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Ju« 6.1*56.1 * gE LEASER. 081
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THE OKIENT. INDIA. The detailed news con...
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L I AMERICA. " A. lull has come over the...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. The Emperor h...
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Nawab Op, Surat Treaty Bill. We Have Bee...
therefore incorrect ia charging them with a refusal to pay any portion of the annuity to any of the alleeed heirs of the late Nawab . They have , in fact , paid nearly 11 , 0007 . a year in life pensions to these persons , including 6720 Z . per annum to Meer Jaffier Ali , liis two daughters , and his mother-in-law , notwithstanding the imputation cast upon the legitimacjof his late wife- Consequently , should the terms of this provision be set aside , the collateral relatives of the promoter of the bill will be deprived of all means of support , without having been heard in their own defence . The tendency of private bills of this nature can only be to transfer the functions of Orovernment to the tribunal of a committee , and to enable such committee to decide judicially on the construction and effect of any particular treaty . All questions hitherto determined by the Indian Government in a manner adverse to the interests and demands of opulent individuals become likewise unsettled , and liable to an application for a private Act of Parliament to reverse the decision . If the treaty in question be still a matter for consideration and inquiry it should be referred to a judicial tribunal , and not to a Committee of either Houses of Legislature . With regard to the second object of the bill , the petitioners protest against any decision being come to in the absence of the parties interested in the -case . A tribunal , without appeal , was provided by Act No . 18 of 1848 of the Indian Legislature . The claimants upon the late Nawab ' s private property proceeded under that Act , and acted upon the faith of it . The promoter himself of this bill would have -abided by the decision of that tribunal had it pronounced in his favour , and would have insisted upon its being final . Had he desired to secure a right of appeal , he should have applied before judgment was given . For these reasons the petitioners pray that the bill may not be proceeded with as a private bill ; that due notice be given , before further proceedings are taken , to the individuals affected by it ; and that they themselves may be heard at the bar of their Lordships' House by their counsels , agents , and witnesses , against the said bill , & c . & c .
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The Okient. India. The Detailed News Con...
THE OKIENT . INDIA . The detailed news contained in the various Indian . papers does not amount to much more than what ¦ was given in a brief telegraphic form lust week . The stoppage of public works in . India , which has been confidently asserted in several places , we ( Leader ') have authority for denying : at least , it has not taken place to the extent , and for the reasons , stated . Some degree of slackness may have ensued owing to the inevitable effect of the rainy season ; but the stoppage , if any , has not been voluntary , or from want of funds . "A letter , " says the Bombay Times , " has lately been published from the Marquis of Dalhousie to the King of Oude , a translation of which has been furnished to the press by Captain Wilberforce Bird , and has supplied food for no end of bitter comment . His Majesty ' s journey in quest of redress commences inauspiciously . He has scarcely well started when his progress is all but stopped till he settles his tavern bill . He no sooner engages one agent and sends him home , than he ex--. chunges him for another , and the first step that other takes is to make the most disingenuous use of a state paper to which he had no right , Avith the contents of which he became acquainted , aud which he annexed , in his previous capacity of assistant to the llesident . " There has been a heavy gale at Bengal . The Calcutta Engl ishman , chronicling the arrival of the ex-King of ( Judo and the Queen Dowager his mother , adds : —" The good lady , who appears to possess the energy which her son wants , declares her intention of going to England . She considers that without her presence the King will fall into the hands of bad advisers . She menus to face Lord Dalhousie at the foot of the throne . CHINA . From China , we hear that tho rebels arc progressing , and have gained several successes . Her Majesty ' s steamer Encounter , with Admiral Seymour on board , arrived off the English possessions . His Excellency has hoisted his ilag on board the Winchester pending the arrival of the Calcutta . EG Yl'T . Tho ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey , Rcschid Pacha , Las arrived in Egypt . It is said that he is instructed to remonstrate with the Vicerpy on the unnecessary fiizo of his army , on his hostility to tlie Jiedouins , and on his concentration of power into his own hands . Groat numbers of Arabs from the coast of liarbary have been recently pouring into Egypt , ileeing their country , where famine and misery prevail to an extraordinary extent . Tho Viceroy lms recently granted a great boon to tho town of Alexandria by abolishing tho octroi duties which were levied on all articles of consumption brought inside tho walla . General Sir James Outran ) , who arrived at Alexandria by the last mail from India , was detained there by ill-health , for a fortnight .
L I America. " A. Lull Has Come Over The...
L I AMERICA . " A . lull has come over the state of affairs on the other ' side of the Atlantie ; so that the news by the last ! steamers is not a 3 important as that which has recently " arrivted . In the Senate , Mr . Adams ( Democrat ) has made a speech in support of his bill proposing to extend . the term of naturalization to twenty-one years , and to . exclude " foreign criminals and paupers from voting , in order to prevent these and European serfs from controling elections , and thus perilling our liberties . " Intelligence has been received of the loss of the Pallas , Captain Spillane , from Cork , for Quebec , with one hundred and twenty passengers . These , becoming alarmed , rushed into the boats , which immediately sank , and seventy-two persons were drowned . The remainder were rescued . " There is a plan in agitation here among the Southern members of Congress , " says the New York Herald , " to abandon the Central American route to the Pacific , and to acquire the cession of the Tteiiuantepec route from Mexico in exchange for guaranteeing her territorv against the threatened Spanish hostilities . " Mr . Butler , pro-slavery member for South Carolina ,
has made a speech in Congress witn respect to me assault on Mr . Samner . He said that " on some accounts it -was fortunate he was not there at the time , for he did not know what he might have done . To be sure , it was thirty or forty years since he had been engaged in personal conflicts , and his hand was out of practice ( laughUr ) — but he did not know but he might have had a trial at him . One thing he had no doubt of , namely , if he ( Butler ) ¦ were a younger man , he would have left him ( Suraner ) in a worse condition than he now is . The New England papers , " continued Mr . Butler , " call this a specimen of southern violence and southern ruffianism ; but the first congressional Jight since the foundation of this Government took place between two New England men—Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold . That did not take place outside the House ; they fought with hickorysticks , spit-boxes , and tongs , all over the House of Representatives ( laughter )—when it was in session , too ; but the House did not turn them out . They said , ' Let them both go ; they are disgraced enough already . '" The New York Journal of Commerce states that the America , the searching of which vessel by a British naval officer at Rio , on the supposition that she was equipped as a privateer , was opposed by the United States Commodore , and which caused a good deal of indignation before the conclusion of the war with Russia , "was , on her arrival , reported in the San Francisco Shippiny List as Russian property . On leaving Rio , the United States Commodore towed the America above one hundred miles on her course , so as to protect her from seizure . The trial of the negro "Wilson for the murder of Captain Palmer , of the schooner Eudora Iinogene , has terminated in a verdict of Guilty . Kansas is again quiet . The Federal troops have disbanded the various unlawful military bodies , and tranquillity is restored for the present . Great atrocities appear to have been committed both by the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery parties . The position of General Walker at Nicaragua remains much the same . No fighting is going on , but sickness prevails among the troops . From the South Pacific the news is interesting . Peru is in a very disturbed state , and a revolutionary movement is anticipated . Bolivia and Chili are quiet . From the copper mines there were very cheering accounts , and a fine commerce is expected to spring up when the free-trade treaty with the Argentine Republic is perfected The disagreement between Spain and Mexico continues . About the 2 nd ult . there arrived at Vera Cruz a Spanish squadron of niue vessels of war , to demand payment of the money owing from the Mexican Government to Spain , in default , they threatened to land , take possession of the Custom-house , and pay themselves out of the receipts . An anocdote of slave life is supplied by a Woodstock ( U . S . ) paper . The Rev . Ward Jieechcr , of Brooklyn , made an appeal from the pulpit one Sunday in favour of a slave girl , nearly white , who was about to be sold into infamy by her own father , a southern planter . Mr . licccher said that one thousand dollars had been subscribed to rescue the girl , but live hundred dollars more were required . A gentleman , amidst loud applause , oll'erod a cheque for tho whole amount ; but the others wished to subscribe , and eight , hundred dollars wore made up in a minute . The ulave was thus rescued . The Louisril / e Journal has tho following nonchalant paragraph : — " We learn that a shooting affair enmo off at Luko Providence about a week ngo . A man named . Jones allot a man named Patterson , mistaking him for one Ponnington . PaUer . son , after being shot twice , one of the balls lodging in his breast , drew n pistol and was about to shoot Jonos , when tho latter begged his purdon , . saying ho had miutukun hi . s man . Patterson generou . sly accepted tho apology . His wounds are not mortal . " The state of things in California is reported as being moat frightful . Anarchy and murder scorn to huvo had completely their own way , and it has boon found necesanrv to re-establish tho Vigilance Coimmttcu of 1861 , tlio ' moinburti of which , perceiving that the laws aro ibobly or corruptly administered , havo taken tho punishment of iiririonorti into their own linnda . Jainus King , tho editor of a newspaper , having been shot in the public
streets of San Francisco , the "Vi gilance Committee ( which appears to be a body of militia ) reassembled to die number of two thousand , who armed themselves , and marched in military order , with fixed bayonets , to the gaol where Casey , the murderer of Mr . King , was confined . A heavy piece of ordnance was planted at the great iron door of the prison , and a man stood beside it witn a lighted match . It was - then demanded that Casey and another man , who has murdered the United States Marshal Richardson , should be given up to them for punishment . Resistance being impossible , this was done . The two murderers were then taken away . Intelligence has not yet been received of their fate . The President of Peru , General Castilla , irritated by the apathy exhibited by the Brazilian Government in not opening the River Amazon , has determined on making the navigation free . He lias accordingly obtained from the Peruvian Chambers a grant of 100 , 000 piastres , which is to be given to the captain of the first European ship , whether a steam snip of war or a merchant ship , who shall force the blockade of the Amazon , and sail to the port of Nanta . This has been contradicted .
Continental Notes. France. The Emperor H...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The Emperor has gone to Plombteres to recruit himself , having , it id said , been very hard worked during the last six months . He also suffers from occasional attacks of the gout . The Empress doe 3 , not accompany him , as it is thonght that the sea air would be too sharp for the infant . During his three weeks' holiday , the Emperor will transact absolutely no business whatever . The rumoured interview with the Emperor of Austria on the shores of the Lake of Constance is denied . Count Walewski is also to take a holiday , and to stay at Homburg for about a month . The Cardinal Legate has departed on his return to Koine , after receiving from the Emperor the Graud Cross-of the Legion of Honour in diamonds . Tke Pope also has received a present from the Emperor , in the shape of a superb baptistry of Sevres porcelain , accompanied by an autograph , expression of the writer's filial affection for his Holiness , and his gratitude for the honour lately rendered to him . M . de Rayneval , the Trench Minister at Rome , is coming home on sickleave , his health being seriously impaired . The Princes of Orleans have protested against the project of law by which it was designed to compensate them for the seizure of their property after the coup d ' etat . They write , under date Clareniont , June 25 : — " Having been informed some time since that a bill was under preparation with a view to modify the decrees of confiscation of the 22 nd January , 1852 , we confined ourselves to requesting our friends to decline in an absolute manner taking any steps that might make us participators in this feeble attempt at reparation . Reasons of delicacy and affection for foreign Princes allied to our family forbade us doing more . But , on reading the expose des motifs of the bill which has been submitted to us , we found therein a word which our respect for the memory our father and our own self-esteem would not allow us to leave without a reply . It is the word bienvtillance . B enevolence can only he exercised where there is no rightful claim . Now , our claims are foimded on the authority of the law , and the justice of the country continued it , until the day when justice itself had to cede to force . Benevolence , tben , which denies a right , is therefore a new attack on the memory of our father , and we must repel it . In 1852 , a policy accustomed to look upon money as an instrument of revolution tried tp take precautions against us by confiscating the property of our family . It endeavoured to give a colouring to the injustice and violence of its proceedings by considerations revolting to the public conscience , and against which wo protested at tho time . To-day the word " benevolence , " applied to the proposed measure , implies the same idea as those considerations , and this is why we micw our protest . Perhaps by ho doing we may be obeying a sentiment of exaggerated susceptibility . VVnen , so much remains to France of tho blessings of tuo government of our father , who dare , say that ho reigned only for narrow family interests ? The Frenchman , ever devoted to his country , who in 1792 fought as a soldier to repel foreign invasion ; the King who for eighteen years knew how to mulu : France free as well as prosperous ; the King who gave it that nriny , tho heroism of which has just covered our ( lag with new glory , —that King is for evor above the attack * of culuumy . " J > . d'OuMCANfi ( Duko do N « . n « un , ) " F . d'ORLicAKS ( Prinoo do Joinville ) . " 11 . d'OmJ-UNs ( Puke u'Auinalo ) . M . do Montalombert has addn-sscd a letter to flie President of tho Legislative Body , denouncing tho bill in Question . , . ¦ , ivr si The long ponding action brought by M . Goupy ujniiiiHt the Credit Mobilior Company has been at longtu dL . puu . cl of J , v tbo Civil Tribunal of the Seine . The iuiUrwuMit i » i" favour of tho Credit Mob . lior , but M . JJurryer . tho plaintiffs counsel , took occasion to i > ronoui . ee a telling philippic against tho principle and practices of that monster fniuuoiul institution , mid what L of more consequence , tho l ' rocurour Imperial » substitute , M . Phiard , followed a loug way on the sa . no bIJo . Tho circumstances of tho ciuw arc ohortly these , la
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05071856/page/7/
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