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      James Sadlkiu . —A letter to the Dublin Evening Post from Mr . James Sadleir , in answer to some statements by Mr . James Scully , has been published . The ¦ writer says : " I never owed the bank or any bank a shilling , but always had a considerable sum to my credit in the Tipperary Joint-stock Bank , and during the run 5000 / . due to me , which I might have drawn out , or even after Mr . John Sadleir ' s death . I never had any connexion , directly or indirectly , with any one of the numerous speculations Mr . John Sadleir appears to have been mixed up in , or any other speculation . From the moment I discovered in London , late in 1855 , the extent of the land transactions he was mixed up in , ^ and railways in England , Franee , Germany , Sweden ,

      Switzerland , and Italy , I denounced him in the strongest language I could , for having allowed himself , under any circumstances , to be engaged in so many undertakings , though I had ths strongest assurance irom himself , and some of his friends , that larg-e and immediate payments were to come to him from each undertaking ; and I have got the sums in a return given to me that were to come from each . From all the information I could colleet a short time before his death , from himself and some of his friends , I was folly satisfied the worst was over , and that he was fast getting out of the temporary dilliculties ho had got into , and that he would have a considerable surplus after paying all debts that I had any knowledge of . " The letter is dated Paris , May 8 th . The Potato Riots . — Further disturbances to prevent

      the exportation of potatoes have taken place at Ovanmore . It was found necessary to bring out the police and soldiery ; and one or two persons were injured by the violence of the mob .

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      THE ORIENT . PEKSTA AND rSDIA . Some very important intelligence from the seat of war in Persia has been communicated by telegraph to the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s agent at Alexandria , and by him to the London papers . We here read : — " Before the news of the conclusion of peace with Persia could reach us , an expedition to Mohammerah sailed from Bushire on the 15 ) th of March , xinder the personal command of Sir James Outram . The force arrived in the mouth of the Euphrates on the 21 st . On the 24 th , it moved towards the fort , and opened a brisk fire at daybreak on the 26 th . The Persians replied with spirit , but in the end the superiority of our squadron was manifest , and our troops having landed , advanced upon the entrenched camp of the enemy , who tied immediately , leaving behind them their tents , stores , &c . The loss of the enemy has been estimated at 200 killed .

      " As a truly tragic episode of this war , we have to mention the death , each by his own hand , of General Porster Stalker , Commander of the Forces , and Commodore Etherege , of the Navy . The verdict on General Stalker's body was , that he came by his death from a pistol-shot inflicted by his own hand in a lit of temporary insanity . There was no paper left to indicate this . He was merely heard to complain that the 3 rd Cavalry was not given him , and ho was also uneasy about the responsibility of sheltering the European troops during the approaching hot weather . The verdict on Commodore Etherege was , that he destroyed himself with hia own hand while sultoring under mental aberration , brought about by long-eontimiod anxiety connected with the duties of his command .

      " A mutiny of the Sopoys of the l'Jth Bengal Native Infantry has ended in the disbanding of the corps . The Governors of the Presidencies arc at the seats of their administration . A further improvement has taken place in our money-market , and we have to report a . further rise in four per cent , paper . The business transacted in the import market during the fortnight has buen to a fair extent . Freights lmvo fallen in value , aucl exhibit u downward tendency . " Advices from Constantinople atato that , nftor taking Mohammerah , the English commander learned that the treaty of peace had been concluded , and ordered a suspension of hostilities .

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      AMElilCA . Tmonm is very little political nowa from 1 ho United States this weok . President Buchanan is iudirtposod . The Filibusters continue to pour back from Nicaragua ; but another expedition ia talked of at New York , in tho interest of Suntu Anna , tho ex-Dictator of Mexico . Generals Wheat and Hornaby were among a party ol one hundred and ton of Walker ' s udvonturcrs who arrived at Now Orleans on the Gth of April . Other * belonging to Colonel Lockridgo's force luul been loft behind at Aspinwall , whoro they woro taken o ( V by a vessel of tho English tleot . The Costa Kicans lmvo taken possession of Punta Arenas , togothur with tho atoamer Kosouo , a quantity of ammunition , and six pieces of nrtillory . Tlio transit route is bmUI to bo open to tho Puoiilc . Two thousand troops huvo boon despatched from Vom Cruz to tho Moxicun capital .

      An insurrectionary movoment , > n which Sonor Agoular , a former minister of Santa Anna , is implicated , has b « ou Uotootod and suppressed nt Moxico . Tho Mexican j& » - truordinary , of April 4 th , aays : — " Wo hear St stated

      that the Charge" d'Affaires of the British Legation has i presented his . ultimatum to the Mexican Government , stating that if in nine days his demands are not satisfied he will close the Legation . Six days of the aforesaid nine have expired already ; so we may expect in the course of the next few days to learn the result of this demand . The road from Vera Cruz to Mexico city is now safe . Throughout the whole distance , small parties of mounted guards are posted , who ride from one station to the other and protect the road from robbers . A tax of half a dollar on each passenger by the diligence is levied to defray a portion of the expense incurred by this road guard . "

      According to a despatch of General Mora , commander of the allied forces of the Costa Kicans , Rivas is invested , the Filibusters are being slowly starved , and desertions from their ranks frequently take place . Some accounts say that symptoms of dissension between the Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans had already shown themselves on the Atlantic side and in the interior . " From Kingston , Jamaica , " says the Times , " learn that on the iGth ult . a schooner , evidently American , was towed into port by her Majesty ' s brig Arab . It "vvas soon ascertained that the schooner was a slaver , and that she had on board a large number of captives . She had been closely pursued by the Arab , and the captain , finding there was no possibility of escaping , deserted , taking with him in a shallop his crew , money , chronometer , and other useful articles . The commander of the Arab despatched his gunboat with fifteen men ,

      under the command of his first lieutenant , with orders for the capture of the shallop . The chase continued for nearly three hours , and , a shot having destroyed the rudder of the shallop , the captain , who was owner of the slaver , surrendered . Two of his principal slaves and an interpreter were taken from the shallop , and the crew left in it , to make the best of their way to Cuba . The first lientenant then boarded the schooner , and found her filled with young Africans , males and females , to the number of three hundred and seventy-three , no less than one hundred and twenty-seven having fallen victims to the horrors of the middle passage during a voyage of twenty-nine days . The poor captives were in a wretched condition ; all of them were naked , and the greater part seemed to have been half starved . They were packed closely together , and covered with dirt and vermin . "

      Yellow fever is producing great ravages at Montevideo . Serious dissensions are reported to have broken out among the Mormons , both at San Bernardino antl the Salt Lake . The Indians continue to give great trouble on the frontiers of Iowa , Minnesota , and Nebraska . There has been much slaughter of white settlers , and several contests have taken place with the troo p * , who are pursuing the savages into their strongholds . Some of the New York papers , however , state that these reports arc either entirely fabricated or highly coloured , for the purpose ol keeping up the price of land in the eastern territories by preventing emigration to the west .

      Mr . Stevenson , the newly-elected English Superintendent of Belize , landed from- her Majesty ' s ship Arab on the 80 th of March , and was sworn in the next day with much ceremony . On the following clay , the Arab took him down to Ruatan , where he was sworn in , in tho name of Queen Victoria , as ' Her Majesty ' s Lieutuiitiiit-Governor of tho Bay Ialnuda . ' The boiler of a steamer on tho Delaware and Haarlem Canal has exploded , killing five persons and fatally injuring three others . A collision has occurred on the Ohio river between the steamboats Rainbow and Julia Dean , owing to which the latter sank immediately , and five or six persons wore drowned .

      Jn tho New York money market there has been a more cheerful feeling , though trade generally has been dull . The Pacific Express Company ( San Francisco ) has failed .

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      SPEECH OF LOUD NAL'JJGB ATNKWiUlilv . At tho annual dinner of tho St . Georgo ' s Society ol Now York , held on St . Gem-go ' s Day , Lord Napier , who was present as a guest , responded as follows to thu toast of " Her Majesty ' s Ministers and Kuproaont ntiveson this continent : "" Gentlemen , —I beg to offer you my very sincere and cordial thanks for tho honour which you have done mo in associating my name with tho toast and with the health of 4 Hor Majesty ' . - * Minister * . ' Hor Mnjosty ' s Ministers will bo highly gratified when thoy learn that , their names and thuir officer .- ! ant held in nuoh esteem , regard , and memory by thoir fellow-countrymen

      residing in tho United States . I myself , gentlemen , in my own personal capacity , am Moiiniblo that I am undoHorving of tho acclamation * which you lmvo deigned to bestow upon my immu ; but I soo in tho manner in which you lmvo received it a warm revulsion of thoho foolingn of sympathy and regard whioh may bo HUHpondod or obsourod for a time , and by accident , botweuu America and England , but whioh nro over dooply founded on tho affections and tho iutorosta of tho two countries . { Lund cheers . ) Tho oflloo which 1 h : xvo tho happiness lo 1111 , and in whioh you lmvo done mo tho honour to wish mo well , id one whioh has boon familiar to my hopes and wi » hea from a very early period of my life and sorviocs .

      I may still maintain that there is not a more grateful a more glorious , or a more useful employment than this employment , which I share with my venerable friend the United States Minister in London—the employment of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friendshi p between the two great branches of the English race { Loud cheers . ) I feel that I entered . upon that employment here at a most auspicious period . I can assure you that I have met , upon the part of the President of the United States , upon tlie part of General Cass , upon tho part of nil the ministers and functionaries of the United States with whom I have been brought into contact , every manifestation of that cordial and frientllv disposition which animates the Government and the community of Great Britain . { Cheers . ") There are no questions involving any degree of anxiety or

      fipprehension pending between the two countries—{ cheers ) —and I am sometimes disposed to hope that ( he time may soon come when there will scarcely be any subjects of official correspondence at all . ( Cheers . ~ ) If I may not flatter myself with this agreeable prospect of official vacuity { Inwjhter )—if I must look forward to my fair and natural share of discussions and debates , surely , gentlemen , we have in the experience of the past the best grounds for believing that there can never be a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not meet with a prompt , with a peaceful , and with an honourable solution . { Loud cheers . ) There are many questions at once envenomed and alarming which have been settled in a pacific manner in our recent negotiations . Our eastern boundaries have been defined by one treaty . Our western boundaries have been settled by another . The disputed fisheries , which at one time threatened to embroil usi , have been

      converted , by the salutary engagements of reciprocity , into a source of mutual wealth . Finally , gentlemen , the question of the privileges of neutral trade in time of war—that question which for-so long was the constant cause of complaint and recriminations—has now obtained , by the spontaneous declarations of her Majesty's Ministers during the late hostilities , that liberal interpretation so often desired by tlie united States , and which no Government of Kngland heix-after will ever be inclined to evoke or to repeiil . { Chetn-. < . ) Gentlemen , I am justified , then , in saying that , by an easy exercise of frankness , of mutual forbearance and indulgence , no question can arise between our countries which will not admit of an easv and an amicable settlement . But ,

      gentlemen , I desire more than cordiality—I desire cooperation . { Cheers . ) Now , gentlemen , i do uot wish to alarm the citizens of tlie L ' nited States who are here present bv raising before their averted eyes the phantom of ' entangling alliances . ' { Lavyhter ami cluer .- \) Entangling alliances , gentlemen , area kind of political spectre which seems to have descended with undiminLsheil terrors from i he period of the Revolution to the present day . { Cheers and laughter . ) There may be mutual co-operation where there are no written engagements ; and , gentlemen , where the heart is wanting , thure may l > e written Cheers

      engagements without mutual co-operation . { . ) All , ' then , that I wish to say is , that our re * , j . eetive Governments should perpetually make an early ami sincere declaration and avowul to each other of thoir views ami intentions with respect to all subjects which involve the common interests of the two countries — { cheers )—• whereby they will lmvo the benefit of mutual good ollicca and mutual counsel , and whereby they will be able to avoid those one-sided resolutions and those startling anno ' . moenu'iits whioh tiro apt to disturb the ciinlidonco of cummcrec and calculate to excite the

      sensibilities and jealousies of two high-spirited nation * . { Cheers . ) Gcntlomun , tlie only entangling alliance which 1 shall venture to recommend to ymir adoption w tho submarine cable beLweeu this country and England . {( Ireat Uuiyhlcr and cheeriiiy . ) My friend , tho lion . chairman , ' im . i been ho kind as to allude in terms ol ¦• lowing eulogy and encomium to tho services vhit . li members * of my family liavo boon uiiublod in former timed and generations , " to oiler to thuir sovwign uwl country either in tho department * of science or m those of war . Thu sincerity with which that encomium wan pronounced , and tho nmniicr in which t \ wm ol ^ orvutioiifi were received , arc certainly exceedingly gralilyimj to my own p ' ride ; and till this is an additional incentive to mo to endeavour to runrtor myself not unworthy ol tno-- > o services which were performed by m . ; mbcirf ol' my I '""' . *

      upon previous Oceanians . { Cheer * . ) I cannot Hull " myself that 1 pos . sc . -ii any peculiar lit no .- * , or any " > - cal oxperlunw , which could enable mo lo purlorm im dulluH of her MnjiMl / fl Minister in a ^^ "h ' "' '"! manner . Hut this I cnu ushui-o you , that . 1 ""< « 'i' > ° lh . / KO duties Hilh tliO highest Hilt irtMK'l I "" »' l Wlt " ' Jiuppliwt uiillelpiit ' oiiH . ^ Jhiir , hair , ' and chews- ) w demon , it was hoiiio time ago oIwui-vimI in ' ''" b ' mid it vrntt ropoatod in some quarters in auiwi _ » Llmt tho inmnberrt of tho regular dip lomatic ] i

      rutuiicin of Groat Ujrltnin worn not <] imhlloil *> y " provunm education and experience to wnW-Mi I lie stubborn and linisculiiio (• l . 'inonlM ol Ai »«« politics . ( G' /«« er . v . ) It was rmpponud , goulluinen , wo woro ho inurutl in tho potty twin mul > " U 1 " ' . priiutiuu * of ' cabinet intrigue , llmt wV ^ mlilti . ry uuHlomod to humble oursolvo * in U . o iwill tf l't «» uli " ' courts , that wo woro not qualified nor dinpor < e < i i « a froo pooplo in tho light of day . ( Aotfrf aimers . )

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      462 THE LEADER . [ No . 373 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 16, 1857, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2193/page/6/