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      State Ql? Trade. Manoiikhtisk, During Th...

      felt that the list is not yet closed . The general trades of Birmingham do not as yet show any signs of resuscitation ; bat money matters are easier . An improvement as regards textile fabrics is reported from Norwich ; and at Dublin business is sound , but dull , as usual at Christmas . At Nottingham , Leicester , Leeds , Bradford , Halifax , and Kidderminster , trade still continues very languid , and there arc many unemployed persons . ** The stoppage of machinery and the working of short time , " says a communication in a daily paper , are telling with increased severity upon the labouring classes in the borough of Bradford . Aocording to a return laid before the board of guardians at their last meeting , the total number of persons in receipt of parochial relief in the week ending the 23 rd ult . was 5072 , of Avhom 4368 were outdoor recipients . In the corresponding week of last year , the total number of all classes of paupers was the increase in the week the

      3177 ; consequently , ending 23 rd ult . was 1895 as compared -with the j-ear 1656 . The number of able-bodied men employed at test labour , or to whom the labour test is applicable , has now reached about 500 . All the men employed at test work turned out on the pay day last week and held a meeting , at which some violent language was uttered . They afterwards went in a body to the workhouse , their object being to obtain an additional allowance of money . At the workhouse they were informed that the guardians had determined to add another shilling to the weekly relief of every fanul j ' . This intelligence seemed , to pacify them , and on the following day they returned to their labour . Belief has been distributed on three days of last week among the unemployed workpeople of Bradford by the executive committee appointed to dispense the fund raised by subscription for the purpose of alleviating the prevalent distress . "

      " The general business of the port of London during the week ending last Saturday , " says the Times , has been very inactive . The number of . ships reported inwards was 128 , including 9 with cargoes of sugar , 4 with dried fruit , and 17 with corn , flour , & c . The number cleared outward was 9 G , including 19 in ballast ; and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 50 , out of which 2 were entered outwards in September , 9 in October , and 19 in November . "

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      Ireland. Death Or Judge Moouk.—After An ...

      IRELAND . Death or Judge Moouk . —After an illness of some weeks , Judge Moore , of the Irish Court of Queen ' s Bench , died about eleven o ' clock ou the night of Thursday week , in the seventy- iifth year of his age . Vicehf . g . u . ArroiXTMKNTS . —The Earl of Carlisle ( who has receutly returned to Dublin after a rather long absence ) has made the following appointments in his household : —Major George Bugot , to be Controller ; Mr . Robert Williams , to be Gentleman Usher and Master of the Ceremonies ; Mr . Frederick Willis , to be Chamberlain .

      The Gold Mania . —A strange story of the panic is told by a Cork paper . During the height of the run for gold , a man residing in the neighbourhood of Carrigaline , determined to draw out from one of the Cork banks the aum of 700 / . which he had deposited there . He did so , but soon bocamo alarmed lest his house should be attacked nt night and the money bo abstracted . Accordingly , he sat up night and day , armed to tho teeth , and at length , bis reason giving way , he fancied that the house was actually being eutorud . On Christmas-cvc , he became so violent that it took four men to restrain him i and he is now in a lunatic asylum . The Bank of Iuici . ani > has issued a notice reducing Hie rate of intort-. st for deposits ) to four per cent . National Education Boaud . —Mr . Thomas O'Hagan , Q . C ., and Assistant-Barrister for tho County of Dublin , has accepted tho ollieo of Commissioner of National Education .

      Suai'F . oxwD Mukdi'X—Jamoa Barrett , a milosman on tho Killurnoy Junction Railway , wan found last Saturday morning lying dead in a cutting on tho lino at Gortmoro , distant about half a mile from tho Lombardstown station . The body was a good deal mangled , and it ia thought tho man was murdered .

      America. Kansas Continues To Occupy Much...

      AMERICA . Kansas continues to occupy much attention , botli within and without tho walls of the Senate and House of ltopresontutivos . Mr . Douglas in the Upper and Mr . Banks in tho Lower House , havo introduced bills authorizing tho people of Kansas to form a State Government . Governor Walker has sont in his resignation , and thoro is a doubtful report that General Lano has been shot by a Government official at Locompton in a disturbance at Fort Scott . Sovorul lives , it ia added , woro lost , and some troupe woro despatched to < iuoll tho outbreak . —^ DoapatClrc 8 "i ' rom * the-Utali w oxxiodillon-l » avo ^ beon-rocoivod . They stato that tho whole force , with tho exception of Colonel Oooko and hid command , had concentrated at Blaok ' fl Fort , and woro moving towards Fort Bridger . Their progress was vory slow , only two or three miles a day being somotimos made . Tho animals were ' giving out' hourly , and it was thought nil would parish . Tho supply trains had roaolicd the military , and provisions woro abundant . Orders havo boon issued to tho Fodoral ofllcors at tho South to atop all vessels bound for tho relief of Walkor ,

      and also to arrest the steamer Fashion . Captain Chatard , of the Saratoga , is to be superseded for allowing Walker to land . At Mobile , a revenue cutter has fired into a new steamer under the impression that she was a filibustering vessel . A vessel lias been seized at New York on suspicion of being a slaver . Some other slavers have been captured bv American and English vessels . Fifteen persons were killed by the burning of the steam-ship Colonel Edwards , on the Red River , on the 19 th ult . The navigation on all the New York canals is closed by ice . Barnum ' s house at Bridgeport was totally destroyed by fire on the 17 th idt . ; the loss was one hundred thousand dollars .

      The frigate Jamestown has been ordered to Greytown ; and a resolution calling for all correspondence with reference to alleged losses by the' bombardment of that city has been adopted in the Senate . That assembly has confirmed the appointment of Mr . Lamar , of Texas , as Minister to Central America , and has passed a bill authorizing the issue of 20 , 000 , 000 dollars of Treasury notes . The operation of the Act is limited to one year , and notes of a less denomination than one hundred dollars are prohibited . The aspect of commercial affairs continues to brighten . Mr . James M . Buchanan , of Baltimore , has been nominated Minister for Russia . The correspondence which took place about a year ago with reference to the bombardment of Greytown has been published . It contains the negotiations between the Government and the French Minister as regards the claims for compensation by French subjects at Greytown , but leaves the matter in abeyance . No correspondence with the English Minister is published .

      From Yucatan -we learn that the revolution in Campea ehy has been suppressed . The roads in Mexico are described as being literally in the hands of the brigands . Tho Pronunciados have adopted , as a means of getting money , the plan of seizing the managers of the large farms and keeping them in durance till a large ransom is paid for them . The Government forces have had an encounter -with the rebels near Puebla , and beat them , at the same time inflicting on them great loss .

      Continental Notes. That Narrow And Unchr...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling" is to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion of tne human i-ace but that to which itself belongs . £ b . Ajinold . FRANCE . The late unseasonable warmth of the weather at Paris bus changed , as in London , to very great cold > accompanied by fog . The Paris winters used to be distinguished for their bright clearness ; but recently the fogs of London have made their way across tho Channel to the capital of our neighbours . "Augustc Martin , tho author of a book entitled ' True and False Catholics , ' and M . Briere , the printer of the work , " says a letter from Paris , " have been tried before the police-court of Paris for an attack on the liberty of worship and on the respect due to tho laws . Martin's

      book professes to teach that the liberty of religious worship renders the action of the Church impotent . It blames the Government in strong language for admitting certain heresies which it authorizes , and particularly the Protestant sects . It reminds the Government that both the Divine and human law regard those as accomplices in evil-doing who possess the power to prevent the commission of sin and permit its perpetration . It warns those who govern men that their duty is , if there be resistance on tho part of their subjects , to use all material means to force them to silence . Tho court sentenced Murtin to imprisonment for six months , and to pay a line of 2000 f ., and Briere to pay a fine of lOOOf . " columns of of

      Tho Jlo / tifour publishes six names military men on whom the Emporor has conferred decorations . Kosaini has addressed a letter to the president and members of tho Society of Musical Composers and Publishers at Pnris , expressing his readiness to accept the post of member of tho society , to which he had been named dnring his absence in Italy . Tho first number has boon published of a now weokly paper under the editorship of M . Granior do Casaagnac , Deputy of tho Corps LJgislatif , and one of tho rtldacteura of tho Constitutiomwl . The first article is writton by M . do Cassagnao himself . It is divided into ton chapters , and tho object is to show that the current literature of Franco , whether of tho press or of tho stage , is depraved

      and poisonous , and that it stands greatly in need of reform . The writer therefore undertakes ' to wage the same war against bad literature' as ho had previously ' waged aguiust bad politics . ' Of tholattor he thinks the loasfc ~ aaid _ tho .-bQUer . ^ WJ » s » iuAj 3 ^^ journalism is strong ; but now Franco lias a strong administration , and so " questions and affuir e remain within tho oirolo of Government Tho press envenomed questions without solving thorn ; tho Govornmont solves them without envenoming them . " With respect to this stato of things , M , do Cussngnao exclaims , " Lot us praisp God for it ! " The article altogether is a curious cxompHucation of the peculiar intellectual phase through , which Franco in now passing :. " 1 am iuforinud , " saya the Daily Nowa Paris corre

      spondent , " that the Emperor has personally congrata lated the Sardinian Ambassador , M . Villa Marina , on tb result of the vote an Count Cavour ' a motion for an in quiry into the alleged illegal manoeuvres of the clergyjt the late elections ia Piedmont . This is a very importan fact , because Count Cavour grounded his motion in pax upon the generally encroaching policy of the Catholu priesthood , as evidenced by their receut conduct in France as well as other countries . " Great precautions are being taken to prevent the transmission of yellow fever from Lisbon to the French ports . Several of the small military posts in and about Paris have been suppressed .

      Villet , Bourse , and Lemaire , the three leaders of tht band of assassins and robbers which had long infestec Picardy , were executed at Amiens on Thursday week They died with courage , though with a singular tnixtun of religion and levity . The Empress is seriously indisposed .

      RUSSIA . A rescript , dated the 17 th ult ., has been addressed t < the Governor-General of St . Petersburg , and signed by the Emperor Alexander , establishing a special committee in the government of St . Petersburg , to be composed oJ two members from each district , elected by and from the nobles possessing property in those districts , and of twe members selected by the Governor-General of St . Petersburg from among the most enlightened proprietors , the whole presided over by the Marshal of the Government noblesse , and to proceed immediately to the elaboration , for the government of St . Petersburg , of the project already published intended to ameliorate the condition of the peasants . ITALY .

      An important debate has taken place in the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies , on a protest addressed by the Mayor of Strambiuo to the Assembly against the election of the Marquis Birago , a gentleman belonging to the Roman Catholic p £ rty , who has hitherto been greatly respected even by his enemies . The protest is on the ground of spiritual intimidation having been exercised , and bribes offered by the priests , to secure the election of the Marquis . A long discussion ensued on the reading of this document ; but the speech of the evening was that delivered by Count Cavour , who made some admirable remarks , in which , while freely admitting the right of the priestly party to spread their opinions in all open ways , and to influence the elections by fair canvassing and agitation , he denounced their

      tendency , as evinced not only in Sardinia , but in Switzerland , France , Belgium , and Ireland , to go back to the tyranny and darkness of the middle ages , and to interfere with the free action of the people by spiritual terrorism . While they keep within the law , he would respect their proceedings , and did not fear them , because he had faith in progress ; but , if they endeavoured to reconquer ancient privileges—if they exceeded or broke the law—then he would oppose them with all his strength . He thought there should be an inquiry into the facts alleged in the protest ; and , if the abuses were proved , it would be the duty of Government to correct them by

      existing laws , should such exist , or , if not , to introduce a law which should meet the necessity . Count Solaro della Margherita , in opposing the inquiry , said that the priestly party desired reconciliation with the Holy See . This declaration was received with laughter by the Liberal party . Tho debate was adjourned . On being resumed tho following day , the proposition before tho House , which was moved by Signor Cadorna , and which affirmed " that the use of spiritual means on the part of the clergy to influence the elections constitutes a moral pressure which may give occasion for inquiry , " was carried by about two to one in a more than average Assembly .

      The submarine telegraph from San Giovanni to Messina has been broken , in course of laying , across a sharp rock , in consequence of excessive tension . Tho distance to be traversed was only iivo miles ; but seventeen days were consumed in the proceedings before tho accident . Tho cable will now be laid from Beggio to Messina , a distance of twenty miles . Poorio and tho other Neapolitan captives in the prison of Moutosarobio were 'Subjected a few weeks ago to a vigorous search for seorot correspondence ; but nothing was found . Indeed , they aro so oiosely guardod that it is almost impossible that any document could roach them without tho cognizance of the authorities .

      Thirty thousand persons wore bled in Naples after the earthquake , as tho Neapolitans always hove reconrse to tho lancot when they havo received a shook to their nerves . Tho barbers hare had so much to do that they havo hardly boon able to answer tho demand . Vory distressing accounts aro still received of the disastrous oft ' uets of tho oarthquako . It is thought that , at the mo ? rnBUomo ~^ n p % tHtlott ^ of thirteen or l ' ourtoon thousand . Shocks aro still lolt from time to time in the city of Naplow , and grave apprehensions aro entertained . Four short but severe shocks of ourthquako were ielfc at St . Gorvais ( Savoy ) on tho 38 th ult ., at intervals of tliraa or four minutes each . TUo cutting through of Mount Conis has commenced , and about twenty yards havo already boon excavated . Tho nyutom employed thus far has beon the ordinary ono

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09011858/page/3/