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      AMEBICA . The Speaker was still unelected at the latest dates ; Banfta , however , remaining ahead of the others , and -within a few of the required number . From Nicaragua we leam that everything is prosperous aad orderly . © eneral Walker is receiving accessions by every steamer , and it is said that bis effective force ; of Americans numbers between 800 and 900 . Nothing haa been heard of Colonel Kinney ' party which left to attack Fort " Walla Walla , in possession rtf + he Indians .

      The- President has communicated to the Senate a letter ( dated January 19 , 1853 ) from Lord John Rus&ell to Mr . Crampton , respecting the Central American question , in which , the writer pledges the Government " not to assume auy sovereignty , either direct or indirect , in Central America / ' and states that " what her Majesty ' s Government would consider a good and final arrangement would h&—first , that Greytown should be a free and independent port r connected with Mosquito by such relations of friendship and alliance as may be agreed upon . Second , that indemnification , or advantages equivalent to those laid down in the project of convention of the 13 th of April , 1852 . shall be assured to Mosqxtito- in . return for its ^ withdrawal from its present position with regard to Gseyfcown . ~ Thtrdi that

      Great Britain and the United States , without guaranteeing : Greytown , should "be ready to act iix concert to defend the Independence of the free-city or port of Gyreyto \? n from whatever quarter it might be attacked . " The * Subject of this letter was fco be discussed in tlie Senate on- the 2 Vth of January . The Washington . coroesppjidenLt of the Neiv York Tribune says : ^~ il Mr . Buchanan writes that he will relinquish his mission on the 12 th of February , whether a successor be nominated or not . He will appoint Mr . Campbell , the consul at London , to the post of Chargd d'Affeires . There being no Secretary of Legation , at the" present juncture , this proceeding may temporarily etoBarrasa otir relations , as tbeintelligence of Mr . Crampton ' s recall will occupy Lord ? Palmerstbn at the- same tune . " The New Yorl& Heraldspeaks of the Hon . George Mapplin Dallas , LL . D ., as the new minister to London .

      A special message has been presented to Congress by the President on the Kansas controversy . In this document the President distinctly acknowledges the validity of the acts of the Kansas legislature , and he declares , that it will be his ' imperative duty to exert the whole power of the Federal Executive to support public order in the territory ; , to vindicate its laws , whether federal or local ,, against all attempts of organised resistance ; and ! to- protect the people in the establishment of their own institutions , undisturbed by encroachments from without . " Two English agents , named Galbraith and GBlespie , have been liberated on providing securities

      for their future appearance . There has been a dreadful contest with slaves in Kentucky : several have been killed and wounded in trying to escape . In . Northern California , Indian depredations still continue , A severe shock of earthquake was experienced at San Francisco on . the 2 nd ult . Great dulness of trade ^ prevailed towards the end of December 3 n Honduras . The prices , of mahogany vrere low , wages , were depreciated , and a large amount of mortality had- existed among the Whites . " England " , ( says the Belize correspondent of the

      New York Herald ) ** is riveting her rule more firmly on the colony . It haa , now been ordered that all vessels shall be registered , and that no foreigner shall own a ship hoisting the British flag ; unless he take thte oath of allegiance to that Government and become naturalised . Stony persona have already done so . " Haro y Tamirez , having been arrested in Yera Cruz on suspioion of treason , has escaped ,, collected a numerous body of troops , and is besieging Pueblo , vfrhich he ia likely to take . It is stated ; that Comonfort ' s Government is very weak .

      In the New York Money-market , money was in good demand , and the turn of the market was in favour of the lender . Foreign exchange was irregular , tut the tendency of the market was towards firmer rates . Trade , for the most part , was dull .

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      English troops have been despatched in the direction of Oude ; From Cabul , it is announced that the Dost has repudiated any intention of taking possession of Candahar , and baa requested his sovereign relatives to aid him . in resisting the designs of Persia with res pec b to Herait . Intelligence has been received in India of a serious insurrection among the Arabs at the Red Sea ports , Jiddah and Mocha . The Turkish soldiery have been compelled to take refuge in the towns , and , at the request of the English consul at Jiddah , the war steamer Queen has sailed from . Bombay to the Bed Sea . The introduction of Mr . Grant's new Sale Law into

      the Calcutta Legislative Council is an important step towards the reform of a most hideous state of corruption . The whole of Bengal bas been , divided into estates held "by landlords on the tenure of a fixed quit-rent to the Company . The landlords sub-let these estates , some of which are enormous : the Burdwan estate alone contains 2 , 000 , 000 cottiers . " Unfortunately" ( says tbe Times Calcutta correspondent ) , " Lord Cornwallis , when he established the perpetual settlement , in order to secure the Government rental , arranged that , in the event of failure to pay the quitrent , the sale slould vitiate all encumbrances whatsoever . Whenever , therefore , an estate goes to the hammer , every lease upon it is ipso facto void . The landlords , thoroughly -aware of the law , use it in this

      feshion : —They lease the lands to wealthy tenants , suffer them to raise the value of the property , fail to pay tbe quit-rent , and , at the consequent sale , buy in their own estaies , under a false aiame , clear of all encunabranees . The threat of sueh a proceeding has actually been employed in one instance -within tny knowledge to extort money from the manager of a great indigo concern . Of course with such a tenure improvement became impossible . " The object of Mr . Grant ' s bill is fco sweep away this iniquitous system . Great mineral wealths—particularly of iron anrd copper—has recently been discovered inBengal . A-vast fire , destroying ; 56200 , 000 worth of property , occurred on tbe 10 th of Deeenxber , at Rangoon : the people exhibited the utmost apathy . The Bank of Bengal has declared a dividend of twenty per cent .

      EGYPT . Said Pacha is at war with the Bedouins of the Desert , who are incensed against him for having induced them to trust in him , and then thrown 1 , 500 of th-em into fietid prisons , where they speedily died . The Ticeroy has very considerably curtailed the grant made to the great mosque of Cairo , El Azhar , where the poorer classes of the natives are educated . Tbis and other curtailments , combined with very onerous taxes , have raised the Pacha ' s revenue to considerably above £ 4 , 000 , 000 sterling per annum . He has been , feeding and paying his soldiers at an unusually high rate , and seems bent on the execution of the canal across the Isthmus of Suez , and of other public works .

      THE ORIENT . _ _ , india . Thb Santal insurrection ia completely suppressed , and * h » force employed against tho rebela has been broken v p ^ . tnwgh , the troops at Berhampore will be i « - . wrewea .. jttaneegunge , tho railway terminus } will -i o £ ¦¦ JaaiHt > a * y terminus , and a military police . ' ^ gO ft . atrong ; . will be placed in the centre of the ' ^ n *^* . dwtoicts . With reapeot to Oudo , doubt BriLvcw ' iaa U tho Ultimate intentions of the ceK : hSEWS with r < MJ P 6 ot to ife Ifc * " thought SoS ^» rr ? ^ Whether * t be aiinosod or nof c , ^ mS ^^^ T ^ i ^ 0 B <) d > a » d «» entire & £ mm

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      The attention of the Senate is directed to these documents ; and the members of that body are reminded , by means of some quotations from the recent article on their duties published in -the Moniieur that " the initiative" conferred on them by the constitu tion " is by no means a mere nominal preroga tive " yielding nothing for the welfare of the country ? " ' M . Nisard , the Professo r who recently experienced so stormy a reception from the students , was deairo us of suspending his lectures , as his colleague , 11 . Sainte Beuve , had felt himself compelled to do . But the government , having found mild measures unavailing in the former instance , summoned M . Nisard to resume his lectures or to resign . Fourteen young men have

      been condemned to fines or imprisonment for their share in the demonstration against the Government Among them is young Roland , son of the unhappy Pauline Roland ,, who was transported to Algeria after the 2 nd of December , and after a year's exile was brought back to France in a dying state , to expire o n arriving at Lyons . It would seem- that £ f political opposition is ever justifiable , it is in the case of the son of this murdered woman . But the judges treated this circumstance as an aggravation of tbe offen ca They doubled the period of imprisonment for young Roland , and enlarged the fine . A student was sentenced to a fine of 200 francs for having exclaimed " Shame 1 " when , ice saw one of his friends maltreated by the police .

      The project of dispersing the schools is again under consideration . The Ecole de Droit is h& consigned to Poitiers , the Ecple de Medecine to Montpellier ; the Ecole Polyteehnique is to be dissolved . Madame George Sand has no less than three plays aceep-ted at different theatres in Paris ; Among these is an adaptation from her pen of Shakspeare ' s As You Like It , under the title of " Comme il vous jolaira ? We shall be curious to see what the genius of George Sand has made of Towlistone and Audrey . The Protestants of the Haute Vienne— -a sect of

      independents who will receive no salary from the State , and whose particular form of worship is not on e of those recognised by the law—have beeai again condemned by a court of justice for an infringement of the decree of March 25 , 1852 , against xinlicensed assemblages of more than twenty persons . The sentences are this time heavie r than before , on the ground , as the court states in its judgment , that the parties knew they were contravening the law as interpreted by previous judgments . Fines , amounting to 9 , 000 f ., are inflicted upon the seven individuals found guilty . —Daily News Paris Corespondent . The Bank of Fr-aiice lias rescinded tbe meaSuTS reducing to sevent y-five days the maximum of hills handed for discount , and has resolved to recommence taking commercial paper of ninety days' date .

      AUSTRIA . _ The pregnancy of the Empress of Austria is officially announced by the Vienna Gazette . The incubus which now weighs on the miudB of Austrian politicians ( says the Times "Vienna correspondent ^ is the Russo-French alliance , which they see looming in the distance ; but the Emperor Napoleon , who must be wel l informed of what is passing in the world , cannot think of making Russia his mainstay , or the prop of his dynasty . The Russian Court looks on the present ruler of the French as neither more nor less than a fortunate adventurer ; and Louis Napoleon cannot be i gnorant that the Russian Grand Dukes received positive orders from their late father , on all occasions to treat tho Count do Chambord as the King of the French , and that they uovor failed to give him tho title of " Majesty , " and to insist on his taking the place of honour .

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The alleged deBire on the part of the French people for peace . at any sacrifice , is denied by the writer of a letter from France ( a military man ) , who , while admitting that the men in . office ( for the most part , the sauvs as those ? who hold similar positions under Louis Philippe ) conceive that France has gained sufficient glory ,, observes : — " They forget that this glory , -which belongs to tb . e nation , is somewhat counterbalanced by the blame which falls on the Government , wbich haa not succeeded in finding a great general , or in imparting a better direction to the operations of

      the army . There is but one voice in France to blame the small fruit whioh has been obtained from all our efforts , sacrifices , and bravery . In fact , the real public opinion in Fiance , in so far as it can be known , is the same as thai ; in Piedmont and in Sweden , namely , that it is unfortunate that our arms should be laid down before the equilibrium of Europe by means of the re-establishment of Poland is secured . One fact in particular gives great weight to that opinion ; it is that , in ) spit * of the denials of the Austrian Cabinet , it has sufficed to evoke the shade of Poland to oompel Russia , to lay down her arms , and to accept the propositions which are imposod on her . Intelligent m-on in this country think that the Emperor has committed a mistake in allowing this opportunity for acquiring glory to pass away . He has had it in hia

      power to ohango the map of Europe , bo ill arranged in 1815 from hatred to France , as if he were frightened by the grandeur of tho projoot , whiob . would bo so glorious for him . He has ever , even during tho war , allowed bis . desires to bo limited by the treaties of 1315 , bo odious to this country , and he will not demand the oxeoution pf them in what concerns Poland , One thing 1 ia clear , —that tho army will return from the East dissatisfied with the manner in which tbe war has boen oonduotod , and also with tho creation of tlio Imperial Guard . " M . Billawlt , Miniator ' of the Interior , has addressed a report to the Eraporor , in which ho states that he haa ordered tho re-publication of tho suggestions for tociU refowen put forth by the Councils Geneml , the ifiwue of which has toeew stopped , for aomo yeaca paat .

      Measures are under consideration for rc-eBtablinlung the Civic Guard . It will consist of infantry , artillery , and cavalry corps . The conduct of the Italian bishops in , taking uuduo advantage of the Concordat haa given rise to new negotiations with Rome .

      RUSSIA . General Prince Gortschakoff is appointed Coinmauder-in-Chiof of tho Armies of tho WoBt and Oontre , and Imperial Lieutenant of tho Kingdom of Poland , with all tb , e rights and proro . gaUveH of that office . It is understood at Berlin that a iioraon vorsoJ in mechanical arts ia shortly to bo attached to tho personnel of the Russian embassy at that city , in order thftfc ho may make himself acquainted with every improvement in raeohaniam and tbe unoful nrta , which m < iy ariao in Prussia , and that ho may r eport tho result of hia observations to hiu own Govoriuwont . Important personal changes in fclio higher lulniinis " trativo departments of St . Petersburg aro montiouod . The removal of tho Minister of tho Iutoriur aud the Chief of Police ia npokon of .

      rnussiA . In tho debate in the House of DoputioH on Count Sohworin ' a motion for inquiry into tho allogod interference of tho Govornmont ) in tho rooont olcations , tho Ministora admitted that they had intorforod , on « justified that interference by stating that noixflons ot election axe times of groat oxoitemont , » nd require *

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      150 THE LEADER . [ No . 308 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 16, 1856, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2128/page/6/