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    FOKMIUN.

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    From Paris , Saturday , April 14 , tho Jlfonitour nnnouircow that the legislative Body has agroed to tho contingent of 100 , 000 men for tho present your , by 238 against 01 votes . By ii private message from Marseilles it is announced that an insurrection has taken place at Mohm ' iuv . Tho Ifom'tcxr ol' Sufday , April 15 , publitiliea a decree reducing , by one oentimotro , the mininucm height required for recrnita . Tho packet from Naples , via Mm-scillop , April 11 , brings an oflloiftl report affirming that trnnq . nillily reigns at Palermo . From Turin , April 15 , wo learn Unit the pension of N'ieo to Franco was an absolute noocusity for 1 'iecirnont , in order to obtain from Napoleon Ilf , tho guarantee of Loin hardy and tho Duohy of Parma . This gunra ' ntee appears to bo oxprosHod in u secret article of tho treaty of the 24 th of March lust , rulutivo to the cosriion of Savoy and Nice ! Franco Imp , however , lvftjsod to gunnmtoo to Piedmont tho other annexed provinces , viz ., Tusenny and tho Legations .

    The news from New ; York , April 1 , is that the Bavaria had arrived out , and that the siege of Vera Cruz had beeu abandoned after six days'bombardment . Prom New York , April 5 , the election in Rhode Island lias resulted in favour of the Democrats . The House of Representatives at ' . Washing-ton ' have passed the Bill for the suppression of polvgamy in Utah . , ' The Stock market is heavy , and prices have slightly declined . Cotton ¦ dull . Sales , three days / 3 , 500 bales . Middling Uplands ' , ll ^ c . Flour firm , and prices are rather dearer . Wheat dull , and lc . per bushel lower . Corn firm , at higher rates . At New Orleans , April 4 , cotton xinchanged . Sules to-day , 12 , 500 bales ; sales yesterday , 0 , 500 bales . . Middling- quoted 10 k :. to lie . Sales of three days , 26 , 000 bales ; receipts , three days , 15 , 000 bales . Increased receipts at all the Southern ports , 767 , 000 bales . From Berne , April 16 , the intelligence respecting Switzerland and Savoy is that it is a mistake to suppose that separate negotiations have been entered into between France and Switzerland , the matter having been placed in the hands of the powers of Europe . The 3 Ipniteur publishes the following despatch , dated ' * ' Nicei Sunday , 3 p . m : At X o ' clock p . m .. to-day , out of the tofal number of 7 , 000 voters , 5 , 000 had already registered their votes . The news from the ¦• ¦ . neighbouring communes is excellent . The voting in favour of annexation to France is unanimous , " From Geneva we learn that on Saturday evening , April 14 , a Genevese- deputation , representing all parties , presented Sir Robert Peel with-a ' testimonial consisting of a cup and a rifle . Sir Robert Peel promised the support of England for the preservation of the independence and neutrality of Switzerland . The deputation expressed ¦¦ . their thanks . to the English Ministry and Parliament . M . Thouvenel having stated , in a despatch of the 13 th of March , to M . Til'los , that the Federal Council had proposed a secret treaty for a partition of Savoy , the Federal Council has given an official denial to the statement of M . Thouvenel . " ; The archives of the Legations of Russia and England have been transferred from Florence to Turin . From Vienna , April . 10 , we learn -that the ' total amount subscribed to the new loan is about 75 , 000 , 000 florins . The quotation on the Exchange is 93 . 50 . . Rumours of ministerial changes are circulating . According to advices from Sicily , the revolutionary movement is increasing in the country , which is full of arnicd men . The news front Madrid , April 15 , is that the factious .-partisans of Count de Montemolin are every where disappearing . News has been received at Washington , by a telegram from Chnrlston , that during a legitimate trading voyago on tho coast of Africa , the brig Jehossee was overhauled and taken forcible possession of by a British vessel of war ,, and the officers and crew treated . with . gross indignity . From Paris , April 17 , we learn that M . Thouvenel has informed the representatives of the Powers who signed tho Final Act of "Vienna of the nature of tho reception France will give to the circular note of the Swiss Federal Council of the Gfrh of April respecting the convocation of an European Conference .- ' " When tho cession of Savoy ami Nice , freely consented to by Piedmont ^ shall have been sanctioned and ratified by universal su'flrngc of the inhabitants , and by the vote of the Sardinian Parliament , Franco will take possession of those provinces . Immediately afterwards a how HI consent to the assembling of a Conference , for the purpose of ivctuiving a communication of the treaty concluded on t lie . 24 th of March lust between Napoleon HI . and King Victor Emmanuel . " The Monitexir of this morning gives-the following ns the definitive result of tho voting in the city of Nice : —For annexation , ( 5 , 810 j against , 13 . Prince Gortscbalcoft " , in his reply to the note of . Switzerland , Rtates that it ia the true political interest of Europe to ¦ preserve Switzerland from all foreign inlluonco . According to advices from Naples to the 14 th inst ., if ; is asserted that on 'l'hur . sdiiy lnafc a large bomb was thrown before th » Palace . The explosion shattered all the windows . No person was injured . Tho revolutionary attempt of tho 8 th , at Mofflina , commenced by tho killing of two sentimiK Flying columns wore pursuing tho blinds of insmrgentN . Intelligence from Homo adds , that the Popo had resolved to take no initiative in a war in the Roinagnii , and ( hat General Jjamoriciioro would only concentrate a corps in IJinbrin , bo- , twocn Rono and Anrona . The insurrection has spread to Tnipani , wliuro tho Provisional Government and the National Guard have joined tho insurgents . Paris , April IS i Tho . CumtiUttiunw-l . in an article signed by M . Bonifaco , says it ia authorized to docluro that tho pamphlet , La Coalition , is entirely tho work of a private individual , who 1 iah , neither directly nor indirocl . lv , been inspired by Government . Iho Boui-ho runiain ' s dull , und pi ' icos Hat . Rentes closed at ( 51 ) f , OGc ,, being a fractional rieclinu i-inco yemturday . From Borne , April IS : Tho Fodoral Council ban received , favourable ' mows . Tho ni t fns <» '' » favourable solution of tho ponding questions' are i no roani «)«• ' , and existing fours will , without doubt , noon bo romoved . From Constantinople wo loam that Franco will mako Iho Povto responsible for tho damage canned by tho Grooks on Friday last . Tho la lost news from Mexico is ( hat tho Liberals do foal od tho 4 th JldLriuiont of Cavalry , belonging to Mi . vuiiion , on tho 5 th ult .

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    at their rooms in St . James ' s Square , at which Colonel Sykes presided . A paper was read by Mr . Newmarch on Indian currency and bankings in which he strongly objected to the plan of finance proposed by Mr . Wilson to be established in India , because it proceeded upon the principle of separating the banking department from the issuing department . It . was his firm , belief . -that if . they separated the'function of issue from the function of banking , they would have no means at a moment of crisis of saving the country . The hon . gentleman dwelt with much earnestness upon the injurious effect which Mr . Wilson ' s scheme would have upon discounts and the monetary operations in India . The proceedings of the evening closed without any formal result , it not being in accordance with the rules of the society to come to any resolution on questions discussed . A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday at Guildhall , the Lord Mayor presiding . On the motion of Sir P . Laurie , thanks were voted to the Bishop of Gloucester and the Rev . H . Christinas , M . A ., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor , for their sermons preached bj ' them at Christ Church On Easter Monday and Tuesday . A communication was received from tlie Justices of the City of London relative to the office of Pass-master of Irish and Scotch vagrants , recently rendered vacant by the death of Mr . Gill , and recommending that the future salary attached to thei office should be £ 50 per annum . An order was made based upon the terms of the report . The installation of the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , M . P ., as Reef or of the University of Edinbvirgh , took place on Monday , April lGtb , in the Music-hall thei-e . The amount annually collected by rates , tolls , and dues , in the United Kingdom is £ 14 , 902 , 090 , as far as the same has been ascertained . . : Shortly after li o ' clock , on Monday night , a fire , which has resulted hi the destruction of thirteen houses , broke out on the premises -.. of . Mr . W . Hunter , of Wood-wharf , Greenwich , insmediately facing tlie river . The / origin ; of the disaster is unknown , and unfortiinately the larger number of the sufferers are Uninsured . On Tuesday , April I 7 tl ) , ibe great . 'fight , between Heeiian and Savers for the cliampionsliip of England took place ' at Farn-horougli , close to Aldershott . It lasted upwards of t \ vo hours ' ^ and was . brought to a close partly by the interference of the police , neither of the combatants being pronounced victorious , but both being dreadfully punished . Among the spectators wei-e members of both Houses in plenty ; authors , poets , painters / soldiers , and even clergymen , were present . The weather was last week unusually cold for April , and the mortality of London was higli , though , as in the previous week , it was considerably lower than it had been in the last three vfeeks of March .. The deaths in the week that ended last Saturday were . 1 , 407 . Last week the births of 932 boys and 934 girls , in all 1 . 86 G children-, were registered in London . In the ton corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 , the average number was 1 , 084 . A murder of a peculiarly shocking character was perpetrated in Birmingham on Wednesday morning last . The murderer is n young man named Price , twenty-four years of age , a shoeuiaker , and his victim tlie young girl to whom he was attached , a servant at a small inn in : . Deritend , The murderer Was apprehended immediately ,, and lie admitted that a feeling of jealousy had prompted , the crime . The deed was committed in a house a short distance from the Swan Inn . The murderer used an extremely sharp shoemaker ' s knife . The poor girl ' s head is said to have been nearly severed from her body . On Thursday morning . London was visited with a snow-storm . It commenced about half-past seven o ' clock , and continued for about lialf-nn-hqur . At half-past twelve there , was a sharp hail , storm , mixed with snow . . Sumo interesting and valuable statistics relative to tho , colony of New Zealand have recently been published , They include tho results of a census , from which it appears that within the last seven years the population of Now Zealand increased from 20 , 707 to 50 , 277 ; while live-stock increased from 299 , 115 to 1 , 727 , 997 ; the land under crop , from 29 , 140 to 140 , 905 . acres ; and the land fenced , from : J 0 , ' 1 . 7 O to 2 : 35 ,-JB 8 acres . Tho statist . ics show a corresponding increase in the . diffusion of general education ; there iwo 9 . 072 day and Sunday schools . Tho total value of imports has increased during the last five years from £ 5 \) 7 , 8 ' 27 to £ 1 , 11 , 1 , 273 , and the ' total value of exports from £ ' 3 O 3 , ' 282 to , £ ' 153 , 023 . Tho increase iii tho export of wool is most striking , having risen from £ 0 ( 5 . to upwards of £ 254 , 000 . Tho amount of gold exported in 1858-1 ) wao £ 92 , 88 ( 3 .

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    April 21 , I 860 . ] The Leader arid Saturday Analyst . „ 385

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    FOUEIGN .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2344/page/21/