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University of Michigan. - We are informed that a difiiculty has nrisen beveen the faculty and studentsof iho Uniersity, which threateii3 to cause the exulsion of a number of tho latler whose tiaracters are irreproachable. The difiiculty arises from the exocuon of a rule which forbids the sludents'rom forming secret associations. Notvithstanding they had generally subcribed lo the by-lawsof the University, containing this rule, several such associaions, composed of sludents of congenial astes and feelings, have sprung up - he members sheltering themselves from he imputaiion of violating their pledge )y the plea thal the rule was unreasonable ; their meetings were not held n the University building?, or during the hoursoí study, Sec. ■ j The faculty being tlisposed to suslain I the rule required the sludents to dissolve their organizations, which the latler refused to obey and on Saturday last sentence of expulsión wa?, we btlievf, passed on seven of the most prominent leaders. - Ypsilanti Scntincl. General Thumb is now in New York, and a paper of that plnce gives us the following further informatioti concerning him : " Gen. Tom Thumb ís the same great character here that he has been in Europe. The ladies all want to get some of hislitile kisses, especially as he has kissed so many Queens in Europe. But ho will not kiss for nothing. To gain the high honor of o kiss from the Geno ral, a bool: must be bought, and so valúa ble is the kiss that many ladies think i " cheap at any price." They talco a thousand dollars a day at the American Museum on his account,and have n perfec monopoly of the trade, for nobody can ' get up anothcr Tom Thumb."Smithsonian Lnstitution. - VVe undcrstond that the building committoe of this Institution contracted, on Friday, I9ih, for Iho erection of their building. An outhne Qf its nccommodations and e.xient is g'wen in a note to the " Report of the Committee on Orgar.ization," recently published by the Inotitution as follows : "It comprises a museum 200 feet by 1 50 ; a library 90 feet by 50 ; a gallery ' of art 125 feet long ; two lecture room?, 'ofwhich one s cnpable of containing c an audience of 800 to 1,000 persons, ' and the other 'tí connected with the ' labratory, together with several small! er rooms. The style selected is the lat' er Norman, or rather Lombard, as it 4 prevailed ir. the 12ih century chiefly in ' Germany, Normandy, and inSouthcn Europe, immediately preceding the in4 troduction of the Golhic." - National Intelli geneer.C.C Burleigh in Piuson.-- The Pennsylvania Freeman stales that C. C. Burleigh has been imprisoned in the Westchester jail, for selling books on the Subbath, conirary to the statuio. The complaint againsx him was rnado by one James McKissick, an eider of the Prebyterian church, whose zeal in behalfof the Sabbath was aroused by his being unfortunately worsted in a debate with Mr. Burleigh at an Anti-Slavery meeting. - Thedeüquent was fined four dollars, and on his refusal to pay it, wns sentenced to to six days' mprisonment. His friends paid the fine, and he was released in an hour or iwo." He cmbraced the opportunity to deüver a thorough-going antislnvery lecture to the crowd who assembied wlien he was taken to prison. - Chron. British Oficers Roasled alive and Devourcd by the Cannibals. - A letter has been received in London, from an office r of H. M. war steamer Drijver, deiailing the parliculars of an engagement between the British and the New Zenlanders, in which len men oFthe Cartón frigate were killed and thirteen wounded, exclusive ofseveral men of the 89th regiment. The savages roasted alive two European ofiicers, whom they devoured. The writer gives the additional melancholy intelligence of Lieutenant Phillpotts, the sou of the Bishop of Eseier, having been scalped, roasted alive, and eaten by the New Zealanders. Shortly after his melaccholy fale the eye-glass ofhe gallant ofíicer was fuund near the spot where he wa murdered and deyoured. The village of Blenhoim, N. Y. was visited with n most awful calamity on the 15th inst. Two buildings belonging to Major H. Dickerman, were destreyed by fire, and six persons f the wife and children of Mr. Hezekiah A. Holdridge perished in the flames - a mother and five c-hildren. Tlic sixMi child was so badly burned that there s no probnbility ol her recovery, - makingscvcn in n-'AIbany Argus. Tus Louisiana Reqisition. - Gov. Johnson of Louisiann, hns concluded not to act upon the requisition from Col. Curtis, for ton regiments of volunteers. He very sensibly adopts the opinión that the ten regiments cannot be mustered and forwarded in time to do any good ; that the emergency, if there has been nny emcrgenc)-, will have passed away before ihe volunteers coud reach Comargo. " HONORED BE Wo.MAN." The Illillois Legislaturo have appropriated S60,000 for an asylum for the insane in thnl state. It is stated that the subject was brought hpfore tbat body through the inslrmcnuiüty of that noble-minded Yankee girl, Miss Dix, whose efiorts is behalf of ihe sufiering and unfortunate, the philanthropy of a Howard never excelled. - Chrishan Citizen.At Granccy, in France, the olhcr day, in officcr being curious to see how a spring gun set tot wolvesacted, very sagaciously louched the bait attached to the trigger, and received n chargi of balls in various parts of his body. He was not expectcd to survive. New Tradk. - Captain Yeaton, of the packet ship " Yorkshire," in his last trip to Liverpool, carried over aquantity of Jressed hogs, well packed with ice. - Thy arrived at Liverpool in good condition, and were sold at Manchester at an ud vanee of 75 per cent on the j ure. A young woman at Bradford, troubled vith epileptic fits, has actually swallowd, on the prescription of a quack, a hunanskull powdered and mixed wilhtrcacle, in occasional dozes, as a remedy for he disease !The Pope of Rome has conlributcd one housand Roman crowns from bis private p'irse for the relief of thè poor in [reland. The correspondent of the New York Express estimates the whole üppropriations at the late session of Congress at about one hundred and fifty millions of dollars.Fire. - The house of D. A. Neal, of Salem was set on fire recently'by some mice who meddled with friction matches.New Musical Iestrumbnt. - 1 man's Aitachment" to the piano, that won such fameand fortune to the inventor, in the last year or two ofhis brief life, is to have a rival in an instrument invented at Romeo, in Michigan, - if what the inventor says of it is tru. It is callad an Organ Piano, as il possees the qualities of both the pipe orgar and the piano forte, so nearly tliat it can bo innde to imítate either - having threo limes the powor of a piano, with a swt-11 from the softest note of the Eolian Harp to the body of a six stop organ, which is eíTected with pedáis and key's liko the common piano, lts compasa is six to teven octaves, and is well sdapted to church or waltz music. The expense of the instrument is about the same as of piano fortes of the same compás, and itissaid to pnssess the economical quality of not requiring tuning nftor being first fitted for operalion, - Búfalo Courier.Ibrahim Pacha carried into Egypt, nmong otlier tiiings the Electric graph. He also look willi him a better ' thing. He caught a horror of Slavery in the atmosphere of freedom. ; andsince ' lus return to Egypt, has enfranchised all the slaves in his service. NoMENCLATURE OP THE N KW PlANET. Accoiding to Galignani the leading astronomers of Europe, after mature deliberaiion, have agreed to cali the new planet, dicovered by Le Verrier, Neptune." A Noble Donation. - It is said that Gerrit Smith has contributed $2,000 for the relief of lreland ; the largestsum yet contibuted by any one individual in this country. In a single hour tho heart beats 3,600 times, discharges 7,200 ounces of blood, which passes through the body 25 times. In 24 hours the blood in the body circulatea through the heart 600 times. Mr. David Dickinson, of Hancock County Ga. laiely slaughterod a hog whose weight was 921 pounds. At a recent trial between tl e liquor venders and the people in Piltsburg, the majority ogainst the vonders was nearly one thousand. Insects are incapable ofsufiering. - Poll out n fly'a leg and he will not mind it, but fly about aa ns befo re. One auarter of the children born diebefore they are n yenr old. One half before they nre twenty one, and not one quarter reach the nge of forty five. In Boston there is a church to every 2000 inhabilitante In New Orleans there is about 20,000 inhabitanta to one church. The greotest artificial cold is produced from a mixture of diluted sulphuric acid and snow. lts temperature has been known to be 123 degreea below ihe freezing point. in St. Peters burgh, where the population is about 480,000, one quarter, only, of the inhabitants are females. According to letters from Alexnndria. the cholera has re-appenred in the whole of Hedjns as far as Aden, and with such intensity that tbirtéen thousand persons had died in a few days at Mocea and its environs. The prioe of bread is now liigher in Prris than it has been for the last fifty years. A soldier of the artiltery wus floggcd at Woolvi:h last weok, for putiing some lime in his eyes, with a view of so far destroying thenTas to render hitn unfit for service.Out of 60,000 persons who made the last pilgrimage to Mecca, no fe wer than 20,000 have died of the cholera. Upwards of 50,000 persons are now inmates of the London workhouses; 60,000 are receiving out-doors relief; nnd from 1400 to 2000 are nightly shèlteréd in the refuges for the houseless. The number of deaths throughout Ireland from siarvation and diseise, ns officially reported, is more than fifty thousnnd. The Ernperor of Russia has ordered hat no person shall establish nny telegraph in bis dominions without bis per mission. The "oldest inhabitant" is said to be a woman now living in Moscow, ir. Russin, who is one hundredand sixty eight years of age. Attheogeofl22shomarried her ff h husband. A Siox of the Times.- The Boston Courier censures Mr. Webster's supineness during the late session of Congress.Dr. Footc, of Chennngo Co. N. Y., has been arrcsted for beaiing his wife lo denth. Mass. Volunteers. - Joel Batos, Inte of this ronowed corps, is sentenced to 11 months in tho House of Correction, for Islealing furnilure. The Norway Adverliser, says thnt a Hule boy lately lost his life to Otisfield by going into a " potato hole," where hi father had just put akeitlo f uil of burning coals, in order to keep his potatoes from [freozing.Abolitíon of Slaveiiyin Turkbt. - The correspondent óf a Frenoh paper writes from Conslantinople, on the 20th ultimo: - "The Sulian himsclf presided at a sitt'.ng of ïhe Supremo Counoil of Justice, all the ministers snd high funo tionrmes being present. The Sultnn himself proposed n measure, which wili produce a great sensation in Europe, namely, to issue an ordinance f or the sup. pression of the lave tííaricet This is not indeod a suppression of Slavery altogether, but it isa first step towards t. - The Koran, it is true, admite of Slavery, bul it is only in tolerance, for it at the same time recomrnend ihe enfrnnchisemeat ot'slaves asa meritorious action J and the rich Musslemen, at tlieir great family festivals, or before setting out on a long journey, nnd indeed at any important eventqf their lives, believe tliey cannot do anything more ngreenble to God than to eivo a slave his freedom. -The obátaclds to general emanciparon irise rather f rom the customs and - lera of the Turks than from religious jrejudices ; and, from the moment the Sultan sets the example, it wil! meet with roady imi'ation. The Bey of Tunis has ilready obolished Slavery in his regen;y ; and Ibrahim Pacha, on his return Trom Europe, gave frecdom to all his ilave?, without either of these acts producing the least mark of disapprobation of ihe Mussulmen States. All the world knows that in these States the slaves form part of the family to whk-h they belong, and that many reach important stations. Two of the present ministers of the Sultan, Kosrew Pachadi Hafiz Pacha.are freed slaves ; so were the late Governor of Trebisondjson-in-law of Sultan Mahmoud, Halil Pacha, Mehemet Reschid Pacho, Commander-in-Chief of the nrmy of Arabia, and maiy others. The mother of the Sultan and all his wives were Circnssian or Georgian slaves, who havo been enfranchised. The whole question turns on this point, that no man can hold a riget over the freedom of a fellow-creature."