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    .No. 423, May 1, 1858.] THE LEABEE. 415

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    IRELAND. Tjie Case of Johx BritsE.—"We m...

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    AMERICA. The Senate has received a messa...

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES. That narrov.- and unc...

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    Ftmtiier News From India, Received Since...

    to ttis plan is tbe fact that it involves a hot-weather campaign , which will waste the Europeans like snow . " With Oude quiet , and a concentrated force of 12 , 000 Europeans , the resettlement of Hindostan , though a uiost difficult , cannot be a very dangerous task . The principal difficulties are those which have distressed us from the beginning—the enormous extent of our territories anil the numerical strength of the enemy . Colonel Iiowcroft , for instance , says a letter before me , is in great danger . The-mutineers from Fyzabad are threatening him on all sides , and he is crying lustily for . ammunition . I

    question if he is in . any extreme danger . Jle has beaten these men twice , and neither Europeans nor Ghoorkas are absolutely dependent on their guns . The Calpee rebels again are threateningCawnpore , and two regiments ( skeletons ) , the 32 nd being one , were on the 19 th [ of March ] ordered back to strengthen the garrison . They will hardly , however , venture on an . attack , and , now that the Chief ' s attention is released , -will find themselves surrounded . Large gangs of marauders incessantly cross the river into the Delhi division , plunder a village or two , and retire , the stream being fordable in a hundred

    places . " llewah is once more reported restless , and in Bundelcund , though . Sir Hugh Rose is incessantly reported as capturing forts and beating the enemy , he is not yet atJhansi . It is a bad tract , disaffected to the backbone , as all the districts are in which the hereditary aristocracy have retained tbeir power . If there is one point settled by the mutineers it is that we have under-estimated the affection borne to this class by tbe peasantry . It seems to Englishmen almost incomprehensible tJmt men should like to be oppressed , and that these men are oppressors it needs no evidence at this time of day to prove . " . The Friend of India , writing before the escape of the rebels from X . ucknow was known , says : —

    " Terrible work remains to be accomplished . Oude , Itohilcund , and Bundelcund have to be cleared of great gangs of armed and half-disciplined marauders . The Doab , and in fact the entire North-West , has to be ]> ermanently tranquillized . Affairs in Central India will require attention , and there is a debt which needs payment in Bombay . "

    .No. 423, May 1, 1858.] The Leabee. 415

    . No . 423 , May 1 , 1858 . ] THE LEABEE . 415

    Ireland. Tjie Case Of Johx Britse.—"We M...

    IRELAND . Tjie Case of Johx BritsE . —" We mentioned last week the case of John Byrne , a tenant of Mr . A .. G . Lewis , Inniskeen , who , it . was alleged , was turned out of his house because , being a Roman Catholic , he would not send his children to a Protestant school , at the direction of Mr . Lewis . That gentleman now writes to the papers to say that there is no truth in the story , and that the niarv received notice to quit because of a contemptuous speech whicli he made at a , public meeting , where he said that Mr . Lewis nviglit take up his holding at a quarter of an hour ' s notice , as ho would not hold under him while he refused to put the school under the National Board .

    The Gue \ t Annual Cattlts Snow . —The yearly cattle show of the Royal Irish Agricultural Society enmc off on Wednesday with considerable success , and was followed in tho evening by the usual meeting . Lord Eglingtoun was present , and delivered n speech , in the c-ourse of which he touched upon several topics of general interest , preluding his address with a tribute to the merits of his predecessors in the oflice of Yiccorv .

    America. The Senate Has Received A Messa...

    AMERICA . The Senate has received a message frcm the House of [ Representatives , announcing its adherence to its vole on the Kansas Bill , and that it has passed the Deficiency Appropriation Bill . Mr . Green ' s motion , asking a committee of conference from the House on the Kansas Bill , lias been carried by a majority of six . Tho . members of the Senate and of tho House of Hepresentatives have been afforded an opportunity of attending the funeral ceremonies of Colonel liunton , who tiled at an early hour on the morning of the 10 th ult .

    The House of' Representatives lias been disgraced by another personal encounter . Mr . Cniige , of INorth Carolina , and Mr . Helper , formerly of the same State , and author of a book entitled" The linpendingCrisis "—arwimu which now appears to have been prophetic—had , first , a quarrel , ami then a fight . It was houus Lime before the battle could be brought to a termination . The J-. HTye . jmL-• ftt-arms then took Mr . Helper into custody , and found on him a pistol and a knife , which , however , he had not attempted to line . Captain Durham , of the bark Adrintio , has liccu requested to appear before tli « Committee on Foreign Illations of the House of Kopvosentutives , and make a statement of tho facts connected with the seizure of his vessel in France , and his subsemieiit , escapo .

    The . Mormon scttlomentH on the Columbian riv « r are said to Iks breaking up . Tin Hetllers , it is nduVd , are leaving f ,, Suit Luke . Of the . United . States oxpudilion we read that ( Jiiptuin Murcy lmd left tins camp ground on the 18 t . li of March , with about . I' 200 animals , mobtlv lnulas , an abundant . supply of torn-, ; , , ui < l plenty t ) r pro-Visions for his men . Ho anticipated lii-in-- able to reach Camp Scott without difficulty . Tho ^ ra . ss on the l'lnins vras . tjrowiug rapidly .

    The civil war in Mexico continues . General Osollo ? acting on behalf of the Zuloaga Government , has taken the city of Guadalajara , capturing the entire Government of Juarez , whose officers , however , were permitted to leave the country . Osollo was on his way to the city of Mexico , and it was anticipated . . that he would be declared President of the Republic . Vora Cruz held out for the Juarez or Constitutional party . Tainpico has been besieged by General Garza . At the latter city , thirteen prominent Mexican reactionists have been captured by Garza while attempting to land from the British mail steamer . He also tired on an American vessel , from which he had endeavoured to extort double duties . The emigration into the port of New York up to the 14 th ult . had been 8-i 8 G , being a decrease of 8709 as compared with last 3 "ear .

    The 12 , 000 dollars stolen from the Graft on Bank have been recovered through the confessions of a young man named Stockwell , who was arrested for tho robbery . Tho steamboat Falls City burst her boiler on the afternoon of the 14 tli ult ., just as she was leaving New Orleans . Seven or eight persons were killed , and a number of others wounded . The explosion also somewhat damaged tho steamer John Simonds . The great rise in the waters of the lower Mississippi creates the most serious apprehensions . The water is now higher than it has ever been before , aiul it is expected that , when the great accumulations of water from above are added to the already overwhelming tides , the devastation will be terrible . Great storms of wind

    and rain are prevalent in the south-west . A dreadful hurricane has passed over Bentonville , in Arlcunsus , by which nearly every house in the town was blown down and twenty-five lives lost . The groans and cries of the wounded could be heard-for twenty-lour hours afterwards from under the ruins of the house .--. Great alarm has prevailed- in British Honduras in consequence of the capture of the city of Beccalor by the Yucatan Indians and the massacre of some of the inhabitants . It was feared that the savages would extend their marauding into the towns of the British colony- ; and troops had been sent up to Itio Hondo to protect the settlements .

    Continental Notes. That Narrov.- And Unc...

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrov .- and unchristian feeling is to "be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cai-es " for no " portion ot the human race but chat to which , itself belongs . J ) itl - -Vknoid . FKAXCK . Tin-: Paris elections have taken place this week , and have thus terminated : — Third CmeuMsciurTioN . Votes . General Perrot ( Government ) 10 , 111 M . Liouville ( Opposition ) ... 7 , 410 General Perrot is elected . l ^ IFTJI ClRCC'MSCKirTION ' . Votes . M . Eck ( Government ) ... ... .,, 8 , 77-1-M . Picard ( Opposition ) 8 , 500 M . Eck not having the majority required by law , ; i new election is to take place on the Oth and loth inst . Sixth Cikci ' . aisciih'tiox . Totes . ' M . Jules Favre ( Opposition ) 11 , 303 2 kl . Ferret ( Government ) ... 1 O , 1 GG ]\ f . Jules Favre is elected . "M . Itenee die Political Director of the Conttitutionnd , who was removed from his post on account of an insolent article about England and the Bcrniml trial , has been allowed to remain . The Coitstltutio / nief , in an article signed A . M . IJeno ' o , thus approves of the abandonment by the English < ioveriinu-nt of any further prosecution of JJcnuinl : — ¦ The English Governnu'iit was right not to continue the prosecution iigainsl the accused Bernard . After the acquittal on the charge which entailed capital piinisliinont , what would a few months' imprisonment , or a lino of a few hundred francs , signify ? To eonviet a man of a misdemeanour who hud been acquitted of a i ' clony would have been a mockery . " An instance of the strong feeling which exists in France against ( lie principle of Free-trade is mentioned by the TimvA Paris correspondent , who . say . s : — "A petition was presented to the Emperor on tile 2 . Sili of lns ( , month l » y a deputation of charcoal ironmasters , roniposi . 'dof l hi * following gent lumen : —MM . |( e . si ] iu > ul ( Morbilnm ) , Yivcncl-I . asey ( Moui't he ) , Bouclic lie ( Doulis ) , Celay , 15 rot he iv , ( Meuso ) , Falatien ( Yo ^ o . s ) , Dui . iiui and 1 'ieon ( 1 Jordo ^ mi ) , Du Tiiilli . s ( llniitii-Sa-ono ) , E ; s | u « - ron , Hrotliers , kossigno ) , Lugioz , and ttejiil ( L . uidos ) , Tim jK-titioii net forth ' That the deputation rcpivsenioil one hundred and thirty iron in asters , and tin- , establishments of thirty-night departments , for ( in ; purpo .-n o ( brin . ^ iujj ; un der tin ; notice , of his Majesty tlio ilisasl rou . s situation ( if ( In it- industry . Wood . stood ai , a lil ^ li price , and wages had incri'iusud in extraordinary propwrtioiis ; their productions \ v « mld not , . sell . Their ruin was complete if Government " -ltd not bring forward

    conservative measures to stay this state of things . The sole cause of it was the easy admission of foreign iron . The decree of 17 th October , 1855 , suggested , no doubt , by an eminently benevolent feeling , had given rise to deplorable abuses . The result was an over-stock of wrought and cast iron of all kinds , and the crisis that prevailed in England had rendered the over-stoclc more disastrous by the sudden fall in her productions—a fall which influenced the price of French iron to such an extent that sales had become impossible unless at a ruinous loss . The charcoal ironworks draw their raw materials from the soil of France , without borrowing anything from foreigner / ( how exquisitely Chinese 1 ) , ' and the

    workmen they employ are all from the same localityso that if the price of wood increases-it . is to the profit of the soil ; if the cost of labour , it is the inhabitants who . are benefited . It is therefore an industry altogether national . The proprietors of woods , the communes , and the State are consequently interested in keeping up charcoal iron-works , for without this support forest property would be greatly depreciated , and a considerable number of workmen would be obliged" to seek elsewhere for employment . ' The last indirect threat has been partly executed . One of the most important establishments in the department of the Landes lias been closed , and upwards of four hundred workmen , turned adrift . "

    The Monitew publishes the following paragraph in its non-oftieial column : —"' There are cortain persons who , in order to maintain uneasiness in the public mind , daily invent false news . Thus the X arisian correspondence of the Inib ' -pemhince liebje pretends that great maritime armaments are being" made in Fmnce . . This is completely untrue . There has been no change made in the budget prepared for the years 1858 and 185 !) . " The Jlonlteur publishes the report of the commission

    appointed to examine the budget for the year 1859 , ia which it is stated that the navy budget for tliat year amounts to 14 . 0 , o-i 8 , 538 f ., and that for the year 1853 to 112 , 155 , 2491 " ., being an increase in the navy budget of ¦ the year lt > 59 of 2 s , 398 , 2 « 9 f . " It . may not be irrelevant to remark , " says the Times correspondent , " that the increased navy budget of 1 « 5 'J was prepared during a period of profound peace , and that in the year 1853 i-we were on the eve of a war , which was not concluded ! until the vear 1856 . We have not learned that France

    ¦ has acquired any new colonies since 1 So 3 which require I an increased naval force for their protection . The re-| port is said to have been prepared by M . Devinck , a member of the ( Jhamber of ¦ Commerce , and oaie of the deputies for the city of Paris . " A debate on the . Budget took place in the Legislative Chamber on Monday , when . M . Dariinon , one of the Opposition members , read his maiden speech . He made some cutting observation ' s on the financial statement ; and a little more animation than is usually to he observed within those walls characterized the sitting . On the 1 following , M . St . l ' aul spoke in very strong language on the manner in which the Uubgct is presen' . od to the Chamber .

    Baron de Talleyrand , French Commissioner in the Damibian Principalities , returned from Bucharest to Paris on Thursday . night . The Baron had an interview with the Minister for Foreign Allah's . The Tribunal of Correctional l'oilce has tried fifteen workmen for having fonmjd part of a secret society for the overthrow of the Imperial- ( . « ovcrnine . nt . Ten of these niun wove condemned to lines ( of greater or lesa ! amount ) , police surveillance , and various terms of im-! pririomnent , ranging troin a year to a week . The other ! live were acquitted . I A disastrous accident has taken place off tbe islands ; of llyeivson board the ship of the line SullVen , which j has been lituvl up as a school for navul artillery men . A i gun burnt , and the result was that tun men were killed and fifteen wounded .

    Tlio controversy excite 1 by tho recent speccli of Coii !; t Cnvour touching the . French Uepublie still continuey . 11 Two more letters " says the ' J ' tuws Paris correspondent , | " have been published . One is from M . . lulus Uastideto Count Cavour , in reference to the Count ' s statement that the French champ ions of revolution , Uedru-liollin , Bustide , and the rest , had refused with disdain to afford Piedmont men , money , and anus , and even a ( jieneral , when asked for . M . liasiide states that no application for aid was made to 1 ' Yatuv by I'icvlniont before tliu !> th , of , August , ¦ when Milan had been surrendered and tho Piudmoiiti'sc army had retired on the Tioino . It was then , he . says—when the Provisional ( . ioviutinient , of which Leilru -Kull ' m for mod part , had ee . urfe . il to exist for to

    about two mouths — that Si ^ nor was s lo a > k for a ( loneral and a i '' rencli i' » i' / m d ' tit'iiii ' t ' , to be paid by Krance , under the miliiary coiumaiul of King ( . Miiirli . v-i Albert . That proposition , iso friuiicil , being militarily iuurceptnhlf , llii : Kre . uch (» o \ ei nuniiil refused iD . coniply , but without , any mark of disdain . M . Bastide . tlso ( Ujtiii ' s ( lie . I ' l . iTci'iuess uf I i « : iit : r .-il di'lla . Mar inoi' . 'i ' . s a . ssi-rtinii , tlijit . ( u-inr . ll Cuv . iiy . 'iKii ; had duclured thai I'Yanro wouhl nol , j ; v | into n i-iMi-n : ! wilb . Austria to please Pieilinoul . -M . iij ^ tide iloc .-i not j . ' . ive I . he denial iVoin any jicrsonal kiunvlud ^ i . ' of tin : fael , but beeau . so r- 'iu'li a rt'ply , he ileelan-s , was nol . in acenr < laiii : i ! with ( lenciMl ( . ' : ivai ;; "iiac ' . seliarael . er . Tin ! other lefl . 'r is from ( JeniM-al Jii'iirv DonibiusUi , who observed tljat , at tko

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1858, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_01051858/page/7/