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      Vereker , who moved the first and only resolution : — " That it is the opinion of this meeting that to conclude an armistice until the preliminaries of peace are signed would be at variance with the interests and wishes of the British people , and that they consider no treaty will be satisfactory which does not secure to the Allies an indemnity for the expenses of the war , and which does not guarantee the integrity and independence of the Turkish , empire . " After a few 8 peech . es had been delivered , Mr . James Finlen , a Chartist , moved as an amendment , "That this meeting has no hope that an indemnity for the expenses of the war will be exacted from Russia , or that terms of peace which England ought to accept will be agreed

      on , unless the Ministers who have entered upon the present negotiations are deprived of office and impeached . " { Cheers and wproar . ) Mr . Hart , in seconding this amendment , asked : " Shall the people who once took a king into open court , tried , him before his country , dragged him to the block , and rolled his head on the scaffold , shrink from , doing justice on Ministers ? { Cheers and uproar . ) This ( Jan . 30 th ) is the anniversary of the day when that spectacle was offered to the world in this city , and let it at least be a worthy anniversary of it . Standing in the . presence of centuries , in which the power of England has mightily increased , let " us at least say we are the

      sons of our ancestors , and that we will not shrink from calling crime crime , whether it be committed from the throne of the prince or the hut of the peasant . And , whenever that verdict is found , sentence and execution shall follow . " { Cheers and hisses . ) The speaker proceeded to charge Lord Palmerston with betraying Poland , Hungary , and Circassia , and with confiscating € raeow . " Recognised as a trickster , " he added , " despised as a shuffler , and hated as a turncoat , the Premier had been elevated into power by the powerlessness of every other man ; and now that one rnau , having gathered the whole nation into a net , was about to sacrifice the ally of England and to betray his country . " { Cheers and derisive laughter . )

      The meeting was also addressed by Mr . S . Holland , Mr . James Corbett , Mr . W . J . O'Connell , and Mr . Lawrence ; and eventually the amendment of Mr . Finlen was put and carried by a large majority . The proceedings , which lasted several hours , then terminated .

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      AMERICA . The disagreement between the United State 3 and England still drags on its tedious course ; and again there is talk of an open rupture and of the possibility of war . The accounts of the actual state « f affairs , however , are very various . According to one , Mr . Crampton has dined with the President at Washington , which looks like a reconciliation ; according to others , the President has not repealed hia original demand for the removal of our Minister ; according to a third , the Washington Government threatens , if the

      removal be not conceded , to withdraw the exequaturs of Mr . Crampton , Mr . Barclay , Mr . Mathew , and Mr . Bowcroft ; according to a fourth , Mr . Crampton has " retired , " on finding that he would not be permitted to remain , bub that , in the event of his " dismissal , " England would have had no further intercourse with the United States , but have handed his passports to Mr . Buohanan . With regard to the Central American question , it i 3 rumoured that England , rather than engage in a war with America , will recede from her protectorate over the Bay Islands and the Mosquito shore . The

      contradicted . —Mexico continues in a most disorganised and anarchic state . Comonfort , it is thought , will soon fall , and General Almonte is looked on by the Liberals as the rising man . Business in the New York stock market is quiet . There is less demand for money , and foreign exchanges ontinue dull .

      latest accounts state that Mr . Buchanan has actually deirancled the recall of Mr . Crampton ; and the Morning Post of Wednesday Las a \ evy truculent leading article in " double leaded" type , concluding with these words : —The naval power of England never more fully developed than , at present , comprising a force of ships of the line , frigates , and mortar and gun-boats , in comparison with which the entire navy of tho United States is but a weak and inefficient squadron—will , with the certainty of peace , bo sot at liberty to aot in vindication of the national honour in

      whatevM- quarter it may be assailed . The change therefore , which haa recently como over the drama to European politics will , no doubt , have itfl proper weight with all reflecting men in tho United States , and they will consider wliethor , in a point of more mteraatioul punetillio—which has been the subject of explanation aud apology—a war should he raBMv . and -wickedly provoked which would sweep Amenoan commerce from tho seas , and lay tho wholo floaboard of the Union open to tho attacks of tl . e greatest naval Power in tho world- " The weather

      at JSfow York has been very severe ; n TZ ? a'JT ? unoxftin l > led severity awopt tho whole BfK it , ° T * fr 0 m V » 'Sinia to Halifax , on tho W « ' n - \ °° ntlnu «* *> « We for nearly eighteen houra . Boisterous weather , moreover , together with J . great deal of ioo and enow haa been ieountSJ iy an ? mans m pacing to and fro between this county Sim , r £ 7 I 0 IW ll 0 J ? T ««\ ° «™ ° nt of n « extensive MUbUfltenng expedition having landed in Lower Cnli-W « t \ Oregon , Bovornl uanguinary engagements W 11 T f 0 Ught wifch tho Infli <«^ A rumour of wftifcer having boon overthrown in Nicaragua , haa boeu

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      THE ORIENT . INDIA . The Santa . 1 insurrection ( says the Bombay Times of January 2 nd ) may be said to be suppressed . Tranquillity prevails throughout India . Tho kingdom o ^ Oude is about to be sequestrated , the King to be allowed £ 100 , 000 a-year , the army to be reduced from 80 , 000 to 15 , 000 ; the entire administration of affairs to be intrusted to the Resident , General Outram The settlement of the Oudeypore differences , which renders the political agent supreme , has dissatisfied the chiefs . The native princes , whose administration

      is admitted to be blameless , are endeavouring to obtain some better security than they have hitherto enjoyed for the retention of their dominions . The charges of the Indian navy are about to be increased from half to close on . a million sterling annually , one-fourth the revenue of the Presidency , and two-thirds the changes of the army of 60 , 000 men . Lord Canning is expected at the Presidency op . his way to Calcutta ; the present Governor-General retires on the 1 st of March , after an administration of eight years' duration . A fair busi ' ness has been done in the import mai'ket , money is scare \ and exchange has advanced .

      CHINA . No further news of the progress of the rebellion has been received by the last mails . An extensive , fire has occurred at Canton , and is supposed to be incendiary . The police force there is very inefficient ; as an evidence of which , an organised attack has beea made on a house of business , and a large amoTint of cash has been run away with . The failure of several Chinese establishments at Shanghai , followed by the suspension of Messrs . Aspiawall , Mackenzie , and Co ., with liabilities , it is said , exceeding £ 150 , 000 , has caused something like a panic iu that quarter .

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      The diplomatic representatives of Austria have it is said , received orders formally to disavow all that has been said on the subject of a pretended convention relative to the reconstitution of Poland under an Austrian archduke . PRUSSIA . The Vienna Presse has learned from Berlin that a few days ago the parole given to the garrison of that city was " Kars-Mouravieff I "

      DENMARK . Count Reventlow having proposed an address to the King of Denmark , claiming a guarantee of the sacred rights of the Duchy of Holstein , a strong majority of the Holstein Diet adopted it . The Royal Commiseiouer , who had vigorously opposed this address , immediately quitted the ball . The dissolution of the Diet is considered as probable . The War Department in Sweden lias just drawn from the Treasury l , 10 © , 000 f ., to be applied to the urgent defence of the kingdom . SWITZERLAND .

      The retnrn of M . Marllley , the Catholic Bishop , to Geneva ( says a letter in the Paris Presse ) , has caused such an agitation iu the canton that the Government was obliged again to order him to quit his diocese . The Government grounds that decision on the breach of the prelate ' s promise to re-enter Geneva without assuming any official character , avoiding all manifestation , and like a mere Swiss citizen , instead of which he officiated as Bishop in . the Catholic Church of Geneva , and announced that he would officiate on the following Sunday in the Church of Carouge ; but the parish , priest of Geneva , who negotiated the conditions of Mi Marilley ' s return , has published a letter , in which

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRAKCE . . ' '¦ The Emperor Napoleon is again figuring before the Parisian public as an author . " The third and fourth volumes of his works , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " have just been published . They are by far the most interesting volumes , as they are the conclusion . The third volume contains the letters , speeches in the Assembly , addresses to the electors before the nomination of tne Emperor to the Presidency of the Rebublic , as also his letters , proclamations , messages to the Assembly , and speeches ia public from the 20 th of

      December , 1849 , to the date of the coup d'dtat , 2 nd of December , 1851 , and from this date the allocutions , &c , of the Emperor to the day of the entry of the Imperial Guard on its return from the Crimea , The Emperor had made some progress in a large work entitled Du , Passe et de VAvcuir del'Artillcric , but , not having as yet time to complete it , the fourth volume now published contains copious extracts from his MS ., and niay , in fact , be considered as a summary of the large work . " The prospect of peace is already beginning to exercise a beneficial influence on the trade of Paris .

      The dmeutc at the Sorbonne , in which the students hooted M . Nisard for his real or supposed apostacy from Republicanism , has been followed up by a procession of tho young gentlemen through the streets of Paris , with tho intention of making another , auti-Nisard demonstration before that gentleman ' s private house . But the police interfered ; nearly the whole number ( amounting to about a hundred ) was arrested ; some sixty were sent home to their parents in tho provinces ; aud others were retained in Paris , and threatened with a citation before the Police Correctionello .

      The Court of Correctional Police of Lyons tried , on tho 23 rd ult ,, four persons accused of having clandestinely imported seditious publicaxtions into France , and , among others , M , Folix Pyat ' s letter to the Quooa of England . They wore forwarded from Geneva iu double-bottomed casks . Three of the accused wero sentenced to two , throe , and six nionthfl * imprisonment , and the fourth was acquitted .

      AO 8 T 1 UA . The Emperor of Austria , " as a mark of consideration for bin ilhiHtriouH nlly , Qtioon Viotorin , " haa granted a pardon to Colonel Turr . The Frankfort Post Zcituwj learns that the Imperial patent for tho non-Cntliolios of tho Empire will appear at tho ond of thin month . Int . All legnlly-rooogniHod religious communities have n right to practise their roligious i-itoB publicly . 2 nd . They Hliall manage all their religious matters without lot or hindrance from any ono . In rospoot of Bocoa « ion from ono Christian ohuruh to anothor , and to marriugot bebweon Cabholios and non-Catholics , tho provisional lawH pnHBod in the your 1841 ) will , for tho proaont , remain in foroo .

      he formally contradicts the allegations of the Council of State , and contends that an express permission was granted the Bishop to act as he pleased in the interior of the church . Public opinion is greatiy excited by the affair , which is considered likely to produce serious complications for the Cantonal Government . M . Marilley , after the Sonderbund war , in which he took an active part , was banished from the diocese of Geneva and Lausanne , the seat of which was at Frifrarg . This measure was adopted in consequence of M < Marilley ' s refusal to recognise the new Constitution of Friburg , and the articles of the Federal Compact , which confirmed it . A conference between the cantons which signed the convention of 1848 is about to be held .

      ITALY . The Princess Buttera , widow of a Prince Scordia of Palermo , who has been residing for some months at Florence on account of lier own health , and in order to be near her children , who are at school there , has been ordered by the Tuscan Government either toseparate herself from her children or with them to leave the Grand Ducal territories ! The King of Naples is said to be at the bottom of this order . The Princess will retire to Piedmont .

      IIDSSIA . A ukase has just been published , opening the frontiers of the Russian Empire to all the travellers against whom they have been closed since 1848 . A new loan , amounting to 600 , 000 silver roubles ( 2 , 400 , 000 f . ) , is about to be levied on Finland for the expenses of the war . Holland , as well as Austria and Prussia ^ saya a despatch from Berlin ) , has been very urgent with Russia with , a view to peace .

      THE DANTJBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The Corriire Italiano learns from Galatz that the subjoined plan for the future organisation of the Danubian Principalities has "been presented to Aali Pacha by Lord Stratford : — " 1 . The two Principalities to form one state under the suzerahiete of tho sultan . 2 . The Prince to be elected for life . The sovereign dignity to be hereditary in his family . 3 . The Prince to bo a native . 4 . The new State to pay tribute to the Porte . The amount of the samo to be settled after the election of the Prinoo . 5 . The new State to have two Houses of Parliament . 6 . A national army to be formed , 7 . The Porto will continue not to interfere in the internal affairs of tho Principalities . " It 5 s said that France and the Porte ( and Austria ) object to the fifth article .

      TURKIC , A collision has takea place between tho Austrian and Turkish soldiers garrisoning Giurgevo . Two Turks wore killed ; andl both garrisons wore culled to arms , aa tlio quarrel threatened to aesunxo a serious character . Sardinia has been occluded from the Constantinople Conferences on tho question of tho rights of the Christians in Turkey . Tho plon urged is that she did not join iu tho Vicuna Conferences of last April , of which tho present uro a kind of corollary . It is said that Sardinia will protest againot this exclusion .

      A private correspondent tit Constantinople writes us that " Dervish Pnoha , General of Division , left on the 15 th January to bo present , as representative of tuo Sublime Porto , a . t the Council of War to be hold in Purin . An Imperial decree wa , a issued on tho muiio day , fliuthori sing tho ICuBtendjo Canal : the eongtruubion haa been intrusted to the Frenoh . Tho ¦ voathor hero ia now vory cold ; enow foil during nearly tho whole of the 14 th . " From tlie samo writer wo hoar that complaint ,

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      February 2 , 1856 . J THE LEADER . 101 U i _ .., uMi ^ t . MlBMW——— Ml——II — —I 111 IUIII' . ] t | ^^ ^^^^^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2126/page/5/