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      American News.—The War Department Have R...

      Chie £ ' Whether or not this information is strictly true , it is certain pur Government will endeavour to arrest all such illegal enterprises—the ordersto our naval Vessels for this purpose , heretofore issued , being still in full force . General Gerez , before he left for Nicaragua , was fully informed of the filibustering movements . "^ - A Washington Telegram .

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      Mexico.—The Conducta, With 5,000,000 Dol...

      Mexico . —The conducta , with 5 , 000 , 000 dollars in specie , . which left the city of Mexico on the 28 th May , was seized by General Robles 40 miles from Vera Cruz . The conducta arrived at Jalapa on the 10 th June , and remained there a week , by order of General Robles , for examination . It started again on the 16 th under a permit from Robles , and when near the National bridge he overtook it , and ordered its return to Jalapa , by the authority of Miramon . The conducta refused to obey the order , when General Robles ordered it to be shipped on board a British -vessel off Sacrificios , but her commander

      refused to receive it , notwithstanding the orders of the French and English ministers to do so . The conducta still remained at Reconada , subject to the orders of Robles . It was reported that the English and French ministers had arranged for shipping it by a , British war vessel at Macombo . Mr . M'Lane , the American minister , had sent Captain Faragut , of the United States sloop of war Brooklyn , to demand the release of the American portion of the specie , amounting to about 2 , 000 , 000 dollars , but the result Of ' his mission was not known . The English fleet had been ordered to Vera " Cruz . All the . English subjects had been banished frbiri the capital . Advices from the United States report aii active interchange of communicationsi between the Government and Senor Matta , the minister accredited by the Juarez party in Mexico to Washington . Some treaty or other arrangement is said to be in course of negociatioji . There is , however , no question of any cession of Mexican territory , which by the constitution Juarez has no power to grant . It is alleged that Senor Malta ' s Object is to obtain for the Juarez Government the assistance of the United States , with a view to bringing the present internecine strife to a termination , and that meanwhile a number of American officers are about to join the forces of the

      federalists in Mexico . The British squadron is ordered off Vera Cruz to protect British property ahd to watch over the fulfilment of the agreement lately made for the benefit of the convention and English bondholders , by which the latter are to receive 33 per cent , of the customs revenues at Vera Cruz and Tampico in liquidation of accruing dividends and arrears . As regards the 800 , 000 / . in silver which has been stopped at Jalapa , there is an impression that very little belongs to British subjects , the British housns in the city of Mexico being understood to have refused to remit specie by that conducta , after conferring with Mr . Otway , the British minister .

      Chinks?: News. —The Overland Friend Of C...

      Chinks ? : News . —The Overland Friend of China , of May 21 j reports : t-O . ut minister for Pekin js still in Hong Kong , but -will leave for the north , it is said , early next week . The whole of the first battalion of Koj-al Marine Light Infantry , some six hundred men , will accompany his Excellency to the Peiho . As a finish to southern troubles , the steam transport Assistance has been sciit with these men to tho neighbourhood of Hqang-shan , where they are to be dobnrked and marched through the distript , city . As this place , more than any other in the south , has long exhibited a most determined hatred of foreigners , it is only right that its braggadocial and malevplent spirit should be properly curbed . The populace of Hoang-shan , seeing tho preparations made by tho officials for the reception of the British officers , got aip a riot , destroyed the . bamboo piors , sheds , & c , and pelted the mandarins in their chairs ; It is reported that the Fronoh are negotiating for transports to convoy the small remnant of their quota ' to tho Canton garrison down to Cochin China , where every available man is in serious requisition , Tho arrival from Calcutta of the dead body of Ex-Commissioner Yen created no sensation whatever at Canton .

      Horrors Not Exceeded By Anything Which O...

      horrors not exceeded by anything which occurred even at Cawnpore . The particulars you will find described in a circular addressed to the shareholders by the directors of the company . Reinforcements of troops are being sent in all haste from this and Samarang , with three or four steamers , which will no doubt be sufficient to restore peace and order in the country , and we trust may arrive in time to save the remaining Europeans at Banjermassing and neighbourhood . The cause of the insurrection proceeds in no way from dislike to the mines , where the greatest peace and contentment have always prevailed , but to a long-brooding disaffection of the natives of Banjermassing to their new sultan , who had been maintained on his throne mainly by the protection of our government , contrary to the will of the people , and , as it would appear , in disregard of the legitimate right of succession of another prince , named fiidayal , who was at the same time the favourite of the people . This disaffection among the people , excited to revolt and murder by some Mahomedan priests lately returned from Mecca , is supposed to have been the cause which has led to the sacrifice of so many precious lives , already amounting ? , so far as known , to fifty or fifty-one in number . Among these four German missionaries , three of their wives , and nineteen children are stated to have fallen victims to the knives of the assassins .

      MASSAonB ov Europeans in BoitKBC—A correspondent has forwarded to Messrs . Finlay and Co ,, Glasgow , the following intelligence : — "We have the greatest regret in informing 1 you that we have , by the arrival of the Dutch Government steamea Axdjceno , frpm Banjermassing , on the 21 st inst ., received the most disastrous tidings regarding tho coalmine establishment of Kalungnir , which has by eomo accounts lieon entirely , by others only partly , destroyed by an insurrection among tho native subject * of tho Sultan of Bnnjormaosing » but , saddest of all tho whole , of the European employe * have been brutally murdered , without leaving one to teU the tale . The tragedy was enacts on the 18 th of the monthi and attended with

      Once Despatched To Tuscany To Hasten The...

      once despatched to Tuscany to hasten the departure of the Komagnoli corps for Bologna . After some difficulty , Mezzocapo was induced to take the command of the corps destined to garrison the towns menaced by the Papal troop * , and to march to the rescue of Perugia . This is no small sacrifice for a ? man who hoped to hold a high post in the regular army , andwho feels little inclination to become another Garibaldi ; but these are strange times , and sacrifices of every kind become the daily lot of those who engage in the national cause . Yesterday the streets , of Florence , which had been half-deserted since the departure of the French , and Tuscan troops , were of of the

      again enlivened by swarms military , some men still in their undress linen coats , their regimentals not being yet finished ; others in the dark blue , coat , black waistband , and Bersaglieri hat , with plume of black feathers , worn by the Piedmonteseriflemen . But without the aid of dress these men have a noble and martial bearing , and many of them have the aristocratic features and independent gait which distinguish the people of Roinagna . Theircountenances yesterday were grave and anxious , and there was a loqk of steady purpose in their dark flashing eyes , which omenedillfor thosejwho will ere long measure swords with them on the battle-field , or in the blood-stained streets of their native

      cities . Tuscany is once more without . troops , except a fewgendarmes , who are , however , sufficient to maintain , public order , which , notwithstanding the fears of some and the false reports of others , has never been seriously menaced . Volunteers are again pouring in from the country districts , and as the gendarmes are now the only Tuscan-troops remaining to protect the native soil , many young men of family , who have not been permitted to join the Piedmontese army have enrolled themselves in this corps , and , by keeping the peace at home , find some compensation for the frustration of their more ardent patriotic aspirations .. Public opinion among the intelligent part

      [ FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ^ Florence , July 4 th . The Italian papers . are filled with protests against the barbarities exercised at Perugia , and in all the large towns subscriptions are opened for the relief of the families who have found safety in flight , and for those whose relatives and property have fallen a prey to the brutality of the Papal troops . Pisa and Florence have been foremost in this manifestation of patriotic feeling , and the indignation of the Tuscans has been stimulated by the presence of the Eomagnpli volunteers , who have for the last two or three ¦ weeks been preparing to join the JLombard army . At Pisa , in the spacious normal school , formerly the

      guest house of the Crusade Knights of St . Stephen , the youths from Perugia , amounting to several hun > - dreds , were quartered when thetelegraph announced the fall of Perugia , and private letters corroborated the sinister reports already afloat as to the atrocities resorted toby the soldiery . A moment of fierce excitement followed . The Perugian volunteers seized their arms , and rushing wildly into the streets , demanded to be instantly led back to their native city , vowing vengeance on the in 1 " gators and perpetrators of these foul deeds . The ' . l / magnuole volunteer corps of 10 , 000 men , under the command of Mezzocapo , a Piedniontese officer , having brevet rank of general , promises to be ono of the finest

      corps of the Italian army . The young . men composing it are singularly hardy , strong , and soldierlike ; they have evinced the greatest aptitude for military exercises , and form a rifle corps which , under sufficient training , and , especially , if incorporated with the Allied army , would be little , if at all , inferior to the celebrated Bersagliori of La Marmora . Those who are looking beyond the present moment to the termination of tho war , when Italy , freed from the Austrians , will have need of an army of one hundred and fifty thousand pr two hundred thousand native soldiers to maintain her freshly won independence , justly count on the services of these national troops . It is with no small feeling of regret

      that they see the probability of these fine fellowswho were burning with desire to win their first laurels by the side of the Piedmontese and French armiesr-being drawn off" from the battle-field where the fate of Italy is to be decided , in order to ongage in a sort of guerilla warfare in the Papal states , where it is but too probnlble that , imperfectly commanded , only half-trained , and exposed to tho fearful influences of t popular passions , they may become undisciplined and , perhaps , so imbued with the fury of party spirjt , so maddened with revenge , as to bo urged to vindictive acts , which may stain the hitherto unsullied annals of tho Italian movomont . Thus tho affair of Porugia produces a grievous

      complication , andlfamo has become responsible , notonly for tho innocent blood shed at Perugia , but for all that may hereafter bo sacrificed , and for tho doop moral deterioration inseparable from civil "war , especially whon that war is unhappily mixed up with what in this country becomes a religious question . Rome never took a more false stop than this , so far as her own interests are concerned , and many who shudder at tho recital of wanton barbarities secretly rejoice at seeing the hateful tyranny under which they have so long groaned receiving- a death-wound from its own hand . No doubt tho telegraph has already informed you that tho city of Bologna , which hno become tho central government of the Legations and Koman states , under the immediate protection af the King of Piedmont , lost not an hour in expressing its sympathy for Perugia . Emissaries were at

      of the population is becoming daily matured , and those who some weeks ago had a lingering desire to maintain the separate and independent autonomy of Tuscany , now regard the annexation of this country to the great northern kingdom of Italy as the most desirable , the safest , and the only durable solution of the difficulties which attend the consideration of the future destinies of Tuscany . The difference of opinion on this point is one of time , not of fact . It is feared that an arrangement so ardently and generally desired may be impeded , perhaps prevented . altogether , by premature and inopportune efforts to procure l . » y popular and illegal demonstrations an union which , in order to be efficacious , must be

      sanctioned by Europe and accepted with all its weighty responsibilities by the future king of the united kingdom of Upper Italy . In the meanwhile , the agentsof the late rei gning family are at work in the country districts , and the priests are not behind ^ hand in stirring up the peasants to call for the return of the Grand Duke . Thus is not surprising . The great mass of the people are , however , true to the national cause , and Hie restoration of the Grand Duke , if it were , to enter into the schemes of semi-Austrian diplomatists , would prove to be in direct opposition to tho desires of the Tuscans , who look upon this restoration as an embodiment of Austi'lnn supremacy , and a return to moral and political

      degradation . The species of disunion which unhappily has prevailed for a certain timo between tho ministry , or the administrative part of government , and tho Consulta , or deliberative assembly , is now , we hope , coming to a close , as the Consulta 1 ms , been at length summoned to hold its first sitting the dayafter to-morrow . The refusal of Piedmont—again to-day formally roitorated from hcad- < iuartQrs-r-to assume any active responsibility , or to accept theannexation of Tuscany , should it bo offered , . at this moment , has induced the ministry to endeavour to conciliate the sympathy and support of the country . Tho calling of tfyc Consulta is the host proof of this resolution ; and as all are convinced that tfieir only

      strength is to bo found in union , and in porsovormg in the maintenance of ordor , much good is expected from this wise determination of tho Government . No doubt this opportunity will bo embraced to present to Europe tho views and desires of Tuscany , oppressed with tho moderation and dignity befitting a legislative body , which , though it may bo fairly viewed as representing the onlightenod majority of tho Tuscan people , cannot arrogato to itself , tho right of determining the destinies of this country . These must depend upori the final rosult of the war , and upon tho decision of the great Powers of Europe when called to ratify the treaty of poaco which will ' establish the new territorial limits pf tho kingdoms of Italy .

      Germany. July Lqtli.R—The Sudden Conclus...

      GERMANY . July lQtli . r—The sudden conclusion of noaco has doubtloss astonished you In England . Wo ore nil aghast over hero . Prussians literally eeok to hide their honds ; they see In « their minds' eyes both Franco and Austria

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16071859/page/8/