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      that , within a month , five persona were hung by the Regulators in and about Tampa Bay for divers serious offences , and without the formal trial by jury . " Sonora , Mexico , is in a state of the most complete anarchy . Guayama was unsuccessfully besieged for one ¦ week bv two thousand Indians . Whole villages have ¦ week by two thousand Indians . Whole villages have

      been burned , and the population murdered . Santa Cruz de Mayo has been entered by Indians , and every man killed . The -women and children ' were confined in a -church , and burnt with the rest of the town . A battle has been fought on the plain of El Saucoto between Pesquiera andGandara , in which the latter was defeated and killed . The former had pronounced in favour of Juarez . The text of the convention negotiated between Costa Rica and Nicaragua and M . Belly is published in the New York Herald . M . Belly has made a contract with the Governments of Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the ¦ construction , by a party of French capitalists , of an interoceanic canal via the River San Juan and Lake

      Nicaragua ; to have an exclusive privilege for ninety-nine years , the . works to be begun in two years and finished in six if possible ; with a grant of all public lands for the breadth of one league along the canal anil river ; ships of the Canal Company to pass free of tolls , but -others to pay ten per cent , on merchandise and twelve dollars per passenger ; the neutrality of the canal to be guaranteed by France , Great Britain , and the United States , on the basis of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty , but the French Government to have the right to keep two ships of-war stationed on the canal or on Lake Nicaragua for

      the entire duration , of the works . Appended to the con - tract is a declaration signed by Kivas , Martinez , and Mora , declaring that Central A merica is threatened by « n invasion of Filibusters , under the official patronage of the United States , and that the American Minister in Nicaragua boasts of peremptorily proposing as an ultimatum the mtiJication of the Cass-5 f risarri treaty , or an invasion of Filibusters under the American Hag , and placing the independence of Nicaragua and Costa Rica ' under , the guarantee of France , England , and Sardinia . . ' . ' : .: ' ¦ '¦ ¦ " ' ¦ ¦¦ ¦ . ¦¦ .-

      The dealings at the New York Stock Exchange were more varied and spirited on the 18 th ult . than for some days previous . The bu \* ers were rather in the ascendant after the early call of the list , and the Bulls in "Wallstreet , though iu the minority , were able to make improved prices between the sessions of the board , and the market continued generally firm through the second ho&rd . The closing tone was unsettled—some of the brokers report " feverish . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tbab narrow and unchristian feeling" is to be condemned which regards with , jealouav the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no " portion of the Immaii race but that to wnicn itselt belongs . Da . Aunolb .

      FKAKCE . Tub decree in the JMoniteur nominating Prince Napoleon to the Lieutenancy of Algeria is ns follows ;—" Art . 1 . There is hereby created a Ministry for Algeria and the colonies . Art . 2 . That ministry shall be formed for the direction of the affairs of Algeria und of those of the colonies , which shall be separated from the Ministry of War and from the Ministry of Marine . Art 3 . Our w « ll-belovetl cousin , Prince Napoleon , is charged with t ' . iis Ministry . "—The new Mi listry ( says a letter from Pdris ) will be composed of the direction of AljyeiLn aUairs , now vested in the Minister of War , and that of Colonies , now in the Ministry of Marine . Tho former consists of four bureaux , the lirdt comprising the general aud municipal administration of Algeria ; tho s « ecnd , colonization , agriculture , aud domains ; the third , wines , forests , and various taxes ; the fourth , commerce , customs , and statistics . The direction of colonies also

      comprises four bureaux : the lirst uttends to the policy and commerce of the colonies ; tho second to legislation and administration ; the third to military services and public functionaries ; the fourth to finances and supplies . Tho French colonies are divided into t . 'U rstnbliihmeatd : —I , Martiuumo ; 2 , Uuadaloupo and its dependencies ; 3 , the Ilo de hi iiuuniun ( Bourbon ) ; -1 , Mayotta and dependencies ; 5 , French Guiana ; 0 , St . Pierre aud Miquelon , in the G . iilf of St . Lawrence ; 7 , Senegal ; 8 , tUo Jslo of Gorce und its dependencies ; 1 » , the French establishments in India , the cliief place oi which is Poudicheny ; 10 , the French establishments in Oceania .

      Tho annual meeting of tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held uu Sunday at the Hotel do Ville , and was numerously attuiuUd , esnociaillv by ladies . A deputation from tho London Soeioly attended , and wua headed by Sir John Scott Lillio , who introduced Sir . Kuroy to tho mooting umidal grout cUoeriii " - . 1 'risses wcro distributed to various persons who hud buliavcd witli ai ^ iml kiudnosa to unimal .- - , and tho meeting vas followed Ly a sumptuous bamuii't , to which ill " English deputation were invited . Mr . Itarcv , on a mibaccjuent duy , exhibited his horse-taming powers to a Parisian audience . Thu how modo of attaching horses to artillery , invented by tho Emperor , having been tried with success

      and there is a-large rooin in common fox them , where those who happen to be without employment pass their time in playing cards or talking . The clay before yesterday , one of them , named Enile D , said to his companions in a jocular way that it was so hot , and be was so out of spirits , that he had a strong inclination to blow his brains out . One of the young men present said he would make a bet against his doing such a thing . ' What will you bet ? ' asked Eniile , still in the same laughing tone . 'A bottle of beer . ' ' Done ! ' said the other ; ' but order the beer at once , for as , to gain the wager , I must . shoot myself , I should liUe to drink my share of it first . ' The beer was ordered and drunk , when Emile rose up to leave the room . ' Where are vou

      m several military divisions , has been definitively . adopted by the Minister of War . A strange story , worthy of the late Eugene Sue or Alezxandre Dumas , is told in the Broil . " There is a furnished hotel in the Quartier St . Denis , " says that journal , " which is principally occupied by junior clerks ,

      going ? ' said the others . 'To shoot myself , ' was the reply , which was received with a burst of laughter from nil present . Their merriment was , however , immediately put an end to by the report-of a pistol in an adjoining room , and on running to the spot they found the young man lying dead on the floor . As no clue to ' his . family could be found , the body was conveyed to the Morgue . " The AhtUla Mcdicala relates a case of traumatic tetanus cured by the inhalation of chloroform , administered for seven successive days . A curious , fact occurred in this case : the patient , who when in health laboured under a slight degree of deafness , could during his illness hear all that was said in the room , even in a low whisper ; and this sensibility ' of the car gradually disappeared as the cure progressed .

      lhe Indv ^ endunceBeige has been relieved from its interdict ; but some of . the English papers of last Saturday were seized . A Te Dcwn was performed in the cathedral of Algiers on the 20 th ult ., that day being the twenty-eighth anniversary of the landing of the French army at Sidi Ferouck . All thu Consuls of the foreign Powers were present . During the -whole day , the vessels in tke port ¦ were dressed out in flags , and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired at the moment when the Te Deum ' commenced . ' In the evening , a banquet was given by the Marshal Governor-General to the Bishop , the principal functionaries , and the heads of the army and navv .

      A Commission has been named by the Minister' , of Marine for the settlement of tlie practical -matters relating to the separation of the colonies from hh ; department . The Commission is . composed of MAI . Lnvrcle , Dupuy de TOrne , Iiouffi .- < , Blaneliard , Koujoux ( Director ) , Koussin ( Inspector-General ) , and Autran ( Chef du Cabinet of the Minister ) . 3 L Pointot , who was concerned in the affair of the itt ; yina Cceli , has received the decoration of the Legion of Honour . The Paris Church Committee , of which Lord Gray of Gray is chairman ,, has - issued the following circular : — " The object of this committee is to rni . se a fund lor the purchase of the English church in the ltue d'Agucsseau , in Paris , under the Act of Parliament 6 George IV .,

      di . ip . 8 (> , commonly called the Consular Act . In order to render the church fully available to meet the wants ol the British , poor , this committee consider it of the utmost importance that it should bo a free church , with out any payment being taken l \ ir scats , or at the doors , or in any wuy whatever , except for a small number oi seats , not to exceed one hundred and fifty , for the puriio . se of providing thereby lor the necessary jinnual expunges of tho church , such as cleaning , lighting , warming , the organist , tlic clerk , and such necessary outgoings . With the subscriptions already received , the committee may fairly anticipate final success , and desiro earnestly to recommend this ooject to the attention or all travellers wlii > may resort to Paris from tinio to tinio , as well as of all persons -who have tit heart the interests of the lCnglish Protestant Church iu this citv . "

      I wo men have been tried before the Tribunal of Correctional Police on a charge of obtaining a largo sum of money from M . ( iulkiud , on tho pretence that they had MilHcieut influence with great personages to obtain his re-storutimi to the post of Mayor of u country town , which he had been obliged to resign on account of calumnious reports having been sprund respecting him . They imposed on M . ( iallaiul liy preposterous ) stories of their wealth and liigh position , and drew inio their plot , as con federate ^ a poor professor of the Spanish language , and a -woman of bud character . They seem to have iimdo the ex-Mayor believe anything " they toM him , even to the . extent of regarding a hired carriage , us u nobleman ' s equipage . The tribunal condemned uiich of tlie two men to livo years' imprisonment aud threo thousand francs lino .

      Tho Umpuror anil Empress wc . ro prvsout on Sunday ut tlio inauguration of the monument raised by tho Iduiplnur to tho iHomory of Queen Jlorioi . sp , lii . s mother , in tlio Church ol" llueil , winch also coiituiini tho mausoleum of tho Kni | . ivn . s Josephine . Tins Emperor left Si . Cloud on Tuesday morning for tho huths ol' PlomliitM'cs . "Tho decree in tlio Monitciit' appointing M . da- Alorny President of tho Legislative Body ia explained , " says tho

      Times Paris correspondent , "by the fact that an arrangement lias been concluded between the Minister of Public Works and the railway companies , by which , it is said , the Government guarantees a minimum of interest of 4 f . 65 c . per cent , on the lines to be constructed . The-Emperor proposes to convoke the Chambers for a sitting of five or six days , and submit the new arrangement for its approval previous to his departure for Cherbourg , the population of Bri ttany being very much , interested in the speedy construction of these lines . "

      St > AIX . The Government has drawn up new regulations respecting foreigners , which enact that , when any foreigner arrives in Spain without a passport , he shall be detained until he can prove who lie is and the object of his journey ; that refugees shall not change their residences without express permission of the Government , and that refugees who may leave Spain shall not b « J allowed to return unless they can i ^ ive serious reasons , of which the Government is the julg-o . The Isturitz Cabinet has fallen to pieces , and a new Ministry has been formed ; General O'Domiell is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ' and President of the Council of War ; Svfior -Ifeg ' rete , Minister of Grace and Justice ; Sciior Salavcrria , Minister of Finance ; Seiior Corbera , Minister of Public "Works ; Scnur PisaJa da Ilei-icra , Minister of the Interior ; Seiior Maceda , Minister of Marine .

      riiussiA .. A lire brolce out at Dantzig on the evening of tlie 19 th ult ., continued to rage the whole of tlic night , and was not subdu . d till ciglit o ' clock the next . morning . The Fire Brigade of Konigsberg , which was apprised of the disaster by telegraph , arrived too lute to render nnv assistance . The conflagration has destroyed fifty " -five houses ; five persons perished in the flames " The . damage is estimated at 1 , 000 , COO thalers ; but the chief pavt of the loss is covered by .. insurance , in- the Gotha and Leipzig companies .

      lhc King , of Prussia , accompanied by the Queen , left Berlin on the evening of tho 29 th ult . for Teyernsee . Their Majesties travel in the strictest incognito as the Count . and .-Countess . ' of Zollern . Before quitting tlie capital , the Ring- signed a decree prolonging for three months more the 2 ' 0 \ vers .. delegated to the Prince of Prussia .

      TUKItEY . The British Consul-General ( says a Belgrade letter ) has arrived from Bucharest , "commissioned by his Government to 'investigate ' - ' the circumstance' ! connected with the attack on ilr . Fonblanque . He hud already interrogated the accused in presence of Turkish ' officers , and he had received all the documents connected with the affair . He did not visit the Pacha until , he had received three visits frum him . Although { earn were ente . tained that further outrages might be committed by the Turks in consequence of the state of excitement which existed among them , tranquillity prevailed in Belgrade .

      It is rumoured at Constantinople that Aali Pacha , the Grand Vizier , is about to retire . We read in a conteirvporury thai , according to . report , " lie said to a functionary who had conic to pay him a visit that hu regretted being in power at a moment when the Turkish , empires was menaced with ruin on every side . That imprudent expression was repeated , and produced u very bud effect in high quarters . Tlie state of the linaucea ia getting every day worse and worse . Tho rapid rise ia tl > G exchanges is almost unexampled—the pound sterling being at 115-i piastres , tho Turkish pound MS , and tlie gold Napoleon liJl ) , or iu every ease nearly 5 () per cent , beyond the r « : < l value . It is niiiUer of public ii . tionety tlmt the Treasury contains nothing , and the Minister of Finance is endeavouring to negotiate a loan ol' 500 , 000 piastres , to pay a mouth ' s interest on tho last In n of sixty millions . "

      The Government has agreed to make ample reparation for the late outrage on our consul ut Belgrade . AU . STKIA . The deficiL in this year ' s Austrian budget will , it ia said , Ijc as liirgo as four millions slurling . A singular story of ¦ viiidietiveues . s carried to the uilgo of the grave is told in a letter from Vienna , where wo mid : — "A few duya a , o a Baron Silbersloin died lu-rc , and afier his death no mom > y wiw found In t . lu : Inuisc , although lie had always passed for n wealthy man . In .

      quirios wore inado by his heir , and , on its buiii ; . ; discovered that a banker hud paid into hi . s hands . thu sum of 170 , 000 Il' » rhi 8 but u low d . iys before Ins iUmuIi , Ills valotwas arrested by thu police on suspicion of having mndo a way with the money . Ah the man . said tliufc his master left his bed a couple of days before hu died in order to burn sumo papers , tlic stove in tliu bedroom wan searched . Nothing but thu remains of ( louiimcmts were foil nil , and the servant was kept in custody until it occurred to suno one that it . ini ^ lit bo as well to examine the other Movim . Thu examination

      vi Jii made , and the iiuimT . ni ; runmui . s ol haiik-Moltid of 11 ) 0011 . ouch proved tlio innocoiu-ii of the vulut uiiil the < U'tftrui'tivi : uess of h ' n master . 'J'ho Mar . in , \ vh <) was divorced from Ins wife , ofiuu jixpivsstsd ( liiubts about tho logitiiiim . 'y of Ii ' h only miii , ami , iu order that l » o nhould prolil as lililu as pussiblu 11 \ ' his death , iu : burncil banknotes of the value of 1 U-2 , 00011 . ( 10 , 200 / . )

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      jSTo . 432 , Jul y 3 , 1858 . J T BE LEA D E l \ . 631

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 3, 1858, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2249/page/7/