The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-13
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FRANCE.

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FRANCE.
Inc .hon'ie~ du Soir announces, in cores
Pondence from Stratsbourg, dated the oO,b. the
detection Of a plot against the Presidents life
The chief conspirators came from Nancy One
came from the far South. Several arrests have
taken place in consequence. A Socialist had de-
nounced the plot to the police.
! All the accounts from Wiesbaden coincide in
stating that complete schism has taken place
amongst the Legitimate party, and that the pru-
dent advice of M. Berger has prevailed over the
violent course recommended by the more impa-
uent portion Of that party.
! Trade continues very active in Paris; the man
aiaeturers OF Mulhouse and Lyons are asking
higher prices. The AGRICULTURAL accounts are not
encouraging. The continued rains have further
compromised the safety Of the harvest, particu-
h'riy IN the northern departments. A smart rise
mas taken place In the corn market. The potatoe
disease makes great progress, all kinds being at
attacked. Silk continues scarce in the South,
and high prices are ma inained.
Cabinet Council was held in Paris on Tues
day. A circular was prepared, which is to be for
warded by telegraph to the Projects Of the eighty
SIX Departments, on the occasion Of the assemb-
! ling of the Councils General.
! Monsignor Aleman, Bishop of San Francisco
and of all California, left Paris on Tuesday for
Dublin TO recruit some Irish priests for the mis-
sion amongst the British settlers in California.
In The election Of Presidents, Vce-Presdents,
Departments, there is an immense majority Of the
party Of order.
GERMANY.
A terrible accident took place on the 10Th inst,
on the railway between Eisenach and Cassel. AS
the train was going rapidly round the curve near
Wotfenhausen, the locomotive went off the rails,
dragging the carriage after it. The tender and
horse diligences We're overturned with dreadful
shock. Five persons were killed. and twenty-six
badly wounded.
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Austrian Minister in London has an
nounced the adhesion of his court to the protocol
OF the I'd August, between Great Britain, France,
| Russia, and Denmark, with view to settlement
of the Danish question Austria, as might have
naturally been expected stipulaies for the preser
walton Of the rights Of the Duches Of Holsten and
Launenburg, as members Of the German Confed-
| Grafton, as well as the rights of the Confeder-
ntion, in relation to the Duchies. To this there
could be, of course, no objection, for there ex-
listed no desire for single moment on the part of
the other Powers to interfere with the rights in
question. which were, IN fact, expressly guarded
in the protocol OF the I'd of August.
The Berlin journals state that the Danish army
could not undertake the attack upon Rendsburgh,
and were consequently preparing for their winter
| quarters in the town and vicinity of Schleswig,
and that the Danes were building bridges over the
Schle, and erecting for each strong bridge head.
CoPENHAcEN, August 81 The Russian admiral
who commands the fleet in the Baltic, has given
notice to the lieutenancy genral that any vessels,
bearing either the German flag or that Of the duch-
les, which shall venture into the open sea, shall
be treated as pirates by the Russian vessels which
shall encounter them.
The Gazette de Cologne, Of the Goth says-ssAc-
cordng to our advices the Prussan Minister for
Foreign Affairs has energetcally rejected propo
sition contained in note addressed to him by
Lord Palmerston, that he should urge the Schles-
| wig Hols,ein army to lay down their arms.
RENpsBuRG, August 22.-Unt within the last
few days the sanitary condition OF the army and of
! Rendsburg has been all that could be wished I'M
happily change has suddenly taken place, which
is frightening the timid minds among the civil and
military classes. The cholera has made its APP
pearance. Ten or twelve fatal cases have already
occurred; one Of them being an officer of high
rank-Colonel Lessen.
The following is General Willisen s report on
the losses sustained att the battle of Idstedt AFTER
| a revision Of the lists Of killed and wounded pre-
pared by order ofihe Commander-in-chief, on the
BASIS of the hospital reports here, and the commu-
nicationD from Copenhagen and Schleswig, the
following results concerning the entire loss Of the
SchIeswig- Holstein army at the battle Of ldstedt
| have been obtained--Ked, % officers, surgeons,
36 sub-ofRcers, 476 privates wounded (now in
this hospital,) 81 officers, 70 suboficers 6S7 pri-
Yates wounded, and now in Danish hospitals, IA
officers, 81 sub-oficers BAG prvates prisoners, 10
officers, Is surgeons, 81 suboficers, zoos pryates
Il Total loss-Ofhcers, n surgeons, 90 sub-oficers,
2l7 privates, 25l4. The missing, concerning
whom nothing could be further ascerained, are in
cluded among the fallen A considerable number
ofthe wounded have left the hospitals, and are now
under their colors. The 10 imprisoned surgeons
remain voluntarily in the city of Schleswg in
/ charge of the wounded in the hospitals there.
! A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg, in the
Cologne Gazette, states that on the evening of the
26tl inst, five Danish vessels approached the
Holstein coast near Noerr, and that they effected
; onding at Grunewald. The garrison of Kiel
was sent to drive them back to their ships.
/ A letter from Rome, of the Goth, in the Cons-
tulionnel, states that several persons have been
arrested there for supposed conspiracy to assas-
sinate the Pope on Assumption day, by throwing
crystal balls filed with explosive substances into
his carriage wher on his way TO church to pro-
nouncc the benedction. The discovery of the
) plot prevented all danger
The official journal of Naples publishes a law
against the press, so in its character that it
amounts to n total suppression Of the liberty of
| public discussion in the newspapers.