e then made upon three of the
frontier settlements, and the colonists, to the number of 70 massacred.
A levy _en masse_ of all males between the ages of eighteen and fifty
was summoned by the Governor, "to destroy and exterminate those most
barbarous and treacherous savages, who for the moment are formidable."
Several smart engagements have taken place, in which the savages, though
worsted, displayed great daring, and considerable skill and discipline.

Attention has been called in Parliament to the proceedings of the
various Revolutionary Committees composed of foreign refugees, and
headed by Mazzini, Ledru-Rollin, and Klapka. Their proceedings were
charged with being a violation of the obligations they incurred when
they came to seek the protection of English laws. Members of Government
expressed their decided disapprobation of the course pursued by the
refugees in endeavoring to excite insurrection in foreign countries.

A Miss Talbot, heiress to a fortune of L80,000, has entered a convent as
"postulant" with the intention of taking the vail in a few months, when
it is supposed that her fortune will pass to the church. This has
occasioned some excitement against convents, and a bill has been
introduced intended to prevent the forcible detention of females in
houses in which the inmates are bound by religious or monastic vows. It
provides that all such establishments shall be registered, and subject
to semi-annual visitation by public officers, who shall have power to
remove any female who desires it. Concealment of any part of the
premises, or of any person therein, false lists of the inmates, and any
obstruction to the visitors, are to be punished as misdemeanors.
Measures are also proposed regulating legacies made for religious
purposes.

At Chelmsford a man and woman were hung for murder, attended by the
usual disgraceful accompaniments of a public execution. Crowds gathered
from all the surrounding country; at the moment of execution 40,000 or
50,000 persons are said to have been present. Venders of edibles plied
their vocation in the most gross and revolting manner; pickpockets, as
usual, were in attendance, and the general deportment of the spectators,
men, women, and children, was disgusting and brutal. The man confessed
his guilt. The woman, whose crime was poisoning with arsenic, died
protesting her innocence.

"A monster address" signed by 61 noblemen, 110 members of the House of
Commons, and 321,240 ot