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of England, were induced lately to visit Hamburgh for a 
professional experiment. After a few weeks’ stay, during 
which time their performances were miserably attended, 
the director has been compelled to announce for sale the 
stud of horses, dresses, property, &c., to satisfy his 
creditors, and return with his company to England.—A 
fatal duel has just been fought at Baden. About a month 
since a ball was given by subscription to the Grand 
Duchess Helena of Russia, to which M. de Haber, the 
banker, put his name down as a subscriber. When the 
list was revised by the directors, M. de Haber’s name 
was objected to by M. de Goler, an officer of artillery in 
the service of Baden, upon the plea that in the year 1838 
he gave M. de Haber blows, which the latter did not 
resent, and that he was therefore unfit for the society of 
gentlemen. His name was in consequence erased. There- 
upon M. de Haber sent his friend, M. Verifkin, a Russian 
officer, to M. de Goler, positively denying his statement, 
and calling upon him for satisfaction for the calumny and 
injury fastened upon him. M. de Goler, by the advice of 
his brother officers, refused on any terms to meet M. de 
Haber, saying that he did so because he could prove that 
he was not entitled to be treated asa gentleman. M. d 
Haber then had a letter printed and posted, saying that 
. de Goler had calumniated him by false statements, 
had misled his brother officers, had refused to give him 
satisfaction, and that he therefore was a liar and a coward. 
This led to violent language between M. de Goler and 
M. Verifkin, the friend of M. de Haber, and blows were 
given by the former to the latter; the consequence was a 
meeting on Sunday at! Carlesruhe, between M. de Goler 
and M. Verifkin. They fought at six paces with pistols, 
M. Verifkin was shot dead, and M, de Goler received a 
ball in his chest. M. de Haber has fled to Switzerland. 
Swirzertanp.—Accounts from Zurich of the 31st ult., 
state that while the long-pending dispute of North 
Switzerland is in a fair way of being appeased, by Argau 
consenting to restore the nunnery of Hermetschyel, the 
Liberal party of the Valais—the one speaking the French 
tongue and inhabiting the Lower Valais, the other speak- 
ing German and inhabiting the Upper Valais—have 
resorted to a civil war at and near St. Maurice. The 
accounts of the conflict in the Swiss papers are as yet 
confused ; but it is to be feared that the Diet, to restore 
peace, must treat the Valais as it treated Bale, Schwitz, 
and Appenzel, viz., divide the canton into two independ- 
ent governments.—M. Thiers, the historian and late 
Premier of France, has arrived at Berne, for the purpose of 
making himself personally and minutely acquainted with 
the locality of the theatre of the war of 1798-99, for the 
Purpose of his forthcoming volumes of the “History of 
the French Revolution.” M. Michelet, professor of 
history at the University of Paris, arrived at Fribourg 
nearly at the same time, to study on the spot the move- 
ments of Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, whose life will 
be treated in the sixth volume of his ‘‘ History of France.” 
—A letter from Chamouny states that the ascent of Mont 
Blanc was made a short time since in a most rapid and 
successful manner, by Dr. E. Ordinaire, of Besancon, M. 
E, Tairraz, of Chamouny, and a party of thirteen persons. 
They left the Prieuré at noon of the 23d; at half-past six 
in the evening arrived at the rocks of the Grand Mulets, 
which they again quitted the following day at half-past 
two in the morning. They were seen ascending by the old 
° 
‘road exposed to the avalanches, where the three guides of 
Dr. Hamel perished in 1820. At half-past ten M. Or- 
dinaire, who was in advance of the other travellers with 
two of his guides, arrived at the summit, where the rest of 
the party shortly afterwards joined them. At a quarter 
past eleven they commenced thieir descent by the new 
Toad, and at seven in the evening arrived at Chamouny. 
Iraty.—The Cardinal Legate of Bologna has issued a 
proclamation which removes all doubt as to the disturb- 
ances in the Papal States being of a political nature. The 
Papers also state that the bands which have retired to the 
mountains of Tuscany have spread alarm throughout the 
country. According to a letter from Leghorn of the 
27th, great agitation was observable in the towns on the 
Coast, and such persons as had come to bathe at Leghorn 
and Viareggio had hastened to quit the country. As 
Stated in our last, the insurgents are now committing 
brigandage, although political principles formed the 
basis of their organization. They have drawn nearer 
to the duchy of Modena, and several regiments 
have been marched against them. Tidings of the 
Tesult are the more anxiously expected, as the insurgents 
fave spread the report of all Italy having risen.— 
A riot occurred at Naples, in the church of the Annunziata, 
On the festival of the Assumption. The crowd of 
People, many of whom it was suspected were drawn 
thither by other motives than devotion, was so great, that 
in spite of the spaciousness of the church (the nave of 
which is supported by 24 Corinthian pillars of white 
Marble), a terrible pressure ensued ; thefts were com- 
Mitted, and such a scene of disorder arose, that it was 
found necessary to call in the aid of the military, and a 
Party of Swiss troops arrived. The people, irritated by 
the presence of the soldiers, began to attack them with 
knives and stilettoes. Meanwhile a party of Sicilian 
troops, on duty at Porta Capuana, arrived, and with the 
View of awing the mob,’ discharged some balls from a 
Small cannon, and some blank shots. Order was soon 
Yestored, but not without the sacrifice of several lives, and 
about 20 persons were carried to the hospital, all more or 
less seriously wounded. The church having been pro- 
ned by bloodshed, remains closed until it has been again 
Consecrated by the Archbishop. The Queen having in- 
terceded with his Majesty in behalf of the criminals, their 
Sentence of death has been commuted to that of 30 years’ 
anishment to the galleys. Another source of uneasiness 
them. One young female walking in the street at its most 
crowded time, was thus attacked, and has died from the 
injuries received. Amongst other victims to this outrage 
are the Duchess de Grotoletta and the Princess Canitto, 
The police have not found any clue to the delinquents. 
Grercr.—A letter from Athens, Aug. 10, states that a 
gang of twenty-six coiners, Greeks, Turks, Italians, and 
French, have been discovered and arrested in that city, and 
handed over to justice. They had been occupied in the 
fabrication of Greek crowns, and French two-franc pieces. 
Other parties connected with this gang, to the number of 
upwards of 200, have been since arrested, many of whom 
by birth and fortune, belong to the higher ranks of society. 
Turkey anp SyriA.—The Levant mail has brought 
Constantinople letters of the 17th. The Porte seemed 
inclined to pursue an Anti-Christian course of policy. 
The expedition of the Pacha of Mosul against the Nesto- 
rians, has been stained, as was to be expected, from the 
co-operation of his auxiliaries the Khurds, with every sort 
of atrocity. The houses of the inhabitants were fired, 
they themselves hunted down like wild beasts and exter- 
minated. Neither sex nor age met with mercy; the 
mother, brothers, and sisters of the Patriarch, were the 
objects of peculiar barbarity, the former having been liter- 
ally sawed in two, and the latter mangled and mutilated. 
The Patriarch himself succeeded in effecting his escape, 
and has taken refuge in the house of the British Consular 
Agent at Mosul. The number of victims who have pe- 
rished in this massacre is not yet known, and can only be 
known when that of the fugitives has been ascertained. 
The population of the mountains amounted to 100,000. 
Their fate has been truly extraordinary. Surrounded by 
Mussulman hordes, pent up for ages in their native for- 
tresses, the very existence of these children of the primi- 
tive church had remained almost a secret to the rest of 
Christendom, and their obscurity seems to have been their 
best protection. No sooner had their country been ex- 
plored by Missionaries, than this visitation befel them, 
and the public is called upon to sympathise with them 
in their destruction, before, perhaps, it had become 
generally aware of their existence. Letters from Mosul 
throw much of the odium of this sad affair upon Euro- 
peans, and state that it was the imprudent zeal of rival 
Missionaries that first excited the jealous apprehen- 
sions of the Pacha of Mosul, and caused him to attack the 
Nestorians. It is affirmed even that some of these gen- 
tlemen, with a view of prejudicing his mind against 
the American missionaries, suggested to him that they 
were assisting the mountaineers to raise forts, whereby 
they would be hereafter enabled to set the Sultan’s autho- 
rity at defiance.—Letters from Jerusalem state, that an 
attack, which might have been attended with serious con- 
sequences, had been made by the populace upon the 
French consulate. It appears that the Consul, contrary 
to the usages established, had insisted upon hoisting the 
tricolor on his house. A fanatical multitude resented the 
supposed insult to their holy city, and the flag was torn 
from the building. Reschid Pacha endeavoured to disperse 
the people, and was severely wounded on the hand by a 
stone. On the following morning a fresh attack was made 
because the pole had not been destroyed, and much diffi- 
culty was again experienced in quieting the tumult. Guns 
were discharged into the windows of the consulate, but 
fortunately no lives were lost. An assault has also been 
committed on the person of Dr. M‘Gowan, the English 
physician attached to the episcopal establishment, After 
an altercation with a guard, he was dragged from his 
horse, beaten, and thrown into prison. A Prussian, at- 
tached to the Prussian consulate, on demanding the 
doctor’s liberation, was also insulted and illtreated. The 
culprits, however, have since been punished, on the de- 
mand of the British and Prussian Consuls.—Accounts 
from Erzeroom are far from satisfactory. The negotiations 
are for the present suspended, and the Persians are be- 
lieved to be assembling troops on the frontiers. The 
plague has broken out between Erzeroom and Trebizond, 
and also at Diarbekir.—The annual caravan of pilgrims to 
Mecca had departed from Scutari, in presence of the Sultan 
and the great officers of state, with the usual ceremonies, 
est INDIES AND Mrexico.—The Royal mail-steamer 
Medway arrived at Falmouth on Sunday with West India, 
Mexican, and other mails, bringing twenty-five passengers, 
and on freight 344,478 dollars, 1623 doubloons, 1,270 
ounces of silver, 1,533 ounces of gold, and other valuable 
cargo. Of the dollars thus brought 33,525 are on account 
of the Mexican dividends and 185,024 are a consignment 
to the directors of the Real del Monte Mining Company. 
The Severn brought the Jamaica mails and dates from 
that island to the 8th of August to St. Thomas’s, where 
they were transhipped to the Thames on the 14th. That 
yessel brought them to Bermuda, at which island a severe 
hurricane was experienced on the 18th ult., which did 
considerable damage to the breakwater, and to several 
small vessels. In addition to this catastrophe, the fever 
peculiar to the group was raging with great virulence at 
St. George’s at the time the steamer left, and was con- 
sidered as severe as the epidemic of 1819, It commenced 
early in August, and by the 20th of the month, more than 
half the military had been attacked, and were then in 
hospital. Of the Sappers and Miners six had died, and 
at the latest accounts sixty men were ill, including nearly 
all the non-commissioned officers and officers, with Colonel 
Barry, commanding officer of Engineers. All kind of labour 
hadbeen suspended, the civil population having experienced 
the effects of the fever to a great extent. Lieut.-Colonel 
Arabin, commanding officer of the artillery, had also died 
of it. The mails from Demerara come down to the 4th, 
loes to the 9th ‘August. : “The Windward 
Campeachy appointed to settle the differences came up in 
a Mexican brig of war. The commander of the Mexican 
forces was imprisoned in the castle of St. Juan d’Ulloa, 
and a court-martial was about to sit in the city of Mexico, 
to inquire into the charges brought against him. Advices 
from Port-au-Prince, dated 7th August, state that an 
opposition to the present order of things had declared 
itself at Aux Cayes, headed by a black General Salomons, 
who had some hundred armed supporters ; but it had been 
effectually put down, the general having taken to the woods. 
New Sourn Wates.—A letter in the Northern Star 
from Mrs. Williams, states that the paragraph which has 
appeared in the papers stating that her husband, Zepha- 
niah Williams, the Chartist colleague of Frost and Jones, 
had committed murder in New South Wales and been 
hanged, is wholly unfounded. She says that she has had 
a letter from the Home-office, in which it is stated that a 
person of the name of Williams had recently been executed 
in New South Wales, but not her husband, who is alive. 
CITY. 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols for money are quoted 
95% to 4; and for the account 953 ; Three-and-Half per 
Cents. Red., 1028 ; New Three-and-Half per Cents., 1023 5 
Long Annuities, 12 9-16; India Stock, 2654 to 2664 ; 
India Bonds, 69; Exchequer Bills, 1id., 59s. 61s.; and 
ditto, 18d., 61s, to 63s. prem. 
Metropolis and its Picinritn. 
Return of. the South-Sea Expedition—Captain James 
Clark Ross has just returned from his voyage of explora- 
tion to the South Seas. He transacted business at the 
Admiralty on Wednesday, having left his ship at Ports- 
mouth. He was in excellent health and spirits, and 
expressed great satisfaction at the result of his voyage. 
General Espartero.—His Highness, with the Duchess 
and the Donna Elidia, visited the exhibition of Cartoons 
on Monday afternoon, having previously obtained per- 
mission to inspect them on that day. Mr. Barry, the 
architect of the new Houses of Parliament, and Mr. Bast- 
lake, the secretary to the Commission of Fine Arts, were in 
attendance to receive his Highness, who spent upwards of 
an hour in the Hall, and on his departure expressed him- 
self much gratified with the drawings. Mr. Barry after- 
wards accompanied the Regent over the works of the new 
Houses of Parliament. On Tuesday His Highness, the 
Duchess, and Donna Elidia, with their suite, left Padding- 
ton by the day mail train to visit Windsor Castle. They 
first proceeded over the state apartments, and from thence 
through the private apartments of Her Majesty. They 
afterwards ascended the Round tower, and remained on 
the ramparts for a considerable period. The Regent 
expressed himself greatly pleased at the splendid prospect. 
They left the Castle about two o’clock, aud as they pro- 
ceeded through the town the Regent returned the greet- 
ings of the inhabitants with the greatest courtesy. They 
then drove down the Long Walk to Virginia Water, where 
they remained for upwards of an hour, and returned to 
town in the evening. 
The Fate of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly.—On 
Thursday a public meeting was held at the Crown and 
nehor Tavern, for the purpose of opening a subscription 
to enable Dr. Wolff to proceed to Bokhara, in order to 
ascertain the fate of Col, Stoddart and Capt, Conolly, 
and, if still living, to take steps for their deliverance from 
captivity. Capt. Grover presided, supported by about 
100 gentlemen. After referring to the facts already 
noticed in this Paper, and dwelling at some length on the 
narrative of the Persian servant, which we published a 
few weeks back, the chairman said, it was a remarkable 
fact that three months before the statement appeared in 
the papers, the friends of Col. Stoddart had received a 
letter from him, in which he used these words, ‘‘I am in 
high favour with the Ameer, and I pray you not to believe 
any reports of my death that may reach England.” He 
had made strict inquiries at the Foreign Office for the 
purpose of ascertaining whether Government had 
received any official report in confirmation of the state- 
ment, but he found nothing, unless some vague intelli- 
gence to the effect that Col. Stoddart’s head had been cat 
off, that Capt. Conolly was told his life would be spared 
on consenting to become a Mussulman—that he replied, 
‘You have murdered Col. Stoddart—I will die a Chris- 
tian; upon which he was led out and decapitated. 
Beyond that there was no document to be found in the 
Foreign Office that was not a repetition of the Persian’s 
statement, to which he should invite the attention of the 
meeting, believing, as he did, that it was a fabrication 
from first to last. The following resolution was then 
moved by Mr. Buckingham; seconded by Col. Humfrey 
and carried:—That in the uncertainty which exists 
respecting the lives of Col. Stoddart and Capt: Conolly, 
it is desirable to ascertain the real facts of the case. The 
second resolution was moved by Mr. Walker, President 
of the Institute of Civil Engineers; and seconded by 
Dr. Burnes, brother of the late Sir A. Burnes :—That a 
Committee be formed, to communicate with the British 
Government on this subject, to send out immediately the 
Rev. Dr. Wolff to Bokhara, and to take such measures as 
may be necessary. This having been likewise carried, Capt. 
Downes, R.N., Lieut. Raper, R.N., Mr. Buckingham, 
