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      Chief . " Whether or not this information is strictly truej it is certain our Government will endeavour to arrest all . such illegal enterprises—the orders J ; o our jiaval vessels for this purpose , heretofore issued , being still in full force . General Geres :, before he left for Nicaragua , was fully informed of the filibustering movements . "—A Washington Telegram .

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      Mexico . — The conducta , with 5 , 000 , 000 dollars in specie , which left the city of Mexico on the 28 th May , was seized by General Robles 40 miles from Vera Cruz . The conducta arrived at Jalapa on the 10 th June , and remained there a week , by order of General Eobles , for examination . It started again on the 16 th under a permit from Robles , and when near the National bridge he overtook it , and ordered its return to Jalapa , by the authority of Miramon . The conducta refused to obey the order , when General Eobles ordered it to be shipped on board a British vessel off Sacrificios , but her commander

      refused to receive . it , notwithstanding the orders of the French and English ministers to do so . The con--dueta still remained at Reconada , subject to the orders of Robles . It was reported that the English and French ministers had arranged for shipping it by a ' British war vessel at Macombo . Mr . M'Lane , the American minister , had sent Captain Earagut , of the United States sloop of war Brooklyn , to demand the release of the American portion of the specie , amounting to about 2 , 000 , 000 dollars , but the result of his mission was not known . The English fleet had been ordered to Vera Cruz . All the English subjects had been banished from the capital .

      Advices from the United States report an active Interchange of communications ; between the Government and Senor Matta , the minister accredited by the Juarez party in Mexico to Washington . Some treaty or other arrangement is said to be in course of negociation ; There is , however , no question of any cession of Mexican territory , which by the constitution Juarez has no power to grant . It is alleged that ftenor Matta ' s object is to obtain for the Juarez Government the assistance of the United States , with a view to bringing the present internecine strife to a termination , and that meanwhile a number of American officers are about to ioin the forces of the

      federalists in Mexico . The British squadron is ordered -off Vera Cruz to protect British property and to watch over the fulfilment of the agreement lately made for the benefit of the convention and English bondholders , by which the latter are to receive 33 per cent , of the customs revenues at Vera Cruz and Tampico in liquidation of accruing dividends and arrears . As regards the 800 , 000 / . in silver -which has been stopped at Jalapa , there is an impression that very little belongs to British subjects , the British houses in thacity of Mexico being understood to have refused to remit specie by that conducta , after conferring with Mr . Otway , the British minister .

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      GERMANY . July 13 th . —Tho sudden conclusion of p 6 aco has doubt * lesa tistoniehcd you In England , Wo nre nil aghast over hare . Prussians literally aoek to hide tholr heads ; they see in their minds eyes both France and Austria

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      once despatched to Tuscany to hasten the departure of the Romagnoli corps for Bologna . After some difficulty , Mezzocapo was induced to take the command of the corps destined to" garrison the towns menaced by the Papal troopi , and to march to the rescue of Perugia . This is no small sacrifice for a ; man who hoped to hold a high post in the regular army , and who feels little inclination to become another Garibaldi ; but these are strange times , and sacrifices of every kind become the daily lot of those who enga ge in the national cause . Yesterday the streets . of Florence , which had been half-deserted since the departure of the Prench and Tuscan troops , were of of the

      again enlivened by swarms military , some men still in their undress linen coats , their regimentals not being yet finished ; others in the dark blue coat , black waistband , and Bersaglieri hat , with plume of black feathers , worn by the Piedmontese riflemen . But without the aid of dress these men have a noble and martial bearing , and many of them have the aristocratic features and independent gait which distinguish the people of Roinagna : Their countenances yesterday were grave and anxious , and there was a look of steady purpose in their dark , flashing eyes , which olneiiedillfor thosejwho will ere long measure swords with them on the battle-field , or in the blood-stained streets of their native

      cities . Tuscany is once more without troops , except a fewgendarmes , who are , however , sufficient to maintainpublic order , which , notwithstanding the fears- of some ami the false reports of others , has never been seriously menaced . Volunteers are again pouring in from the country districts , and as the gendarmes are . now the only Tuscan troops remaining to protect the native soil , many young men of family , who have not been permitted to join the Piedmontese army , have enrolled themselves in this corps , and , by keep- ^ ing the peace iit home , find some compensation for the frustration of their more ardent patriotic aspirations . Pub ] ic opin ion among the intelligent part

      [~ FROM OUR SPECIAL , CORRESPONDENT . ] Florence , July . 4 th . The Italian papers are filled with protests against the barbarities exercised at Perugia , * and in all the large towns subscriptions are opened for the relief of the families who have found safety in flight , and for those , whose relatives and prope r have fallen a prey to the brutality of the Papal , troops . Pisa and Florence have been foremost in this manifestation pf patriotic feeling , and the indignation of the Tuscans has been stimulated by the presence of theEomagnoli volunteers , who have for the last two or three weeks been preparing ^ to join the Lombard army . At Pisa , in the spacious normal school , formerly the

      guest house of the Crusade Knights of St . Sjsjphen , the youths from Perugia , amounting to several hun * dreds , were , quartered when the telegraph announced the fail of Perugia , and private letters corroborated the sinister reports already afloat as to the atrocities resorted to by . the soldiery . A moment of fierce excitement followed . The Perugian volunteers seized their arms , and rushing wildly into the streets , demanded to be instantly led back to their n ative city , vowing vengeance on the ii-.-. t gators and perpetrators of these foul deeds . The ll . magnuole volunteer corps of 10 , 000 men , under the command of Mezzocapo , a Piedinonteso officer , having brevet rank of general , ijromises to be one of the finest

      corps of the Italian army . The young men composing it are singularly hardy , strong , and soldierlike ; they have evinced the greatest aptitude for military exercises , and . form a , rtfle corps which , under sufficient training , and , especially , if incorporated with the Allied army , would be little , if at all , inferior to the celebrated Bersaglieri of La Marmora . Those who are looking beyond the present moment to the termination of the war , when Italy , freed from the Austrians , will have need of an army of one hundred and fifty thousand or two hundred thousand native soldiers to maintain her freshly won independence , justly count on the services of these national troops . It is with no small feeling of regret

      that they see the probability of these fine fellows-r . who were burning with dosire to win their first laurels by the side of the Piedmontese and French armies—^ being drawn off from the battle-flold where thefojte of Italy is to be decided , in order to engage in a sort of guerilla warfare in the Papal states , where it is but too probable that , imperfectly commanded , only half-trained , . and exposed to the fearful influences of popular passions , they may become undisciplined and , perhaps , so imbued with the fury of party spirit , so maddened with revenge , as to bo urged to vindictive acts , which may stain tho hitherto unsullied annals of , the Italian movement . Thus the affair of Perugia produces a grievous complication , and Homo has become responsible , not only

      for the innocent blood shed at Perugia , but . all that may hereafter bo sacrificed , and for tho deep moral deterioration inseparable from civil war , especially when that war is unhnppily mixed up with what in this country becomes a religious question , Home never took a more false step than this , po ftir as her own interests are concerned , and many -who shudder at the recital of wanton barbarities secretly rejoice at seeing tho hateful tyranily under which they have so long groaned receiving a death-wound from its own hand . No dpubt tho telegraph has already informed you that the city of Bologna , which has become the central government of the Legations and Roman states , under tho immediate protection af tho King of Piedmont , lost not an hour in expressing it » sympathy for Perugia , Emissaries wore at

      of the population is becoming daily matured , and those who some weeks ago had a lingering desire to maintain the separate and independent autonomy of Tuscany , now regard the annexation of this country to the great northern kingdom of Italy as the most desirable , the safest , and the only durable solution of the difficulties which attend the consideration of the future destinies of Tuscany . The difference of opinion on this point is one of time , not of fact . It is feared that an arrangement so ardently and generally desired may be impeded , perhaps prevented altogether , by premature and inopportune efforts to procure by popular and illegal demonstrations an union which , in order to be efficacious , must be

      sanctioned by Europe and accepted with all its weighty responsibilities by the future king of the united kingdom of Upper Italy . In the meanwhile , the agents of the late reigriing family are at work inthe country districts , and the priests are not behindhand in stirring up the peasants to call for the return of the Grand Duke . This is not surprising . The great mass of the people are , however , true to the national cause , and tho restoration of the Grand Duke , if it were to enter into the schemes of semi ^ Austrian diplomatists , would prove to be in direct opposition to the desires of the Tuscans , who look upon this restoration as an embodiment of Austrian supremacy , and a return to moral and political

      degradation . The species of disunion which unhappily has prevailed for a certain time between the ministry , or the administrative part of government , and the Consulta , or deliberative assembly , is now , we hope , coming to a close , as the Consulta has been at length summoned to hold its first sitting the day after to-morrow . Tho refusal of Piedmont r-again to-day formally reiterated from head-quarters—to assume any active responsibility , or to accept the annexation of Tuscany , should it bo offered at this moment , has induced the ministry to endeavour to conciliate the sympathy and support of tho country . The calling of tho Consulta is the best proof of this resolution : and as all are convinced that their only

      strength is to be found in union , and in persevering in tho maintenance of order , much good is expected ' from this wise determination of tho Government . No doubt this opportunity will be embraced to present to Europe tho views and desires of Tuscany , expressed with the moderation and dignity befitting a legislative body , which , though it may bo fairly viewed as representing the enlightened majority of tho Tuscan people , cannot arrogate to itself tho right of determining the destinies of this country . These must depend upon the final result of tho war , and upon the decision of tho great Powers ' of Europe when called to ratify tho treaty of ifewco which will establish the new territorial limits of the kingdoms of-Italy .

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      fcoft THE LEADEB , . [ No . 466 , July 10 , ISgg :

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      Massaokk of Eukopkans ix Borneo . —A correspondent lias forwarded to Messrs . Finlay and Co ., Glasgow , tho following intelligence ; - » " We have the greatest regret in informing you that wo have , by the arrival of the Dutch Government stenmea Ardjceoo , from Banjermassingr , on the 21 st inst ., received tlie most disastrous tidings regarding the coal mino establishment of Kalungair , which has "by eomo accounts been entirely , by . others only partly , destroyed by an insurrection among tho native subjects of tho Sultan of Banjermassing ; Hut , ftartdoBt ! of all the whole , of the European employei have Veen brutally murdered , withput leaving one to tell the tale . The tragedy was enacted on the ieth of the month , and attended with

      horrors not exceeded by anything which occurred even at Cawnpore . The particulars you will find described in a circular addressed to the shareholders by the directors of the . company . . ' Reinforcements of troops are being sent in all haste from this and Samarang , with three or four steamers , which will no doubt be sufficient to restore peace and order in the country , and we trust may arrive in time to save the remaining Europeans at Banjermassing and neighbourhood . The cause of the insurrection proceeds in no way from dislike to the mines , where the greatest peace and contentment have always prevailed , but to a long-brooding disaffection of the natives of Eanjermassing to their

      new sultan , who had been maintained on his throne mainly by the protection of our government , contrary to the will of the people , and , as it would appear , in disregard of the legitimate right of succession of another prince , named . Hidayal , who was at the same time the favourite of the people . This disaffection among the people , excited to revolt and murder by some Mahomedan priests lately returned from Mecca , is supposed to have been the cause which lias led to the sacrifice of so many precious lives , already amounting , so far as known , to fifty or fifty-one in number . Among these four German missionaries , three of their wives , and nineteen children are stated to have fallen victims to the knives of the assassins .

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      Chixksb News . —The Overland Friend of China , of May 21 , reports : —Our minister for Pekin is still in Hong Kong , but will leave for the north , it is said , early next week . The whole of the first battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry , some six hundred men , ¦ will accompany his Excellency to the Peiho . As a finish to southern troubles , the steam transport Assistance has been sent with these men to the neighbourhood of Heahg-shan , where they are to be debarked and marched through the district city . As this place , more than any other in the south , has long

      exhibited a most determined hatred of foreigners , it is only right that its braggadocinl and malevolent spirit should be properly curbed . The populace of Heang-ehan , seeing tho preparations made by the officials for the reception of the British officers , got up a riot , destroyed the bamboo piers , sheds , &o ., and p ' eltod tho mandarins in their chairs . It is re ? ported that the French are negotiating for transports to convoy tho small remnant of their < juota to the Canton garrison down to Cochin China , where every available roan is in serious requisition . The arrival from Calcutta of the dead body of Ex-Commissioner Yeh created no sensation whatever at Canton .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 16, 1859, page 836, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2303/page/8/