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February 2, 1856.J
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THE ORIENT. INDIA. The Santal insurrecti...
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. . CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRAKCE. ¦ The Emp...
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_ AMERICA. The disagreement between the ...
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Public Meetings. Railway Repohm. A Meeti...
Vereker , who moved the first and only resolution : — " That it is tlie opinion of this meeting that to conclude an armistice until the preliminaries of peace are signed would be at variance with the interests and wishes of the British people , and that they consider no treaty will be satisfactory which does not secure to the Allies an indemnity for the expenses of the war , and which does not guarantee the integrity and independence of the Turkish empire . " After a few speeches had been delivered , Mr . James Fmlen , a Chartist , moved as an amendment , "That this meeting has no hope that an indemnity for the expenses of the war will be exacted from Russia , or that terms of peace which England ought to accept will be agreed on , unless the Ministers who have entered upon the present negotiations are deprived of office and impeached . " ( Cheers and uproar . ) Mr . Hart , in . seconding this amendment , asked : " Shall the people who once took a king into open court , tried , him before his country , dragged him to the block , and rolled his head on the scaffold , shrink from doing justice on Ministers ? { Cheers and uproar . ) This ( Jan . 30 th ) is the anniversary of" the day when that spectacle was offered to the world in this city , and let it at least be a worthy anniversary of it . Standing in the . presence of centuries , in which the power of England has mightily increased , let ns at least say we are the sons of our ancestors , and that we will not shrink from calling crime ' crime , whether it be committed from the throne of the prince or the hut of the peasant . And , whenever that verdict is found , sentence and execution shall follow . " { Cheers and hisses . ) The speaker proceeded to charge Lord Palrnerston with betraying Poland , Hungary , and Circassia , and witli confiscating Cracow . " Recognised as a trickster , ' he added , " despised as a shuffler , and hated as a turncoat , the Premier had been elevated into power by the powerlessness of every other man ; and now that one inau , having gathered the whole nation into a net , was about to sacrifice the ally of England and to betray his country . " { Cheers and derisive laughter . ) The moot . inn nraa-alsri nrirlressed bv Mr . S . Rolland .
Mr . James Corbett , Mr . W . J . O'Connell , and Mr . Lawrence ; and eventually the amendment of Mr . Finlen was put and carried by a large majority . The proceedings , which lasted several hours , then terminated . ^
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The Orient. India. The Santal Insurrecti...
THE ORIENT . INDIA . The Santal insurrection ( says the Bombay Times of January 2 nd ) may be said to be suppressed . Tranquillity prevails throughout India . Tlio kingdom of Oude is about to be sequestrated , the King to be allowed £ 100 , 000 a-year , tlie army to be reduced from 80 , 000 to 15 , 000 ; the entire administration of affairs to be intrusted to the Resident , General Outram The settlement of the Oudeypore differences , which renders the political agent supreme , has dissatisfied the chiefs . The native princes , whose administration is admitted to be blameless , are endeavouring to obtain some better security than they have hitherto enjoyed for the retention of their dominions . The charges of the Indian navy are about to be increased from half to close on a million sterling annually , one-fourth , the revenue of the Presidency , and two-thirds the changes of the army of 60 , 000 men . Lord Canning is expected at the Presidency oa his way to Calcutta ; the present Governor-General retires on the 1 st of March , after ap administration of eight years' duration . A fair business has been done in the import mai-ket ; money is scare , and exchange has advanced . CHINA . No further news of the progress of the rebellion has been received by the last mails . An extensive nre has occurred at Canton , and is supposed to be incendiary . The police force there ia very inefficient ; as an evidence of which , an organised attack has beea made on a house of business , and a large amoiint of cash has been run away with . The failure of several Chinese establishments at Shanghai , followed by the suspension of Messrs . Aspinwall , Mackenzie , and Co ., _ * ^ _ . _ .,.. m . » i J 3 i ^_ J ?~\ Kfi (\ f \ f \ l-v tries aia t
with liabilities , it is s , exueeumij ** . vv , vw , ^ . ~> caused something like a panic in that quarter .
. . Continental Notes. Frakce. ¦ The Emp...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRAKCE . ¦ The Emperor Napoleon is again figuring before the Parisian public as an author . " The third and fourth volumes of his works , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " have just been published . They are by far the most interesting volumes , as they are the conclusion . The third volume contains the letters , speeches in the Assembly , addresses to the electors before the nomination of the Emperor to the Presidency of the Rebublic , as also his letters , proclamations , messages to the Assembly , and speeches in public from the 20 th of December , 1849 , to the date of the coup d'etat , 2 nd of December , 1851 , and from this date the allocutions , & c , of the Emperor to the day of the entry of the Imperial Guard on its return from the Crimea . The Emperor had made some progress in a large work entitled DwPasse et de I'Avenir deV Artillcrie , but , not having as yet time to complete it , the fourth volume now published contains copious extracts from his MS ., and may , in fact , be considered as a summary of the
large work . The prospect of peace is already beginning to exercise a beneficial influence on the trade of Paris . The dmeufc at the Sorbonne , in which the students hooted M . Nisard for his real or supposed apostacy from Republicanism , has boen followed up by a procession of tho young gentlemen through the streets of Paris , with tho intention of making another , anti-Nisard demonstration before that gentleman ' s private house . But the police interfered ; nearly the whole number ( amounting to about a hundred ) was arrested ; some sixty were sent home to their parents in tho proviucos ; aud others were retained in Paris , and threatened with a citation before the Police Corrcctionelle . mi . _ s * i ~ .... l ~ C f ~ 1 . n .. »* i ^ innnl l ^ i-wli /» i > nf T iVrtTlR T . rlOQUU 11 / \ l \ JLUll / ll 4 &! % ¦»¦ Vivv /
X lit ? ^> ) . jyi « *¦ * » w * . *— j ~ — — on tho 23 rd ult ,, four porsons accused of having clandestinely imported seditions publicaxtions into France , and , among others , M . Folix Pyat ' s letter to the Quooa of England . They wore forwarded from Geneva in doublo-bottomod casks . Tbrco of the accused were sentenced to two , tliroo , and six nionthfi' imprisonment , and tho fourth was acquitted . ADSTIUA .
The diplomatic representatives of Austria bave , it is said , received orders formally to disavow all that has been said on the subject of a pretended convention relative to the reconstitution of Poland under an Austrian archduke . PRUSSIA . The Vienna Presse has learned from Berlin that a few day 3 ago the parole given to the garrison of that city was " Kars-Mouravieff !" DENMARK . Count Reventlow having proposed an address to the King of Denmark , claiming a guarantee of the sacred rights of the Duchy of Holstein , a strong majority of the Holstein Diet adopted it . The Royal Commissioner , who had vigorously opposed this address , immediately quitted the hall . The dissolution of the Diet is considered as probable . The War Department in Sweden has just drawn from the Treasury l , 100 , 000 f ., to be applied to the urgent defence of the kingdom . SWITZERLAND . The retnrn of M . Marilley , the Catholic Bishop , to Geneva ( says a letter in the Paris Presse ) , has caused such , an agitation in the canton that the Government was obliged again to order him to quit his diocese . The Government grounds that decision on the breach of the prelate ' s promise -to re-enter Geneva without assuming any official character , avoiding all manifestation , and like a mere Swiss citizen , instead of which he omciated as Bishop in the Catholic Church of Geneva , and announced that he would officiate on the following Sunday in the Church of Carouge ; but the parish priest of Geneva , who negotiated the conditions of M . Marilley ' s return , has published a letter , in which he formally contradicts tne allegations of the Council of State , and contends that an express permission was granted the Bishop to act as he pleased in the interior of the church . Public opinion is greatiy excited by the affair , which is considered likely to produce serious complications for the Cantonal Government . M . Marilley , after the Sonderbund war , in which lie took an active part , was banished from the diocese of Geneva Q «^ T . ansanne . the seat of which was at Fritrarg . This
measure was adopted in consequence of M < Marilley'B refusal to recognise the new Constitution of Friburg , and the articles of the Federal Compact , which confirmed it . A conference between the cantons which signed the convention of 1848 is about to be held .
J . T . AL . X . The Princess Buttera , widow of a Prince Scordia of Palermo , who has been residing for some months at Florence on account of lier own health , and in order to be near her children , who are at school there , has been ordered by the Tuscan Government either to separate herself from her children or with them to leave the Grand Ducal territories ! The King of Naples is said to be at the bottom of this order . The Princess will retire to Piedmont . » USSIA . A ukase has just "been published , opening the frontiers of the Russian Empire to all the travellers against whom they bave been closed since 1848 . ° A new loan , amounting to 600 , 000 silver roubles ( 2 400 000 f . ) , is about to be levied on Finland for the expenses of the war . Holland , as well as Austria and Prussia ( says a despatch from Berlin ) , has been very urgent with Russia with a view to peace .
THE DANDBIAN raiSCIPAXITIES . The Corriire Italiano learns from Galatz that % he subjoined plan for the future organisation of the Danubian Principalities has "been presented to Aali Pacha by Lord Stratford : — " 1 . The two Principalities to form one state under the suzerainete of tho sultan . 2 . The Prince to be elected for life . The sovereign dignity to be hereditary in his family . 3 . The Prince to bo a native . 4 . The new State to pay tribute to the Porte , The amount of the samo to be settled after the election of the Prinoa . 5 . The new State to have two Houses of Parliament . 6 . A national army to be formed . 7 . Ihe Porto will continue not to interfere in the internal afFnirs of tho Principalities . " It i » said that Fmnoeand the Porte ( and Austria ) object to the fifth article .
TUUKliX . . . . A collision has taken place between tho Austrian and Turkish aoldiora garrisoning Giurgcvo . Iwo Turks wore killed ; and both garrisons wore called to arms , as tlio quarrel threatenoci to assume a serious Oh sSSSi hw ^ en excluded from the Constantinople OonfcrcnooH on the question of ' the , r . ghta ^ of tie b
Christians in Turkey , mo pwu »«™ » 7 \" n Zr not ioin in the Vicuna Conferences of last April , of whioh the present arc a kind of corollary . It » aaxd that Sardinia will protest againot this exclusion . A private correspondent tit Constantinople writes us that " Dervish Pacha , General of Division , left on tlio 15 th January to bo present , as representative of tho Sublime Porte , at the Council of War to be liold in PitriH . An Imperial decree wa , a lasued on tho name day , fiuthori aing tho Ku . Btendio Canal : tho construction ha * been iutruatod to the French . Tho woathor hero ia now vory cold ; enow foil during nearly tlio whole of tbo 14 th . " From tlio eamo writer wo boar that complaint ,
The Emperor of AuBtrin , " as a mark of consideration for bin illustrious nlly , Queon Victoria , " has granted a pardon to Colonel Turr . Tho Frankfort Po & t Zcituny learns that tho Imperial patent for tho non-Cutliolics of tho Empire will appear at tho ond of tlri » month . Int . All legnlly-rooogniHod religious eommimitioa have a right to practise thoir roligioufl rites publicly . 2 nd . They hIuiII manage all their religious matters without lot or hindrance from any one . In rospoat of nocoartion from onoChrifttian ohm-oh to anoth or , and to mamagoH betweon Catholics and uon-Cutkolios , tho provisional lawn paused in the yiw 184 l > will , for tlio proaont , remain in force .
_ America. The Disagreement Between The ...
_ AMERICA . The disagreement between the United State 3 and England still drags on its tedious course ; and again , there is talk of an open rupture and of the possibility of war . The accounts of the actual state « f affairs , however , are very various . According to one , Mr . Crampton has dined with the President at Washington , which looks like a reconciliation ; according to others , the President has not repealed his original demand for the removal of our Minister ; according to a third , the Washington Government threatens , if the removal be not conceded , to withdraw the exequaturs of Mr . Crampton , Mr . Barclay , Mr . Mathew , and Mr . Rowcroft ; according to a fourth , Mr . Crampton has " retired , " on finding that he would not be permitted to remain , bub that , in the event of his " dismissal , " England would have had no further intercourse with the United States , but have handed his passports to Mr . ' . > i i . ! I ' } .
contradicted . —Mexico continues in a most disorganised and anarchic state . Comonfort , it is though £ < Th . soon fall , and General Almonte is looked on by the Liberals as the rising man . . Business in the New York stock market is quiet . There is less demand for money , and foreign exchanges ontinue dull .
Buohanan . With regard to the Central American question , it i 3 rumoured that England , rather than engage in a war with America , will recede from her protectorate over the Bay Islands and the Mosquito shore . The latest accounts state that Mr . Buclianan has actually deiranded the recall of Mr . Crampton ; and the Morning Post of Wednesday Las a very truculent leading article iu " double leaded" type , concluding with these words : —The naval power of Englandnever more fully developed than at present , comprising a force of ships of the line , frigates , and mortar and gun-boats , iu comparison with which the entire navy of the United States is but a weak and inefficient squadron—will , with the certainty of peace , bo sot at liberty to act iu vindication of the national honour ¦¦ M ^ «^ a ¦¦» m « ¦ . Mm « ... . _ _« h . Ai b m _ _~ h _ . ~ m _^ 1 » » - ~^ - ~_ « 1 _ . ^ U llll , A ^ fe 1 « . «« 4 i ¦ ¦ a in ju uhbiuiuu j
*^ . *^ ** . * .. ^* ^ .. wutwjvi'r quaruui tuny uu . . u « uuuiiyu therefore , which has recently como over the drama to European politics will , no doubt , have its proper weight with all reflecting men in the United States , and they will consider wliothor . in a point of mere internutioul punctillio—which has been the subject of explanation aud apology—a war should be raBhlv . and -wickedly provoked which would sweep . American oommnmn fr \ -iin Mm anna nnd lnvr + lirt wlir » ln
Boaboard of the Union open to the attacks of blio . greatest naval Power in the world- " The woathor at JSfow York has been vory sevoro ; a I « now-Btorm of unoxampled Boverity swept tho whole j of tho Atlantic ooaat , from Virginia to Halifnx , on tho ) Cth ult ., and continued to rage for nearly oightoon hours . Boisterous weather , moi-oover , together with a great deal of ioo nnd enow has boon encountered by the mails in pairing to and fro between this oounty ,. ftnd Amorioa . Reports nro current of an extensive filibustering expedition having landed in Lower Cnlij ! fornia . At Oregon , Bovoral Hanguinary engagements '; luwe boon fought with tho Indians . A rumour of j' Wftlkor liftving boon overthrown in Nioaragua , has boen jl
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02021856/page/5/
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