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precautions and guarantees against a similar sur-An ukase of General Gemeau , dated March 31 , prohibits the sale of a number of Socialist pamphlets , among others one by Armand Barb&s , in the Sixth Military Division , "bhenu ' s new libel , " The Montagnards of 1848 , " is , however , permitted by tne Ce ° letter from Rouen states that serious disturbances took place in that town on Monday night last , in consequence of the mayor having forbidden the representation of the « Juif Errant . " An immense mob having joined some rioters who had been expelled fiom the theatre , the troops were called out . The cavalry having charged the crowd , the people fledand a number of the leaders were arrested .
, Accounts from Limoux , Aude , state that the troops -were called out there on Saturday night , in consequence of alarm created by a tumultuous mob parading the streets , singing revolutionary songs . The departmental journals continue to give accounts of incendiarism . A part of the communal forest of Bord&res , near Tarbes , has just been destroved . On Tuesday week four fires took place in
the neighbourhood of Soissons . The most considerable was that on the farm of a M . Fortville , at Pasly . The stables , barns , and other outhouses , with all they c ontained , were destroyed ; the dwelling-house alone escaped . So determined were the incendiaries to effect their purpose , that a rivulet which ran before the house , and the water of which would have served to have extinguished the fire , was on the t > revious evening turned from its course . Dommiers ,
Ambleuy , and Juvignyhave also guttered . At beurre ( Cote d'Or ) on Sunday a fire broke out , and before it could be got under two houses were destroyed . Soon afterwards , when all the people had returned to their homes , a second fire was discovered , which in a short space of time completely destroyed seventeen cottages . During the night several other fires were seen in different parts of the country .
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RENEWAL OF RELATIONS WITH SPAIN . A reconciliation has at last taken place between Lord Palmerston and General Narvaez , and diplomatic relations will be immediately renewed . General Narvaez disclaims having ever entertained any idea hostile to England , or even to Sir H . Bulwer ; and declares that the only thing wanting to complete the new amicable arrangement is his being able to grasp his former friend by the hand at such a happy moment . The Paris correspondent of the Times pretends to give an account of the manner of the reconciliation in " very nearly the words of General Narvaez himself" : —
•• The great affair is arranged—the courier left Madrid on Sunday , taking with him my adhesion to the slight changes made by Lord Palmerston in the note that we are to present officially . These changes are as follows : — We said in the note , ' There never existed on the part of the Spanish Government the remotest intention of offering any offence whatever to England , to the Queen of England , or to the English Government . ' Lord Palxnerston made only the change of a single word in the phrase , viz ., « Any offence whatever to Great Britain . ' dmitted . . * That the resolution adopted ( respecting Sir Henry Bulwer ) was so adopted with much regret , and forced by the grave circumstances of the moment . ' Lord Palmerston suggested the word alarming' instead of ' grave . ' Admitted-.
«« The English Government will add , and the Spanish Government admits beforehand , this ( regret ) with respect to Sir Henry Bulwer . m " The Government of her Britannic Majesty would desire the return to Madrid of Sir Henry Bulwer , whose services have not for a single instant ceased to be agreeable and useful ; but , charged as he is with an important mission elsewhere , the Government of her Britannic Majesty renounces ze-accrediting him , &c . " Lord Howden is to be the new Ambassador .
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ERFURT PARLIAMENT . The very preliminaries at Erfurt betoken weakness . M . Radowitz has proposed to the Committee of the Lower House ( engaged in revising the Constitution previously to its being submitted to the House ) , that the 10 th article , which asserts the right of making war or peace to belong exclusively to the Federal Executive , should be deferred , as it had been inserted in the Constitution on the assumption that n . larger number of the German States would join the TJnion . His proposal was unanimously rejected , the Committee not being disposed to allow Prussia thus
to back out of her own federation , lhe reason of the changed tone of Prussia is obvious enough . The principal German States refusing their adhesion , she is no longer strong enough' to substitute the new Confederation for that of 1815 , in order to overtop the influence of Austria . M . Caiu . owitz . admitted this in repeating M . Radowitz ' s proposal to the Upper House , lie said the position of Prussia was a difficult one . Austria , Bavaria , Saxony , Wurtomberg , and Hanover , regarded it with distrust , and , unless the Constitution should be altered in the points recommended , even the recognition of Franco and England could not bo expected . M . Carlowiu was
met by a storm of bitter sarcasm , in which the conduct of Prussia was denounced as lukewarm and treacherous . So differences commence already , albeit the dejected Committees proceed with their labours . In the sitting of March the 3 d , M . Radowitz stated that he would bring his proposition , though rejected by the Committee , before the House . The question being raised whether such alteration of the Constitution would not give those states which dissented a right to withdraw from the Union , M . Radowitz confessed that it would , and that the federal Court of Arbitration would be obliged to confirm the right of such withdrawal . M . Simson , the President , assented to this view . M . CAMPHAUSEif then read the report of the conclusions of the Committee . He the onstitution
advised the acceptation of C en bloc ; the alterations made in the Committee s revision to be only presented to the House , not to be voted , but sent to the several Governments for their approval ; and , failing such approval , the alterations to be struck out . So that the dissent of one Government might make the whole a nullity . The rest of the proceedings was total confusion ; different parts of the report were approved by different sections of the Committee , but none of them were supported by votes enough to be carried , even with the advocacy of M . Radowitz , so that in the end all the paragraphs of the report were rejected , leaving this curious result , that the Committee can only report a bare account of its labours , without any recommendation of the course the House should take . So commences the new Prussian e ndeavour at
German unity . The outer prospect is no more promising . Bremen has resolved not to respect any resolution of the " German Parliament" until Hanover and Oldenburg shall have entered the federation . Hesse-Darmstadt is also about to withdraw .
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THE GKEEK QUARREL . Lord Palmer 8 ton ' s quarrel with Greece seems likely to be settled amicably . Baron Gros ( the French Envoy ) and Mr . "Wyse have , it is said , agreed upon the basis of an arrangement . The demand of Don David Pacifico , which has been pressed with a very absurd importance , is shown to be enormous . Though he claims for plate and jewels lost on the day the mob entered his house , there are even now in the Bank of Athens articles of silver pledged by him ; and there is still
extant in Athens a subscription list opened for his relief some while before he was " plundered . " A " valuable" deed , giving him a claim upon the Portuguese Government , appears also to have been only his own protest signed before a notary , and the probable amount of indemnification that he was likely to get from Portugal is shown to be something under £ 200 . Another claim for indemnity , on account of land resumed by the Greek Government from Mr . Finlay , is also proved to be much exaggerated .
If Baron Gros should fail in bringing this matter to a satisfactory issue , the fate of Greece will be critical . Lord Palmerston's last instructions , it is said , are , that Admiral Parker , failing the arrangement , is to blockade the whole coast of Greece . The commerce of the country has already greatly suffered , the crops have been destroyed by the frost , and it is calculated that the revenue will fall very short . Should Sir "William Parker put the blockade in force , nothing can save the country from severe suffering . The greatest exasperation against England prevails at Athens .
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AMERICAN NEWS-BOYS . A grand meeting of news-boys in the Park , New York , is reported in the New York Tribune . The cause of the demonstration was a chapel meeting , at which the police were urged to arrest all boys found selling papers on the Sabbath . The boys erected a platform , hired a band of music , and engaged speakers , altogether conducting their meeting in a style worthy of old hands . Several animated speeches were made , and resolutions were passed to this effect : —
" That society owes all , especially fthe young , a living ; that , as at present organized , society is their oppressor , making honest labour less honourable than sensual idleness , punishing misfortune as a crime , and identifying poverty with vice ; that the news-boys , many having widowed mothers and helpless sisters to support , are up before the dawn in every season , and traverse all day long many weary miles through the streets , unfitly clothed , coarsely fed , exposed to burning suns , drenching storms , and pinching frost , for a yearly pittance which would not buy the first month ' s outfit of a baby of aristocracy ; that the day of rest is no dearer to
others than to the news-boy , giving ( if he had it ) time to think of loving God and his neighbour , and not leaving him unceasingly engaged in a mere struggle for existence ; that a committee be appointed to confer with the Hope Chapel Committee , to obtain their cooperation in an effort for the prohibition , on the Sabbath , of carriage-driving to church or elsewhere , of cooking , &c , and of church bell-ringing ; for enforcing the closing of gas-houses , and the shutting off of water , as well as for the stoppage of newspaper crying and selling ; and that clergymen receiving more than ten dollars a week be requested to pay over the surplus into a general fund , to
be employed in procuring for the news-boys a good bath for every Saturday evening , a clean shirt for the Sabbath , suitable clothes for attending Sabbath school , and a compensation equal to that which they obtain by the sale of newspapers . " At the conclusion of the meeting the boys left the ground in procession , with their band of music at their head .
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A "WHITE SAVAGE . An interesting narrative appears in the Times , recounting the discovery of a young Scotchwoman who was found living among the natives of an island ( supposed to be Prince Edward Island ) , an offset of the Australian group , where she had been for the last four or five years . The account is extracted from the journal of a Mr . Aplin , who was on board the vessefthat brought her away . This vessel had been sent with stores to her Majesty ' s shi ps Rattlesnake and Bramble , and it was while at Cape York , on the way to Labuan , that the crew first heard of the White savage . She came to see them , accompanied by some of the Natives ; and is thus described : —
" She appears to be about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age , of rather a slight figure , and , I think , decidedly good-looking . She was naked , with the exception of a grass girdle round her waist , after the fashion of the native women of those parts , and in her carriage and walk resembled them completely ; her hair was short and skin clear , and not disfigured in any way except by a burn which she had accidentally received , but which had left a large ugly scar on the inside of the left thigh and arm . She had forgotten a great deal of her native tongue , but , as well as she could , she told us the following : —That she was born in Scotland ; that her name was Barbara Crawford ; that her father was a
tinsmith , living in Kent-street , Sydney ; that about four or five years ago , as well as she could recollect ( but of this she had a very indistinct idea ) , she ran away from Sydney with a man named William Alexander Thompson , where he married her ; that he was the master of a small cutter called the American ; and that on her passage through Torres Straits , on their way to Port Essington , they were wrecked , and that some natives , observing them , swam off through the surf and succeeded in saving her ; the remainder were either drowned or died in consequence of exposure or injuries received when wrecked . She said that the Natives treated her with the greatest kindnessand have continued to do so up to the present
, moment , never having offered her any indignity , or taken any liberties with her except in the solitary instance of an old chief , when his sons and her friends immediately set upon him and gave him a sound thrashing . She told us that till the day before she had never been on the main land , and that , on discovering us , she asked permission of the Blacks to visit us , saying she had some female friends whom she wished to see , and that she would return after having visited them , and after having procured biscuit and knives for themselves . They had often told her , she said , of the men-of-war , and other vessels that had anchored there , but not till after they
had sailed , when they brought her biscuit , and other things that had been given them . She said that they had always been friendly with the Whites , and expressed the deepest gratitude for their uniform kindness to her ; they were evidently much disappointed at her discovery , and expressed considerable reluctance at parting with her ; however , Captain Stanley , at her request , allowed three or four , whom she selected , to accompany her on board the Rattlesnake , and , having spent the night there , they departed , well satisfied with the blankets , knives , and tomahawks that Captain Stanley had ordered to be distributed amongst them .
" The sailors on shore vied with each other in paying her every attention , and Scott , Captain Stanley a coxswain , having provided her with water for washing , and combed her hair , and arrayed her in two skirts , for an upper and inner garment , saluted her with a hearty kiss , saying , ' There , old gal , that ' s what you ' ve not had this four years . ' " She appeared glad at the prospect of seeing her friends again , but did not show that excessive joy which it is but natural to imagine she would have experienced under the circumstances . Her life has certainly somewhat altered her nature , for , being asked the next morning whether she had cried over the events of the past day , she said that her feelings were completely hardened and deadened now , and that she could not cry . It seems strange how a girl of eighteen years of age , and to
appearance by no means strong , could have become accustomed to living in a state of nudity , and with her head uncovered , in such a burning climate . It shows how even woman ' s delicate nature will adapt itself to circumstances for which its organization seems totally unfitted . Captain Stanley has provided a cabin for her , and this morning , December 17 , she was seated in a corner of his cabin making herself a gown out of a piece of print with which she had been furnished . So strong was the force of habit acquired by her residence amongst the Blacks that when at breakfast with Captain Stanley she used her fingers in preference to a knife and fork . She will , no doubt , be able to afford Captain Stanley much useful information as to the language , manners , and customs , &c , of the natives of the islands in Torres Straits and its neighbourhood . "
The same paper from which this narrative is taken contains an account of the wreck of an English vessel on the African coast , and of the very different manner in which the savages there behaved on the occasion . This vessel , the Concordia , in its voyage from Plymouth to Sierra Leone , was cast ashore " in the bay of Youf , seven miles from Cape de Verd . On touching the shore , which was occasioned by thick weather and the indrift of the bay , the vessel was surrounded by many hundreds
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Leader (1850-1860), April 13, 1850, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1840/page/6/
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