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      FRANCE . A . man named Montcuarmont -was tried last Treek for the murder of two gendarmes . Montcbarmont vis found guilty by the jury , and without extenuiting circumstances . No one , in fact , entertained a doubt of hi 3 g oilt . Tin criminal petitioned for a pardon , gt a commutation of punishment . The petition was referred by the President of tbe Republic to the Council of State , who , in turn , took the opinian of the Local Court . This opinion was unfavcoiable . The Council of State decided in the negative , and canmunicatcd that decision to the President of the Republic . The President read

      with much attention the whole of the documents connected with , the trial . The decision of tha Council of State was ratified ; and the proper officers were infermed that tbe law must take its course . On the day of execution , and while the murderer was being led to the scaffjld , a conflict took place between him and the executioner , ilontcharraont resisted all attempts to induce or force him to ascend the scaffold ; and a struggle lasted during more than half an hour in the prc sence of a fast and silent multitude . The criminal was led back to prison , bnt at fire o ' clock the same evening was again conducted to the scaffold , when

      ihe sentence was executed . This disgusting exhibition has been commented on by M . Charles Hugo , son of the poet , in the ' Evenement . ' For this article he has been tried and sentenced by the court of assizes . This is an event deserving earnest attention . So engrossed is the French public with political questions of an organic or dynastic class that the real object of all government , liberty with morality , is entirely lost sight of . The article of the' Eveuement , * for which M . Charles Hugo has been condemned to a heavy fine and six months ' imp risonment , is simply the protest of a refined mind against the immorality of public

      executions . There is not one word in this article upon which the lav can take hold without stopping the most justifiable sort of discussion . M . Charles Hugo complains that tbe brutality of such exhibitions excitts a mischievous compassion for criminals of the worst class . After describing , in terms which are unexceptionable , the revolting incidents of Hontcharniont ' s execution , arising from the prisoner ' s , resistance , he . sajs : ' If you will continue to apply a punishment so much at variance with the progress of civilisation , remoTe at least the scandal by making executions inaccessible to the public eye . ' There is nothing in this article of the' Evenement' that Mr . Charles Dickens , in

      tbe British press , and Mr . Monckton Milnes , in tbe British parliament , bave not said over and over again in much more emphatic language . To imprison a writer for the expression of such sentiments is a revolting perversion of all law , and a stupid , barbarous violation of the ends for which laws are made . The question is not whether or no the punishment of death be right ot wise ; but whether the month of an educated man is to be stopped by the hand of lavr from discussing the wisdom and morality of public executions . It is a glaring instance of the backward state of France in tbe most essential conditions of society , this out . rageous persecution of free discussion even in matters irrelevant to politics .

      At the close of the defence , M . Victor Hugo , who conducted the defeRce , addressed his son thus : — ' My son , you receive this day a great honour . You are now worthy to combat , to suffer , perhaps , for the great cause of truth . From this day forward you enter the true manly life of onr time . Be proud , you who are only a simple soldier , of the human and democratic idea ; you sit on the same bench where Beranger and Lamennais sate . Be iirm in your convictions , and if you want an incentive to strengthen your faith in progress , your belief in the future , your reli gion for humanity , your execration for the scaffold , your horror of irrevocable and irreparable penalties , think that you sit where Lesarques sat . '

      Stormy debates have been occurring in the Assembly on the National Guard Bill . M . Armaud , a member of the Mountain , maintained that a soldier ought to exercise his judgment as to the propriety of the orders given to him . And for this , after having been called to order by the President in his nsual peremptory manner , tbe As . sembly voted that he shonld be heard no more . M . Alfred Nettement has given notice of an amendment to the law on the press , removing some of the vexatious restrictions as to the signature of articles .

      M . Carlier has addressed a letter to the editor of the ' Messager , ' in which he states that the report on the manoeuvres of General d'Hautpoul and the society of the Dix-Decembre , made public by M . Eugene Forcade , in a trial quite irrelevant thereto , was an undigested mass of rough notes entrusted bv him in all confidence to M . Forcade , who was to employ bis literary leisure in drawing up tbe official memorial . M . Forcade never completed this job , but he kept the notes , which he has now published as an official document , ont of spite against the go-Ternaient for prosecuting him for a falss and malidous libel . Tbe President of the Republic therefore never saw the report in question .

      The Ministry were interpellated on Monday on the subject of a charge against a member , that he had procured a situation for a friend , for the sake of putting half the proceeds in his pocket . M . Lemulier , the member aimed at , has resigned for the sake of facilitating a judicial investigation , which being promised by the Minister of Justice , the Assembly passed to the order of tbe day by a small majority . The ground upon which M . Lemulter supposed himself alluded to in the rough notes of M . Carlier was , it appears , his having solicited and obtained from the government the place of director of the Gobelins for his friend M Lacordaire . He lodges

      in tbe house which is assigned to the director . Hence he has incurred tbe suspicion of sharing the profits . M . Lacordaire is the brother of the famous preacher of that name . M . Lemulier was expected on Tuesday to band in the resignation of bis scat in the Assembly ; but up to the present , boar be has not taken this step . This is not tbe only case in which the character of a representative has been recently called in question . M . Colfavra , a talented member of the Mountain , las been impeached in a meeting of the Left , not

      only of general misconduct and neglect of his duty as a representative , but he is suspected of belaying to the police information of the secret movements of his party . He was defended by his colleagues of the extreme Left with more zeal than success , and will have to clear himself before a jury of honour . The origin of the reprimand was the negligence of this democratic member , and bis absence in the Bureaux upon occasions wherein bis vote would have told against the government , while on other occasions his secret vote was suspected of being against his own partv .

      M . Bonnier de 1 'EcInse has presented to the National Assembly the following proposition relative to the revision of the constitution : — On the second Sunday in May , 1852 , all the electors of France , assembled in their respective electoral colleges , shall be called on to proceed by Universal suffrage , such as existed before the law of May 31 st , in the manner and according to tbe mode thenrfollowed : 1 . To the nomination , in execution and according to the terms of article 45 of the constitHtion , of a provisional President of the Republic . 2 . To the nomination of a new Constituent Assembl y , invested with the special mandate of the people , and with foil powers to proceed to the total revision of tbe constitution of 1848 , and to declare the government of France . '

      The Committee of the Electoral Union will hand in to the Assembly , on Saturday next , a mass of petition for the revision ! of the constitution , signed oy 15 , 000 persons . In addition to the petitions eigned by 7 , 000 inhabitants of Paris , and presented by M . Peupin , the Buonapartist committee of the BueNeuveSt . Augustin promises to bring forward afresh hatch , signed by 10 , 000 more . This will petitioning for revision . .

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      The incongruous composition of rii * n , •« . on Betfsion b already protLg it * ££ * 'ft sitting , of ttus deliberative ass ' embl yTfifSn iwahnstormintM and bluster the debates S chaotic legislature from which it was hatched in the last sitting a fierce dispute between MM Mon talembert and Bare , was succeeded by a fiVrv al tercation betWKnMM . Jules Fawe and Berryer ^ Tiw fcbite « u ifotafcf ! wt mi ixw&b $ j ' & .

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      mated . General Cavaignac . demanded the close of the general debate , and proposed that the committee should occupy itself first with the question of ' monarchy or republic . M . de Montalembkrt regarded the election of the 10 th of December as a protest against the men and the things of February , but not as a return to monarchy . It was a reaction in favour of the ideas of order . He thought that the permanence of the leg islative power was an immense inconvenience . O a the other hand , men of influence and consideration talked of abolishing the presidency . On every side some objection was brought against the existing state of things . How was it possible to resist these universal complaints . The constitution was defended a 3 a barrier to the

      re-election of the president . But such an argument would have no weight whatever with the people , who would be quite justified in their dissatisfaction at not being consulted on such a question . The national sovereignty ought to be sacred , especially for republicans . How refuse the people the exercise of their right ? The re-election of the President was not feared by the country . What was humanly possible the President had done , as regarded his duty ; the accumulation of petitions was a testimony of it . If , as had been pretended , tbesepetitions had been squeezed out by the pres . sure of the administration , what earthly power could have raked together 800 , 000 signatures in favour of the republic ? In conclusion , if the President was re-elected in spite of the constitution , an immense danger wouldarise , which ought to be prevented by making the re-election optional .

      M . de TocauBViti / E declared in favour of revision , as well as M . Odiiaon Barrq t . M . Charas admitted the national sovereignty which he confessed to be the sole source of right . But he would vote against revising the constitution . He damanded the repeal of the law of May 31 , by which the national sovereignty had been maimed . He would not vote for revision so long as the ri ght of meeting , particularly for electoral purposes , was denied ; while boundless license was permitted to the propagators of imperialism , and six departments were in a state of siege .

      General Cavaignac said that he did not feel himself at liberty to enter into discussion with those who began by wishing to get rid of the republic . The ground of argument ought first to be cleared of the question between monarchy and the republic ; and when they came to the details he would point out a line of discussion by which they might arrive at the formulation of an opinion . The republic * as the only form of government founded on the sovereignty of the people ; monarchy was the exclusion of that principle . He challenged the royalists to propose their princi ple . He would drive them to do so at the tribune . First , the committee ought to

      examine the motions for partial , and afterwards for total revision . The intention of the motion of the Rue des Pyramides was to bring the Assembly to vote the revision , and to shirk the debate . But revision was a crisis , and it became the Assembly to speak out at such a juncture . He admitted the force of national sovereignty , but this principle had limits ; and he confessed he regarded with great distrust , the readiness with which the new partisans of the sovereignty of the people appealed to it for tbe decision of all questions . Total revision he would onl y admit as the result of debating the whole of the articles from first to last over again . But the first question to settle was that nf

      monarchy . He knew that the debate would demonstrate the impotence of the monarchist , and that the republic would emerge triumphant from the ordeal . After this trial the war would naturally stop . No doubt the constitution was defective . He would prefer indirect election of the President , which would leave a freer field for competition among numerous candidates . The Republic would meet less opposition . Nevertheless , he would vote against revision , because the constitution , imperfect as it was , constituted a valuable barrier against usurpation . The 45 th article was , in particular , apart from all personal considerations , a . principle indispensable to the life of the Republic It was the fixture of men which prevented the fixture of affairs . Tbe only means of rendering power stable in France was by divorcing it from all personal pretensions .

      M . Berryer said that the predominating idea in his mind , in voting for revision , was to avert the chance of a greater evil , the unconstitutional reelection of the President . As for the limits of the faculties of the constituent they had no right to make a programme or to dictate a line of conduct ; in fact , it was impossible , in the present state of the ' country , to do so . Every set of people took up a different point of view in objecting to the present state of things ; therefore the most reasonable way of satisfying all was to set no limit to the power of change . He and his friends thought that the

      Republican government was not the sort of government which the country wanted , or which was good for it . He thought there was no other path of progress open for an ancient stream of society , but tbe channel by which it had arrived at its broadest and deepest development , the hereditary perpetuation of power and representative institutions . But granting the Republic , still the constitution was bad . It lay not in their province to decide whether the majority of the nation preferred Monarchy to the Republic . The Assembly had not the right to do so . It could only convoke the constituent in the terms laid down bv the 11 lth article .

      The sitting was adjourned to Tuesday , without the resolution having beea taken . The committee accordingly re-assembled on that day . MM . deCorcelle , Charamaule , Dufour , Cavaignac , Berryer , Moulin , and Charras spoke . The committee were to meet again on Wednesday and on Saturday . The reporter is expected to be appointed on the latter day . The bill of the government for adjourning the municipal elections did nofc pass on Tuesday without some severe questioning from opposite sides of the house . M . Leon Faucher declared that the

      sole object of the government in adjourning tho election was to avoid the agitation inseparable from the repetition of the elections six months hence under the empire of a new law , after the enactment of the Munici pal Bill . Larochejaquelin said that the obvious meaning of the adjournment was to shirk the application of the law of May 31 , and that he accepted the bill as a protest against the present electoral law . M . Loon Faucher declared that the ministry could not accept such an interpretation , and that be preferred withdrawing the bill to countenancing such a construction of the government ' s policy .

      HAMBURG . Out Hamburg correspondent furnishes us with some further particulars of the late butchery of the citizens by the Austrian soldiers in the suburb of St . Pauli , and informs us that the initiative in the quarrel between the populace and the soldiers was taken by several non-commissioned officers , who , at an early stage of the dispute , drew their swords and attacked tbe people in the dancing booth ? . Their attack was repulsed , and they were at length induced to leave the place , but they returned with a strong reinforcement of their comrades , whom they had picked up in the streets ; They were again expelled and compelled to fly from the exasperation of the people . Amidst the din and confusion of the

      contest a cry was suddenly raised tbat these soldiers had cut kown a man . They were consequently hotly pursued , and as they turned round upon their pursuers a conflict ensued . The Hanseatic soldiers on guard interfered , and endeavoured to arrses the leaders of the affray , but before this measure could be executed an Austrian patrol came up , and the officer in command summoned the people to disperse at once . This peremptory demand led to the lamentable results which are already known to onr readers . Our correspondedt informs ub , that there can be no doubt that the Hanseatic police would have succeeded in suppressing the riot but for the appearance of the Austrian patrol on Hamburg territory . The presence of the Austrians within

      the liberties of the free city' was considered as unauthorised , and the officer ' s command to his men to ' prime aud load , ' and to advance to within twenty yards of the riotous masses , was followed by derisive cheers and yells of defiance . Upon this the front rank of the Austrians fired . The volley wia followed by the shrieks of the wounded , and tbe populace , frantic with rage , assailed the troops with a shower of stones , and compelled them to retreat within the gates of Altona . Thegenerale was meanwhile sounded through the streets of that city ,

      The Austrian Garrison assembled , and again leaving the town they marched into St . Pauli . They were commanded by the Generals Legeditscb and Theimer . As the columns advanced upon the populace , volley after volley was fired by the front ranks . The people gave way . General Theimer wa w ndedbya » tone , which disabled his right » rm »; but as the Austrians pursued , the populace fled for safety towards the gates of Hamburg . The Austrian troops would have pursued them even into Lfeu £ , " ? " ««« determination of the Hanseatic ueutenant Loreazep , ifh » WM k command of the

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      Hamburg Gate , and who compelled the Austrian troops to respect the authority of the Senate . No further details have transpired of the killed and wounded in this affair . A letter , dated Hamburg , June 11 th , says : — 1 Since the late tragic occurrence at St . Pauli the telegraph between that city and Vienna has been kept in constant occupation by General Legeditsch , tbe Austrian commander . This officer has as yet taken no heed of the remonstrance against the increase of Austrian-troops in Hamburg , made to him by the senate . 1 , 344 men with 180 horses were sent by tbat commandant to St . Pauli , and more

      are expected every hour . Strange as it may appear , it was actually the intention of the Austrians to proclaim the state of siege in St . Pauli after the late events , but prudent counsels prevailed . The military , however , take everything into their own hands as completely as if martial law had been declared . The day hefore yesterday a citizen of- Hamburg was expressing in the streets his indignation against the conduct of the Austrian soldiers at St . Paul ! , when two officers who were passing by , hearing his language , took upon themselves to arrest him , calling a neighbouring guard to do their bidding . The next day he wa 8 claimed by the civic authorities and set

      at liberty . Yesterday a waiter residing in the suburb of St . Pauli , wa 3 so foolish as to attack an Austrian soldier , and was very naturally secured . The offence having been committed in the Hamburg territory he should have been delivered up to the civic authorities . Instead of this , however , he was dragged off to Altona , the Austrian bead-quarters , where he is likely to remain . Even our thorough , paced reactionaries now si gh for the departure of the Austrians . The lamentations of the many persons who have been bereaved or otherwise injured by the late collision make a sad impression on society , and even affect the Bourse .

      The senate of Hamburg , has protested , not only at Frankfort , Berlin , and Vienna against the occupation of their city by the Austrians , but has addressed remonstrances to the governments of England , France , and Russia , as parlies to the treaty of Vienna , which guarantees the independence of the city of Hamburg . A proclamation ha 3 been published by the magistrates of Hamburg , dated the 13 th iost ., stating the full case of the riots , aud exhorting the people to calmness and moderation . BELGIUM , The Ministry has returned to office after a crisis of several weeks' duration . SPAIN . A feeling of quiet but sullen discontent continues to exist throughout the country , which is not likely to abate , but rather to assume a dangerous form on the very first fit opportunity \ nor indeed could it be otherwise after tbe deep impression produced by the stipulations in tbe Concordat . ' The ministry intends to present the budget and tbe bill for the settlement of the debt . The

      chamber will appoint the committees ; and the Cortes will then adjourn till October ; on the 10 th of which month , the Queen ' s birthday , they will be re-opened . As it will take a month to get through the present business , the day on which the decree proroguing the chambers will be read is expected to coincide with the 10 th of July , on which day the Queen ' s pregnancy is , barring accidents , to be officially proclaimed . Hence all important questions are adjourned till next winter . The ' Heraldo , ' and several other journals , were seized on the 11 th . PORTUGAL . Saldanha has just done an act of justice , which will tend to attach to him the officers of the army , whatever may be their individual political opinions . Costa Cabral had caused to be placed in inactivity all those officers who were Buspected of having any other opinion than himself , to the prejudice of their interests , by which many old and deserving officers became shut out from the advantages of their rank ; Saldanha has considered them in the promotion that is going on , and , as they were displaced only on account of political opinions , he has given a step of rank to all those who are in a condition to enter into effective service . should their services be required , and themselves qualified to undertake it ,

      The Queen and royal family have gone to Cintra for a short time . A most complete conversion seems to have taken place with regard to her political sentiments and comportment . She no longer exhibits that obstinacy that has been so remarkable in all her actions , and so detrimental to the country ; she signs without reluctance the necessary decrees which are essential to carry out the principles proclaimed by the revolution—is more free , easy , and affable in

      her behaviour—and appears relieved from a load or restraint which the evils of the late administration were accumulating upon her ; in fine , Bhe is said to go cordially with the movement , not in mere expression , but in positive acts . This is the greatest check Cabralism could possibly have received ( and has within these few days altered the whole face and appearance of things , which most certainly are brightening in a very extraordinary manner .

      Letters dated Lisbon , June 10 th , have been received in Paris . They state that the Portuguese government , alarmed at the news of the departure of M . Arnao from Madrid , for Paris , and the reported intention of the Spanish government to inter , fere in the affairs of Portugal , has demanded with energy explanations from M . Galiano , the Spanish Minister at Lisbon , whose answer is deemed satis . factory . An official notice has been published in the' Diario do Govemo , ' declaring that the best harmony prevails between tbe two governments , without the least desire of intervention on tbe part of Spain .

      GERMANY . Though not much is distinctly known of the Warsaw and Olmutz conferences , thus much is pretty generally in the best informed circles here positively affirmed , viz ., that Russia has decidedl y objected to the annexation of the Danish monarchy to the German confederation ; with respect to the incorporation of the Austrian monarch y therein , the Czar affects neutrality—knowing that the opposition of France and England to that measure will be sufficient to prevent its taking place .

      ITALY . It is stated in a letter of the 10 th inst ., tbat two Roman soldiers were shot on that morning , according to the sentence of a French court-man ial , for assaults on French soldiers . These executions had produced a deep sensation . The Austrians have occupied Spolcto . PIEDMONT . The police have conducted to the frontier Count Bertola di Rimini , a spy and agent of Austria and Rome . The Chamber of Deputies has voted the abolition of the privileges of Nice from 1854 , and the revision of the tariff in 1855 .

      TUSCANY . The ' Consemtote' o { Florence quotes a letter from Leghorn of the 9 th nut , giving the particulars of the domiciliary visit which we mentioned a 3 having taken place at a villa near the Condotti , inhabited by the family of the late Lord Aldborough . Notwithstanding the precautions taken , a person attempted to escape over the garden-wall , but was arrested , and was at once identified as a native of Lucca , who bad formerly served in the police corps . When the inmates of the villa were summoned to opsn the doors in the name of the law , they answered that the house was inhabited by English subjects , and consequently inviolable . A lone parley ensued , after which the authorities , suspectine that taken

      advantage was of the delay to burn papers and other article ? , ordered the doors to be broken open , and a similar question had to ba repeated up Btairs , where they found a door secured wrth iron bars ; two persons were arrested in the act of burning a mass of papers . The police found , besides a voluminous correspondence in English , a complete se * of printing materials , several clandesline publications printed on the premises , and a quantity of arras . The three eons of Lord Aidborough , and the individual who had attempted to escape , were arrested and secured in the Fortezza Vecchia , the articles seized were put into two chests and sealed up in the presence of the British Consul ' Fourteen more persons connected with this affair have beeta » nce arrested .

      NAPLES . Th « passion of tbe King for military iisplajs is increasing daily—six thousand recruits have been ordersd to Sicily , in order to let the veterans stationed there return to Naples . He has evidently an idea of changing his policy at home ; not o * e pardon appeared in the official journal on the occasion of his Majesty ' s birthday , as is generally the case . Poerio and his companions still wear their chains ; the spy is equally active , and the prisons are as crowded as ever . The King ' g councils are torn by the contending police and military authorities . Reports from the provinces represent endless squabbles between tb / civil and bayonet rule , and what with tbe fine and the other , law becomes ra-

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      ther the caprice of the functionary than the rule of the state . Naples has lost another of her best and most honest public men . Prince Coriati , many years minister of foreign affairs , died on the 4 th inst ., at an advanced age . The prince was not in high favour at court during the last three years , as he was known to advocate representative government . He held office during the Sicilian troubles , hut it was nearly nominal , Filangieri being the real minister , whose intercourse at that period with the French and English cabinets was directed b y Englishmen opposed to the policy of Lord Palmerston .

      A letter from Naples says : —• Political trials have again commenced , they are chiefly of the lower orders , accused of republican opinion . Their great , offence appears to be that of having shouted ' Long live the constitutional King . ' For such a crime they have been nearly two years in prison without a trial . The crown lawyer is engaged in drawing up the processi for the events of May , 1818 , when the troops and lazzaroni plundered trie city , so that the government will again expose its amiconstitutional fraud , and degrade tbe courts of justice with mock trials . iheartUe Duke d'Aumale , when iu Naples , ventured to suggest the folly of such

      proceedings in high quarters . The reply wa » , We have an army . ' ' Yes , ' responded the prince , 1 and so had my father . ' No doubt the King can depend on his army as long as they are well paid , well clothed , and continually receiving promotion ; but the Neapolitans are not a fighting people , and they mig ht not prove faithful if called upon to draw the sword ; indeed , it is well known the last Roman expedition almost produced a rebellion ; and , on the other hand , every officer had a friend either in exile or in prison , and that , too , for political opinions which the King made the law of tbe land . l

      1 1 have ascertained the Pope is expected at Gaeta on a visit to his Neapolitan Majesty . If such an event really takes place , the Austrian move on Rome will certainly follow , I have reason to suppose communications from the Vatican stste the necessity of this decision , originating from the want of confidence in the French government . Beyond doubt , preparations bave been made at Gaeta for the reception of some one , and a considerable number of troops are concentrated in that direction . Several cardinals are also expected . The whole plan , 1 hear , is suggested by Austria . '

      SWEDEN AND NORWAY . Stockholm . —Tbe Jews of Sweden and Norway , encouraged by their brethren in various portions of the civilised world , have presented a petition to the Four States , praying for their emancipation . After some deliberation the petition was referred to a committee , which will probably decide tbat things shall remain in statu guo—that is to say , they shall , as heretofore , be admitted to settle and trade in he country . It was very clear , from the feeling manifested b y the Four States when tbe petition was presented , that if tbe petition had come under debate , the Jews , instead of being emancipated , would have been banished from the kingdom .

      Another subject which has caused some attention lately is the increased activity of the Roman Catholics . By the law of the land no person of the Lutheran persuasion is permitted to enter a Roman Catholic place of worship . Even on a recent occasion , when high mass was performed in presence of the Queen , the Queen Dowager , and the Roman Catholic diplomatic corps , &c , in memory of the Queen ' s mother , the Duchess of Leuchtenbnrgh , not one of the

      Lutheran members of the Royal family or household were present . Recentl y , however , about a dozen Lutheran females have openly joined the Roman Catholic Church , and a charge has been brought against a Romish priest , the principal of the girls ' school , of clandestinely making proselytes ; the trial , which excites considerable interest , has been going on for some days . How it will terminate is not foreseen ; but if the facts be proved against the parties , they will , according to the law of the land , be expelled from tbe country .

      AMERICA . From California we learn that after a session of four months , the Legislature adjourned on the 30 th of April , haviug passed an act to protect the homestead from legal process under certain conditions , and . a usury law , fixing the rate of interest at ten per cent ., and allowing eighteen per cent ., by special agreement . The intelligence from the mining district is of a flattering character . Some progress has been made by the commissioners in forming treaties with the Indians , although they still continue their ravages in the vicinity of Los Angelos . New diggings have been discovered in Shasta Valley , which promise the most abundant returns . Their depth is from one to four feet , and they have yielded an average of eighty dollars a day a piece to five men , who have been engaged there ever since the discovery .

      There is an Italian Opera Company performing at the Theatre in Sacramento City . Three months ago labour might be bad in Placerville at from two dollars to three dollars per day . A decided improvement in price has lately taken placa ^ and labour now commands from five dollars to ' seven dollars per day . Accounts from the mining interests represent the late rains as having been most beneficial to their interests . The dry diggings bave been more alive with the music of the various cradles , toms , &c . On Sunday last the British and North American Mail steam-ship Africa arrived at our harbour , bringing over four days later intelligence from the United States and British North America , the usual weekly mails , nearly 150 passengers , and specie to the extent of 680 , 000 dollars . The Africa sailed from New York direct on the 4 th inst .

      Intelligence from California to the 1 st of May has been received at New York . At that date the condition of affairs at San Francisco and throughout the territory was very favourable . Two steam ships arriving at the eastern ports of America had conveyed two millions dollars additional of gold dust from the mines . The engagement of the Swedish songstress with Mr . Barnum for 100 nights had nearl y terminated , there being only nine remaining . The latest date from Mexico is the 23 rd of May . The Finance Minister was then about to take urgent steps to raise the condition of the finances of the republic . The claims for damage done to the Mexican frontiers by the hostile Indians were set down at twenty millions of dollars .

      Canadian accounts state that a proposition had been submitted to the Legislature for abolishing the law of primogeniture . The provincial government intended to remove to Quebec as soon as the Legislature had terminated the present session . An earthquake had visited Valparaiso city on the 3 rd of April , which caused much consternation to the inhabitants . Not many lives were lost , but the destruction of property by the tumbling of houses , &c , was very considerable .

      CANADA . The Quebec Bar have petitioned parliament for the enactment of a law depriving the jud ges of the superior courts of Lower Canada of the power of deciding the lawyera' fees , and conferring it on the bar of that district . . •' Tbe Seignorial Tenure question has been again referred to a committee for inquiry , the government wishing to throw tbe respensibility of dealing with the feudal system on a committee of the house . John Montgomery , who was tried for treason in 1827 , claims 38 , 000 dollars compensation for losses in the rebellion .

      JAMAICA . By the Africa we have Jamaica dates to May 27 th . The House of Assembl y was prorogued by the governor on the 23 rd . His excellency made a long speech on the occasion , in which , while commending some of the acts of the legislature , he as decidedly condemned others ; The cholera still Iin gered iu Jamaica . It had appeared in several localiiies which have been hitherto exempt . At Mountain Valley the people have refused to bury the dead .

      INDIA . India is tranquil throughout . The western frontier of the Putijaub is still threatened by the cis-Indus bill tribes , and there seems to be no intermission of the robberies and murders committed b y these very troublesome neighbours . The Ardaseer , a Bombay vessel trading between this port and the ea 9 t , was destroyed at sea by fire on the night of Thursday the 10 th of April about 100 miles off Penang . No alteration has taken place in the condition of the Nizam ' s territories since the despatch of the last overland mail .

      The murderer of Leut . Johnstone , of the 3 d Madras Cavalry , is stiil at large , and the officers of the regiment have offered a reward of 1 000 ru pees for bis apprehension . At Bombay the event of the fortni ght has been the discovery of the perpatratora of the robbery of

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      the Bank of Bombay , notes committed at the Oriental Bank on the 8 ih of February last . ' The principal culprit is a young Parsee of very good family named Doralijee Hormafjee , the author of a book of tables ( ihe 'OrientalCalculator ) universally used in India . The most unlimited confidence bad always been placed in him , and he was never suspected in the slightest degree . An attempt on his part to sell the stolen notes to native money brokers led to his detection . The Parsees have hitherto enjoyed a very hi gh character for honesty , and Dorahjee ' a delinquency is felt to be a misfortune to their whole caste .

      SINGAPORE . May 3 rd . —The disturbances among the Chinese and Christian Uueys , or secret societies , bave ceased , and quiet was once more restored in the interior ; but the place of disquietude has been taken by that scourge of the human race , cholera , which , in the short period of fifteen days , has carvied off at least four hundred of the inhabitants , consisting of all classes of natives . It has now given way and almost altogether ceased ; but on the Malayan continent , at Pahang , Calantan , and at Siara , the dvscasR is sweeping away thousands of the population . Here , in almost everv case where

      reraedials were promptly applied , the disease gave way j but the natives are ' strongly prejudiced against European medicines , provided gratuitously by the government , and , in some instances , resisted by force their applica'ion until the patients bad reached tbe collapsed state , when medical aid can avail little . Great complaints have been made by junk traders of their being attacked in the China Sea by piratical junks , and their vessels plundered of everythlnsr valuable , and it has been

      well ascertained that some of these freebooters actually refitted their vessels and disposed of their plunder in Singapore , although the fact was not discovered uutil they had sailed and when no slearner was available to proceed after them . After a month's delay her Majesty ' s ship Amazon and the Semiramis steamer left this for the purpose of scouring tbe China Sea . The Amazon has since returned unsuccessful , and there can be but little doubt the pirates are kept fully informed of what passes here , as well as ' mark their game . '

      CHINA . One of the river steamers had lately a narrow escape from being plundered of . a considexaWe amount of treasure , and the ten or twelve Europeans on board , including passengers , of being murdered . A party of armed Chinamen went passengers by her from this place , with the intention , aided by piratical boats outside , to plunder the vessel , and there is every probability they would have succeeded , had it not been for unforeseen circumstances , in consequence of which she reached her destination in safety .

      The disturbances in the provinces nei ghbouring to Canton continue , and are beyond the power of the Chinese authorities to quell . They have a must injurious and distressing effect upon trade .

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      An explosion , which caused the loss of two lives , took place on the 7 th inst . in the fortress of Rendsburgh . Some artillerymen were engaged on the wall of ihe Neuwerk in emptying the exploding powder out of some old shells , when one of them exploded , killing two men on the spot and severely wounding a thin ) . It was necessary to amputate his arm immediately . The cause of the explosion is not known , but is supposed to have arisen from friction in boring out the stoppers . In consequence of tbe dissolution of the School of Cadets for the sea service at Kiel , the several teachers of that establishment received their dismissal nn the 30 th ult .

      The Danish National Festival held on the 6 th on the heights of Duppel , in memory of the action fongbt there on the same day in 1849 , was attended by more than 8 , 000 persons from Alsen , Sundewit , and Fleneburgb . General von Krogh and five of the Notables were also present ; speeches adapted to the occasion were delivered . ' Passive resistance' has conquered the Prussian post-office ; the mass of English journals refused and sent hack to the office must have alarmed the

      Director , to 6 ny nothing of the direct loss of revenue . To-day the charge has been abandoned , and the old tariff ( still too high ) re-established , The covers of the papers were marked with all kinds of sums , from 3 d . to Is . 3 d ., so that no rule could have been followed ; nay , seme covers were marked with three separate amounts , as if the official had twice bettered his calculation . The unanimity with which the papers were sent back with protests inscribed was wonderful .

      The Czar left Warsaw on the 10 th inst . for St . Petersbiirgh . The Czarina followed him on the 11 th inst . A young ensign having little or no patronage to depend on has most unexpectedly found himself promoted to the rank of captain , say two steps at once , and ordered , with a well-replenished purse , to visit the London Exhibition and travel about Europe for a year . Many queer reasons are adduced for this sudden prosperity , but one thing is certain , namely , that it has become necessary to remove him from Madrid . The Archbishop of Paris has just published a pastoral letter' against the errors which subvert tbe foundations of justice and charity . '

      Accounts from Posen of the 14 th of June state that at the annual wool fair just held in that town the whole , quaatity , consisting of 13 , 000 cwt ., was rapidly sold in two days at a decline of about id per lb . from last year ' s rates for middling and lower descriptions , and of about 2 d , per lb for finer qualities . The ' Republicain ' of Corsica says that the mortal remains of Cardinal Fesh and of Madame

      Mere ( moiuer of Napoleon ) are about to be removed from Corneto to Ajaccio . The Minister of Marine has given orders that the Vanban frigate shall receive them at Civita Vecchia . The remains will he deposited in the south aisle of the church which the Cardinal constructed at Ajaccio , and then gave to the town . The Minister of War , on bis part , has ordered that military honours shall be paid to the remains of Madame and of the Cardinal .

      Ifomgn Intelligence.

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      % THE NORTHERN STAR , Juke 21 , 1851

      In Six Languages.-Fortieth E Dition^

      IN SIX LANGUAGES .-FORTIETH E DITION ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 21, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1631/page/2/