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      announced 1 on Wednesday afternoon . AccoT *» g to some accounts , the liabilities of the house amount to 200 , 000 ? . ; but other estimates place them at ¦¦ about 150 , 000 ? .

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      IRELAND . Tjppbbxrt B " AKK . —A motion in" Chancery has teen made in . the case , of M'Powell v . Pepper' for an order of reference to' the Master under the loth section of the Chancery Regulation Act . The petition prayed for a receiver and' a sale of the respondent ' s property , on foot of certain . calls made against him as a shareholder which had not teen paid . Tfie suit was , it was stated , framed as a mortgage suit , and . was similar to proceedings instituted against Mr . James Sadleir and other shareholders . The Chancellor felt very doubtful whether the law permitted him to regard the calls upon the respondent as mortgages upon his property . Finally , he made an order for a receiver , but not for a sale . Mb . Herbert , the new Irish Secretary , wa 3 reelected , on Tuesday , without a contest , for the county of Kerry .

      The LnEUTK 2 * ABrcY op Tipperart . —The Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of Tipperary , vacated by the death of Lord Lismore , has been conferred upon his son , the present " Viscount .

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      AMERICA . General Cass is said to be preparing a reply to tlve recent application of Lord Napier with reference to a renewal of the negotiations on the affairs of Central America . It having been announced to Lord Napier that the steameT Michigan on the Canadian Lakes was a few tons larger than the size allowed : by the treaty between Great Britain and the United States , his Lordship directed the attention of the United States Government to the matter , and orders were given to discontinue the ¦ use of it . The Canadians , however , are anxious to retain- it , as being always ready to go to the assistance Of vessels in distress .

      Active-operations against the Mormons are still talked of , and it is beBeved that a large military force -will be -despatched against thelrr . The crops in Texas are expected to fall for want of rani . The northern part of Sfichigan has been visited by a terrible famine , owing , ft is said , to a blunder of the I > epartment of the Interior mmi tn defective arrangements on the part of the settlers themselves . From Kansas we hear that Secretary Stanton has issued a proclamation for the election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention On the third Monday in June . Returns from nineteen out of twenty counties were in at the last dates , giving 9351 legal voters . Many of . the Republicans are said to be going over to the Free State National Democracy , and an attempt is being made by Northern Democrats to send Free State men of that party to the Convention .

      Dred Scott and his wife and two daughters were emancipated at St . Louis on the 2 ( Mi ult . Mr . Morse , late Commissioner to Bogota , has arrived in Washington . He expresses no doubt as to the eventual settlement of the difficulty between New Granada and the United States in a manner satisfactory to both parties . The people of Mexico are preparing for the elections to Congress , to the Presidential chair , and to tho Bench of the Supreme Court . Santa Anna ' s friends are intriguing for his restoration to power . A reconciliation ¦ with tho Pope is anticipated . Tho reported defeat of Colonel Crabbe and his Filibusters in Sonora is

      confn-med . Two of the houses in which tho invaders were besieged took fire , and sonto barrels of gunpowder exploded , killing and wounding a great many of the party . The Sonorions- also lost several men in the course of the straggle , and were left almost without omcei-a ^ Sixty-Uve Of fshe Filibusters are to be shot . Five hundred more are imported to have found their way into Arizona , nncl to have encamped in the region of Tueaon * "The- tendency in the New York money-market is towards greater ease , the supply on call and for lirotclaos paper being in excess of the demand .

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      THE ORIENT . 11 «> IA . Th » disaffection in some of the Native rogJments l » na assumed a very serious form . Tho 8 rd Bengal Cnvalry are in open mutiny . They have burnt down the linos antJthe offiqera' bnngnlowa , and Boveral of the officers and' men have been killed and wounded . It wna reported at Calcutta thai a correspondence had been discovered in the possession of a native officer of the 84-th Bengal Infantry , proving tho esctotoRCO of a conspiracy for o * - ggntaingr » general rising of ( lie- entire army . The British mission to- AffghaniatMi has renewed Gandfthart

      At Galctrttrt , operations in exports continued restricted owing to * light supplies , high prices 1 , nnd' enhftrrced freigtttfsi The import-market had somewhat improved . AtBomftfty , the Import-imwhefc wau rather dull : in « xpoxtis . there-was MEtle at no change . Impovfia at Mudroa ¦ wore generally steady ; oxports wore firm , and frotglrte loo&tag up ; A BfaarMi paper haw annouwoeci the death of the

      Nizam j but this appears doubtful , though the Prince is very ill . General AshbnrnhaTn , with his staff , arrived a ( Bombay on the 4 th ult ., and intended- to leave for China about the 9 th . . The London Gazette of Tuesday contains a ' Notification * issued by the Governor-General of India in Council , conveying his thanks to General Outram , Commodore Young , and the others ,: officers-, privates , and seamen , engaged in the Persian war . '

      CHEfA . No fresh operations had taken place in the Canton river . Yeh is said to be embarrassed hy want of money , and great discontent prevails at lids inability to effect anything . At Foo-chow-fbo , uneasiness had been caused by accounts of disturbances and the presence of rebels in the tea districts . The first crop of Kishow teas will be lost , and the price of tea has consequently risen . " The Chinese Coolie who is supposed to have murdered Mr . Markwick , " says the Times Hong-Kong correspondent , " has been captured , and is now iii custody awaiting l * is trial . In consequence of some disclosures made by him , an expedition was sent to Stanley , and one also to Cowloou , to try and capture some of Yeh's emissaries , who are said to be about . The expeditions " were not successful , although it was understood that such parties had been at those places . "

      A plot against the lives of Colonel Cain ( the Lieutenant-Govemor of Hong-Kong ) and Mr . Caldwell ( the Registrar and Inspector-General ) has been discovered , and one of the conspirators , the ' head watchman' Stanley , was taken into custody . His chief accomplice , the Tepo , ' or headborough , of the same place , has fled .

      PEUSIA . The expeditionary force is to remain in Persia three months after the ratification of the treaty of peace . Mr . Murray will return to Teheran , escorted probably by the 1 st' Scinde Horse , which corps , according to popular rumour , will proceed as far as Herat , in order to ascertain beyond a doubt that the Persians hare evacuated that city , and restored it to the family of Yar Mahomed . The general health of the English troops in Persia continues good . Mohammed Youssouf , a man who , some short time ago , assassinated the Prince of Herat , has , in his turn , fallen by the hands of the sons of the murdered man .

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      THE TREATY OF PEACE WITH PERSIA . The text of the treaty of peace between England and Persia , signed at Paris March 4 th , 1857 , and ratified at Bagdad May 2 nd , has been published It consists of the ordinary preamble , . fifteen Articles , a Separate Note referred to in Article X ., and an Annex to the Note . The document is of considerable length ; but it is thus summarized in the Times : — " Persia is to retire from Herat ; to withdraw from it and Afghanistan [ and to relinquish all claims on them ] . In case of any quarrel with them , she is to request tho friendly offices of the British Government , which ia to do its best . Persia is only to attack Herat for the defence of her frontier , and to push her arms no further than necessary for ropelling aggression . Our Consular e&tablishnientd are to be on the same footing as those of the * moat favoured' nation . Tho pecuniary claims of British subjects , or of Persians under British protection , ar © to be settled by a Mixed Commission . [ The Persian Government will set at liherty , without ransom , all English prisoners , and make an exchange with the Aiighans of all Affghan prisoners . Tho contracting powera will renew their agreements for the suppression of the slave trade in tho Persian Gulf . ] England gives up the protection , of Persian subjects , unless in the employ of British representatives and agents , and provided also that no- larger privilege of protection ia allowed by Persia to any other Power . Tho dignity of tho British

      Crown U to be vindicated in the person of Mr . Charles Murray , whoia to receive in State a letter of apology for some offensive remarks of the Shnli , and to bu solemnly invited to the capital . Ho is to be conducted thither in State , to receive a visit from tho Prime Minister , to bo accompanied by the Seeretury of Stnto for Foreign Affairs to tho Palace , and presented by him to tho 3 huh . Ho ia to receive another visit tho day after from tho Premier , at noon ; which visit Mr . Murray Is Co return the next day—at tho latest , before noon . No private names or domestic circumstances appear in the Treaty . There ia not a word about tho proposed olootrio telegraph , or tho Euphrates Valley lino , or any port or emporium in tho Gulf , or about tho liuaaiua acquisitions of territory on tho Caspian . Russia only appears under tha euphemism of ' tho most favoured nation . '"

      Tho offensive letter of tho Shah for which apology Jo to be made is as followa : — 11 December , 1803 . " Last night -we- read the . paper written by the English : Minister Fl « xripotenti » ryr « nd were n » troh anrin-lsod

      was disorganised Z , during the last fourteen years of his-life , when- lWillness he was incapacitated for business ) up to thp sent time , no disrespect towards the Sovereign ha , hT " tolerated , either from the Government or its a ° enf Ww has happened now that this foolish Minister PleninZ tentiary acts with such temerity V It appears that emfriendly missions are not acquainted with the wording of that document ; give it now to to Meerza Abbas and Mesrza Malcum , that they may take ami duly explain it to the French Minister and Hyder Effcinli . that they mny see how improperly lie has written . Since hist nidit till now , our time lias been passed in vexation . We now

      sem ( when Persia in its most at the radta , unmeaning , disgusting and i « c i "" and purport . The letter which he fife * ™ ° lent tone impertinent . We have also heard SSTa ^ K ** he , 3 constantly speaking dforeapeetfullv of uTa ^ you , but we never believed it ; now , however if . £° . troduced it in an official leit Jr . We are < Wf ^ *" vinced that this man , Mr . Murray , is sUKSf ^ and insane , who has the audacity and Tm' £ ' ^ instrlr even kmg . ! From the timjof ™ haKB& Hb ? com rwTinn T >^ i . o ; n ,., „„ :.. : *„ .. ,. ,. . """" JX

      03-command you , in order that you may yourself know and also acquaint the missions , that until the Queen of England herself makes us a suitable apology for the insolence of her envoy we will never receive" back this her foolish Minister , who is a simpleton , nor accept from her Government anv other Minister . "

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      STATE OF BELGIUM . ( Extracts from a Private Latter . ' ) " Brussels , Jan . 10 . " The streets are now quiet , but the excitement of the country is far from being e : \ liiiei ! . The Communal Councils of all the great cities have addressed the King , felicitating him on the adjournment of the Chambers , and recommending him to witlxdraw the bill altogether . Tha Communal Council of Ghent , though presided over by M . Delahaye , elected President of the Chamber iu payment of his desertion of the Liberals ; that of . Ypre 3 , a city of -which M . M ; tlou is deputy ; and that of Bruges , whose bishop , is the real author of the bill , have been th « first to come forward in this way Yesterday

      the Kight met . at the house of M . le C ' Ointo de Merode-Westerloo . Fifty members wore present . The discussion lasted four h . mrs . It was . resolved to refer everything to the wisdom of the King . With regard to the law of Charity , it was decided that the debate should not be continued , and that it would be proper to bring the session to a close . Twelve members declared that they would vote against the law if the debate was renewed—indeed , only three members remained obstinate . Every one agreed that it would be improper to dissolve the Chambers , and undesirable that tho Cabinet should \ misters met

      resign . Inconsequence , the Council of jI yesterday and decided that the bill should-be withdrawn , and that the Chambers should be convoked as soon as possible The damage committed at Brussels during the riots will cost only four hundred francs to repair . An amusing incident happened when tho crowd collected before the houso of M . Malou . On the previous evening , sonic gamins had broken tho windows of a neighbour , who according ly hung out a large . placard over his door , thin worded : —' The Charity Bill : Windows to be broken next door ! ' "

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      COiNTINKN T AL JN U T h b . fiusci ; . Tub elections nro the chief topic of interest now ¦ in France . We rend in tho *» . — " Are we to consider tho department of tho Maino-cl-Loire na placed beyond the common law ? Thin might bo l » ul » ° *^» f n ' tn insT d ^ endnnt de rOuest , in its number of the 6 th injfc , affirm ., thnt it has been prohibited from wti » g about electoral bulletins ; that it has b . ! 0 . » ofbomlly iny ett electoral uuucims , mm . " - ¦¦ -- « oomliln n nutf ht 1

      _ to abstain from nny observations thnt ° ™ ° } censure , n blame , or ovon a praise o the unctionarlej d the Empire ; finally , that it cannot interior * m thulec tlons , as silence hns been imposed upon r . A" «^ u circular of the Minister of tho Interior , and w " ™ prohibition ,, dictated by excess of zon 1 , w o m everywhere withdrawn , the poslt . on to wh . c tUe ^ JJJ pendant tfePOitest has been reduced m « in am , Jjj cannot last , and to which wo now direct tho attention

      Government . " Aiinlatrv of the A circular hnfl been addressed by the Mn la U oi Interior to tho Prefect of Departments « j . « < course they are to purauo witli reject to theimr cirrxildittea who may present thomwlvoj Un tong with tho official candidate * pot torw « ird by Jo « u mnt . Tho Miniver d ™ j 7 " / "S ^ ffi-ST 5 Mabo allovod to thoao cnnUMwtes . Uwfii J thflIr rhre , Jiwlioo , nnU Commerce , have , at ' « lltl Jord , nnt « , oollonffiiii , ulao addressed circular * to the ! . " ™ . hwtrnotlnff them to give their nssiatnneo to tlio u mont at tho approaching cloctlonu . , , ot Tho moat remarkable electoral acUh ew tiini f como out ( flays tho l ' arb oon-o-ponile , nt < of t ^ Nmv * - ) in one Issnud in tho Uupnrtmont oi tu ot-LoIr by a non-offlclai candidate named lloy edot . Ho takeo for hia text tho proinlao im ™

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      568 . » H' ? _ . J ? J . 4 . P ? .. f ^ l - .:. ' - [ No- 877 , SatuTOat

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2197/page/6/