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      The Indian Revolt. The Intelligence Brou...

      Golin ' s arrival at Marseilles with the latest instruct tions of the Government . On . the evening of the following day ( Sunday ) , the new Commander left England for the scene of the revolt .

      No. 382, July 18, 1857.] T H E L E A P E...

      No . 382 , July 18 , 1857 . ] T H E L E A P E R , 681

      America. Mb. Bowlin, Late Minister Resid...

      AMERICA . Mb . Bowlin , late Minister Resident of the United States at New Granada , has returned to New York , bavins failed in bis efforts to neg-otiate a peaceful settlement of the difficulties with tlie Washington Government . The remains of General Walker ' s force have also arrived at New York : they are described as a broken-down set of men , several of whom were at once handed over to the city doctors for treatment . The defalcations in Ohio turn out to be even larger than was at first anticipated ; and it is believed that the state has no adequate security . Nevertheless , the credit of Ohio is sustained , and it was thought that the July interest would be promptly met . The quarrel between the metropolitan and municipal police , force still continued at the last dates ; but the belligerents have united their forces for the sake of cleaning , tha streets---a work greatly needed . In four days , fifteen thousand loads of dirt were removed ; and that was only the beginning of the work . There is a report of a defalcation to the amount of 50 , 000 dollars in the Mint Department of California . The melter was charged with the embezzlement , but he explained the deficit as attributable to the defective flues carrying off the gold dust . The mining accounts are favourable . The New York and Philadelphia Chambers of Commerce have resolved to abandon the system of giving advance wages to seamen . The United States troops and the Mexican garrison of Chihuahua , at the last dates , were about to co-operate against the Indians , who were very troublesome . The ship William Willett , from Liverpool to New York , has gone ashore on the Jersey coast , and will be a total loss . All on board were saved . At New York on the 29 th ult ., the Bank statement showed a decline of nearly two millions in specie , of One hundred and four thousand dollars in loans , and in deposit of more than a million and a half of dollars . In the stock-market there was no strength whatever .

      Ireland. A Romish Convert.—The Rev. Moor...

      IRELAND . A Romish Convert . —The Rev . Moore O'Connor , rector of CuMaff , has written a letter to the Lord Bishop of Derry , to the effect that lie has become a convert to Romanism : he therefore resigns his living to the patron , the Marquis of Donegal . The Bishop had just instituted a suit to degrade Mr . Murphy of his status as a clergyman of the Church of England , and deprive him of his benefice , to which , by a recent judgment given by the Court of Queen ' s Bench , he had no legal claim . It is said that the suit will be continued utitil Mr . O'Connor is legally degraded .

      The Mayo Outrages . — Informations have been sworn before a Jtayo magistrate by John Gannon , one of the victims of the outrage reported to the House of Commons on Thursday week , in connexion with the Mayo election committee . He was surrounded by a mob of about a hundred persons , and , nrlien he sought refngo in the shop o one Cogan , that person thrust him out in the face of the furious crowd . He was stoned , and stabbed in the eye with a piece of iron . He now lies in

      the County Infirmary in a precarious state . " T « K Murdkb ok Mk . Litvlk . —Spollou was again examined on Monday , and again remanded . The chief witness was his son Joseph , a boy of fourteen , who corroborated the evidence of the daughter with respect to Spollen concealing certain things on the night of tho murder down tho chimney of the old forgo . — Spollen was committed for trial on Wednesday , On being asked whether ho had anything to say , ho replied that ho would reserve his defence for his trial .

      Tub Gukat Couclovgh WillCa . se . —The proceodinga in this case liavo been brought to a closo in a way which is said to be satisfactory to both parties . At the close of Mr . Whltosido ' s speech on Tuesday , a compromise was entered into . Tho following is an outline of the terms : —Mrs . Uoyso gets tho money lodged In court , amounting to upwards of 20 , 000 / ., and her jointure . Mrs . Rosaborough Colclough gets Tiutern Abboy and tho estates , valued at 8 , 000 / . a year .

      Continental No T $ S. Fuanoio. Tub Condi...

      CONTINENTAL NO T $ S . FUANOIO . Tub condition of affairs in Franco nt tho present time ia of a very grave oharactor . Tho conspiracy which hftn just boon discovered would soom to havo boon connected with Iho Italian Insurrections . Tlio plan was to stab tho Kmporor with poisoned daggora ( hiring tho oloctions . Tho members of n Provisional Government nra said to have buon named , and to have intended , whim the blow was struck , to proclaim tho Ropubllc over tho whole of Southern Europe , Tho Imperial ( j ovorumont became awnro of tho plot on tho 10 th of Juno , and they nt onuu gave information tt > tho Sardinian Ctibinot . A largo inasa of oorruapandemoo bntwoun PavU aiul London id in tho hands of tho I ' rouoh Minidtura ; and this will bo produced at tho trial of tho arrostod porlibnfl , which will

      take place at the next assizes . About twenty men have been apprehended . A notice has been addressed by the directors of the Assemblee Nationale to the subscribers to that journal , in which , we read : —r" The publication of the Assemblee Natipnale has been suspended for two months by Ministerial ordinance of the 7 th July . Founded the day after the catastrophe of 1848 for the defence of order and of society , the AssembUe Nationale believes that it may take credit for never having failed in the performance of the task it imposed on itself . It has had , nevertheless , to endure extreme severity from the various Governments which have succeeded each other for the last ten years . Suspended by the Government of the Republic

      for having too soon foreseen and denounced the events of June , it was also punished , first on the 2 nd of December , 1851 , and twice since the establishment of the Empire . Other journals have been warned , the Assemblee alone has seen the new regulations which govern the press applied to it in all their rigour . Supported by the constant sympathy of many , the Asaemblee N ~ uiionate has been enabled to pass through these repeated trials . The majority of its subscribers have remained faithful to it . We feel confident that we shall experience the same fidelity during the difficult circumstances through which we are now passing . The work which we are engaged in accomplishing , in the limited measure of our power , appears necessary to us , and it is because this conviction is profoundly engraved on our hearts that we persist ,

      notwithstanding the difficulties of our position . We have tiie pretension to hold an important place in the press and in public opinion . We believe we respond to the true monarchical and liberal feeling in France by thus keeping aloof from all identity and all contact with revolutionary ideas and pr inciples . While clearly marking out our line we are conscious of never having made a factious opposition . During the various crises which France has passed through since the Revolution of February we have never , through party motives , accepted an alliance with the men or the principles which the Assemblee Rationale on the day of its foundation devoted itself to oppose . The elections which have just taken place are a proof of it . We shall prosecute our work to the end . "

      A memorial -in favour of the proposed canal across the Isthmus of Suez was some time since presented to the French Government . The answer returned was , that , notwithstanding the interest attached to this affair , the Government did not consider it expedient to occupy itself with it for the present . A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels says : — " After the visit of the Emperor and Empress to Osborne , Queen Victoria , we are assured , will pass a fortnight at Compiegne . Her Majesty ' s visit will not , however , have any official character , and she will not come to Paris . " The Leader , Express , Sun , Saturday lievietc , Sunday Times , and Era , were seized at Paris on Sunday .

      The Minister of War ( says a letter from Paris ) has received despatches from Marshal Randon , Governor-Genernl of Algeria , to the 8 th instant , announcing that the submission of the Kabyles is nearly complete . The division of General M'Mahon had placed itself in communication with the division of General Maissiat , who , b \ ' orders of tho Marshal , attacked the Kabyles by the Col of Chellata , to the east . General Maissint experienced an obstinate resistance , but all the positions of the Kabyles were finally carried after several -well-contested fights . It is stated as positive that Marshal Randoa will conclude his campaign in Kabylia by ( in expedition against tho pirates of tho Riff . Cruisers have ulready boon stationed on the const . Tho Government papers have received notico to suspend their discussion oa tho question of tho Lstlimui of Suez and Lord Pnlmors ton ' s speech on that subject . ITALY . Tho Neapolitan Liberals say that tho insurgents in the recent outbreak , being attacked in throo divisions , were joined by some of tho troops , and boat tlie royal forces . Tho commander was Colonel Pisacamo , formerly in the Neapolitan service , who left Naples in 1853 , and has sorved in tho Crimuu . He was shot during this unsuccessful rising . Tho Cagliari , < tho . stoumpnekot of tho insurgents , has boon seized by tlio Governmont authorities , mid Captain SiUia and tho crow have l > eon lodged in yrison .

      Miss Mcriton White , our countrywoman , hna boon arrested by tho Sardinian authorities , and commanded to leave tho territory . This * shu refused to do , saying she would remain and bo triod . Consequently , she in now in tho prison of Sant' Andrea , but she U treated with much eomklorntion . Tho Marquiso Pare to , also nn Englishwoman , has likowUe boon arrested , apparently bocan . io IWiss Whko whs on visiting tornis with Jiov . u It is stated , " biij-s a letter from Genoa , in tho

      Opinions of Turin , "that tho muakatu of the Inaiirgonta hod not boon recently imported , but hail lain for sovor . il years coitcoulud with groat cue An active recruiting for iiiHiirgoutd luul gono on during tho pruviim * fortnight by pooplo who undordtoo ' . l noilhor Goiiooho nor puro lt : iiian , but spoko a dhloet , only iiiuloi-iUond In Iho Homngna . Among tho papers found by tho polioo was ii list of rill tho ollluera and tholr roMdanotw . " Tlio Cattolioo of Genoa eta turn that all JUaKsuiil ' d oorrcapoiidonoo h « 3 boon found in tlio poasoaabi of ona of tho rcfugooa

      arrested , and that several persons compromised in th movement have taken refuge in Switzerland . " Th following , " says the Giglio , of Leghorn , «« is the exac number of victims : —Fourteen citizens killed and sevei wounded ; three soldiers killed and seven wounded ; tw < officers wounded , including M . Bracci , the son of tli < commandant . It is stated that at Pisa and Florence tranquillity was not disturbed , owing to the arrest of i man who , from a certain eminence , was to have mad * signals announcing the commencement of the disturbance at Leghorn . All the stilettoes found are of the same manufacture . Much mouey had been distributee among the people . We owe our safety to the Consul oi France , who had long before informed our authorities oi what was going on . " Mazzini is stated to have left Italy on the night ol July 2 nd , on board a vessel bearing the American flag . He has arrived in London . SPAIX . The leader of the rebels at Utreca has been taken . Tranquillity is said to have been re-established at al ] points . The Senate , by a large majority , has passed the law concerning the press already voted by the Congress . The Senate and the Congress have voted the Constitutional Reform , as proposed by the Government . Accounts from Andalusia state that the troops were continuing to pursue the remains of the republican band , and that Caro , the chief of it , complained bitterly that some influential persons who had promised to support his movement had failed to do so . GEE & IANT . On the occasion of the birth of an hereditary prince , the Grand Duke of Baden has published an amnesty in favour of the individuals accused of , or condemned for , political offences during the events of 1848 and 1849 . MONTENEGRO . Prince Danilo has ordered the decapitation Captain Breseli , of Succe Popowitcli , and of his son Gjuro . The execution took place in the bazaar of Vir . They were all guilt }* of being adherents of the late President George Petrowitch , the head of the Russian party . Others have fled , or have been thrown into prison . Among the latter is an Austrian subject .

      A Murder By A Lunatic. The Ward-Master A...

      A MURDER BY A LUNATIC . The ward-master at St . Martin ' s Workhouso has been murdered by a lunatic . On the morninS of Friday week , the chief master received an order from the relieving officer for the admission of a young man of twenty , named Payne . He sent him to the receiving ward , and while there , he was brought under the notice of Mr . Bainbridge , the medical officer , whose questions he appeared to answer quite rationally . Being sent to the labour-master for employment , he presently returned to the ward and said that he was unable to do any work , as he had a pain in his back , and that he did not wish to remain in the workhouse . He also talked about

      meeting certain persons in the street , who accused him of committing criinos of which he was entirely innocent . As the medicnl officer of the workhouse concluded that the man was of unsound mind , and as ho was somewhat violent , a strait jacket was put on to him , and he was sent to the ward of which Mr . Emerson was master . One of the inmates of the workhouse was ordered to stop with Payne the whole night , as tho latter was very much excited . At eleven o ' clock , Mr . Emerson , the ward master , went to bed , and Payne retired to rest shortly after wards , his jacket being loosened and tied to the bedpost boforo ho lay down . About six o ' clock tho following morning , some water was given to him by Mr . Emerson ' s directinn . and , in order that ho might drink

      it , comfortably , his jacket was untied from tho post and loosened still further . At this juncture , tho man who had tho care of Pay no wont into tho yard , but ho had not boon there many minutes , when ho hoard loud crioa of " Murder ! "' On " returning to tho ward ho had just quitted , ho saw tho lunatic running towards him with a shovel in his hand , with which ho struck him several sovero blowa . Tho man , howovor , succeoded in throwing him off , and ho then percoivod that Mr . Emerson was lving on tho floor by his bodsido ,

      bleeding profusely from his mouth and lefc tomplo , in which were two wounds . Ilo had likewise aovon or eight wounds on his head , which had out through tho scalp . Tlioso had boon inflicted with a pokor . Mr . Kmursun diod very soon afterwards . An alarm being raised , tliu master of tho workhouso font for tho polico , and tho maniac was given into custody . Previous to this , ho had been e . xtroinoly violent in his manner , and had walked about tho yard of tho house raving loudly , and threatening to murder with tlio ahovol ho had in hi « hand anybody who approached him , and asserting that flomo one wna following him tonmrdor him . _

      . Payno , who is a Itoinan Catholic , lias boon exammed boforo tho Alnrlbiroug h-stroytmuindtrntP , and committed t CoNowgnto . lie acknowledge tho muiylor , and postponod Ills dpfonuo to hi * trial . Ho l »«* written two lottora , tho Hrdt to hid inothor , and tho aocoml to ono of liw brother * . They nro perfectly coherent , mul oxprona horror at tho act ho has committed . Ho n |>|» oare to havo made up hlrt mind to dio , Tho ooronor ' H jury iuifl returned a vordict of Wilful Mimlor against him .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/9/