the riotous proceedings of the' Decembriseurs' on the night of the President ' s arrival before the terminus of the Rouen Railway . Marshal Haynau . — M . Pierre Leroux proposed , at a democratic banquet , given a few days ago , a toast te the health of the brewers at
Bankside . The ' Assemblee Rationale' takes occasion from this circumstance to comment upon the barbarous instincts of the socialists ; bat the toast was perfectly consistent with the philanthropic sentiments which M . Leroux has always professed , and was as follows : — ' To the brewers of London , not for having committed violence , as the calumniators of the people say , but for having respected the life of a man who never respected the lives of his Mow creatures , and for bating contented them '
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selves with marking him with infamy and manifesting spontaneously the honor and disgust with whieh his crimes had inspired them . ' It was reported on Wednesday that M . Guizot has declined to come forward as candidate fer the department of the Chen If we are to believe the ' Opinion Publique' and the ' Union , ' two of the leading organs of the Legitimists , it would appear that the partisans of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon are determined to resist any proposition for the prolongation of the powers of Louis Napoleoo .
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . The opening of the first regular session of the National Assembl y of Holstein took place on the 9 ib inst , with as much solemnity as dignity . The deputies attended divine service , and , after calling for the sanction and support of Heaven , repaired to the hall of meeting , and fell straightway to work . There was no pomp , no king , no court , no ceremonial , not even the firing of guns . In the present state of all minds this would have seemed frivolous and impertinent . At the church a distinguished divine , Mr . Wolf , preached a sermon in
which devotional and patriotic feelings were finely blended . This discourse produced an excellent effect , but that of Count Reventlow , pronounced a few moments after in the hall of meeting , left a still stronger and more positive impression . The calmness and strong decision with which the sermon was delivered are strongly characteristic of the entire body of this worthy people , standing as they do surrounded with afflictions and trials . One could hardly go from the hall after hearing this simple , noble , and moving speech without an inward assurance that the cause in which it was uttered was
not one that could immediately perish . Count Reventlow then presented several . bills in the name of the Staathalterschafr , one on the law of recruiting , which provides that the government shall not call upon persons under twenty years of age to serve in the army , one on the budget , and one on a voluntary loan . Count Reventlow added that the government did not contemplate proposing more laws , and recommended the states to follow its example , since they were not in a position to take in hand more business than was actually
necessary . The election of M . Bargum as president showed at once that on ail leading subjects the chamber would be unanimous , since both conservatives and the opposition have voted for the ex-president of the Constituent Assembly . The first vice-president , M . Mummsen , was taken from the conservative , the second , Dr . Gulich , from the opposition side of the chamber . Only sixty-six members were present ; had all the electoral bodies in Schleswig been at liberty to return representatives 100 would have appeared . In the north of Schleswig , however , elections have been impossible , and even in the south many members have not been able to leave for Kiel .
The severest engagement that has taken place between the two armies since the battle of Idstedt occurred on the 12 th inst , the Schleswig-Holstein troops having made a reconnaissance towards Eckernforde and Missunde in a strong force , and attacked the bridge across the Schlei at the latter point , but without success ; after cannonading the defences of the bridge on the north bank of the Schlei for more than an hour the artillery was recalled , and the troops supporting it retired along the line of country by which they had advanced during the day , bivouacking to the north of their
original positions . After the cannonade ceased , and as the troops sent forward with the batteries were retiring , the Danes , who had drawn in the bridge threw it across the creek again , issued from the entrenchments with several field-pieces , and for some time considerably annoyed the Holsteiners , who were on the chaussee to Eckernforde , and immediately south of it , but they were in too great force to be pursued , and as soon as the Danes discovered the strength of the battalions which bad not been engaged , they ceased the pursuit and regained their fortified position .
A cannonade in front indicated that the attack on the bridge bad began . The 2 d and 4 th battalions were stationed to the south of the Eckernforde chamsee ; the artillery was on the rising ground overlooking the Schlei , beyond Cosel , supported by a body of Jagers , I do not know of what corps , and some infantry and cavalry ; but throughout the day the greater part of the Hue was not in action at all . The Danes bad ' abandoned the tetedupont on the south bank , had withdrawn ihe bridge , and returned the fire of the Holstein fieldpieces from the strong fortifications on the north bank ; the Schlei at this point is very narrow , not more than 200 paces across . To the west of the bridge were two Danish gunboats , which also took part in the action . It lasted from half-past four
till nearly six , when , as no impression bad been made on the works , the firing on the Holstein side was stopped , and the guns brought back to the Eckernforde chaussee , towards the main body of the force . The whole were preparing to retire to their positions in the rear , when it appeared the Danes had , with almost ) incredible celerity , again thrown the bridge across , and had sent out a force with field-pieces in pursuit : they fired at the chaussee and expedited the retreat of the waggons of the train considerably ; but finding the main body south of the road too Btrong , they did not continue the pursuit for any distance , and the Holsteiners retired towards Osterbye in good order . This was the close of the engagement . The Holsteiners , as they retired , set fire to the Danish camp , and in two hours it was entirely destroyed .
Of the loss of the Holsteiners during the day no precise account can yet be given , the details must be supplied from the future official reports . To the left , against the town of Schleswig , nothing was attempted . The Holstein artillery has proportionately suffered the most . The result of the affair may be briefly stated . The line of operations from point to point was extensive , and the number of wounded ) killed and . disabled may amount to about 200 of the Holsteiners , but it is only a rough guess . There has been no further movement . The Holstein troops have returned to their position at Duvenstedt ,
Rendsbuegh . —On the 14 th inst . the main body of the Holsteia army , which had remained at Beckendorf on the whole of the 12 th and 13 th , waiting for the expected advance of the Danes , have since returned within the lines of Witten and Bister . The Danes have not appeared since the last accounts . The government stated to the Assembly at Kiel , that the operations at Missunde had been to draw the enemy from his cantonments , and that Eckenforde bad not been retaken by the Danes , but abandoned by the Holsteiners in order that the enemy might sot set fire to it from his ships .
An order of the day by General Willisen , of the 13 th , says : We have obtained what we wanted , have driven the enemy from Eckenforde , Holm , Kocbendorf and Hummelfeldt , and destroyed his camps , and shown him that he is not-master of Schleswig . HESSE CASSEL . We take from the German papers the details of a revolution which has just taken place in Hesse , and of the flight of the elector . Some of these particulars may have met the readers eye before , but we give them now consecutively and authoritively . M . Hessenpflug ' s elevation from the chair of a small university to the presidency of a small German
State came just in time to save him from the consequences of a forgery , of which the Court of Appeal at Greifswald found him guilty ; and the elevation to the premiership of a government of such a man was felt by the people of Hesse as a national disgrace . The Hessian Diet , tardily convoked , and convoked , too , for the sole and express purpose of granting supplies , recorded their want of confidence in a cabinet which was composed of such budget , they refused to make an unconditional and unquestioned grant of money and power . They were consequently dissolved . Immediately after their dissolution a decree was published , by which the Elector in Council declared that all public
burdens and taxes should , until further notice , be received by and in the interest of bis government . The Standing Committee which the dissolved Diet had appointed to walch over and to defend the interests of constitutional government protested against this decree as illegal and opposed to the spirit of the Constitution , and steps were taken to obtain an injunction from the High Court of Appeal to counteract the late despotic measures of the Cabinet . It was then , when the country , though united in a legal opposition , was in profound peace , that M , Hassenpflug obtained the elector ' s signature to a decree which imposed on the Electorate of Hesse the burden of martial
law . The Courts of law , when appealed to , pronounced the proclamation of martial law to be illegal , and when a sergeant aad his troop appeared to execute some violent order they found tbeaaelves opposed
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b y the messengers of justice , armed with injunctions and judicial decrees . They were thus compelled to withdraw from the printing presses and newspaper offices which they had seized ; the persons whom they attempted to arrest were instantly claimed by the civic magistrates , who disputed their authority , and threatened them with the consequences of their illegal proceedings . The public prosecutor , when applied to by the Committee of the Diet , preferred an impeachment against M . Hessenpflug , and issued a warrant for his attachment ; and althoug h the execution of that warrant was impeded by some technical irregularities , it was easy to foresee that these objections would be removed , and that M . Hessenpflug would be compelled to take his trial on the charges of mat practices and treason .
An earnest ot his fate was given him by the arrest of M . Muller , a commissioner of police , who had consented to execute one of the illegal mandates which Lieutenant-General Bauer , the military commander , bad given him . He was accused by the party aggrieved and taken into custody . This was on the 11 th inst . The crisis was rapidly ripening , and M . Hassenpflug , who at length began to doubt the success of his ' energetic measures / would fain have made his peace with the civic powers , whom be addressed in terms ot the most abject humility , justifying his late measures by protesting ' that they were not indeed warranted by the condition of the country , ' but tbat the duty the Elector owed the Conf ederation and the Federal Diet' had compelled him to conquer his own feelings and to afflict the country . .
On the 12 th inst ., affairs wore a slill more sinister appearance . One of the Genoy . ils refusa l * ¦¦• obey orders , and left the service ; the arrest of Hassenpflug was hourly to be expected , and there was no relying on the soldiers . Thus opposed by the people , by the courts of law , by the civic magistrates , and retaining but a weak hold on the soldiery , the Elector and his Premier knew that they could expect no help from any of the other German States ; and , in a state of intense fear , the Elector and his Minister fled to Hanover , where he arrived on the evening of the 13 tb , and ,
after an interview with the King , on the following morning continued his flight by railway to Minden and Duaseldorf , intending to repair to Frankfort and to implore the interference of tbeFederal Diet , which lias of late been revived in that city under the auspices of Austria . At Dusseldorf he was warned by the police not to continue his journey by rail , as his presence in the train had transpired and as there was some danger of a demonstration on the part of the populace . Taking the hint thus kindly given him , the fugitive Prince left the railway and posted to Langenfeld .
M . Hassenpflug , who was not invited to accompany his master to Hanover , arrived at Rheda in Westphalia on the 13 th inst ., and on the following morning he took the train to . Cologne . He was pale , and his features were distorted with fear and the fatigues of his journey . He informed bis fellowtravellers that he was proceeding to Coblentz , but it was generally supposed that he intended to escape into Belgium . His presence in the train having be ' come known it was soon whispered at all the station that the 'Hessen fluch , ' ( Hessen ' s curse ) was a passenger in a certain carriage , and everywhere publicopinion vented itself in groans and execrations . On the arrival of the train in Dusseldorf the gendarmes on duty were informed of the presence of Hassenpflug , the convicted forger of Greifsweld . One of the
passengers , who had paid a particular and by no means welcome attention to M . Hassenpflug's bearing and features , was canvassing the subject with one of the gendarmes , when the ex-Minister , unable to retain his pent-up emotion , addressed him with , 'I say , sir , why do you persecute me ? ' ' Sir , ' replied the passenger , ' I do not persecute you . I ' m just telling this man of the villanies of that scoundrel Hassenpflug . ' The gendarmes asked : him for his passport , and when the Minister produced tbat document a voice was heard to cry , ' Look sharp , man , whether it is a good passport 1 You know he ' s a forger ! ' Upon this M . Haasenpflug was arrested and taken to the police station , but he was subsequently allowed to proceed by post to Langenfeld , where he intended to wait for the Elector ' s arrival .
The Chief Burgomaster of Cassel published a pro clamation , declaring that , although the sudden departure of the Sovereign has given ground for apprehensions , the late negotiations between the military and civil boards have removed all cause for anxiety , ' Cassel , ' according to the concurrent testimony of all German newspapers , ' remains in a state of the profoundest tranquillity . ' We have intelligence from Cassel to the 16 th At that date the country was profoundly tranquil General Bauer still commanded the troops . The ministerial impeachment process had not terminated before the Supreme Court of Appeal . It was announced on the 14 th that the Elector had given orders to remove the court to Hanau . The civil authorities and military commander have agreed .
From Frankfort we learn that the Elector arrived there on the 16 th , accompanied by Hasssenpflug . The Supreme Court of Appeal has thrown out the indictment against ministers for abuse of office . Many of the higher as well as subordinate officials have been ordered to repair to Hanau , where the minister will fix the seat of government .
HESSE-DABMSTADT . Our second chamber , says a letter from Darmstadt , of September 11 th , constituted its bureau to-day . The democratic party , who all pride themselves upon their courtesy , gave the first Presidency of the chamber to Professor Hillebrand , president of the former chamber , although he does not belong to their ranks , nor yet is he the best qualified for the post . Dr . Hillebrand , however , was too modest to accept the speakership , and a second election gave that office to M . Mohr , confessedly one of the most able men in the chamber , and a decided democrat . M . Hillebrand was then elected a vice-president , with M . Lehnefor his colleague . The Constitutionnel party in the chamber consists of five members , two of whom are unable to attend Us sittings .
HANOVER . On the evening of September 11 th a considerable crowd assembled in front of the British Hotel and the name of Hayaau was soon heard above a storm of maledictions and hisses . As the rage aad num . bers of the populace were increasing , a body of police were sent from the nearest station , and two of the crowd were taken off , upon which the uproar became greater than before . At half-past eleven , three divisions of the city guard were turned out , who succeeded , after a time , in dispersing the crowd .
MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN . Sep . 16 . —A proclamation has appeared abolishing the constitution , and releasing from their oaths all who have sworn to it .
WURTEMBURG . The High Court of Justice of Wurtemburg has given its decision on the impeachment of the exminister of foreign affairs , Baron vVatchter Spittler , on a charge of having violated the constitution . The court declares that there was no . foundation for the impeachment . AUSTRIA . The 'Austrian Observer' of Vienna of the 9 th expresses itself very indignant at the treatment of Gen . Haynau in London , and announces that the Austrian Ambassador at the Court of England has formally demanded that satisfaction may be given to bis Government by bringing the offenders to trial . The projected political organisation of Hungary received the sanction of the monarch before his
departure , and must soon appear . Further amnesties have been granted in Hungary : eight of the Austrian officers who , having served against the state , were condemned to many years' imprisonment , have been liberated , and all the officers who were sentenced to imprisonment in irons have had their fetters knocked off . May not the London brewers claim some credit / or this amnesty ? Sep . 15 . —The law on the organisation of Hungary is published . The country ia divided into six provinces , to be administered by a governor residing at Pesth . The new organisation of Gallicia has received the imperial sanction . PRUSSIA .
Berlin , Sept . 14 . —On the 12 th , orders were sent to the commanders of several divisions to lead them to the Hessian borders ; to day instructions were given to the same officers , through the telegraph , to march into Hesse-Cassel in case the troops of the other states should enter the electorate . In all probability Prussian troops at this moment occupy Hessian ground . A resolution tending to that result was taken in the cabinet council held this morning at Sans Souci .
ITALY AND THE PAPAL STATES . The * Roman Journal' of the 4 th inst . announces the arrival of M . Wiseman in Rome . The civil tribunal bad sentenced Messrs . Armellini . CorbalU ) Fabri , Guiccioli , and Manzoni to reim-
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burse , within a delay of three days , a suu . " ° 3 , 000 scudi , applied by them to the election of M ~ bers of the Constituent Assembly . The Pope had reduced to three days the quarantine imposed on vessels coming from Marseilles . The ' Statuto' of Florence , of the 7 th , mentions Senator Lami as the successor of Sigg . Capoquadn and Mazzei to the united portfolios of Worship and Grace and Justice . By an order of the Holy Office of Ancona , dated the 25 th of Augustall Christians under twenty-five T
, years of age , if male , and under thirty-five , if female , who are actually in the service of Jewish families , are to leave their places by the end of September . This order has been specially notified to every Jewisft family of the town . ,. « \ - »• . M . Octavius Gigli , Director of the Statistical Board of the Ministry of Commerce , bad been ar rested for giving an asylnra to M . Barba , who , having acted as commander of the movable civic guard under the Republican government , was excluded from the benefit of the amnesty . Count
The proceedings against the murderers of Rossi , interrupted for some time , had been resumed with activity . The real assassin was behevsd to be in the hands of justice , but his name was kept 8 On the 5 th inst ., a band of thirty-five highwaymen were tried by the Council of War , sitting at Bologna . Twenty-six were sentenced to death , and nine to hard labour . Ten of the former , being under twenty-one , years of age , had their sentence commuted to hard labour , and the sixteen others were shot .
PORTUGAL . Such are the reportB spread every day of revolutionary movements that it ia difficult to say with any certainty how things are to turn out . It is an acknowledged fact that all the parlies are at' work ; if the object of the liberal party is solely to overthrow Count de Thomar and his colleagues , to bring into office the Duke de Saldanba and another clique , I cannot say ; but as tbat party are persuaded that it cannot succeed in imposing a ministry upon the Queen except by some emeute , it is not surprising if the friends of Saldanha in the army take a part in it . It is said tbat the Duke de Saldanha has had
some interviews with Count das Antas and the leaders of tbe Progressistas . It is positively known that Saldanha , to avoid suspicion , has several times left Cintra in the night to come to Lisbon to be present at certain interviews , and returned also the next night , the servants reporting the Duke as being unwell and keeping his bed . Want of money has been perhaps tbe strongest motive to prevent the explosion . The dilapidated condition the finaces are in , and the hafred M . Avila , Minister of Finance , has called down upon himself , have brought new embarrass , ments on the government .
SPAIN . : ¦ Various old home claims against the Treasury it is said are about to be settled , and the statement ia confirmed by a royal order . Tbe sensation produced in political circles , in general by the result of the elections is very considerable ; and not only the defeated parties—I allude to the Progressistas and the Conservative opposition — but even the orthodox Moderados themselves are dissatisfied with the constitution and aspect of . the new Congress . With the exception of the Balearic and Canary Islands , which return thirteen deputies , the result is known . The Congress consists of 349 deputies , and of the late Congress about half the members have not been reelected .
GREECE . The' Wanderer' of Vienna has the following ac . count in a letter from Athens of the 3 rd , of the murder of M . Korfiotakis , Minister of Public Worship and Instruction in Greece : «—'He had returned on the 1 st from a promenade with his wife and a Senator Antoniades . In his house there is a cafe , and when his carriage stopped a number of persons were seated at the door drinking
coffee . The senator first alighted ; the minister followed , and presented his hand to bis wife to enable her to descend . At this moment a man approached M . Korfiotakis , and discharged in his heart a pistol loaded with six balls . The assassin fled , but was seized . He , however , broke away , and he threatened to stab any one who should touch him . He was , nevertheless , subsequently secured , as were also two persons known to be his accomplices . The minister died some hours after . He had raised
himself by bis talent to his high position . He leaves a wife and four children without fortune . The assassin is supposed to have acted from political vengeance . '
UNITED STATES . The steam-ship Europa , captain Lolt , arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday morning , a few minutes after midnight . She sailed from Boston on the 4 th , and Halifax on the 6 th inst . Her latest New York dates are of the 3 rd . No later news had been transmitted to Halifax by telegraph . The events of the week , the news of which reach us by the Europa , are the execution of Professor Webster at Boston on the 30 th August , and the arrival of Jenny Lind at New York . In Congress the usual Appropriation Sill has been passed by tbe house , providing for the current items of national expenditure . The bill for the abolition of the slave trade in the district of
Colombia , on the motion of Mr . Clay , was made the special order of the day in the Senate for the following Monday . This was opposed by the advocates of slavery , but they found themselves in a minority of twenty , and the measure was adopted . A committee appointed some months since toexa mine the case of certain officers under Mr . Polk ' s administration , who were charged with improper interference in the elections , have reported that some persons , including the editor of the ' Union , ' bad declined answering the questions of the committee , and it was proposed tbat they should be brought before the bar of the house for contempt . 1 This useless question , ' says the Tribune , ' ' has cailed forth no small bickering , and on other subjects nothing has been accomplished but an enormous amount of talk , '
Advices from Porto Rico state that an order has been issued by the government of the island for abolishing the duties on provisions ( excepting flour ) after the 1 st of October . Some other articles of prime necessity to the productions of the island were to be admitted free of duty . A destructive epidemic has made its appearance in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , causing one hundred and nine deaths in two days . It bears some resemblance to the cholera , but is supposed to be a species of malignant dysentery . It is confined , in a great measure , to the German population of the city .
Governor Bell ' s message to the Texan legislature on the subject of the difficulties with the general government , is a length y and rather bellicose document . After recounting the steps already taken in the matter , the Governor intimates the measures he things ought now to be adopted . . The Americans really seem to have a keener relish for tbe horrible than the English , which is saying much . Their papers are full of long and sickening details about Professor Webster's execution . These accouuts are drawn up in the style of our melo-dramas . We extract from the ' New York Herald ' the account of the last moments of the criminal .
The Last Hour . —Quarter-past Nine . —The Sheriff informed the witnesses to the execution that their sad duty was about to commence , and re . quested them to accompany him to the gaol . They walked arm in arm followed by the reporters for the press , and spectators , into the corridors of the gaol , and to the door of Professor Webster ' s cell , which was thrown open . The Rev . Mr . Putraan then , iu tbe presence of all assembled , offered a
prayer , Professor Webster being on bis knees . When the religious services were concluded , the spectators who were invited in to hear it returned to the gaol yard . Dr . Webster was then pinioned , and a « procession formed of the witnesses , preceded by tbe sheriff , with a cocked hat , and sword attached to his side . The sheriff directed the witnesses where to take their places . He then ascended the scaffold for the purpose of seeing that nothing was left undone . :
TWENTV-FIVK MlNUTEB TO Ten O'CLOCK . —• Everything being ready for the execution , Professor Webster ' s arms were , pinioned , and he was directed to take his place in the melanchol y procession which was being formed . He did so . The high sheriff led the way , followed by the gaoler and turnkeys of Leverett-street gaol . Next came Professor Webster , supported by the Rev . Mr . Putman , whom the unfortunate man requested to' stay with him to the last moment , and constables Dexter and Easterbrook . Professor Webster walked firmly but dejectedly to the scaffold , amid the most profound silence . His step was firm , asd his countenance
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betrayed no emotion . He . looked at the ground , and was apparently resigned * J » . the down wtaj awaited him . He was dressed in a plwn suit rfuS . 1 S 3 had : noneckcloth . His frock coat w& buttoned the greater part of the way . , ™ E , < jhtebV Minutes to Ten o'Clock . -- The « . £ £ . Placed round Professor Webster's neck , and Z 5 £% ™ ° » Aninten 8 e feeling i 8 D ^' 1 g % & % 8 £ * to Tek o'C , oCK .-The , hS Sessing the people as » embled , speaks as SsS& « -ffitfSK : s £ ft 2 & * £ •«»* death warrant . ' _ ... „ . ; ' . . „ " .... Theaheriffthen turned round ... Z ^ I ^ -Vll ^^ S ^ hrwiiiii ,
The Execution , faced the prisoner , took a single step , placed hia foot on a spring—the part of the platform on which Professor Webster -stood fell , and tbe unfortunate man was hanging by the neck . The fall was about eight feet , and to appearance his neck was dialocated . He struggled but little , and evidently suffered no pain . The only evidence of the death struggle which he manifested was a slight convulsive movementof the legs , which were partially drawn up for an instant . In less than four minutes all suns of life were extinct . After remaining suspended just half an hour , Drs . Henry G . Clark and Charles H . Stedman examined the body , and informing the Sheriff that life was extinct , that officer so declared it to the legal witnesses and spectators , and at the same time thanked the witnesses , in the
name of the commonwealth , for attending and aiding the officers of the law in the painful duty which had just been performed . A pine coffin , painted black , was then placed beneath the body . The corpse was lowered , tbe rope removed from the neck , the lid of the coffin was nailed down , and the body was then removed to the cell which Professor Websier recently occupied , according to the Professor ' s ' express desire . It will remain there till evening , and then be delivered to . the friends of the
unfortunate criminal . While living Professor Webster enjoyed the sheriff not to permit any person to look at his remains while they were in the goal . I understand that late in the evening tbe body will be taken to Cambridge , where arrangements will be made for the funeral , which will take place on Sunday next . Thebodywill . be deposited in tbe family vault , at Mount Auburn , one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world . Everything connected with the funeral was arranged by Professor Wehster himself .
Immediately after the execution took place , 1 was informed that Professor Websier was interrogated , shortly before the execution , as to whether he wished to make any further confession . In reply , he said that he did not—that the Ia 8 t confession was true , and that he could not add to nor substract from it . —He died / therefore , with the assertion that the killing of Dr . Parkman was not premeditated—tba t in a moment of passion he struck him with a piece of grape vine—that death was the result , and that for the purpose of concealing the act , he attempted to dispose of the body in the manner specified .
MEXICO . The extraordinary session of congress , which had been awaiting the subsidence of the cholera , was opened on the 8 th of August , when Don Luis Couto , was elected president , and Don Jose Maria Blanco , vice-president , of vhe Assembly . All the journals unite in saying that the contest for the election of the president of the republic was being carried on with greater fury than was ever before known . In the capital it is stated that rumours of a pronunciamiento were rife , and that many of the military supposed to be implicated in it had been ordered to quit tbe city . Eight journals had united in a protest against the election of General Mariano Arista as dangerous , unpatriotic , and even criminal . Several of them published details concerning the private life of Arista .
The cholera had appeared in Tampico , but as yet was not so terrible in its ravages as elsewhere . At Vera Cruz the disease was rapidly declining , and in the capital it had quite disappeared . The' Eco del Comercio' complains of the great suffering tbat prevailed in Vera Cruz , owing to the high price of flour and its bad quality . All descriptions of provisions were scarce , and apprehensions were entertained of a famine along the sea shore . Sugar was auove the purchase of any but the rich . It was thought that the government would be called upon to abolish the duties upon foreign produce and allow it to enter free . The war in Yutacan was not so violent , heavy rains having ; fallen in many parts of the country .
CANADA . The ruins in the neighbourhood of Craig and St . Lawrence sts ., caused by the last fire , attract crowds of the curious , but I regret to say that there are few symptoms of rebuilding , though tbe season here compels such work to be performed before November , when the frost sets in . The last fire will be more felt in a pecuniary point of sense by the middle classes than any we have vet had . The citizens are
getting up a pn&IlC meeting to pronounce precautionary measures for the future , but few , however , anticipate any benefit from the demonstration . The corporation have not power to interdict wooden buildings in the suburbs , and they will not widen the streets within the city limits—So we must await patiently for another extensive fire to convince the thickheaded that wooden buildings stuck close together are not adapted to a large town .
The Citizens are full of a proposed cheap trip to Boston . Only fancy , the railway kings offer to carry the Montrealers to Boston , show them all the rare sights , and carry them back for five dollars . The firemen are to go in a body , and perhaps altogether some two thousand of our people 'will leave upon the third of September , the day appointed for the celebration . The Yankee folk could not have bit upon a more ingenious mode of inoculating the
Canadian masses with republican notions . Coaxing is a deuced deal cheaper than fighting . These interchangea of civilitiea are fatal to colinialisra , When our mechanics see your villages , towns , shipping , railways and farms , they will pick up ideas which will germinate and bear fruit , of which the long , headed Yankees know the full value . The celebration of this year will be the prelude to annual interchanges of national civilities , but Montreal will be ' come Bostonised by the operation .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 21, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1592/page/2/
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