On this page

• Text (2)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    3:98 TjH E _LjE_AjD E ^ ^a. ___ __ pro.J...

  • 

    CONTINENTAL .NOTES. FRANCE. Cojlonelt Ou...

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    America.. Concjukss Has Rejected Tho Dal...

    great dissatisfaction was excited by the adoption in the treaty of -what ia called " tlie Wihnot proviso . " This provi & o is incorporated in the convention with Honduras , aucl stipulates that , inasmuch as slavery does not now exist 5 n the Bay Islands , it shall never be introduced there , but shall be perpetually prohibited . The determination arrived at by the Senate is said not to be conclusive against the bill ia an amended forra . The Committee -will communicate with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs , in order to deoide upon some modifications to be proposed to the English Government , which , it is thought probable , will agree to them . Against the assertions on the part of American papers tliat the treaty lias been rejected , we may place a statement by our own Govaaftment organ , the Morning Post , that those assertions are erroneous , and that the Senate has passed a favourable vote .

    Ia the House of Representatives , the Senate's Submarine Telegraph Bill has been committed to the Postoffice Committee by a majority of twelve . The Tariff Bill has been discussed without any result . It is reported that the naval committee of the Senate have prepared a bill authorizing the construction of an armed steamer of 500 tons burden , for the protection of American , commerce from piratical attacks in the shallow waters , creeks , and rivers of China , and asking an appropriation of 120 , 000 dollars for that purpose . The schooner Jane T . Glover lias been seized at New York on a charge of being fitted out as a slaver . —Several large fires have occurred at various parts of the Union .

    Tbe frost is over ; but the breaking up of the ice on the rivers has caused great damage . Bridges have been carried away , ships driven from their moorings , houses Submerged , and several persons drowned , as at present supposed . Several slips , also , have occurred on the railways . TJie report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges of Corruption at Washington Is very soon to appear . The correspondent of the New Yorli Times has been released from custody . The inquiry into the murder of Dr . Burdell was not concluded on the starting of the last steamer ; but nothing important had been added to the evidence . There seemed to be every probability of the suspected persons getting clear off , owing partly to a defect iu the evidence , partly to the gross mismanagement of the coroner , who , though he has abandoned his indecent jesting , has

    exhibited so much , blundering incompetence that the indignation of the citizens is loudly excited against him . According to the New York correspondent of the Times , this clumsy official " put the whole family [ of the Cunninghams ] into close confinement , as witnesses ; as such they applied for a writ of habeas corpus , in the retura to which he specified Eckel and Mrs . Cunningham as being detained as accomplices , charged with the murder . By order of the Superior Court , all the witnesses , except these two , were released ; but these chief witnesses , being changed into principals , of course immediately took other ground , and by the advice of their counsel , on being brought iip for examination , refused to answer any questions . The blunder will most likely be fatal to tlie case . Their testimony , whatever it might have been , 5 s lost , and , as principals or accessories , tlie evidence against them ia only presumptive , hardly amounting to circumstantial . "

    There ia but little additional intelligence with respect to Walker . " Aa it was reported , " says the Times Now York correspondent , " that among Walker ' s recruits detained at Punta Arenas , unable to ascend the river , there Avere some British subjects very willing to abandon th « enterprizo ( they had been induced to join in total ignol-iince of the state of affairs ) , Captain Krskine , of her Majesty ' s ship Orion , the senior officer on the station , sent Captain Cockburn , of the Cossack , on shore , to offer them protection if t"hey chose to quit . Captain Cockburu proceeded to the quarters of tlie detachment , and Colonel Lockridge , its commander , at his desiro mustered the recruits . The offer of protection was road to the mem , and twelve immediately stopped out and cluimed jt , anil were taken beyond the roach of intimidation , under proteat from "Walker ' s officer . "

    It has been asserted , in tho course of the trial of some people accused of onliBting troops ia the stato of Now York for military service in Contral America , that Prosident Pierco had a pecuniary iuteroat in lands and colonisation in Nicaragua . Several witnesses Bpoko to this , and the assertion produced a great deal of indignant feeling ; but the retiring President , through tho Attornoy-Gonoral , tho Hon . Calob Gushing , has given a flat denial to tho imputation .

    I ho difference footwocn tho Mexican and Spanish Govornments ( according to a letter from Cadi / - ) has entorod a now phase . After having exhauatcd all means of conciliation , Sofior do Sorela , Minister of Spain , has demanded lua passports , quitted tho city of Mexico , embarked on board tho Porla frigato , and anchored in Ihc hay of Vera Crux , which has been placed at his disposal by Goooral Concha , Captein-Gonoral of Cuba . Great preparations are being made iu Spain for a vigorous commencement of hostilities .

    In the Now Yojrk money market , thoro has been a quick demand , * ud nine to ton por cent , waa readily paid on call loans .

    3:98 Tjh E _Lje_Ajd E ^ ^A. ___ __ Pro.J...

    3 : 98 TjH E _ LjE _ AjD E ^ ^ a . ___ __ pro . JHBa , Saturday

    Continental .Notes. France. Cojlonelt Ou...

    CONTINENTAL . NOTES . FRANCE . Cojlonelt Ousei > ey , Professor of Persian , and interpreter of that language to the East India Company , has arrived in Paris from London . He has brought despatches for the British Ambassador , whom he is to assist in his conferences -with Ferukh Khan , which are to be resumed on Monday . It is said thatthe British Government , besides tlie Island of Karrack , demands authority to found an establishment on the Island of Ornius , and to establish depots of coal on several points of the Persian coast . Letters received from Teheran almost all speak of the fact of a recent treaty between Russia and Persia . The only difference of opinion among the writers is as to the t « rms of the treaty . — Times Paris Correspondent . The Moniteur publishes the test of the treaty of friendship and commerce concluded between France and Persia on the 12 th of July , 1 S 55 . One of the three I consulates which France will henceforth have in Persia will be at Bender-Bushire ; and a Persian consul is to reside in the French colony established on the Isle de la lteunion in the Indian Ocean . The Loader of last Saturday , together with several other London weekly newspapers , was seized in France , on account of the comments on the Emperor's speech to the Legislative Assembly—exacerbated , probably , in our case , by the letter from M . Louis Blane . The Constituticmnel has a semi-official article denying the allegations made by Mr . Disraeli as to the " secret treaty" between France and Austria . The Convention was signed , and France engaged to employ its efforts " to maintain order in Italy" on the conditicm that Austria should declare war against Russia . Austria did not declare war , and the object of the Convention ceased-to exist . The Convention was not executed , bad no duration , and is , in fact , a dead letter . M . Thiers has definitively declined to come forwaTd in the approaching election for Rouen , or any other place , notwithstanding very pressing invitations from the liouennais ; The historian is said to have expressed himself highly pleased with the allusion to his work in the Emperor ' s speech on the opening of the Legislative Chambers . Louis Napoleon has sent him a very flattering letter . SFAtN-. ' . ¦ . ' . The elections are being conducted by the Government with every species of illegality . Electors are prevented from voting on the merest caprice . Among others , the vote of Sefior Olozaga ^ svas refused . r . ussiA . . The Caucase of Tiflis gives some account of an expedition of the Russians iu the Great Tchetchnia , for the purpose of opening with the hatchet a passage through the forest of Maiourtoupe , which is considered one of tiie greatest obstacles to the conquest of the territory of the Tchetchenes . This feat they accomplished ( notwithstanding the opposition of Schamyl ) , with the loss of eight men killed and twenty-five wounded . Russia , in conjunction with Persia , is projecting the establishment of a railway from Tiflis to Teheran . A strange incident has just created great indignation , at Moscow . A dispute took place in ones of the loading salons between Count 33—— and a very old professor of history in the Moscow University , the subject being Sir Robert Peel ' s remarks on . his Russian journey . The Count took the side of Sir Robert Peel , aaid the professor expressed his astonishment tliat a Russian could do so . The altercation ended with a sudden onslaught of tho Count on the old man , whom ho threw down aud trampled upon , inflicting such injury upon him before tho bystanders interfered , that tho professor ' s life is despaired of " . PRUSSIA . Tlio Government has been defeated in tho Chamber of Deputies upon its proposal to alter tho constitutional law by shortening tlie interval between the two readings of any bill to ten days , it being at present twenty-one . AUSTIUA . The rumours which have been for some time current in the financial world , relative to a new loan by Austria , have now assumed a more dofinite form , and some details of the projected measure aro even given . Tho amount , it is aaid , will be 150 millions of ilorins ; tho interest five per cent ., and tho capital reimbursed in fifty years by periodical drawings . Tho titles will be for 250 florins , divisible into fifths . It is thought that they will bo issued at DO . Tho Archduchoss Sophia of Austria has presented a very niugnilicont jowclled breast-pin to a Mr . William Bernard M'Cabo , an Irish gentleman , who recently published a work iu which ho showed tlio early connexion of the Gorman . Kmpiro with Lotnburdy . Tho Emperor and Eniproas intend to leavo Milan on tho 5 th of . March , and to bo back in Vienna on . or about the 16 th . Tho Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian hns nccoptod tho Governor-Generalship of the Lombardo-Vonotian kingdom . Ho will hold oxtroniely full powors ; will bo dependent on the Emporor alone ; and will communicate with him direct , instond of ( as usual ) through tho minititors . Tho Imperial presence in sLill regarded by tho Milanese nobility with extreme coldness , many of them koepiu <;

    aloof from the Court . Some grand balls which th ' Majesties intended to give during the carnival have bee abandoned , out of a fear that the spacious state a ««^ ments might be ill filled . "" apart-The Austrian , passport system is about to be ereafl ^ simplified . &* w * uy

    TURKEYThe Armenians who inhabit the Ottoman Empire and who form a community of about 3 , 000 , 000 people nave resolved to appoint a special agent at London and ' Paris to protect their interests . Their choice has fallen on a member of the family Duz , oiie = of the most influential Armenian families throughout the East Tiities Paris Correspondent . Rifaat Pacha is dead . He leaves a fortune of 25000000

    , , piastres . Messrs . Baltazzi have granted a loan of 10 , 000 , 000 piastres to the Porte . Kaboulv Effendi has been proposed for President of the Divan ad hoc , which is to meet at Jassy . Kiamil Bey is designated to fill the same office at Bucharest . Admiral Lyons has officially announced his proximate departure Two vessels have alreadj- left for Malta . A new landing of Russian troops has taken place at Balfruck , on the shore of the Caspian Sea . It is reported that warlike stores have been forwarded in the direction of Teheran

    ITALY . Sir James Hudson , the English Ambassador io the Court of Turin , conferred the Order of the Bath , on the 17 th inst ., on six Piedmontese officers who distinguished themselves in the Crimea . ° Count Buol , it is said , has addressed an energetic noto to the Sardinian Government , protesting against the " licence" of the press in Piedmont . A rupture between the two Governments . is feared ; but it is not thought that there will be any hostilities . The Ital ' ui e . Popolo , one of the Republican journals published at Turin , has ceased to exist .

    Domiciliary visits continue at Naples , and the public feeling has been shocked by a case exhibiting more than usual cruelty and oppression . Antonio Salvi , supposed to be a natural sou of the Prince " de C—— , a wellknown devoted adherent of the King , was found one day lighting a match , fcy which lie intended tp kindle his cigar , in the royal stables at Caserta , where he was employed . It was immediately supposed by the .-frigb . ten . e 4 servants that the youth intended to set fire to the stables . lie was "beaten an-d dragged before the Commissary of Police , who striick liiin on the face , and nearly knocked him - 'down . He was asked where he got the match , and replied that it was given to him by one of the grooms of the Count d"Aguilar , the Kiug's brother . The groom was sent for , but deuied the imputation

    probably from fear . The youth was accordingly conveyed as an incendiary to Naples , thrown into a dungeon , and put to tlie torture . He was beaten till his body , in the words of a writer from Naples , " presented one huge wound . " The object was to wring from him a confession of accomplices ; but , of course , this was a species of information which could not bo given , as no " accomplices " existed . The Prince de C did all lie could to effect the poor youth's release ; but , so far from succeeding , his house was visited by the police , under suspicion that he was concerned in tho imaginary incendiarism . What wonder that , with these mortal hatreds of his tyranny being engendered day by day , the King should still remain shut up at Caserta , undex a black cloud of fear and wretchedness ? It is said tliat he i 3

    even afraid of his own brotliers , and still move of lu . 3 son , the heir to his crown . The writer of the letter from Naples , from which the foregoing facts aro derived , gives another instance of Government rascality : — " TIig heritage of the sons of the Duke of Malisto-Sambie / . e ia disputed by tlie Mossanclli family , much favoured by , and very faithful to , the Court . The sons of tho Duke have for their advisers the three best members of the Neapolitan bar , Stavace , Minesvini , and Vignoli ( ex-Ministor of 1848 ) . It is said that some of the judges do not conceal tlio " fact of . tlie hoirs of Malisto having right on their side , but as among

    the heirs to tho property is tho Duke tlu fciau Donate Sambioze , one of the three or four members of tho high aristocracy of Naples who joined tho revolution uai fought on tho loth May—who is now in oxile , and who luva written an admirable pamphlet on the actual condition of tho Two Sicilies , —tho Court leaves nothing undone to induce the judges to decide against him , ami on bohalfof tho favourites of tho King . "—An advocate has bean banished the kingdom for reading the Civilta Cattolii ' M , a religious journal , and the organ oHho Jesuits The police define- tho reading of any newspaper to be a deadly oflbneo .

    Au address to the King , signed Tho Army , " lift * been twice circulated . It sets forth that tho military in 1 . 848 co-operated with tho King iu tho suppression of " oxaggoratod domands , "" on the understanding t ' there was no intention to abolish tho " . spontaneously conceded" constitution . " But now eight long yews have elapsed , and all ia tranquil in tho kingdom , ami nothing prevents your Majesty from finally giving » J lifo and vigour to tho Constitution already grunted nnu sworn to . Thin ia the desire , more or low concealed ) ot us all , now that tho army has at lougth acquired ft knowledge of iUolf . Lei your Majesty consider vfkat

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021857/page/6/