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      Ireland. The Government In Quiry At Belf...

      yon -will be able to dravr out : but if you adopt a system © f -continually exhausting ; -without replenishing , the land , like the bank , will meet you with the unpleasant response , * No effects ; . ' Thus , for your own sakes , I ^ rcrald advise you to avauVyouraelves of every attainable iinprovemeirt ; and , 1 am sure , with advancing agricultural knovvledge , you "will , ere long , reap the advantage of your perseverance and industry . " Her Grace also alluded , with regret , to the evil results arising from drunkenness . The Iiush SepoYs . —Copies of a printed address , of 'the' same character as those which have been circulated at Garrick-on-Suir , have been extensively distributed in Cork , by bsing thrust under doors .

      Great Floods . —Cork and its neighbourhood have been flooded , and a great deal of damage has been done to the buildings , and to the agricultural produce in the fields . A considerable amount of property , including live stock , has been swept away ; several bridges have been destroyed ; and-it is feared that two lives have been lost . Limerick has also snffered from floods . Ferocious Outrages . —A « hot was fired on Tuesday night through a window of the house occupied by Mr . Edward Marony at Ballyclough . That gentleman was sitting in -fche room at the time , "but was not touched . — Sergeant Salmon , of the 3 rd Buffs , has died owing to a Bevere beating he received from three men belonging to the County of Liroerici Militia .

      Gaiavatt Election Inquiry . — -The inquiry is now being proceeded with . The whole tenor of the evidence so far is similar to that given before the House of Commons against the return of Mr . O'Flaherty .

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      America. The Advices From America Contin...

      AMERICA . The advices from America continue to speak of the nominations for Governors of States . The Settlers' Convention in California has nominated the Hon . Edward Stanley , tlie republican candidate , for Governor and * mixed ticket . ' In Washington territory , Stevens , the democrat , has been elected to Congress by a large majority . Tbe New State Convention in Kansas has been organized . Surveyor-General Calhoun was elected President , and his speech indicated that he was in favour of submitting a constitution to the people . The Massachusetts State Convention , under the presidency of Isaac Davie 3 , of Worcester , has nominated by

      acclamation Erasmus B . Beacb , of Springfield , and Albert Carrier , of Neuburg Fort , as candidates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts . Eeturn 3 at Portland from the 26 th , give a Republican majority of 1180 . Two hundred and one towns heard from gave Mowill ( Republican ) a majority of 9240 over Smith ( Democrat ) for Governor . The following have been nominated as the Republican delegates to the State Conventioa from Albany County : —Second district , Jacob J . Werrer and George Woolford ; third , Ira and George L . Thomas ; fourth , Jame 3 V . Woolhouse and Leonares Van Decar . The first district will elect its delegates on the 19 th .

      The Secretary of the Treasury at Washington has just Tendered an important decision , in reference to the refunding of the illegitimately collected duties . The duty is confirmed at nineteen instead of twenty-four per cent , on flannels . Walker contemplates another descent on Nicaragua and Costa Rica . The Costa Rican Government has detUrcd the expedition piratical , and announced that those connected with it will be punished with death . The embarrassments of the Mexican Government are daily iDcreasing . A new difficulty has occurred with the English charge * d ' affaires . Resistance to the civil authorities by the partisans of the church has been attended with bloodshed , and the revolutionists in Yucatan are gaining ground .

      '• - '_ " The present' state of the cotton crop is thus described < in the iVetc York Shipping and Commercial Lift , of Sep-> -tember lfttli : —<« Speaking in general terms , we may asBcrt that-the yeaT ( ending th « 1 st ult . ) has been an ' -unusually-remunerative one for planters , but a compa-- ratiyely poor one for spinners . The value of tho staple ¦ w £ ? g been relatlvie b higher than goods , tho unprofit' . ' ablencsa c 4 tho manufacturing interests since our last * Konual roviow-can be readily accounted for . The price ¦

      "Or cottony howevetyha * now * reached so high a point that «» e consumption is materially curtailed , and the produc-? £ ° f 8 oi ) ds will » -without doubt , continue on a comparatively limited scale ; unless prices advance or the raw material experience a fall in value . One very important iVi , ff a fli £ n 1 flcrint bearing upon tho cotton trade , an I ' aa witMn tho twelvemonth under review some ou « 00 _ loonQ 8 have been stopped in Great Britain , while ™' «« ted States it is estimated that at least 12 , 000 or 15 , 000 ii » vo Buupendcd operations ; and tho present

      • W prices of goods , as cdmpatod with the raw material , « Buggcstiye of a still further curtailment of manufachfrt . t < « ° 3 Of the At ! anti c- Tho present supplies »» me Jvngliah market are understood to bo unusuully *» w , Mdbat comparatively little is going forward from S - « J . ndeoa ' tho 8 t «<* « reduced to bo low a figure !? " ° shipmenta must necessarily continue amall until XHe new crop , shall begin to move freely . " v Tho commercial advices from Now York express con-Wenco in the approaching subaidenco of tho pnnic ; but largo failures are still taking place . The liabilities of Wo manufacturing Una of Messrs . Allen of Providonce ,

      Rhode Island , are stated at 400 , 0007 . . Conant , Dodge , and Co ., hardware importers 5 Nesmith and Co ., warehousemen , and several others , are included in the list of failures . 'On the Stock-Exchange , the fluctuations have been comparatively moderate and the tendency is towards recovery . . A storm which has raged along the southern coast has proved most disastrous to the shipping ; and several steamers have been crippled and compelled to put into the nearest port . . . Five hundred troops left Leavenworth on the 9 th ult .,. for New Mexico . The reported slaughter of four hundred Indians by Colonel Summers ' s troops is contradicted .

      Mr . William R . Calhoun , of South Carolina , has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Paris , in place of Mr . Jennings Wise , of Virginia , resigned . The financial crisis in the city has in a great measure subsided . Mr . Sulivan , the English Charge' d * Affairs at Lima , died from the effects of the wound inflicted upon him on the 11 th of August . The funeral took place on the 15 th of that month ; all public places were closed , the vessels in port fired minute guns , the flags were all lowered to half-mast , and a Government order prohibited all public amusements ort the day of the funeral . No clue had been obtained of the murderers , although a large reward had been , offered for their discovery and apprehension . The Government had offered a reward of 10 , 000 dollars , and the British residents 50 , 000 more .

      Continental Notes. France. The Trial Of ...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The trial of Carpentier and the other railway culprits has continued before the Court of Assizes . At the sitting of the Court on Friday week , the public prosecutor addressed the jury in support of the indictment . M . Lachaud afterwards pleaded for Carpentier , representing him as a victim of the passion for gold and for Stock Exchange gambling which characterizes the epoch . He deplored that at the early age of twenty-five , the ' fearful responsibility' of the post of cashier of a great enterprise like the Northern Railway liad been , imposed on him . He had at first only taken shares in the belief that by the use of them he might realize a large fortune , and his firm intention had been to restore them . In the course of his speech , the learned gentleman made some sharp observations on the manner in which the advocates employed by Carpentier in the United States had acted , and said that their ' wretched subtleties' and mode of advocacy had so disgusted the prisoner that he had resolved to give himself up to the justice of his country . During all the time the counsel was speaking , Carpentier wept bitterly . M . Desmarets pleaded for Grellet , and dwelt particularly on the fact , as an extenuating circumstance in his favour , that he bad made the fullest disclosures . M . Dufaure then proceeded to address the jury for Parod , who was acquitted on the criminal charge , and at once walked out of the court . Extenuating circumstances were admitted in the cases of Carpentier and Guerin , probably on account of their having surrendered themselves to the French police officers in America ; but they were found guilty of theft and embezzlement , and so also was Grellet . A few moments after tho delivery of this verdict , the solicitor of the railway company demanded that Parod , as well

      as the others , should be decreed to pay the company the value of the shares stolen . Hereupon , the Judge ordered that Parod should be again placed in the dock , and , as he was still lingering about the precincts of the court , this was done . His counsel , however , objected that he was not legally in custody , and said that the company could have a civil action against him . The public prosecutor agreed -with this ; but tho court adjudged Parod to be liable with the other prisoners to restore the value of the shares , or to be imprisoned for five years . Irrespective of this term of incarceration , Grellet is to bo imprisoned for eight years , and Carpentier and Gue ' rm for five years . Had Parod gone beyond tho precincts of the court , it appears that he could not have been again arrested . It is generally agreed at the Palais de Justice that tlio sentence on the three

      convicted prisoners would have been more severe had it not been the opiuion of the court that the Northern Railway Company had taken too little care of their property . The following paragraph has been prominently inserted in tho Moniteur : — " Tho Government of the Emperor has felt it to be its duty to postpone to the 30 th of September , 1858 , tlio measures relating to alimentary commodities . Those measures arc of a twofold nature ; they facilitate tbe importation of bread-stuffs and suspend their exportation . The facilities given to

      importation have not been adopted as a precaution against any dcarnesa in tho price of food , of which the great abundance of our harvest relieves us of fear , but to ensure the complete liquidation of enterprises entered into in the way of trade under the present regulations — enterprises , however , that will tend to re-create those reserves that were exhausted by tho scarcity of the hist three years . In fixing a term for the suspension of exportatiou by these orders , tho Government docs not involve itself in an engagement , aa is the case with respect to importation . Circumstances and tho prices in the market will detorniina their retention or suppression . "

      . The vintage has now begun almost everywhere in France r and in some places it is already over . Tie accounts are highly favourable . " . The Requin state steamer , after having been handsomely fitted up , has ; proceeded from Toulon to Marseilles , to be placed at the orders of Prince Napoleon , who is about to make an excursion to the East , and particularly to the holy places at Jerusalem . Folly is so inseparable from Emperors and Kings , that it dogs them like their shadow ; and the parvenu Empire of France is not free from this ancient prerogative of the anointed of' the Church . The Paris correspondent of the Times shall bear -witness . Ke writes : — - " The Empress has arrived in Paris from Biarritz . The report here to-day is that she will go to the camp at Chalons , and present the Prince Imperial to his comrades of the Guard . You are aware that he is borne on the musterbook of the Grenadiers , draws pay , and that his name is called at muster , when answer is madejbr him , ' On leave with his family . " Why need satirists trouble themselves to turn such things into ridicule ? Tie work is superfluous . They are their own burlesque . It is reported that the lie de la Reunion , formerly lie Bourbon , is to resume the nam e of lie Bonaparte , which it bore under the first Empire . WTJRTKMBBBG . The long-talked-of meeting of the Emperors has taken place at Stattgard . Al exander reached that city on Thursday week ; Napoleon On the following day . A few minutes after the arrival of the latter at the King ' s palace , le received the visit Of the Russian Czar . There was a family dinner-party at the palace , and the -visitors passed -the evening at the vma of the Prince Royal . The castle , the gardens , and the road ? leading to them , were illuminated . On the f ollowing morning , tbe Emperor Napoleon returned the Emperor Alexander ' s visit , and called on the Prince and PrincessiKoyaL The Prince of Prussia came to Baden to meet the Emperor Napoleon . The Empress of Russia and the Queen of Greece arrived at Stuttgard last Saturday night . The King of Wurtemberg , on Monday morning , took the two Emperors , the Empress of Russia , the Queens of Wurternberg , of Holland , and of Greece , and the Princes and Princesses , to Cannstadt , to witness the popular festival a great agricultural fete , which takes place annually under the presidency of the King . Tbe Emperor of Russia , the Emperor of the French , the King , and the Princes went on horseback . At noon , the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of the French -went to a dejeuner at the villa of the Prince Royal . The Minister of Foreigu Affairs and an aide-de-camp of their Majesties were present at this meeting . At three o ' clock , the Emperor Napoleon returned to the Palace at Stuttgard , and at four he took leave of the Emperor and Empress of Russia , who then left . Louis Napoleon left Stuttgard on Tuesday morning at half-past eight o'clock . The Prince Royal , the Princes of the Royal family , and the Ministers and officers of the Court were at the station . The Emperor arrived at Mannheim at eleven o ' clock . He was received tliere by General Roberk , first aide-de-camp of the Grand Duke of Baden , who had sent Court carriages to convey the Emperor and his suite to Ludwigshafen , where the French monarch was received by Prince Luitpold , brother of the King of Bavaria . At Sarrebruck , the Emperor found the Prince of Prussia . Louis Napoleon entered the town of Metz at seven o ' clock , and found Prince Henry of the Netherlands waiting to compliment him . He attended the theatre in the evening . The intercourse between the two Emperors is said to have been somewhat cold . The unexpected arriva 1 of the Russian Empress at Suttgard seems to have greatly fluttered the hereditary sovereigns ; and the approximation of France and Russia does not appear to havo been much advanced by the meeting of tho two military chiefs . SPAIN . Admiral Lyons ' s squadron left Mahon for ata on - the 12 th ult . The Prince of Orange , embarked at V & lencia for Holland on the 21 st . Tho Queen has pardoned a soldier who was condemned to be shot for attempting to kill a sergeant who had struck him . This was done at tho intercession of Madame Ristori , who was playing Medea on the night previous to tho intended execution . Tho Queen was in the house ; and , after tho first act , the great Italian actress went into her box , threw herself at her Majesty ' s feet , and finally obtained the pardon . ITALY . A certain number of refugees have been ordered out of Piedmont . A subscription has been opened at Turin for tho purpose of erecting a monument in that city to Manin . GERMANY . The King of Saxony , in superintending some military muncouvrca near Dresden on tho 22 nd , had tho muscles of his left log strained by a sudden movement of hia horse . Ho suffered ao much that ho tvns removed from tho animal ' s back , and conveyed to tho chateau of l illnitz . The day after , ho was ablo to leave his bed ; but tho physicians havo prescribed a fovr days' ropoao . The Emperor of Russia arrived at " Weimar on Wodnesday evening . Th « Emperor of Austria arrived on Thurudfty morning and paid the flrat visit to the Em-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/9/