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known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , xuumen t than In the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are a ' uite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every " gus 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 con-Jipmned as faUnres . Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , ? ii » t it is little more than conjectural ? ' At this moment , ' " ava Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subj . ct ot treatment « e almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction < m the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its fre-Suency to the kitroduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual uure . Reid ascribes the frequency of the disease to the use of mercury . BriUonet asserts that it is cur-X ? . e £ mLurvonlv . Ituse savs that consumption is an
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DR . BARKER'S Compound Indian Extract , for Secret Debility , and Impediments to Marriage , is exclusively directed to the cure of nervous and sexual debility , irregularity , weakness , consumptive habits , and debilities arising from mental irrifcibilitv , local or constitutional weakness , generative diseases , &c . It is a most powerful and useful medicine in all cases of syphilis , or anv of the previous symptoms which indicate approaching dfsgolution , such as depression of the spirits , melancholy , trembling of the hands or limbs , disordered nerves , and ' inward wh 3 tings . The fine softening qualities of the Compound Indian Extract is peculiarly adapted to remove such symptom ' s , and gradually to restore the system to a healthy state—even where sterility seems to have fastened on the constitution , this medicine will warm and purify the blood and . fluids , invigorate the body , and remove every impediment . The Compound Indian Extract should be taken previous revent
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AN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND \ J General character of SYPIHLUS , STRICTURES Affections of the 1 'ROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL Mid SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , &c , followed by a mild , successful ' and expedi . tious mode of treatment .
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^^ acknowledged ' . by convalescent Patients , and others dail y arriving in town from all parts of the country , for the ex . press purpose only of personal consultation , while their exertions hare been crowned with the most signal advaa taues yet , fr ° ni what they have experienced in inquiring into the nature and causes of these infectious complaints ( from their most simple condition to that of the most danger , nut and inveterate ) they hare always entertained the nossibility of their pbevention and remoral . Messrs . R . and L . PrRRrand Co ., Surgeons , may be consulted a « usual , at 19 , Bernera-street , Oxford-street , London , from eleven to two , and from five to eght ia the evening ; and on Sundays from eleven to on » . —Consul-THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE
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IMMENSE SUCCESS OF THE NEW MODE OP TREATMENT . As adopted by Lallemand , Rieord , JHslandit , and others , of ih& Hopital des Veneriens a Paris , a > M uoi * uniformly practised in tliis country by WALTER DE ROOS , M . D ., 35 , Elt Place , Holboun Hill , Londok , AUTHOR OF mHE MEDICAL ADVISER , 144 pages , X an improved edition of which is recently published , written in a popular style , devoid of technicalities , and addressed to all those who are suffering from Spermatorrhoea , Seminal Weakness , and the various disqualifying forms of premature decay resulting from infection and youthful abuse , that most delusive practice by which the vigour and manliness of life are enervated and destroyed , even beforenature has fully established the powers and stamina of the constitution . " .
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SKIN ERUPTIONS , NERVOUS DEBILITY , SCROFULA , DISEASES OF THE BOKES AXD GLASDS . DE BOOS' CONCENTRATED GDTT ^ VITiB ( or Life Drops ) is as its name implies ii safe and permanent restorative of manly vigour , whether deficient from long residence in hot climates , or arising from solitary habits , youthful delusive excesses , infection , < tc . It will also be found a speedy corrective of all those dangerous symptoms , such as pains and swellings iu the bones , joints and glands , skin eruptions , blotches and pimples , weakness of the eyes , loss of hair , disease and decay of the nose , sore throat , pains in the side , back , loins , ic ., obstinate diseases of the kidneys and bladder , gleet , stricture , seminal ^ weakness , loss of memory , nerveusness , headache , giddiness , drowsiness , palpitation of the heart , indigestion , lowness of spirits , lassitude and seneral prostration of strength , &c , usually resulting from neglect or improper treatment by mercury , copaiba , eubebs , and other deadly poisons .
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FRANCE . the' Moniteur * publishes a decree calling under arms 40 , 000 men belonging to the class of 1849 . The"' Constitntionner says that the belief which prevails that an army of 40 , 000 men vtas to be sent to the Rhine is a mistake . The military division of Strasbourg is to be increased by four regiments . ButgO Ternment limits fet the present its measures as regards the Rhine frontier to this increase . The same semi-official organ adds that the io ™ " * *? calling under arms of the conscripts of l » 4 » t » onlj an anticipation of what must inevitably uate taken place according to rule in the coming spring . At Ae same time it fays , « AH Germany is » arms j it ^ therefore necessary for France to complete her effective military force . ' .,--, „„ * War in % decree is motived by the Minuter of War id these terms : — of tta
_ , . , ,. TS le ft-Sta * - * presence p * ticd ' wnt * which agitate Germany , and although tt 7 go « rn « nent is firmly decided , as your message exposes , to remain in the strictest neutral . ty , as long'intrench interests and the equihbnum of Europe are not compromised , it is bui a measure of prudent foresight to assemble in the territorial divisions of the north and east a sufficient number of troops to lace all eventualities . ' The motion of ihe questors relative to the
AsBemblj ' u special commissary of police threatens to throw down the flimsy structure of recconciliation bullion the President ' s message . The danger of tais question , as far as ripp ing up the newly-cemented peace is concerned , lies less in the dispositJonVof parties than ia the fatal chain of facts , tfhichis . such as to make collision inevitable , with even-theoestinclioation on both sides to avoid it . 31 . > Carlier , instrument of the resentment of the Slysee , struck the protege of the Assembly wUh a suddenness which has called out the old grudge in
all its bitterness . M . de . Tinguy has presented a propesition to modify the electoral law , according to which the electorafiist shall be drawn up by the mayor , sitting in the municipal council , assisted by two delegates for each commune , and the council-general of the department . On : that list shall be inscribed ex e ^ wf and ln al p habetical order-lst , all Frenchmen - r aged twehty-bne , in possession of all their civil * nd political rights , and having resided ini the canton . for three jea rs at least ; and 2 dly , those who , when the list was formed , not having attained all the conditions of age and domicile , shall have acquired them before it is definitively closed . The proof of the conditions mentioned above is left to the judgment of the municipal council and of the ,-. delegates .
k Tfce Orleanist club , which formerly held its meetings , in the Rue de Richelieu , has removed to the Bue . des Pyramides . M . Taiers takes an active part in the management of the club . M . Neftzsr , responsive editor of the' Presse , was . suminoned before the Court of Assize of the Seine on Monday , on a charge of publishing false news , and a f abricated , falsified , and lying documerit , attributed to a third party , and calculated to dwtarb pnblic order . He was condemned to a year of imprisonment , 2 , 000 fr . fine , and costs The'destruction of the numbers seized was ordered indthe period of constraint , par corps , fixed at one year . The great commotion made by the moeijnessage of the' Presse' at Lyons seems to have dictated this rigorom sentence .
M . Gottfried Einkel , who had been condemned to fleath for the part he took in the insurrectional movements of Germany , and whose sentence had 6 eeu commuted into detention for life , but who escaped from the fortress of Spandau some days agoi passed through Paris for London . More ' Police Inteliigencb . '—We find the following ia the 'Constitntionnel : — It appears from the journals of the south of France that , after the discovery of the conspiracy of Lyons , the superior chiefs of the demagogic party gave orders to their bands ia the southern departments to abstain from any demonstration or proceedings of a nature to awaken the attention of the authorities ; but it appears that this order has called forth violent recriminations among the soldiers of the etneute . A great number among them positively refused to obey ,
and "wished to attempt an immediate rising . In several departments of the south , particularly in that oftheArdeche , the subordinate leaders decided on going to Lyons to solicit the active co-operatien of the demagogues of that city , in order to turn to account the first moment of confidence which usuall y follows the discovery of a plot . Nothing less was thought of than to attempt a sudden and general jsovement , the signal of which , starting from the southern part of the Ardec ' ae , would extend to Annonay and St . Etienne , where it was hoped to recnit their ranks from among ihe working classes , and then gain possession of the city of Lyons , which , in case of success , would naturally b ecome the centre and the head-quarters of the insurrection . Happily the projects of the delegates of the demagogues of the Ardeche excited bnt little confidence in the
secret meetings at Lyons , and moreover , the proceedings of certain well-known agitators at Lyons had awakened the attention of the police , and measures as energetic as prompt were taken on both banks of the Rhone , in the department of the Ardeche , as well as in that of the Drome . Thanks to these measures , the 11 th passed off without the slightest disturbance . ' The ' Echo de Vesone' announces that , on the 12 th inst ., after a perquisition made at the office of the' Republicain de la Dordogne , ' M . Desolme , the chief editor , was arrested and lodged in prison . This natter is said to be connected with the Lyons plot . At Rouen several of the manufacturers have been compelled to put their bands upon half work in consequence of a want of orders .
A serious and destructive accident occurred os board the Valmy , the largest shi p in the French 2 ? avy . On the 8 th , that is four days before the Bqaadroa reached Brest , a loud explosion was heard , followed by cries of pain . Drama were beaten and . signals of distress fired . It was supposed the powder magazine bad caught fire . All li ghts were put out ; otter darkness prevailed , and in the midst of the thick smoke all hands turned to get the fire under . Between decks were heard the groans of the wonnded , some of whom lay crashed under the gun-carriages , which , had been torn from their places hy the shock . Twenty sailors , scarcely recognisable , were extricated from the ruins , of whom ten died immediately , and
there is little hope of preserving any of the rest . The accident occurred about ten leagues to the north of the lie de Bas , the squadron then sailing in line of battle ; The Valmy had occasion to make a night signal , which is managed by means of a rocket . The gunner appointed to prepare these fireworks had had the imprudence , no doubt with the object of speeding his work , to keep a chest of powder and other firework materials in the cabin of the orlop deck on the larboard bow , where he had not only stowed a chest of rockets , but two other copper chests filled with cannon cartridges—all which was dean against the rules of the service , which forbid
powder to be kept out of the magazine . The gunner entered the cabin , followed by a sailor carrying a light , from which some sparks must have fallen . The cheats exploded ; both the men were killed on the spot , as well as the carpenter and clerk in the next cabin ; five second gunners , sleeping alongside is the deck , shared the same fate ; a common sailor was killed by the jump of a gun-carriage , which broke his scull , and fifteen others were dreadfully wounded . After great exertions at the pumps the fire was got under . The Valroy , notwithstanding the shattered state of her decks , was enabled to reach Brest with the rest of the squadron , which hoisted colours half-mast high , in memory of the
Tietims . The decree calling out 40 , 000 men of the class of 2849 is the principal topic in the Paris journals . The democratic Socialist papers disapprove generally of the decree . They affirm that nothing new lias occurred to render this measure necessary on the part of France as a precaution for the maintenance ^ of the b alance of power ; and they denounce it as a demonstration against the people of Germany in their efforts to obtain a greater decree of pplitial liberty . Two or three of the journals of the party of order express themselves also unfavourably to the measure .
The correspondent of the Daily News' says : — * I have stated what seems the double object , external and internal , of the government in arming . German democracy is to be threatened on the flank , while a rival military power to General jCbangarnier it to be created . The conservatives , who go all lengths with the first aim , regard the second with jealousy and vigilance . The democratic party , on the other hand , would have no objection to see a formidable military force on foot , whieb could hold in check the presumption of the commander-in-chief of the army of . Paris , their arch-foe , if the same ferce were not posted in the east and north , in positjons to overawe the German struggle for liberty .
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which threatens at any moment to Bash out m fierce protest against the Cossack rule with which Austria seeks to saddle Cen tral E «» I < , ? : Resitting of the Leg islative Assembly on Monday ww signalised by a skirmish of the majority with the Mountain upon the election of General Ltbitte for the department of the Nord , which presents the first application of the electoral law of May 31 st . M . Betting de Lancastel having brought up his report , which stated that General Lahitte had been elected by 63 , 691 votes out of 68 , 497 voters , and 142 , 205 inscribed , M . Scholcher protested , in the name of the constitution , against an election which violated the 1 st , 24 tb , and 25 th articles of the constitution . M . Michel de Bourses
seconded this protest , and congratulated those who had practically protested against the law of May 31 st bj abstaining from the poll . M . Baroche defended the law against an attack which he designated as a positive offence . ( Violent murmurs on the Left . ) M . de Flotte maintained , in reply to the Minister of the Interior , that when the law was contrary to reason and justice it might be attacked with propriety . ( Murmurs on , the Right . ) The President of the Assembly said that in that case every one might set , himsel f up as a judge of the law . But the question was to vote on the election . The house then divided . For the validity of the election there were 460 votes , against 173 . ' General Lahitte was proclaimed representative for the Nord .
A person who has just returned to Pans from a visit to the frontier states that the town of Sarre-Ioui 5 | where he was on the 14 th , is full of . armed men , summoned to form part of the Landwehr . The villages , he says , are regularly decimated . The most robust and healthy part of the population is taken off . The greater part of these unfortunate persons are married men , forced thus to abandon their wives and children . It is impossible to give an idea of the desolation of the country . The villages
in the neighbourhood of Sarrelouis resemble a camp , so crowded are they with troops . A part of these were to leave on the 15 th for Coblentz and Kreutzuach . Since 1815 the Prussian gevernment has not called out such a force . The general opinion in the country is that it is not merely the question of Cassel that occasions all this gathering of armed men , but that there exists-other motives . At the present moment all public and private works « e suspended , and commercial enterprise is completely at a stand-still .
BELGIUM . In every part of Europe we hear of the activity of the Papal party . The following is from the ' Independent Beige , of Saturday : — « There is no longer a doubt . that the clerical party are about to undertake a campaign against the cabinet . Peace and com . mercial prosperity do not suit this party ; it must have ag itation . Ministers were bent on devoting the session to the discussion of important laws and the promotion of material interests ; but the chiefs of the clerical party have risen in the assembly and harrangued on the subject of the papal allocation of May last , in which his Holiness declared religion to be in danger in Belg ium . Ministers had protested against the truth of the Pope ' s fears and language . His friends in the church , however , raised a debate therein , and got their answer .
ROMAN STATES . The 'Daily News' correspondent , relates some most atrocious instances of cruelty on the part of the sbirri . One man ( a respectable shopkeeper , was well nigh cudgelled to death by them . The Minister of Commerce , Jaeobini , has received urgent directions , by an ordine santissimo of the Pope , to give up the Barrotnei-palace forthwith , for the use of tbe Jesuits .. The tribunal of commerce has been subjected to tbe commission of censure , and the greater part of the employes dismissed . The demonstration of public feeling with respect to the new taxes has been so marked that the government appears resolved to proceed more cautiously with
the second tariff , that upon the professions . The notification wa 3 to have been published last week ; indeed , it was printed and ready , when the reflec tions of the Minister of Justice induced the government to suspend the measure , since it was urged that the division of professional men into categories would involve a world of difficulties , as sometimes an excellent lawyer or doctor , by reason of his health or family affairs , might only be in a limited practice , although his merit was first-rate . By this tariff advocates were rated at ninety dollars a year , and medical men at sixty dollars . At the closing of
the lists at the municipal office for the registering of taxable shopkeepers , about three hundred individuals were found to have presented themselves , whereas several thousands altogether are calculated as being comprised in Rome . The statue of Pasquino has furnished another epigram upon the sub * ject of the taxes , punning upon the name of the Minister of Finance , Galli ( Gauls ) . Ci voller tanti Galli a liberarci , TJn Galli sol basto per rovinarci . A horde of Gauls to free us came , and hardly did suffice , A single Gaul has ruined our finances in a trice
SWITZERLAND . The definitive result of the elections of Geneva is as follows : College of the city , M . Mayerbrother , radical candidate , 2 , 929 ; Gen . JDufour , conservative , 1 , 700 ; M . James Fazy stood 35 th on the list of 44 deputies to choose . College of tbe right bank .-James Penay , radical , 650 votes ; Duval , conservative , 530 . College of the left bank : M . Benit , radical , 1 , 807 . The first conservative candidate obtained only 1 , 600 . The radical list completely succeeded .
GERMANY . The dail y journals have their columns filled with details as to the movements of the large armaments , set in motion by the various governments , and rumours as to the course of the negotiations in which the diplomatic body have been engaged . The result of the whole seems to be , that the Prussian government has at length given way to Austria ; but whether this will arrest the war is doubtful . Popular opinion is said to be decidedly against concession , and it is not improbable that the King may be coerced into active warfare . In the meantime the prospect is , that the German people will eat their Christmas dinner in the midst of an armed peace .
The King ef Wurtemburg , imitating the Elector of Hesse , bas applied to the Austrian government for assistance against his own people . Tbe Minister for Foreign Affairs , Her von Linden , has been dispatched to Vienna to ask for Austrian intervention , the chambers having refused to grant the money asked for by the ministry for the purpose of arming the people against Prussia , and the people themselves having shown the greatest dissatisfaction at the conduct of their king . If war ensues , the King of Wurtemberg , who is so desirous of returning to a state of vassalage under the House of Hapsburg , will run no small chance of losing his crown .
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES . There have been several skirmishes between the hostile armies—tbe number of killed and wounded inconsiderable . The German officers are , however , leaving the duchies , which is an unfavourable omen for those who uphold the German side of the dispute .
TURKEY . It is stated in a letter from Constantinople of the 10 ih , that the Austrian Government had given its consent to the release of all the Hungarian refugees in Turkey , with the exception of Kossuth , but that the Porte had declared that all must be released or none . The refugees themselves were , it is added , of opinion that ail ought to be treated alike . The definitive answer of Austria was expected with anxiety . Should it be favourable , Perczel and Batthyani would , it was said , take up their residence at Paris , and Kossuth at London .
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The discussions in the Legislative Council had lead to dissension in that body . In the sitting of the Leg islative Council , of the 20 th , when some drafts of ordinances were presented , and the motion was made by the Hon . Secretary to the Government , that one of them be read a first time , Sir Andrew Stockenstrom moved an amendment , to the effect that no other business should be proceeded with until the ordinances containing the constitution of
the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope bad been compleated and passed . Upon this amendment a locg and earnest discussion arose , which terminated in a division , when it appeared that there were seven to four against the amendment , which was consequently lost , all the official members , with Mr . Godlonton and Mr . Cock , voting against , and Sir Andries Stockenstrom , Mr . Brand , Mr . Reitz , and Mr . Fairburn , voting for it . The numbers in the minority protested and resigned .
In the committee of the council it had been resolved by a large majority , consisting of official members , and persons nominated by the Governor , that the legislative Council shall consist exclusively of persons who possess landed or fixed property to the value of £ 2 , 000 over and above all enema
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brances ; and that the members shall be chosen ten years . Thus the inhabitants will be restricted in their choice to individuals of one class , the proprietors of fixed property , and wjn only have the privilege of exercising that restricted choice once in ten years . ~ v ;¦'¦ , . „ .-.. . The four popular , members opposed earnestly and voted against both these resolutions , on the ground that they thought them unwise and unjust , consequently mischievous , dangerous , and fatal to the peace , welfare , liberties , and property of the colony ;
INDIA AND CHINA . The Overland Mail brings no intelligence of political importance . . The hill tribes on the Kohat frontier were again manifesting a hostile disposition , and the passage through their defiles was interrupted . It is announced that the works on the Bombay Railway had been commenced . Disaffection and mutinies among the Nizam ' s native regiments continue . CHINA .
From Hong-Kong we learn that the insurgents were : getting the better of the imperial troops . Numerous bands of robbers were p lundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kangst and Canton , and after the capture of the city of KintBchan the insurgents had advanced to within 120 English miles of Canton .
BORNEO . Intelligence had reached Singapore of a victory gained by the Dutch over the Chinese in the Sombas river , in Borneo , after a blood y engagement . It was reported that . Sir James Brooke ' s mission to Siam had proved an utter failure *
NEW SOUTH WALES . Sydney journals have been received to the beginning of August . They contain more details relative to Dr . Laug ' s election for Sydney and its immediate consequences than had previously reached this country . When the poll closed , such was the extreme excitement felt , that notwithstanding the rain fell in torrents , a very large concourse of persons assembled at the hustings anxious to hear the result of the poll . The numbers were : for the Rev . Dr . Lang , 970 ; for . Mr . Holden , 945 , or a majority of 25 in favour of the former candidate . Dr . Lang has declared his steadfast determina tion to carry bis agitation scheme into effect ¦ even
within the walls of the council chamber . In addressing . the electors on his triumphant return , Dr . Lang designated the Australian constitution as unconstitutional , and looked forward to the , new act to secure to the colony the best constitution that could be made , despite the Exclusion Bill . The proceedings terminated in Dr . Lang being dragged home in a carriage by a number of the crowd , the horses being removed for that purpose . On the following day Dr . Lang ' s election was duly notified by the governor ia the official' Gazette ; ' on tbe 30 ih July be took bis seat , and shortly after gave
notice of his intention to move for a select committee being appointed to ascertain whether , there are any , and if any , what foundations there are for certain charges recently preferred , by the Right Hon . the Secretary of State for the Colonies , against a . member of this house , in matters con * nected with a series of efforts for the promotion of emigration to Australia . It would , from this notice of his intended motion , seem that Dr . Lang ' s personal share in the agitation scheme will be discussed , and the Secretary of , the Colonies receive the full ml of the doctor's wrath upon his head .
PORT PHILIP . Melbourne journals to the end of July supp ly a few items of intelligence . The ' Argus' congratulates the colonists on an increase in the exports of wool , which amounted in 1849 to 51 , 500 to 61 , 500 already shipped this year ; the total value of the exports had also greatly increased on the previous year . The ship Culloden arrived at Melbourne , July 5 th , with the first batch of needlewomen , forwarded by public subscription , which was started by the Hon . Sydney Herbert . The' Herald' notices the uniform good conduct of these emigrants as deserving the highest encomium ; there was but little illness , and neither a birth nor a death occurred on board during the voyage .
WESTERN AUSTRALIA . Active preparations were in progress at Perth and Fremantle to transmit specimens of produce , &c . for the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; among the articles to be forwarded will be marrow-fat peas , woods , essential oils , &e . The schooner Evergreen , from Singapore , with supplies for the colony , had not arrived , and fears were entertained for her safety A series of charges by some emigrant passenger , per Sophia , had been preferred against Mr . Parr , the
surgeon superintendent of the ship during the passage from England . An inquiry was immediately instituted by tbe government , which resulted not only in clearing Mr . Parr of the charges brought forward , but established his character for humane and kind treatment . Some of the female emigrants h y the Sophia had behaved in such a manner on landing at Fremantle that the executive wa 3 forced to lock them up in the gaol , and had resolved to send them to Perth .
NEW ZEALAND . By accounts received from the new settlement , Port Cooper , Canterbury , to the middle of August , was prospering most favourably . Political and domestic news there was none , save that feelings of happiness and the enjoyment of health were generally diffused amongst the settlers . Port Nicholson journals to the end of July are barreH of anything of general interest . Emigration to California was Btill pursued to a large extent , particularly from Auckland . The ' Otago News' had been discontinued in consequence of the paucity of subscribers ; the proprietor before closing his career was presented by his supporters with a purse containing eighty sovereigns . CANADA .
Montreal . —The last of the political trials for the burning of the Parliament-house resulted in an acquittal . The name of the individual tried was Jameson . It is not needful to give detailsof the trial ; it is enough to say that the fact came clearly out that the attack and burning of tbe Parliament-house in 1849 was a consentaneous act on the spur of the moment , and not a premeditated one . This was doubtful before the trial . The customs returns to the 31 st of October sbow a revenue from tbat source , since the beginning of the financial year , of 2 , 083 , 608 dollars ; beini ? an increase on the corresponding portion of last year of 886 , 176 dollars . At the present rate of increase the provincial revenue for 1850 will exceed that of 1849 by 2 , 440 , 600 dols .
The subscriptions collected in England by the Bishop of Toronto for his church of England university , amounted to 64 , 000 dollars . The vicinity of Montreal had been visited by one of these annual storms from the east which come with the autumn . It began on Saturday , the 26 th ult ., and continued to rain furiously , with heavy gales of wind , until Sunday evening , when a shift of wind to tbe north converted the falling rain into snow , which covered the ground to the depth of two inches with a fleecy coat , and covered the waters with ice . To all appearance the winter had set in as far as agriculture is concerned , but the abrupt variations in the temperature of this climate rendered predictions dangerous . It was hoped tbat the atmosphere having discharged its accumulated wrath , the province might enjoy a month of seasonable weather .
UNITED STATES . We have dates from New York to the 6 ih inst . The excitement caused by the efforts made to enforce the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Bill appears to be on the increase . A report had been circulated that President Fillmore was about to issue a statement of the views on this subject entertained by himself and his cabinet , but the non-appearance of any such document had thrown doubts on the
authenticity of the report . Another rumour to the effect that the President had ordered troops to Boston with a view to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law , was officially contradicted in the ( Washington ) ' Republic' of the 5 th inst . The Republic' states that no communication had been received , either from Boston or elsewhere , that could lead to the belief of such a Btep being required , but adds , that should such an exigency arise , no doubt the President < would do his duty . '
At a meeting of the Virginia Convention , a motion was made for a committee ' to report upon a proper method of defraying the expenses of such free negroes and mulattoes as may be removed under any act of the legislature . ' It was rejected , but the mere discussion had caused great excitement in the district of Columbia , from an impression that the Virginians contemplated sending all their free blacks into it . The state elections were over , or nearl y so . On the whole , ibey are understood to have gone in
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favour of the whigg . The whig candidate for the ma yoralty of New York had been elected by an unprecedented majority ; and pretty confident expectetioDS were entertained that the entire whig state ticket would be chosen . An election , to take the sense of the people of Texas on the Boundary Bill , had been held at faalreston . Very few voted , but the result was in favour of accep tance-135 votes for and 62 against . Ibe iron ship / John Garrow , had arrived at Gajveston with 110 emigrants , sent out by the British com-PB southern rights meeting , at Wilmington [ N . C . ] , had passed resolutions in favour of establishing a southern commercial marine , in order to render themselvesindependent of northern manufacturers and shipowners , ., , Upwards of £ 60 , 000 sterling value of gold had been reported en route from San Francisco _______
The steam ship Alabama , which arrived at New Orleans , from Chagres , on the 1 st instant , brings intelligence of another destructive fire at San Franeisco , the third that has visited that city . within •« months . San . Francisco is entirely built of wood , and the police arrangement s are as yet of necessity very imperfect . We have intelligence from HayU to October 15 . Hostilities have actually , commenced between the Haytians and , tbe Dominicans . The van-guard of Roulouque ' s army , while descending the pass of
Bonica , was attacked oa the 9 th ultimo by 500 Dominican troops and repulsed with great slaughter . The Bmperor was thrown into a state of great excitement by the report of the skirmish , and immediately took the field in person , ' at the head of hlS staff and 400 of his guards . A Haytien brig of war carrying 250 men , has also been captured by two Dominican gun-boats , and carried as a trophy into Macao Roadstead . The trade of the island bas suffered serious damage from the breaking out of hostilities . There was no coffee in the market , and the cutting of logwood and mahogany was p laced under
stringent restrictions , . . The Hungarian Colonists under Gov . Uja . azy have arrived at their destination . in Iowa and have commenced erecting dwelling houses and preparing for extensive agricultural operations the ensuing year . The place which they have selected as a residence is in the county of De ' catur , on the Crooked Fork River , a delightful stream of mQaerate size , flowing over a bed of sand and gravel , and affording abundant water power for common machinery . The climate is agreeable and healthy , and the soil fertile .
Tliejand has not yet been surveyed for sale , according to the regulations of Congress , and the Colonists therefore are not yet in possession of a valid title . It will no doubt , however , be confirmed at the next session of Congress . The Hungarians bad an arduous journey to their new abode , and have since been called on for severe labours , but are in excellent health and spirits . They have given to their settlement the name of New-Buda . Gov . Ujliazy has received from Kossutb , an address to the American People , which will be soon presented to the public .
By ' Young America' and the ' New York Tri . bune / we learn that the National Reform Associa . tion have held numerously attended conventions in various statei , and have nominated candidate : for legislative and executive offices , including that of President of the United States at the next elec . tion . In , cases where the candidates of other par . ties on being questioned , pledge themselves to sup . port tbe measures of the association , these candidates will withdraw . Senator Walker , of Winaconsin , is nominated for the office of President , and we presume will be carried to the poll . We extract the following from an able address of the Industrial State Convention , to the electors of the State of New York . It contains a forcible statement of the evils sought to be remedied , the causes to whic they are attributed , and the measures by which the National Reformes Beek to achieve their object ;—
Hundreds of thousands of our citizens are already homeless , and their numbers are fast increasing . They are dependent on an overstocked labour market for the means of subsistence , while , in consequence of their aggregation in cities and villages , through the monopoly of the soil in the country , they are compelled to pay exorbitant prices for the shelter they are forbidden to provide for themselves , and subjected to higher and hig her rents the faster they increase , and because their increase g ives the lords of the soil the power to exact them !
Had we the power , we would inscribe this truth in letters of unquenchable fire in the heavens , that any system that enables one set of men to live without labour in luxury on the necessities ot their fellow beings deprived of the means of self-employment , is a daring iniquitous usurpation ef Man ' s Inalienable Right , that ought to be resisted without cessation and at all hazards . Of such a character we declare the usurpation of the soil for the exclusive purposes of any number less than the whole people ; and we call upon our fellow citizens to wage unceasing warfare against that usurpation til the right of every family to a home be acknowledged , and its security made the first object of government . To this end we urge the following as measures of primary importance , and to be insisted on as such among the qualifications of all candidates fpr public office :
1 . To prevent any further monopoly of the soil , by limiting the quantity that any one individual , or association of persons , may hereafter acquire . 2 . To exempt the homestead from all liability for debt . 3 . To prevent any further traffic in the public lands , by declaring them free to actual settlers , in limited quantities , and transferable only to those possessed of no other lands . These are the measures which we consider of radical importance . Besides restoring the soil to the people , and securing homesteads to all in one
generation at farthest , and at once reversing the present tendency to higher rents , lower wages , and want of employment , they will , of their own operation , remove many existing evils for which surface remedies are required and proposed . We would have our legislators , first and foremost , provide against land monopoly , by the measures above named ; and then , having secured the downfall of the master evil , we would have them , instead , as heretofore , of legislating almost exclusively for the benefit oi capital , turn their attention to measures for the present relief of down-trodden labour .
Too long have the industrial classes been misled and estranged from each other by party names . This state of things has resulted almost necessarily from the great evil which we have now organised to uproot . One operation of land monopoly bas been to amass wealth in the hands of non-producers , who by means of it have controlled legislation , and procured unnumbered privileges to enable associated wealth to extract usury from the people by schemes ostensibly for the public good , for objects which the people were unable to accomplish for themselves , because isolated and deprived of their rightful means by land monopoly . In time large numbers of landless people have become dependent for emp loyment and existence on the privileged interests thus created , and have been induced to take sides with tbe . rival capitalists struggling for legislative
aid at the public expense . Another effect of the foundation wrong has been to complicate and render difficult and expensive exchanges of products , by unnaturally crowding the mechanics in cities , end unnecessarily scattering the agricultural population , thus engendering a class of forestalled of products , who take the lion ' s share for their services , and necessitating a hotbed system of credit , in aid of which has been invoked the interposition of a burdensorae horde of lawyers and a costly legal machinery . As the landless have crowded the avenues of useful labour , and reduced its compensation , increasing multitudes have preferred the chances of office to the chances of productive employment ill y compensated , and thus have the toilers been arrayed in antagonism to each other , and led to war upon one ano ther politically under party leaders , and urged on by party cries !
That folly has had its day . The toilers have souglit out the origin of their multi plied wrongs , and have devised a radical remedy . They demand the Restoration of the Soil to the People , as the only means of securing the rights of « life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , ' asserted in the Declaration of Independence . They demand this by measures dictated by a spirit of compromise , fully conscious at the same time of t heir right to revolutionary and immediate thorough redress if their
moderate demand be disregarded , while increasing Poverty and Pauperism is the only alternative for them and their posterity . For Land Restoration as the radical remedy , and for temporary alleviative measures , such as have been indicated , will they vote , regardless of party nameB , till their just requirements be fulfilled or thoy become satisfied that the right . of suffrage is inadcqttato to the ends of Justice . Radical Reformers in this country would do well to lay these important truths to heart , and ponder ( hem deeply .
Dfomgn Intelligence.
dFomgn intelligence .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 23, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1601/page/2/
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