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CONTINENTAL. NOTES. l'RA>'CK. The police...
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Ameeica. The New York Papers Contain Acc...
Massachusetts , has made- air interesting- report of an engagement , fought on the 21 st of March ,. 1856 , between tine crew of that vessel and a band- of North Russian Indians , near Port Gamble , Washington territory . Tlie United States force had one man killed and . one wounded , and the Indians lost 27 lulled and . 21 wounded . Among the latter was one of their chiefs . The Indians saedifor peace , and promised to go to Victoria , and . never to visit Puget Sound again .
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CONTINENTAL . NOTES . l'RA > 'CK . The police are said to have discovered the existence of a new secret society , called the Sons Hommes or Boiis Enfanis . A good many arrests were made on the rnornr ing of Friday week , but no details are known . Although little is heard of them , it is believed that a wide ramifi' - cation of secret societies underlies the wholeof Franco . " It-would appear , " says the Times correspondent , " that the Haute Vente ( to use the style of Carbonarism ) is directed "by some of the most influential among the political refugees in . England . Between them and the directors at home there often arises much , dissension . The latter willingly accept the co-operation of the absent-, frut they absolutely reject all dictation from them .
Various modifications have been introduced into the present organisation of the affiliated . These arc no longer classed in decurles or centuries . No single member can . communicate with more than three other members , and , in imitation of the seeret societies under the Restoration , these occupy respectively the extremity of an imaginary triangle , with its sides touching another triangle , and so on , spreading out over the departments . " The Imperial Court will remove to Fontainebleau on tie 1 st of May , in order , it is whispered , that the Russian Archduke Constantine , who is coming on . a visit to the Emperor , may be kept out of the way of the Parisians and of the Charivari , as he is said to be very eccentricj and apt to get into scrapes .
The Aloniteur contains the following : — " Several foreign journals , led away .-by party feeling , or deceived by malevolent correspondents , have represented the proceedings instituted against the Bishop of Moulins before the Council of State as the effect of political rancour . It would he unworthy of the Government of his Majesty todiscuss such insinuations , which are so contrary to its sentiments of moderation and good faith . The truth , as the whole of France knows ,, is that the prelate against whom the proceedings have been directed for abuse of power has excited in his diocese by his imprudent conduct the deepest antipathy , and has thus compromised both the interests of religion and those of public order . The inhabitants of the department of the Allier have
remonstrated against such conduct , and tlieir representatives , the highest and the most honourable ., have not hesitated to unite with them . The Bmperor has himself received two petitions , signed by more than three thousand inhabitants of Moulins alone , and these documents attest the serious differences which exist between the Bishop and his flock . The Government , in presence of sach serious complaints and such reprehensible acts , had to fulfil a duty of surveillance and protection . It has , therefore , made use of the only means of protesting which is sanctioned by the organic laws of France , at the same time that it has represented the state of thing .- ) before the Holy See . It has acted without passion as well as without weakness . " The oldest American banking-house in Paris , Messrs . Greene and Co ., of the Place St . Georges , has been compelled to suspend payment . AUSTRIA . Count Paar and his secretary quitted Turin on the 2 Cth ult . The rupture between Sardinia and Austria ( arising out of the alleged excesses of the : Piedmontesc press J is complete ; but the Cabinet at Vienna affects to think very lightly of the affair . It id said that Sardinia is supported by Russia , out of a desire to annoy Austria , and that Count Stackelberg , the Czar's ambassador , exercises undue influence on Count Cuvour . The Marquis do Cantano has quitted Vienna , where he represented the Cabinet of Turin . * The Opinione of Turin , contradicting recent assertions from Vienna , says that the garrisons of Verona , Mantua , and Milan have been augmented .
nho Archduke - Ferdinand Maximilian , the newly - appointed Governor-General of Lonibardy , was greeted with a startling sight mi the morning after his arrival in Venice ( the 24 th ult . ) . In the Place of St . Murk , at , the Arsenal , and nt ' anolhcr place , the Austrian standard was found to bo surmounted by the national colours , the Italian tricolor , which had been secretly hoisted during the night , and , the halliards huving been removed , it was found diflicult to haul them down . Some say the thing was done by the police 1 , in order to give an excuse for sorao political movement , against the popular party ; but it appears more probable that it was done by tho people themselves . The Archduke was very coolly received on bis arrival on tho 2 . 'ird , few pcsi-HoiiH being abroad . The excuse in that tlic nobility wero " dinner ; " hut the fact is that tho SJ 3 r < l ult . was the anniversary of the bat . tlu of Novarn . Furdinand-Muximilian will speedily remove to Milan . I'UUHHIA . The Zollverein Conference has been opened nt Ucrlin
for the consideration of certain : proposalsr made by Austria with a view to facilitate commercial' intercourse between Austria and the Zollverein , and . pave'tile way for a fusion of the two territorial and fiscal unions into one body in the year 1866 . The King has commuted the sentence : on Herrvon Kocllow , who shot the late President of Police ,. Hineks eldey , and who was condemned to five years'imprisonment in the fortress of Magdeburg , for that offence . He was induced to do this by an act of extraordinary generosity and moral beauty on the part of the widow of
the deceased . On the anniversary of the death of her husband , she wrote to the King , alluding to the melancholy feelings of bereavement which that day rendered more poignant , and requesting that , as she could not , on that very account , avoid sympathizing : with : the Frau von Rochow , the King would enable that lady again to enjoy the society of her husband , by authorizing- his liberation . - The King wrote a very flattering and feeling answer to Madame Hinckeldey , and granted her request . The eldest daughter of tho late President is about to be married to Heir von . Munchhausen , who acted as her father's second at the fatal , encounter .
The Chamber of Representatives has rejected , "by a majority of 241 to 73 , the law relative to the tax on houses . The Plenipotentiaries of Prussia , Austria , and Bavaria will take part in the negotiations at Paris relative to the Postal question . -The ' commission appointed in each House of the Diet has already -brought tip its report on the Sound Dues Treaty , and both of them unanimously recommend the House to adopt it for ratification .
. ¦ - .- TURKEY . Several outrages on Protestant Ghristian . 9 in Turkey are alleged ( by the London Committee of the Turkish Missions ) to have taken place in various parts of the Porto ' s dominions . Complaints , it is added , have been laid before the Sultan and Lord Stratford de RedclifTe . The investigation ordered by the Government into the affair of the Kangaroo is over , and the commission has delivered its report to the Grand Vizier . It appears from that document that Ferhad Pacha anil Ismail Bey were the principal authors , not only of the expedition of that vessel , but of all the others organised for the sarao purpose—that of supplying the Circassians with arms and ammunition . They are to be brought to trial fox the offence ;— Daily Neivs
RUSSIA . " Investigations have been instituted in several departments of the Russian service , " says the Times Berlin correspondent , " in consequence of the statements made by Sir llobert Peel in his speech- near Birmingham . The result has been , it is said , to prove the entire innocence of the persons incriminated by Sir Robert . " Of course . That was a foregone conclusion . The Emperor has expressed keen satisfaction at the conclusion of the treaty between 15 ngland and Persia . A grand banquet was given by Prince GSortschakoff at the Hotel of Foreign Affairs , to which Lord Wodehouso was invited ; and nearly every Ambassador at St . Petersburg , attended by his personnel , was present .
Count Putiatin , -who lately left St . Petersburg for Moscow , has quitted the latter capital , and set out for the Chinese frontier . His mission is supposed to have some connexion with the hostilities at present existing between England and the authorities at Canton . Tho Caucasus contains a very circumstantial account of another expedition which was made towards the end of January in the Great Tschetchna , Schainyl ' s territory , and which lasted a fortnight . Several -uuls -were burnt , and paths were cut through two thick forests with a view to future enterprises . The Tschcrkessen are described as having opposed a most vigorous resistance , and as having made ample uso of their mountain artillery ; but nothing was ablo to stop the advance of the Jtussiann , who , after attaining their object , retired to their former position with a loss of thirty-nine men killed . The expedition was conducted by General . fowdomilcoff . — Times h ' crlin Correspondent .
The famine in Finland continues , and has reached a frightful point , many having actually died of starvation . The harvest last year , it scorns , fell fur short of the wants of the population ; whence the present distress . The poor have hcon living on a bread composed of litirk and straw ; but many have been unablo to obtain even this sustenance . In tho north of Sweden , things nro as bad . Lupland in sufTuring fearfully , and it is even said that children have gnawn tlieir own hands from hunger , and that adults havo died from starvation while endeavouring to sustain lift : by Htraw . The Swedish Government lias acted energetically in giving relief to tho furnishing .
There is to bo a diminution in the Russian Customs Tariil " . Woollens and cottons are reduced by one-hull '; ribbons of all kinds from ' 1 roubles to 2 ; doth from 1 rouble to' 10 kopecks ; silk goods and prinLed wilk . s remain at 4 roubles ; articles of linen are reduced from f ! 0 to 3 . 0 per cent . ; Hucn cloth is increased by 25 per cent .
IlKMiMJM . A ft er a lengthened discussion , the Belgian Chamber of IiOprcsent . iitives lins conic to a voto on tho question of the import duty on coals . Admission free of all duty was rejected by a majority of ( i () to ' A ' . i ; a duty of 2 uc . the tun , proposed \> y tho committee , wan net uaide by a
majority of ' 53 ' to 41 , and a < nity of Iff . 40 c , proposed by the Government , adopted by 54 to 39 . - ' . - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' - ' ' 8 P ! A 0 N .. The result , of the elections Lraown . up- ta tfafe' time Csaya a despatch , from Madrid , of the 27 tik \ nit ) is favourable to the Moderados . MM . Martinez dfe ha , Kosa , Groyenech Serrano , the Duke d'Avlbe , Nbcedal , sen ., and tha Count de Belaacoain , have ljeea elected'far-Madrid . Tie Government . is also triuinphingr in the electoral districts , of the province of Madridi .
EEALY . A measure , recently adopted at Rome , which , withdraws the youth of the Roman States from thein former teachers , who are supposed to be too liberal , and commits them to the charge of the Jesuits , has created great dissatisfaction . The interests of several French subjects are compromised by the measure ; and it is hoped that France will interfere . THE DANUBIAN PRrN-CIPALEEIEa The solemnity of the- promulgation of the Imperial finnan of the Sultan , relative to the convocation of tho Divans ad hoc , was accomplished on the 12 th ult ; at Jassy . The ceremonies passed off . with much enthusiasm and . inutual good-will . \ Yhilo the firman was being £ rc » ad , the troops of tho garrison wero under arms * , and the artillery fired one hundred and one erunB .
The Orient. Reltslv And India.. Om The 8...
THE ORIENT . rEltSLV AND INDIA .. Om the 8 th of February , a force under Lieutenant-General Sir James -Outrarn obtained a signal victory at Khooshab over the Persians , commanded by Soojah-Ool-moolk . On the 3 rd of February the expeditionary force , consisting of 415 cavalry , 4300-infantry ,- and 18 guns , left Bushire . " After a march of forty-ono : hours it reached the Persian entrenchment at Boorazjoor , distant forty-six miles from Bushire , upon which , the enemy : retreated from their entrenchments to the mountains , abandoning their stores and ammunition , all of which were destroyed . The British forces two days afterwards commenced their return march ,, in which they were disturbed by an ineffectual night attack on the part of the enemy . At daybreak , tho Persian army , about 6000 strong , with 5 guns , was attacked by British cavalry and' artillery , and totally routedl The enemy lost 700 killed , 100 prisoners , and two gams were taken . Our . total , loss was 10 lulled and C 2 wounded . Lieutenant Frankland was lulled , and Captain Forbes , Captain Modeler , and Lieutenant Greentreo were wounded . The expedition returned to Bushiro on . ' tiio 10 th of February . There have been some disturbances in Pegu , which were unimportant , but which led to a . skirmish with the troops . The Madras Exhibition was opened very successfully by Lord Harris on the 8 th of February . Meetings have been held at Calcutta to petition Parliament against the regulation of the new penal code , subjecting Europeans to the jurisdiction of the Company's courts . The Bombay import market was stead y ; cotton and oil seeds were-very firm . The money market was unchanged . Government securities were slightly improved . CHINA . With the exception of an attack on the junks iu the Canton river , no further active operations have taken place at the scene of hostilities . Admiral Sir . H . Seymour was nt Hong-Kong , waiting for reinforcements . Tlia trial of Allum , the baker , and bis fellow-prisonor , charged with poisoning tho European inhabitants of Hong-Kong , has resulted in a verdictof Not Guilty . A telegraphic message had been received at Bombay from the authorities at Calcutta , that tho Emperor of Cliina had sent orders to Yeli to conclude peace on any terms . At Hong-Kong , exchange was 4 s . 8 d . At Shanghai , imports were rather lower ; tho total silk settlements were 70 , 500 . ImIgh , of which G 7 (( i 00 had been h'fl ; prices advanced 10 dols . Kxehango was Cs . 7 d . At Fooeho-w , there was a further advance in tea . The import market was dull .
Obituary. Mi:, .Lon.V Mitoiikm, Kkjiblk....
OBITUARY . Mi :, . lon . v MiToiiKM , Kkjiblk . —Tina gentleman , one of the most eminent Anglo-Saxon ucholars of the present century , died at Dublin from inflammation of tho lungs on Thursday week . lie had been to tho Irish eniiitnl for the purpose of collecting specimens of Celtic , and Anglo-Saxon antiquities for the Art Treasures I'bcliiliition at Manchester , and it in thought that tho exertions he made hastened his death , Mr . Komblo waa tlie eldest Bon of the latoCharletj Komblo , tho actor ; he was educated partly by Dr . liichardBon , author of the celebrated Dictionary of the ' English language ; and was n Master of Arts of Cambridge . Besides hia standard works on Anglo-Saxon history and philology , ho wuh for several yearn tho editor of tlio British and Foreign ( liuu-ltrhj Hcviv . w . At the time of hit * death , ho hold tin : ofllce previously filled by hin father—that of Kxuiniiicr of 1 'lay . s under tlio Lord Chamberlain .
Mil . Lkipkuck , tho singer , died at the latter end of last week in tlie fiftieth year of his nge . Ho has loft a wifu mid h \ x . children behind him , totally unprovided Air .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04041857/page/3/
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