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Leader (1850-1860), 5th September 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 847, Untitled Article

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      It is said that the United States Government has deiteniiiBed to send -a vessel of wax to the Australasian . Jkrc&rpelago , to ascertain wluit commercial intercourse xtm be establn&ed with tke autives , and also with a probable view to a naval station . ¦ " There now -seems to be no doubt , " says the . New York Daily Times , "that the boundary dispute between £ ! orta £ ica and Nicaragua has been settled . The boundary is to run &om Castillo , on the San Juan Hiver , to flie bay of Salinas , on the Pacific Coast , giving to Costa . -Rica all the south bank cf . the San Juan from Castillo to Son Jnan del -Norte , including Punta Arenas , where are all the buildings of the Transit Company . Fort San Oarlos and Castillo Yiejo hav « been restored to . Nicaragua . " The Government of the United States , fcoiv-« y « r , is opposed to ibis anrangement .

      Considerable excitement has been caused at the St . Nicholas Hotel in consequence of the discovery of defalcations to the amoral of 20 , 000 dollars on the part of one of the entry clerks in the establishment The accused vras arrested , . and remained , in custody ., awaiting an iirv&sJigatian . intelligence , considered to be reliable , has been received at the Interior Xtepartmeut at Washing-ton to the « ffeet that Brigham Young was preparing : to resist General Harney on his entry into Utah , and that he continued to hold up the United States Government to the contempt of the Mormons . Messrs . Edward C Bates and Co ., merchants of Boston , are reported as suspended , with liabilities to the amonnt of half a million of dollars , and assets to nearly the same amount . They have been interested largely in the sugar trade . The failure -will not affect the Cunard Steam-ship Company , for which they are the Boston agents . It is also reported that Messrs . Blanchard , Sherman , and Co ., commission merchants and shipowners of the same -city , have suspended payment in consequence of the failure of E . C . Bates and Co . Their liabilities are said to be half a million of doUans , and their assets about a quarter of a million . Mr- J . C . Brayman , editor of tlie diicago Democrat , was arrested on the 21 st ult ., for robbing the post-office drawer of money-letters , which , were found iu his possession , and was held to bail in 3000 dollars to await his trial .

      The revolution in Peru 6 till drags its slow length along . Vivaaco , at the last advices , remained at Areqnipa , with About a thousand or fifteen hundred men , and in great want of provisions and funds , bo that there -was JBome prospect of the Government forces starving Aim out . An attack on Arequipa by the army of the Prasident was also anticipated . Aa insult has been offered to the United States viceconsul at Mazatlan , Mexico . A vessel from San ITraacisco was sold m satisfaction of the claim of a private individual . Against this proceeding the viceconsul protested ; but , the protest being regarded as a contempt of the judicial authorities , the United States ^ representative was imprisoned , and so remained at the 3 ast dates .

      Tie election returns in Mexico indicate the probability of Comonfort being elected by an overwhelming . majority . A great deal of anxiety has beea exhibited * rith respect to the Spanish quarrel , and General Alvascez has issued a manifesto , which is described as fiercely antagonistic to Spain . The Tehuantepee transit route lias been the subject of much comment . Santa Anna has TV-ratten a letter denying the authorship of the bom-. iastic proclamation lately put forward under his name . A postal convention has been concluded between the United States and Hamburg . A Madrid paper , the Peninsula , announces that the secret treaty spoken of between the United States and Mexico is to the effect that tlte former Power should

      ( Supply to the latter , m case of war with Spam , lo , 000 or 20 , 000 armed volunteers , wtio should go , under the HkKsStan . flag , 4 © tai-e possession of Cuba , the Americans also furnishing equipments and vessels . A murder has been committed iu the Slaw House -dinhag-saloon in Broadway , New York . The facts are thus related : — - " The parties to the affray were an actor named 2 Tymns , lately engaged at Wallack ' s Theatre , and a Tombs lawyer named Wagstaff . Tliey met iu the bar-room and soon quarrelled—about a woman , it

      is said— -and after many hard epithets Wagstaff struck Nynans a powerful blow . Nymos , recovering iu a moment , -drew a revolver and fired twice in quick succession , at Wagstaff . The first ball hit Wagstaff ' s arm , and passed into the breast , injuring the lungs . The second ball passed through the mouth , and upwards through the head , a part of which was shot off . Wagataff fell to the jfloor a corpse . N " ynins retreated immediately to the street , and had not been arrested when the steamer left . Wagstaff and Nymns were well known about the town . "

      Some details have beeu published of tke loss of the American barque Monasc ) . From these , we learn that , " on the 21 st of July , she ran on Corbin Head , and soon went down , carrying with her fifty-four Swedish passengers . Immediately upon striking , Captain . Dailey , thinking the ship had siruck an ieeberg , ran up from the cabiu , aud placing himself and his wife in the quariei' -boat , gave commands to the crew which they hasfcened to obey . It was presently found that the ship was rapidly filling . The steward , at the order of the captain , proceeded to stock the quarter-boat with provisions . The captain threatened to shoot the sailors and passengers who attempted to get into the quarter-boat with l \ iea . After much Labour , they succeeded iu safely launching the life-boat . Tlie captain , finding that the quarter-boat could-not be launched , ran with his wife to the side of the slup where tlus long-boat

      lay ,, And was taken into it . He immediately ordered it to be cut loose , refused to admit the steward , who had stocked the quarter-boat witli provisions for him , and held the lantern that lie and hia wife might descend the vowel ' s side in . safety . In the morning , the shore was visible about half- a mile distant , and the stern of the vessel was atill jrix or eight feet above the ^ vatcr , with tao steward and tiro passengers clinging to it- Twelve jpassengere were landed from the boat , and tho remaining four ^ proceeded . to the wreck . and aaved those upon it . Tho . survivors then walked to Burrin ( N . F . ) , and were kindly received by tho villagers . On the Saturday following , they Bailed for St . Peter ' s . The United States cau&ul at J 3 L Peter ' s # ave them food and clothing , and aaat them to New York by the French brig Louia Gillia . Tho captain had made an error of ono hundred and twenty nulesin hia reckoning . "

      . Frederick Baxter , ib . o absconding bankrupt , lias been hnntod oat in JSTow York by the linglish and American JKuiac A auta at 7 G 0 L was obtained from him , out of his iaasiQipr © nriaiio 4 ifl .

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      CONTINENTAL KOTES . FRANCE . After a brief respite , the hot weather lias again set in at Paris , and all who can get away from the parched desert of a city do so . One of the newspapers has observed that Paris is left without a Parisian ; and the correspondents of the London journals only record that there is nothing to record . The very amusements flag for want of patronage ; and peop-le whose occupations will allow them to idle , lounge ou sofas and talk of the splendid harvest , and of the no less magnificent vintage , which is expected to rival 1811 , the comet year . The Debate contains a budget of miscellaneous intelligence from Senegal and the French West India Islands . In Upper Senegal , the Mahoniedan chief , I £ l Hadj Omar , after having been twice repulsed in tierce attacks on the fort of -IVIedine , had announced his intention of taking it by famine . He bad also proclaimed throughout

      Seneof blood and other circumstances , it clearly appeared that the woman mnst have been murdered at -the bottom of the stairs , and then carried up to her bed ; but as she was a r emarkably strong waman , it appeared anorally certain that one man alone couW not havB killed her ; there were , moreover , no signs of any forcible entrance into the house , neither had any -robbery , nor attempt at robbery , been made ; lastly , no one , except her two sons , Jiad reason for putting her to death . All this threw strong suspicion on the two ¦ young men , and , besides , it was noticed that neither had manifested the slightest surprise or regret-at finding the poor woman dead . They ¦ were arrested , and on being interrogated tke voanger , Antoine , after a tirue confessed it was thev who bail

      done the deed . 'We went , ' he said , * to the house together , and my mother ou seeing us asked u What do you want ? " I answered , " Jacques menus to kill you , and fee has farced me to coaie and help him . " The woman raided a cry of horror , but at the same moment Jacques struck her about the head with some blunt instrument until she fell to the ground . He then told me to strangle her with a cord which we had brought , and I did so , while he heW her . When she was dead - \ ve carried the body up-stairs , and placed it iu the bed . ' The jury declared the two brothers guilty , but with extenuating ' circumstances . ( ' ) , and the court sentenced them to hard labour for life . " Some other horrible cases have . also recently occurred .

      ITALY . The High . Court of Justice at Salerno , appointed to examine the charges against the prisoners taken on board the Pieumontese steam packet ( Jagliari , has published its decree declaring that no proof of guilt exists against Francisco Masehero , a Spaniard , physician to the Bev of Tunis : Ross Maschero , wife of the preceding ; Jules Schneider , a Prussian ; I £ ligio Mo , of Turin ; Vincento Donadei , of Turin ; Johannes Pominico Dnrando , of Yiu , province of Turin ; Ferdinando l > ortniolo d'Altare , province of Savona—the lust four subjects of the King of Sardinia . The prisoners were immediately discharged . The quarrel between the 'Itcapoliuui and Sardinian Governments , with respect to the Piedmontese subjects taken on board the Cayliari , has beeu arranged to tho satisfaction of both cabinets .

      " I have learnt , " says the Times Neapolitan correspondent , " that several alterations of considerable interest to the public have been made in the terms ' - ' of the concession granted to 31 . de Nommnn for laying down a submarine telegraph from Sicily to Malta , and from Sicily to Cape Bon , by the Island of Pantdlaria . According to these alterations , each line is to be independent . If , after fifteen or twenty yearn , it be found that the line does not pay , the concession is to he , annulled at the will of tlie conccssio / mairc . Despatches through may be sent iu English , French , or Italian ,

      instead oi , as at present , only in French or Italian . Lastly , tlie Government-, for secret service , will lay down a separate wire through tbe kingdom and a separata submarine wire through tlie Straits at their own expense . These new conditions are all ol" great'importance , anil those who have bad any experience iu coutiimntal telegraphs will well know liow to appreciate tho permission to semi despatches in Knglish . The lino of transmission ( to omit smaller , intervening places ) will bo from Malta to Alga Grande , lieggiu , Messina , 2 s ' apli's , Home , Bologna , Modona , Trieste , through Prussia , Holland , the Hague , and so on to tbe ollice in Lothbury . "

      The l ' npi . , while staying at Florence , consecrated four now prelates—the Archbishop ol' Florence , aud tho Hishops of Volterra , Alontcpulciuuo , and Fiesole . This was ilono with much pomp in the church of Simla Marin di > l Fioiv . The next -morning , Pius departed for Pisa , lie appears to have been received wilh outward respect , but nut with enthusiasm ; and many epigrams at his expense have boon circulated . The nomination of the Duke dc Grnnnnont as tho representative- of France at the court of Home liu » given some degree of hopefulness to the Liberal party in Italy , as seeming to indicate an intention on the . part , of the French liinporor lo press on Lhuliuniau Government the subject uf l ' ulonn . The Pope is also said to have expressed himself with bitterness us to the appointment .

      Lord and Lady Norniunby have passed tlirough Turin on their way U > i 2 ny ; lund . Hid Lordship wtis huHtily Bununoned by 'tclcgruplt in consoimc-ncu of tho scriouH illnuhs of ouu of his brothers , and ia expected to return in about nix nooks . The commencement of thu tuuiiul through Mont ( Jcnis has been inuuguraled lty tho King of Sardinia . Tlie ceremony went ofl" tuhnirubly . IVincu Napoleon , wlia went to thu sjioL ou ]> nr |) osc , wjxh present , nud ininiediatidy afLerwards touk lcuvu of tbu King , nud departod f < n * l'aris .

      itUHKIA . The Princess Cecilia uf JLIadcn was confu-incd ut . St I ctcrsburg on lh <; loth ulL . according to Uio jiUsa of tins ( Jreek Church . After nhu had made , bur prvlbutuou of fjiilh in the Kiirfniaii luii ^ tiMK " , < lai ICinixiror proclaimed her a Kuasian ( jiraud-Duchens , with the nunio of Olgit Fcodorovua . ( JJCUMAMV . That the Emperor of EuMnia will viait G-ermany in ih « coursu of the prusont ittontJi in nww couaidcrod certain . Ho will arrive at licrliu on tlus 15 th , but . will 4 jn \ y Mtuy

      gambia and Guinea that , when he should have finished with Senegal , he would attack Gambia , Goree , and all the establishments on the " West Coast of Africa , whence he was resolved to expel the Europeans . Meanwhile , he has been detained two months by a fort of no great strength , into which , notwithstanding the blockade , supplies have been thrown , and to . which relief was sent in July . From Guadaloupe we learn that the first cargo of African labourers has arrived by the ship Phoenix . She left the coast of Africa with two hundred and ninety-six on board , and lost fourteen on the passage , which lasted thirty-nine days . The Emperor left Paris last Saturday for the camp at Chalons-sur-Marne .

      Tbe African trials have been brought to n conclusion . Captain Doineau has been condemned to death . Out of the eighteen Arabs accused , seventeen are sentenced to twenty years' hard labour . It renmins to be seen whether the Emperor will commute any of these condemnations . Marshal Kandon lias been summoned to Paris immediately , in order to confer with the Government with respect to the abuses indicated by the trial , and the necessity of reforming the Arab bureaux . The Tribunal of Commerce lias decided that the two Thurney . ssens , father and son , arc liable to the full extent of the debts of their relatives who recently absconded . Vice Admiral Bergevet , the oldest of French Admirals , died at Paris last Saturday in the eighty-seventh year of his age .

      Orders have been given for the repair of the Chateau of St . Germain , at the cost of the Civil List . Tbe Couucil-General of the department of the lUruult , presided over by M . Michel Chevalier , has held its annual meeting , and unanimously passed strong resolutions in favour of a revision of the French Customs ' tariffs . A horrible ! case of matricide has recently come before the Court of Assizes of the Gard . The fuels nrc thus stated— The who lived at Montlionhad

      : , woman , , been married three times , but lunt March again received the addresses of a man named Chivusy . As a niurriayo with that person would probably have had the effect of depriving tho two sons by tho woinnu ' a first husband of some property which , for a person in her station—that of ji peasant—was not inconsiderable , the , two young men conceived a mortul hatred of her , arid after a wliile they openly declared that if she persisted iu tho prijject of marrying again they would murder her . On the morning of the 310 th of April last it was noticed that tlie woman's . shutters rotnuiued cloaed , and her two sons , > vlio did not live with her , wore « ent for . Q'Jicy entered htir chamber , uccompanied by some neighbours , and fiho was found lying dead in the bed with a sheet over her fuco ; bhu was droudfully bcaton about the head , and on her throat was the mark of a violent nressure from a cord . From marks

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/7/