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FOOIlTIEnr EDIT 1 OS , CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE . Illustrated by One Ilundred Anatomical and Explanatory Coloured Engravings on Steel . On -Physical Disqualifications , Qenev . vtivc Incapacity , anA impediments-lo Marriage . A new and improved edition , enlarged to , 196 pages , price 2 s . Cd . ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . Cd . in postage stamps . ; * * All Communications being strictly confidential the Authors have discontinued the publishing of .. Cases . THE SILENT FRIEND ; A Practical Work on the Exhaustion and Physical Decay of the System , produced by excessive indulgence ,
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DiEiXJTIFUIi HAIR , WHISKERS , t ) EYEBROWS , i Ac . may be , with certainty , obtained touting a-very ' small portion of ROSALIE ; COOPElLE'S PARISIAN POMADE , every morning , instead of any oil or other preparation . 'A . fortnight ' s use will , : in most instances , ' show its surprising propertiee in . ' producing and curliog Whiskers , Hair , 4 c , at any age ,-from what-ercr causeaeficient ; as also checking greyness , . &c . Eor chil . dreh it is indispensable , forming the basis ! of a beautiful head of hair , and rendering the use of the small comb unnecessary . . Persons who hare been deceived by nd j eulouslT ' namea imitations of this Pomade , will do well to make one trial of the genuine preparation , which they will
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CURES FOR THE US CURED ! HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s ; . " ¦ Evil . Extract of alotter from Mi . J . II . Alliday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1 S 50 . Sm , —My eldest son , when about three ) - ears of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad ease of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for . years went oh gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the , eye , besides gGven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole ot the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital
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Brother Chartists beware of youthful Ten Shitting Quacks who imitate this Advertisement , P * 1 N J [ ^ ' « KAVEI ., J . vn . ~^ . JSSSSfSu 5 S ! s . "" i |[ t ^" - ( unbffi ! ir , ; 7 ' ° l - '' lfieIf -st - vIe ( 1 ten « M « ng doctor SSSS ^ S ?^^*^ will thprnfiire ^ » frr cnan b "ife' >« s title ); suitercrs Hmriofm " r f seeth ! > tthe stamp bearing the M ™» vt lmCl affixe ( J t 0 taeh bo * w boltlo is ik ^ T ^ ?^" CnOt a base counterfeit ) , ; and to E JS " «> e truthless statemeds of this ' individual , which are published only for the basest purposes of dceepfaon on mvahds , and frauu on the Proprietor . HI ! . ' -DE ROOS' COMPOUND RTCNAT .
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BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS . The following testimonial is another proof of tl . cn ¦'• efficacy of this meriieiue . 1 GT , x «\ v Loud-street , London October litli . It ' . ' , Sm , —ln .-ic . juaiut ' ing-vou with the great benefit whW ' ll . 'll'fl experienced by taking Ulair '* Gou-rar . d Kiitnu iK Pill's , I feel that I am but performing a duty to tlia : ;• ••'• lion of the public who may be similarly afflicted . About twenty yews since I \ v- \ s tivst . attacked by W ' . & lljatie Gout in my hands and feet . 1 had j » reviou *! y I * - subjected to every variety of climate , having su-- * . !; ' Canada ill the 18 th Dragoons , and in Spain under . Sir Jo ^ Moore , in the lSth Hussars , ' I always procured tiw >| - | medical uid . but Without obtaining any essential i'di £ - mid , my sufferings can be appreciated only by tk'se «*• know something of tins disease . It was during one of these paroxysms , between ' ' - '' l : wil thirteen years go , that I was recommend * . ' ' : > liLAlll ' S 1 'lLLS . 116 st no tiuie in procuring a bos , «"'¦ ! ; tore I had taken that quantity the pain had entirely ccai : * and in a few days 1 was in perfect health .
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—— . ,, - »} The American ship , James Wright , wi t" ^ , emigrants on board , bound from Liverpool to- . lork , ran ngi-crurid on the Kish Bank , at thp *^ of Dublin Bay , on Monday morning . SuC ^ however , got off without any material dania « ' proceeded Oh her voyage . No reason has beW ' ' gned for Jier getting so far out of tier course .
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The' Tuscan Moniteur' has published decrees infeodaling Tuscany to Austria . , In consequence of the . ? Manuel du D . roit Canon , ' by the Abbe . Lequeux , having been > condeianed . by Rome , and put under the Index Ekpnrgatorius , Mgr . Sibour , Archbishop of Paris , has dissolved the Ecole Theologique des CarineB . The pupils of this . school have been " sent to the seminary of St . Sulpice . The directors of this seminary have caused the condemned " Manuel' to be withdrawn from all the seminaries in which it was used by members of tbe community of St . Sulpice , . ¦ <
The * Moniteur' contains an address , of M . Leon Faucher to the President , with reference to the local municipal resources throughout France for undertaking public works , with a view to the employment of workmen . This is swceeded by an analysis of the reports of the prefects , showing the financia l situation of the chief town in each department , tbe extraordinary public works projected foj the last months of 1851 and for 1852 , or ' susceptible of being undertaken , during that period , and , lastly , the details of the ways and means o ( execution , and the amount of resources disposable or realisable , which ceuld be applied- to those works . '•'
... A poisoning case at CiUi has procured the publication of some interesting facts respecting the arsenic eaterB of Lower Austria and Sty . ria . , In both these provinces it appears to be a common custom among the peasantry . to consume every morning a small portion of the deadly poison , hi the same manner as the eastern world consumes opium .. Dr . " Tschudi , the well known traveller , publishes an account of several cases which have oome to his knowledge . The habit does not seem to be so pernicious in its results as that of opium
eating . It is commenced by taking a very small dose , say somewhat less than half a grain , every morning , which is gradually increased to two or three grains . The case of a " hale old farmer is mentioned , whose morning whet of arsenic reached the incredible quantity of four grains . ' Tbe effect it produces is very curious . The arsenic eater grows fat and ruddy , so much so that the practice is adopted by lovers of both sexes , in order to . please their . sweethearts .. It , relieves the lungs and . head very much ; also when mounting steep hills and entering into a more rarified atmosphere .
The Giornale di Roraa , ' of the llth inst ., publishes the convention concluded at Rome on May 1 st of this year , .. between the Holy See , Austria , and the States of Modena , Parma , and Tuscany , for the construction of a railroad from Piacenza U > Bologna , through Parma . Regg io . and Modena , with a branch from Reggio to Mantua , and continuation from Bologna to Florence . - The Piedmontese papers remark , with complacency , that an English dragoon officer 'in full unifovnvattenued the King at the late manoeuvres .
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Remakkable PASSAGE . —The American papers say a remarkable passage has been made by the New York clipper ship Flying Cloud , round Cape Horn to San Frajicisco , the voyage having been performed -in eighty-nine days , although tbe mainmast was sprung 9 oon after leaving the port . Herrun from Cape Horn to Sari Francisco was made in thirty-nine days . Her best run-in twenty-four hours was 374 miles , the greatest run ever wade by a . sea-going vessel , averaging fifteen miles and three quarters per hour . While making this run she was carrying top gallant sails , with the wind one point forward of tlie beam . She ran in three days 992 miles . On one occasion , during a squall , seventeen knots of- line were fouud insufficient to measure her speed .
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WEST INDIES . Via New York we have advices from Jamaica ^ to the 29 th ult ., which state that the cholera was prevailing in that island } eleven deaths had occurred during the week ending the 29 tb . A smart Bbockof an earthquake had been felt in Port of Spain , but no damage was done . Antigua , St . Vincent , Grenada , and Dominica papers iurnish na news of interest . ...... . " :. _/[ " . . |
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FRANCE . ; On Sunday last in the Committee < j { Permanence General Bedeau read some poV « ce reports , from vbieh it appeared that the 6 tb . Regiment of tbe line arrived from Metz in Paris the same morning , under the command of the Colonel , Garderens de Boiise , -vho has distinguished himself lately by a bombastic Sonapdrttst orSer of the day , and was received by B mob of Decembrists witU cheers of 'Vive te coiofaeiV ' Vive le sixierae de Ugue T tt the barrier « nd at the Eccle MiHtaire . But this attempt to provoke a demonstration fonnd no echo in tbe popul * th ) a . The oommittee i ! after-several members freshly aimed from the country had descn&sd jne feeling of discouragement produced among the sound part of the population , adjonrned . iseuner Benver MDupia w ere present , . n | u ltin tf .
M . nor . W ^^ aenSleen . co g « but that gentleman has declined to undertake the formation ^ a cabinet . He is an eminent advocate of Nantes . In the Chamber of Deputies he was a violent opponent of the policy of M . Guizot , particularly as regarded the entente cbrdiale with England . In 1842 he chiefly contributed to the withr drawalof the treaty admitting the right of Bearcb lor the suppression of tbe slave trade ; and he was one of the leading speakers who stormed about the Pritcbard indemnity . Appointed representative of the Loire Inferieure in the Constituent , be made a speech on the droit au travail , with which the President is said to have been greatly struck , and to Lave exclaimed on that occasion that BillauH would one dav be his minister .
It is not considered that the late ministers have scarcely the smallest chance of returning to power ; neither is there any greater probability ot Garlier resuming his post as prefect of police . The determination of Louis Napoleon is regarded with great apprehension at Berlin and Vienna , and it is said that the northern powers are resolved to arm and concentrate a large force of observation oh the French frontier . More than ever these courts , as well as the Pope himself , desire to see Rome deli * \ ered from the alarms attending a French garrison , and the prospect of a complete change of policy .
The ' Constitutional , ' after complaining of the disproportionately small number of medals awarded to French silk and woollen manufactures , although tbe annual exports of these amount to between fourteen and sixteen million sterling , adds that after England has proclaimed her supremacy in the greater part of articles of great consumption , ane cannot with any consistency call upon France to remove or lower the barrier of her custom ' s duties , and throw open her internal market . It is reported that a demand to authorise the pro-Becution of M . Miot and other members of tbe Mountain for implication in the disorders of tbe Cher and Allier will be presented . on the re-opening of the Assembly .
The 'Moniteur' contains a decree subjecting f e departments of the Cher and Nievre to a state of siege . M . Faucher statgs , in the preamble to this ordinance , that the searches made by the troop 3 in the various c > mmunes , seat of the late insurrection , prove the action of secret societies , having a completely military organisation , which manufacture powder and procure arms . The degree , counter-Signed by tbe Minister of the Interior , bears the date of Tuesday . The imnonred success of Cariier al tie
Prefecture of Police , M . de Maupas , prefect of the Haute-Garonne , curiously enongh was summoned from Toulouse to Paris , to receive a wigging from M . Lejn Faucher , relative to some disputes between the prefect and the military authority . On the eve of tbe ministerial crisis , M . de Maupas was ordered by the Minister of the Interior to return to Toulouse , but showed in reply a note from the President , requesting him to stay . Perhaps the prefect of Tou-Jouse will have lo thank M . Leon Faucher for putting him all innocently in ( he road to the Prefecture of Police at Paris .
A . correspondent writing from Constantinople Bays : — ' The opinion prevails here that tbe two Emperors of Russia and Austria have formerly promised their support to Louis Bonaparte for his ambitious schemes , and eventually assured to him an honourable position either in Russia or Austria , jn Case lie should fail . So much is certain , that all the French diplomatic agents side always with tbe Russians . '
GERMANY . Berlin . —There has been a report afloat for BOme time which , from its seeming improbability , did not attract much notice , viz , that the federal diet would remove its sittings from Frankfort to gome other town , on tbe pretext that the city government of Frankfort was unable to preserve order , law , and peace within its walls ; in other words , that it is not sufficient ]? despotic to please the
diet . This report has now received confirmation from the ' Kreuz-Zeitung / which complains that Suspicious characters from France and other countries find refuge and protection in the very place where the ' illustrious German confederation' hold their sessions ; and adds , that' if the city authorities do not find means to eject such persons , and to establish a police security in the town , tbe diet will find itself under the necessity of taking np nniet winter quarters at Segensburg .
The election battle with reference to the new legislative body in tbe Frankfort city government , lias terminated in favour of the Liberal conservatives . In both divisions ( the men of letters and men . of business ) the majority pro . tiou . uced iu favour of the Jist furnished by the Burger Verein ; so that , the new legislative assembly , if it can do no good , may at least prevent much evil . It is no matter of wonder that the diet proposes a retreat from such a
city as this- Under the very nose , in the immediate presence of the diet , to dare to retain the shadow of a shade of liberality—what is tbis but the most flagrant and impious rebellion against the high and jnighty , tbe righteous and the most religious power of the confederation ? Such conduct is revolution * try , no donbt . The Cossacks say so ; and who out of Prance and England—the two lands given over to the curse of democracy—shall gainsay their word ?
A correspondent from Berlin states that he has learnt somewhat distinctly what military preparations , in anticipation of events which may happen in France in 1852 , are now making . The troops of all the German states are to be put on a fall war establishment , and to be ready for immediate action early in the spring . The regiments and divisions quartered at present in the western garrisons are to be in readiue s to form a junction on the shortest D Otice , and to advance towards the French frontier . The military equipments , which in Prussia were
deficient on the last calling cut of the army , are now quite complete , and everything is prepared for another general call to arms , or , as the Germans BET , mobihnachunff . The western fortresses have received orders to be in readiness for war ; and in all the roi iSary stores and war magazines of the kingdom the utmost activity prevails to provide every kind of supply . This Is all said to be mere precautionary demonstration . It shows , however , a determination to take advantage of any plausible provocation to proceed suddenl y to hostilities , against France .
ITALY . The legal proceedings instituted by the government against all persons suspected of connexion with Mazzini have now terminated , after having lasted nearly six months . Government has failed to prove the assnmed guilt of most of the persons ^ whom the police imprisoned during the past summer , and has been compelled , however unwillingly , to set them at liberty . Some , however , have compromised themselves sufficiently to procure their condemnation by tbe courts martial , and the sentences against them are expected to be pronounced in a very few days . Two have already been
published ; both inflicting punishment by death . ConntRadetzk y has , however , commuted the sentence on "Viacenzo Maisnee , a Milanese by birth , but formerly established in Yenice as a printseller and publisher , to ten years' fortification arrest . The aecond sentence , however , that on a young and wealthy individual , named Luigi Dottesio , who has been proved to have been very active in concocting « nta ss e ? lnat ' ° 5 revolutionary pamphlets , was SMSKBS-TKKlSr iiui
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whose , chivalriB conduct in the defence of Rome against the unjust and unprovoked attack of the French W worthy of * better recompense . The following letter' waa [ written by him to his sister , after his sentence was intimated to him , aad has bee * copied and circulated about Rome ai » a teaching proof of his reiignation and constancy in misfortune :- ¦ ; « SeptembCT 8 , 185 i ., ' My dearest Siflier , —Yesterday evening my sentence was notified to me . It is to the following tenor . Fifteen years of the galleys for robbery to tbe p rejudice-of the Ecclesiastical Academy , and five years ei public labour for robbery of twenty
scudi to ( he . prejudice of the Barberini family ; besides which , ignominious death for treason All this ,, by tbe special favour of his Holiness , has been reduced to twenty years of the galleys . Before setting out for Palliano , or elsewhere , according to my destination , I communicate this to you , with the utmost serenity of mind , because I feel that I am in no way culpable . . Thank my uncle ,, thank my defensor ,. thank all those who have exerted themselves in my favour , especially the Prussian minister , to whom present my respects , and entreat of him lo place at the feet of bis King my most heartfelt homage and my immense gratitude for the interest he has deigned to take in my case .
? I send you my picture , which you will keep in remembrance of toe , but bidden from every one . I send you my sheet , pillow-case , trowsers , and basin . Collect what linen you can , shirts , handkerchiefs , and two pair of sheets , and send all to the place ot my destination , baving previously obtained the con sent of tbe sacred consults , through which you will also send me news of yourself and our family . I beg you , my Lisa , to be tranquil , to preserve your health , and to live for your children ; with regard to me , you will see that those very men who now humiliate me so much , will liberate me from th penalties they now inflict upon me , as soon' as their party spirit is calmed , and they become better acquainted with my innocence . ''
' Console Ludovico and my poor father , and tell them that I shall be quiet and resigned if I know tbat they do not take to heart a thing which I hope will be but pissing . I am going , and in setting out I recollect that a few years ago , on tbis same day , 1 and Ludovico were all intent on adorning our houses , and contributing with many scudi to the grand festival in honour of the Holy Father , ( The writer here alludes to tbe grand demonstration
of popular affliction and gratitude with wkich tbe Pope vsas received on , the 8 th September , 1846 , after having granted the . celebrated amnesty to political offenders . ) New 1 set out , poor and abandoned , with only thirty-five bajocjchi ( eig hteenpence ) in my pocket .- Such is the fruit of my plunderings I embrace you affectionately . 'Believe me to be always your brother , ' Alexander . ' iTIO T ! * ¦•_• . . . r _ ¦ in
_ ' P . S . —I beg you to make interest for me , order that my little dog may not be taken away from me . This is tbe favour which I request . ' The fortress of Palliano , to which he refers as the probable place of his confinement , is not yet quite prepared for . the reception of political prisoners . , NAPLES . —From Naples we learn that it is customary for the people of Naples to keep chickens and turkeys , which are fattened on the filth of ihe streets preparatory to cutting their throats at Christmas . No one ever imagined that that class of animal life would be considered subjects of Ferdinand II , and therefore liable to arrest . As
regards those poor chickens ' Nature did not leave herself , ' and cause tri-coloured feathers lo sprout from the Italian cock ; neither was there anything offensive in their crow ; nordid they , like the parrot which was arrested at Rome , attempt anything like 'Yiva la Republica . Nevertheless , on a late occasion the police authorities went round tbe town and robbed the poor of all their chickens . In some instances it was stated that chickens created disease , in others that they were wanted for Melfi . The only object that we can see in their acts of silly crnelty was that ot wishing to offend the lowest classes , and accumulate odium . In the next constitutional charter , the Neapolitans will have a special habeas corpus for chickens .
The charitable have subscribed nearly 50 , 000 ducats for the sufferers at Melfi , the scene of the late earthquake .
AUSTRIA . From Vienna we learn that another journalist has been arrested . A correspondent of a north German journal , Dr . Preund , was arrested two days ago , in the act of posting a letter , the authorship of which he would not deny . He awaits his trial before the court-martial , and is not likely to meet with lenient judges .
HUNGARY . Archduke Albrecht has arrived at the seat of his new government . He reached Pesth on the afternoon of the 13 th ult ., and inaugurated his assump . tion of office by a review of the garrison of Pesth . He was received by the late governor of Hungary , General Gehringer , and the other civil and military authorities . In the evening the whole town was lit up by order , and a large mob ' allowed' to assemble to roar a welcome to his imperial bigfeness .
UNITED STATES . The r 6 yal mail steam-ship Africa , from New York , arrived at Liverpool on Sunday last with the usual mails , seventy-five passengers , and about a million dollars of specie in silver and gold . Th « e had been two arrivals from California , viz ., by the Empire City , on tbe 7 th , with Havannah dates to tbe 2 nd , and 350 , 000 dollar : specie ; and also the Prometheus , which arrived on the 4 th , bringing 465 passengers , and gold dust of the value of a million and a half of dollar . ; . The City of Manchester screw steamer from this port arrived at Philadelphia on the 3 rd inst .
The political news by this arrival is less important than tbe commercial . There had been almost a money panic in New York on the 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th , and several of the banks had been severely run upon : they had , however , stood well t and by the 6 th it had abated , and it was hoped the crisis had passed . Still , however , confidence was slow jn returning , and money was almost impossible to obtain , except for bills of the very hi ghest class . Stocks , which had been very much depressed , were recovering , and the foreign rate of exchange declining .
A iugitWe slave was attested , at Syracuse on Wednesday , October I , and brought before United States Commissioner Sabine for examination forthwith . Tbe bells of the different churches commenced toiling , and handbills were distributed calling on the citizens to congregate and see a negro kidnapper . The commissioner ' s office was soon crowded , and a rescue was successfully carried out . The negro was at once put on his way to Canada , and the agent of the claaimnt arrested for attempting to kidnap a citizen of the county . The slave was afterwards recaptured , and two military companies called out to guard him . Several while men were arrested for assisting the negro in his attempted flight . This being the ' eounty fair'day , a
large concourse . of people surrounded the policeoffice , where the negro and the white men were undergoing an examination . About dusk the crowd began to throw stones into the window of the police-office pretty freely , which caused the adjournment o ( the court till eight o ' clock the following morning . For a while after the adjournment , the crowd seemed to disperse ; but at about half-past eight o clock they began to break in the windows and doors , and thus made an entrance into the building , and carried off the negro . AH sorts of weapons were used in the affray . Pistoh were fired from both sides , hut we cannot learn that they took effect on any one . Several persons were badly hurt from the clubs and stones , but none seriously .
. The hews from California is to the 6 th of September . The cities of San Francisco and Sacramento , have again been the scene of a terrible tragedy , in the summary execution of criminals by the hands of the people : two men convicted of highway robbery had been taken by force from the authorities and executed . The particulars of the affair are as follows : — ' On the 22 d of August , in conformity with the sentence passed upon them by the law , Thompson , Robinson , and Hamilton were hanged in Sacramento for highway robbery . On ( he morning of the execution Robinson waa re . prieved by ttte governor , M'Dougal , notwithstanding
which tbe populace took the prisoner and executed him ; On the Tuesday previous lo the above ( which took place , on on Friday ) the Governor , with his aids , went in the middle of the night and rescued , without opposition , the two prisoners , "Wbittaker and M'Kenz ' ie , who were placed in the custody ol the Vigilance Committee . This caused a tremendous excitement , but on account of the forbearance of the committee under the ciicumstanccs quiet Tfas restored , and everything was thought to be at rest until Sunday morning , the 24 th inst . , when a portion of the members of the Vigilance Committee woke into the county gaol , tooktheprieoners , drove
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tbevi flown in a carriage to the committee rooms , tPtl in . seventeen minutes from the time the men ¦ were first taken from the gaol they were hanging in front of the committee rooms on Battery street , in the presence of 20 , 000 people , all of whom approved of the ' act . ' , ; « . .- ; rr The accounts from the mining districts continue to be favourable ; improvementa are in successful progress , in various , gold-bearing streams ; and the yield of the precious metal is such as to reward the enterprise and industry of the miner .
Advices from' the city of Mexico state that the cabinet resigned in a body on the 2 nd of September , and much disaffection prevailed throughout < the country ,. which was in the most deplorable and abject condition . The Convention of the Governors of the different States , called for the purpose of devising some means for the relief of tbe .. difficulties under which the people are now labouring , had met , and without taking any decisive action on the subject , adjourned , causing great dissatisfaction . The revolution in Northern Mexico , thus far , haB proved entirely successful . It commenced at Camargo , where the patriots attacked the Mexicans . The patriots came off victorious , having taken the town by storm , with a loss on the Bide of the Mexicans of sixty . The government troops were
intrenched in a church , with artillery . The revolutionists are commanded by Carabajal , who has also with him two companies of . Texans . At the last accounts they were marching on Matamoras and Reynosa . General Avalos , who is at Matamoras , ha g only 300 troops . . He had made a requisition on the city for 2 , 000 , but the ciiy refused to raise a single man . The plan of the revolutionists was a pronunciamento , which was widel y circulated . Tampico and its vicinity-is in the bands of the in * surgents . The people of Matamoras are quietly awaiting the arrival of the liberating army . Advices from Nicaragua state that General Munoz had marched upon Granada , the seat of Senor Montenegro ' s government ,, with a view to capture the city , and put an end to that government . No information as to tbe result had been
received , and it was reported tbat the expedition had halted by the way at Nicaragua . "We see no reason . to doubt his ' success in this enterprise , as the strength on his side is much greater than on the other . There may be blood shed , but victory will probably be with him . At San Juan much ex citement prevails , owing to the appointment of an Englishman as ' local agent for the American Ship Canal Company .
' CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Important iNTEixiGisNCE . —H . M . st ., Birkenhead , arrived on Monday last at Plymouth with most important intelligence from the Cape . She left Simon ' s Bay on the 12 th of September , reached St Vincent on the 4 th of the present month , ; and sailed on the 7 th ; She has brought home' the mail which would have been despatched by the steamship Sir Robert Peel ; but for the accident which that vessel met with on her outward-bound passage near Sierra Leone . After having landed some despatches for the Admiralty , the Birkeiihead pro * ceeded with her mail to Portsmouth .
From private information we learn that a serious engagement took place on the 1 st of September in the Fish River Bush , in which the British troops suffered a partial defeat , with considerable loss ; and there seems to be no-doubt that the whole of the frontier is in a state of alarming disaffection . The 2 nd Royals , a regiment which had but just been conveyed out from this country by the Birkenheadj ' took part in the action , and , it is stated , had four men killed and seventeen wounded . The Birkenhead is said lo have been selected by Sir Harry Smith for her vjeWknown . speed ; and it is also stated that she has brought home a request from his Excellency tbat a reinforcement : of at least 10 , 000 troops may be immediately sent out to his assistance .
On the 1 st inst ., Lieut .-Col . Burnfj of the 2 nd Regiment , who was engaged in patrolling tbe Fish River Bush , near Committee's Drift , had a severe action with a body ol Kaffirs and Hottentots . The particulars are not fully known . The fight is described as ' a sharp affair , ' and the casualties were rather heavy , three soldiers being killed and twelve wounded . On the 2 nd inst . ; the Kaffirs attacked some waggons on their way to Graham ' s Town from below Southwell , and succeeded in carrying off five spans of . oxen worth £ 300 . The affair was reported to Major-General Somerset , when pursuit was immediately made , and eighteen of the oxen recovered .
From Lyndoch , intelligence has been received that most of the Tarabookie servants , who had hitherto remained faithful , have joined the enemy , and have assisted in driving off their master ' s cattle , horses , and sheep . Some sharp conflicts had taken place between the colonists , and the marauders , several of whom were shot . JEn these actions two burghers were killed , and others wounded . The enemy had re-appeared in Oliphant ' s Hoek and Lower Albany , as soon as Lieut-Col . Eyre left I hat part ' of the country . They had committed several depredations , and had kept the burgher patrols continuall y active in pursuing them , though with littte aueceBS .
On the afternoon of the 5 th inst , an attack was made on Mr . Goldswain ' s place , at Burnt Kraal , five miles north-east of Graham ' s Town , and the enemy succeeded in getting off with about 1 , 200 sheep . A patrol , under Capt . Carey , was immediately ordered by General Somerset in pursuit , and it was hoped that the flock would be recovered , On the 3 rd inst ., three inhabitants of the village of Salem , while on cattle guard , were attacked by fifteen or twenty Kaffirs . One of the guards named Thomas Filmer , was severely wounded by a bullet , which lodged in his side . The cattle were , all but one , brought safe to Salem . The wounded man was doing well , the ball having been extracted . Information had been received from Farratrfield
that two houses , one belonging to Mr . Bowles and the other to Mr Barnes , bad been fired near the Kariega , and fifteen head of cattle captured from Mr , Gush , Patrols immediately started off in pursuit , but did not succeed in overtaking the plunderers . Mr . Thomas Scanlan , of Graham ' s Town , lieutenant in the Fingoe levy , ft brave and worthy colonist , who wag wounded a few weeks ago while on cattle guard near that town , has died of his wonnd , leaving a wife and four children , with his parents , eighty years of age and quite helpless , le lament his death .
Tbe « Graham ' s Town Journal' of the 6 th inst ., says : — ' In reference to the close of the war we may State that in the neighbourhood of the headquarters , it is reported the Kafihs are about to enter on the war with renewed vigour . This does not look much like subjection and submission . It is Satisfactory , however , to learn ( hat Major Hofgfi , one of the assistant Commissioners , seems perfectly to understand the position of the colony , and that , so far as he is concerned , no patched-up peace will satisfy him—no peaee , but oneestablishedon a solid , satisfactory basis . How he and his Excellency will agree on this matter remains to . .. -be !' seen '; but one circumstance is pretty clear to even the most casual observer—that the Governor is fast loosing the confidence not only of the public , but even of his former friends and supporters in this quarter . '
EGYPT . ; The Egyptian question is likel y to be settled in the most satisfactory way . The last letter of the Grand Vizier to Abbas Pasha says clearly that the Porte cannot acknowled ge the ri ght of Abbas Pasha to enter into negotiations with foreign emissaries , involving the interests and re-ources of the country for the future , butif the Pasha applies to the Porte / or the permission of the construction Of a railway , the Porte will grant this permission , under the following conditions : —1 . That the railway should be
made out of the regular income of the province , and that it never should be a pretext for the heavier taxationof the people . 2 . That the native workmen should be paid , and wor for wages ; the work should nofbe a compulsory and gratuitous one . 3 . The administration of the railway must remain iii the hands or the regular authorities , not in those of foreigners . This ultimatum shows clearly that the Porte is no enemy of the railway scheme , but that she cannot allow that it should become a pretext to make Abbas Pasha , the hereditary viceroy , an independent prince .
CANADA . The resignations of the Canadian ministry were not sent en masse , but Mr . Hincks , the inspectorgeneral , and Mr . Morris , the postmaster-general , sent their resignations ; and . this made such a rupture of Ihe ministry , as to make the resi gnation of tbe whole a matter of necessity . The object of these resignations , or at least that of Mr . Hincks , is to cause an earl y appeal ' to the people for the purpose of carrying out some combinations with the ' clear grits , ' or old reform party . The chief point of division is the clergy reserves . Mr . Hincks is in favour of the secularisation of these , ! while Mir . Lafontaine holds the converae creed .
The Sil-Ent Friend, In Six I,A Nguikg K S.
THE SIL-ENT FRIEND , IN SIX I , A NGUikG K S .
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h THE NORTIircnN STAR . October 25 , 1851 .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 25, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1649/page/2/
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