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AMERICA . The last arrivals from the United States mention that , by . a vote of 25 to 20 , the Senate has postponed the Dallas-Clarendon Central American trreaty until the 5 th Say of March , the first day of the new Administration . The South was said to be opposed to It , amendments and . all , on account of the slavery clanse . The Washington correspondent of the -New York Courier and Enquirer says that the committee on foreign affairs reported the treaty with two amendments . Tiae first strikes out the provision recognising the famous land grant ; the second , proposes to cede the Bay Islands settlement entirely to Honduras , so as to preclude the possibility of any further protectorate . It is understood that , if the treaty be held in abeyance in the Senate until the 4 th of March , Mr . Jefferson Davis will give liis support to it as it stands , notwithstanding the opposition generally attributed to the Southern statesmen .
The Atlantic Telegraph Bill has been handed over to a Committee of Ways and Cleans hy -a vote of 112 to 74 , thus indicating its success . Dr . Kane , the Arctic voyager , is eaid to be on . the point of death at Havannah . —The French Minister at Washington lias demanded of the Government indemnity for losses sustained by French residents at the bombardment of Greytown . —A treaty has been signed between Mexico and the United States , by wliicli the latter is to lend the former 15 , 000 , 0 00 dollars , three millions of ¦ which are to pay American claims with . As security for the loan , the United States Government is to receive fifteen per cent , of the Customs . — -The Mexican rebels are reported to . be woi'sted and scattered . Walker and his party , notwithstanding their desperate condition , appear to have gained some important successes over the Costa-Ricans .
In the Burdell murder case at New York , the jury have returned a verdict of Wilful ZMurdcr against Mrs . Cunningham , Eckel , and a third person , named Snbdgrass , They were of opinion that the daughters of Mrs . Cunningham were also implicated , and they recommended their safe keeping . Snodgiass said , in reply to the Coroner , " I am entirely innocent *; I know nothing whatever of the facts relating to the murder of Dr . Burdell . If any one knows anything about the murder in the family , I think it is Miss Augusta Cunningham , with the mother . Understand me— that is , if the murder was perpetrated by any of the inmates of the house . " In the Nova Scotia Legislature , on the 18 th ult ., the Son . Mr . Jbluiaon moved a resolution declaring a want of confidence in the Government . The House divided on
it , and the Government were defeated by a majority of six . The revolution in Peru is progressing , although tlie Vivanco party has made little or no further progress towards gaining possession , of Callao and Lima , the only two points now hi the hoaids of Castillo . The CQuimercial . advices from 2 few York this week describe a tendency to heaviness in the stock market , consequent upon an increased demand for money . The counting by the Senate and the House of Representatives , met in joint convention , of tho votes for the Presidential elections , took place on the 11 th ult . The final official statement ia—Buchanan , 174 ; Fremont , 114 ; Fillmorc , 8 . The election of Mr . ljreckeuridge as Vico-Prcsklcut is also confirmed . A doubt arose n . s to
receiving the vote of >\ iseonsii ) , on account of a heavy snowstorm preventing the members of th « electoral college of that state meeting unlil the 4 th of December , the day proscribed by the constitution being the 3 rd ; but , after a great deal of discussion , tho convention separated without coining to any decision . . Between four and live hundred Irish nieu and women , employed on the Erie JJailroad tunnel works , near the city of Jersey , have been fiercely fighting nmong themselves on aomo Hibernian ground of quarrel . A great many wero wounded , and it was found necessary to call out tho Jersey militia .
A person named Edward David , charged with being an accomplice of Carpcntier , Grclet , and Balot , in the French Railway Fraud , has been arrested .
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THE ORIENT . INDIA . ON his way to tho residence of Sir John Lawrence , Dost Mahommed met n courier from Mnhomwed Afzal , tho Governor of BaUdi , who brought news of the restless movements of the Russians , - who are said to bo bringing under their rule tho whole kingdom of Kokan . Of tho conferences of tho l > ost with Sir John Lawrence no certain intelligence is yot reported . It is said that Sir Henry JLawronco ia to fill Sir Jamos Outraiu ' a place ns Commissioner of Oudo Tho successor of Mr . Bushby , as Kosident « t Hyderabad , is not yot nominated . Tho barbarous custom of hook-swinging baa been put a stop to in tho oolleetomtea of l ' oonah imd Caudoish . Infuuticido ia diminishing in CnUcwar . OUINADotattcd accounts of the atUmpt by tho Chinese to rotate leatotum fwt , on < l of tho massacre by thorn of Europeans on board tho Thiatla stoamor , imvo been
towards . All Chinese have been ordered to quit the serri of foreigners , and return to their homes . An attempt to poisson a considerable portion of *] ,-foreign community at Hong-Kong has been made bv Chinese baker , who mixed arsenic with his bread aiLl after serving it round to his customers , left for Slacaoin a steamer . Several of the bread-eaters were made verv ill , "but none died , owing to antidotes bein" sneedil " administered . The family of Sir John Bowrino- Tnf fered especially . All the Chinese bakers have ° since Of the progress of the insurrection we hear but little-The rebels are said to have quarrelled among themselves and to have committed great atrocities . Th « chief how-ever , had again defeated the Imperial troops but tfo southern rebels arc reported to have come to an under standing with Commissioner Yeh , with the object of eT " pelling " the barbarian English . '' This intelligence " however , is not absolutely reliable . '
On the 6 th of January , Sir John Bowiing issued an ordinance declaring the necessity of taking immediate and special means for preserving the peace of Hone Kong , and enacting that any Chinaman found at large in that colony , between the hours of eight in the evening and sunrise , and without a police pass , shall be liable to a Hue , to imprisonment with hard labour to whipping , or to the stocks . Another section , of ' the same ordinance decrees that " Every person lawfully acting as a sentry or patrol at -any timebetween the
, hour of eight in the evening and sunrise , is hereby authorised , whilst so acting , to fire upon , with intent or effect to kill , any Chinaman whom he shall meet with or discover abroad , and whom lie shall have reasonable ground to suspect of being so abroad for an improper purpose , and who , being challenged by him , shall neglect or refuse to make proper answer to his challenge . " His Excellency also assumes power to deport all persons considered dangerous to the peace and good order of the colonv .
1 he Anglo-Chinese papers report several isolated cases of murder committed by the natives on Englishmen and other Europeans . Home Chinese , it is stated , have been caught with fireballs on their persons , and have been shot . The premises of Jardine , Matheson , and Co ., have been threatened ; but a guard of French seamen and marines protects the house . " We learn , " says the Pays , " by the latest news from . China , tinder date of December 15 , that the Court of Pekin had published a decree prohibiting all subjects of the Celestial Empire from trading with the English Disobedience will be punished , with death . "
crews into the fort . The Chinese , of course , construed the movement to irresolution , and came on bravely to within four hundred yards of the fort , ¦ v rhen , from the minies and marines and small arms men , till then under cover , they received repeated volleys , which must have committed frightful execution . It was about half-past two that a twentypound shot from , the Chinese struck down Mr . Pearn , master ' s . assistant of H . M . S . Calcutta , in charge of one of the cutters of his ship—a wound in the breast proving mortal . " The Chinese force , however , was received with so much spirit that it presently withdrew . In addition to the death , of Mr . Pearn , six men were wounded in the boats , and one boy of the first class was wounded on board the Coromandel from the accidental ignition of a rocket .
The tragedy on board the Thistle occurred while that vessel was returning from Canton to Hong-Kong , and , according to the paper from which we have quoted , was thus described by three Chinese servants of the steamer who escaped : —" The steamer had not been long under weigh when th-e captain left the upper deck with a Manilla-man seciumy at the wheel , and proceeded towards the engine-room hatchway . Here he was in the act of stooping forward , and looking down , when an assassin from behind stabbed him with one of those short-pointed swords of which every Chinese householder in Hong-Kong has one or more pairs . The first engineer , Mr . Abraham , an American , was on the other side of the hatchway at the time , and was similarly assailed ; two
ceived since to last addressed our readers . Gf the former exploit , the Friend of China , relates that several Chinese war junfcs were observed on Sunday , the 4 th of January , approaching Canton . The English ships Coromandel and Encounter were sent to reconnoitre , and found that " the Chinese liad ranged a portion of their squadron , some sixty vessels , in a line between Marines Island and Barrow ' s Island , about midway between the Macao Passage ( Teatoturn ) Fort and tlie stations of the Hornet and Comus off the barrier—say a mile and a quarter from the fort , a mile and a half from the barrier , and were exchanging shots . The time chosen for this approach had been w-ell considered . It was a dead low neap tide ; consequentlv , a vessel of the .- - — _ — ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ - — ' — ' ~ ¦ ' ~ : ~^^™ !__ . " _ " ^ !! i ' ' ** ? * . "" _' - ~ " ~ " - " —^————¦¦
Hornet's draft of water was unable to get up £ he passage , the Encounter being similarly disabled from getting down . But , just as the Encounter was under weigh , some twenty or thirty vessels were seen coming iuto Starling Beach , and , instead of proceeding directly , it was deemed best to send a few shots into them . The Niger , and the make-shift gunboat at the boom , too , took up the fire , and continued it till they retired . The Encounter then attempted to get down the Macao Passage , but unfortunately grounded somewhere off Bird ' s Nest Fort , and was unable to get to the assistance of the others engaged . The accident being observed from the Coromandel , Sir Michael Seymour did not deem it prudent to do more with the Coromandel than stand on the defensive , and accordingly dropped back ; with the tide , still firing from the bow-gun , and sent the boats '
" The English Admiral , Sir Michael Seymour , " says the Monheur , on the authority of a despatch from Houg-KLoug , " thought it advisable on the L 2 th inst . to abandon the position he had taken up in the garden of the old factories . After blowing up the Dutch Folly Fort , which had hitherto been the centre of his operations against the town , lie resolved to occupy only at Canton , the fort known to strangers a . s the JBird ' a-aiest Fort . Before leaving- the intrenchments he had dug , tho Admiral set lire to the outskirts which extend to the west and to
Manilla-men secunnies were working at a hand-pump below , and soon shared the same fate ; one man got into a coal bunker , and there , afterwards , unable to get out when the vessel was set on fire , was burnt . A passenger in the cabin—a Portuguese gentleman—together with his servant , likewise a Portuguese , were al * o murdered , and so was a sick artilleryman , who was lying down forward , and who was tho first victim . Tho captain on being stabbed ran aft , but fell before he reached tho cabin-door . The mate ( Peterson ) succeeded in getting into the cabin , and iircd severnl muskets at the wretches as tliey attempted to get hold of him . A stinkpot thrown into the cabin at last drove him Overboard , and ho must have been drowned , as he was never seen to rise . The Manilla
tiie south-east of the factories . This treasure , by isolating the walled town , renders it more accessible to the sliells from a squadron . " The war junks constantly attack our steamers . A panic prevails at the Europoau colony of Singapore , owing to the natives being exasperated by the news from Canton . The Chinese portion of the population , which is by for the largest par ! , threatens the Europeans with lire and pillage . Rewards are also offered for tho head of the English governor , resident , judge , or chief of police ; and the natives endeavour to prevent the supply of food to the Europeans .
I'TCltSIA . Tho French and Turkish Ministers at Teheran arc stated to have received instructions to support England in her present differences with Persia , it i . s also reported thiit an armistice has been agreed on between tlie English and Persian armies , to last through tlie months of March , April , and May . —A Russian General of Engineers , accompanied by other ofliccrs of the same corps , has been visiting the country about Mount Ararat and the pass of Bayazid , and taken plans , it ia supposed , with a view to the erection of fortn . The alleged object wns simply that of ordinary travellers for pleasure .
man at tho wJieel was lcilled from behind , without seeing the hand that wielded the weapon . In all , eleven persons were thus disposed of , and search was made for the Chinese boys employed in tho cabin , one of whom , by jumping overboard and biding under the counter of tho vessel , succeeded in escaping , as did the others in other ways . Tlie Chineso fmsmon ware then directed to remain at their work , and the vessel was steered up the creek called by the Chinese Chowmcc , to the village of Lamkongtow , distant some half-dozen miles inland . There her wood work was set on fire , and , when that was destroyed , every particle of brass work that could be removed wa 3 titken away . " Tho charred hull has since been recovered , and live- headless bodies wero found , together with the burnt remains of another . The assassins appear to have been agents of the Canton Government .
Issah Klinn , who defended Herat , has been killed . Tlie rumour that Ferrah , a town between Herat ami Cnndnhur , had been takes , is contradicted . The Uusshins have exempted from taxes several tribes wlio were to furnish to tho Slinh 30 , 000 men , infantry : ind cavalry . Arrangements are being made to convey this force from Daghcstnn on board the Russian lleot in the Caspian Sen , as auxiliaries to Persia .
" Since- this dreadful occurrence , " says the Times Hong-Kong correspondent , " another river steamer bus boeu attacked and narrowly escaped capture at the hands of a Mandarin ileot ; and communication with Canton is now almost ontiroly suspended . There are no foreign residents there now whatever . No trace has been obtained of Mr . Cow per , who was kidnapped at Whampoa . A cold-blooded murder has been ixwpetrAted there , the victim being a German servant of l ) v . Ryder . The Whampoa anchorage has boon abandoned . ' Active measures will probably not Iki taken against Canton until th « arrival of troops and gunboats . The Mandarins have issued bloodthirsty edicts against tho English , inciting to assassination and incendiarism by tho promise of ro-
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SAPiDINIA , AND ITALIAN NATIONALITY . A despatch from Count IJuol , tiie Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs , to Count Pimr , Austrian Envoy sit Turin , and a reply , addressed by Count Cavour to tho Marquis Cantono , the tiurdimuii Envoy at " Vienna , have been published . In the first of these , Count Buol , referring to tlio alleged enthusiastic reception of tho Emperor at Milan ( i ' roin which < : ity lie writes , under date February 10 th ) , observes that the fow discontented persons remain w owing to " an
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222 THJB . LEADER . [ No . 363 , Saturday " . — - _ ..-... — . ¦ ' i -i .. i - , I-.., — . , ——— — - . .- ¦ - ¦ - — . ' ¦¦¦ ¦ i -i ¦ - !! —_¦ _ . _ . _ ,. _ _ . _ , __ : „ "
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2183/page/6/
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