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      THOMAS PARS .

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      FRANCE . M . Sartin , a representative of the people , has been most brutally assaulted by some gendarmes . The following are the facts 39 extracted from a letter addressed by him to the editor of the ' Presse : 'e We were yesterday ( Sunday ) twelve or fifteen at table , in the bouse of a citizen of Commentry ( AHier ) , who is neither an inn-keeper , nor an eatinghouse keeper , nor a coffee-house keeper , nor even a trader . We were consequently in a private house . The dinner terminated , we were about to lea ve in groups of two or three , in order to afford no pretext to ( l ie police of the place for tormenting us ; when all at once a brigadier of gendarmerie fell in

      , the midst of us like a bomb , and addressing the master of the house , said , « Gentlemen , yon are violating the prefect ' s decree , which forbids political meetings In consequence , I declare to you that I shall cause your house to be surrounded , and I forbid you and vour guests to leave it without ji new order from me . " That said , the man withdrew , and immediately placed , two gendarmes at each of the two outer doors . Judg e of the profound stupefaction of all of us ! To be imprisoned in that way ! imprisoned at home—in our house ! into

      which that gentleman—gendarme though he washad not the rig ht to enter , it seems to us , without the presence of a magistrate of the judicial or administrative order . M . Sartin having his medal with him , which proved him to he a representative , determined to try whether he could not get out to see the mayor , and learn the cause of tbiB extraordinary illegal conduct . On producing his medal at the door , " Tou cannot leave / ' immediately said the two gendarmes on duty , presenting drawn swords at him . " But I am a representative , and

      here h my medal . Tou know our privileges . Let me pass . I want to see your mayor . " * ' You shall not leave—our orders are the same for all . Be-Bides , you are en cogne , and are no longer a representative . Remain , or if not— = • " And joining gestures to the menace , these honest agents of the public force collared me , pushing me back with violence , and endeavoured to prevent my passage . I was about to protest as well as I could against this outrage to my dignity and character as an elected of the people , against this violence done to my person , when the worthy chief of these two men , the brigadier , came furiously towards us , bis sword in his hand , and cried , as if it were the most simple thing in the world , " Gendarmes , frappez , aabrea ' . " And at the same moment , another hand seized me , and three swords were raised absve mv head . My

      friends , who had remained calm until then in the interior of the house , seeing the danger which menaced me , forced open the door , and threw themselves between these three madmen and myself , and freeing me from their hands , and turning aside their svfords .-received the blows destined for me . AH the five gendarmes being united , began to cut and thrnst right and left on us and on the passersby . I had the profound grief to see blood flow . Many of my friend 9 were wounded Jn this dep lorable conflict , although they only endeavoured to cause it to cease , by seizing the arms of which such a fatal use was made against them . I must add , to be exact , that I also saw one of our aggressors with a bloody , face . He was the only one who in this shameful ambuscade received an apparent wound . I know- not , at the moment at which I

      write , if it has any gravity . But what I know well ia , that * five or six citizens who hurried up received wounds which will for a long time leave traces , if they have not a sad result . Such , citizen editor , is the way in which the agents of the public force nnderstand their duties and their mission ; how they respect the domiciles of citizens , their liberty , and their life . I do not speak of their respect for the inviolability of . Republican representatives ; for a long time past it seems to have been a received thing that the rights which we derive both from the of

      cor ^ titution and the suffrage our fellow-citizens , only serve to place us out of the pale of the common law . The attack of which I complain to you , and which I signalise to the indignation of your readers , en attendant the opportunity of bringing it forward in the tribune of the National Assembly , is , however , only an edition of that which was committed at Monlins on the 1 st of May , 1849 , against Ledrn Rollin and two of hi 3 colleagues . Violence will then always come from men who call themselves moderate , and who entitle themselves the friends of order ! Fraternal salutation .

      • H . Sahtix , Representative of the People . 1 Montlugon , Oct . 6 th . ' The interference of the gendarmerie with the dinner to M . Sartin at Coramentry has led to very serious troubles . The government organs speak of a bloody battle as having taken place between the troops and the people . It appears certain , by the admission of M . Sartin in a letter to the ' Avenement , ' dated Montlugon , October lOtb , that the populace of Commentry turned out , paraded the streets singing ( he 'Marseillaise , and proclaiming Jondly their determination not to allow any arrests to be made . The ; were as good as their word .

      They resisted the gendarmes , and twice rescued several prisoners , who were as often recaptured . Three men were wounded by the fire of the troops . The ^ Patrie speaks of two gendarmes as being . severely wounded . According to M . Sartin ' s account , however , the resistance of the populace was passive merely ; hut one gendarme was hurt , and that accidentally , while wrenching bis musket from the hands of an artisan who had seized it in self-defence . The ' Patrie' evidently makes the most of the deplorable occurrence , to lay a foundation for the favourite regime of the state of siege , which will doubtless soon be applied to the department of the Allier . According to the latest accounts , the disturbance was far from being at an end , and the people were in a most alarming

      state of irritation . Several squadrons of cavalry arrived at Commentry , by forced marches , from Moulies , and on the 10 th they escorted thirteen prisoners , handcuffed , to the prison at Montlugon . The procureur-general and several members of the Court of Appeal of Riom have arrived there , and - were met by the general commanding the district and the procureur-general of the Republic . A legal inquiry is going on , which will probably lead to fresh state trials . M . Sartin conjures the people to cease a useless resistance , which can only ' aggravate the posiiion of the prisoners , and distract attention from the original provocation of the gendarmes . He repeats his determination to complain to the Assembly of the flagrant violation of the sanctity of a private houae , and the illegal attack upon his person , which led to these lamentable results .

      Accounts have just arrived of disturbances at Bagneres , on the 9 th inst ., occasioned by an interference by the gendarmes with the customary amusements of the annual fetes . There seems to be little doubt that there is a great difference between the President and his Ministers . At a cabinet council recently held , it is said , Louis Napoleon proposed the repeal of the law ot May , and that his ministers intimated that they would resign ii he persevered in that intention . He therefore postponed , for a few days , his final decision . What is important in the threatened

      resignation oi the ministry is , Carlier , the Prefect of Police , has joined them , alleging as hiB reason , that he would oot be able to preserve order if universal suffrage were Bgain the order of the day . On this point Gerardin says : — 'A few weeks ago M . Carlier made no mystery to any one of his opposition to the law of May . What has wrought such a Midden change in the opinion of the Prefect of Police ? Is it true that , alarmed at the prospect of a debate on the Lottery of the Lingots d'Or , M . Cariier prefers leaving his post fay the great door of politics , instead of being turned out by an br&er Ae jour motive ?'

      A sort of panic seems to have seized upon the men of the parliament on Monday last , who , in consequence of the most puerile rumours , hastened to the Salle des Conferences of the Assembly . There General Bedeau—who presides in the absence of Dupin—and other grave people were heard repeating with solemn credulity that the President meditated a military coup d ' etat for Tuesday or "Wednesday ; that all the arrangements were made ; that the generals of the garriBOQ who would not enter Into the plot were to be replaced by creatures of the Eljjej ; and that all ' the leading parliamentarians were to be arrested . These monstrous

      reports ., eagerly swallowed ana circulated b y the alarmed representatives , seem to have originated in the resignations of General Magnan , the Com . Bsander-jn-cbief of the Army of Paris ; Generai Carrelet , Commander of the First Division and General Levasseur , Commander of one of the Brigades . The 'Messaged reports that Magnan is to be succeeded by General Bourjolly , who will also replace General Randan ia the Muuntiy oi War ; while Carrelet is to give way to General St . Arnaud , commander in the late African campaign . J ^ iiSSffl ^* 1 ^* 1111 ™

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      The' Moniteur' gives the following account of disturbances said to have broken out in the Cher . Tne magistrates of Sancerre haying arrested and committed to prison the Mayor of Precy , M . Dearaoineaux , and two other inhabitants . of that commune , an attempt was made to rescue them . On the morhiDg of the I 2 th inst . 500 men , armed with guns and scythe ? , marched on Sancerre . Haviug baited at Menetreol , a few miles off , and being informed that Sancerre was defended by the national guard and several brigades of gendarmes , they commenced a retreat ; and soon disconcerted by military combinations dispersed in the woods . Twenty-six of the rioters were arrested and conducted to Bourges , where they will be tried . A battalion of the line has been despatched from Paris by railway to the same town . '

      The Prefect of Police has published a most despotic ordinance concerning the itinerant vendors of vegetables , poultry , rabbits , porcelain , slippers , and every other sort of article . From the 1 st of February next , all such vendors are to be prohibited from street sale of . the wars they cry , without a permit or licence from the prefecture . The condition of nationality and residence is likewise introduced into this edict which is highly important . Every itinerant vendor is required to be a Frene > - man , domiciled at least for one year in Paris . He

      must wear , after being , licensed , a medal , inscribed with his name and the number of his permission . It would be difficult to describe the sensation produced by this despotic ordinance ; There are , of course , an immense number of these poor people who are not French ; and still more who have not resided for a year in Paris . For naturally the first resource of an impoverished stranger would be to drive some houseless trade , by which he could supply , at least , the want qf . food although shelterless . But the bad ge will , be loathed hy all , as a stigma which will brand their clasr .

      The persons arrested at ibe office of the ' Yoix du Proscrit , ' on suspicion of-being connected with the French-German plot , together with Lecaf , the gerant of that journal , were set at liberty on Monday . A seditious plot is said to have been detected at Rouen , by the police , who have arrested two obscure individuals . It is said that in the apartments of these were found bottles of ponder and balls . A letter from Grenoble of the 10 th says that the day before a person named Moulin , the manager of the Alimentary Association , vras arrested , in virtue of a watrant issued by the procurer-general . He ii

      accused of leaving long been a" agent of the secret societies of Lyons , and their , most active correspondent at Grenoble . Three copies addressed to him , of the proclamation of the revolutionary committee of the South , were seized at the post-office ; and a search , instituted at his residence , led to the seizure of a quantity of socialist writings , and a number of letters tending to compromise other persons . : M . GaraveJ , a half-pay captain , was also arrested at the same time , but has since been set at liberty . Captain Brun , who was arrested , some time back on a political charge , - had been removed on tbelOcb instant , under escort for Lyons , where he is to be tried .

      ITALY . A correspondent writing from Florence on the 6 th iii 3 t ., thus describes the state of Tuscany : — ' Religious intolerance is again predom i nant here , and the growing spirit-of piote&taiYtwm is com bated by inquisitorial rigour on the part of the go vernment . The Swbb protestant minister has been definitively prohibited from preaching in Italian . Count Guicciardini was recently convicted of having put forth protestant doctrines , to about a dozen of his friends who met together for the purpose , in . censequence of which heinous offence he and his auditors are now languishing in confine , roent in the prisons of Volterra , with the

      exception of those who preferred banishment , and had interest enough to obtain that commutation of their sentence . An English gentleman , Mr . Walker , was arrested about six weeks ago on a similar charge , that of protestant propagandists , and although his period of detention was but short , owing to the immediate and spirited remonstrances of the Hon . Mr . Scarlett , British charge d ' affaires , the unfortunate members of the family with whom the offending conversation took place ( a conversation which Mr . Walker affirmed to have been utterly un . premeditated ) ' are still in gaol and likely to remain there . ' These arrests and condemnations are by no means according to the tenour of the law , as laid

      down by the constitution , but are carried out by arbitrary policei resolutions , ' termedprocesso ecouomico , a sort of economy which generally proves fatal to the interests of the prisoners . This species of abuse of power was abolished b y the status , but has been lately resumed by the reactionary government , and the insolence of the police has greatly increased in consequence , to the prejudices , in several instances , of British subjects . There was , indeed , such a simultaneous burst of complaint from British subjects , about six weeks ago , that it appeared as if an intentional and systematic attack had been made upon them by the ( covernnient agents . There Waa the " case of Mr , Walker , to

      which I have just alluded ; that of Mr . Newton , the architect , who . was collared by the police in the town of Volterra , whilst he was looking about him and making some inquiries , and then imprisoned for having made a drusqite remonstrance against the gendarmes' conduct ; and that of Captain Hare , his brother , and the Honourable Alfred Stourton , who were roughly handled by the police in the streets of Lucca , and subsequently dragged off to prison , and grossly insulted there , for having ridden their horses too fast over some tabooed portion of road . . These aggressions have given rise to complaints of unjust imprisonment on the part of Mr . Scarlett , who has been promised by the government

      that a strict examination shall be made into the conduct of the gendarmes , and that their dismissal shall ensue as soon as their culpability is proved ; bat the Tuscan authorities are as slippery as eehs and it requires great firmness and patience on the part of the Brirish charge d ' affaires to hold them to their bargain . The Lucca affair is now before the regular tribunals , and an excellent advocate has been retained by the three English gentlemen . Many witnesses , amongst whom is an Austrian officer , attest the brutal and uncalled for violence of the gendarmes ; but I shrewdly ' suspect that they knew pretty welljhovf far they would be backed by their superiors , and only acted in compliance with

      their wishes . The case of Lord Aldborough ' s sons at Leghorn is still wrapped in mystery' Their trial was brought to a conclusion on the 13 th of tost month , and the papers were forwarded to Marshal itadetsky for inspection . Hitherto no answer has been returned ; probably the Emperor ' s visit to Lombardy has so much occupied the time of the all-powerful marshal , that he has hot had leisure to enter into the merits of the affair . Whatever sentence the Austrain court-martial at Leghorn may have passed will remain secret until it has received the approbation of the superior military authorities , so that the future destiny of the Messrs . Stratford depends in reality upon the fiat of the veteran Radetsky .

      From the time of their arrest up to the date just mentioned , the prisoners had not been confronted with each other ; the three brothers being separately confined in cells adapted for eight , so- that each has seven companions . On the 13 th they met together for the first time since their arrest . Their health is tolerably good , but they rather complain of the meagreness of prison diet . Their ultimate fate does not inspire their friends with much uneasiness , as it is supposed that the Austrian authorities are riot desirous of implicating themselves with the British government , nor is it thought that the revelations brought out durin g the trial are 5 UC \ l as to warrant extremely severe measures , even if the

      competence of an Austrian court-martial to pass judgment on British subjects , in countries not belonging to Austria , were to be recognised . Memwhile the Dragon British war steamer , is still at Leghorn , watching the progress ot events . One thing is certain , that is , that the unfortunate Tuscans compromised in the affair will be visited with the utmost rigour of the law , the government being very glad to have an opportunity of laying its hands on so many of its enemies 'at one fell swoop . ' It is worth mentioning that the person suspected o / having played the spy , in the case of Lord Aldborough's sons , bas just been rewarded by being ap . pointed to a ffovernment situation at Porto Ferrajo , in the island of Elba . On the 27 ih of last month

      the Austrian military tribunal at Leghorn condemned five men to be hung , and one to be sent to the galleys , for murder and robbery ; but , in conse . quence o { no hangman being forthcoming , the sentence was commuted into shooting for two , and imprisonment for the other four . The two culprits were accordingly shot thro ugh the back on the morning of the 30 tb , by a platoon of Austrian soldiers , in the presence of ten thousand spectators . The garrison at Leghorn is about to march to Florence , and will be replaced by a regiment at Ruthenes , who will not hold much treasonable com-

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      munication with the inhabitants , as they speak neither French , Italian , nor German , indul ging in no accents but their own native Sclavonian . The garrison ' , of Florence is to march northwards , much to the regret of the officers , who will have to burst the silken bonds in which they have hitherto been held by the ladies of the foreign society , for the Florentine fair ones consider it unpatriotic to indulge in any such penchans . On Saturday , the 4 th inst ., the Austrian -troops attended mat and paraded the streets of Florence with victorious oak-leaves in their shakos ^ in honour of their Emperor , it being St . Francis ' s day .

      The ' Milan Gazette ' publishes " the following notification : — ' In order to give the . inhabitants of the Lombardo . Venetian kingdom a proof of the paternal solicitude of the imperial and royal government , and of the , unvaried clemency of our august sovereigns , his Excellency Field-Marsha ! Count Radetzky , has , in virtue of the authority his 'Majesty has been pleased to entrust to his hands , directed that all persons not' belonging to the army , ' who are now undergoing punishment for political transgressions of minor importance , owing to the state of siege , shall receive a free pardon , provided their punishments , whether directly inflicted t > y court-martials ; or mitigated by the presiding officers , do not exceed a year of simple military arrest . In consequence of which all civilians now in prison under the circumstances defined above , shall immenintety be set at liberty .

      ' The Military Commandant , Count Gytjlay . ' Milan , Oct . 8 , 1851 . ' The Milanese journal , ' II Tesoro , ' has been suspended until the cessation of the state of siege , for several articles against the Austrian government . We take the following from the ' Morning Herald ' ' — ' We have now before us a letter signed by twenty-one Neapolitan priests—three of them canons , three of them doctors of divinity , one of them a doctor of canon law , two cf them Ligbrnian missionaries , and the remainder simple priests , addressed to the - Attorney -General of the criminal court of Naples , claiming at his hands that , merciful treatment to which every untried prisoner is

      entitled . These priests , be it understood , are all political prisoners—that is to say ,- they are men" who were , and are , favourable to that , constitution which Ferdinand first gave to his people and afterwards perjuriously revoked . They are , and have been for months , lodged in the prison of St . Francis , at Naples , where they lie forgotten—at least , untried . For , some time after their incarceration , these , gentlemen ( for some of them are gentlemen by birth , and all by education ) were ' allowed three-balfpence a day of our '' money to subsist themselves upon ! But ever since the 25 th February last they have by a decision of the Secretary of State , been deprived of this miserable pittance , and have been told they ought to subsist themselves out ; of the

      patrimony of the church . The result is that some of these gentlemen are now lying on the bare flags of the prison floor , without covering , and : that they are actually perishing slowly from the pangs of hunger . ' For months the friends and families of these priests sent them such succour and assistance in money as could be occasionally conveyed into the prison . But these sums are now exhausted , and they complain they must perish unless they be allowed by the government not tbree-halfpence , but three carlini a day . 'We are gentlemen and priests , ' say they , in a touching appeal , ' and either bring us to ] trial , liberate us , or give us wherewith to subsist as gentlemen and men of honour , so that we may not perish of hunger . ' -

      GERMANY . Advices dated the lOtb inat . state that the hope of Germany must'be very low when the meeting of the Bavarian chambers can inspire any hope at all ; yet it seems there is some faint expectation abroad that these chambers ' may be : less submissive to the demands of the Frankfort Diet , touching the abolition of ' fundamental rights , ' and the ' re-organising of its constitution , ' than the smaller states have hitherto shown themselves . One after the other of these have manifested the utmost alacrity in retrogression , from Wurtemberg to Bremen there has been no dissentient voice . The senate of the last state has even gone further than the abolition

      of the' fundamental rights . ' It has decreed , or atber sanctioned the decree of the government , that when any of the rights in question have come into practicalexercise by specific laws , such laws are to undergo a most searching revision , in order to purify them ' of whatever leaven they may contain that may he thought ' at variance with the principles of the Bund . A pretty clean sweep of constitutionalism has been alreadv made . The right of self-taxation , ministerial responsibility , the independence of the judicature , the freedom of the press , the tig ht of association , juries , and

      corporation privileges , 'have all at ' one fell swoop been done away with . That Bavaria should make a stand , however , against this appears of all things the most improbable ; for Bavaria may be said to belong to the Austrian division of Germany , and has besides been most active in crushing every vesti&eof constitutional life out of HeBse Cassel . Nevertheless , as this middle state is somewhat ambitious , it it is thought thai out of a sentiment of pride—in order to assert an independency of action —to roafce her importance fe ) i by trie two great powers , she may on this occasion set an example of . resistance that tbe" little states dare not

      venture on . ; , From Pe 3 th and Hermannstadt there have arrived lists of the sentences pronounced by the court martial on another batcb of political prisoners . In the first list figure thirty-eig ht members of the 'illegal ' Hungarian Diet , and of the ' rebel' commissioners . The sentences pronounced were death by the halter , and confiscation of the property of all . The Emperor s mercy has commuted tbe sentences on seven

      to ten years' imprisonment , on thirteen to six years' imprisonment , on seven others to four years ' , on four to two years ' imprisonment ; and the remaining seven have been liberated altogether . Those condemned at Hermannstadt were formerly officers in the Austrian service . They are forty in number . The sentences pronounced by the court were death by tbe halter upon all . Their punishment has been commuted to sixteen , twelve , ten , eight , six , five , three , and two years respectively .

      A considerable number of the Deputies of the Diet , sitting at Kouigsberg , have sent in a petition to the government against the revival of the Diets , of which tbe following passages give the substance : — ' It is notorious that there are a variety of opinions wita reipect to the legaWVy oi tbe provincial diets , that not only in many places no elections have taken place , or have been carried through by miserable minorities , but also that no small number of deputies who have been elected have refused to act . And although by personal representatives , and minority elections , it has been possible to open

      the Provisional Diets , yet , that many of tne deputies have appeared very reluctantly is not to be denied , and that not only the second and third estates , » but the first also , have manifested the strongest aversion to tbe revival of the diets . In case the Chambers should sanction the continuance oi these assemblies for the consideration" of'provincial and local interests , it is the general wish that the cities and rural parishes ; should send an equal number of deputies to those of the first class , by which means the chief objection to the diets mi ght he removed , and they mi ght be brought into harmony wUb the constitution .

      ' Some time ago we mentioned to our readers a rumoured intention on the part of the Prussian Kovemment to change the organisation of the Prussian army . An initiative step towards this end may be detected in tbe ' Militar Wochen Blatt last week . The 1 st regiment of Landwenr Reserved Infantry is not , when its term of service has expired , to he disbanded , but is to be kept up ( dropping the name of Laudwehr , ) under the denomination of ' Regiment of Reserved Foot Guards ;' and both the Uhlan regiments are also to belong no longer to the Laudwehr , hut to be continued permanently on the footing of disposable troops . UNITED STATES .

      We have advices from New York to the 30 th ult . We informed our readers some weeks ago or' a riot at Christians , in Pennsylvania , where , in an attempt to obtain possession of some fugitive slaves ; their owner was killed , and several of his party were dangerously wounded . Since that time numerous arrests have been made of persons ; black and white , who were engaged in tbe affray , and they are to be tried for murder and treason . Among the blacks arrested as accessories ore four , who were recognised as fugitive slaves , and sent lack to their masters without hesitation .

      A very large . meeting has bten held in Charleston , South Carolina , at which separate secession was warmly and efficiently opposed . The course things are now taking in that state seems to give assurance that no attempt at disunion Will for the present be ' BticcesBfuU , It has become evident of late that the southern states are all , with the one exception , loyal to tbe Union , and . cannot be induced

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      to break away from the ties which have bound the states together . Among the new candidates for tbe presidency is Mr . L . Mary , Secretary of "War during the difficulties with Mexico . He is said to be an able man , and to stand a good chance . The Cuban prisoners have addressed a letter to the British Consul gratefully acknowledging the valuable services rendered in their behalf-by him . A number of literary men held a meeting on Wednesday , the 24 th ult ., in the Library Rooms , City Hall , for the purpose of adopting measures to pay proper regard to the memory of the late J . Fenimore Cooper .

      • A committee was . formed , Washington Irving , chairman and president , Judge Duer , F . Hallec , R . Kimball , George Bancroft , and Dr . Francis , who were empowered to arrange preliminaries .

      SWITZERLAND . The grand council of the canton of Berne commenced , in its sitting on the 8 th inst ., a discussion which was looked to by the inhabitants with great interest . It concerns the property in specie of the canton of Berne , carried away : by the French in 1798 , and of other property in gold and silver carried at that period for safety to the Obeirland . The Radical party , with M . de Staemple , the late president of the Federal Assembly , at its head , says that certain patrician families appropriated to themselves a part of the sums saved from the French ; and , in consequence , it now proposes that the

      descendants of these families shall be made to repay what their fathers seized on . They want to have a commission of inquiry nominated , from which every burger of Berne shall be excluded , such persons , they affirm , being interested in the question . On the other hand , the law authorities have had _ a long report prepared on the matter , in which it is proposed to name a special commission of seven or nine members , but without any exclusion of the burgess' class , and with permission to the grand council of the canton to adopt such measures as it may think proper after the said commissioners shall have reported on the question . So the matter tests at present . ' *

      AUSTRIA . Kosstjth . —A telegraphic advice has reached Vienna , with the incredible information that the Austrian minister in London has demanded his passports if Kossuth be permitted to land . The statement is not believed , but the fact that the Earl of Westmoreland bas delayed bis departure from Berlin , coupled with the conviction that this government , mad enough at all times , but how immeasurably incensed at the preparations making to receive Kossuth ,. is capable of taking the strongest and most unreasonable steps , have induced some persons to credit it . Others , too , who thoroughly

      understand the ignorance of the Austrian government arid their incapacity to understand the relations of a ministry in England and the power of a member ' of the cabinet , are inclined to believe that the Austrian minister may on this occasion , as he did in the affair of Haynau v . Barclay and Perkins ' s draymen , have demanded the inteference of the government where it has no power whatever . Meantime Lord Palmerslon is overwhelmed with abuse in the government press . He is at the bottom of everything ; he has instigated the common councils of London and Southampton ; he has done so much indeed , that to simple ' mind * he must appear allpowerful as well as ubiquitous . '

      CENTRAL AMERICAN STATES . An insurrection has broken' out in the Central American States of San Salvador and Guatemala . General Carrera ; with a force of 1 , 500 men , had attacked the enemy in San Salvador , who mustered 4 , 000 strong , and defeated them , with a loss of four men killed . He then evacuated tbe conn try . Tbe revolution , by the-last advices , had commenced on the Rio Grande , and the insurgents , after capturing the government bands , had marched to join Carababel , who was concentrating bis forces near Monterey . . ,

      \ Ve hnve dates from 'Nicaragua to September . 2 . After the dispersion of the legislative body at Managua , as stated in . previous advices , it assembled again at Granada . Sen ' or del Montenegro , the director elected by that body , succeeded in establishing his government , but died a few days after . A new election took place . The real leader of the Granadine party is Do » Truto Chamorro , a man of a narrow mind and obstinate character . He is the commander of the military force of the Granadine government . The posiiion of the United States Charge d'Affaires , Mr . Kerr , is invested with a great deal of interest . When Mr . Kerr arrived at Leon , he was informed that the government of Nicaragua

      could not receive him , this state having formed with the two states of San Salvador and Honduras , a confederation , to which the foreign relations had entirely been ceded by each of the three members , and that he had to present his credentials to the federal government . This , from want of such instructions , Mr , Kerr could not do , and thus lie could not take an official position . It must appear singular , that tbe government at Waahingtoii has not been informed of a state of tbingB which made the sending of Charge d'Affaires to Nicaragua an impossibility . The new confederation has since refused to liold any further communication with Mr . GttatfieW , the . representative of . Great Britain in Centrar America .

      CANADA . Advices from Toronto , dated September 27 tn , state that the Inspector-General , the Postmaster . General , and the Commissioner of Crown Lands , have resigned their offices and seats in the cabinet . It has not yet transpired whether the resignations are accepted . The whole cabinet is expected to resign . The various departments of government , except the Crown Land-office , ' closed at . Toronto , September 20 th . The report of the Commissioners of Emigration

      shows a decrease of emigrants to Canada in 1850 from tbe previous year . In the . year ending December , 1850 , the number of emigrants from the United Kingdom to Canada . were 32 , 635 ; and of those , only 18 , 380 remained in the province ; 15 , 723 went to the United States . In tbe previous year , the number of emigrants to Canada was 38 , 495 . It is only about thirteen years since that the tide of emigration from the United Kingdom ceased to flow in greahst force against tbe shores of these British provinces , and took the direction of tbe United States .

      The work of the late session of parliament ia thus summed up : bills introduced , 322 ; carried , 117 ; lost or dropped , 145 . Of the whole number , only 26 originated in tbe Legislative Council .

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      The ' Journal des Debats' states that the number of foreigners residing in the department of the Seine , who have applied for permis de sejour , exceeds 30 , 000 ; but , that only 20 , 000 have been granted , as it required some time to investi . gate the case of each applicant to ascertain wheiher there is any cause for refusal . The permis were in thei first instance , says this journal , made out for three or six raohtha only , susceptible of renewal ; but for some days past they have been issued without any limit to time being affixed . The number of expulsions of foreigners does not up to this time ' , adds the ' Debats , ' exceed 200 . ' The

      statement concludes by mentioning that a further delay has been granted to enable forei gners to apply for permissions of residence , who have not already done so , but that it will expire next week , and that then the clause of expulsion will be enforced against SUCh residents 88 shall not have complied with the order of the prefect . ¦ &T » ie ' Official Milan Gazstto' having recently given an account of . the audience granted by tlie Emperor to the Duke of Pasqua , who had been sent by the King of Sardinia to compliment his Majesty , in which account it is stated that the Duke had

      come to offer a tribune of homage , the ' Piedmontese Gazette ' of the 6 th justly takes offence' at this , and insinuates that the writer of the 'Milan Gazette ' is so accustomed to' German that he is by degrees forgetting his Italian ; inasmuch as a tribute of homage , whatever it may mean in German , cer tainly would ' imply vas 8 alage in Italian , which vassalage Sardinia is not prepared to accept . Father Mathew is now in New York , expectine shortly to return to his native land . A letter has been written b y Henry Clay to Mr . Henry Grinnell warmly recommending a united effort on the part of the cozens lo relieve the apostle of temperance from the pecuniary embarrassments which he has ncurred in the discbarge of his mission

      . Ihe Boston papers say that at a late entertain-SK ? i F ' iS Wintbrop t 0 the Canadia » s - during the late jubilee , the only beverage used W A COUple Of American gentlemen who have been on a vi « t to the negro colonies of Canada , contra , diet the oft-repeated assertion that the negro population of Canada are in a miserable condition . They report that the coloured inhabitants amount

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      to over 30 , 000 , and are generally represented by the white population as good , moral , and industrious citizens ; and that the destitution and suffering which is reported to prevail is exaggeration . jThe only assistance they stand in need of is in maintaining schools and the advancement of religion . A letter from , Rome , in the Lombardo-Veneto ' of the 4 tbystafes that the Pontifical Government is still trying , though in vain , to form a Papal army . The revival of the Order of Malta is spoken of atiRome ; but-the chief obstacle to such a

      measure is the dispersion of the vast property formerly belonging to the Order in Spain , Portugal , Italy , France , Austria , and Poland . The writer adds that in consequence of the refusal of the Federal Council of Berne to allow a . Papal , array to be recruited in Switzerland , the King of Naples will send his own Swiss regiments to the Pope , which are to pass ' for having come fresh from Switzerland , thus eluding the articles of the Con . vention passed between the four Catholic PowerB , which stipulates that no Neapolitan troops are to occupy'the Reman States . - :

      ' The 'New York Tribune' says that the use o tbe new female ctfBtume is greatly on the increase , and adds of the Bloomers ; ' We are glad to observe a better behaviour towards them by the sovereign public . It is one benefit at least of the increased ndoption of the dress . Bloomers are getting to be too general to excite surprise or ridicule , A duel , in which one . of the parties was slain , oc curred in Brownsville , on the 8 th inst . On Sunday evening , about eight o ' clock , a dispute arose he *

      tweenMr . W . H . Harrison , of that city , and Mr . W . G . Clarke , of Point Isabel . A sort of informal duel , with five shooters , was proposed and accepted on the instan t , in the street . They went out and at fifteen paces commenced the contest . Both p istol 9 missed fire in the first attempt ; the deceased ' s pistol missed fire a second time ; his antagonist fired , without effect , and again fired a second time , when the deceased fell by a shot near the region of the heart . A warrant was issued for the arrest of

      Mr . Harrison , but he passed the river into Mexico before it could be executed . . The Italia del Popolo' states that a patrol of revenue oncers , perc&Wing during ^ henigh' aeveial p rsons coming-from the Transtevere , and carrying a heavy burden , thought that it might be some articles of contraband . Haying examined the parcel / they found it to contain another fulminating apparatus , which was to" be exploded before tbe shop ' oi Len'i , The police-continued most aciive searches in that

      quarter . An--English Cabinet courier , on his way to Naples , ' having lately landed at Civita Vecchia , while tbe steamer remained in the harbour , was not permitted to re-embark by the authorities , because his passport was not legalised for the Pontifical dominions ' . ' He was , however , allowed to continue his journey by " land , passing through Rome . Lord Palmersfon ;! it appears , has taken offence at that insult , and the Consul , Freeborn , has already addressed several energetic ' notes to the Pontificial govern , ment demanding reparation .

      Count Batthyani has hired apartments in the Champ Elys 6 e , Paris , where he purposes to lead a life of retirement . A person of the name of Pastor was brought on Saturday before the Correctional Police , Paris , under a charge of having bad a quantity of pistols in his possession , without permission from the authorities . , In his defence be declared that he was the agent . of a factory of arms established in Belgium , and that the forty-nine pairs of pistols found in his possession belonged to that firm . The court decided that the permission required by law was indispensable , and in consequence sentenced him to pay a fine of 200 fr .

      The widow of General Enna , who was killed in an engagement with the party of Lopez , has arrived at Tigo , in a steamer from Cuba . The Guatemala frigate has also arrived at Vigo , with 116 of the 'persons condemned by court martial to . imprisonment with , hard labour in Spain , for having invaded Cuba under Lopez . The Yenus and the Isabella-Catolica bring ten others , making altogether 12 C . M . Martin , deputy mayor of the commune of Cressat , who bad been suspended from his functions by the Prefect of the Creuse , for using disrespectful remarks towards the President of the Republic at a sitting of the municipal council , has been definitively dismissed . ¦

      A delicate question of military law has been under the consideration of the second council of war , presided over by Lieut .-Col . Man 6 que , of the 13 th Regiment . A sergeant of the lOtlj , . Chasseurs , going to a public ball , met private Ligoade , of the same corps , staggering' drunk upon the staircase . The Serjeant ordered the private to make way , whereupon the latter struck him . The minority of the council were of opinion , that the Draconian tenor of the military code , which prescribes the punishment of death for striking a , superior officer was inflexible . But a majority of four against three adopted the argument of counsel for . the defence , that when a non-commissioned officer'off duty mixes with his subordinates in a place of public diversion , he loses a portion oi the prestige of his rank , nnd upon this consideration , the offender- was sentenced only to five years' imprisonment in irons , with military degradation .

      Disturbances took place on the 12 th at Sancerre , ( Cher . ) The rioters were dispersed by the troops , who captured twenty-six persons with suvma in their bands , amongst whom was the Mayor of Preey ,

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      The Real Discoverer . —In Australia , the gold discoveries , so new and surprising to the public , are not knew to the scientific world , More than two years ago , in an " Essay on the Distribution of Gold Ore , " read before the British Association , to which our raiders will be indebted for some of the factB contained in the present gossip ,. Sir Roderick iMurchison " reminded . his geological auditors that in considering the composition of the chief or . eastern ridge of Australia , anil its direction from north to south , he' had foretold ( as well as Colonel Helmorson , of the Russian Imperial Mines ) that gold would be found in it ; and he stated that , in the last year , one gentleman resident in Sydney , who had read what he had written and spoken 6 a this point , had Bont him specimens o ! gold ore found in the Blue Mountains ; whilst from another source , he had learnt that tbe parallel north and south in

      the Adelaide region , which had yielded so much copper , had also given undoubted signs of gold on . Tho operation of English laws , by which noble metals lapse to the crown , had induced Sir Roderick Murchiaon to represent to' her Majesty ' s Secretary of State that no colonists would be 9 tir themselves in gold mining if some clear declarations on the subject were not made ; but as no measure on this head seemed to be in contemplation , he inferred that tho government may be of opinion that the discorery of any notable quantity of gold might derange the stability and regular industry of ; v great colony , which eventually must depend upon its agricultural products . " That was the language useil by Sir . Roderick Murchison in September , 1819 ; and in September , 1 S 51 , we are all startled by the fact which brings emphatic confirmation of his prophecy . —Dickens ' a Household Words .

      SEfiTBNCE O"F IMPRISONMENT ON Invkikok Ani-MAT . S .--A former who bas just quitted a farm near Bury was about twelve years ago thrown by his horse , for which offence he passed upon tho animal the dread sentence of perpetual imprisonment , and from that day until the sale the poor beast remained in confinement , his only employment during the whole period . being to rub oft his inane and tail , of which he is now minus . Another horse , whose © ffence w 6 have not heard , was the sharer of his captivity during the last seven years ; and a greyhound dog , for some breach of discipline , has been subiected to the same penalty . —Bury Post .

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      2 THE NORTHERN STAR . Ootobbb 18 , J 851 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1648/page/2/