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      America. Thk Chief News From The United ...

      It is stated that various Indian tribes have offered their services to the Federal Government in the suppression of the Mormon rebellion . . The banks in the city of New York have resumed specie payments , and others have followed their example . The troops despatched to Utah are to winter at Henry ' s Fork , on Green River , until spring , when operations will be resumed . Reinforcements appear to be greatly needed . The Mexican Government troops had defeated the revolutionists at Puebla and other points , and affairs generally have assumed a more encouraging aspect . The position of the hostile factions in Yucatan exhibits no change .

      Is Stated That Various Indian Tribes Hav...

      No . 405 , December 26 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER , 1229

      Continental Notes. France. The Governmen...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The Government seems determined to push its despotic interference with the press to the utmost extreme . The Union , the Univers , and the Siecle have been carrying on a discussion of considerable length on the subjects of 1 democracy' and ' revolution . ' They designed to go yet further into the questions ; but the Government has interposed . Any continuation of the discussion is absolutely prohibited . With respect to the temporarily extinguished Presse , the Times Paris correspondent remarks : — " The managers had nearly resolved to request permission to resume the publication of that journal , but only on literary subjects , with a-view to save the hundreds of persons employed by it from starving . They have , I am told , been obliged to abandon the idea . " Madame George Sand has written a letter to the Empress , painting in affecting terms the distress caused to the families of the workmen on the extinguished paper by the suspension of its publication , and begging her to intercede for them . It does not appear that any good has resulted . from this generous attempt .

      The Courtier de Puns , which recently undertook to show that the Empire and Liberty are perfectly consistent , has received an intimation that its opinions are not acceptable at head-quarters ; and it has therefore relapsed into silence . An Artillery College is to be established at Grenoble . Louis Napoleon is skilled in the science of artillery , and has increased the number of these schools . The manufacturer of the 20 , 000 rifles ordered by the English Government in 1855 has just completed his task , w hich he announces with much pride and satisfaction . He has had an audience of the Emperor , and ptesented him with a model of the arms acd a medal he has had Btruck on the occasion .

      " The only topic Which occupies conversation now , " says the Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent , " is the seizure of a book entitled , ' The True and the . False Catholics , ' which is likely to give rife to a very scandalous trial . The work , published anonymously , is by a writer who pretends to be a sincere Catholic , and in that character pushes the doctrines of the Church to their extreme consequences , so as to make them ridiculous . Many innocent persons -were at first deceived , and thought they had got possession of a work of piety . The animus of the work was at last discovered by the police ,

      who have not , however , been equally successful in finding out the author . " The same writer adds : — " There is mow forming in Belgium , Piedmont , and other countries of Europe , where something like liberty exists , a society for the defence of religious liberty . One of the objects it proposes is , to collect money for the defence of all persons prosecuted for oflences against Catholicism . Each member is to contribute a day ' s gains . The ' statutes' of the society are circulating in Paris , and adhesions are coining in ; but of course nothing public can be done at present . "

      The roads in the country have been much infested with robbers of late , and the police appear to be very inefficient . The Emperor and Empress went on Friday week to Neuilly to witness some experiments , conducted by M . Carteron , the inventor of a process for rendering wood tissues of all sorts , theatrical decorations , & e , incombustible . The experiments arc reported to liavc been entirely successful . A very dense ground fog set in last Saturday evening , in certain parts of Paris . The obscurity was so complete that vehicles and even foot passengers were , obliged to come to a dead halt , until the authorities sent out policemen with lighted torches . The fog was only local , and did not rise far above the ground , the stara all the while being plainly viable .

      " The Memorial de Lille" says the Daily Nt-ws Paris correspondent , " a Bonupartist journal , which was lately suppressed in the ordinary course of Imperial law ( on a sceondconvictioii ( in a Court of Justice ) for a libel upon M . Brume , the successful opposition candidate for Lille , has been relieved from i ( . s . sentence by a special exercise of the Emperor ' s prerogative . "

      SPAIN . A great many long documents relating to the contemplated duel between Sutler Gucll y Rento and General Narvaez have been published in the . London papers . The result of the negotiations is , that the duel will not take place , because the principals cannot agree about the > veapon . Quell y Rente is for tho short sword , Narvacz

      for pistols ; and so their martial ardour seems destined to be balked . According to the Alamlra , a Granada journal , some of the Moorish chiefs at Melilla have entered into friendly relations with the Spaniards , and have even expressed a wish to pass under their rule .

      GERMANY . " On Thursday , the 10 th inst ., " says the Times Vienna correspondent , " the representative of the Grand Duchy of Hesse at the Bund laid before that body the representation of the municipality of Mayence . It is to the effect that the inhabitants of the city claim indemnification for the damage done by the explosion on the 18 th of November , and desire that all large quantities of powder may immediately be removed to the outer works

      of the fortress . The representation was , as a matter of course , handed over to the military committee of the Diet . The commission which had to examine into the cause of the explosion has at last come to the conclusion that the Austrian non-commissioned officer Wiemer did , on the 18 th of November , feloniously set lire to the powder magazine . A few days since , eight hundred cwt . of powder were removed from the magazine in the Boniface Bastion , and now the powder magazine in the citadel is being emptied . "

      Baron von Keden , one of the most famous of German statisticians , has died at Vienna of inflammation of the lungs following a . cold caught at the opening of a new railroad .

      : ¦ . . . ¦ -.. ¦ ITALY . ¦ ¦ : ¦ .. ¦ - . A terrific earthquake devastated the districts of Salerno , Potenza , Nola , and other places near Naples , on the 17 th inst . Entire villages have been destroyed , and the victims are several thousands in number . In the city of Naples , there were several violent shocks , and the entire population was encamped outside the walls during the whole day ; but no fatal accident occurred in the town . During some excavations lately made at a place called the Arco Travertino , about two miles from Rome , the villa of Quiritus Servilius Silanus , who was consul in 189 , was discovered , and close by were found , at the same time , the remains of a Christian church , with an entrance into the catacombs . Prince Lucien Bonaparte , son of the Prince of Canino , is to be received at Rome into holv orders .

      Ancona is in . a very disturbed state . Several assassinations and other acts of violence have been committed , and nineteen persons have been arrested on suspicion . The Neapolitan Government has declared the Cagliari a regular capture , and the Minister of Foreign Affairs has published a justification of this decision . The indictment against the prisoners taken with the Cagliari includes the English engineers , so that they will be tried under the same circumstances as their fellow captives . ' ' ¦ ' ' RUSSIA . " It appears certain , " says a St . Petersburg letter in the JBreslaw Gazette , " that the Russian Government

      has hxed the mode in which the emancipation of the peasants is to be effected . It will take place , not all at once , but successively , at three ' periods . In the first , the relations between the peasants connected with the soil ( gkba adscript i ) and the State will be fixed , that is to say , they will be admitted to possess a political existence , and their obligations to their lords will be rigorously traced out . In the second period , serfdom will be suppressed ; and in the third , the payments in kind will be converted into a fixed rent , and the mode of redeeming such rent and the acquisition of free property of the peasants will be regulated . "

      Very confused accounts arc given of the mission of Admiral Putiatin to China . It would appear , however , that the Chinese Government lifts refused to receive any foreign mission in Pckin . There is a report that the Russian Admiral brought a letter from the Emperor offering to put . down the insurrection on condition of receiving a portion of the Mantcliourian territory , and that tlie Celestial monarch refused to accede ; but tLis has been said several times before , and is therefore doubtful . Another questionable assertion has been madethat the Chinese Government has peremptorily required Russia to evacuate the territory which she has occupied at the mouth of the Anioor . The Northern Bee has been loudly denouncing the Chinese jealousy of foreigners , and hinting that , if tho Pekin Government will not grant commercial intercourse with other nations , 'it will be no matter of surprise if China should shortly

      become the theatre of remarkable events ot tho highest interest to Europe ? . ' A terrible instance of oflicial oppression at Warsaw is thus narrated by tiie Times Vienna correspondent : — "About twelve years ago , M . Rosengold , a . Jewish tradesman , made known to the higher authorities that the Stale wua systematically robbed by certain employes . In order that the matter might not become public , Rosengold was seized and thrown into prison , where ho remained until the unuiesty was granted at tho coronation of tliu present Emperor . On his liberation , the unfortunate man lost no time in laying his ca . se before the new authorities , and they soon satisfied themselves that he had been infiiinou . sly treated . By a Hpecial ukaie , the Emperor Alexander has made public the man's innocence , and given orders that certain civic distinctions shall bo conferred on him . "

      An Imperial rescript , dated from Tzarskoe Selo , November 20 th ( old style ) , or December 2 nd of our calendar has just been addressed by Alexander II . to the Military Governor of Vilno and the Govornor-General of Grodno and Kovno , instituting changes in the relations between the peasantry and landed proprietors of the country , with a view to the partial enfranchisement of the serfs . rhe Russians , on the 18 th of November , completely defeated a body of 3000 Tscherkesses . The Ssalatawia is said to have been completely evacuated and all the villages burnt .

      AUSTRIA . " Two newly-appointed professors belonging to the clergy , " says a German paper , ' had lately to take the usual oath before the Governor of Vienna . They listened , without raising any objection , to the ordinary formula , ' to observe fidelity and obedience to the Emperor , & c ., but , when they had to confirm the oath by raising their hands , they declared that they could not do so except on condition that there should be inserted in the oath the words , ' without prejudice to the rights of our ecclesiastical superior . ' The ceremony was suspended , and the question submitted to the Minister of the Interior who has decided that the clause shall be inserted . " The reduction of the Austrian army commenced on the 1 st inst .

      TURKEY . The Prince of Souenneti , who murdered Prince Gagarine , was shot at Koutais on the 17 th ult ., in pursuance of the sentence of the court-martial . A third circular note has been addressed by the Porte to its agents abroad with reference to the sittings of the Divans in connexion with the Danubian Principalities . It is here stated that those assemblies have only hitherto occupied themselves with political matters , and that they desire to meet again after the conferences at Paris have decided on the question of the union , at

      which subsequent sittings they will consider the administrative reforms necessitated by the new regime . The Porte prohibits this proposed course , and says that the Paris Congress ought to be furnished with complete data for deciding on the future of the Principalities . It expresses its satisfaction that the various Governments agree on the necessity of dissolving the Divans as soon as the European commission shall have sent in its final report . As the Divans have positively refused to proceed to the examination of any internal matters until their political organization has been settled , they may be considered virtually at an end .

      Two Christian Armenians have been raised to the dignity of Pacha . TJieir nomination has been received with great favour at Constantinople , as they have , rendered service to Turkey . M . de Lesseps has arrived at Constantinople from Trieste . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe left Constantinople on board the Austrian mail packet on the 12 th instant . Mr . Alison , Secretary of Embassy , takes charge of English interests during his absence . The Commissioners for the demarcation of the Asiatic frontier left Constantinople on the 9 th instant , Colonel Simmons and M . Pelissier having embarked on board the French mail packet for Marseilles , and General TsehirikofT , with his staff , on board the Odessa steamer .

      Her Majesty ' s Ship Medina , Captain Spratt , has returned from the Danube , where it has been engaged in facilitating the work of the Commission for the navigation of that stream . Captain Spratt lias drawu up a report on the delta of the Danube , and Lieutenant C . II . Wilkinson has made a minute survey of all the branches of the river . Some soundings have also been taken in the basin of the Mediterranean . Captain Spratt has communicated the result of his inquiries to the Commission at ( Jalatz .

      DKNMAHK . The Danish Chambers closed on the 22 nd . The Supreme Council of the monarchy is to meet on the 10 th January . Several resignations have taken place . Many failures continue to occur in Denmark , Sweden , and Norway .

      Tiie Jeufosse Tltlal. Tiik Trial Of The ...

      TIIE JEUFOSSE TltlAL . Tiik trial of the Jcufosse family for murder , at the Court of Assizes of tho Eure , has revealed a remarkable atory . The Jcufosso family are of noble lineage , and are the possessors of an ancient chateau standing in the midst of woods and a large extent of park-land , the whole being surrounded by a wall . Though thus living in nr istocratir . nl state , tlicro appears to have been no superabundance of riches ; and tho two sons , Ernest and Albert , have resided principally in Paris for the sake of mixing in Dour . se speculations . The father has been dead sonic years , and the mother , a lady nearly fifty years of nge , lias lived in retirement at tho chateau with her daughter Blanche , who is not yet nineteen , and the governess , Mademoiselle Laurence Thouzcy . One of tho neighbours of this old patrician family wan a gentleman named Eniile Guillot , a person of some wealth , but of no pedigree , who became a constant visitor at the chateau ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 26, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26121857/page/5/