Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-10-26

news from Europe.
The market for American produce dull
Sales Of Cotton light, at a decline.
| The Grain market was steady, but not ac-
tive. Flour declined Cd TO Is per barrel.
| II is expected that the harvest and imports
will be ample to prevent a rise in bread stufis.
! There has been an impulse in the London
money market, on account Of the bank dlyl-
dends, but no general change in interest
No change in Cotton or Corn at Havre.
The Queen has returned from Scotland
The Charlist's trials resulted in the banish-
ment Of five prisoners for life, nine for two
years, four for eighteen months, and one to a
fine.
Accounts respecting the crops are contradlc-
tory, and especially about the potato crop.
From Ireland all we learn is that the trials
are proceeding with little haste, and no advan-
tage 10 the Government or the prisoners.
In France there have been banquets and 9TH
er political meetings, and there has been con-
fusion in the Chambers, but to no amount.
Louis Napoleon has decided to 81, for Paris,
the city whe,e he was born.
Accounts from Mess ina confirmed the accept
lceptance of the mediation Of England and
France. Hostllties wnre suspended and every
thing was quiet.
The overland mail had arrived, with dates
from Calcutta of the Goth, Madras 25lh and
Bombay 3lst Of August, with news of an in
IsuIrection OF the Sikhs
France. e.-General Cavaignac is reported to
be ndlsposed. Every evening, after night
fall, crowds Of artisans assemble on The outer
Bnulevards of Paris, singing political songs,
whilst fresh troops are arriving al the capital
bringing with them-the only antidote to Red
epubllcanism-a heavy battery of artillery.
The Committee Of the Assembly appointed
TO examine into the state of the property Of
the Orleans family, has reported in favor of
he payment of the debts, about one million of
sterling that the sequestratiOn be maintained
IN their estates; but that the personal proper
| ty Of the Princes be restored to them, and an
annuity be allowed to them pending the ar
rangement of their affairs. The segueslrated
estates are valued at three millions sterling.
LATER.-.We Gull few other items of foreign
news from our exchanges, received by the Nj
agara.
The principal matter of political interest in
Great Britain is the trial of Mr. Smith . Brien
at Clonmel.
The trial had not closed when the steamer
left. The main reliance of the defence seems
to have been that Mr.. O'Bren was only en-
deavoring TO avoid arrest. The Government
however seems 10 have been determined TO Sc
cure conviction, for it had managed TO pack
a jury of landlords without single Catholic
in it. What a solemn farce is this British
law The defence offered TO provVA lat Mr.
IO'Brien has said and done nothing worse than
was said and done with impunly in the aglta-
ton of the reform bill in 1852, but the Court
ruled out the evidence.
Three American sympathizcrs, Alexander
Morrison, James 1hornburg, aud John NJ
Keaguc have been arrested for reasonable de-
signs, and committed for trial at the Carlow
assizes.
The Chartists, Bowling, Cufley, Fay, La
cey and Mullins have been convicted aud SEN
fenced to transportation for life.
Doheny had escaped safe to France, in spite
of the utmost vigilance. lie took refuge with
the peasants, none of whom were tempted by
the G300 to beray him. Dying his black
hair red, speaking only Irish, and taking a
drove of swine from Dung 4rran, he reached a
seaport, where he shipped himself and his
bristly cattle on board packet for Bristol,
whence he embarked for Bculogne without
suspicion.
tersburgh. The victims have been more nu-
merous than in 1881, on account of the terror.
One hundred thousand people are said to have
fled from the city without provisions or resour
ces into the surrounding country, where they
were violently rejected by the peasants. Wan
dering about, they died hy hundreds, and their
carcases blocked up the highways. In st.
Petersburgh itself there were 1900 persons
n L., L., 4 N al,
public works we're suspended, but the courage
of the inhabitants was in some measure kept
up by the daily presence of the Emperor.
The attempt o. Struve to proclaim a Repub-
lie at Baden has utterly failed. General lloif-
man came up with the insurgents near Stan
fen.
After a somewhat obstinate resistance the
town was taken by storm Some houses were
burned down. A great number of the deien-
ders were slain, and solnc hundreds OF prisOn-
ers taken. Among the latter was Stru,e HIM
self lie and 80 of his followers we're lmme-
diately tried by court-mariai, condemned and
shot. A corps of about 1000 escaped mo the
Munzerihal, but they were SAID to be surround
ed by large body of Werlumburg troops.
The ST. Lawrence, Al guns, Capt. Pau!d-
ing, arrived Oh the Sd inst. off Cowes, in ~
days from Norfolk. The ship 81. Lawrence
is on her way to Germany she stopped to
communicate with Mr.. Bancroft. the Amerl-
can Minister, and the Consul for The L. >. at
Cowes. She sailed on tho following day.
The ST. Lawrence is To be stationed on the
Weser, during the winter, for the protection of
American interests IN the present unsettled
state Of northern Europe. She was visited by
MIR. Bancroft and The American Consul. The
Portsmouth correspondent of the Tunes says
the ST. Lawrence passed through SpIthead this
afternoon, the ilh She did not salute the
flag of the Commauder-n hlcf, or the Union
Jack Of the King S Bastlon.
Wilmer q Smith Times contains post
script giving an account of general outbreak
IN Paris. to the following effect. " he Gar
des Mobiles Of Lyons, whose crops has been
recently dissolved, presented themselves at the
Prefecture to demand the months pay which
had, they said, been promised tnc.n. Being
allowed to enter the Hotel, they possessed
themselves ol 1t, and kept the Prelect ~ Gus.
lody for three quarters of an hour. Crowds
assembled around the building, but regiment
ol Dragons returning from exercise. charged
them aud drove them away, also clearing The
Hotel and releasing the Preicct. The yicinl.
Nv of the Prefecture was then occupied BY the
military. At half past . O'Clock group OF
twenty Gardes Mobile disarmcd the two seutl-