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      ' for any increase of his army . The President , however , has ordered the despatch of reinforcements . Governoi Cumming 3 has signed a proclamation declaring the terr itory in a state of rebellion , exhorting the inhabitants to return peaceably to their occupations , and threatening punishment , as traitors , to all who shall disobey . Brigham Young seems to be desirous of seducing the expedition by acts of kindness . One day , he sent a quantity of salt to Colonel Johnston ; but that officer returned it , stating that he would hang any other messenger from the same quarter . Young has also invited the officers of the army to partake of his hospitality , and spend the winter at Salt Lake city . It is needless to say that this was also refused . Sefior Yrissari , Minister of Guatemala , Nicaragua , and San Salvador , has thanked the Government of the United States for having carried away the adventurer Walker and his invading band from the point of which they had taken possession on the coast of Nicaragua , " thus relieving friendly countries from the evils with which they wonld have been visited had these disturbers of the peace of the nation been allowed the possibility of increasing their force by new recruits . The point from which Commodore Paulding forced away these bandits ( justly assimilated by the laws of nations to pirates and foes of mankind ) is an almost deserted one , on which exists no Kicaraguan authorities . " Therefore he considers the proceedings of Commodore Paulding against Walker and bis horde were perfectly justifiable ; " for a man-of-war of any nation may take up pirates from a barren island , or from one thinly populated . " Colonel Anderson , Walker ' s associate in the last descent on Nicaragua , has surrendered Fort Castillo and the river steamers to the United States frigate Susquehanna . Previously to doing so , however , he destroyed all the buildings , and broke the machinery of the steamers . He was taken back to the United States in the Wabash . The President ' s Message on the affairs of Nicaragua has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations . The House of Representatives has rejected a bill providing for five additional regiments for the army . The Kansas elections were still going on at the last dates , and the Pro-Slavery men seemed to be gaining large majorities in several of the counties . The Free State men have arrested man 3 ' fraadnlent voters , as well as two judges—one for stuffing the ballot-boxes , and another for receiving fraudulent suffrages . Great excitement prevailed ; but we do not hear of any further collisions . Walker , the Filibuster , has left Washington for New Orleans . It was expected that he would demand a trial there , with the object ( according to the New York Times ) of , " introducing positive testimony showing that the President , months ago , encouraged him in his'Nicaraf tuan enterprise . " A most revolting case of murder is reported from Poolville , near Hamilton , Canada West . A man named Comstork killed his aged parents with an axe . He then extracted their hearts , cut one of the bodies in pieces , and roasted the other on the stove , eating a portion of it . He intended to have killed his sister , but fortunately she escaped . It is some comfort , in these abnormal coses , to reflect that the person who commits such deeds must be mad . In Lower California , political affairs are quiet . A dreadful hurricane on the coast has driven thirteen vessels ashore , and destroyed many houses at La Poze and San Bernardino . A committee has been appointed at Mobile to expel from the city an Abolitionist bookseller . Tho Democratic State Convention of Indiana has resolved , by a vote of more than three to one , that State constitutions should bo submitted to tho people , and that no territory should become a State until a fair expression of tho will of tho citizens respecting thoir organic law should have been had at tho ballot-box . The state of affairs in Moxico is thus described in a telegram from Now Orleans : — "A numerous party has risen , against tho plan of Tucabaya , consisting of a largo majority outside the military . Comonfort , tho Dictator , loft tho capital on the 1 st of January , at tho Jtie » d of a division of troopi . Hia destination was un-Jknown . Before his departure , ho organized a Ministry , among whom are Alocatriz , Enpartu , Cerdo , and Payno . On New Year ' s-day , tho diplomatic corps paid thoir respects to Comonfort | but tho absence of tho British representative caused much remark . There was a rumour of the death of General Alvarez . General Parocli has issued a proclamation ngainst Conionfort ' s action , and lias recalled tlm acceptance of tho plau of Tucabaya . Civil war Hooms inevitable . " With i-ospeot to trade , wo hnvo little fronli to report . Masni'M . Smith , Runsoll , and Co ., soap and candle manufacturers , of Louiavillo , havo failed . A Now York mercantile agency lias lately issued a circular containing aoine ourlous results of the late panic It oatimatofl tho number-of-nrms- 'in-tho-Uiuiod-Statoa-at ^ 04 , 001 ^ -thu number of swindling failures as 817 , with an indobtcdnesetof 5 , 222 , 600 dollare ; the number of fail urea that will pay nothing except confidential , 512 , with an indebtedness of 20 , 80 S > , 000 dollars ; tho number of firms that will pay from 40 o . to 50 c , » , 880 , owing 11 ) 7 , 080 , 600 doUnra ; and 406 houses owing 77 , 180 , 000 dollars , which WiU bo paid in full . Tho asaastflau . of tho late British Minister at Lima ,

      , Mr . Sullivan , has been arrested , together with some of his accomplices , by the military , at a place distant about ten leagues from the city .

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      No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 . J T E E L E A P E R . 103

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES , That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion of the hnihaix race but that to which itself belongs . De . Arnold-FRANCE . Congratulatory addresses to the Emperor on Iiis and the Em press ' s , escape from the late attempt at assasination continue to pour in . The army of Paris and those belonging to other military divisions have sent in addresses expressive of their attachment to the present regime , and their determination to identify themselves with its cause . Several of these contain insolent menaces against England for harbouring assassins . An address has been sent in from the British residents at Pan in the Basses Pyrenees . The following letter from a man of extreme Republican principles has been addressed to the Journal d'Epemay : —" On the news of the execrable attempt which has just struck France witli horror , and caused the whole of Europe to shudder , . every good citizen and everv honest man ought energetically to express his j opinion . If it be right to defend any particular views by a prudent vote or by ideas founded on wholesome reason , it is also a duty to abandon a party which disgraced itself , and to reject a flag which is shamefully soiled with blood . This sincere declaration , dictated by my conscience alone , is made for those who do not know me intimately . —Masson-Thibault , a political prisoner of 1852 , Montmirail , Jan . 15 . " Four foreigners coming from Paris have been arrested at the station ' of I origueau ( Somrae ) on the Northern Railway . One of tnem had a large wound in the forehead . It is announced that M . Pietri , the Prefect of Police , has submitted a plau to the Emperor for placing the police force of Paris on a new footing . It is said that General Changarnier is about to follow the example of General Lamoriciere , and to return to JTrance . . Captain de Sardi , a brilliant officer of the Imperial navy , who distinguished himself during the Crimean ( war , and exhibited great humanity to the English wounded on their return from the seat of war , has died ^ at Marseilles , after a short illness . ' £ The Budget for 1859 has just bsen presented to the MAiwKrvM nf 4 ' 1 iA PnwriJ T 1 \ rlolotlP 'l ^ llO 1 'PPCintS J 3 TY 1 C \ Yl II t .

      to 1813 millions ; the expenses to 1806 millions , of which forty millions are appropriated to the sinking fund . The balance in favour of the receipts is thus seven millions . The Emperor and Empress went to the Thdatre Francais last Saturday night , to see the first representation of Feu Lionel , a new comedy by MAI . Scribe and Fotrdh . Special measures were taken to keep the approaches of the theatre cleur of strangers . The piece was not very successful . Tim . 1 /* . » . *?> , i .. ^ . nu lilioiin j n A a /> fn £ i rflisinrr t . llft anlliriAS

      , of the Bishops from 12 , 000 fr . to 16 , 000 fr . a year from the beginning of the present year . The trial for murder of a hairdresser at Mont dc Marsan . named Lutemule , who on the 4 th of January killed with a sword-stick a councillor of the prefecture , a M . do Garidel , whom he found Jlagranto delicto in his wife ' s bedroom , came on at the assize court of the Lundea on the 21 st inst ., when the prisoner was acquitted with flying colours . The adulterer had nearly killed tho injured husband before the latter could use his woapoii . The Emperor and Empress attended the Jote given on Monday night at the English Embassy in celebration of the marriage of the Princess Hoyal . The Army of tho Line is to be divided under live great commands , confldod to Marshals , and having- thqir general quartors at Paris , Nancy , Lyons , Toulouse , and Tours . An nrtiolo in the Moniteur justifies tho conduct of tho

      Government towards Protestants . Authorizations , it is said , aro refused solely in cases whore thoro , is reason to know that it would bo an invasion of proselytism ruthor than a natural requirement . All furthor religiuu . 3 controversy in tho papers is prohibited , au tending to bring religion into contempt . Tho persecutions of tho prose contiuuo , and It is now difficult for tho most cautious journal to avoid , at tho loast , a wimiing . Tho Prufout of Nantoa has addressed an aoevtiatement to tho editor of tho P / tare de la Loiro for having published on article on tho opening of tho Legislative Session by tho . Emporor , in which ho observed that , according to the JIavat Corr < Mj > ondenG <> , tho Emperor ' s opeooh elicited cries of " Vive I'Enipereur /" " Vivo IVtiipdratriva / " " Viva le Prince fmpelriul /" Tho Prefect says that this form of utating tho fact Id cul-. cultttod _ to ^ catt |;_ ii ^ dQu . bt ~ oA- ^ Mondcv iutoudu to conlino itself to tho discussion of literature and art , us tho only means of avoiding oll'oiico . Tho Paris corroapondont of tho Times has brought to light somo odifying pancmgoa in Louiu Napoloon ' a historical writings ( ropublishcd iu Paria in 1864 ) , from which it appoara that tho Enporor applauda , with roferouco to England , those very principles of rational liborty and fi'oo utterance which ho so neduloualy

      suppresses in France . For the last week or two , it has been the habit of the Imperialists ( and the Emperor himself , in his message to the Assembly , took the same line of argument ) to assert that England , in the times of William III . and of the first two Georges , was obliged to quell faction by the same stern excesses of power as we now see employed by the Imperial Government . Louis Napoleon , however , in the work quoted from , praises William for the mildness of his rule , for his love of constitutional liberty , for his tolerance of diversity of opinion , and for his spontaneous acts of grace to political enemies . In one passage , the Emperor calls anarchy " that complacent phantom which ever -serves as the pretext for tyranny . " The Times correspondent recommends M . Billault and his colleagues to study the Emperor ' s writings on English history ; and we may add that it would not be amiss if the Emperor were to study them himself . BELGIUM . Colonel Charras , who was ordered by the Government to quit Belgium , is , it is said , about to sail for the United States . SPAIN . The Governors of Madrid , Burgo 3 , Caceres , Cuenca , Ciudad Real , and Old Castille , have been superseded . ITALY . The Piedmontese Gazette announces the seizure of the Radical journal Ragione , for having published a letter from Paris relative to the attempted assassination of the French Emperor and Empress . " This seizure , " says the Piedmontese Gazette , " is the accomplishment of a iuty and the expression of the moral sentiment of the people . " Count Robilant and General Delia Rocca , aide-de-camp to the King , were to leave for Paris , in srder to congratulate the Emperor on his escape . It is affirmed by Government organs that traces have ieen discovered at Rome of the existence of a conspiracy which was to have burst out the day after the affair of : he Rue Lepelletier , Paris , had the attempt proved sucsessful . Several persons have been arrested at Ascoli , ivho are said to have confessed to having committed fifty political assassinations since 1850 . The French Government has warned that of Naples of a contemplated outbrenk , in which- some Frenchmen were to have been joncerned . Certain papers have been discovered at Ancona , relating to the secret societies in Italy and their ramifications in France . A certified copy has been sent to the French Government . Several gentlemen who took a prominent part in the to

      reforms or 1 H 4 K nave Deen appointed ijovernmeui . offices in Tuscany . This is looked on as a sign of returning liberality in high quarters . TURKEY . The news of the 16 th inst . from Constantinople is as follows : — " The Grand Mufti ( Sheik-ul-Islam ) , and Achmed Fethi Pasha , the chief of the artillery , are ill . The English Minister at Teheran is dangerously ill . The Sultan , accompanied by his eldest " brother and his eldest son , has been in state to the theatre—the first a : ~~ . a * -K A . nn . i « . A -mmn ** ^ f ~ \ it f da 1 QtVi { nof A . ali FVo alia . 3 bi xut

      LllllC LIICqU LWV vgui > \_^ u «^ u * "wwj ** . **•« . — » u >»» y the Grand Vizier , called on Baron Prokesch and remained with him somo hours . " Grave disturbances have broken out in Bosnia , and three thousand Bashi-Bazouks have been sent to the scene of action . The long-talked-of project of the consolidation of th « floating debt has at length been published . TRUSSIA . Just at the moment of his departure from Berlin for England , Prince Frederick-William received from tho King his promotion to tho rank of Major-Genoral . HANOVER . Tho King has permitted M . von dor Dockon , the Minister of Justice , to retire on a pension . M . do Bothmar , tho Minister of Worship , is to hold tho portfolio of Justice ad interim . uwrT 7 lp . ln , A \ n

      It has been satisfactorily ascertained that nothing has been discovered to implicate tho refugees at Geneva in tho attempted assassination at Paris . Tho Govorninont of Gonova , however , has promised to keep a strict watch over tho conduct of tho exiles . AUSTRIA . Several very sharp shocks of earthquakes havo boon felt in towns in tho Carpathians . Tho Emperor has granted to tho Calviniat community at Berzoto , iu tho Gomor county , flvo hundred florins toward * tho reconstruction of its bulfry and tho purchaao of bolls . This pioco of liborality haa inspired tho Protestants with hopi ) for tho future . Tho Austrian papora teom with accounts of robberies anil murders , committed with tho moat atrocious vio-Joncein Hungary and Croatia . Tho people in Hungary arcnot « ifowou " to Uo ^ lmnT ; - ana ~ 8 ( rtiro -brIgand 8--geti" » off with impunity . Tdm DASUUIAN I'lHNOIPA MTnM . Tho Divan ad hoc of Moldavia haa diaaolvod Itaelf . GICKB 1 ANV . Tho Grand Duke Loula of Badon is dead . It wa « Bald , some yeuru oinoo , that ho waa dlaordorod in M « mind .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/7/