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      The New House Of Commons Lias Ncnv Been ...

      feeling . Tliis is said everywhere of Cobden and Bright ; it is not less felt with regard to Fox and Heyworth ; Miaxx . would have been certain to find a scat , so wovild Arthur Gordon . We have named several of the more conspicuous new members who liave boeu njafciuto tlie ^ aeant seats j those who are tasfe . Jhu > wn arc ( fecwfedly more Liberal than the average of the men displaced , at least politically—as Elton , ! King lajce ,. Thompson , Tbelaavsy , Sianet , Co » X 3 sreHAM . If from others we may cot expect larger professions with regard to the ¦ ' suffrage . ' extension , f rpa * sorne

      of them we have liad at least a . more positive and determined enforcement of opinions favourable to the interests of the largest numbers . James Caiiid ., returned for Dartmouth , will bring into the House of Coininons a considerable amount of active and practical information on the subject of agriculture and its progress . The political news from over the seas partakes of the same uncertain character that we have noted for some time past . General Sir Ja ^ ies OimtAM lias inflicted a slushing- wound , upon the army of SOOJAH .-O 0 L-MooLK 3 the Persian General , who has been degraded , it is said , for his failure . His whole army may be said to have been beaten by a few squadrons of

      cavalry . But > inflicted after the declaration of peace , the stroke is not in all respects happy . It is not likely to unsettle the settlement , for such things have frequently happened : and if Persia were to complain , we might reply that it serves her right , for having no penny post , railways , or telegraph to expedite intelligence . In . China matters remain exactly as they were , the Admiralty message notwithstanding . Admiral Sey-Mouit , still short of forces , but still keeping up a fire against Canton . And instead of ordering Yeh to conciliate , the .-Emperor , ' 'if he has ordered anything , has ordered the Commissioner to add hypocr is . y to obstinacy . The withdrawal of Count Paak from Turin . b ' v

      Count jBuOL , accompanied as it was by a despatch personally offensive to Count Cavoltk , has been followed by unmistakable demonstrations on . the 22 nd of March in Venice ; the anniversary being celebrated by allusions to Victor Emmanuel , as King of Italy , and Cavouk , as Prime Minister thereof . The state o £ , events is becoming critical ; and again we say it would be interesting to know what our Government is at ? "We have the text of the treaty between , this

      country aiwl the United States on the subject or Central America , with , some indications of the alterations in the Senate , though the copy before us is not perfectly intelligible . Our Ministers had retained some degree of protectorate over the Mosquito Indiaii 3 , whicli the Senate has completely disallowed . But it is scarcely possible that our Government can throw up all the advantages of the treaty from any punctilious ollencc on that point . If it do , it will certainly sacrifice English Interests to personal pique .

      The sudden rising of the Bank : discount on Thursday from . 6 to C % per cent , occasioned a feeling of surprise , though the reasons for it are sufficiently obvious . The people in Paris have been trying to make up 2 , 500 , 000 / . as the first instalment for the Hussian railways—without complete success . The Russian Government has been trying- to raise the wind tor the same purpose . Speciuators in Germany and Holland have been taking advantage of the lowering the discount in Amsterdam to 4 per cent , as a , means of raising capital for railway extensions of tlvc widest kind , centring in Berlin . In every quarter the demand for money is brisk—from the United States to-India . The' Government loan oi

      5-. per , cent . in . India is a failure ; at the same time , for military and . ollicial purposes , the Court of Directors are pouring then- bills into the Eastern Empire , and a state of thiims has been produced which has compelled the BimkTof Bengal to raise its interest on iihe deposit of Government securities to 14 per cent . In fact , there ia a universal raising ol tne wind all round , especially in the North and TSnat , and the Bank of England would soon have had a vacuum if it had not put on the screw \ hile the North

      V of Europe is taking away our gold , it is sending us the cattle murrain , winch is imposed direct from Holstum-tlio phvee it , has reached from the Eastern steppes . The London newspapers are beginning to create a . pluuc about it ; and the prospect of including typhoid hcof unioncst our imports has drawn attention to the fact , that in the meat customarily nold in tho public markets uml especially to tho poor , too large a propottion ' containa pluhiaia , iuoubIqs , small-pox , typhus , oholem

      and many other deadly forms of * epidemic—all permitted , t » go strai g ht fratn > the foul stables of disease through tl » slaaghter-kouse and the kitchen to the living human stomach ; and all for want of something likft- effectual inspection . Fraud in meat almost parallels the frauds in money , whereof a diseased case was anatomised tids week ^ & i the person of Mr . Apsle y IPkuIati' , "before ; t & ie Court of Bankruptcy .

      314 The Leader. [No. 367, Saturday .

      314 THE LEADER . [ No . 367 , Saturday .

      The Kevecctje. ¦B Bmtr. And <Ittadiarek....

      THE KEVECCTJE . ¦ B BMtR . AND < itTAdiarEK . ¦»* MARCH 31 ., 1857 . The Official Return ( says an abstract in the Mornxrvj Post )' shows an increase on the quarter of 115 , 0711 ., ' and on the year of 2 , 525 , 0667 . Customs . —The increase on the year arises on nearly every head of duty , excei ) t tea and coffee , on which there is a decrease ( or postponement ) of revenue of one million , principally owing to the anticipated reduction of the duty in April . The quarter ' s revenue is more especially affected by the same cause .

      J ' jXCIse . — - An increase in the year of S 53 , 84 . 8 Z ., and in the quarter of 91 , 222 / . ; arising principally on spirits , hops , and paper , & e . There would have been a mucli greater increase but for the repeal of the war duty on malt , winch , has affected the revenue of the year about 1 , 000 , 000 ? ., and that of the quarter about 250 , 000 £ ( including the drawbacks on stocks on hand ) . SxAMrs . —An increase of about 296 , 000 £ on the year , and 103 , 00 . 0 ? . on the quarter ; arising from additional revenues from legacy and succession duties and other items . - :: . - . - . . . . . ' . ¦ ¦ . ¦¦'¦' . Land and Assessed Taxes . — -Unimportant variation s both on the year aud quarter . Income-tax—Shows an increase of more than a

      million , derived from the additional twopence in . the pound imposed in 1855 , and wliich did not take full effect until the second half of the year i 855-6 . The quarter shows a smaller comparative increase , the full rate being then iu operation . Post-office . —An increase of correspondence has produced a similar addition to the revenue of both the quarter and the year . Cro" \ vn Lands . —Ko variation of any amount . Miscellaneous . —Casual variation only . .

      Ameeica. The New York Papers Contain Acc...

      AMEEICA . The New York papers contain accounts of the reception of our Minister , Lord ITapier , at Washington . We are told that he " was introduced , to the President by General Gass , and presented his credentials as Minister from England . He was in court dress . In addressing the President as the Envoy of her Britannic Majesty , he said he was instructed to convey to him the earnest desire maintained by the Queen to preserve an d advance on all occasions the interests and happiness of the people of England and America , which are so deeply involved in their amicable intercourse ; and to manifest to him the hearty good wishes which her Majesty cherishes for the prosperitv of the United States . He -ventured to

      : ongratulate tho President on his accession to the highest elective dignity in the country and the world , mying : — ' May you enjoy it ia health , and peace , and ever-increasing honour , and may tho period of your government be distinguished by all the features of public welfare . Permit me , 'he continued , 'to express to you my gratification in being selected to renew and avow at Washington those relations of international friendship which have teen so ably sustained by your representative in London . This important and grateful duty might have been committed to others more capable of doing justice to the sentiments of benevolence which animate my sovereign , her ministers , and every order of her subjects , but no one coukl approach your Excellency

      with greater respect for your person and your office , or a warmer good-will to the American people . ' Lord Napier then delivered tho credential letter which her Majesty had been graciously pleased to entrust to his care . The President in reply offered to Lord Napier a hearty welcome as Envoy lixtraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from her liritannic Majesty to the United States . ' Yotvr sovereign , ' ho said , ' I am convinced , could not have selected a more acceptable rcpi-cwentative than yourself to renew those relations of international-friendship -which I trust may never hereaitcr be interrupted . The earnest and gracious desire expressed by her Majesty to proservo and advance upon all occasions tho interest and happiness of England and America ,

      and tho hearty good wishes which her Majesty chonshes for tho prosperity of the United States , are cordially reciprocated ou my part , and will elicit an enthusiastic response from tho hearts oC the American people . No independent powers have ever boon bound together by material interests of such magnitude as those which iiuito Croat Britain and tho United States . Indeed , the prosperity of tho one i . s nceussurily involved in that of the other ; but mutual interests , however vast , without mutual regard , are not always sudictant to preserve friendship between nations . How happy then am 1 to receive tho assurance that your sovereign , her ministers , and every order of her subjects , arc animated by sentiments of benevoloneo toward tho Government and people of tho Unitod States 1 During my administration , it

      shall be my agreeable duty , as well as my earnest desire >« . mow ** the friendship and mutual good-will now so hi * pily auftaiBtiag between the two countries , and to rencW these , sentiments * strong and enduring . With such « inc « £ and heaxtfcltdispositions on both sides , should difficult ;^ ever aiiee between the two Governments , these will hi easily adjusted ; in a spirit of mutual for bearance and concession . I return your lordship my thanks for vour kind expressions and wishes in reference to myself and feel confident that in our fu ture intercourse we shall nro ceed harmoniously and satisfactorily in ' discharging on * respective duties . '" fc fa r

      The Dallas Clarendon * treaty has been passed bv tho United : States Senate by a . vote of 32 to 15 , bein * iust one ove * the required numbea . Some amendments hare been introduced , asserting that the sovereignty of the Bay Islands 5 s vested exclusively in Honduras- that the sovereignty of the Mosquito coast belongs exclu sively to Nicaragua , the Indians onl y having a possessoiy right to their lands there ; and that the United States do not in any way guarantee any grants of land made to any parties by the Mosquito Indians . The object of the last of these provisions is said to be the discouragement of English colonisation ; butit is thought that England will accede to all the amendments

      The United States Senate has refused to ratify the proposed treaties between the United States and Mexico which were signed by Mr . Forsytli , the American minister at Mexico , on the 11 th of February . These treaties were five in number , depending , one on the other ^ and the whole combining an arrangement , the object cf whicli was to extract Mexico from , its financial embarrassments . Telegraphic despatches from Washington announce the basis of a new treaty with . Mexico . It embraces the acquisition of Sonora and Sinaloa , with the command of the Gulf of California , in consideration of a sum of money . . :

      A horrible railway accident is reported . There is a bridge over a canal at one part of the Great Western Railway ,- . Canada . This bridge is elevated sixty feet above the level of the water ,, and it is a ' swing-bridge . Some injury , it is supposed , had been done to the structure by a train which had passed shortly before the accident . The consequence was that the nekt train was thrown off the line , and precipitated into the canal . From seventy-five to one hundred passengers were in the carriages at the time , of whom only fifteen were taken alive from the wreck , and of these iiye haye since died . Another railway accident , though less destructive , has occurred . It happened on the 13 th ult . on the Pennsylvania Railroad , at Altoona station . An emigrant train standing on the track was run into by a heavy freight train , crowding the rear car into the one before it , causing the instant death of six of the passengers , and mutilating ten or . twelve others .

      The city of Sarapiqui has been retaken by . Walker , who attacked it with a force of two hundred men and two nine-pounders . The assault went on for about fourand-twenty hours , when the Costa-liicans were obliged to yield . VYalker , it is said , lost only two men killed and . three wounded ; the enemy had eleven killed and twenty wounded . Castille is also reported to have fallen into Walker ' s hands , with a loss of eight killed and twenty wounded on his side , and thirty-two killed and sixty wounded on the part of the Costa-Ricans . One of those disgraceful personal encounters which are unfortunately frequent h > the American Houses of Legislature , took place a short time ago in tho Missouri Parliament . Mr . Albin , of Gentrv , vas making " a

      porsonal explanation "—generallj' a great source of quarrel ; and in the course of it he reflected severely on Mr . Singleton , of Andrew . What follows we give in the singular and somewhat Rabelaisian language of the Inquirer : — " Here Mr . Singleton , of Andrew , rose from his seat and advanced to the side of his desk , towards the left centre aisle ; when ho arrived at tho front edge thereof , he with 3 iis right hand grippledforhisinkbottle ; a second clutch secured it . Drawing back , he threw it with much forco at Mr . Albin . The bottle , scattering its contents all along its route , struck the desk of Mr . Albin in front of him , and bounced oft" , carrying iuth u a handkerchief , just glancing over the face of Mr . Dame * , of Scott , whoso sent is about in a line with the scat oi Mr . Albii ) . Upon this , and quicker than we can pen inch

      tho act , Mr . Albin drew from his breast a seven-Colt ' s revolver , which he pointed with unerring certainty , and which ho held with a wonderful steadiness , directly at Mr . Singleton . Gentlemen surrounding either person rushed towards them , not , however , until Mr . Singleton had stooped down , in the attempt , as it would appear , to raise a spittoon , Mr . Clover , of St . Louis , who happened to be near , caught the arm of Mr . Albin , ami , nt the same time , with hia loft hand , forced tho p istol up to tho ceiling . By this timo , the Speaker collected h »« - solf , aud ordered tho two persons under arrest . Mr . Albin made some resistance by words , but , on the recommendation of his fiioiidn , ho ' left the hall in cusiody «» tho Serjeant-at-arms . Mr . Singleton was not lor tut present molested"

      , , Tho new President is very unwell , owing , i" « £ '' <*' degrco , it in said , to tho constant worrying of F uy phux ' -huntora , who importuno him for posts night nui ilny , and try to force thomselves into hid privnto rooms . He was slightly nflected by the clhnato , but was getting well ngrein , when tho anxiety caused a relapse . Commander Swartwont , of tho United States . stcnmor

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04041857/page/2/