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      America. Tins " Difficulty" With Mr. Crn...

      Washington , and compelled to return and anchor in the Jforth River . Two officers were sent onboard , where about three hundred and fifty young men " , mostly in destitute circumstances , were found . A disagreement arose between these officers . and Captaan Tinklepaugh , a custom-house agent , and ultixaately the hawser -was cast off , and the steamer proceeded down the bay on her voyage , with the United States officera on board . The revenue cutter was towed after her , and she was again brought to . The passengers were ordered to remain on board during the night , but some were smuggled on shore . On the following morning security was given for the ship ; the chief officers were held to bail ; and the steamer was released . Several persons , including the Nicaraguan minister , were arrested , and many of the passengers were pxit ashore .

      Referring to this event , the Trilune says that the United States authorities have been furnished with affidavits and documents—which they deem unrefutable—showing that a wide-spread movement has been commenced all along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to send men and arms to Nica xagua , for the purpose of organising an army in that State to deseend upon Cuba and St . Domingo , and wrest them from , their present possessors . After the consummation of this design , the parties interested in the movement propose to unite into one confederacy the State of Nicaragua and such other portions of Central America as may be acquired by conquest or otherwise , Cuba and St . Domingo , and either to set up a separate republic , or to apply for admission into the American Union as slave States .

      At new Tork , theie was an active demand for money , but with an adequate supply , at ten to twelve per cent . A Legislative Quabbel in Grenada . —The legislative business of the Grenada session was opened on the 27 th of November . In consequence of a difference which existed in reference to Jhe Money Bill for 1856 , the House sent an address to the Executive , praying for an adjournment until the 17 th of February . This not having been granted , the House had refused to meet , and it was rumoured that his Excellency intended convening it by proclamation for the 18 th of December .. It wap believed that this would lead to a dissolution , which would be fraught with great Inconvenience to the public .

      32 T He Leader, [No. 303, Saturday,

      32 T HE LEADER , [ No . 303 , Saturday ,

      The Orient. Bubmah.-—(From A Private Cor...

      THE ORIENT . Bubmah .- —( From a Private Corespondent ) . —There is but little news to seiid you from Burmab . Major Phayre ' s embassy was to have left Ava on the 15 th , Tmd would reach Pronae on the 22 nd . The Goyernor-~ k ?! 12 TS , » 1 £ aZpec ' cea to visit Kangoon during November , and will perhaps make a trip up country , but will of course not visit Ava . This whole country is perfectly tranquil . The embassy was most courteously received , and it is said that the arrangements made by Major Phayre with his Burmese Majesty have been satisfactory to both parties . This country is marvellously fertile , and only requires men properly so called to make it of immense -value .

      An Englishman s Experience op the Rebellion in \ China . —A gentleman in China , writing to a friend in Exeter , says : — " The rebellion still continues in China , but is now priucipally confined to the mountainous parts . The rebels in the neighbourhood of Canton were som « time since driven away and captured , and the trade has fceen revived . By a report , obtained recently from , good authority , it appears that upwards of 70 , 000 men have been publicly executed l > in Canton since the commencement of the Chinese new year , on the 17 th of February last . The same authority states the number put to death at Shan-king-fu at 27 , 000 , and about 25 , 000 at the taking of the fort in

      Blenheim Reach , and the subsequent captured among the villages thereabouts . I believe , however , that the numbers ' are very much understated . I was at Canton in February last ; and visited the rebels at tfco fort in . Blenheim Reach . I went also to the execution ground at Canton , and it stank worse than half-a-dozen slaughter-houses . The sides of the walls were sprinkled and covered with blood . The cloths and 'tails' of the unfortunate wretches were lying in heaps , and the ground was covered with clotted and dried calces of human blood . In many of the villages near Blenheim fort , and other places adjoining , houses have been erected where suspected

      or proscribed persons may . commit suicide , and thus aave their posthumous reputations , and be buried by their friends ; and hundreds arc said to have gone to tne _ ne places ( whero thoir bodies would bo identified ) , and put an end to their existence by hanging or taking opium . Many women ( probably those who had lost all hope of support or safety ) have alao destroyed thertiselvoa . Such tilings as these show Iiow sad is tue state of native society , and how wide-spread in the desolation the insurrection has caused in that province . Its results , so far m one can judge , have ft 7 S-f 1 9 totllfl l P !() of both parties . nnt ^ . . « J -, «<» f tjwlendere , Named Ka . n din , was ESL ^ f * * by » lm § orin 8 punishment—having been out up mto one hundred and eight piecee There

      arc three grades of this mode of execution ; the other two , where the criminal is divided into twenty-four or thirty-six pieces , not being considered bo disgraceful . This leader headed the bands which threatened the north of the city last autumn and winter . More that three hundred of lesser note were executed the same day , and on one day last month over seven hundred were executed . There baa been a festival of seven daya lately held , something like

      an All Souls * festival , f « r the repose of the spirits of the officers and soldiers killed during the contest . One of the most affecting sights connected with the matter is that of one hundred or more coolies , lounging about the streets , waiting for the executions , that they may pounce upon and seize the yet palpitating bodies , to hurry off with them to the pita . I have no doubt that the number of lives lost on both sides throughout the empire , since the rebellion commenced , is 2 , 000 , 000 . "

      Toktube in India . —A man named Muntoo , who was arrested tit Calcutta on a charge of theft , has been tortured by the Mohurrir to make him confess . According to his own account , he was hung to the rafters by ihe wrists , severely beaten , and squeezed with a bamboo . The fact having been brought under the notice of the higher authorities , the Mohurrir and his accomplices were committed for trial , and , being convicted , were sent to work in chains on the Alipore gaol .

      Ireland. Legal Promotion In Ibeland.—Mr....

      IRELAND . Legal Promotion in Ibeland . —Mr . Matthew B . Sausse , Q . C ., formerly Crown prosecutor on the Leinster Circuit , has been appointed to a seat on the judicial bench at Bombay . The salary is £ 6 , 000 a-year . Sir William Jeffcott , Recorder of Penang , another member of the Irish bar , had been recently promoted to that office , but died before he heard of his advancement . The Shipping Teade of Belfast . —The Belfast papers publish the annual list of the vessels registered in the Custom ' s revenue , as arrived at that port on the 1 st of January , 1856 . From this semi-official document it transpires that the commercial relations of the past year have been less favourable to speculation in the shipping trade than in either of the two years preceding the present war .

      Ibish Mining Enterprise . '—At the half-yearly meeting of the Irish Mining Company , a very satisfactory report was read , showing an exceedingly prosperous condition of the copper , lead , and coal mines . Ribandis ^ i in King's County . — The northern portion of King" * s County has been the scene recently of riband conspiracies and agrarian outrages , though , bhese latter have happily stopped short of murder . The rest of Ireland is tranquil .

      Letters From Paris. (From A Private Corr...

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . ( From a Private Correspondent . ) I begbet having been unable to write to you au account of the reception of the troops . It Avas truly a grand spectacle , and a curious oue to observe . I never knew till then h ow thoroughly military a nation was France . The population was moved not by a sentiment of compassion , but of glory : moved to tears . I confess , in nil humility , I was as weak a 3 the rest . And fet no oue despises more heartily than myself the profession of a soldier . To slaughter men for a sou a day ? Fie !

      In the midst of the general emotion , I picked up two mots interesting enough . A bourgeois , a real Prudhomme , seeing the movement iu the streets and in the feelings of tlio people , growled out between his teeth , " Tout ] fa , e'est encore tin dteordre . " We have fellow-citizens whose ideal of a well-eonstitutod society is an oyster-bed J When the Voltigours de la Garde began to file off , I heard behind mo a sturdy voice saying , " Ccs lean F—'« la 1 Jfeureusement , il n'en reste que le tiers . " I turned round to look at the man who was speaking so energetically—it was the venerable chaplain of the Zouaves , en aoittaiw , if you please ! Hia mot reminded me that the Guard had exchanged a shot or two with the Zouaves . But all this is past and gone .

      In the financial worid , nothing ia talked of but the last coup of the Poreires , who have ( some say ) " made" ( " convey , the wise it call , " ) fifteen millions of francs <[ £ 600 , 000 ) an tho amalgamation of the gaa companies . In tho tnende konnete , the subject of all conversations has boen the death and burial of our groat sculptor , David d'A ^ geiis . Hia death has been hastened by exilo , by chagrin , by his country ' s sufferand b

      ings y his own ; in a word , by the Second of December . Ho waa a very raro exception , almost unique , amongst us , in that tho gramlouv of his genius was united with uprightnoBB of heart . Ho loved , with equal passion , art and liberty ; his political life wob spotloHB . ; ho made no concession to portions , nor to oiroumetancoB ' , ond oven in tho presence of death , when all ltin limbs wore paralysed , hia firm amd persistent energy of will clung to tho great ideas of his lifo . He desired that hia funeral

      should be of the strictest simplicity in memory of his poor and humble origin . He forbad his body to be carried to the church , that he might not perform an act of hypocrisy after death , Which he had never performed in life . He would not permit a decoration , which lie never wore in life , to be placed upon his coffin , nor the uniform of the Institute , which he considered absurd . The crowd which followed his body to Pere la Chaise numbered from 1 , 000 to l , 2 O 0 > persons , and was composed of two distinct sections—artists and republicans . All our great artists were present to render homage to the father of our modern sculpture All the chiefs of the republican party had appointed

      to meet at his grave : Carnot , Goudchaux , Cavaignac , Guinard , Jean Reynaud , Henri Martin , Be ' ranger , Martin da Strasbourg , Jules Simon , Sarrana Jeune , Marie , Cremieux , Manin , Vaulabelle , Pelletan , Despois , Charton , Charles Thomas , Corbon , all the writers of the Siicle and the Estafttte , and many others , whose names I omit . Behind , the leaders de Vopinion konnete , came that elite of the schools which seeks to revive public spirit : these were the young men who hissed Nisard andSainte Beuve the other day , and who hiss La Florentine every evening at the Odeon , not only because it ia a wretched piece , but because it is supposed to be under the patronage of Prince Napoleon .

      The cortege was closed iu by two lines of police agents , some in private costume , others in uniform These gentlemen were so numerous , that a man of the people asked if the departed was General of the aergents de ville , seeing that they had all come to his funeral ? The approaches to the cemetery were guarded by cavalry . Within these were detachments of gendarmerie mobile on all sides , occupying every height , carbine in hand , vigilantly watching the cortege .

      A few select persons were enabled to reach the tomb . The rest were prevented by crossed bayonets . M . Halevy delivered " an address , simple , heartfelt , and almost courageous . After which the crowd retired in perfect order ,. under the eyes of the police . Coming out of the cemetery a few young men cried , Vive Beranger ! The patriarch of song * replied to them with his paternal accents : Mes enfants , ce sera bientot man tour . A few , more imprudent than the rest , shouted , Vive la LibertS they were immediately laid hold of , and I have not heard of their destination .

      Allow me to mention an incident , which may give you some idea of the depth of hypocrisy to which we have sunk . The very day of the funeral , a former friend of M . David came to the house of the departed , went into the porter d lodge , and said to the concierge in an unctuous voice , " You " will tell Madame David that I heard she had not sent the body of her husband to the church , and that I have been to pray for him . " Now , who do you think this excellent Christian was ? M . Veuillot ?— -No . A new convert , M . Nisard ? Do you give it up ? It was M . tie Cormenin , the author of the " Livrc des Orateura !"

      Continental Notes. Tea.Ce Prospects. Thb...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . TEA . CE PROSPECTS . Thb ill-feeling of Austria against Russia increases day by day . It is said to have been caused by the insolent bearing of the Russians towards the subjects of Francis Joseph , who are openly taunted with theii obligations towards the Czar . One of tho Russian diplomatic agents is reported to have said of the Austrians , " These wretched creatures to whom ) a few years since , wo gave back a kingdom ( Hungary ) ,

      are ready to assist in talcing from ua a province . " Great coldness , therefore , ¦ •• exists between the two empires ; but it is doubtful whether Austria will draw the sword—at least , during tho present year . Tho differences on the subject of religion—tho claims of each nation to be considered as belonging to the only " orthodox" church—are adding thoir contribution to the fuel which may at length be kindled . Tho Austrian clergy are very much opposed to Russia ; and the Emperor , " as wo know , is greatly under the influence of tho Church .

      A circular from Count Nosaelrodo , dated Dec . 22 nd , has been transmitted to . Austria . It contains proposals for peace , which are a repetition of those which wero presented a few' weoka ago by Prince Gortschukoff to Count Buol , at Vienna , and with which our readers are acquainted . Their object i » to exclude all ships of war from tho Blade Soa , with tho exception of those boloiigiug to Russia and Turkey , who are to determine tho number which will satisfy each , without tho ostensible participation of any other Power . Those termn , it is noedloss to say , will not be listened to .

      That tho Russian ambassador at Vienna does not foel hiuiBolf on comfortable torma with thoao of Franco and England ia evidenced by an anecdote related by tho Times Austrian correspondent , whosayn , " On tho 81 « t of December , M . Von StuokhauHou , tho Hanoverian Miniator , invited some acquaintances to seo the old your out and . « tho now ono in , ivnd hin guoHtrt wore , tho . mombora of tho Russian , English ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12011856/page/8/