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      our poor and excitable population . I need not i that , go where you will throughout this country i or south , east or west—wherever you see a or a place of public worship , adjacent thereto you sure to find one or more public-houses . I have i to make this last remark by a sad experience in irse of niy long circuit duties , that a greater ¦ of crimes of violence and blood are in this country ted on the Lord ' s day than on any other day of ek , and that the public-house is generally the r the cause of the crime . The reason is obvious , blic-house is most frequented on Sunday : Sunin fact , the publican ' s harvest day . . . . Cork , fir 3 t . and chief scene of the meritorious and suclabours of the late benevolent Father Blathew . jle reaction , I am sorry to say , has taken place and drunkenness prevails in that county to ning degree . And when I say that county , let except other counties in Ireland . I look to my

      trials at the last Cork Assizes , and what do I bearing upon this particular subject ? I take 3 S , almost immediately succeeding each other in as of my manuscript book . Of these , four were volving charges of murder and homicide , and the s a case of dangerous assault . Some of them in several prisoners in one trial . There were conin all , and of course punishment was awarded in t what I want to remark is , that these crimes were ted on a Sunday , and that they all grew out of 5 in a public-house on that da }' . " The Judge ¦ hat distillation must still be allowed , but he it should be taxed to the utmost ; and he ¦ ised that no intoxicating drinks should be sold c-houses except to travellers and guests . But learned Judge define what a traveller is ?

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      THE ORIENT . CHESA . miteur de la Flotte ( says a communication in the publishes accounts from China of the 2 nd of Inch contain some interesting details from the war . Yeh , the Viceroy of the southern prof the empire , is at present at Sou-Tche-Ting , a lage of Kouang-Tcheou , about fifteen miles from He has fortified himself in a good position , [ lows him to maintain his communications ¦ with nd with the other three provinces which , with lang-Tcheou , form his viceroyalty , and which Kouang-Si , the Kouang -Toung , and the Koneie is at present at the head of an army of 30 , 000

      liich he is increasing every day by means of ivies and extraordinary taxes . A few days preit became known at Hong-Kong that a British two non-commissioned officers , some soldiers , ew seamen , who had been taken prisoners by on various occasions , were at Yeh ' s head-, where tbey were suffering great distress . It lved to open negotiations to obtain an exchange lers in their favour , and a foreign agent , who lerly had an interview with Yeh , undertook to the affair . Yeh consented to receive him , but , Listened to his propositions , refused to comply jm . The next day , the first aide-de-camp of oed Sinoo , said he was authorized by his master

      e the prisoners on payment of a ransom of five piastres each for them . The money was immcent from Hong-Kong , and the prisoners were L up without injury . It was subsequently distbat Yeh had iixed the sum at four hundred for each prisoner , and that Sinoo had increased cr to keep a portion for himself , pleasant affair has occurred at Foo-chow-Foo , a ho river Win , the principal market for black ie Viceroy having heard that , contrary to his is , a considerable amount of business was sd there , sent a company of his guards to the a market-day , arrested several Chl . iese mernd burnt a considerable quantity of merchandise g to the English .

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      AMERICA . orican papers are full of comments on the rojec-, ho English Government of the Dullus-Claren-; y witli respect to Central America , on account alterations iulroducod by the United Stutcrt The Washington l / uion , of the Oth inst ., says : loarn that Uio Cabinet huvo acquired oousideright into the motives which prompted Lord on to rojoct the Dallas-Clarendon treaty . His profossoss only to dosiro certain very limited u to the Indiana and to resident British subjects ,

      inodiliuation of the treaty to that extent . This which has boon sonii-ollloiiilly assigned to tlio Cabinet , is by no moans comprehensible by the ; and his Cabinet , Indeed , if wo consi der the attitudo of Lord Clurondon since the reject ion juty , it will bo impossible to comprehend whut ' is tho object of her Majesty ' s Government in America . " The Now York Timus , on tho authoi despatch from Washington of tho 12 th inst ., - "Nothing is to bo done relative to . tho Dallasli treaty . Thoro has boon no correspondence Mr . Dallas aud Lord Clarendon , but moroly a

      conversation . Lord Napier has stated the grounds o : objection , not only to the Secretary of State , but to others , and in terms of the most conciliatory nature . The Senate so altered the article of the treaty in regard to the . Bav Islands as to require the absolute and unconditional cession of the islands to Honduras , instead of the qualified cession which was proposed . Herein rests the whole qbjectipn . I do not think from what I learn that the Administration is disposed to go into a new treaty ; there is no danger of any collision , the whole matter must rest till the next Congress meets . The Administration will not instruct Mr . Dallas to offer new propositions . " The Washington Union of the Oth announces by authority :- — " The Governments of England and France have notified to the Government of New Granada that they cannot approve its position towards the United States . Lord Clarendon has written to the British

      Envoy here , apprising him of the attitude of her Majesty ' s Cabinet upon this question , and we have reason to know that the contents of Lord Clarendon ' s despatch have been communicated to the State Department . " There has been a desperate , but unsuccessful , attempt of the convicts to escape from Sing-sing prison . One of them was shot . After a trial of six days , Mrs . Emma Augusta Cunningham Burdell and Mr . Eckel have been acquitted of the murder of Mr . Burdell , the gentleman who was so foully and so mysteriously slaughtered in the early part of the present year , under circumstances which have been related in these columns . The story remains in all its original and ghastly obscurity . The Hon . R . J . "Walker , on the 11 th inst ., took the oaths as Governor of Kansas .

      The Washington Despatch of May 12 says that the negotiations which for some time past have been pending between the Governments of Great Britain and Honduras in reference to the Bay Islands , were concluded early in March , and that the treaty was ratified by Honduras on the 9 th of that month . The New York money market remains in a healthy condition ; but trade is not very flourishing . A report was prevalent at Carson Valley , at the last dates , to the effect that a serious dissension had arisen at Salt Lake City . It is said that Brigham Young had been compelled to flee the _ citj' to save himself from the fury of his flock . The ' difficulty' had its origin in matters relating to the administration of the church property . From Vera Cruz we hear that the archbishop has given in his adherence to the new constitution .

      Some Filibusters , it is said , have taken Guaymas , in the State of Sonora . Slight symptoms of insurrection in several provinces have been . suppressed .

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      CONTINENTAL N * O T E S . FUANCE . The funeral of M . Vieiliard , Senator , and preceptor of the Emperor ' s brother , took place on Friday week . It ¦ was attended by a great number of persons distinguished in letters and science ; by deputations from the Senate , the Corps Legislatif , the Council of State , the Institute , the various Ministerial departments , . and the political press ; by the Prefect of Police ; by several gentlemen representing the Emperor ' s household ; and by a battalion of infantry of the line . . M . Boulny , de la Meurthe , Senator , pronounced a speech over the grave . Gre : it surprise was created , a very short time before the setting out of the funeral , by the discovery of a document in which M . Vioillard expressly prohibited his remains being tuken to any church , and ordered that they should be carried at once from his house to the burial-place . They were accordingly conveyed direct to Pero la Chaise . M . d'Argout , tho Governor of the Bank of Franco , has at length resigned , lie gave in his resignation to the Emperor in person , on Friday week , and nt one o ' clock the news was communicated to tho Bank council . M . d'Argout has been Governor of the bank over ainco 1884 , except during two short period * , when , at tho request of Louis Philippe , he ucooptod tho portfolio of Minister of Finance , llo id now eovunty-llvo yours of ugc . —Daily News Paris CorresjMiidad . " An event , " says tlio Courier du O ' nrd , " which produced a groat sanitation at Nismes on Tuesday wook , is the unexpected arrest , by ordur of tlio authorities , of M . Chamoroy , director of tho public stores . That measure , it is said , has beon caused by the disappearance of inorolmndiao confided to his care . As tho investigation ordorod has only just boon commenced , we refrain from saying more . " Levassour , tho grout basB bingor of tho Opera Frunouiti , retired from the stngo last wook , after forty-throe years' professional exertion , in which , it is said , his vocal powers have scarcely sullerod any diminution . Tho Noufobfitol Conference mot again on Monday at the house of tho Miniator of Foreign Atl'airs . Tho treaty was concluded and signed on Tuesday evening . It ronouncos , on tho part of tho King of Prusslu , the sovereignty which he has hitherto claimed over tho Principality . Tho Qrand Duko Constantino has boon visiting Indrot , where ho went over tho foundry , All tho visitors at the palace at Fontainebloau took

      leave of the Emperor and Empress last Saturday . The Emperor and Court have since returned to Paris . The Budget was voted unanimously last Saturday by the Corps Legislatif , in a house of 242 members . Paris has been visited twice lately by very violent storms of rain , thunder , and lightning . The latter occurred last Monday , when the thunder was very loud , the lightning exceedingly vivid , the rain deluging , and the wind furious as a hurricane . This state of things lasted about half an hour . The Journal des Chemins de Fer has received an official

      warning , in the person of M . Mires , the editor , and M . Devina , a contributor , for an article published on the 23 rd inst ., in which , it is alleged that the motives of the ministerial note of March 9 , aud of the subsequent commercial policy of the Government , were calumniated , and an attempt was made to cast upon the Government the responsibility of the evils which may result from excessive speculation ; whereas , on the contrary , declares the Minister of the Interior , all the measures adopted have been calculated to put a restraint upon such speculation . —Daily News Paris Correspondent . The National Guard of the town of Avranches , in Normandy , has been dissolved by an imperial decree .

      ITALY . The Empress of Russia arrived at Turin on the night of Friday week . The National Guard and regular troops formed the line of the procession . The Turin correspondent of the Daily News supplies a horrible picture of one of the Pope ' s prisons—a house of torture as horrible as any in the domains of the King -of Naples himself . " Fort Urban , " says the writer , "is built ' upon a small hill in the centre of a marshy moor . It is entirelv surrounded by ditches and deep wells of stagnant water , from which issue during the summer the most pestilential vapours and smells , besides breeding myriads of all sorts of insects , with which the air round the castle is loaded . It has been used by the

      Government as a sort of penitentiary , but has always been looked upon as the most unwholesome in the Pope's dominions . At present , there are eight hundred prisoners here , of whom two hundred are detained without having been tried , aud on the mere suspicion that if they were at liberty they might commit some political crime . Many of these poor creatures have been in confinement for years . " They are chained night and daj r , and if anyone offends the governor , he is chained to the ground , so that he can only creep about for three or four paces . " Every prisoner ' s letter to his family is read by the gaolers , and very- often they cut all the letter away except the address and the signature . Visits of the prisoners' relations are sometimes allowed in the presence

      of the governor and his gaolers , but only for a few minutes . When a prisoner is ill , no medical man can order his chains to be taken off . This must be by order of , and in the presence of , the governor . It appears the medical men are anxious to mitigate the sufferings of the prisoners , but they not only have no power , but themselves are looked " upon as suspicious characters . Tho poor prisoners are so altered that even their own relations do not know them . The mortality is very great among them . Tho healthy prisoners and those with the most offensive and disgusting diseases are all huddled

      together ; but the air of this noisome prison is so jbad that not the strongest constitution can bear up against it , and to this must be added that there is no provision for tho common necessities of nature . Formerly the prisoners were allowed to attend tho church , but this is now prevented—it is supposed , for fear of conspiracy . So here is the head of the church preventing his unfortunate prisoners fvom attending divino service . " The Pope and Cardinal Antonelli aro said to bo aware of this state of things ; yet they do nothing to prevent it . Some dav , however , there will be a reckoning . Tlio Pope arrived at Loretto on tho evening of the

      14 th inst . u Tho Inteiulonte of tho province , " says tho Times Neapolitan correspondent , " visited the Bagno of Montesarchio , and in the royal name offered tho prisoners the choice of voluntary emigration to tho Argentine territorv . Tho oiler was not mado to Poorio , tho Duko , N ' isoo , Molliou , Doiio , Uraie . i , or Pica ; but among those to whom tho gracious privilege was accorded waa tho cripple PiroiHi , and the eyeless Sehiavoni . All declined but four Calubreso , whose names aro Palermo , Garcia , Stigliuno , and Burino . "

      Two Englishmen havo recently A'isited tho Montesarchio prison , with u previous bias , it is said , towards not ( lniTiug matters so bad as they had been reported . They « aw tho unhappy prisoners in tho presence of all tho authorities , who discouraged tho captives from speaking of tho past . The English gentlemen , on leuving , exhorted tliom to forgot bygones , and to hope for tho future ! Forgetfulnoss of six years of hIow and subtle torture , in dull unco of justico , law , and humanity ; ami hope of tho clemency of King Ferdinand ! _ A strange story is told by tho Ojiiiiioita of Turin . Chovalior Ilomodol , of Pavia , was on hid way to on oatato of his , situate in the province ) of Vogliera , Piedmont . On presenting his passports at tho frontier to tho Austrian commissary , tho latter infovmoil him that ho IiaU orders to search both hi * carrlago and hid person . * ** ° chovalior sprang out of tho coach , knoeltod down a soldier who opposed him , and fled over tho Holds , touring a

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2195/page/7/