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      felt that the list is not yet closed . The general trades of Birmingham do not as yet show any signs of resuscitation ; but money matters are easier . An improvement as regards textile fabrics is reported from Norwich ; and' at Dublin business is sound , but dull , as usnal at Christmas . At Nottingham , Leicester , Leeds , Bradford , Halifax , and Kidderminster , trade still continues very languid , and there are many unemployed persons . " The stoppage of machinery and the working of short time , " says a communication in a daily paper , " are telling -with increased severity upon the labouring classes

      in the borough of Bradford . According to a return laid before the board of guardians at their last meeting , the total number of persons in receipt of parochial relief in the -week ending the 23 rd ult . was 5072 , of whom 4368 were outdoor recipients . In the corresponding week of last year , the total number of all classes of paupers was 3177 ; consequently , the increase in the week ending the 2 Srd ult , was 1895 as compared with the 3 * ear 1856 . The number of able-bodied men employed at test labour , or to whom the labour test is applicable , has now reached about 500 . All the men employed at test work turned

      out on the pay day last week and held a meeting , at ¦ which some violent language was uttered . They afterwards went in a body to the workhouse , their object being to obtain an additional allowance of money . At the workhouse they were informed that the guardians had determined to add another shilling to the weekly relief of everj' family . This intelligence seemed to pacify them , and on the ' following day they returned to their labour . Belief has been distributed on throe days of last week among the unemployed workpeople of Bradford by the executive committee appointed to dispense the fund raised by subscription for the purpose of alleviating the prevalent distress . "

      " The general business of the port of London during the week ending last Saturday , " says the Times , " has been very inactive . The . number of ships reported inwards was 128 , including 9 with cargoes of sugar , 4 with dried fruit , and 17 with corn , flour , &c . The number cleared outward was 9 G , including 19 in ballast ; and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 50 , out of which 2 were entered outwards in September , 9 in October , and 19 in-November . "

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      IRELAND . DEATH oi" Juihjk Mooke . —After an illness of some weeks , ' Judge Moore , of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench , died about eleven o ' clock on the night of Thursday week , in the seventy-fifth year of his age . Vicekkgai . Ari'OiNTMKNTS . —The Earl of Carlisle ( who has recently returned to Dublin after a rather long absence ) has made the following appointments in his household : —Major George Bagot , to be Controller ; Mr . Robert Williams , to bo . CK-ntleman Usher and Master of the Ceremonies ; Mr . Frederick . Willis , to bo Chamberlain . . .

      Tim Gold Mania . —A strange story of the panic is told by a Cork paper . During- the height of the run for gold , a man residing in the neighbourhood of Carrigaline , determined to draw out from one of the Cork banks the sum of 700 / . which he had deposited there . He did so , but soon became alarmed lest his house should be attacked at night and the money be abstracted . Accordingly , he sat up night and day , armed to tho teeth , and at length , his reason giving way , he fancied that tho house was actuallv being entered . On Christmas-eve , he became so violent that it took four men to restrain him ; and he is now in a lunatic asylum . The Bank of Iuki . axd has issued a notice reducing the rate of interest l ' or deposits to four per cent . National Education Boakij . — Mr . Thomas O'Hagan , Q . C ., and Assistant-Barrister for tho County of Dublin , has accepted tho olUee of Commissioner of National Education .

      Sirai ' iccmcD Muhpkb . —James Barrett , a milosmnn on tho Killamoy Junction Railway , was found last Saturday morning lying dead in a cutting on the lino at Gortmorc , distant about half a mile from tho Lombardstowu station . Tho body was a good deal mangled , and it is thought tho man was murdered .

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      AMERICA . Kansas continues toocoupy much attention , both within and without the walla of tho Sonato nnd House of Hqpresontativoa . Mr . Douglas in tho Uppor and Mr . Banks in the Lower House , have introduced bills authorizing tho people of Kansas to form a Stato Government . Governor Walker ban sent iu his resignation , and there is a doubtful report that General Lanu has boon shot by a Govornmont official at Looompton in a disturbance at Fort Scott . Several liven , it iu addoil , wore lost , and some troops wore despatched to quoll tho outbreak . DSpltfd ^ oeived . They atato that the wholo force , with the exception of Colonel Cooko and hl » command , had conoontratod at Black ' s lfort , and wore moving towards Fort Brldgor . Their progress was very slow , only two or thrpo miles a day being sometimes matfo . Tlio animals wore ' giving out' hourly , and H wn « thought all would perish . Tho supply trains had reached tho military , and provisions wore abundant . Orders have been issued to tho Federal officers at tho South to stop all vessels bouud for tho relief , of Wulk . or ,

      and also to arrest the steamer Fashion . Captain Chatard , of the Saratoga , is to be superseded for allowing Walker to land . At Mobile , a revenue cutter has fired into a new steamer under the impression that she was a filibustering- vessel . A vessel has been seized at New York on suspicion of being a slaver . Some other slavers have been captured by American and English vessels . Fifteen persons were killed bv the burning of the steam-ship Colonel Edwards , on the Red River , on the 19 th ult . The navigation on all the New York canals is closed by ice . Barnum ' s house at Bridgeport was totally destroyed by fire on the 17 th ult . ; the loss was one hundred thousand dollars .

      The frigate Jamestown has been ordered to Greytown ; and a resolution calling for all correspondence with reference to alleged losses by the bombardment of that city has been adopted in the Senate . That assembly has confirmed the appointment of Mr . Lamar , of Texas , as Minister to Central America , and has passed a bill authorizing the issue of 20 , 000 , 000 dollars of Treasury notes . The operation of the Act is limited to one year , and notes of a less denomination than one hundred dollars are prohibited . The aspect of commercial affairs continues to brighten . Mr . James M . Buchanan , of Baltimore , has been nominated Minister for Russia . The correspondence which took place about a year ago with reference to the bombardment of Greytown has been pnblished . It contains the negotiations between the Government and the French Minister as regards the claims for compensation by French subjects at Greytown , but leaves the matter in abeyance . No correspondence with the English Minister is published .

      From Yucatan we learn that the revolution in Campeachy lias been suppressed . The roads in Mexico are described as being literally in the hands of the brigands . The Pronunciados have adopted , as a means of getting money , the plan of seizing the managers of the large farms and keeping them in durance till a large ransom is paid for them . The Government forces have had an encounter with the rebels near Fuebla , and beat them , at the same time inflicting on them great loss .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned which regards vrith jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares f < pr no portion of the human face but that to ^ . viiich . itself belongs .. Dxi . Abnold . FRANCE . The late unseasonable warmth of the weather at Paris has changed , as in London , to very great cold , accompanied by fog . The Paris winters used to be distinguished for their bright clearness ; but recently the fogs of London have made their way across the Channel to the capital of our neighbours . " Auguste Martin , the author of a book entitled ' True and False Catholics , ' and M . Briere , the printer of the work , " says a letter from Paris , " have been tried before the police-court of Paris for an attack on the liberty of worship and on tho respect due to the laws . Martin ' s book professes to teach that the liberty of religious worship renders the action of the Church impotent . It blames the Government in strong language for admitting certain heresies whieh it authorizes , and particularly the Protestant sects . It reminds the Government that both the Divine and human law regartl those as accomplices in ovil-doing who possess the power to prevent the commission of sin and permit its perpetration . It warns those who govern men that thoir duty is , if there be re-Histanco on the part of their subjects , to use all material moans to force them to silence . The court sentenced Martin to imprisonment for six months , and to pay a iinc of 2000 f ., and Brioro to pay a line of lOOOf . " Tho Monittsur publishes six columns of names of military men on whom the Emperor has conferred decorations . Rossini has addressed a lcttor to the president and members of tho Society of Musical Composers and Publishers at Paris , expressing his readiness to accopt tho post of member of the society , to which ho had been named during his absence in Italy . Tho first number has been published of a now weekly paper under the editorship of M . Granior do Cassagnac , Deputy of tho Corps Ldgislutif , and one of the rddacteura of the Comtitutionnd . Tho first article is written by M . d © Cassugnac himself . It is divided into ton chapters , and tho object is to show that tho current literaturo of Franco , whether of tho press or of the atago , is depraved and poisonous , and that it stands greatly in need of reform . Tho writer thoroforo undertakes ' to wage tho same war against bad literature ' as he had previously ' waged ugainat bad politics . ' Of the latter ho thinks the leaat ~ said ~ tho-bottQr . ^ YJUon . ^ J (* Q # journalism ia strong ; but now Franco has a strong administration , and bo " questions and affairs remain within tho circle of Govornmont The proas envenomed questions without solving thorn ; tho Government solves thorn without onvonoming them . " With respect to thin state of things , M . do Cassagnao exclaims , " Let ua praise God for it ! " Tho article altogether i « a curious exemplification of the peculiar Intellectual phase through which Franco is now passing . "I ma informed , " aaya tho Daily Nawa Paris

      correspondent , " that the Emperor has personally congratu lated the Sardinian Ambassador , M . Villa Marina , on th < result of the vote on Count Cavour ' s motion for an ia < quiry into the alleged illegal manoeuvres of the clergy « fl the late elections in "Piedmont . This is a very important fact , because Count Cavour grounded his motion in part upon the generally encroaching policy of the Catholic priesthood , as evidenced by their recent conduct in France as well as other countries . " Great precautions are being taken to prevent the transmission , of yellow fever from Lisbon to the French ports . Several of the small military posts in and about Paris have been suppressed .

      Villet , Bourse , and Lemaire , the three leaders of the band of assassins and robbers which had long infested Picardy , were executed at Amiens on Thursday week . They died with courage , though with a singular mixture of religion and levity . The Empress is seriously indisposed .

      RUSSIA . A rescript , dated the 17 th ult ., has been addressed to the Governor-General of St . Petersburg , and signed by the Emperor Alexander ,, establishing a special committee in the government of St . Petersburg , to be composed of two members from each district , elected by and from the nobles possessing property in those districts , and of two members selected by the Governor-General of St . Petersburg from among the most enlightened proprietors , the whole presided over by the Marshal of the Government noblesse , and to proceed immediately to the elaboration , for the government of St . Petersburg , of the project already published intended to ameliorate the condition of the peasants .

      ITALY . An important debate has taken place in the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies , On a protest addressed by the Mayor of Strambino to the Assembly against the election of the Marquis Birago , a gentleman belonging to the Roman Catholic party , who has hitherto been greatly respected even by his enemies . The protest is on the ground of spiritual intimidation having been exercised , and bribes offered by the priests , to secure the election of the Marquis . A long discussion ensued on the reading of this document ; but the speech of the evening was that _ delivered by Count Cavour , who made some admirable remarks , in which , while freely admitting- the right of the priestly party to spread their opinions in all open ways , and to influence the elections

      by fair canvassing and agitation , he denounced their tendency , as evinced not only in Sardinia , but in Switzerland , France , Belgium , and Ireland , to go back to the tyranny and darkness of the middle ages , and to interfere with the free action of the people by spiritual terrorism . While they keep within the law , he would respect their proceedings , and did not fear them , because he had faith in progress ; but , if they endeavoured to reconquer ancient privileges—if they exceeded or broke the law—then he would oppose them with all his strength . He . thought there should be an inquiry into the facts alleged in the protest ; and , if the abuses were proved , it would be the duty of Government to correct them by

      existing laws , should such exist , or , if not , to introduce a law which should meet the necessity . Count Solaro della Margherita , in opposing the inquiry , said that tho priestly party desired reconciliation with tho Holy See . This declaration was received with laughter by tho Liberal party . The debate was adjourned . On being resumed the following day , the proposition before the House , which was moved by Signor Cadorna , and which affirmed " that the use of spiritual mcuns on tho part of the clorgj' to influence tho elections constitutes a moral pressure which may give occasion for inquiry , " was carried by about two to one iu a more than average Assemblv .

      The submarine telegraph from San Giovanni to Messina has been broken , in course of laying , across a sharp rock , in consequence of excessive tension . Tho distance to be traversed was only live miles ; but seventeen days were consumed in the proceedings before the accident . Tho cable will now be laid from Roggio to Messina , a distance of twenty miles . Poerio and the other Neapolitan captives in tho prison of Motitesarchio were subjected' ft fow wooks ago to a rigorous search for seoret correspondence 5 but nothing was found . Indeed , they are so olopoly guarded that it is almost impossible that any dooument could ruach them without the cognizance of tho authorities .

      Thirty thousurtd persons wore bled in Naples flftoi' the oarthquake , as tho Neapolitans always hwv « reoowrao to the lancet when they have received a shock to their nerves . Tho barbors have had bo much to do that they have hardly boon able to answer tho demand . Vory distressing accounts aro still received of tho disastrous effects of the earthquake It is thought that , at tho Tndst ¦ " mo 1 leWtS Wm ()^ tfltlon 7 "the-dea 4 ^ oanno * riWl- « lioBt of thirteen or fourteen thouHand . Shocks are still folt from time to tlmo in tho city of Naples , and grave apprehensions aro entertained . Four short but severe shocks of earthquake wore felt at St . Gorvaia ( Savoy ) on tho 28 th ult ., at interval of throe or tour minutoa oaoh . ' Tile cutting through of Mount Oonls has commenced , and about twenty yards have alroady boon excavated . The system employed thus far has boon tho ordinary one

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2225/page/3/