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      great dissatisfaction * vas excited by the adoption in the treaty of wiat is called " the "Wijniot proviso . " Tliis proviso is incorporated in the convention with Honduras , and . stipulates that , inasmuch as slavery does not now exist in the Bay Islands , it shall never be introduced there , but shall be perpetually prohibited . The determination arrived at by the Senate is said not to be conclusive against the biil in an amended form . The Committee will communicate with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs , in ord « r to decide upon some -modifications to be proposed to the English Government , which , it is -thought probable , will agree to them . Against the assertions on the part of American papers that the treaty has been rejected , we may place a statement by our own Government organ , the Morning Post , that those assertions are erroneous , and that the Senate has passed a favourable vote .

      In the House of Representatives , the Senate ' s Submarine Telegraph Bill has been committed to the Post ^ office Committee by a majority of twelve . The Tariff Bill has been discussed without any result . It is reported that the naval committee of the Senate have prepared a bill . authorizing the construction of an armed steamer of 500 tons burden , for the protection of American commerce from piratical attacks in the shallow ¦ waters , creeks , and rivers of China , and asking an appropriation of 120 , 000 dollars for that purpose . The schooner Jane T . Glover has been seized at New York on a charge of being fitted out as a slaver . —Several large fires ha-ve occurred at various parts of the Union .

      The frost is over ; but the breaking up of the ice on the rivers has caused . great damage . Uridges have been carried away , ships driven from their moorings , houses submerged , and several persons drowned , as at present supposed . Several slips , also , have occurred on the railways . The report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges of Corruption at Washington is very soon to appear . The correspondent of the Naiv York ' Times has been released from custody . Tie inquiry into the murder of Dr . Burdell was not concluded on the starting of the last steamer ; but nothing important had been . added to the evidence . There seemed to be every probability of the suspected persons getting clear off , otving partly to a defect in the evidence , partly to the gross mismanagement of the coroner , who , though he has abandoned his indecent jestiug , has

      exhibited so much blundering incompetence that the indignation of the citizens isloudly excited against him . According to the New York correspondent of the Times , this cluinsy official " put the -whole family [ of the Cunninghams ] into close confinement , as witnesses ; as such they applied for a writ of habeas corpus , in the return to which he specified Eckel and Mrs . Cunningham as being detained as accomplices , charged with the murder . By order of the Superior Court , all the witnesses , except these two , were released ; but these chief witnesses , being changed into principals , of course immediately took other ground , and by the advice of their counsel , on being brought up for examination , refused to answer any questions . The blunder will most likely be fatal to the case . Their testimony , whatever it might have been , is lost , and , as principals or accessories , the evidence against them is only presumptive , hardly amounting to circumstantial . "

      { There is but little additional intelligence with respect to Walker . " Ae it was reported , " says the Times New York . correspondent , " that among- Walker ' s recruits detained at PuntaAtronas , uiaable to ascend the river , there were some British subjects very willing to abandon the enterprizo ( they had been induced to join in total ignorance of the state of affairs ) , Captain Erakine , of lier Majesty ' s ship Orion , the senior oilicer on the station , sent Captain Cockbum , of the Cossack , on shore , to oiler them protection if they chose to quit . Captain Cockburn proceeded to the quarters of the detachment , and Colonel Lookridge , its commander , at hia desire mustered the recruits . The offer of protection was read to the men , and twelve immediately stepped out and claimed it , and were taken beyond the roach of iutimidation , under protost from Walker ' s officer . "

      , It has boon assorted , intho course of tho trial of some peoplo . accused of enlisting troops in the state of New York for military sovvice in Central America , that President Pierce had a pecuniary interest in lauds and colonization in . Nicaragua . Several witnesses spoko to this , and tho agaertipn produced a great deal of indignant fteliug ; but tho retiring President , through the Attorney-General , tho Hon . Caleb Gushing , has given n flat denial to tho imputation .

      Tho difference between tho Mexican and Spanish Governments ( according to a letter from Cadiz ) has entered a now i > hn . 3 Q . After having exhausted nil means of . conciliation , 3 e » or de Sorela , Minister of Spain , has demanded his passports , quitted tl » o city of Mexico , embarked ou board tho Perla frigate , and anchored in the bay , of Vora ^ UuK , which l » aa been placed at hia disposal by Ganoid Condia , Captain-General of Cuba . Oreat preparations * ro being made in Spain for a viKoroua coimnQHcament of hostilities .

      lu the NpwYork money market , there has been , a quick domaud , « nd nine . to ton par cent , was readilv paid QJU Cfl . U Joans . J *

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . yRAifCE . Coixwjei , OuSKiiEY , Professor of Persian , and interpreter of that language to the East India Company , has arrived in Paris from London . He has brought despatches for the British Ambassador , whom he is to assist in his conferences with Ferukh Khan , which are to be resumed on Monday . It is said thatthe British Government , besides the Island of Karrack ^ demands authority to found an establishment on the Island of Ormus , and to establish depots of coal on several points of the Persian coast . Letters received from Teheran almost all speak of the fact of a recent treaty between Russia and Persia . The only difference of opinion among the writers is as to the terms of the treaty . — Times Paris Correspondent . The Moniteur publishes the text of the treaty o-f friendship and commerce concluded between France and Persia on the 12 th of July , 1855 . One of the three consulates which France will henceforth have in Persia will be at Bender-Bushire ; and a Persian consul 13 to reside in the French colony established on the Isle de la Reunion in the Indian Ocean . The Leader of last Saturday , together with several other London weekly newspapers , was seized in France , on accoimt of the comments on the Emperor ' s speech to the Legislative Assembly—exacerbated , probably , in our cas « , by the letter from M . Louis Blanc .

      aloof from the Court . Some grand balls which «!" Majesties intended to give during the carnival bav if abandoned , out of a fear that tiie spacious state , «^ ments might be ill filled . 8 tateapart-The Austrian passport system is about to he ^ n simplified . . greatly

      turkey . The Armenians who inhabit the Ottoman Emniiv who form a community of about 8 , 000 , 000 people ! h resolved to appoint a special agent at London andP ^ to protect their interests . Their choice has fallen n member of the family Duz , one of the most influential Armenian families throughout the ISast . —Times pi ¦ Correspondent . aris Kifaat Pacha is dead . H-e leaves- a fortuno « c 25 , 000 , 000 piastres . Messrs . Baltazzi have granted loan of 10 , 000 , 000 piastres to the Porte . 5 OuI Effeuch has been proposed for President of the Divan 7 r hoc , which is to meet at Jassy . Kiamil Bey ^ . ;" nated to fill tie-same office at Buchaxust . AdSi Lyons has officially announced Ins proximate departure Two vessels have already left for Malta . A new land nig of llussian troops has taken place atBalfruck on the shore of the Caspian Sea . It is reported that warlike stores have been forwarded in tie direction of Teheran

      ITALY . Sir James Hudson , the English Ambassador to the Court of Turin , conferred the Order of tlie Bath , on the 17 th inst ., on six Piedmontese officers who distinguished themselves in the Crimea . Count Buol , it is said , has addressed sn energetic note to tlie Sardinian Government , protesting against the " licence" of the press in Piedmont . A 1 upture bet-ween the two Governments is feared ; but it Is not thought that there will be any hostilities . ° Tlie Itcdia e Popolo , one of the Ilepubliean journals published at Turin , has ceased to exist .

      Domiciliary visits continue at Naples , and the public feeling has been shocked by , a case , exhibiting more than usual cruelty and oppr-essipn . Antonio Salvi , supposed to be a natural son of the Prince de C , a wellknown devoted adherent of the King , was found one day lighting a match , by which he intended to kindle his cigar , in the royal stables at Caserta , wliere he was employed . It was immeiliatuly supposed by the frightened servants that the youth intended to set fire to the stables , lie -was beaten , srid dragged before the Commissary of Police , who struck him oz \ the fac « , and nearly knocked him down . He was asked where he got the match , and replied that it was given to him by one of the grooms of the Count d'Aguilar , the King ' s brother . Tlie groom was sent for , but denied the imputation

      probably from fear .. The youth was accordingly conveyed as an incendiary to Naples , thrown into a dungeon , and put to the torture . He was beaten till his body , in the words of a writer from Naples , " presented one huge wound . " The object was to wring from him ft confession of accomplices ; l > ut , of course , this was a species of information which could not be given , as no " accomplices " existed . The Prince de C did all he could to ell ' iict the poor youth ' s release ; but , so far from succeeding , bis house was visited by the police , under suspicion that he was concerned in Die imaginary incendiarism . What wonder that , with these mortal hatreds of his tyranny being engendered day "b y day , the King should still remain shut up at Cascrta , under a black cloud of fear and wretchedness ? It is said that he is

      The Uonstitutio ? mel has a semi-official article denying the allegations rnade by Mr . Disraeli as to the " secr-et treaty" between France and Austria . The Convention was signed , and France engaged to employ its efforts " to maintain order in Italy" on the condition that Austria should declare war against Russia . Austria did not declare war , and the object of the Convention ceased to exist . The Convention was not executed , had no duration , and is , in fact , a dead letter . M . Thiers has definitively declined to come forward in tlie approaching election for Iiouen , or any other place , notwithstanding very pressing invitations from , the Iiouennais . The historian is said to have expressed himself highly pleased with the allusion to ' his work in the Emperor ' s speech on the opening of the Legislative Chambers . Louis Napoleon has sent him . a very flattering letter .

      SPAIN . The elections are being conducted by the Government witli every species of illegality . ^ Electors are prevented from voting on the merest caprice . Among others , the vote of Sefior Olozaga was refused .

      PRUSSIA . The Caucase , of Tiflis gives some account of an expedition of the Russians in the Great TchetcLnia , for the purpose of opening with the hatchet a passage through the forest of Maiourtoupe , which is considered one of tlie greatest obstacles to the conquest of the territory of the Tchetchenes . This feat they accomplished ( notwithstanding the opposition of Schamyl ) , with the loss of eight men killed and twenty-five wounded . Russia , in conjunction with Persia , is projecting the establishment of a railway- from Tiflis to Teheran .

      A strange incident has just created great indignation at Moscow . A dispute took place iu 0110 of tho leadingsalons between Count B and a very old professor of history in the Moscow University , the subject being Sir Kobert Peel ' s remarks on his llussian journey . The Count took the side of Sir Robert Peel , and the professor expressed his astonishment that a Russian could do so . The altercation ended witli a sudden onslaught of the Count on the old man , whom , ho threw down and trampled upon , inflicting such injury upon him before the bystanders interfered , that the professor ' s life is despaired of .

      even afraid of his own brothers , and still move of his eon , tho heir to his crown . The writer of the letter from Naples , from which the foregoing facts are derived , gives another instance of Government rascality : — " The heritage of the sons of the Duke of Malisto-Sambieze is disputed by tlie Jlcssanelli family , mucli favoured by , and very faithful to , tlie Court . The sons of the Duk « have for their advisers the three beat members of the Neapolitan bar , Stavace , Minesvini , and Vignoli ( ex-minister of 18-18 ) . It is said that some of the judges do not conceal the fuct of the

      l'HU . SSIA . The Government lias been defeated in tlie Chamber-of Deputies upon its proposal to alter tho constitutional law by shortening tho interval between the two readings of any bill to ten days , it being at present twenty-one .

      heirs of JMalisto having right on their side , but as among the heirs to the property is tho Duke de San Donato Suinbieze , one of the three or four members of the high aristocracy of Naples who joined the revolution ami fought on the 15 th May—who is now in exile , who has written an admirable pamphlet on the actual condition of the Two Sicilies , —the Court leaves nothing undone to induce the judges to docido against him , mid on be-half of tho favourites of the Kisiy " - "— -A" advocate has been banished the kingdom for rending the Civile Cattolica , a religious journal , and the oryan of tlie Jesuits . TI 10 polico dolino the reading of any newspaper to he a

      AUSTIHA . The rumours which have been for some time current in the financial world , relative to a new Juan by Auslria , have now assumed a more definite form , and some details of the projected measure are even given . The amount , it is said , will be 150 millions of florins ; the interest iivo per cunt ., and the capital reimbursed in fifty years by periodical drawings . The titles will be for 250 iloriru ) , divisible into fifths . It is thought that they will bo issued at 1 ) 0 . The Archduchess Sophia of Austria lias presented a very niagniliceut jewelled breast-pin to a Sir . William Bornard JVI'Gabo , an Irish gentleman , who recently published a work in which he showed the early connexion oi the Gorman 3 £ mpirG with Lombardy .

      deadly oil ' encc . , An addnwB to the Kin ^ , signed' * Tho Army , ' lias been twice circulated . It sets forth tlmL tho military m 1818 co-oporutud with tho King in the suppression ol " exaggerated demands , " on tlio understanding t" * Lhero was no intention to abolish Llio " spontaiieoiwy conceded "' constitution . " But ; now eight long ycara have elapsed , and all is tranquil in th « kingdom , aim nothing prevents your Mujeufy from finally g iving >><» life and vigour to ( he Constitution ulroudy grunted ami Bwoni to . This in the dusirc , inora or less concealed , 01 mi nil , now that tho anuy has at length acquired a knowluilge of itself . Let rour DLijObty consider vfli «

      JL'ho . Emperor and ISinpress intend to leave Milan on tho (> th of j \ Iurch , and to be back in Vienna on or about the loth . Tho Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian has accepted the Governor-Generalship of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . He will hold extremely full powers ; will bo dependent on the Kmpcror alone , and will communicate wiih him direct , imteiul of ( us usual ) through tho ininwtora . Tho Imperial presence is still regarded by tho Milanese nobility witli extreme coldness , many of thorn kooping

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2182/page/6/