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      nounced a dignified and elaborate eulogy of England and English institutions , of which he professed himself an ardent admirer and devoted student from his youth up . He expressed a decided preference for the English alliance , and a well-grounded confidence in the ultimate justice and generosity of public opinion in England , in spite of the hesitations and reserves of diplomacy , and the dictates of commanding national interests . He affirmed his own policy to be neither aggressive nor provoking , hut national and Italian ; but that nothing less than a change of Government and legislation at Turin could reconcile constitutional Sardiniato the good-will of despotic Austria * Count Cavour ' s speech is weighty , decisive , ardent , but studiously moderate , courteous , who be said to

      and calm . Count Mamiani , may personify the wisest aspirations of a federal Italy , spoke with all his wonted grace and , animation ; and M . de Beauregard , though he betrayed an aristocratic provincialism very distasteful to the Liberal majority in the Chamber , and , in his prophetic fear of French eagles cresting Mont Cenis , was somewhat disposed to sink the cause of Italy in the safety of Savoy , yet avowed an unchangeable fidelity to his king and country with so frank and heartfelt an emotion , that it was impossible for any party to refuse him attention arid respect . The Ministerial measure was carried by an overwhelming majority , and it is believed that the amount of the loan ( 2 , 000 , 000 ^ . ) will be subscribed in a great measure by Italians , if not in Italy .

      The apartments of the late Queen of Sardinia are being prepared for the reception of a new inmate . The Russian marriage of the King is believed to be decided upon . . The Avenir of Nice says that the entire Russian Mediterranean squadron is expected there in the month of March .

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      CANADA . The Canadian Parliament was opened on the / 29 th . ult . The Governor-General , Sir Edmund Head , in his speech , says : " The legislature solicited our gracious Queen to exercise her prerogative in making a selection- "of the seat of government : an act , moreover , was passed adopting beforehand the decision of her Majesty and appropriating the necessary fundrs This act of the Canadian Parliament and the decision of the Queen are binding on the executive government of the province , and it will be their duty to carry out the understanding wliich existed at , the time when the reference was made by which the government will be transferred to Quebec for a fixed

      period , until the necessary arrangements shall have been completed . The correspondence with her Majesty ' s Government will be laid before you , and I cannot doubt that you will recognise a selection made by her Majesty at your own request , and that you will duly acknowledge her gracious compliance with the addresses which you yourselves caused to be presented to her . " In regard to the federation of the British provinces he says : " The possibility of uniting by some tie of a federal character the British colonies in Nprth America has formed the subject of correspondence which will be placed in your hands . I will also cause to be submitted , to you despatches from her Majesty ' s Secretary of State in relation to the questions affecting tho Hudson ' s Bay Company , and on the subject of the IntercolonialRailway . " In

      reference to financial affairs he says : "It is gratifying to me to be able to state that symptoms of amendment have begun to show themselves , and I trust that should Providence bless Canada this year with her usually abundant harvest , she will recover hor former prosperous condition . Thp exorcise of a sound and rigid economy in every department of the public service will , I hope , again enable us to bring our , whole extfenditxire within the limits required by our revenue . " In regard to supplies and tho tariff ' , ho says : "In asking tho supplies for her Majesty ' s service , I desire to assure you that evoryt / iing will bo done with a view to placing tho tariff on a satisfactory footing . Tho principle of ad valorem duties will be proposed for your , adoption in all cases in which it can bo properly carried out . "

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      AMERICA . Tub Europa arrived at Liverpool , on Tuesd ay * from Now York , with dates to . February 2 . Nothing had boon done in Congress on the Cuban question . Tho tariff and tho financial wants of tho Government monopolised attention . Tho Democrats had taken a very dcoldcd stand in opposition to a chango of tariff . A cauous of democratic senators , hold to deliberate upon the tariff question , adopted resolutions declaring it inexpedient to change tho law at i ]\ a prpsont session of Congress ,. a . na also that it is tho duty of Congress to reduce tho expenditures instead of irif creasing the revenue , in order to meet tho requirements of the publlo service . This action has created no littlo oxcitomont , especially among tho Pennsylvania delegation , who together with tho

      Honubllcans will vote for no loan bill unless a change in the tariff is coupled with it . The members of the house opposed to a protective tariff had likewise held a meeting , and adopted resolutions of a similar purport . . Propositions for loans and changes in the tariff had been made in both houses , but without leading to any result .

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      MEXICO . From Mexico , via Washington , we learn that the British and French Admirals united in demanding of the Government'Of Vera Cruz : —First , payment of the interest due to British and French' creditors . ; second , full monthly statements of the revenues collected from imports ; third , damages for what the English and French subjects have suffered from the existing revolution ; fourth , the restoration of the old import tariff as it stood prior to the modifications made a year ago , by which great facilities Avere afforded to commerce , and the import duties were reduced 30 per cent . The old tariff provided also for credits of 40 and 80 days for import duties ; the new exacts cash payments . The French Admiral , Penaud , further insists that the pavment to the French creditors now demanded shall be not the percentage heretofore agreed to upon the recei ] : > ts from imports actually collected under the modified tariff , but an amount equal to what they were last year . The removal of Garcia ; from Tamaulipas was demanded by the French Admiral .

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      SOUTH AMERICAN STATI-: ? . We have received the Punavui Star and Herald to January 22 . CHILI . Chili remained in a very disturbed state , and the provinces were still under martial law . A number of the persons who were arrested in Santiago for sedition prior to the sailing of the steamer of the 16 th of December had been sentenced to a fine of 1 , 000 dollars each and three years' exile , while others less implicated had to pay 800 dollars fine .

      PERU . From Peru we continue to receive , very unsatisfactory reports of the state of the country , arid the prospects of a general revolt against the present Government appear to increase . PARAGUAY . . From Paraguay there is little news beyond the fact that the Government was still making warlike preparations to resist the United States forces .

      CENTRAL AMERICA . A t . kttpr from Greytown , dated January J i 5 , says : — " . Nature herself ^ scems to have taken in hand the Nicaraguan question , as fair as the transit to the Pacific is concerned . As the harbour of Greytown is now nearly closed by the Point Arenas extending itself at the extraordinary rate of 10 feet a week towards the mainland—at present barely leaving a passage wide enough for the royal mail and small with of onl 22 feet

      men-of-war steamers , a depth y — her Majesty ' s screw-steamer Valorous inside is sounding daily so as to make her exit in time . The United States frigate had great difficulty in gettingout . The inhabitants were in great fear that Walker would elude the vigilance of the cruisers , and m ^ ike a descent . Her Majesty ' s ships Cresar and Diadem , with the United States frigates , were At anchor in the roads , and the United States corvette , Jamestown , cruising in the offing . '

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      WEST INDIES . Tub Parana arrivcd ; at Southampton on Monday , but brought little news of importance . Ho ' r intelligence from Jamaica is to the 27 th ult . JAMAICA . Tho weather has been genial throughout the island of Jamaica . Fever prevailed in some districts . Sdulouquo , the ox-Emperor of Hayti , had arrived in tlie island .

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      DEMERARA . At Dcmcrara tho Court of Policy had a sitting on the 22 nd ult ., at which the affairs of the Demorara Railway Company came under consideration . A long discussion took place , and a string of resolutions was adopted which converts the Ordinance , No . 14 , of 1858 into a dead letter . —The Court ot Policy had another meeting on tho 24 th , at which a letter was read from the Secretary of State for tho Colonies , stating that a greater number of Coolies had bepn sent to Trinidad than the Government could dispose of . It was thereupon agreed that a communication should be forthwith entered into with the governor of Trinidad , and an offer made to take ovor for this colony such of tho Coolies as might not bo provided fur . " ¦ ¦

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      HAYTI . On arriving Port-au-Prince , Gonoral Goffrard sont a Hag of truco to tho Emporor , offering him his lil ' o

      and protection to his family if he would abdicate his power and save the people of Hayti from the horrors of a civil war . JSoulouque demanded time to consider , which Avas allowed him ; but before the allotted time had expired the Imperial troops laid down their arms and made common cause with the followers of Goffrard . The Emperor , ' no longer left to his choice , proceeded to make out his papers of abdication j and on the 15 th caused proclamation to be made to that effect . Soulouque is said to be immensely rich ; his wealth is estimated at upwards of 500 , 000 / ., banked in Europe . He and his family immediately left for Jamaica .

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      From our own Gorrespondent . PEACE OR REVOLUTION . Paris , Thursday , 6 } p . m . The question of an aggressive war upon Austria , to disarm the revolutionary party in Rome from personal attacks upon the Emperor , and to promote a transaction with Sardinia for the increase of French territory by the cession of Savoy , has assumed a new phase in consequence of the position assumed by the 'mercantile and manufacturing classes here . Men . no ¦• longer question the propriety of plunging into hostilities on a point of sentiment , but they discuss among

      themselves whether they should tolerate a government which- so wantonly trifles with the best interests of society , and which sacrifices the trade and industry of the country to stock-jobbing conspiracies , or to the gratification of dynastic vanities . Even the Presse , which preaches war , has been compelled to admit that " the political pre-oeupations of the hour exercise a most fatal influence upon commercial affairs . Orders are suspended in all manufactures , and works are slackened in factories . Speculators have almost entirely ceased to purchase raw materials . Everyone has taken his precautions , as if war were declared ; arid war itself would be less feared now by trade than the state of uncertainty

      which paralyses all operations . " Tins statement , which winds up with what looks like an argument in favor of war , falls far short of the truth . "From all the seats of manufactures in the provinces comes news of discontent and suffering . Masters cannot keep their works open , for their goods won ' t sell , however greatly they may reduce the prices ; as a natural consequence , the hands are turned off , and , as there is no poor-law in France , they are brought to the . verge of starvation in many districts . When men are unable to earn their daily bread , they have time to reflect upon tlio reason why , " and there is good cause to believe that the conclusions to which they arrive arc not the most favourable to the Government . Among the working classes there is no sympathy for Italian independence ; not enjoying any themselves , they arc at a

      loss to understand why they should be called upon to fight in order to extend the liberty and constitutional government of Sardinia to Lombard }' — why they should shed their blood to set up the parliamentary system in northern Italy , whim they have been deprived of it in France . Jn ¦ spite of all the flourishes in Imperial speeches and loading articles , about the generosity of France , people here arc strongly impressed with the wisdom of the adage that charity begins at homo , When-fore it is argued , that if the Government cannot maintain peace and ensure employment to the working classes ,, so-much the worse for it— -gu ' ' en aillu . $ j , The basis of the present rtyimc has boon , nil along , the material prosperity of the country * its strength has been the support of the industrial classes i alienate them , and J ; know not whero tho supporters and defenders of the Empire are to bo found .

      TUB FIRST CONCESSION TO l'WACJJ . Under these circumstances , and in proscnoo of undoniable evidence wliich crowds in from every pure of the Empire , the chief authority in the State has at last awoke to a sense of the ruin to which it was hurrying . Easy enough has been the down-slunng from peace and confidence to as bad a state as opon war and wide-spread distrust . And now we aro trying back . Tho first step , which has given universal satisfaction , and which has boon fo lowed uy an asconsional movement in the funds , cqulvaioiu i » a half per cent , was the warning given yosturtuiy evening to tho Presto for an article on the uiuift " crisis , signed LGousson lo Duo . The presumed intimate relations bofiwoon the l ' rlnee Napoleon an the Presso have been before mentioned , it « " ¦ niirnif \ nnnt . fnnt . thnfc M . LonUKOn lO D "" > ° " °

      of the staunchest partisans of tho Russian nil "" " *' It will probably bo in tho remembrnnco ot your readers that this gontloman perpetrated , eomo tiniw mole , a most profitable job , with tho nflM » tanco oi oorlain Russinn official * . Wlion tho remains oi

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      232 THE LEADER . [ No 465 , February 19 , 1859 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1859, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2282/page/8/