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      bsequent order to send the down-train on the up-line , contrary to evidence . We exonerate Henry Turner tation- master at Port Talbot ] from blame , but it would , ve been more desirable if he had gone to inquire for an swer before he started the up-train . We think there evidence of carelessness and incompetency in the teleaphic arrangements both at Port Talbot and Stormy , d that there is blame to be attached to the company for t employing more efficient servants at such important itions , especially Stormy , and also for not taking care at they are properly instructed in the working of the

      legraph on both instruments . The jury also think , there had been means of telegraphic communication Pyle , this lamentable collision might have been preinted . " Another inquest has since been opened on ro more bodies ; but this is not yet completed . One of e witnesses , a man named Chapman , who endeavoured dissuade White from sending the down-train on the > line of rails , so fully expected a collision that , on e departure of the train from Stormy , he ascended the [ jacent mountain to watch its progress , and actually w the catastrophe which he had expected to occur .

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      IRELAND . B . Cuixen and the Reuef Fuxd . —A Roman Calolic Peer ( Lord Bellew ) , in reply to a circular invitaon to attend a meeting in Dundalk for the purpose of ising funds for the sufferers "by the mutiny in India , > serves : — "I think there is but one opinion on the ibject , that assistance should be afforded to those forrn and wretched sufferers , but such assistance should s prompt to make it effective . Fully concurring with iose who call for a fair and impartial distribution of

      efunds that maybe contributed , I cannot think it dicious or politic to raise any question that may tend i stop the flow of charity which would naturally nan at L' from every human heart . If funds on a former : casicn have been misapplied or perverted , let every lution be taken and exertion made to prevent a similar scurrence ; but let us , in the first instance , go forward leerfully and heartily to the assistance of our suffering How-countrymen of . whatever class or creed they lay be . "

      The Sepoy Journals . —The Waterford News , a iberal journal , states that the Nation newspaper has sen ' kicked out' of the Commercial Newsroom of New oss—the borough which formerly returned Mr . Gavan 'uffy to the Saxon Parliament . The voting was as Hows : —For retaining the Nation , 15 ; against , 34 . ; s late Sepoy essays led to Its expulsion , which was lorod by Dr . Howlott , a respectable Roman Catholic sntleman . —Times . A Popular Appointment . —Lord Clarendon has apiinted Mr . Michael Morris , of the Connaught bur , to le Becordership of Galway . Though tLat gentleman is Roman Catholic , his elevation has given great satisction to the Conservative as well as the Liberal mrnals . Akchbisiiop Cull , en has xeturned to Ireland from lome .

      Encumbered Estates Court . —The estates of Mr . 7 , H . Rogers were put up for sale in the city of Cork y order of the Commissioners last Saturday . The proerty , consisting of the demesne lands of Lota , Lotalere , &c , situate amid som « of the most beautiful : euery on the banks of the Le « , produced 23 , 625 £ Five > ts only were disposed of , the amount realized by their lie being sufficient to discharge all the encumbrances a the estate . The new petitions in the Encumbered

      ourt embrace property to the extent of about 11 , 000 / . er annum . The Earl of Kemitiare is a petitioner for the ale of his estates in Carlow , Kilkenny , and the Queen ' s ounty . The gross rent is estimated at 4000 a year , ad the encumbrances are set down at 110 , 000 / . —Times AIaykootii College . —The Very Kev . Dr . Kussell , ' rofessor of Ecclesiastical History in Maynooth College , as been elected , after rather a keen struggle , to the ' residentship . lie is reported to be a favourite of Dr . lullcn .

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      AMERICA . evekai , more failures have occurred in the chief merican cities , and the New York Courier and Inquirer , f the Gth inst ., says that ' tins Bank statement fur the ast week will not meet the approval of the community . ' overal of the bunks have increased their loans . Among a few , " says tho authority already quoted , the change is very alight ; but , on the whole , there is general doclinccquivalcnt to nearly two per cent ., instead fan advance of three to five p « r cent ., in the loans . " The ftper of aoinc of the hanks has been refused bv others ; n " " « " the New York Mxj > ress , of the Cth . ' stating : ft ™ a 9 l ) ecimen of thc < - »» ' <•* «» d the value or money , A > , O 00 of exchange was aold to-day at par . " From Vaslnngton , however , it is reported that , upwards of UO 000 dollars of tho public debt have been redeemed Ntlun a dny or two , and that tho total amount now JHeomed is very largo . It ia stated that tho Uuiik of 'ritiali North America , through its agency in New York as ordered gold from London on tho present low ex-» ango to the amount of 100 , 000 / . otorling . Tho mernants of Boston have held a meeting , at which , by a oumdorablc mnjotlty , it vraa resolved to support the

      banks and to express good faith in them . The feeling of the meeting was against any bank suspension ; and the same feeling is unanimously shared by all the banks of the state . The Pennsylvania Legislature was convened on the 6 th inst . and a message from the Governor was read , in which he recommended " That the banks which may be relieved from the penalties upon suspension bv existing laws le required to make a satisfactory arrangement with the State- Treasurer , by which he will be enabled to convert the funds in the Treasury and the balances standing to his credit in any solvent bank into specie as soon as necessary for the payment of the funded debt ; and that solvent banks which have paid specie for all their liabilities immediately prior to the late general suspension be required , under limitations and restrictions , to receive the notes of each other continuing

      solvent at par in payment to be relieved from their condition ; and for the relief of debtors that a provision be made for the extension of the time on which execution for judgment may issue : the issue of relief notes of small denomination should not be authorized , nor the banks during their suspension be permitted to declare dividends exceeding six per cent , per annum . " The Governor believes that the moneyed institutions of the State are in a solvent condition , and that , the measures suggested are adopted , all will be made right . The feeling in New York , however , is very gloomy , and at Washington the financial pressure is seriously affecting the public revenue . The panic has even extended into the remote and newly-settled territory of Nebraska , where two banks , both established within the last year , 3 iave failed .

      Harvey Doolittle , late cashier of the Agricultural Bank of Herkimer , has been arrested on three several warrants . He was held to bail in 21 , 000 dollars for embezzlement , perjury , and misdemeanour . Three more persons belonging to the Central America steamer have been rescued by a vessel , after being adrift for several days on portions of the wrjck without food or water . Their sufferings were horrible . Fifteen persons have lost their lives by a steamboat collision on tha Mississippi . Several large warehouses have been destroyed by fire at Louisville ; and the town of Colombia , California , has been burnt down , on which occasion several lives were lost .

      It is commonly reported at New York that a steamer has evaded the attention of the authorities , and sailed with munitions of war on a piratical expedition against Nicaragua . " Nearly 1000 Jlissourians , " says a despatch from St . Louis , " have eutered Kansas , between Quindaro and Weston , to settle there ; but well-informed persons in Missouri say that it is for political purposes . Evidence of concerted action along the -whole border is becoming apparent , but violence is not apprehended . " Mr . Brown , Democrat , has been elected Governor of Georgia by a large majority . Commodore Paulding , in 3 iis report on the Interoceanic Canal between Aspinwall and Panama , says the isthmus seems to present no obstacle to the construction of a canal , but that there would be great difficulty in procuring labour for the successful accomplishment of the work .

      The yellow fever in Havanna . li is declining . The export duties on tobacco at Vera Cruz have been repealed . The capital of St . Domingo , -with President Paez in it , has been surrounded by the insurgents of Cibao ; the civil war continues in Peru ; and the revolution in Yucatan has not been suppressed . The American ship Sportsman , of Boston , has been seized by a Chilian vessel of war under rather singular circumstances . The American ship was licensed to trade at certain port towns , all of which are understood to be in the Bolivian territory . The commander of the Chilian vessel , however , on the day after thc arrival of the Sportsman at

      the port of Santa Maria or Constitucion , took possession of the country iiv the name of the Chilian Republic , and then required the American captain to place himself and vessel in tlie hands « f the Chilian authorities , for being found loading without a proper license . Against this he protested ; and , a few days afterwards , the Sportsman was boarded by Chilian marines , and taken to thc port of Caldera . Subsequently , the register of the ship was returned to the captain , with liberty to proceed to any Bolivian port north of iSle . s . sulonc-s , but not to touch at the southward . Tlie American refused to receive thc register , and it was sent by thc United States Vicn-( Jonsul to the Governor of CaMcra .

      _ Mr . Booker , our newly appointed consul at San Francisco , has beon entertained at a complimentary dinner , at which not merely Englishmen , but Americans , French , and Germans , attended . Our consul id very popular , and is looked on as one of the pioneers of California . " A rich ledge of gold-bearing quartz , " says a writer from San Francisco , " has just been discovered at San Raphael , in Marin county , across tho bay opposite to San Francisco , which hus excited notice from the rarity of tho discovery in the const clinin of hills . It has hitherto been supposed that the gold deposits were confined to tho lulls which spur off from tho Sierra Nevada mountains . " It ia thought tint tho Californian elections have terminated in favour of paying tho state debt . A horriblo affair , reminding us , on a very small scale

      of the Sepoy atrocities , has occurred in one of the frontier settlements of America . Six men and three children ., emigrants , were massacred by the Indians . A woman also was shot through , scalped , and left for dead , but was afterwards found alive , though it is impossible she can recover . The three children were murdered before the faces of their parents , and horribly mutilated . _ * ' The emigrants , " says the Sacramento Union , " are willing to a man to join a company , to exterminate these fiends . " The meeting of Irishmen at New York to express sym pathy with the Sepoys has proved a signal failure . No respectable Irishmen attended , but , on the contrary , denounced the whole thing ; and the press has also condemned it .

      The American papers announce the defalcation of Mr . Frederick TV . Porter , for thirty years corresponding secretary of the American Sunday School Union . It appears that he-has issued notes and acceptances for his private purpose ? , without the knowledge or authority of the board , to the amount of 88 , 883 dollars . Mr . Porter was a person of very quiet habits of life , and "was a member of a church vestry-. The discovery was precipitated by his becoming ill , when of course his business was transacted by others .

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      THE ORIENT . JERUSALEM . The ceremony of placing the portrait of the Ernperor-Napoleon in the convent of the Holy Sepulchre has just taken place at Jerusalem with considerable pomp . The portrait was conveyed in procession from the house of the coneul to its place of destination attended by the clerks of the consulate and a number of pilgrims now at Jerusalem . Prayers were afterwards offered up in the chapel for the Imperial family , and in the evening there was a display of fireworks from the terrace of the convent . ¦ EGTPT . The Pacha of Egypt has deferred his journey to Soudan , in order to receive Prince Napoleon . TRIPOLI . The English . Consul at Tripoli has published an order from Constantinople , permitting the export of oxen ; nevertheless , the Bey ' s Government persists is refusing to obey it , in consequence of losses experienced by disease and the wants of the country .

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      CONTINENTAL . NOTES . FKASL'if : TitE Constitutionnel makes the following reflections on the revenue returns for the first nine months of tie present year : —" These returns show , as compared with 1856 , an increase of 27 , 000 , 000 f ., and the augmentation would probably have been 29 , 500 , 000 f . had not 1856 been leap-year , and consequently had the advantage of an extra day ' s receipts . It is also important to observe that the falling off in the quantity of home-made and French colonial sugar , and the consequent increase of price , diminished the consumption of an article which is so advantageous to the revenue , and led to a decrease

      of 8 , 500 , OOOf . in the receipts . It will perhaps be objected that if the revenue suffered a loss on homemade and colonial sugar , it obtained an almost equal increase on the import of foreign sugar ; but it is well known that these sugars are for the most part re-exported in a refined state , so that what remained for home consumption did not offer an equivalent compensation in point of revenue . The financial results of the nine months must therefore , on the whole , be considered satisfactory . It must not , however , bo denied tLat the returns show some traces of recent embarrassments and falling off in business . "While thc first two quarters gave an excess of 26 , 285 , 000 f ., the last three months only showed an increase of 58 O , O 00 f . ; during tho latter

      period , therefore , there was an evident slackening in commercial affairs . What must , however , bo pointed out as favourable is that in the last quarter the second part was much better than the first . The month of July for instance , showed a diminuti on of 2 , 402 , 000 f ., and yet that falling off was covered and exceeded by 580 OOOf . by the receipts of August and September . With regard to tlie different items of revenue wo may add that with thc exception of the home-made and colonial augar which show a considerable falling olT , the others , auch as tlie duty on foreign sugar , the regiatration duties , tho tax on potable liquors , and tho sale of tobacco , all show u progressive improvement . " This , it must bo recollected , is a aeini-oflicial account of the financial affairs of (

      1 ranee . The Municipal Council of Paris has determined to call the new boulevard which has been recently opened from tho Chfttouu d'Euu to tho Bnrrieru du Trdne by theuanifl of Prince Eugene , after the Emperor's uncle , and to erect , a statue of the princo on foot in tlie centre of a now square through which tho road will pass . J A case interesting to travellers in Franco , " aa 3 's tho Times Paris correspondent , " has just been decided by tho Court of Cassation , tho highcut legal tribunal . According to a Royal ordinance published in 1-563 , an hotel-keeper is bound , undur pcnulty of a fine , to lodge travellers who stop at his house . An hotel-keeper in a

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      ffo . 396 , October 24 v 1 S 57 . ] __ JLh E LEADER . 1013

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1013, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/5/