Foreign News

The followingsummary was forwarded from Europe by the "Learned Blacksmilli" fur his own paper : Influenza. The whole of Europe is hoarse, feverish, and half bed-ridrten,vilh ihis epidemie. Last week, of about 800 pupils in the Blue Coat School, Lonrlon, 300 were n bed. Oilier schools have I now from 100 to 200 of their number on the sick list. The number of deatlis in lhe metropolis last week was increased sixty por cenl. by the prevolence and malignity of the mnlady. The Cholera boe alreadjrtippenred in some of the Freneh ports on the Meciiterranean, and some cnses were reponed to have occurred in Great Britain, bul these Iack confirmation. The British Parliament is now well under way in tile discussion of important measures, which rhUst affect the condition of every section of the empire. After a vigorous debate in the Commons, leavj has been granted to bring in a bilí lo co erce some of the districts of Ireland to a greater respect for human üfe; but wilh this bilí anoiher will be insisled on, lo coerce the landlords to cense from that expsperating oppression which wouldmake xvise men m'ad in any country, much more the peor, ignöranl Irish peasants, who have no experimental renson lo regard the law of their lnnd aught else than a big, sharp-taothed bull-dog set updn them in every latie of lifend íabor; We have not the slightest doubt, that rriariy of these Irish peasants wl.o have been' stung to acts of violence, hae seen some of their cliildren die of starvatior. before their eyes, without feeling an impulse n their despair to put forth a hand to take what was not theír1 otvn, though it would heve saved a life in wliich their own henrts lived. But when one of their countrymen, their landlord comes, with the law in his right hand, to tenr down the clay obin over their heads, and evicl its feeble, feverish, famishing tenants into the stroef, lo eradle their sii-k children in the ditches, human nnture, of the Irish genu=, is pushed to extremitiea which coerción bilis can hardly represa. The West India planters are bent upon efTecting a grent immigration of A frica ns, to fill their cañe and coíTee fields with labor of acheaper and more slavish grade than the emancipaied colored people of the islands c m supplj'. The Abolitionists of Grent Britain will array a powerful antngonism to this measure, which, they have good reason to believe, would reproduce a species of legal slave.trade. The Navigation laws will go clean by the board, in all probability, during the present session. The keystone of ihe restrictive system in Europe has fallen in, and nnsses of the combrous wall come tumbl'ngdown from rnonth to month. Switzerland. The civil war has terrninated in this liltle Republic, by the surrenoer of all the cantons of the Sonderbund to the federal forces. The basis of their condition and future compact is not yet adjusted. Belgium is '"going ahead" finelv in their postal reformation. They have reduced the postage on newspapers to five centimes, or to one cent ; and are debating whether letters shnll be charged one penny or two pence. Foreign Invasión. This is the 'Bud get" lime in British legislation, or when supplies are asked and granted for the different dbpartments of the goveinment. It is a lime, according lo the showing of some grent men, when a foreigr. invasión from France may be expected almnsi hourly, and without any declnralion or cause of war. The Duke of Wellington has come out with an earnest appeal to the country to wnke from ils lethargy and arm itself to the teeth, lest the French shall come down upon ihem on some foggy night, and run awny with the island. The people, we believe, are getting accustomed to these periodical apprehensions, and i'uliy understand why they never occur except early in the session of Parliament. Why should there not be danger of foreign invasión when 12,000 applicaiions for commissions in the Brilish army are known to be Iyingon hand at one time, at the department which disburses such offices ! The "Calamity" op Ciíeeds. The Worcester Chroniclesays, that a petition to Parliiment against ;he admi.-sion of Jews to the Leg'slnlure, is in course of 51'gnature in that cily. lt prays the house 'not to sanotion any mensure which would :onsummate so grievous a calamity !" A New Era in international inta cou'-se wit! le ushered n on the fiist ol January. There will be a weekly deparlare for, and arrival frotn, America, o a steam packet. A column of Englbl and foreign news will be as common to all the weekly newspnpers in the United States, as f Englnnd, France, and Ger many, we re respectively States of our Union. This sysiem will virtually tahe us back to the editorial cliair of the Cilizan. Ocean Penny Postage is making fine headwny on the current of public opinión in England. Several influential papers have rocenlly t;iken up the idea, nnd advocited it with earneslness and ability. - Inland penny postage in America, is all that is wanting to prove ihat penny postnge for the ocean will pay. Ragged Schools. We scnrcely slept a wink for two nights after our fitst visit to one of l hese theatresof heroic philnnthropy. We wish we could take a dozen of our young friends in America, into one of these interesting places.thnt they might see what linie boys and girls are brought out from the low, dark lnnes and allevs of ihis great city, nnd what clothes thev try to wear, and would weir, were t nol fr the wind. We went out with ïhe teacher of one of these schools one afternoon, and holped him to bring in a dozen of these little destitute creatures. We baited them inlo groups with iiitle books and the "Bonds." Then he went before nnd we brought up the rear, and ihey all went up into the school room, and as soon as they had sat down togelher upon a bench, all the children aróse nnd snng n sweet hymn beautifully. The poor young creatures! it was enough to mnke one wep to think ihat music had been eft in their hearts, after all they had suffered. We will not say anuther word about them now. The Junior Editor and ourself have been talking over a plan connected with them which we shnll present to our young friends of the Citizen circle one of these days. I.VDEPENDENtíE OP BltlTISIl DepENdencies. Thefe are some inequalities in fnvor of the smallest of the British Isles, vvhich compénsate tliem for many inconveniences. For instance, the inhabitants of the Isles of Mant Jersey, and Gurnsey, are exempted from some of the heavy tases mposed upon the people of England. Every pour.d of tea consumed in England, whatever be tsquality, is taxed 2s 2ió, or about 54 cents ; while tea comes nto Jersey and üyrnsey free of duty. This gives the tea drinkers of ihosesmall islandsan immense advantoge over the large islnnders.. Their annual consumption is 4 Ib. 4 oz. per liead; while in England it is only 1 Ib. 10 oz. per head. The English tea drinkers are beginning to grumble at this disparity. The Cholera in the Ëast. - Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, missionai'y at Trebizond, writes to his parents it West Springfield, referring lo ihe .pread of that tcourge of the Eas!, the Cholera. It is dated Oct. 7, 1847: "The Cholera has been raging in our city for the last ihree weeks, cuttingdown 1400 people. In the space of threedays, while the di.sease was at its height, 700 persons died. The crisis has now passed." Ooroomiah, Sept. 15. "To-day 1 relurned wtth my family to our healthy retreat. The ravages of the cholera in the city ot Ooroomiah, have been awful beyond description, during the last 25days. On the lowest probable estímate, though absolute accuricy is not nttempled, one-fiftb, at least, of its population, consisting of about twenty-five thousand souls.have been cutdown during this period. The disease has now abated in the city, but is still abrnad in the villages on the Plain of Ooroomiah, though in a milder form. Our mission, and our Nestorian helpers, with the exce-.tion of one printer and one village school teacher, have all hitherto been graciously