The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-10-28
NUMBER 2O4.
From the New York Herald, Oct 20.
NEWS BY THE sTEAMER NIAGARA.

I UdVs, TeaCned BOSTON
halEpast 3o'clock yesterday afternoon She sailed
! from Liverpool on Saturday, the 18th inst
| The news was Immediately transmitted over the
| wires to New York.
The steamship Niagara arrived at Halifax at
A. NJ, and left at II A. NJ. yesterday.
One of the passengers in the Niagara from Ii
verpoo Mr.. John DOYLE, states that he was arrest
| ed on his arrival at Halifax, on suspicion of being
! an Irish sympathizer. He taken by a soldier
attached to the regiment of Fusiliers, Halifax, but
! as no ground appeared for the charge, he was re-
! leased, and he came TO this city.
The Chartist trials in London have been conclu-
| ded ; conviction has been the uniform result. Dow
| ling the Irish confederate Cuffey, Lacur, Fay and
/ Mulings We're sentenced to transportation for life.
| Several of the less prominent conspTaors pleaded
! guilty, and Were subjected to fine and imprison-
| ment; against others the Attorney General aban-
| dOneds the prosecution, contentng himself with
| binding them, in their own recognizances to be
! forthcoming when called upon by the authorities.
! The main feature of these trials consisted Of mer-
CHESS exposure ofthe infamous spy system
Her Majesty-returned from Scotland by railway,
! with the Prince and her family.
| The trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien, at Clonmel is
| still unconcluded. An application was made TO
| have the case postponed, on the ground that Mr..
OBrien had not received, previous 10 his trial,
copy of his Indictment, and list of the witnesses
| to be produced against him.
In England man on trial for his life has right
to be informed on both these points, but according
to the decision of the court at Clonmel, in Ireland,
no such right exists. Another point of dissatisiac
ton was the great dsprOportion existing between
Prolestants and Catholics on the jury panel After
sundry attempts the part of prisoners counsel to
gain some thing for his client these points, the
| trial was proceeded with. Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday were fully consumed in examining witness
on the part of the Crown As usual in political
cOnspiraces, traitors have been found amongst the
Irish, who have given evidence which will go far
to support the Indictment against Mr.. O'Brien.
On Wednesday, Mr.. Whileside, counsel for the
prisoner, entered upon his defence.
The Hbernia, which left Boston, Goth ult, reach
ed the Mersey on Monday, after passage of eleven
and halfdays.
The Washington, which left New York the same
day, arrived at Southampton ON Thursday night,
after passage Of sixteen days.
The United States will sail from Southampton on
the 10th inst, for New York.
The st. Lawrence, Al guns, Capt. Paulding, ar
rived on the Sd inst, off Cowes, in twenty-four
days from Norfolk, (the St Lawrence is on her way
to Germany TO communicate with Mr. Bancroft
the American Minister, and the Consul for the
United States at COwes. She sailed ON the follow
ing day The st. Lawrence is TO be stationed in
the Weser during the winter, for the protection OF
American interests in the present unsettled stale of
Northern Europe. She was visited by Mr. Ban
croft and the American Consul. The Portsmouth
correspondent of the Times says the St Lawrence
passed through Spithead this afternoon. the 4th.
She did not salute the flag of the commandcr-in-
chief, or the union jack of the Kings bastiOn.
FRANCE.
In France, on Saturday, scene of confusion
Cured in the Chambers almost unparalleled in
the history of that assembly.
One of the members having commented in severe
terms upon some late republican banques, and
condemned the apathy of the Government in rea-
ton thereto, the members of the Republican party
We're thrown into such a rage that they almost
simultaneously rushed to the tribune, which they
attempted to scale all sides, but were prevented
by the officers of the house. AT length the Presi-
dent was obliged TO put on his hat and suspend the
sitting
1t is currently reported that in consequence of
the opposition given to the proposal to elect the
President of the Republic by the National Assem-
bly,, the Government has resolved to leave the
choice of a President to be decided by universal
sutirage-bnt that an amendment is 10 be intro
duced into the constitution delerring the election
until the organic laws have been voted upOn-in
the meantime, the Executive Government is to re-
main as it is al present.
The Paris papers of Thursday say, that after
much hesitation, as it appears the Government at
cabinet council has resolved to support, by all its
available means, the amendment to the article of
the constitution respecting the election of President,
to be proposed by NJ. FlocOn, which is to the fol-
lowing effect:
THE National Assembly delegates the executive
power to citizen, who shall receive the title of
President of the Republic"
The Government has, therefore, taken up deini-
lively its position in direct hostility TO the moderate
party in the chamber.
from Postscript of European TmesI
Some of the Paris journals mention tue report
that Austria has defnitively rejected the Anglo
French mediation. We have not been able how
ever TO ascertain what the foundation for the report
is Advices have arrived to-day of serious disturb
ances which have broken out at Lyons 1t appears
that early on Tuesday morning, the Gardes Mobile
of Lyons, whose corps have been recently dis
solved, presented themselves at the Prefecture 10
demand the month S pay which had, they said, been
promised them Being allowed 10 enter the hotel,
fbaHy fbaIps Alyrae of Lsyf IA. Pro
feet in custody for three quarters OF an hour.
Crowds assembled around the building, but reg
ment Of dragons, returning from exercise, charged
them and drove them away, also clearing the hotel
and releasing the Project The vicinity of the Pre-
lecture was then occupied by the military. The
alarm caused so great that the shops in the
vicinity We're closed Al half past clock group
of twenty GAr1es Mobile disarmed the TWO sentI-
nels of the Munte-de PietG. They then attempted
TO force themselves into the guard-house, but the
men occupying it having barricaded themselves IN
il, they did not succeed. They, however, broke all
| the windows At 10 o'clock, two hundred Mobiles
presented themselves at the Hotel de vile, with
red hap-heng charged by the soldiers, they lmme-
! diately dispersed Another account says, that mo-
tice of what was passing having been given TO the
military authorities, the 9th Dragons were sent to
/ occupv the Place de la Prefecture. After having
! cleared the place and its approaches and having
charged their carbnes, the company dismOunied,
| and entering the Prefecture cleared the interior
court of the insurgents without resistance. At half
mast II O'Clock battery of artillery had arrived
! mon the Place de la Prefecture, and cannon was
! planted as to sweep all the approaches AT the
departure of the last accounts, the insurgents
enIeavorng TO erect barricades in the Rue MERCER.
! Singular reports are circulated this evening, OF a
! plot that has been detected against the National
! Assembly. purssIA
Berlin passed through an important crisis on the
| 25th ult the day on which the new Cabinet were
! to pronounce their decision on the question Of min
| isterial interference with the views and political
opinions Of the officers of the amy--the very qIles
ton, il will be remembered which caused the re,
sipnation of the last Cabinet The radicals relied
on the refusal Of the Ministry TO execute former
resolution Of the Parliament on this subject Every
thing was prepared for a revolution, and they seem
ed to feel painful disappointment when the Pre-