by the Chairman. The association had placed upon the whole of the extensive district held in trust for them, comprising considerably more than 2,000,000 acres, the price of 31. an acre. This price, much higher than in our other colonies, arose from the distribution of certain proportions of it. One-sixth, or 10s., was to go to the New Zealand Company as the actual price of the land; another sixth was to be applied to the general expenses of the association in this country and in the colony; onethird, or 1., was to be applied to promote emigration, in order to meet the demand for labour; and the remaining 17. was to be devoted to the leading and cardinal feature of the undertaking--the provision, from the very beginning of the colony, of religious and educational establishments. An unexpected incident varied the proceedings with a little opposition. Mr. Sidney, the well-known writer on colonisation, rose in the body of the meeting, and entered a general protest against the Wakefield principles of colonisation-adopted by the founders of the Canterbury settlement, and avowed by the Bishop of Norwich and other speakers.

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There was some desire to hear Mr. Sidney, he was had up to the platform, and there finished his speech. This debating episode called forth the mover of the next resolution, the Bishop of Oxford, in a vivacious reply. Resolutions in furtherance of the Canterbury scheme were passed unanimously.

At present there is a great amount of Emigration from Ireland, chiefly of the middle class. The numbers of people who crowd the quays of Galway, securing passages across the Atlantic, are described by the Galway Vindicator, as exhibiting in their appearance "a degree of comfort and independence hitherto unknown among emigrants." Four hundred emigrants, chiefly of this class, sailed from that port in one week; and four more vessels, for different parts of America, were rapidly filling with passengers. The same state of things exists in Limerick. Since January last, upwards of 5000 persons had left that city to take shipping at Liverpool, besides the multitude sailing directly from the Shannon for America.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

UROPEAN history would have consigned the present month to oblivion but for his Holiness the Pope. April would have shared the collapse into which public affairs have been gradually subsiding from the throes of 1848, had not Pio Nono-after nearly a year of procrastination, protestation, and negotiation-actually entered Rome; which he did on the 12th.

In other parts of the Continent little of political or social interest has actually occurred, although no one can look on the condition of our nearest neighbour, France, without apprehension. Trade and manufactures are reviving, in consequence of a healthy return from credit and bills to ready-money dealing, but the wide-spread distress of the agricultural population, and the equally expansive dissemination of Socialist principles, offer no hopeful prospect, even for an early future. The vivacity with which large sections of the people change from one opinion to another, is an element in their political condition which defies calculation and baffles the subtlest foresight. Reason and principle are less their guides than accident and passion. Of this our present Narrative presents two examples:-In one case the President regained, in a day, some of his lost popularity by showing a prompt sympathy with the survivors of a fearful catastrophe; and in the other, a sentimental appeal to the passions of the Paris constituency will perhaps be effectual in rescuing one of its seats in the Assembly from being occupied by a Socialist. In opposition to M. Eugene Sue, the novelist-stood, on the side of order, a candidate of respectability and talent. But, this advocate of mere moderation made no way against his opponent; and would inevitably have lost the election, had not his friends made a dash for something more dazzling. They snatched a new candidate from comparative obscurity-a man who, at the barricades of February, having had one son killed by his side, went home for another, with whom he finished the fight. This gentleman was received with acclamation; and solely on account of his single act of Romanesque hardihood-not on the ground of senatorial fitness-may succeed; happily, but accidentally, on the side of order.

"German unity" is being attempted in the parliament of Erfurt with that slow elaboration of details for which Germans are celebrated. While the upper and lower, houses are nibbling at the minutiae of the revised Imperial Constitution, Prussia and Austria are, by a succession of comprehensive intrigues, making the measure more and more difficult of attainment.

The calm current of events on the shores of the tideless Mediterranean, which has recently been ruffled by the Græco-Britannic "difficulty," promises to resume its tranquil flow. French mediation is said to have smoothed the way for adjustment, but M. Pacifico's bill is to be very severely taxed before it is paid. On the opposite shore, the shrewd Pacha of Egypt-foreseeing, perhaps, the remote possibility of the junction of the Red Sea with the Gulph of Gaza by means of a ship canal, and the consequent diversion of the great Indian transit from the heart of his dominions-has projected several improvements in the route from Alexandria to Sucz.

The Indian Mail announces to us the appearance of a new Morning Newspaper in the capital of the Celestial Empire. Its advent took place on the first day of the new year. It is called the Pekin Monitor, and, though a government organ, is not, like the Pekin Gazette, wholly filled with imperial mandates. The first number contains a significant sign of the times, in a stringent antidote to the Californian gold fever, which-as has been already learned by the influx of Chinese into St. Francisco-raged hotly in the 66 Middle Kingdom." It is an ordinance of the Emperor Toa-Kouang forbidding emigration either to California or Costa Rica.

"Vive la Républic Démocratique et Sociale!" This cry has gained utterance from a larger number of voices, and over a greater extent of France, than it obtained even in the time of the National Workshops. The recent elections for Paris, so decidedly favouring the socialist cause, contributed to this; and the flan. has been fanned by the excitement of a new election. M. Vidal having been returned for two places, Paris and the lower Rhine, and he elected to sit for the latter.

Symptoms of commotion induced the government to a despotic measure:-On Sunday the 1st, there was a General Expulsion from Paris of Vagrants; that is to say, unemployed workmen-native and foreign, returned convicts and mendicants. All the preliminary measures for the execution of this order had been taken by the police with the closest secrecy, and they performed their mission with a skill and completeness which only such a political police as that of Paris can manage. The scat

tering of thousands of the poor and discontented over the country, is an effectual sending out of missionaries to preach the cause of disorder where comparative peace now reigns.

ming, saved a great many lives. One of the soldiers, who had reached the shore unhurt, immediately stripped, and swam to the assistance of his comrades, The lieutenant-colonel, an old officer of the empire, was taken out of the river seriously wounded, but remained to watch over the rescue of his comrades. It appears that some people of the town were walking on the bridge at the time of the accident, for among the bodies found were those of a servant-maid and two children.

The sovereign people of the head-quarters of riot, the Faubourg St. Antoine, were not long in resenting this insult to those, many of whom they reckoned as friends. On the day following (Easter Monday) the concurrence of a ginger-bread fair at the Barrier du Trône in the above faubourg, and a grand military review by the The following letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel of President at Vincennes, brought out a vast concourse of the regiment gives a short but affecting account of the holiday-makers. The President was Insulted in return- disaster. It is curious that the same officer (Col. Simoing from the review while passing through the barrier.net) should have survived the terrible catastrophe which A multitude surrounded his carriage-an open one; occurred at the battle of Leipsic, when Poniatowski and shook their fists in his face, and assailed him tumultu- so many others were drowned in the Elster:-" Before ously with the last new popular interjection, to which entering the faubourg of Angers, an aide-de-camp of they were pleased to add, A bas le tyran!" Prince General Duzer came to me with an order to enter the Louis Napoleon was not in the least ruffled either by town by the suspension-bridge, and to draw up my men anger or fear. His escort compelled the mob to fall on the Place d'Académie, where he proposed to review back, and he proceeded on his way without further them. I had scarcely resumed my march by column in annoyance. General Changarnier, who preceded, had sections, when the weather, which had been before very had a foretaste of this reception, and very likely to his fine, suddenly changed to a perfect tempest,-a furious spirited conduct may be attributed the easy manner in wind and pouring rain. It was then half-past 11. It which the President was let off. When the shouting was under these gloomy auspices that I entered on the crowd gathered about him, he drew up his horse, and fatal bridge, after having stopped the band, and broken turned upon and menaced them with such stern deter- the regularity of the step, as is usual in such cases. The mination, that they instantly fell back. Among them wind was so high that the floor of the bridge rose and was a drunken soldier who neglected to salute him; fell from it so much that I had difficulty in keeping my Changarnier rode up to the fellow, removed his shako seat on my horse. Scarcely had the section of the with the point of his sword, and then moved slowly on, advanced guard, the pioneers, and the greater part of amidst the applause of those who had previously hooted the band, reached the opposite bank of the river, when him. suddenly a horrible crash was heard, and the floor of the bridge gave way under our feet. With the exception of the head of the column and the two rear sections, all the rest of the battalion followed the movement of the floor of the bridge, and fell into the water. Ah, General, what a spectacle! Never was there a more heartrending one. My poor mare turned over, left me in the water, and then suddenly rising nearly crushed me. I rose and endeavoured to catch her, but Captain Des marest, my adjutant-major, who was marching behind me, and to whom I owe my life at this moment, seizing me by the arm, drew me forcibly to the left side of the bridge (the water was then up to my armpits); then, when one of the inhabitants, an old soldier, received me in his arms in a fainting state. Thence I got into a washerwoman's boat, and then gained the shore. I was saved, but too earnestly occupied with the fate of my children, my friends, and my comrades, to think of accepting the assistance which was eagerly offered me by the inhabitants and the officers of the garrison."

Many indications showed a disposition among the army to support the socialist party not only in Paris but in the provinces. There was a Mutiny in the 11th Infantry. On the march of the 2nd battalion from Rennes to Toulon, on the 11th, the popular cry was raised by the common soldiers, urged on by the democrats of the town, and they insulted their officers. At Angers the men were entertained at a fête; and in the evening the soldiers and subaltern officers, accompanied by their entertainers, paraded the streets shouting again and again "Vive la République démocratique et sociale!" The Minister of War, on receiving intelligence of this affair, ordered the battalion to be disbanded, and the sub-assisted by some soldiers, I was lifted into a small boat, alterns and soldiers drafted into the regiments at Algiers.

Besides this disgrace, an involuntary and Appalling Calamity befel this regiment. When the 3rd battalion was leaving Angers, on the 16th, at eleven o'clock in the morning they met a squadron of hussars coming from Nantes, which crossed over the suspensionbridge of the Basse Maine, without any accident. A fearful storm raged at the time. The last of the horses had scarcely crossed the bridge than the head of the column of the third battalion of the 11th appeared on the other side. Reiterated warnings were given to the troops to break into sections, as is usually done, but the rain falling heavily it was disregarded, and they advanced in close column. The head of the battalion had reached the opposite side, the pioneers, the drummers, and a part of the band were off the bridge, when a horrible crash was heard; the cast-iron column of the right bank suddenly gave way, crushing beneath them the rear of the fourth company, which, with the flank company, had not stepped upon the bridge. To describe the frightful spectacle, and the cries of despair which were raised, is impossible. The whole town rushed to the spot to give assistance. In spite of the storm, all the boats that could be got at were launched to pick up the soldiers in the river, and a great number who were clinging to the parapets of the bridge, or who were afloat by their knapsacks, were immediately got out. The greater number were, however, found to be wounded by the bayonets, or by the fragments of the bridge falling on them. As the soldiers were got out, they were led into the houses adjoining, and every assistance given. A young lieutenant, M. Loup, rendered himself conspicuous for his heroic exertions; and a young workwoman, at the imminent danger of her life, jumped into the water, and saved the life of an officer who was just sinking. A journeyman hatter stripped and jumped into the river, and, by his strength and skill in swim

When the muster-roll was called, it was found that there were 219 soldiers missing, whose fate was unknown. There were, besides, 33 bodies lying in the hospital, and 30 wounded men; 70 more bodies were found during the morning, 4 of whom were officers. The President of the Republic set out for Angers, to see the extent of the disaster. He arrived on Thursday night (18th). The list of the dead was at his request given to him. He passed the whole morning in visiting the hospital where the wounded are taken care of. He was accompanied by the Minister of War and the general officer commanding the department of the Maine and Loire. The orderly officers of the President also visited the private houses where the wounded took refuge. The greatest attentions were paid to the unfortunate survivors. The kindly feeling shown by the Prince produced the best effect.

The funeral of the victims took place on the 19th. 182 corpses were buried, and followed by an immense population. All the shops were closed, and the town wore an appearance of deep sorrow. The usual military honours were paid as the dead were laid in their graves The prompt sympathy shown by Louis Napoleon for the survivors of this great fatality help materially to regain that popularity he was fast losing. return to Paris he was well received. On the other hand, the disaster was basely taken hold of to damage the government.

On his

M. Proudhon was arrested on the 18th, and sent to the fortress of Doullens, for having charged the ministry in his own paper, the "Voix du Peuple," with having occasioned the disaster of Angers by sending the 11th

Regiment of Light Infantry to Africa. In a letter from prison he acquitted the government of design in producing the catastrophe, but in a tone which hinted the possibility of so diabolical a crime having been meditated.

On Sunday evening, the 21st, a considerable sensation was created on the Boulevards by the measures taken by the Prefect of Police to prevent the sale of the Evéne ment and the Estafette, evening papers. All newsvendors found in possession of either of these papers, and not being the possessors of shops, had their papers seized, and were themselves conducted to prison. The sergens de ville examined every news' stall in the Boulevards, and wherever they found copies of the proscribed papers they seized them, demolished the stall, and conducted the proprietor to the Prefecture of Police. The only apparent ground for these proceedings is, that the papers in question oppose the government. The Evénement is edited by M. Victor Hugo and his son.

A Notorious Murderer has been arrested in France, whose mysterious and criminal career would afford the materials for a romance. He was taken at Ivry, in virtue of a writ granted by the President, on the demand of the Sardinian government, having been condemned for a murder under extraordinary circumstances. He was arrested in 1830, at Chambery, his native town, for being concerned in a murder; but he escaped from the prison of Bonneville, where he was confined, and by means of a disguise succeeded in reaching the town of Chene Tonnex, where he went to an inn which was full of travellers. There being no vacant beds, the innkeeper allowed him to sleep in a room with a cattle-dealer, named Claude Duret. The unfortunate cattle-dealer was found dead in the morning, he having been smothered with the mattress on which he had slept. He had a large sum of money with him, which was stolen, and this, as well as his papers, had, no doubt, been taken by Louis Pellet, who had disappeared. Judicial inquiries ensued, and the result was that Louis Pellet, already known to have committed a murder, was condemned, par contumace, to ten years' imprisonment at the galleys by the senate of Chambery. In the mean time Louis Pellet, profiting by the papers of the unfortunate Claude Duret, contrived to reach Paris, when he opened a shop, where he organised a foreign legion for Algeria, enrolled himself under the name of his victim, and sailed for Oran in a government vessel. From this time up to 1834 all trace of him was lost. He came to Paris, took a house, amassed a large sum of money, and it turns out he was mixed up with a number of cases of murder, swindling, and forgery. These facts came to the know. ledge of the police, owing to Pellet having been taken before the Correctional Police for a trifling offence, when he appealed against the punishment of confinement for five days. The French government immediately sent an account of the arrest of this great criminal to the consul of the government of Savoy resident at Paris.

generously subscribed money on his behalf, and transmitted it to him in this country. Those individuals have received intimation from the government, that they must henceforth discontinue such acts of benevolence, or they will be proceeded with "for aiding and assisting illegal associations for treasonable purposes."

At last the Pope has returned to Rome. His Holiness arrived on the 12th; on the day previous, thousands of people from the surrounding country were assembled in the streets, shouting "Pio Nono!" with the utmost excitement. As the Pope moved along he dispensed his blessing to the right and to the left. It was four o'clock when he entered Rome. The French and Papal troops were drawn up on the Piazza Lateranense, and presented arms, while the salutes from the French artillery and the guns of Castel St. Angelo rent the air, mingling with the solemn sound of the bells. Cardinal Barberini, arch-priest of the Basilica of Lateran, received the Pope at the head of his chapter, while the provisional municipal commission presented to him the keys of the Eternal City. On alighting from his carriage, his Holiness was received by the cardinals of the Commission of State, and by the Cardinal Vicar, preceded by all the secular and regular clergy of the capital. At the vestibule he received the homage of the diplomatic body. He then received the holy benediction in the church, which he afterwards left, and returned to his carriage. The procession then went to the basilica of the Vatican by the Strada San Giovanni, the Amphitheatre of Flavius, the Arco di Pantani, the Piazza Traiana, Piazzo degli Apostoli, and Strada Papale. As his Holiness approached the steps of St. Peter the sky suddenly overcast and some drops of rain fell. A crimson umbrella was raised over his head, and Cardinal Mattei, the archpriest of St. Peter's, at the head of his canons, accompanied him up the steps, at the top of which the pavement was covered with camelias and other choice flowers tastefully arranged. His Holiness hesitated to tread upon this brilliant carpet, but at length moved forward; and the surrounding prelates and grandees hastened to pick up each a flower, as a relic sanctified by the Pontiff's feet, the moment he had passed over them. On entering the church the Pope was received by the sacred college of cardinals, the papal choir sang St. Augustin's Prayer, and subsequently the Ambrosian Hymn, with the responses of the congregation. His Holiness then received the blessing of the Holy Sacrament, witnessed the exhibition of the four principal relics, kissed the bronze foot of St. Peter's statue, and eluded the mass of people who were waiting for him at the gate of the Capella del St. Sagramento by passing through the small door of the Capella della Madonna, and so entering the Vatican palace, accompanied by the Sacred Colleges and the corps diplomatique. In the evening, the cupola of St. Peter's, the Capitol, the Strada di Borgo Nuovo, the Monte Pincio, the Piazza del Popolo and the Via Condotti were illuminated. In the streets much eager curiosity was exhi bited, but little enthusiasm; the multitude seemed more occupied in gazing on the pageant than in thinking of the circumstances which had given rise to it. Handkerchiefs in abundance were waved by ladies at the windows; but the cheers of the people in the streets were only occasional and partial. Within the walls of St. Peter's, however, the scene became highly impressive. When his Holiness stood in that sublime edifice, the assembled thousands appeared truly impressed with the grandeur of the scene. The word of command given to the troops rang through the immense building, then the crash of arms, and every man knelt for some moments amid a breathless silence, only broken by the drums, which rolled at intervals. The illumination which followed was very beautiful, not from the brilliancy of the lights, but from its being so universal. St. Peter's was but partially lighted; but as the wind played among the lamps, and the flames flickered and brightened in the The arrivals from Lisbon were to the 14th. Count breeze, the effect from the Pincian was singularly graceThomar has been defeated in his Project of Crippling ful. The Campodoglio, that centre of triumph, was the Press, it having been rejected in the upper cham- in a blaze of glory, and the statues of the mighty of old ber, but new peers are to be made to force the measure stood darkly and solemnly forth in the sea of light. But through the house. For some time past Don Miguel has been dependent, in a great measure, upon a few of his partisans in Portugal for his support, who have

"German Unity" is as far from being cemented as it was when first so enthusiastically broached by the King of Prussia. That monarch, at the end of last month, sent a reply to the collective note of the Kings of Wurtemberg, Bavaria, and Saxony, in which he declares formally that he will never consent to the Austrian monarchy as a collection of states entering the new Germanic union. The parliament of Erfurt is still engaged in revising the details of the imperial constitution.

The only material article of Spanish Intelligence is the restoration of diplomatic relations with England. The first advances were made by General Narvaez, and readily responded to by Lord Palmerston. Notes, containing mutual explanations and expressions of amity, were exchanged; in short, none of the formularies usual on such occasions were omitted.

one by one the lamps died out, the silence and the darkness of the night resumed their sway, and the glory of the day became the history of the past. As the lamps

died out one by one, and the gazing multitudes retired, cated with a privy belonging to Dr. Webster's apartthe stillness and darkness of the night contrasted strik-ments. In a hole which had been made in that wall ingly with the bustle and splendour of this remarkable there were found the thorax and thigh of a human day. No disturbance whatever occurred. An atttempt being, with some pieces of flesh. In the furnace of his was made on the same night to set fire to the Quirinal. laboratory other fragments were found in a partially One of the French sentries on duty, having observed consumed state; and among them the remains of a set some persons busy about the iron grating which commu- of artificial teeth attached to a human jaw. Other nicates with the wood cellars of the palace, advanced to fragments were found in a box concealed under a heap challenge them, upon which they took to flight, leaving of tan bark; a dirk-knife was also found. Dr. Webster some faggots and flasks of turpentine behind them, other was then arrested. On the trial one of the coroners materials of the same nature having already been thrown of the county gave an account of Dr. Webster's appeardown into the cellars below. There would have been ance and conduct after his arrest: he said, "I saw probably no fear of a conflagration taking place, had fire Professor Webster in the gaol, and found him lying been actually set to the wood cellars, as the solid stone on his face, apparently in very great distress. Dr. arches of which the palace foundations are constructed Gay, who was with me, endeavoured to soothe his would effectually resist the fury of the flames. On the feelings, and requested him to get up. The doctor said same night, at about eleven, a momentary alarm was he was unable to get up. He was agitated, and trembled created in the city by the report of a grenade, which more than any man I ever saw before, and exclaimed, exploded in the Vicolo dello Sdrucciolo, a lane behind What will become of my poor family?' He was then the Chigi Palace, breaking all the windows in the neigh-assisted up stairs, for he was nearly helpless. Somebody bourhood, but injuring no individual. On the day offered him water, but he was so agitated he could not following, the Pope was engaged in receiving a variety of drink-he passed the glass from him, and spilt some on deputations. Rome was illuminated three nights in his clothes." The dentist who made Dr. Parkman's succession. The Swiss guards at the gates of the Vatican artificial teeth proved those found in the college to have received strict orders to subject all persons seeking been his. Another witness recognised the dirk-knife admission to a severe scrutiny. Other precautions have as the property of Dr. Webster, and said that fresh oil been taken to insure the safety of his Holiness, the and whiting were on it, as if an attempt had been made kitchen department forming an especial point of surveil- to clean it. A number of witnesses, examined respecting lance. A new cook has been appointed, and all commu- the pecuniary transactions of the parties, proved that nication with outer persons and objects has been carefully Dr. Webster was considerably indebted to Parkman, who cut off by bars, gratings, and a ruota or wheel, through had been pressing for payment. Dr. Parkman's brother which the viands are revolved into the Papal kitchen. gave an account of an interview with Dr. Webster, who On Thursday, the 18th, his Holiness was to go through had called upon him while the search for Dr. Parkman the ceremony of giving the Papal benediction to the was going on, to state that he had seen the deceased on French army. General Baraguay d'Hilliers was to leave the Friday, the day of his disappearance, by appointment, Rome for France on the 25th. and had paid him money. But such accounts were given, by bankers and others, of Webster's circumstances and recent pecuniary transactions, as made it next to impossible that this assertion could be true.

The advices from Athens represent the adjustment of the claims of this country on the Greek Government as still in progress. All the claims, it is said, will be recognised except that of M. Pacifico's, which are objected to as exorbitant. This, to some extent, has been admitted by Mr. Wyse; and, if any indemnity is granted to M. Pacifico, it is expected to be a small one. The interruption to trade occasioned by the blockade of the ports is said to have reduced the country to great distress.

There are accounts from Egypt to the 6th. The Pacha, who had been residing at his new palace in the Desert, had returned to Cairo. The proximity of his residence has drawn his attention to the Improvement of the Overland Route; and he has said that means must be adopted to reduce the period of travelling between the ships in the Mediterranean and Red Sea to 60 or 65 hours, instead of 80 or 85 hours. He has sent a small landing steamer to ply in Suez harbour; and he is causing the work of Macadamising the Desert road to be proceeded with vigorously. An agreement has been made with contractors to enlarge the stationhouses on the Desert, so as to admit of the necessary stabling accommodation for eight or ten relays of horses, instead of four or five, by which means fifty or sixty persons will be moved across in one train, instead of, as at present, half that number. Mules again are to be substituted for baggage camels in the transport of the Indian luggage and cargoes, with the view to a reduction of the time consumed in this operation between Suez and Cairo, from 36 to 24 hours. It is easy to perceive the benefits which will be derived from these

measures.

The intelligence which this month has produced from the AMERICAN CONTINENT is more varied than startling. The United States journals are copiously occupied with reports of the trial at Boston of Professor Webster for the Murder of Dr. Parkman. It lasted twelve days. The annals of crime present few more remarkable cases. On the 23rd of November last, Dr. Parkman, a professor in the college at Boston, disappeared unaccountably. After some days rewards were advertised for his discovery, and suspicion began to be directed to one of his fellow-professors, Dr. Webster, and a search was made in the college buildings. The janitor was directed to break through a partition-wall into a vault which communi

For the defence a number of witnesses were examined as to the prisoner's character, and to shake the evidence for the prosecution. The jury, after three hours' deliberation, found him guilty; and the judge pronounced sentence of death. "The effect of the sentence," says the New York Herald, "on the prisoner was overwhelming. He sank to his seat, and for a few moments wept in agony. The scene was one of awful solemnity."

A remarkable but not sufficiently authenticated story, which did not come out on the trial, is mentioned in the American papers. Dr. Webster was seen by a medical student in the act of perpetrating the murder. The young man, it is said, was returning to the lecture-room for his over-shoes, and found the door locked. He then went down through the basement into the lower laboratory, and passed upstairs to enter the lecture-room by Dr. Webster's private door. As he got into the upper laboratory, he saw Dr. Webster standing over the corpse of Parkman. Either by entreaty or threats, the student was induced to take a solemn oath not to divulge what he had seen, and the next day he left for Boston. A short time since he was taken with brain fever, and in his delirium raved about the mysterious murder. He called for a clergyman, and asked him if he was bound to keep such an oath as he described. The result was, that he divulged all to the minister, who came to Boston and informed the government, but it was too late to use the evidence. The name of the medical student is said to be Hodges. He belongs to Bridgewater, and is the son

of a minister.

No event of grave political import is recorded in the month's advices from the States except the Death of Mr. Calhoun one of the greatest of the American Statesmen. He died at Washington on the morning of Sunday the 31st of March. During the funeral solemnities the offices of all the public departments were closed, and, as well as the President's Mansion, hung with black. His remains were deposited in the cemetery of Congress. He was of Irish extraction, and was born in North Carolina, in 1782. In 1811 he was admitted to the bar of South Carolina, and became a member of the Legislature of that State, and then of Congress, where he soon distinguished himself. He became Secretary at War in 1817, and Vice-President in 1825. He entered the Senate