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FRANCE . MOCK . TEIAL OF THE PROSCRIBED REPUBLICANS . This monstrous mockery of justice is ' dragging its slow length along . ' Of late the incidents have not bte : i worth reporting in full . On Tuesday ( week ) the court was the scene of another scandal , iu consequence of the gross misconduct of a witness , M . Vaiois , who , instead of confining himself to facts , abused the prisoners , who were representatives , calling them not representatives , but wretches—hereupon the prisoners , as might have been expected , loudly prulested against the insults of M . Vaiois . These protests were renewed in the course of the day
ia consequence of the manner in which a certain Captain Goubeau gave his evidence . The Captain stated that upon bis arresting a couple of individuals one of them said ' Take care , I ara a representative ;' on whica be ( the witness ) exclaimed , * You a represeated ? ay , a representative of the Canaille J ' Her « 3 i »! j ihe prisoners nwe , en masse , and protested a ° ahist she shameful insults to which they were subjected , ana uue of them Laroazisre , denounced the wiiuecs as a liar , for which he was immediately senfeoix-d to three months' imprisonment , and a fine of ldi } fanes . The counsel for ihe defence energetically denounced the insulting conduct of the witnesses .
Oji Thursday the examination of witnesses as to the general facts terminated . On Priday the court was < jC 3 ipit : ' . i ia hearing a complaint instituted by the Aitorn = v-General against M . Hermaut , the editor of t !; a ' Tribunes des Pfiiiples , ' for having purchased an « nf . ii » . bfal report of the proceedings of the court , and i & uUing to the witnesses examined . The court , after having heard M . Michel ( de Botirges ) in defence of the editor , delivered its judgement , declaring riiat the report of the proceedings of the sflurt published in the ' Tribune des Pennies ' was unfaithful and insulting to the witnesses . The President sentenced M . Hermaut to imprisonment for one Bion ' . h and to pav a fine of l . OOOf .
Ths proceedings on Saturday passed without any ieiuiu . zble occurrence beyond the reading of a letter from o >! 8 of the parties implicated in the insurrection . oni | iUb > ag bitterly of the treachery of the MouataAu iu deserting Lsdru Uallin and the others . when the moment of danger arrived , on the 29 th of January ssa 13 th of June last . Tbr only incident of any note that occurred in the High Court of Versailles on Monday was the energetic denial by Sergeant Coinmissaire of the statcaienv of witnesses against him . He said that they vfc : s ill nvstahen , and particularly a cabman , whr ; swore he drove htm to the Conservatoire on the 13 : h oi June .
if-, c s PavsECurxows . —The' National'announces the : ' : !;> :- .: &'> at Xietz , of six persons accused of hav : ni ! . < . uu part in a revolutionary movement which took ; iUte at Strasburg on ths 14 th of June last . The en'iior of a Democratic journal published at Barlwsns has been condemned to imprisonment for one : s . ; sib , and to pay a fine of 200 f . for having pub ' fished bis journal without having deposited the usual security in m ' -ney . The editor of the journal * L'Egalite , ' of Gers , has been c 'iitde ; aued to imprisonment for six months and r- 'i & j . Use , for having published an article headed Doan with the Rich / The * itepubiiqae' and the 'Democratic Pacifique ' have teen stizsd for publishing the following letter from Louis Hlaxc snd his compiuions in exile : —
* C . f'zen . —The sentence which has , in the person of cj ' sxi Cabst , just struck one of the most pure and courageous servants of democracy , has not surprised us . Whatever opinions may he formed on an attempt at colonisation , inspired moreover by SO elevate & k < h-. ~ of devotedness , every Socialist consider . * binKci / as jointly attacked by the judgment pnnwuuccd avainst Cabet . It belongs to those who nave siaeUikd the pillory and the hulks to re-establish also ihe benches of the correctional tribunal . Each of us henceforth has paid his debt . The maslei . > . !¦( ' balks , exile , imprisonment , the galleys , and inn-. i ?/; . u < condemnations are the consecration of
new inset . 1 t is still the gibbet of ignominy tramformet ; ii ; t <> the standard of victory ; the cap of the slave hesome the glorious symbol of liberty . Health and j raiensttv . ' The members of the committee , Louis B & anc , President j J . Cazavastt , Secretary ; CatjssiausitE ; Louis Menard ; Rattier ; J . P . Bekjaeu ; A . Botjra ; Deleau ; A . Dubois ( a journeyman cabinet-maker : ) A . Watripox ; Iuasfin Bernard / The Asskmblt aud Ministry . —The proposition of M- Critou , for the abrogation of the laws which bamVn the two branches of the House of Bourbon from France having been rejected by a majority of 484 to 103 , the discussion on M . Nipoleon Buonaparte ' s mo-ion to grant an amnesty to the insurgents of Jun-i W 3 S rejected by a majority of 236 .
M- ce Fallens arrived in Pans on Saturday from the Chateau de Stors . lie had a day or two before seen M . dc Persigny , who paid him a visit in the name of the President of the Republic , and to whom he announced his intention of resigning , and of coming M Paiii to pfacehis resignation in his hands . His melsail attendants have absolutely forbidden occupa ' -i-. !? . of any kind to their patient . Complete repose is : he only chance for his recovery . M . de Pallou . * : on Iits arrival in Paris visited the President of the ifrpuMie , and delivered his resignation . He proposes proceeding to the south of France without delav .
Paris , Tuesday . —The discussion on M . Franoisque B » ar « t ' s interpeilations relative to the reasons for still keeping Lyons and thetifcighbouring departments iu r . state of siege occupied , the Legislative Asseiiiblv yesterday till its rising . The only speech of any consequence was that of M . Dufaure , who declsrcii ihai although he had been one of the sttenecu ; advocates for the rising of the state of siege of Paris , he looked upon the case of Lyons very .-liffereatiy . 'Ihe demagogues in that place were sti-i anxious for an outbreak , and he had the most positive in ' onnaiion that they were only waiting far a favourable opportunity to carry their wishes into effect . Besides this , the election of the grand council was about to take place at Geneva , on the 11 th of iSovemher , and there the Radical party wai not only in the ascendant , but had thought fit to
ieep in : hat city the chief part of the French refugees whom the government of the Republic had demanded to he sent into the interior of the country . An active correspondence was going on between ths demag-gaes on bath sides of the frontier , and some of the Swiss emissaries bad already been arrested in France , » -bo confessed that they had been sent on a mission to the Radicals of Lyons . Considerable agitation existed on both s des of the frontier on account of ( Ids election and the proceedings of the Radicals , and he therefore contended that the state of siege ought not to be levied . Two orders of the day Motive were brought forward to the effect that the state of siege of the sixth military division ought t / 0 be raised , but they were rejected , and the order of thenar et simple was adopted without a division . The asserablv then adjourned .
A kiter from Montpelher states that at the moment a number of Socialists -were transferred from thai town to Aix for trial . A tumultuous mob assembled round the prison van , exclaiming , ' ViveBarbes ;' « Yivc Robespierre ! ' 'Vive la guillotine . ' 31 . Rasrail has been transferred from the citadel of Bouillons to the hospital at Amiens , in consequence of ill-health . Seventeen persons were acquitted on the 27 tn ult . hy the periUMieut Court-Martial sitting at Lyons . They were accused of having participated in the tomtiltauus scenes which took place in the Cora smne of Yaise subsequent to the tevoluuonasj movtnient of the 13 th of June .
ITALY . ROME Oct . 17 . —We are still in a state of the greatest uncertainty with regard to the future course of events iu this country . Difficulties and perpifcxViiss surround the government on every side . Cardinals , ministers , diplomatists , and generals are all enveloped in the same dark mist t , f confusion and uncertainty , which serves to conceal their intentions from each other's scrutiny as well as from the profane eye of the public . Whether the motujiro prio of his holiness is really to become the law of the land , av . d when , are questions hourly asked , and hourly answered iu a different slain ; and to the inquiries of tbe foreigners , who now begin to make
their appearances in Rome , and who are naturally anxious io know under what regime they are to pass the few months of their winter residence , we can hut reply that the only recognised amhorities are ftench soldiers and Roman sSirri , and that no for suprema is as yet established for the guidance and guaranteeing of the community . What is very positive , and at the same time verydeplorable , is the financial and commercial embarrassment of the state . Ever sinoe the time of Cardinal Gonsalvi , who in 1815 found the country comparatively unencumbered , the national debt being then almost nominal , the treasurers of the Papal government have been gradually ruining the interests of th = state by their corrupt and injadictoas
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administration ; and although the public revenue , calculated according to the population , yields far more in proportion tV-an that of the neighbouring states , the ordinary expenses invariably exceed it , so that every now and then a loan is required to make up the growing deficit . It is now rumoured that Pius is about to make a flying visit ' to Rome , and , after passing a week at the Vatican , just , as it were , to takft possession , he will return to Velletri , and take up his residence there under the protection of his faithful Spaniards . If the railroad had been completed , he would only have been at three-quarters of an hour ' s distance from the capital , in that city ; but the old regime
detests quick travelling , and progress in every form . The head engineer of the line had an interview with the triumvirate ou ihe subject of the suspension of the works lately , and exposed iu sach lively colours the distress inflicted on the workmen , the loss occasioned to the shareholders , and the public odium incurred by their Eminences' determination , that the cardinals promised to try and' remedy the affair' —to use their own expression . We shall see . Robberies continue to be disagreeably frequent , and the French are so careless , and the sbirri so inefficient in preventing them , that there is some talk of re-establishing the national guard ; indeed , a circulation has
already been pasted up at the Piazza Colonna , purporting to be a model of the new uniform , and representing an individual with a musket on his shoulder , dressed with a three-cornered hat , black shorts , silver shoe-buckles and , in short , the ecclesiastical garb . Whilst mentioning caricatures , I must not forget to say that the journal of political caricatures entitled ' Don Pirtone , ' which ran to about 230 numbers , at one penny the unrulier , and was always a great favourite with the Romans , has now so much increased in value , that a perfect set . which I heard had been disposed of yesterday , fetched no less a sum than 120 dollars . ¦
NAPLES , Oct . 16 . —The correspondent of the 'Daily News' writes : —Since 1 wrote last nothing of an extraordinary character has transpired . Arrests , flights , and exiles , have been the order of the day , and between these disasters , and the absence of foreigners , we shall have but a dull winter it is to be feared . It is now the season of retaliation , and every one who is dressed in a little temporary power , makes use of it to revenge himself on those from whom he suffered insult or neglect during the stormy times of 1848 . The almost irresponsible power which many of the public authorities have , and the rf adiness with which calumnies and slanders are received , nay , with which they are encouraged in this
kingdom , greatly increases the evil , and introduces into social life nothing but suspicion , distrust , and fear , even amongst those who style each other friends . How demoralising and degrading this is here out of place to remark , and so long as this system is pursued , I see nothing for this portion of Italy but a continual source of moral retrogression , which will do anything but prepare them for political amelioration . The observer of all observers is now , of course , the Pope , and every movement of his holiness is detailed by the government journal with the most faithful accuracy . Every church and mo-. astry is in Us turn being daily visited , and Pius IX . is earning small praises by dispensing his
benedictions from every turn and corner , and receiving bouquets and portfolios from schools for young hdies , and smiling with complacency at the discourses and poems pronounced in his honour by the misses of the first form . The feeling , however , of these children of the' shepherd of the whole catholic world , ' cannot but be curious , when they find themselves elbowing and hobnobbing with his holiness , who has hitherto been regarded as a kind of * veiled prophet '—lord of imperial Rome—an object hut to be viewed at a distance , and then clothed in gorgeous robes , with the
triple crown on his head . Ichahod ! Ichabod ! thy glory is departed . During the last week his holiness went to Salerno , on purpose , says the' Journal , ' to visit the cathedral and urn of St . Alfonso , at Pagani , the tomb of a holy apostle , and that of a holy pope . It was hisholiness ' s first journey by railway , ' adding an inestimable benediction , ' says the same ' Journal ' ' to this modern discovery of human genius . ' . The King , who was not displeased to bask in the rays reflected from the Pope , left Naples at half past four in the morning to joiu the 1 ' ope at Ponies , and accompany him in his pilgrimage . How his holiness visited monasteries and churches , and celebrated
and heard masses , how he was received at the doori of one sacred building by the King and royal princes on their knees , is all dwelt on with tedious accuracy , and yet it is not without some surprise and interest too , as if one had opened some record of the fifteenth century , that one reads the following passage : — ' Absorbed in our pious sentiment , the exalted head of the catholic world retired behind the altar , aud then prostrating himself before the body of the saint opened the urn , kissed the hand on which the august face , being deeply moved , abandoned itself moistened that hand with his tears , and taking oil his ring from his own finger , placed it on that of Alfonso , who doubtless at tbat moment blessed him from heaven / Tender tears , says the journalist , veiled the eyes of the King , the princes , Cardinal
Antonelli , & c . & c , who felt the value of the holy eloquence of tbat act . At Salerno , the Pope worshipped the bones of St . Gregory , and in the archbishop ' s palace ( from grave to gay ) he dined , admitting to his fable only the King and bis royal brother ofTrapini . The King's reception is described as most triumphant . ' Along the roads those amorous sentiments of his subjects , as customary , became most fervid . * The whole country resounded with cries of , ' Vive 11 Re ! ' The day was a fete , and it is impossible adequately to express how the too dear cry of' Vive il Re ! ' broke on the silence of the air , rendering this day a day that belongs to history , This is a precious comment on the fact that scarcely is there a family which does not lament some friend or acquaintance fled , arrested , or exiled .
Continuing the narrative of the Pope ' s doings , I should observe his holiness yesterday visited the royal palace of Caserta . Here , as usual , the police authorities had arranged that a mob oi the lowest lazzaroni should welcome Pio None ; but strange to say , with the cries of' Vive il Re ! ' The King , the royal family , and the Pope are at the present moment amusing themselves , surrounded by troops , at Caseta . His holiness has blessed the people , and railway authorities have honoured the church and King with decorations at every station . Nothing is siid about the Pope ' s return to Rome , diplomacy is about as much puzzled about the matter is the army of the French Republic (?) . Both have failed , and from what I can learn his holiness is a ; far from Rome at the present moment as he is distant from the hearts of all educated Roman catholics .
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . The Vienna paper ' Lloyd * has the following ac count of the late capital executions at Pesth : — The tranquillity and the discontinuance of executions on the Holzplalz ( the Tyburn of Pesth ) has already had its effects . Most people believed that justice would not in future stride over corpses , but that it would walk on the paths of forgiveness and grace . But on a sudden a rumour was spread in the town of the executions which wtre to take place to « day ( 20 th ult . ) This rumour found little credit , for people would notnay , they could not—believe it . But this morning , at six o ' clock , a troop of horse , with bared swords ,
made its appearance in the Holzplalz , thus effectually dispelling all doubts as to the intentions of the military authorities . S ' . ortly afterwards a battalion of foot appeared and formed a square , into the interior of which they led the men who were about to surT-r death . The drums were keaten . Their hollow sound caused our hearts to quake . After the roll of drums the sentences were read . The reading was long , very long , and justly so , for the documents were neither more nor less than passports to eternity . At length the first of the victims was led forward . He mounted the scaffold . He was a handsome young man of twenty-five years of age . 1 was informed that he had awaited his death with the
fortitude of a martyr . When I saw him he was pale and cast down . It was the manner of his death , it was the execution by ths cord , which drove the iron into Prince Woroniecki's stud . This young maa was an Austrian officer when the Hungarian war commenced . He left the Emperor's jetvice and founded a Polish legion , of which he became the commander . Haynau ' s troops captured him at Szureg . uear Szegedin . The second victim was M . Abaneourt , who , after the Polish movement , bad been condemned to twenty years' imprisonment , and who joined the Hungarian
insurrection , acting as adjutant of General Dembinski . He was more collected than the Prince , and indeed he was able to address a few words to the public . The third and last sufferer was Giron ; he leaves three children behind hira . He commanded the German legion , assisted in the storming of Buda , and so gr eat were his military talents and his zeal , that he was said to be appointed to the command of the garrison of Comorn . He was captured at Petsrwardein . The dreadful scene closed with a prayer , in which the soldiers and the public joined . ' Letter sfroiu Hamburgh of the 2 « th ult , state
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that General Klapka intended on that day to leave Hamburgh for Loudon . Respecting the late rumours of large sums of money which Gtneral Klapka is reported to have taken with him , one of the Gernan papers contains the following : — ' The fugitives from Hungary have not , it seems , entered on their expedition to America without funds . General Klapka has negotiated the sum of 200 , 000 dollars in this place ( Berlin ) , and obtained bills of exchange on London for the ssme '
• As this statement seems calculated to throw a suspicion on what I did in Hungary , I think I owe it to my own honour , and to that of my comrades in arms and exile , to publish a peremptory an d unqualified contradiction ef the said statement . I and my comrades have scarcely saved enoueb to prsvide for the next few months , i was not raoreoverin Berlin in a condition to do as I liked , for it is notorious that during my short stay there I was attended and watched by a commissioner of the police . — K & afka . ' < We have since heard that General Klapka has arrived in London .
_ The official Gazette of the 24 th publishes the Mi . nisterial report , sanctioned by the Emperor , concerning the new political provisional organisation of Hungary . In this report the Ministry , after stating that the ancient Hungarian constitution is annulled by the very fact of the revolution , declares that , for the maintenance and development of the maxims established in the charter on the 4 th of March . it would not he just to favour Hungary at the expense of other parts of the empire which had remained faithful , or to grant it , to the prejudice of other nationalities , institutions in contrast with an equality of rights . A special statute is consequently de . creed , based upon the principles proclaimed in the charter ,.
The provinces formerly appertaining to Hungary —namely , Croatia , Sclavonia , the Croatian coast lands , the grand duchy of Transylvania , with the Saxon districts—are to be considered as provinces of the Crown , independent of Hungary . The Woyevodia or principality of Serbia is to be in like manner separated , and afterwards annexed to another province of the Crown ( Croatia ?) The country is to be divided into districts ,
subdivided into circles corresponding to the ancient comitate . The Ministry , referring to the 84 th article of the charter , proclaims the unity and indivisibility of the Executive Power , under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Empire ; recognises , also , that principle for all the branches of the Administration of Hungary ; but it places the whole civil aud military power in the hands of the Commander-in-chief of the army so long as Hungary remains in the excep « tional state under which it now is . " •'
A letter from Yienna of the 26 th ult , announces that the emperor Ji » d -ranted a private audience to M . Constantine Mussare , the Envoy ExtvaoYdinavy and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Porte . Other letters of the same date mention that the aged Baron Perenyi , President of the Chamber of Magnates , and Czernuz aud Szacavay , both delegates to the Hungarian diet , were hung on the 24 th ult at Pesth . Fifteen more executions , wero ordered to take place . The Vienna publishers have been ordered to submit all works to the censorship before they are printed . POLAND .
The Warsaw official journal publishes the sentence of a court-martial , which condemns Alexander Georgeski and Charles Rudiski , leaders in the last Cracow insurrection , to confiscation of all their property situated in the government of Radom ( Poland . )
SPAIN . . Plot and Coontjjr Plot , — At a Cabinet Council held on the 18 th of October , estimates for 1850 were definitivel y approved of . The Ministers subsequently retired to their respective hotels , and were preparing to proceed to the palace to be present at an opera which was to be performed in the theatre of the Court , when they were suddenly informed that they had ceased to be Ministers . It appears tbat on the 17 th the Queen had said to her first majordomo , Count de Pinohermosa that the Cabinet should be changed because the Ministers displeased the King . The Count thought that Her
Majesty was jesting , but nevertheless ventured to say a few words in praise of the services the present Cabinet bad rendered the Queen . Count Pinober . fl \ osa heard v . o more on the subject until the evening of the 18 th ult ., when the Queen communicated to him a letter she had just received from the King , Don Francisco de Asis , strongly urging her to get rid of Narvaez and bis colleagues . Her Majesty said to him , ' You see I was right last evening . Here is a letter from my beloved husband . Communicate it to your brother , the Minister of Marine , who will place it before the President of the Council . ' The Count having complied with the injunction .
General Narvaez immediately convoked his colleagues , who unanimously resolved on tendering their resignation to Her Majesty . General Narvaez repaired in person to the palace , and the Queen on receiving the collective resignation said she would consider and reply to it . The Queen and King subsequently visittd at the opera . The resignation of General Narvaez , however , having been accepted , a new Cabinet was composed as follows : —Gcnsral C'Uint Clonard , President of the Council and Minister of War : General Balboa , Minister of the Interior ; M . Armesta , an officer of the Court of Accounts , Minister of Finance ; M . Bustilos , the
commander of the flotilla of the expedition to Italy , Minister of Marine ; M . J . Manreza , Minister of Justice ; and Count Colombi ,. Minister at Lisbon , Minister for Foreign Affairs . The Ministry of Commerce was to be suppressed and united with the department of the Interior . M . M . Clonard , Balboa , Manreza , and Armeste took the oath of office in presence of the Queen . In the absence of M . Colombi and M . Bustilios , the Minister of War was to direct ad interim the department of Murine , and M . Manreza that of Foreign Affairs . In less than twenty-four hours this plot was reversed ; the old Ministry was again called to power , and Count
Clonard and his friends were dismissed , and most of them arrested . It would seem that that old fox Louis Philippe was at the bottom of the intrigue which was intended to lead to the encroachment of the Duke de Montpeiisier . The plan was to take the opportunity of the assembling of the Cortes to replace Queen Isabella by her sister , and was connected with the movement which became evident lately amongst the Orleanses of Bordeaux , who separated themselves from the legitimists , by voting
for another candidate than M . Ravez . The Duke of Montpensier in Spain was to serve as a basis for Orleanisfc movement in France . The restored Ministers affect to be more ' Liberal' than heretofore . Several distinguished generals of the progresista party have received employment , amongst ihem Espartero ' s two friends , EvaristeSan Miguel Infante . The King Consort is deprived of all power ; the royal patrimony will be administered by the Minister of the Home department , as well as the interior government of the palace .
Private letters from Madrid of the 24 th ult ., state that on that day the 'Gazette' contained a decree for the reduction ef the disposable force of the army in consequence of the profound peace which exists in Spain . The third battalion ot each regiment , and a third part of the Engineers and Artillery will proceed to the provinces , there to form the reserve , the officers alone retaining their pay , aud those who may hereafter desire to pass to the same condition haff-pay . The Cortes will assemble at the period previously indicated , and there viiil be no speech frora the throne . The ' Fumenlo' oi Barcelona says , that Lola Mantes has recovered her husband , who bad only gone to Mataro , where she rejoined him , and returned with him to Barcelona .
TURKEY . The question of the extradition of certain Polish and Hungarian refugees who sought safety on the Turkish territory—a question which for a time assumed a serious aspect , and has occupied so much of the public attention—has , we are happy to state , met with a peaceful solution . The result of Fuad Effendi ' s mission , so anxiously expected , has transpired . The French goveruu . ent has received a telegraphic despatch from General de Laaoriciere , stating that Count de Nesselrode the Russian minister , had notified to the Ottoman Envoy , that the Emperor , taking into consideration the letter of the Sultan , limits himself to demanding that the refugees should be driven out of Turkey The telegraphic despatch adds that Faud Effendi considered the affair » s settled
# The above intelli gence is confirmed by the following official announcement in the ' St . Petenburch G « tt « ' o ( «« 7 ft ( 19 ft ) Oct . J- On Say last , the 4 th Oct , his Excellency Fuad Effendi , seutby the Sultan to the Emperor in the quality of ambassador extraordinary , was received , by his Majesty in a private audience , The court equipages conveyed his Excellency to the palace , where he was received with all the honours due to his Xk Sd 5 the intimate relations which exist between the two Sovereigns . Effendi to St . Petersburgh havegiyea rise to the
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most extravagant rumours in the public press . Far from implying , as has been asserted , the rejection of the demands made by the Imperial Cabinet , in virtue of the treaty of Routchouk-Kainardji , relative to the Polish rebels , who , having taken part in the Hungarian insurrection , have recently sought a refuge in Turkey , this mission originated solely in the desire of the Sultan to discuss amicably with the Emperor , without foreign intermediation , the
interpretation to be given to the article of the abovementioned treaty applicable to those individuals . This direct appeal of an intimate ally to the sentiments of friendship of the Emperor could not fail to be responded to , and the distinguished reception given by his Majesty to the Ottoman representative , by putting an eud to all false reports , authorises the hope that this affair is on the eve of a prompt settlement , to the mutual satisfaction of the two courts . '
Constantinople , Oct 15 . —The Turkish Government have sent orders to remove the Hungarian and Polish refugees from Vliddin to Shnmla . Shumla is at a short distance from Varna , and being farther from the Kussian frontier than Widdin , it is thought by the Porte tbat the refugees will be there in greater safty than at the latter town . Sir Stratford Canning has sent passports to General Guyon and tbe other Englishmen who were' in the Hungarian
service , and they are expected daily at Constantinople . It would appear from these proceedings that there were some grounds for supposing that the Russians intended to carry off their victims by a sudden coup de main . One thing is certainthat neither the Porte nor their allies have a very high opinion of Russian morality , and that they believe the agents of the Czar capable of any violation of international conventions to gratify the wislies of their Imperial master .
EGYPT . Alexandria , Oct . 15 . —The Nile is about its greatest height , and ths inundation is considered a favourable one . In a couple of months the cereal harvest will be attaining maturity , and every expectation of abundance is entertained . Kamil Pacha , the son-in-law of tbe late Mahomed Alt , seems to have outlived the popularity be enjoyed during his father-in-law ' s lifetime , and has been sent to Sennaar in a kind of honourable exile . Many others , some time ago prominent in the country , have shared a similar fate . Among these are Mahmoud and Hafiz Beys .
The screw steam-frigate Sharkiah , after a trial trip , the highest speed attaiced on which was about nine miles per hour , has been pronounced , I have heard , to be worth less than half her cost , and is ordered to he got ready to proceed to Constantinople , from which it is matter of question if she returns again . Ahmed Pacha proceeds on a mission to the Turkish capital by this vessel , and among other rather extraordinary consignments , are a number of harems , numbering , I am told , over 100 ladies . '
On the 15 th u't . the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company , presented to the Pacha a handsome English . built chariot and four horses , being a gift from that body , in acknowledgment of tbe labours of his Highness , since his accession to power , in the improvement of the overland route to India , through Egypt . No less than 200 refugees from Italy and other quarters have arrived at this port lately from Europe . The place seems overrun with motly and grotesque uniforms . The Lord Bishop of Jerusalem arrived from Palestine on the 5 th ult ., en route to Cairo . It is expected he will consecrate the new Protestant church Of St . Mark before quitting Alexandria .
Mr . E . W . Lane , the talented and excellent author of ' Modern Egyptians , ' and his sister , Mrs . Poole , known to the world as tbe authoress of the ' English Woman in Egypt , ' return to England by the Hindostan to-morrow , after seven years spent in research aud study , destined no doubt for the enlightenment and edification of the world .
THE IONIAN ISLANDS . The ' Patris ' of Corfu states that on the 30 th Sep . several arrests took' place at Corfu , and that after placing the prisoners in solitary confinement their papers were seized and underwent a severe scrutiny . The persons arrested are MM , Valianos , PieUO Quartano , J . B . Scarpa , G . Calogeras , Colonel Zambeccari , De Ohilippis , and Rocco Canerini . We have received Corfu papers of the 12 th ult . inclusive . Sir II . G . Ward , ths Lord High Commissioner , had addressed a letter to his Highness the
President of the Senate , in which , after stating the existence in Corfu of a secret society to which several . Italian refugeess had united themselves since their arrival in the island , and detailing some of the proceedings of the society , he adds that he should take upon himself the responsibility of ordering those foreigners , who had violated the rights of hospitality by their intrigues , to quit the Ionian territory , and to place those Ionian subjects who belonged to the society under the surveillance of the tjolicc until ulterior measures had been decided on .
The papers contain a long account of . the ceremony of the investiture of Mr . Ward , the Lord High Commissioner , as Grand Cross of the Order of St . Michael and St . George , which took place with great pomp on the 6 th ult . A correspondent at Corfu writes to us under the date of the 19 th : — ' By the arrival this morning of the Sharpshooter from Cephalonia with a . detachment of the 30 th regiment , which was despatched from this island on the first outbreak , we hear of the capture of the priest Notiaro , and one of his companions , and the surrender of Vlacco at Luxuri . Martial law has been taken off all the districts except- Luxuri , where the trials are now going on . His excellency Sir Henry Ward is still there , and the Sharpshooter sails again to-day for Cephalonia , to bring his Excellency , and staff . '
"We learn from our Malta correspondent tbat the inner cordon of British troops , placed round the Black Forest at Cephalonia , bad , upon information received from an accomplice , who , on a promise , of pardon , had turned spy , succeeded in taking Teodoro Viacco and the Papa , or Priest , Nodstro , two of the chief ring-leaders in the late outbreak in that island , who , after a summary trial by courtmartial , were both condemned to death , which sentence was carried into execution on the 19 th of October , his Excellency the Lord High Commissioner having considered it inexpedient to commute the same , although Vlacco , in his petition for mercy , made manifest to his Excellency , that the life of the latter had been in his ( the rebel's ) power had he chosovito seize Che opportunity of taking the same with his rifle ; which , when taken , was absolutely pointed at the Lord High Commissioner .
INDIA AND CHINA . ASSASSINATION OP THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR OF MACAO . The overland express brings intelligence from Calcutta to the 8 th of September , from Madras to the 15 th , and from Hong kong to the 29 th of August . A local riot had occurred near Cannanore , in the Madras Presidency . The Moplahs , a fanatical caste , had committed various depredations , taken refuge in a temple , and forcibly resisted the military for some time ; but eventually they were subdued . In the conflict , some Sepoys ran away , leaving Ensign Wise and a few men at the mercy of the rioters ; by whom they were cut to pieces .
A terrible loss of lifehad happened at Trichinopoly . An idolatrous festival , held at the top of the high rock , was attended by an immense concourse of people ; a sudden panic occurred ; and the multitude from above pressed upon those below , upwards of four hundred were suffocated or trodden to death . The political interest centres in the news from Macao , the Portuguese Governor of which had been openly killed in the carapo by Chinese assassins . This outrage was partly political and partly personal and threatened serious consequences both directly and indirectly ; and a slight retrospect is necessary to make the affair at all intelligible .
It was the custom of Senhor Amaral to ride every day as far as a barrier in the campo , near which is a sandy neck of land , open to a distant view on all sides , and affording a favourable spot for nuking a sudden attack without interruption . On the evening of the 22 nd ot August , the Governor , accompauied by his aide-de-camp , took his ride , at an hour when most of the foreign residents go forth for exercise in the carapo . He had ridden his usual dit .
Unce , and was returning . 'Within 150 paces of the barrier-gate , a Chinese boy presented hira with a flower on the end of a bamboo . His excellency accepted the flower ; when the boy struck him with the bamboo : lie appeared to think at first that it was some peculiar way of chin-chinning ; but on the blow being repeated , he stooped forward with the intention of rebuking the lad . While thus engaged , he was attacked by five Chinamen , armed with swords ; they stabbed ' him in the side and back
Having lost his right arm many years ago in battle , Mr . Amaral took the bridle in his teeth , raising the left arm to take a pistol from the holsters ; but before he eoald effect his purpose , the murderers bore him to the earth , and , dispatched hira with many wounds . The head was cut off , leaving the lower jaw and part of the tongue attached to the trunk ;
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the left hand was also taken away . The atde-decamp was also wounded severely by a cut on the head and a stab in the thigh , The remains of the unfortunate gentleman were carried to Macao m the carriage of Mr . Forbes . The murderers escaped in a boat waiting near the barrier , taking with them the bead and hand of their victim . '
SINGAPORE . EXPEDITION AGAINST PIRATES . Our dates from Singapore are to the 5 th of September . From that settlement itself there is literally no news . Her Majesty ' s brig Albatross and the Hon . East India Company ' s steamer Nemesis arrived there on the 4 th with accounts of the proceedings of Sir James Brooke on a naval expedition against the Sakarran and Samba ' s pirates . Sir James , with the Sarawak flotilla , reached the mouth of the Moratabas on the night of the 24 th of July , where they found a large force already anchored . On the 28 th , Sir James Brooke , with part of the native force , anchored off Kaluka . The other detachment was stationed at tbe mouth of the
Sarabas ; the Nemesis took up a station m the bay between the two rivers , and the men-of-war ' s boats in line shorewards . They remained in this position till tbe evening of the 30 th , when word was brought that the pirates , after threatening Palo , had proceeded to a river named Si Maring , and anchored there . On the evening of the 31 st it was intimated that the piratical squadron was approaching . We give what ensued in the words of an eye-witness : — ' In about fifteen minutes all were iu motion to meet them , the Nemesis proceeding seaward to command them and prevent their escape to sea . As soon as she was descried by the pirates ,
they made at oaee for the Kaluka river , where their progress was intercepted by the native boats , and those commanded ly Lieuts . Wilmshurst and Everest . The pirates then as a dernier resort mads a dash to reach their own river , when they came in immediate contact with the men-of-war boats , and the action became general . It was now dark , and the great danger was that of firing into each other , or into our native allies . The pass-word selected was ' Rajah , ' and the Malays screamed this out at the top of their voices when they thought any of the Europeans were nearthem . Commander Farquhar ,, who directed the operations , was in the midst of the
melee , giving orders , and exhorting the crews of the various boats to be careful , and not to fire into each other , and several of those present , from their age and service , capable of giving an opinion , state they never , in any boat actions , saw firing so rapid and destructive . Two large prahus were seen by the commander escaping seaward , and the steam-tender was ordered to chase ; the nearest one having barely escaped one of her six-pound rockets , made / or the river , and met a pirate's doom . The Nemesis , which had been dealing death and destruction to all around her , ran her down , and the scene which took place as her crew , above sixty in number , came in
contact with the paddle-wheels , bsggars all delcription . A large congreve rocket from tbe little steamer entered the prahu that had continued out to sea , and rendered her destruction complete . A signal was now made to close , and the scene as witnessed from the bridge of the Nemesis was most exciting . It was evident from the first that the day was our own , but a rapid running fire ftas still kept up along the margin of the bay . This having gradually subsided , at 12 30 , on the morning of the 1 st July , Commander Farquhar ordered the boats of the various vessels in tow , and having sent the Ranee with despatches to Sir James Brooke , then in some part of the Kaluka river , we commenced the ascent of the Sarebas to prevent , escape by the Rembras branch . In doing so we were
deprived of a sight which all slate took them by surprise . At daylight the bay was one mass of wreck , shields , spears , and portions of destroyed prahus , extended as far as the eye could reach ; whilst on the sandy spit which extendes a considerable distance seaward on the left bank of the Sareba , were upwards of 70 prahus , which the natives were busy clearing of all valuables , and destroying . The punishment inflicted on these barbarians had been mast complete . Of 120 prahus which it is said started on the expedition , and all of which were in the bay the preceding evening , mote than 87 were destroyed , and the loss of life on their side must have been immense , indeed it has been placed as high as 1 , 200 men . On our part , saving a few casualties , all were unscathed .
On the 2 nd of August the expedition proceeded up the river . On the 4 th reached and destroyed the town of Paku , and also an adjoining village . On the 7 th Sir James proceeded to the Sarebas territories , and the Nemesis returned to the mouth of the river and wooded . On the 11 th the ascent of the river was recommenced , and on the 14 th the Nemesis , with her attendant native squadron , anchored off the Kanawit river . The small steamer , to European boats , and the native prahus , were ordered to continue the ascent on the 16 th . ' The whole of the settlements on both sides were destroyed , ' On the evening of the 18 th the Ranee returned with several men sick of fewer . On the 5 <* th the Nemesis landed Sir James at Sarawak . The cases of / ever on board the Nemesis and
Albantrosswere were said to be numerous . UNITED STATES AND CANADALiverpool , Sunbay Night . —The British and North America Royal Mail steam-ship Canada , which was telegraphed off Holyhead this afternoon at three o'clock , has just arrived in tbe Mersey , and brings from Boston , Canada , and Nova Scotia seven days , and from New York and the other leading cities and towns of the United States eight days later advices than those received by the America this day week .
We have to hand , by this arrival , the announcement that the United States government had issued an official proclamation , directing that all British vessels , with cargoes , entering ports belonging to the American Republic , or the territories thereof , shall be admitted on equal terms with vessels belonging to and sailing under the colours of the Republic of America . The new regulation is to come in force on and after the 1 st of January , 1850 . The great fete of the American Institute has gone off well in New York . The attendance was immense , and the exhibition of machinery and of manufactured and agricultural articles was larger than on any former occasion . The state of Florida was said to be under the serious consideration of the Cabinet at Washington .
Cholera still lingered m the Lake districts and the deaths among the immigrants and the new settlers were said to be very numerous . Some meetings and musical festivals have been recently held in connexion with the European polltical sufferers . Philadelphia , Oct . 17 .- —Important elections have taken place in four states of the Union , viz ., Maryland , Georgia , Pennsylvania , and Ohio . The
results generally are unfavourable to the National Administration . In Maryland , the Whigs lost one member in Congress . In Georgia , the Democratic candidate for governor was re-elected , and by an increased majority . Both branches of the new Legislature are also -Democratic . In Ohio , the Whigs have elected a majority to the Senate , while both parties claim the house . In Pennsylvania , the democrats have elected their State Canal Commis .
swner , and have also carried both branches of the Legislature . The Canal Commissioner will have a majority of at least 10 , 000 ; while last year , Gen . Taylor carried the state by a majority ef 15 , 000 . The rtvolution is most decided . Some persons imagine that it will lead to a change in the Cabinet . A scene of horror has been enacted in this city that may fairly be pronounced without parallel , as it was without provocation , in any of the recorded public outrages and mob murders of modem times . In the lower part of Philadelphia baads of outlaws and ruffians have existed for mote than two years , calling themselves « killers , ' ' stingers , '' skinners , '
& c . These titles are of themselves sufficient to show the ferocious and criminal character of such associations , which are , in fact , similar to the 4 Mohawks , ' who disgraced London in the dais of Queen Anne and the first George . The Philadelphia gangs , however , are mere sanguinary than ever were the Mohawks , and accordingly people bad frequently been set upon and wounded ; and one ov two killed , in the open streets ; while near the Schuylkill highway robberies and river » piraey have been committed with impunity in the open day , by brigands calling themselves the « Schuylkill
Rangers . ' On Tuesday night last , about nine o ' clock ( night of the city and county election ) , a band « f ruffians repaired to a hotel at the corner of Sixth and St . Mary-streets , called the ' California House , ' where they sought a quarrel , broke the glasses in the bar , piled the furniture in the middle of the rooms and then set it on fire , soon enveloping the entire building in flames . A story had been raised that a white woman and a coloured man had lived together as man and wife , but this was a mere pretext for commencing a riot , by inflaming , the public mind , and stimulating a mob to acts of tyranny and outrage . Many ' coloured people , and
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those of the lowest classes , live in St . Mary < st » These were obliged - to fly , and in esca pinVS their housps , they were fired upon and peltCi ¦„ bricks—even women and children . The fi » , panics of Philadelphia soon repaired to the $ J ' conflagration to extinguish the flames ; when ? . credible as it may appear ) they were met ¦ showers ot bricks and volleys of musketry ^ pistol balls ! Several were wounded or iwithin a few minutes—the rioters loading a ^ and firing as fast as they could . The nap now arrived , but they were received with sw 6 l »
and several wpr « ramwdpd > J / ii * w il . * . a .. ( and several were wounded . Neither the AW nor the policemen were armed , and therefore cemj not defend themselves , neither could they > , turn the fire ; - and they were compelled ten «> ranly to retire , carrying their dead and woutiik to the hospital , or to their homes of sorrow and . ! ?)? " ™ $ - , Meanwhile , two houses adjoining u California became a prey to tbe flames ; « . ' another hotel , the 'Montgomery House , ' m also set on fire and deatnwpnV Tho nr \ nH « n . also set on fire and destroyed . The firing
| con tinned , and men were carried off wounded . It wa not until nearly two o ' clock in the morning th » the military could be collected , and on W or three companies of volunteers repairing t < St . Mavy-street , the cowardly and ferocious as sassins sneaked away . Tor this shoching riot then was not even the poor excuse of fractionary poll , tical , or religious feeling . It was no conflict be . j tween rich and poor . Catholic and Protestant , ( as in 1844 ) , or rival political parlies . No , thert was no actual cause , beyond the gratification of the most evil passions , and a lust of blood . The
whole must have b een premeditated , as the mob were not onl y well armed , but well provided with ammunition- —plenty of powder and ball . The active rioters were frora 300 to 500 in number , aided and cheered on in their work of slaughter by as many more . I can positively assert , from personal observation , that the scene appeared more like murder for amusement—for the joy of the bloodthirst ythan any political or civic riot . No princi ^ g whatever was contended for—no right or privily had been denied or was sought . Then the fact o ! shooting firemen , who are citizens and the sons oi citizens , who volunteer a daneerous duty without
pay , fee , or reward of any kind 1 Yet they wer ; fired on , apparently for the sport of a savage mob Such atrocities can hardly be believed to have taker , place in a christian city and in this our boasted nineteenth century . Yet such there were . Three respectable men were killed , three or more are expected to die , and about twenty-seven were wounded in all . The entire number of deaths will hardly be known for at least a week . None of the rioters were injured . As soon as the military were on the ground , the firemen returned and extinguished the conflagrations . About seven o ' clock in the morning the riot was resumed and several shots were fired , two
or three persons being wounded , but order was quickly restored , and several arrests were made . On the following Friday a carpenter ' s shop in the vicinity was set on fire , and attempts were made to renew the riot by attacks on the coloured people , but the ruffians were overawed , and several of them captured . The military have encamped in the disturbed districts , and guarded it ever since . About twenty suspected persons have been arrested , a few only admitted to bail , of frora 1 , 000 to 5 . OO 0 dollars each . In tbe northern suburb , Kensingt on
, a gang of outlaws has been formed , known as the ' Pirates . ' A few days since they nearly killed Alderman . Wilt in the street ; and they entered a house , in which they beat the owner nearly to death . Unless the laws 1 ,-e administered in these districts hereafter with sternness and justice , neither life nor property will be secure j and it is notorious that of late many of the magistrates and constables have been so far intimidated , or have been so wilfully remiss , that misdemeanour and outrage there have long gone on ' unwhipt of justice . '
The news from Canada is move important than usual . The party who have opposed the course of policy laid down and acted upon by the Governor-General have , thrown off all ideas of a federal union of the British North American mrovinces , and have come out openly in favour of annexation to the United States . They have , for this purpose , issued a petition praying for annexation to the American Republic . This petition has already received upwards of 1 , 200 signatures , amongst which are included those of some of the leading men in the provinces , A counter-petition had been also issued , which has received 200 signatures .
The ' party in favour of annexation have issued a declaration of their views , and of the reasons which have determined their choice , and also why England should consent to ratify that choice . They declare , however , that should England not consent fo their wishes , they will not agitate the matter further . Tbe Steam ship Canada bro ught the following important announcement by Mr . Meredith , Secretary of the United States Treasury . ' INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS AND OTHEB .
OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS , 'Treasury Department , Oct . 15 . — 'Inconsequence of questions submitted by merchants and others asking , in . consideration of the recent alterations of British navigation laws , on what footing the commercial relations between the United States and Great Britain will beplaced on and after the 1 st of January next , the day on which the recent act of the British Parliament comes into operation , the
department deems it expedient at this time to issue the following general instructions for the information of the officers of the Customs and others interested . ' 1 . In consequence of the alterations of the British Navigation Laws , above referred to , British vessels from British or other foreign ports will under existing laws after the 1 st of January next he allowed to enter our ports with cargoes of the growth , manufacture , or production of any part of the world .
2 . Such vessels and their cargoes will be admitted from after the date before mentioned ou the same terms as to duties , charges , and imposts as vessels of the United States and their cargoes .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 3, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03111849/page/2/
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