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FRANCE.—President Bonaparte has made a stand against the Changer- nier influence ; and consequently Paris considers itself in somewhat of a new crisis.

Another article from the pen of Dr. Veron, in the Constitutiontul, had supplied what was deemed the political sequel to his former one on the topic of "General Changarnier" ; seeming to offer President Bonaparte's unconditional surrender to the Moderates in the Assembly, in return for their patronage of the desired prolongation of his term of office for ten year's. But the inferences generally drawn from the appearance of this article were erroneous. One of General Changarnier's most intimate personal friends, and the one military adherent on whom it is said that he abso- lutely relies, is General Neumayer, till now the Commandant of the First Military Division (Paris) : it was one of the plans of the late Minister of War, General d'Ilautpoul, to remove General Neumayer from this com- mand, and give him an equal one less immediately in cooperation with that which General Changarnier holds under the Assembly. President Bonaparte, when yielding last week a change in the War Ministry, ad- hered to this portion of the late Minister's reforming organization ; and he intimated his intention to General Neumayer at a dinner to which he invited him. General Changarnier is reported to have resented the change, as a blow levied at himself personally : he went to the- Elysee, and remonstrated with the President, in terms .scareely . consistent with their relative position—" demanding" to ..know-the reasons of • the .measure. The President replied with cool- ness—" I am in my right," and would vouchsafe no other explanation. The Permanent Committee of the Assembly was summoned, and General Changamier there renewed his protestations. But nothing seems to have turned the President from • his resolve : : the Honiteur has formally an- nounced General Neumayer's removal from the First Military Division, and the transfer to it of General Carrelet, from the Seventh Division. -General Neumayer, however, has gained by the change ; for the same Meniteur contains the decree of his appointment to the command of the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Divisions conjointly. This personal con- sideration of General Changarnier's protégé will perhaps facilitate a re- conciliation with the President.

Gzamaxv.---The constitutional dispute in insignificant Hesse-Cassel, threatens immediately to embroil all Germany, and in the end, probably,

• the greater part of Europe. The political crisis in the Electorate has been - suspended, and the control of its solution is removed to the cabinets of the leading Northern Powers. There has been protocolling between Prussia and Austria—the. primary parties in the appeal cause, the offer of advice by England and France, and the interposition of re- presentations by Russia : but these means seeming nowise to check a hazardous development of events,. the Czar of. Russia has invited the intending belligerents to meet him at Warsaw ; where the Empress has lately been holding her -residence, and where the Autocrat himself • has been heaping -honours- on I'rince Paskiewicz, in the presence of a vast array of Imperial armies. The Emperor of Austria arrived at Warsaw on the 25th October, and Prince Charles of Prussia on the day after ; each accompanied by the leading negotiators of his cabinet, Schwarzenberg and Bmndenberg, with the usual attendance of minor diplomatists. Serious business has already commenced, and we are in- structed to hope that the supreme counsels of the great Northern arbiter will prevent the actual war which at the beginning of the week the Times said had already commenced, and which later accounts show to be at least most dangerously imminent.

To understand the military position of the parties, wo must recall the • aphical features of the country in question.. The general shape of ectoral Hesse is that of a crescent, having one of its capital towns, ' Cared, near its Northern -limb, and the other capital town, Ilanau, near its Southern' limb : from Cassel the crescent drops Southward to Hanau, and then sweeps Westward till it comes to the edge of the municipal ter- ritory of Frankfort. The North-western limb is bulged on its inner 'side; and thus a large portion of the Electoral territory is thrown West- - ward so far that the whole area of Hesse-Darmstadt is included in the concave of its crescent ; and again, in the North-west, the small state of Waldeck honeycombs its frontier. Prussia-lies behind Waldeck and Darmstadt; she occupies those states ; • 'and she is thus introduced into the very heart of the Electoral territory. On the side opposite to Darmstadt, the Eastern, Prussia again has occu- pation of Meiningen -and of Gotha; and immediately behind them is her, own province of Ducal Saxony. Lastly, by treaty, Prussia has the right to pass troops through the Electorate by three routes ; one of these routes is across the centre of tho state, and cuts any military arrangement extending from • Cassel to .Ilanau exactly in the centre : this route Prussia is at present daily -using : her troops pass so continuously that • they practically occupy the country which they traverse. The two ex- tremes of the Prussian lines are Erfurt in Ducal Saxony on the East, and the famed fortress of Coblentz on the Rhine in the West ; there is a great military depot at Minden on the North-west of this line ; and in addition, there is railway communication uniting them by a.parallel Northern route. Such is the Prussian position. As to forces, it is stated that Prussia now has 80,000 troops so massed that they can be thrown on the single point of Cassel in two days. . Against Prussia are now marshalled Bavaria and Austria. The fron- tier of Bavaria is conterminous with that of the Electorate at its South- 'eastern convexity : but Bavarian access to the Electoral territory is much threatened in a military point of view ; for Bavaria herself is commanded - from the North by Prussian Saxony, and from the South by some 15,000 ' Prussian troops who continue to occupy Baden. The forces of Austria, however, are pouring down through the Tyrol, to replace those of Ba- varia, as the latter are crowding on the South-eastern edge of Baden ; and it is stated that an army of 150,000 troops will, in the last resort, be united by the two powers to contend with Prussia. The Bavarians were to have entered the Electorate on the 23d of October, and at the begin- ning of this week it was reported that they had done so ; but the report was premature ; and now it seems probable that steps so critical as this will be suspended, waiting the issues of the assembled conference at Warsaw. Shortly before the Emperor of Austria's visit to Bregenz, the report was current that his Majesty had demanded the Princess Sidonia, niece of the King of Saxony, in marriage. The local papers now state the nego- tiations for the alliance have been concluded. The Princess is sixteen years of ago.

Sener.swio-Hoiscreix.--The Prussian Government has at last taken a decisive step towards closing the struggle between the Schleswig-Holstein Regency at Kid and their King-Duke at Copenhagen. The Daily News of yesterday ?ublished a copy of a despatch from M. Von Radowitz, Prussian Minister, to the Regency at Kiel, dated Berlin, 23d October, and borne to the Regency by Major-General Von Hahn ; wherein he ad-

- dresses the "earnest and friendly counsel" to the Regency, which a re- gard for their welfare "imperatively demands." The position of his Prussian Majesty's Government, since the treaty of the 2d July, would not have been misunderstood by the Regency: 'the

• Prussian Government have been "obliged to wait" till the Germanic Con- federation should have ratified the treaty. "This has now been done by almost all the.members of the Confederation; so that the treaty may be con- sidered as ratified by the Confederation." The Regency "will not conceal from itself the respect which it, as au institution constituted in the name of the Confederation, owes to the authority now represented by the aggregate Governments." This-aggregate of the Governments, or in other words the Confederation itself, has, by the ratification of the treaty of July 2, not,only reestablished the peace with Denmark, but declared that the decision of- the Holstein affair now rests with the Confederation. There can be no doubt

' that his Majesty the King of Denmark will fulfil the stipulations of the " fourth article; and there is equally- little doubt that the treaty having been ratified, the Confederation will act in conformity to these stipulations, and • that for this purpose the Confederation must find a competent organ.

-"Prussia,-heldiniitto be the duty of every member Of the Confederation to cooperate in the appointment of such an organ. had offered its assistance. To this end, it has addressed both 'to Vienmtandtenhagen the proposal to appoint a special commission of all the 'German vernments, and awaits the answers of these Governments.. But in whatever manner or whatever form the treatment of this affair in conformity with the principles of-the Confederation may be brought about, this is certain, that 'it must be decided by-the Confederation, and that the moment for decidingit is not far distant. It is unquestionably the duty of all members of the Confederation to submit to its decision as soon as it 'is announced by a cortipetent organ authorized by all the Government& Respect. for this decision, which may be expected immediately, and fbr the determination of all- the members of the Confede- ration in favour. of peace; eught of itself to be suffieie'nt to'enforce theavoid- ance of bleodshed, which becomes useless so soon as the decision of the whole ailbir is to be arrived at by other means than arms: Since the Confedera- tion has undertaken the settlement of the controversy,' the Regency-may rest assured that every right appertaining to the Confederation or any of its members will be' fully protected and cared for by an-organ that represents the aggregate of the Germanic Confederation. ,The Regency will therefore see what a heavy responsibility it will draw upon itself by continuing the . war, when a fortunate or an unfortunate result of an appeal to •arms can contribute equally little to the final decision of the controversy.. Ilis.Ma- jesty's Government confidently trusts that the Regency will not relinquish its object of coming to a. right understanding with its Sovereign, and will see that the restoration of-peace is a necessary prerequisite of such an ander- standing.

"These considerations for. the real' interest of the Dunhies•have induced his Majesty's Government tmexpress the following desires to the Regency- " 1. That-out of respect for the actual position of affairs, and the ratification of the peace, it will abstain -from all aggressive operations. 2. That it will declare its readiness to agree-to an armistice, under conditions to be hereafter specified in detail.

"His Majesty's Government, animated by a lively wish to-put an-end-as soon as possible to those lamentable hostilities, hereby offers its mediation. Major-General Von Ilahn is therefore authorized, in the event of the Re- gency being ready to accept of his offer—which his Majesty's Government cannot doubt will be the case—to proceed immediately to the Danish head- quarters, and make overtures to the General in command there. With a view to -accelerate arrangements as much as feasible, his Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen will be instructed to make a simultaneous application there for an armistice, and to urge the Danish Government to empower their Com- mander-in-chief to conclude an armistice ou equitable terms."

HAzeovea.—The Hanover Gazette of the 28th•October 'contains a-royal decree accepting the resignation of Baron Stiives Ministry, and appoint- ing a. Ministry 'under the presidency of Brume Munchhausen. The. de- cree -announces, that the resignation of the retiring Ministry has been reluctantly accepted ; that all the late Ministers have been appointed members of the Council of State • and that in the selection of new Mi- nisters the King's subjects will-find "a pledge" that it is "not his in- tention materially to change the line of policy folleeked during the:office of the retiring Ministry." The new Cabinet-is thus composed— "Baron Von Munchhausen, President of the Council arid Minister 'o-f Fo- reign Affairs. Dr. Lindemann- (first Burgomaster), Minister of the Interior. M. Von Flossing, Minister of Justice.' Major-General Jacobi; Minister of War. Dr. Meyer, Minister of Public Instruction. Dr. Ifindeivann is intrusted, pro tem., with,thepeatfolio of Finances."

INDIA.—Anticipatory -despatches from the overland- mail arrive& in London yesterday, with news from Bombay to the 3d October. "Nothing

of political importance has occurred in India." The court-martial on the -officers concerned in-the Banda dud had terminated : all the officers con- cerned—Lieutenants Litchford and Huxham as principals, and Ensigns

White and Smith as seconds•—were sentenced to be cashiered the sen- tence was ratified by Sir Charles-Napier as regards Litehford, White, •and Smith, -because they had- acted in breach of their arrest; but Huicham had been pardoned.

UNITED STATES. —The latest accounts from New York are• dated the -17th October.

The excitement caused by the proceedings of the Southern slaveowners under the Fugitive Slave Bill was increasing in seriousness, and extending over the whole North. The New York correspondent of the Morning Chronicle thus reports what he saw- " I saw a dreadful riot in the Sixth Ward, on Saturday night, [the 12th October0 between Negroes who quarrelled as to the merits and demerits of the bill. " A native of the Sandwich Islands seized a bedpost and slew three victims."

"On Sunday. night, I-witnessed a serious riot in the 'lower part of South Camden, opposite to Philadelphia. Some constables from Pine• Grove were conveying a Negro to Camden gaol, on a charge of stealing a featherrbed and thirty bushels of potatoes; and when they arrived at South Camden hetalled out; near a Negro Methodist church, which was crowded—' I'm - kidnapped ! I'm kidnapped ! Rescue !' In a few moments the waggon was surrounded, the.harness cut, the constables and those who were called to their assistance severely beaten, and the prisoner rescued. The riot was not quelled, until Sheriff Pilfer, Mayor Sexton, and Marshal Potts appeared on the ground with a posse. Six prisoners were taken, but the man charged as a thief escaped. Such are the scenes now continually occurring in different parts of• the countrs-. The fugitive slaves and many other Coloured persons are constantly armed."

"At Buffalo last week," continues the same reporter, "a man, supposed to be a kidnapper, met a Negro woman in the street, and asked her many questions,-evidently in relation to her freedom... She drew a revolver and threatened to shoot him, and he walked away."

A telegraphic despatch, dated Detroit, October 12; says-

" The slave excitement continues. The gaol is well guarded by our mili- tary, who are mnder regular army diselipine. The Negroes around the city are uttering awful threats. At Sandwich, in Canada, opposite Detroit. there are, at the least calculation, three hundred Negroes, who lately crossed the river ; and it is dangerous for a citizen from here to be seen among them. The house of an Irishman, who informed of a Negro fugitive now in gaol, was attacked last night ; and guns and• pistols were fired by both the as- sailants and those inside, and'some blood-was shed. In Boston, under the prompting of Frederick Douglas, the Coloured population took the unaggressive but perhaps more effectual course, at a publiconeeting, of craving, as a feeble minority, the generous protection of the Whites.' Douglas is reported to have addressed the meeting tothis effect— He was not present for the purpose of advocating the principles of Aboli- tionism, but to appeal to the citizens of Boston as humane men, as men of some refinement of feeling, as men of civilization, in behalf of a suffering people. The .passage of the Fugitive Slave law had created great alarm, not only in, this city, but in all places at the North, and particularly in places at :the Went, where the Coloured population of many towns were nearly all dagitives, or ea:inflected with fugitives.. •Within the past two days he bad travelled some five hundred miles, and found this feeling of alarm to. exist -,allalong his route, and he.had mg many fugitives who were on their way to 'Canada. Relating instances of the manner in whioh some-slaves had r.effected their escape,: he said, the principal object of the masters, in regain- !dng possession of fugitives, was to gratify a malignant feeling of revenge ; .for every one was wall aware, that any slave who-has once tasted the sweets of freedom, and realized the fact that he is a man, if taken hack. into bond- .. age is far from making a profitable- slave. He narrated the circumstances ;,connected with the e.,cape of a female slave, who is now in New Bedford, -and•put the inquiry, if .the slave hunter from the South should gain posses- sion of her, and, should take her through Boston, would the citizens suffer v.her to be taken, back into the.-house of bondage ? The question was Alis- ttinctly.and decidedly answered in the negative. His own family had been . greatly alarmed recently by the receipt of two telegraphic despatches, to_the :,effect that the hunters were impursuit of his own person: but he stood free; -.not in consequence of the passage of any law, but by the payment of 750 „dollars in British gold to the Democratic slaveholder at St. Michael's, who c•clairned to own his body. Though he had a regularly drawn up bill of .sale . of his own body, yet he sometimes had fears that it might contain some flaw which would render it of no use to him. Upon learning that hunters- were after him, his first thought seas to flee to Canada; -but he .finally. concluded • to remam at home, and receive them like a. man, one at a time. If the -people of. the 'United States are determined to carry out the principles of this ,people

-the Coloured people cannot prevent it. They are at the mercy of the people of-the country. He wished not to deal in the language of -defiance, as they could proclaim no united resistance to the-law. It only remained-for Ahem to continue to suffer. • But he felt authorized to state, that- the Co- ;loured population of Bosten had-resolvedi.. one. and all, that . while they can have no hope of successful resistance to the Fugitive. Bill,,. they will suffer warmth rather than be returned to the bonds of slavery.

The prayer of the- escaped bondsman was granted by the assembled Vo..itizens, with fierce • acclamations and defiances of the Southern man- : stealers.

In like manner, the Coloured-people of the city cf Brooklyn held a meeting in reference to the bill, and an appeal of the people of Colour to the 'Whites of the Free States was unanimously adopted.

. As last week, there is 'still no evidence of an intention in the North to levy war against the South ; nor does there seem to be in the South any 'serious aggravation of the Hullificationsymptoms : but there is no doubt that the whole North is exasperated to the -highest- degree by the acts of the Southern sla-vrowners,:—though those are the very acts which the bill expressly provided for-and facilitated; and there is a probability that ..the measure designed to serve as a fence to the slavery of the South will . accelerate its .extinction : it is thought certain that ultimately the bill ill be 'removed from the statute-book with far greater rapiditythan it was.placed there.. Parties are already -undergoing decomposition, from ,--the fermentation, which it has generated. Some of the-Northern- members of Congress who-voted-for the bill have been ostracized by. their conatitu- , cuts, and they have lost all chance of a renewed election. The rest of the home American news is of-unpolitical tenour. A dis- turbance had occurred at Boston during one of Jenny Lind'w concerts : the arena ,would.contain no more than about half of the enormous multi- -hide that Mr. Barnum's agents had herded together by the attraction of Axed and reduced. prioca,-3 dollars, 2'dollae,.iind 1 dollar, for the differ- :. ent.grades ; and the:mob of the rejected threatened to burst the entrances, eject the more fortunate who lied found room, and wreck the furniture of -the.place. • The police, however, were able to restrain these illegal inten-

.tions.

"Jenny Lind was- exceedingly grieved- and .frightened at-the threatening aspect of affairs, anebburst into tears. She begged that-the crowd might be 'informed from .lier that their money should be -returned to such as were dis- -appointed in hearing-her. Barnum himself - made his appearance, but -was received with a storm of hisses. -He retired, and shortly after left for his . hotel. One gentleman in , the crowd offered '500 dollars to any person-who .‘'would find Barnum and bring-him-within reach of theerowd." -"Barnum's - treasurer was busy all the afternoon {after the -riot) at the Fitchburgh depot- =office, refunding the money to such as find tickets and were unable to hear Jenny sing. It is said that if Barnum hadmotieft town the same mowing he--would have been mobbed."

Advices.from Havannah, to the 8th October,: contain the brief but sig- nificant statement,- that- "-the Governor had , disbanded the volunteers, ' through fear of revolt;- and every preparation had been made to resist a renewed invasion."