M. Franzoni, Archbishop of Turin, has been sentenced
to banishment from the Sardinian territories, and the
archiepiscopal possessions forfeited to the Crown.
Thirteen judges out of fourteen pronounced the condemnation
of M. Franzoni, who was escorted to the frontier
on the 30th ult. The arrival of the Archbishop at
Briançon, Hautes Alpes, is announced in the French
papers. The same course has been pursued with the
Archbishop of Cagliari, who had imitated the conduct
of Franzoni, and even gone the length of excommunicating
the authorities who called him to account.
Sentence of banishment was pronounced against him,
and he was put on board a steamer and sent to Civita
Vecchia. The vacant sees are administered by the state
department of the Apostolic Economiat-General.

The Representative Constitution and the Liberty of
the Press have been destroyed in Tuscany. On the 23d
ult. two Decrees were promulgated: the first announced
the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, and declared
that till a fresh convocation of the legislature, all power
would be exercised by the Grand Duke in the Council
of State. The second declared that no journal or
periodical should be published without first obtaining
the written authorisation of the Minister of the Interior,
to whom the names and other circumstances of the
director and of the proprietor of the printing establishment
are to be communicated.

A Tragical Occurrence, has taken place at Kruziewis,
in the Grand Duchy of Posen. At the commencement
of the Russian campaign in Hungary, twelve Circassian
noblemen engaged as volunteers in the Russian
Circassian regiment, and returned to Warsaw decorated for
good conduct. The campaign having terminated, they
wished to return home; but they were detained, and
placed in the same category as the common Circassians,
serving in the army. All their prayers and
remonstrances, even to the Emperor himself, remained
unheeded. On the 28th September they quitted Warsaw,
and passed the frontier cordon, a distance of thirty
German miles, next day, after leaving two comrades
killed by their pursuers. On the 1st of October, they
arrived at Kruziewis, and were conducted by a
gendarme before the Landrath. They expressed a wish
to be conducted to Berlin, and there disarmed; but
the Landrath refused, and expressed his intention of
sending them back to Poland. They were then led
to the barracks, but nothing could induce them to
enter the barrack-yard. The squadron of dragoons
quartered at that place received orders to mount and
surround them. The moment the dragoons arrived,
one of them fired on the Circassians. The Circassians,
who were mounted, now galloped out of the town,
pursued by the dragoons. One of their horses, already
nearly exhausted, fell near the Landrath's office, and a
Circassian was shot; so also was the dragoon. A little
further on, two more Circassians were killed, and two
wounded taken. The remaining five took refuge in a
farm-house, after letting loose their horses. They
refused to surrender, and prepared for defence. The
dragoons seeing this, set fire to the outhouses, and then
to the barns and stables, but the house in which the
poor men had taken refuge, could not be burned, as
they prevented all approach with their rifles. The other
buildings burned all night, but the five Circassians still
held out. At length infantry was sent for, and during
the night of the 1st and 2nd a detachment of forty
men arrived from Bromberg. Measures were taken
for burning down the house, and they succeeded.
Deprived of their last refuge, the Circassians rushed
upon their enemies. One of them killed a foot soldier,
and was killed himself, pierced with balls. The
remainder, pierced with wounds, were at length captured,
and brought into Kruziewis on waggons. The barbarous
conduct of the Prussian authorities is attempted to
be justified by the cartel between Russia and Prussia
for the capture and mutual surrender of deserters.

The advices from New York come down to the 9th
inst. Congress adjourned on the 30th of September,
after a long and momentous session. One of its latest
measures, the Fugitive Slaves' Act, had come into operation,
and was producing great excitement among the
coloured population, and large public meetings had
been held in New York and other cities, at some of
which, resolutions advising resistance to the Government
officers were passed. A vast number of fugitive slaves
were escaping into the British North American possessions.
—It was said to be likely that Frederick Douglas,
the well-known anti-slavery lecturer, would be
apprehended under the new act, unless he escaped to Canada.

Congress, before its adjournment, passed the Bill to
suppress the slave trade in the district of Columbia,
which completes the series of measures proposed by Mr.
Clay in his "Compromise Bill" for the settlement of
the slavery question.—A bill was also passed prohibiting
the lash in the naval service, and abolishing the use of
ardent spirits, except in the cabin.

Advices from Texas of the 20th ult. state that the
passage of Pearce's Boundary Bill by the United States
Congress had been announced to the legislature, and
the indications were that it would be passed. The
papers state that the popular feeling was decidedly in
favour of accepting the propositions of the United States
Congress.

A serious disturbance had taken place at Sacramento
city in California. A number of "squatters" had
occupied and erected buildings on grounds to which, it
was contended, other parties had rights. A writ of
ejection was obtained against them, but they resisted
its execution, and a sanguinary conflict ensued, in which
the mayor of the city, and the leader of the squatters,
were killed, and a number of persons wounded. A
report, that the city had been burnt, proves unfounded.

The American steam-packet, Pacific, as she was leaving
New York on the 28th of September, was detained for a
day, by a Calamitous Accident. As she was passing out
of the dock she struck the wharf, broke down a large
shed, and injured herself considerably. There were
several hundred people under the shed, and the moment
the crash commenced a general panic took place. Many
persons in their fright jumped overboard into the river.
Some were rescued, but two men were crushed to death
in a most horrible manner, by the falling beams under
the shed.

Jenny Lind had sung at several Concerts at New York
and Boston, and has been received with an enthusiasm
that beggars anything ever witnessed in this country. At
both the above places the tickets of admission were sold
by auction; at New York, one Genin, a hatter,
purchased one seat for 225 dollars; and at Boston
a Mr. Dodge, a music-seller, was the buyer of a seat at
the price of 625 dollars—£125 sterling! This looks like
mere madness; but there must be something under it
which does not appear.

Advices from the Sandwich Islands reach to the 22nd
of June, and describe in the highest terms their rapidly
increasing prosperity. Liability to desertion continued
to cause the visits of whaling ships to be less frequent,
but the extraordinary growth of a more permanent
commerce in connection with California, and indirectly with
Australia, New Zealand, Calcutta, China, and the Indian
Seas, rendered this of no account. The Harbour of
Honolulu, which at particular seasons used to be entirely
deserted, was now at all times a scene of activity from
the arrivals and departures of merchantmen, and the
construction of additional wharves had become necessary.
Many new buildings were in the course of erection, and
the cultivation of vegetable produce was stimulated to
the utmost by the fact that supplies of all kinds were
taken off as fast as they could be raised. To aid the
extension of agricultural operations, a public assembly was
fixed to be held in Honolulu on the 12th of August, for
the purpose of forming an association to collect
implements and machinery, plants, and seeds, as well as to
promote by periodical exhibitions, improvements in the
breeding of live stock, and, if possible, to establish a
magazine, which should contain such selections from
the standard agricultural publications of Europe and
America as might be likely to prove most useful to the
members. It was also proposed that the association
should give attention to the question of the introduction
of Coolie labour from China to supply the places of the
rapidly decreasing native population.