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    gave their second votes to Sir Charles Coote , they ¦ would be ejected from their farms . "" This , however , i 9 denied . Church Education Society . —The annual meeting of this Protestant society , -which is opposed to the national or secular system , of education , took place at Dublin on Thursday week ; the Earl of Clancarty in the chair . The report did not indicate a very prosperous or progressive state of the association ; but the framers of that document say that they have not lost hope , and that they look for the triumph of their principles in due time . .

    The Chief Secretaryship . —The report that Mr . Bernal Osborne is about to succeed Mr . Horsman as the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant appears to be doubtful . It is now stated that there was a temporary disagreement between Lord Palmerston and Mr . Horsman because the latter was absent from Ireland during the elections , when his " direction" of them was greatly needed by Government . The breach is said by some to have been healed ; by others , not . JFoo » BioTs usr the King ' s County . —A large capitalist , Mr . Joshua Atkinson , of Roscrea , having bought in the Parsonstown market between eighty and a hundred barrels of potatoes , and a considerable

    quantity of barley , an advance in prices ensued , which so exasperated the people that they assembled in large numbers , hooted Mr . Atkinson , stopped his cars , maltreated the drivers , cut open the sacks with knives , and strewed the potatoes about the road . The police were assaulted with stones , and it was found necessary to send for a reinforcement . In the meanwhile , the women succeeded in carrying off , in their under garments , the contents of between thirty and forty sacks of potatoes . Dubun University . — -The Rev . William Lee , D . D ., Fellow of Trinity College , and author of " Lectures on the Inspiration of Holy Scripture , " has been elected to the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History , vacant by the promotion of Dr . Fitzgerald to the see of Cork .

    Murderous Assault . —A ticket-of-leave man , named Carter , who was sentenced to transportation a few year 3 ago , has committed a murderous assault on a gentleman living at Rossmore , Queen ' s County , named Fennell , whose life is considered in great danger . The man came to Mr . Fennell one night , apparently in great distress , and begging that that gentleman would give him a night ' s lodging . Mr . Fennell not only granted this , but also gave him a breakfast the following' morning ; . Shortly after breakfast , Carter , having observed Mr . Fennell go to work on his farm , seized a spade , and ,

    closing the kitchen door , threatened to knock out the brains of the servant boy and girl unless they told him where their master ' s money was . The girl screamed with terror , but the boy took down a gun that was in the room and presented it at Carter , on which the latter fled . Unfortunately , however , he happened to encounter Mr . Fennell in his flight , whom he struck a severe blow on the side of his head with the spade . The servant boy nevertheless pursued Carter , and finally succeeded in capturing him after a two miles' chase , when he was given into the custody of the Graigue police .

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    he sat in his box at the Theatre-Francais . He had communicated his plau to some of the refugees in I ? don , but , they suspecting , after a time , that the man *™* a spy , gave information to our police . On hearing thit the conspirator in chief returned to Paris , and be !™ greatly enraged , told the whole story to the French fh 1 rtJo ^ T aS' * lnt ° CUSt ° dy tOgether With ^ The Tunisian Admiral at the port of the Goulette j ,,, beaten and imprisoned an Algerine who is a French all ject . He was afterwards forced to make an amnle inT logy in full-dress at the French ^ ice-Con * X * . ' considerable crowd attended , on whom a great pflv > iwas produced . . ect

    Au aerolite ( says Galiynani ) was seen falling on th * afternoon of the , 6 th inst . in the banlieue of Andolshera near Colmar . Dr . Dussourt was walking on the Url bank of the 111 , when his attention was suddenly a tracted by a whistling noise like that of a shot or of flock of birds passing rapidly through the air ' At the same moment he saw passing at about one hundred yards above him a black body , spherical at one end anfl pointed at the other , the whole measuring , as well as hp could judge , from thirty to forty centimetres ( eleven to fifteen inches ) in length , and about the thickness of a man s arm . From the doctor ' s indications , men have been busied for some time in endea vouring to discover this aerolite , but have not succeeded .

    Some Capuchin monks have been holding themselves up to the scorn and derision of the world by certain antics they have been playing at . the town of Grasse in the department of the Var . Having preached against philosophers and romance writers in general , thev de nounced Alexandre Dumas , Eugene Sue , Georges Sand Balzac , Thiers , and Lamartine , in particular . The in .-habitants were charged , upon pain of damnation , to deliver up to the parish priest , witliin four-and-tweutv hours , all offensive books , newspapers , &c . Anaperture was provided in the church door , through which at

    night , the terror-stricken inhabitants thrust the dang erous writing which they had been induced to give " up The-next day ( Holy Thursday ) , these were burnt on . a Uuge pile—not , however , without some " chaffing" the part of the bystanders . Among the newspapers condemned as irreligious were , the J ) ebats and the Sietfe The Capuchins went home , doubtless , with , a great feeling of triumph ; but the real triumph is on the part of those whoso works were thus illuminated by the fires which were designed to extinguish them . The cure in Don Quixote , who burns the knight's books of

    enchantment , was a wise man in comparison with these nineteenth century priests . Public attention is jlist now directed towards the very high price of food and apartments in Paris . People ask , " Where is it to end ? " As regards the high price of food , it may be accounted for , in some measure , by tlie neglect of agriculture , and the -withdrawal of capital from land to employ it in speculation at the Bourse . A Parisian journal observes -with truth , "We are at the head of Europe in speculations , whilst our agriculture is that ' of the middle ages . " Government encourages cattle shows and the exhibition of agricultural instruments , but

    the cultivation of land will not produce the six , eight , or ten per cent , which money Is worth at the Paris Uoiirse without much risk . —Morning Po . <( Paris Correspondent . The expose des motifs of the bill for the repurchase l > y the state of the . Exhibition Palace of 1855 lias been published in the oflicial journal . It lias been arranged that tlie basis of the calculation for the repurchase should be fixed at thirteen million ? , being the amount to . wliich tlie capital had been limited in the original concession . Tlie debt of the company to the state , amounting to 2 , GOO , OOOf ., is to be deducted from the purchase money of thirteen millions . The document contains the text of

    CO JJTINENTAL JST O T E S . FllASCE . . . ¦ , A dkputation of the electors of the Seine Inferieure , according to a Lyons journal , invited M . Thiers to stand for the department at the general election ; but he declined , "for many reasons . " The Patrie angrily comments on this assertion , but does not directly contradict it . It is reported that M . Thiers ' s reason for refusing to stand was that ho had no confidence in the principle on which the present government of Franco is founded . A man , named JIVf assenot , has bean tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for using seditious language . On the night of the 6 th of February ho ran up a score at a public-house , and left without paying it ; and he sang seditious songs , for which lie was arrested . On being searched , a letter was found on . him proposing to him to join a secret society formed for the purpose of assassination . He offered to reveal the existence of a secret

    society , of from sixty to eighty persons , if he was set at liberty , but his offer was not accepted . He therefore refused to say anything about the letter , but there is some reason to suppose that it was written by himself . Ho was proved to be a bad character , and to have boon frequently in prison . Ho was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to fifty fr a ncs' fine . — Daily News Paris Correspondent . . A new Trench Protestant chapel has been consecrated in the Rue do Madame in tho presence of a numerous

    congregation , among whom were the President of the Reform Consistory , several English and American preachers , and Dr . Kern , the Swiss Minister Plenipotentiary . Tho building , which has been raised by privnto subscription , was commenced only a year ago , and comprises , in addition to tho chapel , two schools capable of accomodating one hundred and twenty children of both sexes , and a residence for tho pastor . M . Fiscli pronounced tho benediction on the building , and M . de Prossense delivered a sermon appropriate to the occasion . —Idem .

    A member of tho commission appointed to study the question of transportation to New Caledonia hna left Paris for London in order to acquire information as to tho system of transportation in England , tho . French Government being , it is said , resolved to adopt tho prlnciplo , and to apply it to its penal settlement . Among tho persons recently arrested in Paris is a man who had a design for blowing up tho Emperor aa

    the treaty ' entered into on the 30 tli September , 185 (> , hetween the Minister of State and the liquidators of the company , between whom it was agreed that the company should give up all right and title to the building ; that the state should have all the assets of the company handed over to it , and in return tako on itself all its liabilities ; that the shareholders should receive , in return for the 130 , 000 shares which constituted the capital of tho company , tho quantity of three per cent , rentes required to represent a capital of 10 , 400 , OOOf ., tlicsc xentos , which were to run from tho 22 nd of December , 185 G , to bo calculated at tho rate of 70 f . 72 c , tho averugo price of the month when the avraiigcment was accepted by the general meeting of shareholders . The shareholders will also receivo the sum of 520 , 000 f . the year ' s interest at four per cent , guaranteed by the state , and which was not duo until October 20 , 1850 .

    Tho ice began to break up on tho Nova on the 11 th inst Tho fact was announced to the inhabitants l > y a salute of guns fired at sunrise and . sunset . It was ex poctod that the navigation of the Gulf of Finland will be fully open between tlia 20 th and the 25 th inst . The second division of tho lluasian experimental squadron vill leave Cron . stadt in tho early part of Mny . "Some English thieves ( including a boy and a woman ) have been arrested in Purls , tried , found guilty , and condemned to three , two , and one years' imprisonment , respectively . Tho boy is to be kept in a house « f ' • orrection till his twentieth year . Tho Conferences on tho affairs of INcufchatoI were resumed on Monday . Tho business of tho Oonfon- 'iices appears now to bo over , and Dr . Korn left on T «< wu | iy

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    to the whole force with the exception of Walker himself , wliom he intended to deliver up to the authorities of Costa Rica . Walker ' s adherents , however , refused to agree to this arrangement . The Baltimore Republican gives an account of a savage and fatal duel which occurred at Winston ( Maryland ) . The parties were fastened down by their trousers to a two-inch oak plank , and fought with bowieknives . " They fought , " says the Republican , " until Drain was mortally wounded . Young Pendleton was cut nearly in pieces , and now lies in a critical position . Part of Pendleton ' s knife is still in Drain ' s head . There is no hope of his recovery . The doctors think they will both die . Drain was twenty-two , and Pendleton nineteen . "

    General Concha , of Cuba , has issued a decree revoking the certificates of protection ordered to be issued to slaves , as being insufficient in curtailing the traffic . Two New York vessels have been sold as slavers . The ship New Hampshire , from Glasgow , has been wrecked at sea . The New York stock-market , at the last advices , was heavy , and trade for the most part was dull . An elderly gentleman has had a narrow escape from death at Niagara Falls . He was sitting on . the bank

    when he became dizzy , and fell into the river . He went down the rapids for some distance , and was a good deal knocked about against the rocks that line the bank under the water . At length he clung to one of the rocks which rose up above the surface ; From , this he was rescued , though with difficulty , by rope ladders thrown from the bank some two hundred and sixty feet . He waa nearly exhausted with cold . A gentleman living close by gave him a change of clothing , and he is now quite well , but he expresses great disinclination to make a second trip .

    Yellow fever still prevailed at the Brazilian ports at the last dates , and had proved very fatal among the merchant shipping . Several masters and their crews had been swept off by the disease . " The Imperial railroad of Peter the Second , in Brazil , " says a correspondent of the Daily News , i 3 completed as far as Nazareth , a distance of sixteen miles , and a trial trip was made on the 13 th of March . The distance was run in thirty-five minutes , and the return in twenty-eight . The directors gave a dejeiaier to i , hv notabilities present , about sixty sitting down to table . Great hilarity prevailed on the occasion , and , amongst other toasts , those of ' The Emperor , ' ' Queeu Victoria / ' The English Nation , ' and The Brazilian Nation , ' were -warmly received . "

    AMERICA . The question of the reinforcement of the United States squadron in the East is said to be still under the consideration of the Washington cabinet , and it is believed that a very imposing fleet will soon be gathered there . Commodore Perry will probably be appointed to the command . It is not the intention of the American Government to co-operate with England and France in their proceedings against China ; but energetic measures will be taken for tho protection of the rights of American citizens . To this end , an envoy will be sent to the Celestial Empire , who will be instructed to procure some modifications of tho treaty now existing between the Chinese and Americans , and an improvement of commercial relations . Such , in effect , are the statements

    put forth by tho Neio York Courier and Enquirer , Some correspondence between our representative at Washington ( Lord Napier ) and Mr . Cass , Secrotary of State , has been published . His Lordship communicated to Mr . Cass a despatch from Lord Clarendon , expressing the Foreign Minister ' s high sense of tho humane and devoted conduct manifested by tho crow of an American lifeboat in tho rescue of tho English barque Tasso , of St . John ' s , Newfoundland . Two of the American boatmen perished on that occasion , aa well as four of tho ship a crew . To the widow of one of tho deceased boatmen , tho English Government sends a donation of 50 ? . ; and inquiries are being made with respect to tlio relatives of tho other heroic , but ill-fated man . A letter of the Earl of Clarendon to Lord Napier accompanies tho correspondence , and convoys tho thanka of our Government to the survivors . Mr . Cass ' a letter contains a suitable acknowledgment of Lord Napier's communication

    . According to one . account , Walker has in some measure retrieved his fortunes by a brilliant victory : but this is doubted , other accounts stating that tho adventurer is still in a desperate condition , and that his adherents are making a frantic Btruggle to roach tho const , in order that they may got off . It i 8 said that Walker has opened a correspondence with General Canas to whom ho offered to surrender , provided he and his ' wore allowed to leavo tho country . Tho General accepted tho surrender , and said ho would givo passport s

    The Crimean immigrants at Buenos Ay res have been rather unruly . There was a want of previous arrangements for their reception on shore , and it was therefore found necessary to keep them on shipboard . The men naturally objected ; some rioting ensued , and a few lives were lost .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/4/