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THE ORIENT . Ttnas . Tie French Government has received despatches from Admiral Parseval Deschenes , dated Tunis , 10 th inst ., announcing that the Bey had made the following- important concessions : —The establishment of criminal tribunals and of commercial tribunals : complete liberty of comm erce ; Kherty of industry ; right to possess property ; respect of persons and property ; equality in presence of the law ; equality cf taxation ; a limited period of service , and liberty of religious worship . CHINA Pekin , and the southern provinces of the Empire , are stated to be in a most lamentable state . Trade is almost at an end , and the poor softer fearfully . The Government has issued iron money to pay the public servants and for the purchase of corn , but it requires the taxes to be paid in silver .
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IRELAND . Representation of Dubcsahnon . —A . meeting of the electors of Dungaunon has been held for the purpose of considering the address of the Hon . Major Knox in reference to his approaching departure for India . A cordial reply , expressing the approval by the constituency < r f the step taken by the gallant officer , and of unabated confidence in him as their representative , wa 3 submitted to the meeting and met with unanimous adoption . Stkange Inquest . —The body of a female infant was found a few weeks ago by the police of Kells in a privy at the back of the house of a medical practitioner and accoucheur . The matter was reported to the local
magistrate ; witnesses were examined , and it was discovered that the infant was the offspring of Rose Meredyth , a servant at the house , and that it was born dead and immature . The magistrate and the police came to the ¦ c onclusion that Rose Meredyth was free from any blame whatever , and that she was justified in burying her dead-born offspring ' even , in a privy ^ dungheap , or sink , or where it suited her convenience . ' The Coroner for the county , getting scent of the matter , thought differently , caused the body to be disinterred , and held an Inquest , which resulted in a verdict charging the mother with concealment of the birth . In the meanwhile , the young woman had absconded ; so the coroner issued his warrant for her apprehension .
Irish Maniacs . —It is stated that some placards have been posted at Carriclc-on-Suir , advocating , in the most violent language , a rising against English authority , the massacre of Englishmen , and the refusal of all Irishmen to enlist in the British army ; and also expressing the warmest sympathy with the Sepoys . " God speed the mutiny ! " " Blood ! blood ! A dog ' s death to the man who takes the Saxon shilling ! " " Arise , and vengeance on England ! " are among the phrases stated to have appeared on the walls . The author * are clearly masia . es , whom their friends- should look after .
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THE BELFAST RIOTS . The disgraceful faction fights at Belfast have been renawed . The utmost alarm has prevailed ; hundreds of persona refuse to go to bed until three or four o ' clock in the morning , fearing an attack on their houses during ue dark ; Mr . Hanna , towards the close of last week , circulated placards exhorting his followers to bo on the alert on Sunday , as he and others were determined to maintain their rights and privileges as freemen ; and an Irish journal speaks of arrangements and preparations having been made to ' figlit it out' on the first opportunity . In their respective districts , meetings of terrified Roman Catholics and Protestants have been held
dnnngthe night , under the influence of panic fears that the opposite faction was coming upon them from the fiolds through the back streets ; and the police have bad to pacify these gatherings as beat they might , and not witliout an exhibition of muskets loaded with ball cartridge . The gun club continues to sit and to distribute rifles ; and one night two policemen who were directed to attend were refused admission because they were not provided with tickets . Mr . Hanna thus addresses the Protestants of Belfast in the placard-which ho caused to be posted : —" Men and Brethren , —Your bl . iod -bought and cherished * rights' have been imperilled by the audacious and savago outrages of a Kornish mob . The well-meant
services . Where you assemble around , leave so much of the thoroughfare unoccupied that such as do not choose to listen may pass by . Call that clearance the ' Pope ' s pad . ' No man . has any right to interrupt the services . " Mr . Hanna th « n exhorts the Protestants to keep the peace , and to behave to their Roman Catholic opponents with respect and kindness , adding : — " "When Roman Catholics pass through Protestant districts of the town , see that they safely pass . If you should hear of Protestants being Tvaylaid and beaten , don ' t retaliate . It is cowardly and unworthy your Protestant character
to imitate what you condemn . Let us make another strenuous effort to restore peace and goodwill in Belfast —to differ witliout breaking each other ' s heads . The drunken , brawling , abusive , swearing , Sabbath-breaking , profligate , violent Protestant is your weakness and disgrace . The peril of your rights is a judgment on your sins . Sanctify yourselves tinto the Lord , and rise to , a man in the spirit of your fathers—a spirit of invincible loyalty to your principles , and proclaim that the liberty and right of street-preaching will be maintained . "
The Belfast reporter of the Freeman's Journal writes : — '" Martial la-w , it is true , has not been proclaimed in this quarter ; but in almost every street you meet with a constabulary picket , and at the corners temporary barracks , while the avenues of communication between the hostile localities—and the line of demarcation between them is strangely well marked—are guarded by strong bodies of police . Notwithstanding all these precautions outrages are committed on both sides , chiefly
after nightfall ; houses are attacked and people are beaten . As you walk along , your ear is frequently saluted with sliots fired on various sides , in defiance or in triumph . So accustomed have people apparently become to the state of things I have referred to that I am told , when I inquire on the subject . ' the town is quiet , ' which expression I now ; understand to be used in a comparative sense . "' A correspondent of the Belfast News letter requires ' ten thousand Protestant heroes' to support the cause of open-air preaching .
A meeting of the civil authorities of Belfast was held on . Friday weelt , the result of which was the issuing of a proclamation , forbidding all assemblages in the public streets , upon p nin of arrest and prosecution . The proclamation , which is signed by the Mayor , was extensively posted through the town . The Lord Lieutenant has placed Belfast under tlie stringent operation of the Crime and Outrage Act . Late on the night of Friday week , Mr . Hanna issued another manifesto , revoking his intention of preaching in the open air on the following Sunday . He said he did this , not of fear , nor because he doubted the right of the Protestants to ' hold forth' in the streets , but because it was " unhappy to live iu a state of continual war . " The Protestants had shown their determination
to maintain their rights , and could therefore make this " graceful concession" to the Roman Catholics . They " challenged them , not to war , but to peace . " Mr . Hanna says that he is supported in his determination by " several eminent ministers of the Presbyterian and other churches ; " but he adds that the open air services will be resumed when considered prudent . " Should a hostile mob then molest you , they will be still more plainly and more guiltily in the wrong . They will be deprived of all excuse and of all sympathy , and , as the Government is determined , they will be speedily crushed . " Another preacher , however , a Mr . Mateir , resolved to preach in the streets on the Sundav , and did
so ; but the presence of large bodies of police and military prevented any very serious results . The Roman Catholics aro said by the Freemen ? s Journal to have behaved with exemplary forbearance ; but the Orange party created a riot , and discharged several volleys of stones . Thuy were dispersed by the fixed bayonets of the police , but , again assembling , renewed the disturbance . Largo reinforcements of polico arrived , and Mr . Trace }' , the m agistrate , read the Riot Act , and told tho mob that their conduct was disloyal and ruffianly , and that , if they did not at onco disperse , lie would order the men to fir « . The lamps were all put out ; but the events of tho day and night were nothing like so serious as on the provious Sunday .
Mr . David Lynch , Q . C . ( Roman Catholic anil Whig ) , and Mr . Hamilton Smythe , Q . C . ( Protestant and Conservative ) , the Commissioners appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to inquire into the recent disgraceful outrages in Belfuat , arrived there on Monday morning and formally opened the sittings of the commission at three o ' clock in the County Court-house . About one hundred and fifty witnessed are to be examined ; so ttiut tho inquiry will bo very protracted . The riots appear now t « be over—at any rate , for the present ; but it is asserted that each side has got a small piece of nrtillcry in ita possession , to be used in streot , warfare , if the opportunity should occur !
hut fooHah leniency of an caay-n attired magistracy , vainly hoping to disarm resentment by concliliution , has hastened and aggravated the present crisis . Hut you were not to be either bullied or cajoled out of your ngtta . They are not to be surrendered , and they will 1 ) 0 strenuousl y maintained . That you have unmistakably shown on the paat Sabbath . Then you arose , calm bat powerful , as tho tliundter reposing in the cloud . ion firmly , tcmporatelj ' , and triumphantly asserted your ilpfata . You were assailed—savagely assailed . The Ubstcrman and Whig have belied you . Thoy said you thT i ! " "S . S * " - 1 ttsi ] the ™ , and I tell tho world , that they lie . Your enemies were the aggressors , and taey are cwrerod with laBting disgrace . Your ministers ™ Z \ a K ri sh * to P ™* 11 Sn the open air . No man tKk " y * n * r that- Y < m hare alao ft ri £ ht lo Uaten w them . Let them ehoese convenient places for their
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company tlie army . Whether Gensral Haraey will continue in command of the expedition , or whether Colonel Johnson will be appointed , remained uncertain at the last dates . ¦ The weather in California has been fine , and the news of the crops is excellent . Several large fires have occurred in the interior . Tlie towns of St . Louis and Michigan Cliffs have been destroyed in this way . The National Emancipation Convention , called to devise some equitable plan of negro emancipation on the principle of compensation to slaveholders , has met at
Cleveland , Ohio . Nearly all the free states were represented , and the attendance was large . Among other schemes , it was proposed to devote the proceeds of the sales of public lands and whatever surplus revenue may accrue from customs to the redemption of the slaves . The Convention adjourned finally on the 28 th ult . The result of the labours of the Convention is the adoption of a plan by which the general and state Governments shall purchase the slaves at the rate of two hundred and twenty-five dollars each , and the organization of an association to carry on the movement . The rival Conventions in Minnesota have agreed that but one constitution shall be presented to the people .
A sum of between 200 , 000 and 300 , 000 dollars has T > een paid to Maryland by the Treasury Department of the United States as interest on half a million dollars , to ¦ tt -hieb amount the Federation became indebted to Maryland during- the war of 1 S 12 . The principal was discharged between the years 1818 and 1822 . Several shipping disasters occurred during a storm which raged on the night of the 28 th . There is a scarcity of" seamen at New York , and wages have advanced . A convention of the most prominent men connected with the railroad interest ha 3 assembled . at New York . Dr . Rae ' s schooner , the Iceberg , with which he intended next spring to go in search of Sir John Franklin's remains , is supposed to have been lost on Lake Ontario with all on board .
A sanguinary engagement , resulting in the defeat of a large body of Cheyenne Indians by the United States troops under Colonel Sumner , has taken place . The loss on the side of the troops was very trifling . Some intelligence from Cuba is communicated to the New York Herald by its correspondent in that island , who writes : —" For the first time within the past three years , an entire cargo of Bozal negroes has been seized by the Spanish authorities , and forthwith declared to bo emancipados . General Morales de Rada was the active and trustworthy agent employed on this occasion , added to which every effort is being made to obtain evidence to ensure the conviction and punishment of all the parties concerned in , or rat h er with , the landing . Nor is this all . A new plan has been hit upon to ensure the
punishment of Brigadier Serano . He has been ordered to consider himself a prisoner at Bejueal , whilst a copy of the written instructions supplied him upon his appointment to the office of Lieutenant Governor of Trinidad lias been placed bofore the real Audiencia Pretorial , for it to decide , upon the evidence placed before it , whether the brigadier had not been guilty of ' wanton negligence ' in not detecting and preventing the landing of the several cargoes of Bozals , or some of them , during his period of oflice , that took place within his jurisdiction . If he be declared guilty of such wanton negligence by the Real Audiencia , he is liable to be sentenced to serve for the term of eight years in the jiresidio ( chain gang ) . "
Mr . Sulivan , the English minister at Lima , has b ' een shot by a Peruvian . He was dining with sonic gcntlinon when six men entered the room , masked , and lired threo shots , ono of which entered the body at the lower part , and passed into the lungs . One of tho men then , said , " I am now satisfied , " nnd they all disappeared , leaving Mr . Sulivan in a condition which gives no hopo of his recovery . A reward of one hundred ounces was offered for the apprehension of the miscreants ; and a Frenchman and a negro have been arrested on suspicion , of being accomplices . The Peruvians endeavour to explain the matter by saying that it was the result of an . intrigue with a lady ; but others affirm that the act was committed out of annoyance at English ' interference in the affair of tho Tumbles and Loa . ' Tho correspondent
of a Panama newspaper states that a short time ago Mr . Sulivan took with him to a bull a woman of abandoned character with whom ho lived ; and that , on her presence b « sing objected to by some gentlemen as an in-. sult to the company , Mr . Sulivan retorted that she was as good as ; my woman present , or in Lima , whore , he said , nil the women are of notoriously light character . Tlie assassins nvo represented to bo members of inotst respectable families . The l ' cruviun Government is alarmed at the probable consequences of the act . Mr . Sulivun is a hoii of tho Right Hon . Laurence Sulivan , wlfo was brother-in-law of Lord Pulmorston , and formerly Doputy-Sccrutury At War . TIio hoii , aftor being our representative at Chili frcm 1841 ) to 1853 , was transferred iu tlia latter year to Peru .
AMERICA . It now appofirs that tho Utah expedition is to set out . The appointments for the territory aro completed by tho nomination of D > r . Forney , of Pennsylvania , to the post of Superintendent of Indian Affairs . The now territorial officers Trill awaemblo at Fort Laramie , nnd
ac-The conduct of tho Peruvian officials towards American vessels has led to the . interference of the Uuitod States Minister . The Government of Ecuador had notified its adhetrion to tho convention entered iuto between Peru , and Chili in September , 1856 " . v
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 895, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/7/
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