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      been concluded at Lima , having for , its object the protection of the Chincha , Lobos , and other islands by an armed force of the English and French for the term of ten years . The Government of Peru was to control the guano trade as before . There have been disturbances at Dominica , arising out of public dissatisfaction at the legislation on the subject of the rum duty . The Governor-was requested to dissolve the assembly , but declined . Riots ensued , and some blood was spilt * In Granada , a coloured man has been elected to the House of Assembly . A . riot occurred at Montreal , Canada , on the 12 th of July , in consequence of an Orange flag being hung out . A great crowd assembled , shots were fired at the flag , and two or three Orangemen were severely

      beaten . Some serious news has reached Washington from Kansas . Under date of July 17 th , a correspondent of the New York Herald writes : — " The President received a telegraphic despatch this morning , dated at Leavenworth yesterday , from Governor Walker , stating that a serious insurrection had broken out at Lawrence , and that he had called out the United States troops to suppress it . The Governor had started immediately for Lawrence . The cause of the outbreak is not known , but it is supposed to have originated from opposition to some of the territorial laws—probably the tax law . The receipt of this news has caused some little excitement in certain quarters . "

      President Mora , of Gosta Rica , has declared the grant of the Nicaragua transit route , conceded by that republic and Nicaragua jointly to Mr . Webster , to have lapsed from a non-compliance with its conditions by the grantee . The lapse was occasioned by the non-payment of the stipulated 500 , 000 dollars on or before the 1 st of June . Lord Napier has attended the anniversary of the Alumni Association of Havard College , which was celebrated at Cambridge , Massachusetts . He was enthusiastically received , and delivered one of his hearty and genial speeches . The American harvests promise excellently .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCS . The commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject have reported that New Caledonia is well suited for a penal colony . . From Algeria we learn that the road which throws open the approaches tc the mountains of Kabylia is now finished , Hid that not a single tribe remains unsub-JGcted . The conquest of Kabylia is therefore complete . Pursuant to instructions sent from St . Petersburg to Count Strogonoff , Governor-General of Southern Russia and Bessarabia , the difficulties respecting the expulsion of [ several French and other foreign families at Sebastopol has been settled .

      The first stone of a new building for baths at Plombieres was laid by the Emperor on the 22 nd ult ., in presence of the municipal council , the clergy , and a large concourse of persons belonging to the town and neig h , bourhood . The curd of Plombiferes delivered an address , to which the Emperor replied as follows : — ' * I am happy to satisfy your wish of seeing me lay the first stone of the new bathing establishment , which , I am convinced , will contribute to the prosperity of Plombiecea . This place interests me , not only because so many persons have here recovered their health , but because it is the centre of a population who have given me so many touching proofs of their affection , and who have been

      always animated by true patriotism . I hope that all those who , like me , come here to take repose from their labours , may find renewed strength for the accomplishment of their duties and for the service of the country . It is to me a cause of sincere regret that I cannot , during my stay here , also lay the first stone of another and more important monument—that of tho new church ; for when any person has found an Alleviation of his sufferings , it is proper for every Christian soul to testify his gratitude to Providence . In fact , if what is evil comes from men , all that is good comes from God . " In the aftornoon , tho Emperor visited a foundry at Varigny . .

      "The Civil Tribunal of the Seine on the 24 th ult ., " aays the Times Paris correspondent , " gave judgment in the case of the Memoirs qfthe Duke de liaffusa , in which the descendants of Prince Eugene do Bcauharnais brought an action against M . Porrotin for publishing statements In that work highly injurious to the Prince ' s memory , and quite unfounded in truth . Tho Court decided that the plaintiffs had fully proved their case , and ordered Porrotin to insert in all tho copies of tho sixth volume which he had on hand tho thirty-three documents brought forward by tho plaintiffs in support of their complaint . It also ordered Perrotin to pay all the costs . "

      The section of Agriculture nnd Commerce of the Council of State has voted unanimously in favour of the suppression of tho butchers' monopoly , , Joseph , Napoleon Noy , Princo of Jrtoskowa , and oldest son of Marshal Noy , died last Saturday morning at St . Gormaia-on-Layo , near Paris . For the last two years

      his health had been greatly shattered by apoplexy , lie was in his fifty-fourth year , and was the godson of Napoleon I . and the Empress Josephine . The fetes which will take place on the 15 th of August and succeeding days are to be celebrated this year with great magnificence . A singular instance of the intense heat of the weather is mentioned by the Times Paris correspondent , who writes : —" The Seine is now lower than it has been at any period since 1719 , when the water was not higher than the bottom of the scale placed at the bridges to mark its depth . All the foundations of the piers are now exposed . " '' ..-,.,. e The Emperor has been invited by the municipality of Manchester to visit that city during his sojourn in England . He has replied that nothing would afford him greater pleasureif time permitted .

      , The prefect of the Allier has dismissed the schoolmaster of Lignerolles for ' maintaining intimate relations with the most ardent demagogues of Montlucon , ' and for 1 daily frequenting cafes to which such persons resort . ' The same functionary has ordered nine cafe ' s or publichouses in the arrondissement of Montlucon to be closed , on . the ground that they are the ' customary places of demagogical meetings . '

      TURKEY . Ishan Bey has been named Minister of Turkey at Berlin . A note from the Porte to the Powers in favour of the union of the Principalities explains the impossibility which the Ottoman Government finds in applying to IVIoldavia the exceptions set forth for Wallachia in the firman of convocation .

      SPAIN . The Government , after considerable hesitation , has accepted ( but it is said in no very courteous terms ) the off er of mediation on the Mexican question made by Lord Howden and the Marquis de Turgot , in the names of their respective Governments . A person named Losada , a Guatemalan by birth , and commissioned by Santa Anna to treat with the Spanish Ministry , has arrived in Madrid . The representatives of England and France intimated to the Spanish Government that , it refuse the pr offered mediation , Spain is not to count on any assistance from the powers they represent in the event of any untoward circumstances arising out of a war with Mexico . The naval constructions are advancing rapidly . A lighthouse is about to be placed at the Point of Artuch ,

      in Minorca . ITALY . Among the papers of the late Colonel Pisacane , the chief of the last insurrectidn in Calabria , was a document endorsed , " This is my political will , " and dated Genoa , June 24 th , 1857 . He begins by saying that he " believes in socialism , but in a different socialism from the French system , all more or less founded on the monarchical and despotic idea which prevails in the nation . " His idea of socialism is comprised in llie words ' liberty' and ' association . ' These opinions he has developed in two volumes which he leaves behind him . They are the fruit of nearly six years' study , and he trusts his friends will publish them . He proceeds : —

      " I am convinced that railways , electric telegraphs , machinery , improvements in manufactures—in short , all that develops and facilitates commerce—is destined by an inevitable law to impoverish the mass of tho people until a division of the profits bo made by competition . [ Qj r . co-operation ? J All these moans increase production , but they accumulate wealth in a small number of hands , from which it results that this vaunted progress ia , in fact , only decadence . If these pretended ameliorations are regarded as a progress it will bo in this sense—that by increasing the misery of tho people they will infallibly impel them to a terrible revolution , which , by changing social order , will turn to the advantage of all that which now serves for tho profit of o few . I am

      convinced that Italy will become great by liberty , or will be a slave . I am convinced that temperate remedies such as the constitutional system in Piedmont and the progressive improvements granted to Lombardy , far from advancing the regeneration of Italy , can only retard it . As for myself , I would not make tho smallest sacrifice to change a ministry or to obtain a constitution —not even to drive the Austrians out of Lombardy nnd to unite that province to the kingdom of Sardinia . In my opinion tho domination of the House of Savoy nnd tho domination of tho House of Austria arc precisely tho same thing . I believe , likewise , that tho constitutional system in Piedmont is more injurious to Italy

      than tho tyranny of Ferdinand II . I believe firmly that , if Piedmont hud been governed in tho same manner as tho other states of Italy , the revolution of Italy would have been effected , at tho present day . " Ho afterwards urges the necessity of every Italian , as an infinitesimal part of tho country , conspiring for tho liberty and unity of tho peninsula ; and he expresses his contempt of those men who not only will not act , but who fi nd pleasure hi execrating those who do act . Ho continues : —¦ " If I arrive at tho place of landing , which will be Supri , I shall consider I have gained a groat personal success , should I afterwards dio on tho scaffold . A simple Individual though I am , supported by a grout

      number of generous men , I can do more , and if I do so the rest will depend on the country and not on me . 1 have only my life to sacrifice for such ah object , and I hesitate not to risk it . I am . convinced that , if the enterprise succeed , I shall obtain universal applause . If I fail , the public will blame me . I shall be called silly ,, ambitious , turbulent- .... Let those detractors know that I consider them not only incapable Of doing what I have attempted , but even of conceiving the idea of it To those who-shall say that the enterprise was impossible , I reply that , if it were necessary to obtain the approbation of the world previous to the undertaking of similar enterprises , they should be altogether renounced . " After glancing at various historical events , showing that apparently hopeless enterprises have succeeded , Colonel Pisacane concludes by saying : r— " If I do not succeed , I profoundly despise the ignoble vulgar who will condemn me . If I succeed , I shall very little appreciate

      their applause . Twenty-six persons arrested at Leghorn are to be transferred to the prison of Lucca for trial by the Royal Court . Others are to be merely plaeed under the surveillance of the police . The proceedings are conducted with the greatest despatch . A few items of intelligence from Naples are published in the French journals , where we read : —" The trials continue . None of the prisoners have as yet been executed . Nicotera has revealed the whole plot . He has justified the conduct of the crew of the Cagliari . Some of the papers found on Pisaeane are in cipher ,

      and have not been made out . Foschini , the refugee , who escaped from London after committing a double assassination , is among the wounded . Padula has blown out his brains . A conflict has taken place between some of the inhabitants of Torre del Greco and the crew of the French ship M&eore . The sailors were occupied in making hydrographical observations , when they were attacked by the Neapolitans , who thought they intended to effect a landing for revolutionary purposes . The King has ordered apologies to be made to the officers of the Meteore . His Majesty has gone to reside at Castellamare with his three sons . "

      After the dissolution of the municipality of Genoa , the former Mavor was re-elected by a large majority . The Hereditary Prince of Naples has just been betrothed to the youngest daughter of Duke Maximilian and sister of the Empress of Austria .

      RUSSIA .. The Emperor of Russia has paid a flying visit to Berlin . He will go again in September , when he will remain some weeks . AUSTRIA . The Government is said to have signed a convention with various Italian states , the object of which is toresist in future any revolutionary attacks . The Austrian police have given instructions to the newspapers on two points of general interest . One relates to the offers of marriage which daily appear in the journals . These advertisements are nor prohibited , but the editors are required to watch very carefully that they shall not contain anything , improper . The second point is , the prohibition of the publication of books relative to the explanation of dreams , &c , which favour superstitious ideas .

      GREECE . The King and Queen have been splendidly received by the Russian Minister on board a Russian frigate . The Queen is said to have observed to the captain that tho visit was a favourable onion of the future . The Queen has left the country by this vessel , her object being to secure , if possible , the succession to the throne of Greece for her youngest brother , a Prince of the House of Oldenburg . The Greek Court has received with great delight the news of what recently huppcnctl in the Parliament of the Ionian Islands . It professes to believo that the hand of Russia has been busy among tho native troops of India .

      THE ZOLLVEBEIN . Tho Governments who are parties to tho ZoUvereiu ( says a despatch from Berlin ) collectively claim from England , through tlie medium of Prussia , an indemnity for tho losses sustained by their subjects at Cantonthe bombardment having taken place without previous intimation to tbeir Consuls .

      THIS DANUMAN PRINCIPALITIES . It is bolioved that tho French Government will demand that those elections shall bo annulled which havebeen tho result of coercion . Tho Prefect of Gulatz has compluinod of tho gross illegality and . terrorism of tho elections , and hns resigned his post . Tho Turks havo been behaving with groat ruffianism at Ismail . They entered the churchos , smoking , and insulted tho images of tho saints . At length , tho populace wore so exasperated that they strade thorn ; and it bocamo necessary to call out a military force to put an end to tho disturbance Tho saino scenes , howev er , havo boon since ropcatod .

      niCbOIUM . Tho Princess Charlotte was on Monday married to tlio Archduke Maximilian of Austria at the Palaco at Brussels . Tho occasion has boon celebrated by national $ ten .

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      WOQ THE LEADER . [ No . 384 , August 1 , 1857 . Y * 3 P ' ^ ' " —~ - ; ¦ ¦ ¦ —

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 1, 1857, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2203/page/8/