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      The Okie Nt. Toms. The French. Governmea...

      THE OKIE NT . TOMS . The French . Governmeat has received despatches from Admiral Pareeval Besch & aes , dated Tunis , 10 th inst ., announcing that the Bey had made the following important concessions : —The establishment of criminal tribunals and of commercial tribunals : complete liberty of commerce ; liberty of industry ; light to possess property ; respect of persons and pix > perty ; equality in . presence of the law ; equality of taxation ; a limited period of service , and liberty of religious , worship . CJKXNA Pekin , and the southern provinces of the Empire , are stated to be in a most lamentable state . Trade is almost at an end , and the poor suffer fear-fully . The Government has issued iron money to pay the public servants and for ihe purchase of corn , but it requires the taxes to ba paid , in silver .

      Ireland. Hepbesentation Oo? Dunganxon.-T...

      IRELAND . Hepbesentation oo ? Dunganxon .-t-A meeting of the ¦ electors of Dungannon has been held for the purpose of considering the address of the Hon . Major Knox in reference 1 o his approaching departure for India . A cordial reply , expressing the approval by the constituency of the step taken by the gallant officer , and of unabated confidence in him as their representative , wa 3 submitted to the meeting and met witlvvumniinous adoption . StbjUIge Inquest . —The body of a female infant was found a few weeks ago by the police of Kells iu a privy at the back of the house of a medical practitioner and Jicconcbour . The matter-was reported to the local magistrate ; "witnesses were examined , and it was discovered that th « infant was the offspring of Rose Meredytli , a servant at the house , and that it was born dead and immature . The magistrate and the police came to the ¦ conclusion that Rose Meredytli was free from any blame whatever , and that she was justified in burying her dead-born offspring ' even in a privy , dungheap , or sink , or where it suited , her convenience . ' The coroner for the county , getting scent of the matter , thought differently , caused the body to be disinterred , and held an inquest , which resulted in a verdict . charging the mother with concealment of the birth . In the meanwhile , the young woman had absconded ; so the coroner issued his warrant for her apprehension . Irish Maniacs . —It is stated that some placards have been posted at CarrlcK-oH-Suir , advoc & ting > - iivthe most violent language , a rising against English authority , the massacre of Englishmen , and the refusal of all Irishmen to enlist in the British army ; and also expressing the ¦ warmest sympathy with the Sepoys . " God speed the mutiny ! " " Blood ! blood ! A dog ' s death to the man who takes the Saxon shilling ! " " Arise , and vengeance on England ! " are among the phrases stated tohaye appeared on the walls . The author & are clearly maniacs , whom their friends- should look aftoiv

      The Belfast Riots. T.Kb Disgraceful Fact...

      THE BELFAST RIOTS . T . KB disgraceful faction fights- a , t Belfast have been rcn & wetU The utmost alarm . has prevailed ; hundreds of persona refuso to go to bed . until three or four o'clock hi the morning , fearing an attack on thoir houses during the . dark ; Mr . Hanna , towards the close of hut week , cicculatcd . placards exhoi'ting his followers to bo on the alert on Sunday , as he and others wore < lotermined to maintain thoir . rights and' privileges as freemou ; and an Irish journal , speaks of arrangements and preparations having been mado to ' fight it out'on the first

      opportunity . In their respective districts , meetings of torrififtd Itornan Catholics and . Protestants have been held during the night , under tho influence of panic foars that the-opposito faction was coining upon them from tlio fields through tho back , stneota ; and the police have luid to pacii ' y these gatherings ns best they miyht , and not without an exhibition of muskets loaded with ball ourtridge . The gun club continues to sit and to distribute rifles ; and one night two policemen who wore directed to attend were refused admission becau . se thoy were not provided with tickets .

      Mr . If anna thus addressos the Protestants of Belfast irt tho placard which ho caused to bo posted : —" Men and Brethren , — Yoiur blxwl-bought and ohorishod ' r ights- ' have been imperilled , by tho audacious and savage outrages of a Komish mob . Tha well-meant but . foolish lonionoy of an casy-naturod magistracy , vainly hoping t . o disarm resentment by ooueliliatiou , hna hastened and aggravated the present crisis . But you were not to bo cither- bullied or cajoled out of your lights . They aro not to bo surrondorod , and they will bo , strenuously maintained . That you have

      unmistakably Blown on time past Sabbath . Then you arono , calm but powerful * as tho thunder reposing in the cloud . You Urtnly , tcmpuratoly , and , triumphantly asserted your V * ^ wor <) tt 8 Sai ' 1

      The Belfast Riots. T.Kb Disgraceful Fact...

      services . Where yon assemble around , leave so much of the thoroughfare unoccupied that such as do not choose to listen may pass by . Call that clearance the ' Pope ' s pad . ' No man has any right to interrupt the services . " Mr . Hanna then exhorts the Protestants to keep the peace , and to / behave to their- Roman Catholic opponents with respect and kindness , adding : — " When Roman Catholics pass through Protestant districts of the town , see that they safely pass . If you should hear of Protestanls being waylaid and beaten , don ' t retaliate . It is cowardly and unworthy your Protestant character to imitate what you condemn . Let us make another strenuous effort to restore peace and goodwill in Belfast —to differ without breaking each other ' s heads . The 1

      drunken , brawling , abusive , swearing , Sabbath-breaking , profligate , violent Protestant is your weakness and disgrace . The peril of your rights is a judgment on your sins . Sanctify yourselves unto the Lord , and rise to a man in the spirit of your . fathers— -a spirit of invincible loyalty to your principles , and proclaim that the liberty and right of street-preaching will be maintained . " The Belfast reporter of the Freeman ' s Journal writes : — " Martial law , it is true , has not been proclaimed in this quarter ; but in almost every street you meet , with a constabulary picket , and at the corners temporary barracks , while the avenue 3 of . communication between

      the hostile localities—and the hue of demarcation between them is strangely well marked— -are guarded by strong bodies of police . Notwithstanding all these precautions outrages are committed on both sides , chiefly after nightfall ; houses are attacked and people are beaten . As you walk along , your ear is frequently saluted ¦ with shots fired on various sides , in defiance or in triumph . So accustomed liave people apparently become to the state of things I have referred to that I am told , when I inquire on the subject , ' the town is quiet , ' which expression I now understand to he used in a comparative sense . " A correspondent of the Belfast Neiosletter requires ' ten thousand Protestant heroes' to support the cause of open-air preaching .

      A meeting of the civil authorities of Belfast was held on Friday week , the result of which was the issuing of a proclamation forbidding all assemblages in the public streets , upon pain of arrest and prosecution . The proclamation , which is signed by the Mayor , ' was extensively posted through the town . The Lord Lieutenant has placed Belfast under the stringent operation of the Crime and Outrage Act , Late on the night of Frlflay week , Mr . -Hanna > issued another manifesto , revoking his intention of preaching in the open air on the following Sunday . He said be did this , not" of fear , nor because he doubted the right of the Protestants to ' hold forth' in the streets , but because it was " unhappy to live in- a state of continual war . " The Protestants had shown their determination

      to maintain their rights , and could therefore make this " graceful concession" to the Koinan Catholics . They " challenged them , not to war , but to peace . " Mr . Hanna says that he is supported in his determination bv " several eminent ministers of the Presbyterian and other churches ; " but he adds tbnt the open air services will be resumed when considered prudent . " Should a hostile mob then molest you , they will be still more plainly and more guiltily in the wrong . They will be deprived of all oxcuse and of all sympath j ' , and , as the Government is determined , they will bo speedily crushed . " Another preacher , however , a Mr . Match * , resolved to preach in the streets on the Suiulav , and did

      ho ; but the presence of largo bodies of police and military prevented any very serious results . Tho Itoinan Catholics arc said by the Freeman ' s Journal to have behaved with exemplary forbearance ; but the Orange party created a riot , and discharged several vollovs of stones . They were dispersed by tho fixed bayonets of the police , but , again assembling , renewed the disturbance . Large reinforcements of police arrived , and Mr . Trncoy , tho magistrate , read tho Riot Act , and told the mob that their conduct was disloyal and ruffianly , and that , if they did not at ouco disperse , lie would order the Dion to firo . Tbu lnmp .-J were all put out ; but the evonts of the day and night were nothing like so aurious as on tlio previous Sunday .

      Mr . David Lynch , Q . C ( Koinan Catholic and Whig ) , and Mr . Hamilton Smytlm , Q . C . ( Protestant and Conservative ) , the Commissioners appointed by tho Lord-Lieutenant to inquire into tlie recent disgraceful outrages in Belfast , arrived there on Monday morning and formally opened the sittings of the commission nt three o ' clock in the County Court-house . About one hundred and lifty witnesses are to bo examined ; so that tho inquiry will be vory protracted . Tlio riots appunr now to bo over—at any rate , for the present ; but it is asserted that each side has got a small piece- of artillery in its possession , to bu used in street warfare , if the opportunity . should occur 1

      : Me A. It Now Appears That Tho Utah Exp...

      : me a . It now appears that tho Utah expedition is to sot out . Tho appointments for tho territory are completed by tlio nominutiou , of \) c , Korney , of Pennsylvania , to the post of Superiuteuduiit of Indian Ailaivs . Tlio now territorial oULcoia will auuuuiblo at 1 ' urt Luruinio , and

      accompany tho army . Whether General Harney will continue in command of the expedition , or whether Colonel Johnson will be appointed , remained uncertain at tlie last dates . The weather in California- haa been fine , and the news of the crops is excellent . Several large fires have occurred in the interior . The towns of St . Louis and Michigan Cliffs have been destroyed in this way . The National Emanci pation Convention , called to devise some equitable plan of negro emancipation on the principle of compensation to slaveholders , has met at Cleveland , Ohio . Nearly all the free states were

      represented , and the attendance was large . Among other schemes , it was proposed to devote the proceeds of the sales of public lands and whatever- surplus- revenue may accrue from customs to the redemption of the slaves . The Convention adjourned finally on the 28 th ult . Tho result of the labours of the Convention is the adoption of a plan by which the general and state Governments shall purchase the slaves at the-rate of'two hundred and twenty-five dollars each , and the organization of an association to carry on the movement . The rival'Conventions in Minnesota have agreed that but one constitution shall be presented to the people .

      A sum of between 200 , 000 and 300 , 000 dollars has been paid to Maryland by the Treasury Department of the " United States as interest on half a million dollars , to which amount the Federation became indebted to Diaryland during the war of 1812 . The principal was discharged between the years 1818 and 1822 . Several shipping disasters occurred during a storm which raged on the night of the 28 th . There is a scarcity of seamen at New York , and wages have advanced . A convention of the most prominent men connected with the railroad interest has assembled at New York . Dr . Rne ' s schooner , the Iceberg , with which he intended next spring to go in search of Sir John Franklin ' s remains , is supposed to have been lost on Lako Ontario with all on board .

      A sanguinary engagement , resulting in tho defeat of a largo body of Cheyenne Indians by the United . States troops under Colonel Sumncr , has taken place . The loss on the side of the troops was very trifling . Some intelligence from Cuba is communicated to the New York Herald by its correspondent in that island , who writes : — For the lirst time within the past three yoars , an entire cargo of Bozal negroen has been seized by the Spanish authorities , and forthwith declared to be emancipados . General Morales de Kada was the active and trustworthy agent employed on tliis occasion , added to which every effort is being made to obtain evidence to ensure the conviction and punishment of all the parties concerned in , or rather with , the landing . Nor is this

      all . A new plan has been hit upon to ensure the punishment of Brigadier Serano . He has been ordered to consider himself a prisoner at Bejucal , whilst a copy of the written instructions supplied him upon his appointment to the office of Lieutenant Governor of Trinidad has been placed bjfore the real Audiencia Preterial , for it to decide , upon the evidence placed before it , whether the brigadier had not been guilty of ' wanton negligence ' in not detecting and preventing the landing of tho . several cargoes of Bozals , or some of them , during his period of oiHco , that took place within his jurisdiction . If he be declared guilty of such wanton negligence by the lteal Audiencia , he is liable to bo sentenced to-serve for the term of eight years in the presidio ( chain gang ) - "

      Mr . Suhvan , the English minister at Lima , has been shot by a Peruvian . He was dining with some gcntlraon when six men entered tho room , maskod , and fired throo shots , one of which entered the body at tlie lower part , and passed into tho lungs . One of the men thon said , " I am now sntislied , " and they all disappeared , leaving Mr . Sulivan in a condition which gives no hopeof his recovery . A reward of one hundred ounces was o lib red for the apprehension of tho miscreants ; and a Frenchman and a negro havo boon arrested on suspicion of being accomplices . The Peruvians endeavour to explain the mutter by saying that it was the result of an intrigue with a lady ; but others aflirm that the act waa committed out of annoyance at English ' interference in tho affair of tho Tumbos and Loa . ' The correspondent

      of n Panama newspaper states that a short time ago Mr . Sulivan took with him to a ball a woman of abandoned character with whom he lived ; and that , on her presence being objected to by soino gentlemen as an insult to the company , Mr . Sulivan retorted that she was us good as any woman present , or in Lima , where , ho said , all the women arc of notoriously light character . Tho assassins are represented to bo members of most respectable families . Tho Peruvian Government is alarmed at tho probable consequences of tlie act . Mr . Sulivau is a sou of tho IUght Hon . Laurence Sulivan , who waa brother-in-law of Lord Palinerston , find formerly PcpulyiSocrctary at " War . Tho son , after being our rqiroaentativo at Chili from 1811 ) to 1 H 5 . 'J , was transferred in tha lutlcr year to Peru .

      The conduct of tlio Peruvian officials towards American vessels has led to tho interference of tho United States Minister . Tlio Government of Ecuador lias notified itfl adhesion to tho convention entered into between Peru and Chili iu Soptoinbor , l # 5 o ' .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/7/