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      assiduity ; all the officials are placed under the surveiSance of the police ; and the attention of the constables U more Especially gathering round four of them . That th « crime was committed by some one or more persons connectei with the office ia every day considered more certain . Great indignation is expressed at the Government net offering a reward . —It appears that the two previous cashiers of the railway were dismissed for deficiencies in their accounts for which it now seems likely they were accountable ; and that Mr . Little , shortly after his appointment , missed 50 / . The company , however , were so highly impressed with his integrity , that they did not dismiss him ; and he took additional precautions . The depredator being thus baffled has , it is thought , slain Mr . Little , partly out of revenge , and partly to secure more plunder .

      The Education Question . —The Dublin Protestant Association has unanimously adopted the following resolutions : — " That , inasmuch as all Whig interference relative to the education of the country of late years has been either to secularize it altogether or to make it subservient to the teaching of Popery , this meeting-would beg to call public attention to the proceedings of the Endowed Schools Commission , fearing , as we do , that the funds originally intended for the promotion of Protestant education in Ireland shall be partly , if not entirely , -wrested from the objects originally intended by

      the donors , and made instrumental to the propagation of the Popish system in this country . That the recent disclosures , by means of the correspondence between Sir Bobert Kane and the secretary of the Popish seminary known as the ' Catholic University , ' are additional evidences of the insidious attempts that are being made to foist Popery upon this country ; and that , while we pronounce the Romish University as an illegal institution , we esteem Dr . Kane in the matter as another instance of the total unfitness of Roman Catholics to hold places of trust and power under the Queen of these realms . : ' ' ¦ ¦ . . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . '¦ . ¦ ¦

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      AMERICA . Humour has thus mapped out the Buchanan cabinet : — General Cass , Secretary of State ; Governor Toney , Secretary of the Navyj Colonel Richardson , Postmaster-General ; Howell Cobb , Secretary to the Trea-r aury ; Jesse D . Bright , Secretary of the Interior ; the Attorney-General is not nominated . The Hon . J- M . Clayton , the American Minister who negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty , died on tie 9 th after a protracted illness . According to the Herald , " the -general opinion that he had been overreached by Sir Henry Bulwer affected his spirits ; and it is said he was several times driven to his bed . by illness produced by anxiety of mind . A great conflagration has occurred at Syracuse , devastating the city , causing a loss of nearly one million dollars , and rendering numbers houseless .

      : The demand for money at New York is still active ; but the general belief appears to be that tie worst of the autumnal stringency is over . The following is a list of the gentlemen elected to the Legislative Council in Upper and Lower Canada : — Upper Canada . —Eideau—Hon . P . M . Vankoughnet , Ministerial . Queen ' s—Mr . Simpson , Opposition . Burlington—Dr . Smith , Opposition . Trent—Mr . Murney , Independent . Sangeen — Mr . Patton , Independent . Western—Colonel Prince , Ministerial . Lower Canada . — Laurentide — Mr . Laterriere , Ministerial . Salabery—Mr . Renaud , Ministerial Rougemont—Mr . Desaulles , Opposition . Wellington—Mr . H . Smith , Opposition . Mille Isle—Mr . Masaon , Independent . Lauzon— -Mr . Duchesnay , Ministerial .

      Th « mechanics employed on the Great Western . Railway , Canada , have suspended work , on account of the harsh conduct of a Mr . Braid , who had been sent out by the English board of directors as locomotive superintendent . The telegraph brings intelligence of a fire at St . John ' s , Newfoundland , on the 5 th inst ., by which over two hundred tenements were destroyed . The loss amounts to 50 , 000 dollars .

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      THE COLONIES . Thk Native War ih New Zealand .--The feud between the natives was at the last dates raging with great violence , and a serious encounter lad taken placo between the two hostile tribes of the Ngatiruamu and Ngatiawa . Five appear to have been killed on both sides . The former tribe had eight wounded , tie latter three—at least , this is the only loss that either will admit « f . The encounter took place neat the European boundary , but no alarm or anxiety appears to exist on the part of the colonists . —Australian and New Zealand Gazette . . T ^ ra Tasmania . Gold Fields . —The accounts from the newly-diacovered gold fields at Fingal aie much ? K * liS !! ! Bfaotoiy than could l » avo b « en anticipated . « nV » r « * ^ frtos the adverse season of the year , the ro-Su ™ 2 * T Pf ^ of the mining parties are becoming nf * L tZ ^\ nu 8 gets had been fo-und . The result hldbSS ^ ^ authorities , as far as it options tSitC - ' ?^^ " ^ ? ^ vouxablo indtarfe £ aL r 8 lanf , P «» essed aevcral auriferous « l £ ? A ^ Tf ralian ° *"«• Zealand Gazette . te ^ oiiS E ^ f * DVVVX T « nwoHiio -Tl . o Duffy testimonial has been presented . The original plan was

      t o raise a fund to purchases freehold qualification to enable him to stand for the Lower House ( 2000 / . ) . Some of Mr . Duffy ' s admirers in Sydney organized a committee to collect subscriptions there . Launceston , ia Tasmania , joined , and the result is a total of 5000 J . Half has been laid out in a house and grounds , and the other half , with the title-deeds of the property purchased , has been presented to Mr . Duffy . — Times Melbourne Correspondent . India . — -We learn by the last mail from India that final arrangements are in the course of execution for the embarkation of the expeditionary corps to the Persian Gulf . The fleet was expected to sail on the loth of November . The cash balances in the Government treasuries of India are stated by the Gazette to have been 13 , 000 , 000 / . sterling- —an inexplicably large amount . At Bombay , the money market was rather tighter , and the banks had raised their rates of discount one per cent . Government and othex securities were lower than before . Freights continued high . The import market was steady . A good harvest was reported from almost all parts of the interior .

      Hn-Nv Tsrv T A T Wntt«? Ouhlumjiis 1al J≪Ulj!I& France.

      Queen wishes to treat it as an affair in which her fwT only and ^ not the . nation , is in any way concerned I few of her Ministers are opposed to this manner ofvi ^ ing the quest ion ; but the Queen laughs at her J&fcE " and is determined to settle the matter directly SS ? out any intervention , save that of private agents B 2 fc ing m her own name and on her own behalf" TW . writer states that the late insurrection at Malam ¦ got up by the police , at the instigation of the Mfiuttl * yiTxo desire to frighten the Queen into authoriziJ » £ measures of coercion . The Governor of Madrid - * * said , declined having anything to do with tie mattr and gave in his resignation ia consequence The ™ ' Governor is a creature of Narvaez . The authorities ™ about to augment the secret police by two hundred ^! " Some days since , " continues tie writer alS quoted , " a coup d'e ' in favour of an Absolutist ™? lie Uourt

      rem was prepared , a insisted that it ahould ™ on , but it was assured by a certain ex-Minist&r that h was better to wait for the meeting of the Cortes and « Parliamentary check sustained by General NarvL The Court , however , is every day more anxious forit and the person who now possesses the greatest inflnenca ( a son of a well-known CaTlist of high rank ) , and the King , urged by the clergy , agree in opinion with the rest of the Court . It is known that the Government is on the best understanding with the Kiag of Naples who is the channel of communication of the Pope and ' that an active correspondence is carried on between Madrid Naples , and St . Petersburg . " '

      Numerous arrests have been made -within tie last few days at Madrid ; but it is said they have reference to other than political motives , as the persons appreh ended are mostly of bad character , and the Government b « declared its intention of proceeding against all snch vagrants to the utmost extremity of the law . " It is not improbable , however , that this is a mere pretext . Several of the Madrid journals complain that the state of siege , which was said to be raised , iTinfact merely transferred from the purely military authorities to the hands of the prefects , and it is not even raised at all in some parts of the country .

      Several arrests of suspected individuals lave been made at Malaga since the outbreak , and the Ministerial journals assert that important discoveries have been made by the police . The entire population ,-:-has been disarmed . Nine individuals are already condemned to be shot , and several more will probably meet the same fate . None of the wounded soldiers have died . There were some evidences of sympathy at Granada When the intelligence of the affair at Malaga first arrived ; but these , were ' promptly : ' repressed ' -by . the authorities , and all has been perfectly quiet . since . The Gazette publishes a Royal decree authorizing the Minister of Finance to purchase in foreign markets corn and flour to the amount of GO , O 00 , O 00 reals , in order to bring down the prices . . the . Peninsula . The breadstuff ' s so procured will be admitted into Spanish ports free of duty .

      RUSSIA . , The Grand-Duke Nicholas has had a son born to him . M . Perowsky , who replaced Count de Kisseleff as minister of the Crown domains in Itussia , has just died at St . Petersburg . The last circular of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs , Prince GortscbakolF , is said to bo couched in moderate and conciliatory language ; but Russia abandons neither her opinions nor her claims on Bolgrad , and she calls for the meeting of a Conference , to the decision of which she says she will defer unhesitatingly . Winter has set in on the Neva this year with unusual severity , and at a remarkably early period .

      SWITZERLAND . M . James Fazy , of Switzerland , lias addressed a letter to the editor of the Sie ' on the subject of certain allegations made in several Paris journals with respect to Neufch&tel . The writer positively denies that the treaty of the Congress of Vienna in 1845 has any bearing on the subject of Neufchatel , inasmuch as Switzerland took no part in that congress ; and moreover asserts that Prussia has no right to that canton , as tlio King of Prussia , on the 15 th February , 1806 , ceded the principality of Neufchutel to France , with all the other districts and places which did not actually form part of Prussia Proper .

      Tho text of the report on tlio Prussian propositions laid before the German Diet , and which tlic Diet unanimously adopted , haa been published . The resolutions consist in the Fedcrul Diet giving in its adliorenca to the protocol of 1852 , and instructing tho Ambassadors in Switzerland to recommend to tho 1 'eilorM Council the release of tho prisoners , and the meeting of Prussia half way in her wish to oflecfc an arrangement concerning tho question of sovereignty . " The Swiss Federal Council , " Btiya tho Pmse , " n » reduced to a single battalion tho corps of occupation sent into tho canton of Noufclmtol . " Princo Alfred of England , after having visited di ! Wfont places on tho Coutinout , haa nrrivoil at Gouovfli whero he is to pass the winter . . is i

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . ' ' : ' : ' ' . ' . ¦ - ' .. , : ' ¦ . ' ; FRANCE .. ' .: ¦ ' ¦ ' - . - ; . . ' ' . ; " . ' The Presse , replying to an article in a London ministerial journal , which intimated a few days since that England might probably take possession of the Isle of Karrak , near the mouth of the Euphrates , as a station to be used as a basts of operations against Persian aggression , says that Karrak belongs to France , under a treaty concluded in 1769 between M . Pyrault , French consul at Bussora , and Kerirn . Khan , "the wisest sovereign , perhaps , that Persia has had in modern times . " The writer admits that the fact is not generally known . "A great piece of domestic news , " says the Daily News

      Paris correspondent , "is that M . Entile de Girardin has sold his interest in tha Fresse to M . Milhaud the banker , after a negotiation of only three days . M . de Girardin was the founder arid principal proprietor of the paper . He possessed forty 100 th 3 of the shares , and had a salary of 3 Q , 000 > fr . as redacteur in chief . The terms are , for the forty shares 800 , 000 f ., and for the editorship 15 O , O 00 f ., making altogether the very handsome sum of 95 O , O 00 f ., which M . de Girardim will put in his pocket . After the example of persons La meaner callings , he enters into a covenant not to exercise his trade of a journalist in Paris . - : \ ¦ -. - ¦•' . ¦"¦ ' - . ¦' . ' ¦ - . .. '• ¦ '¦ ¦ .- ' . ¦¦ ¦ - .. ¦ .. '

      Forty-six persons , belonging to the religious sect of the Momiers , a kind of methodists , were tried before the Correctional Police o-f Lyons on Thursday week for having held meetings in defiance of the orders given by the authorities . It appears ( says the Morning Star ) that the Momiers , who are distinguished by the severity of their religious doctrines and discipline , are spreading rapidly in France , and reckon amongst their members many rich and influential persons . The Assemblce Rationale says : — - " Our readers no doubt remember that the Legislative Body , on the 2 nd

      of July last , voted a law which authorized the inscription in the great book of the public debt of Three per Cent . Stock of 200 , 00 . 0 fr . each for the heirs of the female branches of King Louis Philippe's family affected by the decrees of the 22 nd January , 1852 . "We believe that the French Government having notified through a diplomatic channel to tho parties interested the promulgation of the law of the 2 nd July , the Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg , in the name of his son , a minor , and the Duke Augustus of Saxe-Coburg , in the name of th « Princess Clementine d'Orleans , his wife , have refused to profit by the provisions of the law . "

      The Marquis de Turgot left Paris on Wednesday morning for Madrid , to resume his functions as Ambassador of the Emperor of the French at the Court of Queen Isabella .

      PRUSSIA . On the opening of tho Diet , a bill will be laid before the House of Representatives for the purpose of raising a revenue on all railroad traffic in the Prussian dominions . The amount of the tax proposed to be levied is ten per cent , on their gross receipts . On the other hand , they are henceforward to be allowed to raise their prices both for goods and possonger traffic as high as they like . Mr . Morris Moore , an Englishman , known in this country for his contests with Sir Charles Eaatlake on the management of tho National Gallery , was arrested at Berlin last Saturday night , and detained for some time

      by the police . Our representative there , Lord Blomfield , lost no time in bringing the matter before the notice of Baron Yon ManteufFel , and Mr . Morris was sot at liberty next morning . The cause of his arrest was that he had brought with him from England letters of introduction from political refugees in London to men in Berlin who are known to "bo disaffected towards tho Government . His lodgings were accordingly searched , but nothing alarming was found at them . It appears that the police behaved with brutal and insulting violence ; and Mr . Moore has published a very truculent letter which he addressed to Lord Blomfiold , accusing him of dilatorincss in the matter .

      BPAIN . " The question of tho fusion with the family of Don Carlos , " says a letter from . Madrid , dated tho 19 th inst ., " is advancing towards a solution . It is tho deairo of Russia , as clearly manifested by Count Benkondorf . The

      ml . a . -i . —j . ^ _ r > ii XT i * 1 . * i * l namufiAli Ifl ill "* The present state of tho Neufchutel question « - » summed up by tho Times Berlin correspondent : — ^| , von Sydow , tho representative of Prussia at 13 crno , an audience of the President of tlio Confederation on t '" 17 th instant , and on the following day delivered m w

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 1132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2169/page/4/