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    3fl g 389, September 5, 1857.] TE E : LE...

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    CONTINENTAL SOTES. FRANCE. After a brief...

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    It is said that the United States Government -has defcjnnioed to send -a vessel of wax to the Australasian . Jkrdarpelago , to ascertain what commercial intercourse < can be establiAed with the natives , and also with a probable view to a naval station . ¦ " There now iseeaas to be no doubt , " saya the . New Tori : J & ail y Times , "that the boundary dispute between . ¦ Corta JJica 2 nd Nicaragua has been settled . The . boundary w to run from Castillo , oa the San Juan Biver , to flie lay of Salinas , < m the Pacific Coast , giving to Costa . -Rica all the south , bank of . the San Juan from Castillo to San Jnan del . Narte , including Punta Arenas , where jare all the buildings of the Transit Company . Fort San . Oarlfls aaid Castillo Yiejo hav « been restored to . Nicaragua . " The Government of the United States ,

    fcoTV-• ever , is opposed to ibis anrangement . The revolution in Peru 6 till drags its slow length , along . Vivanco , at the last advices , remained at Areqnipa , with About a thousand or fifteen hundred men , and in great want of provisions and funds , so that there -was JBome prospect of the Government forces starvingiaim out . An attack on Arequipa by the army of the Prasident was also anticipated . An insult has been offered to the United States viceconsul at Mazatlan , Mexico . A vessel from San ITraacisco was sold rn satisfaction of the claim of a private individual . Against this proceeding the viceconsul protested ; tiut , the protest being regarded as a . contempt of the judicial authorities , the United States ^ representative was imprisoned , and so remained at the last dates . Tie election returns in Mexico indicate the probability of Comonfort being elected by an overwhelming . majority . Ajgreat deal of anxiety has been exhibited * rith respect to the Spanish quarrel , and General Alvasces , has issued a manifesto , which is described as fiercely antagonistic to Spain . The Tehuantepec transit route ¦ lias been the subject of much comment . Santa Anna has ivritten a letter denying the authorship of the bom--bastic proclamation lately put forward under his name . A postal convention has been concluded between the United States and Hamburg . A Madrid paper , the Peninsula , announces that the secret treaty spoken of between the United States and Mexico is to the effect that tlte former Power should .. -supply to the latter , in case of war with Spain , 15 , 000 or 20 , 000 armed volunteers , wtio should go , under the M ^ x 5 e * n flag , i © take possession , of Cuba , the Americans also furnishing equipments and vessels . A murder has been committed in the Sliaw House dinmg-saloon in Broadway , New York . The facts are tons related : — - " The parties to the affray were an actor named 2 Tymns , lately engaged at Wallack ' s Theatre , and a Tombs lanryer named Wagstaff . Tliey met in tlie bar-room and soon quarrelled—about a woman , it is said—and after many hard epithets Wagstaff struck Hymns a powerful blow . Nymns , recovering iu a moment , drew a revolver and fired twice in quick succession at Wagstaff . The first ball hit Wagstaff ' s arm , and passed into the breast , injuring Ihe lungs . The second ball passed , through the mouth , arid upwards through the head , a part of which was shot off . Wagataff fell to the jfloor a corpse . N " ynins retreated immediately to the street , -and had not been arrested when the steamer left . Wagstaff and Nynins were well known about the town . " Some details have beeu published of the loss of the-American barque Monasc > . From these , we learn that , " on the 21 st of July , she ran on Corbin Head , and soon went down , carrying with her fifty-four Swedish passengers . Immediately upon striking , Captain D-ailey , thinking the ship had struck an iceberg , ran up

    fcoin the cabin , and placing himself and his wife in the ¦ quartei ' -boat , , gave commands to the crew which they . hastened to obey . It was presently found tliat the ship was rapidly filling . The steward , at the order of the captain , proceeded to stock the quarter-boat with provisions . The captain threatened to shoot the sailors and passengers who attempted to get into the quarter-boat with liina . After much labour , they succeeded iu safely launching the lifo-bont . Tlie captain , finding that the quarter-boat could-not be launched , ran with his wife to the side of the aliip where tlus long-boat laj ,, and was taken into it . He immediately ordered it to bo cut loose , refused to admit the steward , who had stocked the quarter-boat with provisions for him , and held the lantern that lie and hia wife might descend the vowel ' s side in . safieiy . In the morning , the shore was visible about half- a anile distant , and the stern of the vessel was atill jsix or eight feet above the water , with ; the steward and tano passengers clinging to it- Twelve jpassciigera were landcd . from the boat , and tlio remaining tour ^ proceeded . to the wreck And aaved those upon it . Tlio . survivors then walked to Burrin ( N . F . } , and were jundly received by the villagers . On the Saturday following , they B « ilod for St . Peter ' s . The United States caaaul at 3 L Potor ' a # ave them food nud clothing , and aflat them to Now York by tho French brig Louia Gillis . aoo ca ptain had made an error of ono hundred and twenty milesin liis reckoning . " Jj ^ dcrick Baxter , tho absconding bankrupt , lias been , . UUBtod out in JSTow York by the linglish and American iPoHoc A auta a £ 1 £ 0 L was obtained from him , out of "is nii & iQinr © prialio 4 ifl . '

    Considerable excitement has been caused at the St . ^ Nicholas Hotel in consequence of the discovery of defalcations to the amoral of 20 , 000 dollars on the part of one of the entry clerks in the establishment The accused vras arrested , . and remained in custody , awaiting an investigation . Intelligence , considered to be reliable , has been received at the Interior Xtepartmeut at Washing-ton to the ¦ effect that Brigham Young was preparing to resist General Harney on his entry into Utah , and that he continued to hold up the United States Government to the contempt of the Mormons . Messrs . Edward C Bates and Co ., merchants of Boston , are reported as suspended , with liabilities to the ntnonnt of half a million of dollars , and assets to nearly the same amount . They have been interested largely in the sugar trade . The failure -will not affect tlie Cu ^ - nard Steam-ship Company , for which they are the Boston agents . It is also reported that Messrs . Blanchard , Sherman , and Co ., commission merchants and shipowners of the same < city , have suspended payment in consequence of the failure of E . C . Bates and Co . Their liabilities arc said to be half a million of dollars , and their assets about a quarter of a million . Mr . J . C . Brayman , editor of tlie Oiiicago Democrat , was arrested on the 21 st ult ., for robbing the post-ofHce drawer of money-lettens , which , were found iu his possession , and was held to bail in 3000 dollars to await his trial .

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    Continental Sotes. France. After A Brief...

    CONTINENTAL SOTES . FRANCE . After a brief respite , the hot weather has again set in at Paris , and all who can get away from the parched desert of a city do so . One of the . newspapers has observed that Paris is left without a Parisian ; and the correspondents of the London journals only record that there is nothing to record . Tie very amusements flag for want of patronage . ; and people whose occupations will allow them to idle , lounge 011 sofas and talk of tho splendid harvest , and of the no less magnificent vintage , which is expected to rival 1 S 11 , the comet year . The Debate contains a budget of miscellaneous intelligence from Senegal and the French West India Islands . In Upper Senegal , the Mahoniedan chief , El Hadj Omar , after having been twice repulsed in tierce attacks on the fort of MeMine , had announced his intention of taking it by famine . He had also proclaimed throughout Senegambia and Guinea that , when he should have finished ' with Senegal , he would attack Gambia , Goree , and all the establishments on the West Coast of Africa , whence he was resolved to expel the Europeans . Meanwhile , he has been , detained two months by a fort of no great strength , into which , notwithstanding the Llockade , supplies have been thrown , and to . which relief was sent in July . From Guadaloupe ive learn that the first cargo of African labourers has arrived by the ship Phoenix . She left the coast of Africa with two hundred and ninety-six on board , and lost fourteen on the passage , -which lasted thirty-nine days . The Emperor left Paris last Saturday fur the camp at Chalons-sur-Marnc . The African trials have been brought to n conclusion . Captain Poineau has been condemned to death . Out of the eighteen Arabs accused , seventeen are sentenced to twenty years' hard labour . It remains to bo seen whether the Emperor will commute any of these condemnations . Marshal Rxuidon has been summoned to Paris immediately , in order to confer with the Government , with respect to the abuses indicated by the trial , and the necessity of reforming the Aral ) bureaux . The Tribunal of Commerce has decided that ( ho iwo

    Thumey . ssens , father and son , are liable to the full extent of the debts of their relatives who recently absconded . Vice Admiral Bergeret , the oldest of French Admirals , died at Paris last Saturday in the eighty-seventh year of his age . Orders have been given for the repair of the Chateau of St . Germain , at tlie cost of the Civil Lint . The Council-General of the department of the Ik ' rault , presided over by M . Michel Chevalier , has held its annual meeting , aiul unanimously passed strong resolutions in favour of a revision of the French Customs ' tariffs . A horrible ! cusc of matricide has recently come before the Court of Assizes of the Gnrd . The facts me thus stated : — The woman , who lived at Montlion , had been married three times , but last March again received the addresses of a man named Chivasy . As a nmrringo with that person would probably have had the effect of depriving the two sons by the woinuu ' a first husband of some property which , for a person in her station—that of « peasant—was not inconsiderable , tha two young men conceived a mortul hnlml of her , arid after a while they openly declared that if she persisted in the iinjjcct of marrying again they would murder her . On the morning of the JMUh of April last it was noticed that the woman ' s . shutterH remaiucd closed , and her two sons , who did not live with her , wore « ent for . Q'Jicy entered bur chamber , ucconipanied by some neighbours , and fdio was found lying dead in the bed with a sheet over her fuco ; bhu whs dreadfully bcaton about the head , anil on her throat wuh the mark of a violent pressure from a cord . From marks

    _ of blood and other circumstances , it clearl y appeared that the woman ninst have been murdered at the bottom of the stairs , and then carried up to her bed ; but as she was a r emarkably strong woman , it appeared anorally certain that one man alone couM not have killed her - there were , moreover , no signs of any forcible entrance into the house , neither had any robbery , nor attempt at robbery , been made ; lastly , no one , except her two sons , had reason for putting her to death . All this threw strong suspicion on the two yourg men , and , besides , it was noticed that neither had manifested the slightest surprise or regret at finding the poor "woman dead . They were arrested , and on being interrogated the voanger , Antoine , after a tirue confessed it was they who had done the deed . ' . We went , ' he said , * ta tlie house together , and jny mother ou seeing us asked " What do you want ? " I answered , " Jacques means to kill you , and he has forced me to come and help him . " The woman raided a cry of horror , but at the same moment Jacques struck her about the . head with some blunt instrument until she fell to the ground . He then told me to strangle her with a cord which we had brought , and I did so , while he held her . When she was dead - \ ve carried the body up-srairs , and placed it in the bed . ' The jurj- declared tlie two brothers guilty , but with extenuating circumstances ( I ) , and the court sentenced tliem to liard labour for life . " Some other horrible cases have also recently occurred . ITALY . The High Court-of Justice at Salerno , appointed to examine the charges against the prisoners taken on board the Pieumontese steam packet Cagliari ,. has published its decree ckelanng that 110 proof of guilt exists against Francisco Masehero , a Spnnianl , physician to the Bev of Tunis : Ross Maschero , wife of the preceding ; Jules Schneider , a Prussian ; Eligio Mo , of Turin ; Vincento Donadei . ol " Turin ; Johannes Pominico Dnrando , of Viu , province of Turin ; Ferdinamlo Uormiolo ' d'Altare , province of Savona—the last four subjects of the King of Sardinia . The prisoners were immediately discharged . The quarrel between the ' ^ capoliuui a nd Sardinian Governments , with respect to the Piedmontese subjects taken on board the Cayliuri , has been arranged to tho satisfaction of both cabinets . " I have learnt , " says the Times Neapolitan correspondent , "that several alterations of considerable interest to the public have been made in the terms of the concession granted to 31 . de Nommim for laying down a submarine telegraph from Sicily to Malta , and from Sicily to Cape Bon , by the Island of Pantellaria . According to these alterations , each line is to be independent . If , after fifteen or twenty yearn , it be fouiul that the line does not pay , the concession is to bu annulled at the will of tlie concessioniiaire . Despatches through may be sent iu English , French , or Italian , instead of , as at present , only in French or Italian . Lastly , the Government , for secret service , will lay down a separate wire through tho kingdom and a separata submarine wire through tlie Straits at their own expense . These new conditions are all of great ininortunce , ami those who have had any experience in continental telegraphs will well know liow to appreciate tho permission to semi despatches in Kn ^ Tish . The lino of transmission ( to omit smaller , intervening pl . icvs ) will bo from Malta to Alga Grande , Kcggio , Messina , 2 s ' apli's , Home , Bologna , Modona , Trieste , through Prussia , Holland , the Hague , and so on to the ollice in Lothbury . " The l'opi . , while staying at ilorcnce , consecrated four new prelate—the Archbishop of Florence , and tho l . risbops of Volterra , IMontopuleiano , and Fiesolo . This was done with much pomp in the church of Sunta Marin ( 11 * 1 I'UiVii I lut mi vt i-i ^ j-ii'iiiiijii I *! .... . 1 ........ 1 ... 1 I * . lis * * iki

    -..-. — ..,... ^ « . <_ . * .... * Miutuiij ^ , x iuo uijjtiiluii lui x isa * He appears to have been received -with outward respect , but nut with enthusiasm ; und many epigrams at h is expense liavu been circulated . The nomination of tlie Duke de drannnont as tho representative of France at tlie court of Koine lias ^ jivca some degree of hopefulness to the Liberal party in Italy , as seeming to indicate an intention on thu part , of thu French Einiioror to press on thu Human Government tho subject uf xufonn . The Pope is also miid to hnvo c . kprcHsecl hiniMuir with bitterness as to tin : appointment . Lord mid Lady Nornmnby have passed through Turin on their way to England . Hid Lordship was huttlily summoned by telegraph iu consequence of the serious illness of onu of his brothers , and ia expected to return in about six wooks . The commencement of the timiiul through Mont Ccnis has been inaugurated l » y tho King of . Sardinia . Tlio ceremony went on" admirably . Prince . Napoleon , wliu went to thu spot 011 jmrpo . se , wjxh present , und iuunudinloly afterwards took leuvu of luo King , nud departed f <> r Puris . JtUHHIA . The Princess Cecilia of Uudeu was coiilirincd ut . St . Petersburg on the loth ult . according to ilio x ' ltuu of tins Creek Church . After a \ a : had in ado her proioHaiou of fjalh in the Kurf . iian lan ^ ungu , tlio Emperor ^ roehuincrt her a Kussian Grand-Duchena , with the nuiuu of Olgit Fcodorovua . OKUMAJiJV . That the Emperor of ltuaniu will viait Grennany iu ilio courau of the prcsonl montii in now couuidorod certain . Ho will arrive at Bvrliu on ilia l £ th , butgWiU ^ uujr mtuy

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05091857/page/7/