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      AMERICA . The last news from the country of the Mormons puts a new comp lexion on the struggle now being waged between the followers of Joe Smith and the Federal Government . The Saints , it is slated , are at war among themselves , owing to Brigham Young and about one-half of the population desiring to march against the United States troops , while the other half wish the invading force to enter the Salt Lake city , and to establish there a military government . The Mormons disposed foTTesistance have obtained the aid of large bodies of Indians , who have undertaken to harass and cut off the supply trains of Colonel Johnston . These savages have been led to believe that the Saints - have at their command 80 , 000 fighting men , well equipped for service . They also speak of numerous fortifications and of a large number of allies of their own race ; and they declare that the Mormons have no idea of running away from Utah . Walker to

      The steamer Fashion , which conveyed Nicaragua , has arrived at New Orleans , where it has been seized by the authorities . In "the House of Representatives on the 18 th ult ., Mr . Campbell asked leave to offer a joint resolution authorizing the President to negotiate , through the State Department , for the acquisition of Canada , Nova Scotia , and other parts in British North America , and Cuba and the other islands adjacent thereto , and annexing them to the United States . In the event of any acquisition no portion should be admitted into the Union until possessed of sufficient population to send one member to the House of Representatives , or until the bond Jide residents should have an opportunity of voting on the Constitution , and regulating their domestic institutions in their own way , subject only to the Constitution of the United States . The motion did not meet with approval . The New York papers ridicule it , and ask why Mr . Campbell did not include the entire continent of America .

      The Chairman of the Special Committee on the Pacific Railroad Scheme has introduced a bill into the Senate . It is here proposed that the line shall run from a point on the Missouri river between the Big Sioux aad the Kansas rivers to San Francisco . A public school at Brooklyn has been destroyed by fire . There -were nearly nine hundred pupils present at the time the fire broke out , and , in the excitement . attending their exit from the building , seven boys , between the ages of six and ten years , were crushed and ¦ suffocated by their companions on the middle landing of the lower stairway . Prom Yucatan we learn that Sisal was blockaded , and that a change in the Government had taken place . Peace . negotiations , were progressing , and hopes were entertained that the revolution would soon end . The last statements of the New York banks exhibit a fevourable aspect : the specie balance exceeds thirty millions of dollars .

      The experiments which have recently been made in the use of the camel as a beast of burden in crossing the great interior deserts of America have been entirely successful . The results of the expedition , which was under the command of Lieutenant Beale , were highly satisfactorj r . Congress and the new Municipal Government of New York have simultaneously undertaken investigations into certain frauds said to have been committed within their respective jurisdictions . The . New York Tribune gives a horrible account of an execution ia California ;—" Three men , Edward M'Canley , Robert Poor , and C . C . Lyons , were hanged ifor murder in Sonora on the 11 th hist . They were all intoxicated at the time , the sheriff having furnished them with gin at thoir own request . One was too drunk to stand . They all confessed their guilt . "

      The slave trade at Havannah is in a very flounehing condition . A slaver has driven oft' by force the boats of a Spanish war schooner sent to intercept her , and landed her cargo in defiance of the naval oliicors . . Santa Anna is said to be preparing at Iluvannuh , with the aid of Spain , for a vigorous effort to regain hia power in Mexico .

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      No . 411 , 33 UMTAXT 6 , 1858 . 1 THE LUDEB , 127

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      tion of a Reign of Terror—a rule of proscription , imprisonment , and deportation . This feeling has been increased by a most intemperate article by M . Granier de Cassagnac in the C ' onstitutionnel , in which he lays it down as an Imperial maxim that " whoever defames . Empire encourages the assassination of the Emperor , " and makes a fierce attack on the Journal des Debate , on the alleged ground that it " contributes to that vitiation of the moral atmosphere which corrupts ideas and suggests crimes . " Such are the elements by which , and not \> y free discussiou . Governments the most firmly established are placed in a position of isolation , preparatory to the crash which shatters them .

      The new project of repression , which has already received the popular designation of the Loi des Suspects , renders liable to transportation for new offences all those who were condemned by the special commission aft er the Coup d'Elat , or by the ordinary tribunals at the same period ; and words which may be construed into hatred or threats against the Government , render those who utter them liable to the same punishment . One of the clauses—which proposed to give to the authorities power to expel from the country , or to remove from the l

      large towns , the persons who were arrested temporariy during the events of December , 1851—was vigorously and even angrily opposed by M . de Parrieu , the Vice President of the Council of State , and by M . Chaix d'Est-Ange , the newlv-appointed Procureur . The former gentleman is said to" have positively refused to draw up the report to be presented to the Legislative Body . The Emperor caused the obnoxious clause to be struck out . The whole project onty passed by a majority of four , and it is expected that it will be " still further modified in the Legislative Chamber .

      " Of the military addresses in the Momteur to-day , writes the Daily News correspondent on the 29 th ult ., there are only two which follow directly in the wake of the 82 nd of the Line , but several others speak vaguely of the readiness of the army to fight against anarchists either in France or elsewhere . The Gth Lancers , by the organ of its colonel , M . D'Azetrtar , comes straight to the point . It says : — ' The Gth regiment of Lancers would be pleased to see the realization of the idea expressed before your Majesty by the President of the

      Corps Legislatif . ' The bright idea of M . de Moray s here cited with approbation , and interpreted as requiring the aid of the army to carry it out , was , it will be remembered , that the expulsion of the refugees from Eugland must be obtained ' at any cost . ' The 1 st regiment of Engineers falls in with the same idea in the following terms : — ' Is your faithful army , then , destined to remain for ever with its arms crossed , a peaceable spectator of these frightful plots , which , tolerated to-day , may be subsidised to-morrow V The author of this suggestion bears the name of Colonel Vaubau . "

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian , fooling ia to bo condemned which re ^ nrdB with Jealousy Lho process of foreign naU . on . 8 , and onrea t'ur no portion , oi lIiq Jmrnnii race but ihat to which , itaolt belong . JL > it . Aknold . FltANCK . Tina insane conduct of tho Emperor ' s advisers , in rovonging the attempt of a fow ini » crumit Italians on all liYonchnion who » re not tlio merest idolaters of tho Empire , continued in full foroo . Scarcely any English —^ I'SPiy * ) ¦> v ijLli _ tl »< j ^ o ? ccepJtioii of tiiSJt > lUMU- 'liy ^ 0 U ^ y'v *^ , ' 7 Post ? is nowiadmittod mRTTVanoo ; iilFttic iiTdoponTlOiit French papers aro reduced to utter uil . unco on political questions ; and men can scarcely ovon whisper their opinions to one another unless thuy aro in ncoordiuioo with tho lofty inspirations of M . BUlnult . An ominous silence is therefore tho only expression ¦ that is loft to those who differ from ' tho oluut of December . ' Many ovon of ttio former friends of tho Empire uro now shocked and alarmed at what seems Hko the

      inauuuru-One of the persons wounded in the . attempt to assassinate the Emperor , M . Ratlin , keeper of an hotel in the Rue de la Michodiere , has just died of the injuries which he received . A numerous meeting of Americans has been held at Paris for the purpose of agreeing to resolutions reprobating tho recent attempt on tho lives of the Emperor and Empress , and sympathizing with them on their escape . "Aj'acht club , " sa 3 's the Times correspondent , "is about to be founded in Paris for all France , under the direction of MM . do Dreuille-Senneterre and de Grammont . Tho Dukes of Albufera , Vicenza , and Chuteauvillara , namu well known in the sporting world , have sigiiilU'd their intention of becoming members . It is expected that an exalted personage will give hi 3 patronage to the now club . " The Marquis de la Kochcjacquelein has been for so ino days in Naples , and a mission lias left that country to express the King ' s congratulations to the Emperor on his escape from assassination . This looks like reconciliation . No necessaries to tho assassination plot have been discovered . Tho Times is " requested by General Clmngarnler to stato that , as tho decree which exiled several French Genorjils has not been repealed , it is not at present his intention to return to Fruncc . " " It appears , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " from a report recently nddressod by tho Minister of Marino to tho Emperor , that , in consequence of the rapid transformation of tho sailing navy into steamer * , Franco ( which during tho wur in the Crimea possessed only nine steamships of tho Hue ) will , in the course of the present year , liuvo aflo . it twenty-four steam-ships of tho samo class , of which nine are of the greatest epood and fifteen screw steamers , mid that the transformation of sailing into stonm-shlps is still continued . " Kx [) eriinontH for propagating the brood of Merino whoop lntely made in Algeria have been perfectly suecos ' sfiTi ; r ~^~ ' ' " *""" " ' ~~ ' ' 1 ~"" ' ' " Tho plan proposed by M . Thornd do Gamond for uniting England and France by a submarine tunnel hue * boon submitted to the examination of an oflloial commission , luuuod by tho Minister of . Public Works ; anil the Commissioners have recommended that a sum of 600 , 000 francs be appropriated to examine the plans already prepared . A nun has boon , tried nt the Court of Asiizos of the

      Am for forgery and arson . On being admitted to a convent at Belie , she gave a promissory note , purportingio be signed by her guardian , for 2600 francs , payable in three years . She was requested to obtain payment of the money at the earliest possible period ; and , on replying that she could not get it before the time specified , she was told that she would not be permitted to pronounce the final vows as a nun until she had done so . Shortly afterwards , severaljuiysterious fires burst out at different times in the convent ; the gardener of the establishment was arrested ; but the conflagrations continued , and , the novice being suspected , slie was examined by a magistrate . To him she confessed that it

      was she who had caused the fires , and also tliat the promissory note she had given was a forgery . She said she had always wished to lead a religious life ; that she had been for a short time in several convents ; that she knew a certain sum of money was required , which she had no means of obtaining ; and that , therefore , she had forged tiie note . The defence at the trial was insanity ; . but she was found guilty , and sentenced to five years hard labour . One of the witnesses was a nun who had been in the convent ever since 1814 , without , once going outside its walls . On being- conveyed by railway from Belle to Bourg , the assize town , she was astonished at everything she saw , and especially the railway .

      A man has been tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Chaiieville for having practised what is called ' mendicity by threats . ' He hawked about among the peasantry certain medals and rings , which he said wer 3 charmed , so that they would cure various maladies . If * any one refused to purchase this rubbish , the vendor would exclaim , " I condemn you to repeat twenty-five Paters and twenty-five Aves , and may the Lord have mercy on vou ! " ¦ This oftentimes so frightened the poor ignorant peasantry that they would offer the impostor money to undo the charm . He has been sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment and five years' surveillance by the police . An Imperial decree , published on Wednesday , recites :

      — " Desirous of giving to our well-beloved uncle Prince Jerome Napoleon a mark of our high confidence , we have resolved to invest him , as we now do invest him by these presents , with the right of attending the ordinary and extraordinary -meetings of our Council , wishing him to preside thereat during our absence , and this in conformitv to our instructions and our order 3 . " The " Emperor has made certain additions to the provisions already determined on in case of his death before his son is of ago . These are set forth as fallows in a message from him to the Senate , read on Monday : — " Messieurs les Se ' uateurs , —The Se / iatus-Co / tgultuni . of the 17 th of July , 18 j ( 3 , leaves a doubt which I uow think it advisable . to put an end to . In fact , it only confers the Regency on the Empress , or , she failing , ou

      French Princes , provided the Emperor has not by some public or secret act willed it otherwise . I believ . o 1 am responding to the public wish at the samo time that I follow my own feelings of tho highest confidence iu the Empress by designating her as Regent . Actuated by the same feeling , I designate , aho failing , as her successors in the Regency , the French Princes in order of hereditary succession to tUu Crown . I have also wished to provide for any doubts wliicU might arise as regards the Council of JUjgency from the alternatives left open by tins 18 th article of tha / Seualus-Consullum of the 17 th of July . Consequently , I have established a Privy Council , which , with the addition of two French princes nearest in the line of heroditary

      succession , will become tho Council of Regency from the solo fact of tho accession of the Emperor a . minor , if at that moment I should not have established another by public act . This Privy Council , formed of men who enjoy my confidence , will be consulted on tho great affairs of tho State , and will prepare itself by the study of the duties and necessities of a Go v cm in out for tho important tusk which tho future may have iu roscrvo for it . Whereupon , I pray God to have you iu His holy keeping . —Napoi-eon . —Palace of tho TuUitIcs , Feb . 1 , 1838 . " The following aro appointed moinbci'd of tha Privy Council : —Cardinal Mo riot . Marshal Pelissior , M . A . chillo Fould , M . Troplong , Count de Rlorny , M . Barochc , and Count do Poraitjny .

      A man suspected of complicity m tho attompt to assassinate the Emperor ( says tho J £ t ) iaiioij >< itio / i of Brussels ) was arrested on . Saturday in thu Kuo do Dublin , in that city . Several other arrests liuvo also boon ofl'octcd there within tho last few days—ic is said , for political reasons . The Emperor , on Wednesday , roviowod thu portion of ! tho Imperial Guard at present in Paris , tojfollior with tho infantry regiment * latuly anive . l , and tlio 1 st and 4 th llussurs . U'AIA ' . The National Bunk of Turin has reduced its rato of d I sooun t"f ronvso ven-to-s i jc- per-oen U- ¦ >— - —™— - ~ Tho Corricra Mercantile of Genoa niiuouncod that throe numbers of the J ' ctiaiaro of OnogJiu hnve boou solssed by tho police at , the unit , of tho French Ambassador , at Turin .

      It . is otlloiuUy denied that any revolutionary movement has taken place at Anoona . Uowovor , wo all know tho value ofoflloial donialn . Tho Turin journal // Itar / ioiw , which has boon ofli-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2229/page/7/