The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-07
FOREIGN News

Foreign News 81
The following is a summary Of the latest foreign
J .,At Chalons, France, March 9th, forty men surprised
\ small post OF infantry. They taen attempted to get
possession Of the railroad station, crying Viye la Re.
publiqae: Driven back, they occupied the head Of the
bridge, to interrupt communication with the barracks
The officers, who live in the town, Gu. their way through
and the garrison also turning out, the rioters were dis
persed. Fifteen nen we're captured. The ARRAY was
lnd,sputabiy a part u Il plan Of systematic agitation.
vThe English Government had refused TO allow Sar.
DINA to give up Mr.. Hodge, an Englishman arrested at
Genoa, to the French Government, as they did not con.
slider that there was sufficient evidence to warrant his
cOmmittal.
A select committee was appointed in the House Of
Commons, to inquire into the progress aud prospects,
aud the best means to BE- adopted for the promotion Of
the European coloniz ,tion in India. This movement
has reference to the projected cultivation Of cotton there.
Sir Colin Campbell was at Cawnpore on the 18th Of
Feb. awaiting the arrival Of the siege train from Agra.
A part Of the army had crossed into Dude, and was
advancing towards the .Alumtagh. The bombardment
Of Lucknow was expected to commence on the 25th of
February, although the British force, consisting of
about twenty thousand men and one hundred guns, was
said to be insufficient to invest the city. The King Of
Delhi had been found guilty and was bauished for life
to the A%ndamans. 1t was reported that Nena Sahib
had crossed the Ganges with a strong force, near Bit
hoor, to enter Bundlecund. The (hoorkahs had de.
ieated the rebels at Gondah.
: Intelligence from Canton was 30 the 2Sth January.
1t remained tranquil under the rule IF the Allies.
The following account Of the execution of Orsini and
Pierri, who were implicated in the late attempt to as
sassinate Napoleon, is from a correspondent Of an Eng
fish paper, and, taken in connection with the seditious
outbreaks lately occurring in the rural districts Of
France, shows what a volcanic FIRE is raging under that
despotic government
Such had been the alarm Of the Government that an
entire division was ordered out, under the personal
command of a general officer, who assisted at the execu-
ton. Fifteen thousand soldiers were ready to act at
guarded as in times Of insurrection. In the estimation
Of my informant, between 80 1000 and loo, 900 men Of
the fubourgs, workmen in blouses, we're assembled in
the spaces and in the streets near the Place de la Ro-
quette but he also says they were SO grouped in where
the troops were stationed, that they could see little or
nothing. l will now give, in my informant own words,
the following, which |, with his permission, took down
under his dictation !.r
When the dead, dull sound of the falling of the
knife upon Orsini was heard, it was responded to by an
immense put smothered reply Of Kue Ia Repmbl;queP
l cannot properly describe this it was like a gigantic
mutter it was not q cry or . shout, but it sounded
like the breath or the sigh of thousands of human lungs.
1t was we'll appreciated by the authorities for, on The
instant, the soldiers raised the most ~disorderly c~latter
imaginable; struck their horses, so to make them
plunge and kick, shook their arms, and contrived so
that the popular whisper should be stiaed without being
literally put down. But the words, Vivs Ia Rspu6.
lique,' must have been clearly audible to every one
In addition to this, my friend says 8 ! ~purposely went
home on foot, threading my way through the groups
wherever I found them thickest. I am bound to admit
that everywhere [ heard expressions Of sympathy and
admiration for Orsini, whose crime seems utterly for
gotten, while only the effect produced by his courage
and generosity toward his associates remains. Pierris
name | did not hear once. The attitude of the popu-
lace was, l should say, extremely mepacing, for it has
the marks Of hate and thirst for vengeance seated too
deep for words. All the remarks l heard were made in
an under tone, as though 8 police spy was dreaded at
every instant.
The lnvaAde Russo records new victories of the Army
OF the Caucasus. A letter to that journal announces
that the important defle of Argoon, which has so often
been attacked unnecessarily, is at length in possession
ofthe Russian troops.
The 1tmaes's Vienna correspondent says that st.
Petersburgh advices put it beyond doubt that the Chi
nese have commenced h~ostilities against the Russians.
The Russian Admiral is understood to have reported in
a dispatch that the advance posts toward the mouth Of
the AMOR had been attacked so suddenly, and with
such force, that the Russians had to retreat thirty
leagues up the river. The Chinese t~hereupou DESTROYED
the Russian settlement.
1t is stated that the faculties of the King of Prussia
declined daily. A renewal of the powers con6ded to
the Prince OF Prussia was expected to extend to six in.
stead Of three months, as hitherto.