their own homes. No enroller is allowed to enlist more
than four men, who, after having been tried, in action
for some time, become enrollers in their turn, each of
them enlisting four more, and bringing them to the
rendezvous until the chain stretches over the whole
country.

The accounts from Sicily are of a gloomy character.
At Palermo and Messina, the government had ordered
the people to be gay during the Carnival. The carriages
with masks were protected on either side by soldiers
and mobs of boys employed to follow, shouting "Long
live the King." The people, however, would not join
in the forced festivities, although every effort was made
to induce them to do so. The whole island remains in
a state of siege; after nine o'clock every one is challenged
by the military guard. The additional taxes weigh
heavily on the people, who are described as bent to the
earth by fear and made desperate by oppression.

There have been serious disturbances in Sweden and
Norway. On the 14th of February, the students of
Upsal University assembled to the number of 400 or 500,
and paraded the streets of Stockholm, and were not
dispersed till a collision took place between them and
the police, a result which greatly exasperated the body
of the people. Next day the same scenes were renewed
on a larger scale, and on this occasion the police having
endeavoured to disperse a crowd of 1000 or 1500 people,
was repulsed by showers of stones and other missiles.
The troops were called out, and squadrons of cavalry
soon cleared the streets. Thirty of the rioters were
arrested. The regency instituted to act in the absence
of the king at the Norwegian Storthing published a
proclamation forbidding all assemblages of persons in the
streets. At the same time that these riots were taking
place at Stockholm, disturbances of a serious character
were also occurring in the province of Drontheim, in
Norway. The socialists and democrats in the district of
Stordal and the town of Levanger rose up against the
authorities who had imprisoned one of their leaders,
and the insurrection continued up to the date of the
last accounts.

The intelligence from New York is to the 12th inst.
—On the 14th of February a serious riot occurred at Boston
in connexion with the Fugitive Slave Law. A mob,
irritated by the arrest of a coloured man as a fugitive slave,
surrounded the Court-house, seized the prisoner, carried
him forcibly away, and afterwards secured his retreat so
speedily that all attempts at recapture proved futile.
Subsequently, in the Senate, Mr. Clay moved a resolution
calling on the President for information in regard to
this infraction of the law. On the 20th the President
responded, addressing to the Senate a message, expressing
his determination to enforce the law, and proposing
measures for the purpose; such as empowering the
Executive to call out volunteer state troops in aid
of the authorities, without a previous proclamation,
as now required, &c. After some sharp and
acrimonious debates the message was referred to the
Committee on Judiciary to report a bill in accordance
with its suggestions.

Congress, on the 4th instant, adjourned until the new
session in December next, after transacting a variety of
important business.

On the 3rd in the House of Representatives, Mr.
M'Clernand, of Illinois, moved to take up the Senate
resolution, requesting the President to authorise one of
the United States vessels in the Mediterranean to carry
Kossuth and his companions to the United States.
The resolution was passed by a large majority. On the
same night there was one of those rows which are not
uncommon in the American legislature. An American
paper describes it thus: "The attention of the house
was arrested by much confusion and shuffling among a
crowd outside the bar, near the main entrance. 'A
fight,' was the cry, and members and lobby loungers
ran in that direction. All was excitement. The Speaker
rapped with his hammer, calling loudly upon gentlemen
to take their seats, and for the Serjeant-at-Arms. It
appeared, that Messrs. Clingham and Stanley had been
exchanging sharp words, and were coming to brisk blows,
but were prevented from getting hurt. The tempest
occupied only a few moments."

The Reverend John J. M' Bride was recently indicted,
in North Carolina, for presenting a little slave girl with
a copy of the Ten Commandments. He was found
guilty; and his sentence was "to stand one hour in the
stocks, receive thirty lashes on the bare back, and be
imprisoned one year in the common gaol."

On the 24th ult. a terrible tornado nearly destroyed
the town of Fayetteville, Tennessee.

A letter from San Francisco, dated in December last,
and giving a graphic description of that city, has been
published. We extract some passages:—The extensive,
wealthy, and populous city of San Francisco, the most
important and active commercial port in the Pacific,
bears in its very aspect the stamp of sudden growth. It
has been "knocked up" in a hurry. Improvements
take place so rapidly as to strike even a resident with
amazement, as he returns to his home after a fortnight's
absence. The barren waste on which, but two years
ago, half a dozen mud hovels could scarcely be counted,
is now laid out into crowded streets, encumbered by
piles of merchandise and teeming with life. Splendid
brick-buildings, worthy of a site in the fashionable
squares of London, large framed houses, modest wooden
shanties, which the kick of a protectionist would overturn,
extensive iron warehouses, all stand side by side,
"pèle-mèle," forming long rows, presenting to the eye
of a stranger a strange and varied aspect. Parallel
wharfs built upon piles (one of them over 2300 feet in
length), have been driven into the waters of the bay, so
that the largest ships can lay along side of them: these
wharfs have again been connected by streets at right
angles, all on piles, and the blocks thus formed are
rapidly filling up by the erection upon them of large
houses, stores, hotels, &c, and by a considerable number
of ships that have been stranded or moored, deprived of
their masts, and housed over to serve as deposits for
merchandise. Beyond, and touching this part of the
town, built boldly upon the waters, is the thick close
forest of masts and rigging belonging to the large fleet
of vessels anchored in the port. Dozens of steamers of
all sizes, shapes, and descriptions, daily plough the
waters of the bay and of the rivers, conveying passengers
and goods to and from the cities of the interior. Amongst
the most striking features of the city are the restaurants
and gambling-houses which exist in immense numbers.
The whole population take their meals at restaurants;
you have them French, German, English, Italian,
American, and Chinese; the houses, furniture,
proprietors, servants, and utensils of the latter being
importations from the Celestial empire. With regard
to the gambling-houses, one side of the Piazza is
occupied by a long row of splendid buildings, the upper
stories of which are devoted to billiard and refreshment
rooms; the basements form immense saloons, most
splendidly lighted and decorated with mirrors and
paintings, and furnished with an orchestra, a bar for
the sale of liquors, and a number of small tables; here,
and in the numerous similar establishments, situated in
all parts of the town, monte, pharo, roulette, and all
kinds of games are publicly played day and night.
Miners, after months of privation and successful toil,
lose their heavy bags of gold dust upon a single card; the
labourers, boatmen, teamsters, &c., go to lose or increase
their earnings; the desperate to retrieve, or sink deeper
into their difficulties. You may imagine what the gains
of the proprietors must be. One of these houses, worth
above 100,000 dols., has been built for the third time
after having been destroyed twice by fire, by a man and
his wife who came from Sydney without a cent.; the
woman has made the money by rolling a large ball
covered with numbers, the one turning uppermost being
the winner. Scarcely a week passes without some
dispute, when revolvers and bowie-knives are
immediately produced and some one is killed. The courts do
not interfere; the dead man is buried, and the survivors
continue their game as eagerly as ever.

Sacramento, Stockton, Marysville, are all San
Franciscos on a smaller scale; the same gambling, vices,
habits, speculations, improvements and features in every