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      ever ,-he ha 5 survived bis ; assailant , wb » ¦ died sat-Washington-on . the 27 th . of J&minry . iHe had bad -a-severe cold , tand , -while . telling his . friends that the crisis had passed , was seized with croup , and died . in about ten minutes in dreadful -agony . , Aflefcter from . one-of . an English , party of emigrants to the Mormon territory , dated iLevenworth City , Kansas , and published'in a Leeds paper , gives a pitiable account of the -sufferings of the men , and still more of the ¦ women , in passing to their settlement . They had to ¦ wa lk : « ndimany : of them -were knocked up , and died .

      "Walker is reported to be in a better condition than ever , and to have 1200 able-bodied men -at liivas , well supplied with provisions and ammunition , while at Punta Arenas was . a body of nearly 300 men under Colonel Longbridge , who intended to attack the Costa . Hicans afc Castillo and San Carlos , and retake the river , i « s soon as he had the means of transportation . Other accounts , however , are less hopeful . A few more reinibrcements are on their way to him ; but some have - been arrested , ^ and detained .

      New York has been suffering from an unusually severe frost . For a few days , the city was bright and loud with the sleighs , and-their gaily-dressed occupants , and the bell-tinkling horses ; but the cold-soon became too Arctic for that sport , and every one who could possibly get in doors did so . Business has been greatly reduced in consequence ; railway traffic "fcrna time was stopped ; passengers were snowed up ; the New York streets have been turned into avenues of ice ; dnd at the latest dates there ivas no prospect of a thaw . The shipping has suffered horribly .

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      THE ORIENT . INDIA . A corr of a letter addressed by the "Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India on the LOth of December , i 8 £ > 6 , on the question of Oude , has just been published . The Directors regard with just complacency the acquisition of a territory of nearly 25 , 000 square miles , and containing 5 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , " without the expenditure of a drop of blood , and almost without a murmur . " The Directors approve the amount fixed for the annual stipend of the ex-King of Oude—viz ., twelve lacs of rupees . They are unanimously of opinion , that it is not advisable to perpetuate or to prolong the tenure of the royal title , which will

      accordingly die a natural death with the present titular sovereign ,- Wajid Ali Shah ; at all events , do promise has been made to the contrary . The royal descendants , however , will enjoy a certain stipend , as the twelve lacs of rupees settled on the ex-king will descend as an hereditary grant . The young princes are to be trained and educated so as to become " useful citizens ;" and it is suggested that the family may be made " jagheerdars , " so as to prevent them from sinking into degraded Iiabits of life . The payment of the arrears due to the army of Oude is approved . The conduct of the Governor-General of India , and of Sir James Outram , i 3 warmly commended by the Directors . —Times .

      FBUSIA . General Buhlai ( says a despatch from Marseilles ) has been sent to the theatre of war , but he has left Herat and Candahar in a good state of defence . The Persians are very much excited by the English invasion . A great agitation prevails in the Province of Ourraiha-Confirmation lias been received of a revolt at Maraca . The insurgents sacked the town . Fifteen English . ships were anchored "before Bender-Abbas . —It is now stated that tlic Shah , so far from yielding , has ^ proclaimed " a . holy war" against the English . The 2 ' clteran Gazette of the 2 Gth Raby-cl-thany ( 21 th of December ) publishes an explanatory reply to the English declaration of war issued from Calcutta on the 1 st of November . We have discussed tho chief statements and arguments contained in this document in another column .

      CHINA . . Some particulars of the recent hostile operations against Canton are given by tho writer of a lcttor which appears in tho Moniteur de la FlotJe , of Paris . It would hero eeenv . tuat the damage sustained by our foreign merchants , in tho course of the bombarding has been greatly exaggerated , though at thu best it was considerable , . being augmented by . an irruption of eomo of tho thieves and ruffians who belong to tho floating population . Tlioao fellows . Logan pillaging right and lef t ; and itwa » foiuul necessary to throw some shells among thorn . . Tbooaptiumof-alfronch frigate , aeui -a detachment of his

      men on shore with four light howitzers , which completed tho brigands * discomfiture ; but they had already set several ploces on fire , —The Frenoh have b « on making some vigorous hostile demonstrations against tbo city of Touianno , in Cochin China . The authorities had contemptuously rejected a letter presented to them by tho captain of the corvotto Ontinat . Thereupon , tho French entered tho town , spiked tho cannon , wotted tho giuipowuer , and returned untouched ; , the result being that tho authorities made tho most humble apologies , auod for pardon , and carried tut rejected letter with ' great powp to tho , capital .

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      'CONTIN ' E ifTAI N' O TE S . FRANCE . This Tribunal of Correctional Police has finished the trial of the twenty-five men charged with belonging to a secret society . Fifteen were found ; guilty , and sentenced to-fines , various terms of imprisonment , and interdiction for a certain number of years ; the remaining tea were acquitted . —The same tribunal lias acquitted the proprietors , editors , > & , c , of theHevue-de ParisXyvhicli lias been suspended for ian article offensive to tlie ; King of Prussia ) of a charge of publishing the commencement of a romance antagonistic to " public morality and . re ligion . " The story is by M . Flaubert , < amd is . entitled " Madame Bovary . "

      The editor of a medical journal , called the iifeniteur de Hopitaux , has been forbidden to publish an article which he had announced , and the object of whioh was to show that Verger was insane . A similar instance of ridiculous repression has arisen out of jl lawsuit against tlie Lady Superior of the Picpus Convent of the Sacre ' Coeur , which establishment is accused of inducing a person of weak mind to make . a will in its favour . The aAvocate for the plaintiff made a sharp attack on the Archbishop of Chalcedoine ; and this speech the journals have been ordered not to report , nor , indeed , aiiy of the proceedings . In the state ofthe public roind arising out of Terger ' s stifled and imperfectly heard denunciations of the higher orders of the clergy , the attack in question -would no doubt have a powerful effect . But these unnatural repressions -svill of course exacerbate the final and inevitable disclosures .

      " Advices from Paris , " says the Times City Article , Wednesday , " mention that the Southern of France Railway will be opened throughout from Bordeaux to Cette early in March—an event of considerable importance to commerce . Cette , the second French port of the Mediterranean , will thus be within twelve hours of Bordeaux , and the transit between-the two seas , which has already become important by -means of the lateral canal of the Garonne , will bein a condition to receive its full development . The distance between the mouth of the British Channel and Marseilles will be diminished from

      2100 miles to 7 G 0 , and Malta will be practically nearer for goods and passengers by 830 miles . Such , an economy of distance , it is contended , will lie a compensation for the transhipment of goods at the termini ofthe railway , since the saving of time will be even . greater in proportion than that of distance , and vessels can freight goods at London or Liverpool , destined for Bordeaux , Marseilles , southern Switzerland , or the ports of the Mediterranean . Bordeaux and Cette are also expected to become important entrepots for the wool trade of Spain as soon as the Spanish railways shall nave been completed to Bayonne . "

      The Ottoman Ambassador at Paris is said to have asked for information on the subject of the article in the Monitcur on the union of the Danubian Principalities . The answer was vague . The Austrian representative has also , it is reported , asked for an explanation . Paris , it is said , is now definitively named as the place of meeting of the Conferences on tbe Neufchatel question , and the time of meeting will be the beginning of next month . A commission has just been appointed to examine thoroughly the question of tho currency . The principal members arc—MM . Michel Chevalier , de Furicu , do Boinvillicrs , Guiilefroy , and other Councillors of State , tegother with MM . Schneider , Loroux , and soveral members of the Senate-and Legislative B-ody . Tlie commission has . the right to examine witnesses . —Times . Paris Correspondent

      AUSTMA . King Maximilian of Bavaria has arrived at Milai * on a visit to the Emperor . It was at first expected that he was about to visit the King of Sardinia at Turin ; but he appears to have abandoned that intention—a change which has excited several comments-The Credit Bunk of Vienna has resolved to establish branch banks at Pesth , Leniberg , Prague , and Brunn . Tho sudden arrival in Vienna , at this cold season of the year , of Count Rudolph Appony , from London , lias cnu .-sod somo political gossip as to the probability of the relations between Austria and England being made " still more intimate . "

      ITALY . Tho correspondent of a German paper says that the pro-legate at Bologna , Cardinal Yialo Prola , whose rigorous administration has discontented tlio inhabitants of tho Legations , was somo tune back assailed by tho population , whilst driving out , with showers of apples and stones . Ho escaped with dilHculty , and lias since fallen ill from tbo eflecta of tho attack . Tho Austrian Gazette , however , attributes hirt indisposition to inflammation of the lungs . For n long time past , the Cardinal ' s decreed wore regularly torn down in tho night l > y the population .

      The 29 th of January--the anniversary of the crant " of a constitution to the Neapolitans— -was celebrated King Bomba s capital by the arrest ; bf . sevent y--nine-i > *" sons in the cafes-and bi ^ iard ^ rooms near the Teat Fiorentini . The King remains Bhut up at Casert ° closely guarded by soldiery ; but he can no Ion ™ depend upon the army , which : is deeply penetrated Twitj a revolutionary feeling . Several soldiers have recenfi been arrested , and not a day passes without fW seizures among them . . The entire regiment . of , tte thirl battalion of Cacciatori was put under : arrest on tha 27 tl ult . A proclamation . and abiography of Mfonoju-e . said

      to be circulating among thearroy . The Government is in a great state of anxiety about a descent which it i feared is iabout to be made upon , the ; coasts ofi&icilr b - armed emigrants from Malta ¦ ¦ and Genoa . A doubl cordon of Urban Guards has been drawn round the island ; the powdeT mills have been closed , the powder carried off to the Itoyal castles , and suspicious persons arrested . According to the Sicilian consul at Malta the expedition from that ; island has alread y started ' Humour also speaks of an Englishman toIio has recently passed through Italy , and taken revolutionists into hi T > ay- v

      k The Grand Duke Michael of Russia arrived at Turin on the 5 th inst . The Duke TSras to leave the following day for Genoa , whence he-would return , to . Russia . : Prince Orsini has been elevated to the rank « f : Senatore ( first magistrate ) of Rome , with a pension of ten thousand crowns . The . post is said to be a mere liveried nonentity ; and all the other Eomaii . J ? rince 3 have . refused . to accept it .

      . . . SPAIN . . . . ' A democratic conspiracy at Barcelona has been discovered . It was on the ev « of breaking out -svhen the authorities seized those who were implicated . The proposed journey of the Queen , southwards : ha ; been definitively abandoned .

      TURKEY . The Commissioners for the ' . Damibian Principalities had an audience of leave of the Sultan on the 24 th ult . It was a private interview , and consisted simply of certain formalities . Some intelligence from Constantinople is contained in a communication from Marseilles , which says : —" . A despatch from Vienna has been addressed to the Ottoman Porte , announcing that Moldavia and "Wallachia will be evacuated by the Austrian troops before the-24 th of March . The Turkish troops are not to cross the Danube before the departure of the Austrians . Th union of the Principalities gains ground : i « -.-r - ~" l ''

      proved by the majority of the MnH » - » - * uiachiau Divans Tho Ottoman Porte at present confines itself to the rejection of the nomination of a foreign prince to govern the united provinces . The Porte is about to take possession ofthe delta formed by the mouths of the Danube . The Porte , considering as illegal the sentence of exile pronounced by the Hospodars , permits the exiled toreturn to the Moldo-Wallachian territory , their country . The brother of the Khan of Khiva has offered his alliance to the Shah of Persia . Great "embankments are projected on the'Euphrates . The plan has been sent to London . The Arabs are troublesome in that country . "

      Turkey is making fresh endeavours for self-reformation . Some conferences of Ministers have taken place at Constantinople , with a view to forming a commission of six members and a president , who are to study the existing abuses and corruptions in the state , and to propose a plan by which they maybe remedied . The first subject to be considered is the administration of the provinces in all the great departments of government . When the commission shall have elaborated a plan of provincial administration , it will first bo tried in one particular province—; probably Broussa or Adrianoplc , as being , near to the seat of government ; and if it succeed , it will bo generally adopted .

      RUSSIA . It is stated that very warlike preparations arc being made by Russia in connexion Avith the present state of things in tho Caucasus and Persia . The writer ofthe letter which conveys this information says that there is no truth in the assertion that Russia is endeavouring toreestablish her position in tho Black Sea . On tho contrary , the term , " Russian fleet in the Black Sea , " has been erased from tho Imperial Almanac , and is replaced by that of " Flotilla of the Black Sou . " But that ma } be part of . a ' dodge . ' Till' : DANU 1 JIAN 1 'ltINCir / AIjITIBfl .

      Tho Wnllaehinn Minister of 1 'inanco has been dtinpntchoil to Paris and London , in order to form a ' A ust ro-Anglo-French Company , with tho -virnv of commencing u railroad bot-ween tbo AValluchian frontier ) , bordering on Transylvaiuu , and llustchuk . Tlio MiniBtcr in reported to liavo hud but ill s-ueceas with tho I ' roncli capitalists . ( i HUM ANY . Tho cattlo discaso which for tho last few years has manifested irsolf in various parts of Russia , threaten * spread into Germany . Tho recent ravages of the disease in Russia have betm a chief cause in the lato advaiu : c of tlie tallow market .

      Several political trials , ending in convictions , have taken pluco at Koine . Dr . Itipaui , of Cruinonu , who wna Ronio time-ago sentenced to hard labour for twenty years , Una been pardoned at tlio instance of the Fiunch Government , which claimed him . lie wnn phy wiciau to Garibnldi ' legion , and after tho fall of Koine he remained under the protection of tho IVcnch .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2180/page/6/