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    IRELAND. The Ttpperary Bank.—It is state...

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. The separate ...

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    America. Tine Last, Advices From America...

    have the greatest interest of any nation on earth in preserving peace . But there is an interest superior to all these considerations , and that is our national honour . If war should ensue—I feel , however , no apprehension of danger at the present moment—I know that the merchants themselves , who would have the greatest sacn-SSo make , would stand by the country at the expense of everything human . I can perceive no danger , l oughI 1 Slay , | enaemen , that I have ^ -tl ymamt omed the instruction received from my country m the negotiation which I have had with England ; and , while I have never hesitated boldly , but courteously , to express ¦ m * onininnn . I have never found anything but personal

    kindness in my intercourse with the British people . Mexico is quiet . Tamarez has escaped , and reached Vera Cruz in disguise , where he embarked on board the English ship Penelope . It is stated in the American advices from Callao that the British Admiral has received orders to seize the Chincha Islands , and hold them as security for the payment of the debt due to Great Britain by Peru . . The New York commercial accounts report that in tlie stock-market more activity is apparent .

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    Ireland. The Ttpperary Bank.—It Is State...

    IRELAND . The Ttpperary Bank . —It is stated that the shareholders of the bank , or rather those who , it may be said , represent them in Parliament , are about to introduce a measure by which they would , to some extent , be released from their liabilities . The Pope and the Late Mr . Lucas . —The Dublin Nation announces that it has " accurate authority for stating that the memorial of Frederick Lucas on the condition of the Catholics of Ireland , and their relations to the British Government and the Holy See , has been presented to his Holiness the Pope , at whose direction it was composed , " and that " the memorial was very carefully examined and very favourably received . " skeleton has

    Discovery of a Murdered Body . —A been found in a bog at Upper Alia , near Clasedy . It was wrapped ( says a local paper ) in a patchwork of strong woollen cloth , resembling a coarse blanket or horserug , fastened round the body by several small wooden skewers . The skeleton was that of a full-grown man . The hair of the head was found quite fresh , but the bones were black and considerably decayed- The remains were discovered by a boy while cutting turf in the bog , and were only about two feet below the surface . The people of the district unanimously pronounce the skeleton to be that of Mr . Lambkin , an officer of inland revenue , who was supposed to have been murdered about twentyfour years ago , at Lettermuck , by three brothers named Mathews , who kept a paper-mill in the locality , and who , at the instance of Mr . Lambkin , were fined in a sum of 800 / . for a breach of the excise laws . Though

    buried so near the surface , some bloodhounds , which were taken over from England on purpose , failed to discover the body , and consequently the Mathewses , though suspected , could not be tried . Shortly afterwards , they emigrated to America .

    Continental Notes. France. The Separate ...

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The separate Treaty of the 15 th of April , signed between England , France , and Austria , without the knowledge of Russia , and the object of which is to guarantee the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire , is exciting a great deal of surprise among the Russians . Count Orloff is greatly annoyed at it , and it has been rumoured at Paris , though without good foundation , that the mission of M . do Morny to Moscow would be retarded , if not stopped , in consequence . Representations have been made to the French Government , though only of a semi-official character , on account of the document not having been published by the Moniteur ; but , as it was presented to the English Parliament , together

    with the Treaty of the 30 th of March , and the protocols , it is said that serious explanations have been , or will be , demanded of the English Government by Russia . General Ney is the bearer to St . Petersburg of a letter from the French to the Russian Emperor , stating at full his reasons for signing the treaty . " It was at first supposed , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " that there was a secret article ; now it is suspected that , in-Btead of an additional clause , there is a secret treaty , of which no hint has yet been given . I cannot say how far this suspicion ia well founded . " The Vienna correspondent of the same paper writes : — " It ia well known

    to mo that during the Vienna Conferences ( in April or May , 1855 ) it was settled between Count Buol , Baron de Bourquoney , and ( as I believe ) the Earl of Westmorland , that a convention like that aigned on the 15 th of April last should form a kind of supplement to any treaty of peace which might bo concluded with Russia . The idea originated with Count Buol , and it will appear natural enough that auch should bo the case , when it ia considered that Austria ia the Power Avhich will flrwt be brought into hostile colliaion with Ruasia if she Bhould again attempt to interfere with the internal affaire of the Ottoman Empire . " The Governments signing the Treaty , & c , of the 30 th

    of March , have resolved not to communicate the declaration annexed to tie protocols respecting maritime law , riarticularly the abolition of privateering , to any other Governments , as they are aware that the Government of the United States would not accept it . Some obscure designs of France on the present state of things in Spain have been partly revealed in the columns of the Journal de Madrid , a French publication issued in the Spanish capital . This paper is the property of a M . Hugdmann , who was obliged to fly from France after the coup d ' etat of the 2 nd of December , and who first of all set up his journal as an organ of the democratic party . After the recent amnesty , he returned to Paris , where it is said he had influential then

    interviews with several persons . He went again to Madrid , furnished with funds by the aid of which he established his paper on a much more expensive footing , and transformed it into an advocate of French Imperialism . On the 2 nd of the present month —the day on which the whole nation publicly celebrates the anniversary of the rising of the Spanish people , in the early part of this century , to cast off the oppression of their French invaders—an article was published in this Journal de Madrid , broadly hinting that , should Spain give any encouragement to the " enemies of order , " intervention would be necessary . " The Emperor Napoleon , " says the writer , " is responsible before Europe for the future conduct of the Spaniards whom

    he protects by Iris influence without demanding the slightest sacrifice of the liberties they enjoy at this moment , even that of overwhelming him with ridiculous threats and gross insults , provided that those liberties do not degenerate into licentious extravagance , and that the Peninsula , adroitly led on by the spirit which seeks at this moment to disturb again the repose of the universe , be not a cause of disquiet for the world and a danger to Governments . " The writer professes a great interest " in seeing Spain regenerated under the constitutional and prudently liberal Government of Queen

    Isabella II . ; " and lie adds that , " as affairs stand at present , nothing alarming is probable But if by any chance things turned out otherwise ( which God forbid!)—if the Spanish monarchy were again menaced —if madness triumphed over reason , selfishness over patriotism , and evil over generosity—there is no doubt that the West and tbe majority of Spaniards themselves would oppose such a state of things ; and , as one of our contemporaries has justly said , nothing could arrest the march of 100 , 000 men sent to give battle to the revolution , for they would certainly be truer Spaniards than those whom they would encounter in their path . "

    A Mr . Rodgett , an Englishman , who , in company with his wife , had been travelling in France for the benefit of his health , has died at Nice under very shocking and somewhat mysterious circumstances . He was dictating to his wife a letter , when he suddenly disappeared , and was shortly afterwards found to have thrown himself , or to have fallen , out of window . He expired almost directly . Several French regiments have arrived from the

    Crimea . The ex-Queen of the French ( according to a letter from Genoa ) is about to leave Nervi , and to return to Claremont , in England . She will stop two days at Genoa , and return to England by Milan , the Tyrol , and Brussels . The Princess Clementine and her husband , the Prince of Saxc-Coburg Gotha , accompanied by the Duchess of Orleans and her sons , the Counts of Paris and of Eu , will meet the ex-Queen Marie Amelie at Brussels

    A Paris company , bearing the title of Compagnte Generate Europe ' enne d' Emigration et de Colonisation , has published an advertisement , which contains the following passage : — " The Company possesses the highest protection in the principal countries for immigration , and already reckons among its shareholders , for important amounts , august persons placed on the steps of the throne . " The Moniteur , greatly scandalized , warmly denies the truth of this assertion , and asserts that Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon , the persons who appear to bo indirectly alluded to , have no interest whatever in any kind of commercial undertaking . Prince Jerome ' s first aide-de-camp , General the Marquis de Ricard , ia a member of the council of surveillance and patronage of the Emigration Company ; but , on the Prince discovering the fact , and expressing astoniahment at it , the General sent in his resignation , which waa received .

    AUSTUIA . Count Collorcdo goes to Rome ns full ambassador . The Fremden Matt learns from Bucharest that Count Coronini has received telegraphic inatructiona to begin on the 15 th to move hia head-quarters and a part of tho troopa across tho Wallachian frontier into AiiKtria . Austria inuat auroly bo tho chosen homo of intolerance . Tho Bishop of Czanad , in Hungary , lately ordered that a list should bo mudu of tho bookn belonging to a clergy mum who waa just dead . Thia being done , many of the volumes were treated after tho same fashion an tho works of enchantment , mid the chivnlric

    romancuH in Don Quixote a library . They were rcmoraoloBSily burnt . Among tho books thu » destroyed were tho " fltaats f ^ ucicon" ( State Lexicon ) and Ilotteek ' a " Universal lliatory . " At Veres V < ig « H , in tho

    Sarosch county , the parish priest has given notice to the non-Catholics to remove the monuments and tombstones of their relatives from the churchyard , under penalty of the remains of the deceased being taken but of their graves and reinterred elsewhere . In the Zobolc district , it has been decreed by a priest that any one designing to become a Protestant must submit to a daily examination for six weeks , and must give satisfactory reasons for wishing to secede from the Papal Church ! as if the priests would admit any reasons to be " satisfactory . " In various parts of Hungary ( says a writer from Vienna ) , the clergy refuse to publish the bans of marriage between Catholics and Protestants , and some of the more zealous priests even preach that " mixed marriages" are no better than concubinage .

    About a year since , a detachment of engineers was sent , with a corps of pioneers , to blast the sunken rocks at the so-called Iron Gate , but they have received orders to return , " their efforts not having been attended with , success . "

    BELGIUM . The day after the answer given by Count Vilain XIV . to the interpellations of M . Orts on the subject of the Belgian press and the French Government , " a numerous crowd , " says a letter from Brussels , " assembled on the square of the Hotel de Ville , in order to present a congratulatory address to the Minister of Foreign Affairs . Placards had been posted at an early hour throughout the city , calling a meeting for the evening at eight o ' clock . Some hundreds of persons , among whom were

    the principal editors of the Brussels journals and journeymen printers , met on the Great Place , aud marched thence , with the national flag at their head , and defiled before the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and that of the Interior , around the park and the Place Roy ale , amid shouts of ' Vive la Constitution J' ' Vive le Vicomte Vilain XIV . ! ' Neither of the Ministers was at home , and the address was left at the Foreign-office . Then the crowd passed the Montagne de la Cour and the Madeleine , and dispersed , again uttering vivats and cries . "

    Another letter from Belgium gives an account of a ceremony of a very different kind—the keeping by certain old soldiers of the first French Empire of the anniversary service for Napoleon the Great . " Belgium , " says the writer , " was French in other days , and it still possesses a certain number of old soldiers of the Empire , who idolize the memory of the founder of the Napoleonian dynasty . The number of these gallant men diminishes each year ; but those who remain , clothed in their best dress , the greater part decorated with the Star of Honour , are in the habit of repairing to the church of St . Gudule , preceded by drums , excellent music , and two flags , viz ., the national and the Imperial , both covered with crape , to pray for him who was their idol on earth . " The Belgian army will shortly be greatly reduced .

    The noble speech of Count Vilianon the subject of the Belgian press has received a disagreeable explanation from a communicated article in the Moniteur Beige , which distinguishes between what the Minister really said last Wednesday in the Chamber and what has been loosely interpreted as his meaning . The writer says : — " The Minister of Foreign Affairs has declared that the cabinet of which he is a member will never propose any change in the constitution . He was not further quescalled to declare the

    tioned , and therefore was not upon intentions of ministers respecting the laws that regulate the press . Had such questions been put , the Government would have had only one answer to make , which is , that it meant to reserve to itself , within the pale of the constitution , its full liberty of action , bo as to be able to submit to the Chambers , when it Bhould deem that the proper time had arrived , such modifications aa might seem to it proper to be introduced into tho laws concerning the press . "

    The Belgian Government has commenced a prosecution againat the Nation newspaper published at Brussels , for an article in which tho Duchess of Brabant , a daughter of the House of Hapaburg , ia accused of being " tho most active instrument of the Auatrian pressure on the Belgian Government , " and of making un experimental essay on the government of tho country by Jomnnding that tho constitution bo surrendered to the Cajaar of the Tuileriea , and that before the 26 th anniversary of the dynasty has been celebrated . " Austria ia said to be " lending herself completely to M . Uomiparte . " .

    . . ., , Tho Paria Moniteur reprints tho note of the Momtcur Beige , and adda : — " We felicitate tho Belgian Government on the care it takes to guard itn intcntiona from niibapprehonaion . Tho part of tho French Government hua been simply to point out tho evil and ita consequences : it ia for tho cabinet of Brussels alono to week , to find , and to apply tho remedy . Tho Government ol tho Emperor concerns itaclf with the cilicacy and not wim tho nature of the remedy . " '

    mCNMAHK . , In n protocol aigncd on tho 9 th hist ., Russia " «<" Sweden formally adhere- to tho mode of cupil . nh * n > fc > tho Sound Duoh proposed by tho Daniah Government . KUHHIA . . . Immediately after the evacuatipn of tho Crimea <> y

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17051856/page/8/