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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Court of Assizes, on Friday, commenced the trial of 31 persons, on the charge of having formed a secret association for the deduction of the Republic, and the restoration of the Monarchy of the elder Bourbons. The chief of the society was a person named Adjutor Dubison, who is in flight three of the accused were absent; and, of the 27 others who appeared, 18 bad been admitted to bail. The indictment stated that the authorities, having obtained information of the existence of the society, caused papers to be seized at the residence of persons implicated, at Rouen, Amiens, Paris, Havre, and Caen. In all those places separate societies existed, but it appeared they were all branches of one great association, under one common direc- tion that they communicated with each other by means of let- ters or travellers, and rorresponded with a chief residing abroad. In each town in which a society was established, there were chiefs charged to incorporate as many members as possible, to draw up lists of all the members, and to send those lists to the common chief. According to the zeal displayed by the persons thus enrolling, different grudes corresponding to those in the army were conferred on them, and many of them were paid in proportion. To secure members, money was frequently given. Most of the members were workmen in need of pecuniary assistance. The funds for this purpose were sent from abroad, chiefly from Brussels. In addition to the money actually paid, more was promised regularly in cave of war; tecouipenses of tnooev and places were also offered in the name of the patron, (the Duke de Bordeaux) to those who might distinguish them- selves in any demonstration which might become necessary, and pensions were promised to the families of those who miyht fall. Though the papers seized, lei" nil doubt that the design of the conspirators was the elevation to the litrooe of ::ie Due de Bor. deaux, it did not appear that they had come to an agreement as to the period or mode of acti. n so that the offence 01 '.tie parties accused did not amount to ",bat the Uw riesc ibes as a piot, but simply to that of having formed a secret political society. The proceedings terminated on Saturday, in the coov etiou of MM. Joubin and Riverain, without estenuating circumstances, and of MM. Victor Marie, Prospere de Bremand, Berthoud, and Les- veque-Leveau, wiih esteouating circumstaoces. I hey weie all condemned to six months' imprisonment, and on the two former there was inflicted, in addition, a fine of 100 francs each, and a dipiivation of civil rights for the teim of one jear. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Indepeudance of Brussels has the following from Ham- burgh, dated September 22ad For some days the negotia- tions between Denmark on the one hand, and the Grand Duke d'Oldenburgh and the Great Powers of Europe on the other, to definitively regulate the question of the succession to the throne of Denmark, have been g( io); on actively. If, as everything in- dicates, the present king should persist in his design of resigning, and bis old uncle, Prince Ferdinand, having anoounced the same intentions, it is scarcely doubtful that the crown will devolve to the dynasty of the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh. The chances of Prince Emilius of Hesse, son-in-law of the Emperor Nicholas, to ascend the throne of Denmark, appear at present definitively set aside; but, in the eventuality of the present Grand Duke of Oldenburg being called to occupy the throne, it is probable that Prince Peter of Oldenburg, now a general in the service of Russia, and one of the favourite* of the Emperor, will come as Regeat to rule over that grsnd duchy. Hoitilitien in Schleswig have for some days beeo confined to partial combats at sea be- tween tome gun boats of Holstein and some light vessels of Den- Bark. These encounters have had for result the occupation of the island-of Foehr, by the troops of this latter power. The Gefion frigate, occupied by a Prussian detachment, and stationed in the port of Eckernforde, suffered much in the combats of the 12th. She received several broadsides from the Danish vessels, which were firing on the town to dfive out the Holsteiners. A shell having burst near the powder-magazine, the vessel narrowly escaped being blown up. It appears evident that in the attack, the Danish veisels made great efforts to burn this fioe frigate rather than leave it in the possession of the Germans. It is now known that Colonel La tour du Pin, whom the journals have several times killed, commands the third division of the Danish army, having his head-quarters at Freiedrickstadt, near Ostenfeldt. AMERICA. JENNY LIND IN AMERICA. Philadelphia, SEPT. ll.-Unbounded enthusiasm prevailed in New York on the evening of Jenny Lind's first concert at Castle Garden. Full six thousand persons assembled on the interesting occasion in the large saloon, and the applause on the entrance of the Swedish Nightingale was so tremendous and overwhelming, that for some minutes her feelings overcame her, and emotion was evident in the sinking of her first piece, Casta Diva." As the concert progressed, Jenny recovered her full powers, and her never were her vocal sweetness, expression, and pathos more triumphantly developed. The concert concluded by her singing the prize song, for which Mr. Barnum had offered a premium of 200 dollars. But if Jenny Lind's wonderful vocalisation astonished and delighled, how much higher did the enthusiasm rise when Mr. Barnum anounced her noble mundicence to the charities and other public institutions of New York! At the conclusion of the concert Mr. Barnum came forward, brushing heaps of bouquels before him, for the platform was literally covered with these floral tributes, and spoke as follows :— f Ladies and Gentlemen,—I have but one favour to ask o you, and that is, that in the presence of that angel (pointing to the door where Jenny had just passed out) I may be allowed to sink where I really belot)g-into utter insignificance. If there has ever been a moment when I aspired to have the question generally asked,' W here is Barnum 1 that time has parsed by for ever. I acknowledge frankly, that after such a display as we have had to-night, Barnum is nowhere. But, my, friends. I beg to tell you where Jenny Lind is. I shall not speak of her musical talenls-you know what they are better than I can tell you you have shown by your ungovernable applause to-night that you appreciate her incomprshensible and indescribable vocal abilities; but I must annouoce a ciicumstance regarding her which I cannot allow you to leave without knowing—she begged me not to do it. On ordinary occasions I would obey her every "ish, but I feel it is due to you to stale the fact I allude to. Under the contract between Jenny Lind and myself, she is entitled to one-half the net proceeds of every concert given under our ajr^ement. On this occasion, the expenses being more for the first concert than will usually be the case, her por- tion of the profits will be in the neighbourhood of 10,000dollars. I received a message from her thismolning, In which she declared that she would not receive one penny of the proceeds of this concert, but will devote every farthing of it 10 morrow morning for charitable purposes. It will be disposed of as follows Dollars. To the fire Department Fund 3,000 Musical Fund Society 2,100 Home tor the Friendless 500 Society for the Relief of Indigent Females 500 Dramatic Fund Association 500 Home for Coloured and Aged Persons 500 Coloured and Orphan Asylum 600 Lying-in Asylum for Destitute Females SOD New York Orphan Asylum 500 Protestant Half Orphan Asylum 500 Roman Catholic Half Orphan Asylum 500 Old Ladies' Asylum Mj Total 10,000 In case the money coming to her shall exceed this sum, she will hereafter designate the chanty to which it shall be appio- priate." The entire amount received for tickets to the firet concert is not exactly known, but it is said to be somewhere tioln 30,OCO dolis to 40,000 dolls. Jenny Lind's second concert took place on Friday evening, and it was quite as well attended as ihe;first. The mayor and other authorities of New York, the Turkish envoy, who nas just ar- rived, and many other distingues were present and at both there were crowds of citizens from Philadelphia and Boston. The tickets for the second concert sold at from 3 dolls. to 6 dolls, each, and the amount received must have exceeded 20,000 dolls. Jenny Lind says that she intends devoting the profits of her visit to America, to the foundation ot schools in her native country- Sweden. At her request, Mr. Barnum will in future charge only 2 dolls. each for tickets to the seats in the saloon, and I doll, each for what are called promenade tickets. TICKET AUCTION TO THE SECOND CONCERT. At the Castle Garden on Thursday, "t hall-past ten o'clock A.M., the ticket auction to Jenny Lind s second concert, was proceeded with by Leeds and Co. there were not the same numbers, nor the great excitement of the two preceding auctions, but there was a steady demand for the tickets, and they sold well. There were 6,000 disposed of, a'.a^ ave,age of 4 dolls., and there were about 500 premauade tickets sold and disposed of at 2 dolls, each, thus making the proceeds of the concert amount to 26,000 dollars. Genin's 225 dolls. seat was purchased by Hall and Sens at 6 dolls. The private box of Jenny Lind, containing four seats, was purchased at 51 dolls, per seat, and the corresponding box at the other side of the stage at the same price. It will he re. collected that Jenny Lind's private box sold for 140 dolls., or 35 dolls. each seat, at the first auction. The highest price of tickets was 9 dolls., that sum being paid by the Irving house for foity-two, and 7 j for 8. With these ex- ceptions the highest tickets sold at from 5J to 3 dolls. and Hall purchased 2000 at the latter price. (From the New i ork lribune.) THE Third Concert.—To-night the third concert of Jenny Lind will take place at Castle Garden. 1 he progiamme, as we have already noticed, is even superior to that 01 last wiek's concerts, which have charmed thousands, and made certain her success in America. «T Mr. George Loder, has on behalf of the Musical Fund Society, presented to Mademoiselle Lind the reso utions adoption at a special meeting of the society, thanking her for her generous do- nation, and making her an honorary lite member. fhe resolutions were engrossed upon vellum, in a style equal to copperplate en- graving, by Mr. Dickson. The following embodies the sub- stance of them Resolved,-That in the munificent appropriation by Mdle. Jenny Lind of the sum of two thousand dollars, towards the in- crease of the fund of this society, the bestower has added to the splendid triumphs attained by her genius that yet mote signal tiiumph, the vindication of her title to the characterol a philau. thropist; in the devotion of her unrivalled talents to the cause of humanity, and in the display of a rare example ot devotion to that divine art of which she is so illustrious a professor thus proving that she holds those talents as having been bestowed upon her by the Giver of all good gifts,' not alone tor 'he pur- pose of attaining the highest estimation of mankind, but as a sacred trust, assigned to her for the promotion of her happiness, the improvement and the welfare of others and that, in the promptness with which, on her fitst landlug upon these shores, she has sought to tender art serviceable to the holy caufe of charity, she has nobly illustrated the sentiment of the greatest English poet- The quality of Mercy is not strained; It droppeth like the gentle dew fiorn Heaven, Upon the place beneath. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, and becomes The throned monarch better than the ihrone.' After Mdlle. Lind had received them and expressed her ac- knowledgments, the same ceremony then took place between Mr. Loder and Mr. Bendict, at the close of which Mr. Bendict leturned thanks for Mdlle. Lind and himself for the honor done them and took the occasion to say that when he retorned to Furooe he should have it in his power to say, and he should say it with the utmost pleasure, that he found here an orchestra se- cond to none in the Old W orld. tt A singular affair which Slavery in the Unite produced there the most in- has taken place at VVashing on, P ,jce t|,ere have Ions tense excitement. t- Albany a respectable ger.tle- suspected Mr. W. L. Chaphn of Albany, ar and nan, aged about fif|y> Abolition paper, of being the editor of ClhaphnPor of s)aves ,0 the tree States, concerned »n pai(] h.s bill at the hotel in Wash.ngton, On Thursday morning £ h)j camage, drlven by a where he had bee i he police, who watched his movements, free black of thatcMof ,J, t(ie city> and prepared to intercept ascertained that he > jn evening he took in three him on the n0'thwa, nirji)g to Messrs. Tombs and Stevens, of runaway slaves, been for some days concealed in the Georgia; the negroes tiau When the carriage arrived in city, wailing a |aDd, some 7 or 8 miles from VVash- Sprattsburg, a town ot j „iv appeared, seized the horses' heads, ington, the officers »ud"eh(,f0 ewheels, thusstopping all advance. and thrust a rail through tne taken, oalled on the negroes to Chaplain, seeing that they,;<.oerate fight ">°k place, though the defend themselves, and a ocs^ shoU fired lrom being fatal, darkness of the night given and received on both.sides, As it was, several wounds w ;tjves fought bravely. Chaplin and it is admitted that the tuR n flinging themselves upon six Den was first mastered, some five or Qne of ,he negroes escaped, him as he leaped from thecariiagj- ,f up Chaplatn is in but. being hurt, has since given up to the authorities .n prison at Washington, and wl r urier. Maryland for 5 f „,e!o!lowing m<t, of The Calcutta Morning Chronicle g' bfJ remlSed that another a terrible outrage at Alfpore. 'outbreak to thefraud of the paper in its description ascribes the M abou 10 o clock villagers by the use of false w,elg .veralSeP°5's^)e B -j? io the afternoon of the 15th July? s joUS dis'urbanc Alipore Militia were engaged in a torBier haV,ng^vjnagers natives near the bridge, owing to t jocah'y• treated .eralre.pojuible ,eir«>'ed'b"' ["iija, »„d too. Sepoys, —ho »«« X .1.1" hospital: these latter joined their c Z„„.cr'"d .'I'lll themselves too weak to oombatthe v' -pheordef 8 the lines that the treasure was loote mandant or n should like to know whether by «he,cofn'd° in numbers .bout M0. men to turn out which they all did, a°dsSptlon: hou»e» A scene then ensued which begg»rS 0f every ^fur- pulled down in every direction; Pers palkee-bea •were attacked in the most cruel manl?lai,le character w wans, &c.; women of the most re,-Plc entry-score, worse than they could have been inane -0 a 9tate of them were stripped of their clothe8 an and eatSi plete nudity—tings were torn from the'r Dpearance in unfortunate creatures presented a lea^ „n.,nds infl'clf." pPne quence of the blood streaming from the ^etn. un,,rs' inhuman and unmanly ruffians that atta^ nearly three > though we can hardly credit it, continued {IC interfere and was only quelled by the active and e sQ s0(.n as the magistrate, Mr. Elliot, who was on t ^aye been ki • leceived intelligence of the affair. Thre js (he most lear a great number terribly wounded, and, w advance state o item of the tragedy, a young woman in bayonet» an" B pergoancy was run through the breast killed."

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