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No. 429 ^ June 12,1858.] T H E L E A D E...
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AMERICA. The question of the outrages by...
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into Bristol , 77 , 898 ? . 15 s . 2 < L , and duties received on goodsfrom other ports , 27 , 168 ? . 7 s . The export trade to foreign ports during the past month has been extremely dull , and in staple articles of commerce—iron , coal , and coke—the business transacted has been considerably below the average . The total exports of iron have been 1115 tons , of coal 2 tons , and of coke 31 tons . Compared with the fortnight ending the last day of April , these returns show a falling off of 986 tons of coal , and an increase of 369 tons of iron in the five weeks of May as against tlie weeks in April . The exports of coal from the Severn ports ( including Bristol , Cardiff , Swansea , Newport , Llanelly , Port Talbot , INeath , and St . David ' s ) , during the month of April , were 113 , 540 tons ; in the corresponding period of last year , they were 120 , 670 tons , thus-showing a decrease of 7130 tons .
No. 429 ^ June 12,1858.] T H E L E A D E...
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America. The Question Of The Outrages By...
AMERICA . The question of the outrages by the English on American merchant vessels continues to be the great subject of conversation in America , and the excitement is said to have startled , our representative at Washington . He expresses his confident opinion , however , that there has been some mistake about the instructions sent out , and that his Government will make satisfactory explanations . In the meanwhile , tlie outrages continue . The brig Maria Tribon , which lias arrived at Boston , reports that she was boarded in the harbour of Sagua la Grande ; by men from an English cruiser . The John and Albert which has arrived at New Orleans from Genoa , also reports having been fired into five times by a British vessel -of war . A bill has been introduced into the Senate enabling the President to obtain by force prompt redress for the perpetration of outrages upon the flag , soil , or citizens of the United States , or upon their property . It proposes : to authorize the President to make reprisals wherever the adoption of such a course is deemed necessary . A loan bill for 850 , 000 dollars , redeemable at any lime After the expiration of fifteen years from the first of next January , to be issued at a rate of interest not exceeding six percent ., has passed the Senate . Two New York regiments Lave tendered their services to the President in case of war with this country , and an additional appropriation of 50 , 600 dollars for the Brooklyn navy-yaTd has been made . The Minister of Marine has given orders for the armament and departure ¦ of all the ships of war .
The recent intelligence from Salt Lake , to the effect that the quarrel was likely to be compromised , has not caused any intermission in the preparation for hostilities . The peace proposals are now said not to > be progressing favourably . General Smith , commander of the United States army , has died at Fort Leavenwoith , and is succeeded by Brigadier-General Harney . The civil war continues in Mexico , -where the Reactionists appear to be losing , and the Constitutionalists to be gaining , ground . The latter anticipate an easy victory . Vera Cruz has been blockaded for three clays by the Government steamer Guerrero ; but , in consequence of her fuel running short , the vessel was obliged to leave .
The war in Tampico is over . The Government troops , having attacked-the insurgents under Garzn , dispersed them . A party of Mexicans has attacked the camp of the Apache Indians near Fort Thorn , and butchered indiscriminately men , women , and children ; but they Lave since been captured . Lieutenant Lloyd , the Admiralty agent of the British mail steamer Dee , with the English maita , - has been captured l ) y General Garyas , tlie revolutionary general at Tampico . It appears that Lieutenant Lloyd wa 3
conveyed ashore from the Dee , lying off Tampico , witii his mails addressed to the British consul at that plac e , in a native boat , and the crew of the boat , being in the interest of Garyas , treacherously conveyed the English officer to a spot where there was a camp of the revolutionary General . Garyas did not happen to be there ; so Lieutenant Lloyd was sent on to a place where he was stopping , and word wa 9 conveyed to the latter of the capture that had been made . The Lieutenant was afterwards sent to Tampico , where he obtained the protection of the American consul .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow ami unchristian feeling is to bo conof forel'u nln ^^ i ^ lofay the proJr-eas oi ioreign nations , nnd caves for no nor tin ii r , F thn human race but Lhat to which itself beWgS . Dn . Arnold , fuanck . The period of the suspension of the Indcpendanco Balm ended about ten days ago ; but the paper wag not allowed to be issued from tlio French Tost Office Its entire suppression ja said to bo decided on , unless it con-Bent to dismiss a director obnoxious to tlio French Go vernment ; to appoint certain of its correspondents on cuUion ! lgnatl 0 n ° ° Bftme i " nd tC rubli 8 h only ono JH Vwr lf of ., ? iotllt > tho 8 «™» P ort of Cassias , and the port of Marseilles , are to be fortified . lh « Inbunal of Correctional Police has tried fourteen
men , one m flight by default , for having formed a sec ret political society for the assassination of the Emperor a ** d the overthrow of the Government . Some of the m admitted the truth of the charge . Three were acquitted , and the others found guilty , and sentenced to variou s terms of imprisonment ( none of very long duration ) and to fines of divers amounts . ¦ " ¦ A . M . de Chasot , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , " has-been elected a member of tlie Corps Legislatif for a section of the Orne by 14 , 326 votes out of 27 , 178 , the remainder of which were distributed among various candidates , most of whom , it is alleged , were equally devoted to Government . It is also said that the Government , for the first time , abstained from nominating a candidate . No reliable particulars of the election are yet known . "
M- de Sacy has just published in two volumes the most remarkable of the articles which he contributed , during a period of thirty years , to the columns of the Journal des Debuts , which paper he is one of the editors . The Journal ales Mines published , a few weeks ago , an abstract of an article in the Times on the Atlantic Telegraph . The abstract was signed by one of the gentlemen connected with the paper , and was copied into various other journals , the signature in each case being different . In all the reproductions , however , a blunder which had ' crept into the original- — " Queenstown , Iceland , "" for " Queenstown , Ireland "—was repeated . The French Mediterranean fleet , composed , of the steamships of the line Bretagne , Arcole , Ulin , Prince Jerome , Dornvwertb , and the steam frigate Isly , has anchored in Toulon roads .
M . dc Pene is much better . He has at len gtli been able to take some solid food , and it is hoped he -will soon bear removal to Paris . ; ¦¦ M-Turgot , French Ambassador at Madrid , landed at Marseilles on Sunday from Valencia . He set out immediately for Paris . The journals which were most sanguine in . their anticipations of an improvement in commercial affairs now admit that all hope of a reaction must be abandoned for some months to come . . . " The Moniteur publishes a . ' Senatus-Consultum relative to the appropriation of the Bois de Yincennes fora public promenade . : ; :
After all , Lieutenant de Mercy , who recently killed a brother officer is not to suffer capital punishment . He has been degraded as an officer , and , after the performance of the ceremony , he was taken before the court-martial which tried him the second time , to hear read the Emperor's letters patent commuting the capital sentence . M . Chaumeiul de Stella , the officer acting as judgeadvocate , thus addressed Mm : — " De Mercy , you owe your life to the Empres 3 , whose noble heart takes an interest in all who suffer , pray , and repent . Your sword will presently be broken , and the pieces thrown at your feet . Who knows but that at some future period you , purified by a long and painful expiation , may , obedient to the instincts of your race , one day draw another sword in honour in some distant climate ?" So the murderer is reserved for great deeds .
A dreadful fire , which spread consternation among the inhabitants of the Faubourg St . Germain , took place on Sunday night , in the great establishment called the Grand Conde " , which , before the ; nre , occupied ono house in the Rue de Seine and two houses in the Hue do l'Ecole de Medecine . The calamity is supposed to have been caused by an explosion of gas . It has led to a gr-eat destruction of property , and to the wounding of two or three by-stnndera by falling beams , & e . " The Emperor , " says the Moniteur , " has had the pious idea of securing to France the possession of tho habitation where the Emperor Napoleon 1 . ended his days , and of the toinb where liis ashes reposed . Associating itself with the august solicitude of his Imperial Majesty ,
the Legislative Corps has voted un extraordinary credit of 180 , 000 francs to bo placed at the disposal of the Department of Foreign Allairs . The acquisition of those precious ruins is now an accomplished fact . On the lUth of hist March , a decree passed by tlic Legislature of St . Helena , anil ratified on the 7 th of May following by an order of the Queen of England , conferred upon the Emperor of the French , and his heirs for ever , the nbsoluto right of property in tho domain of Longwood and of the tomb of Napoleon I , Thus , thanks to the willing intervention of the Government of her Britannic Mujesty , tho . su sacred localities where incomparable destinies wero fulfilled belong henceforth to France . " The I'iyaro has been sold to M . Augusto Yillemot , who leaves the feuilluton of tho Indcpendanca Jidya to duvote himself entirely to his now ta ^ lc . TUKKBY . The number of tho insurgents in Ciindia is increasing , and five other districts of the inland have risen . Curnki , the principal leader of tl » e revolt , is advancing on Canca , at tlie head of ono thousand men . Tho English Consul-General nt Belgrade baa been attacked and severely wounded by two Turkish Hohliers . A Russian frigate is going to llngusa . There has Ibeen a sad aiecident at 1 ' cru . A scaffolding
erected in a temporary Greek church gave "way , and thirty people were killed or wounded . As the steamer Djeddah was starting , a few days since , for Syria , it blew up , and there was great loss of life . . There have been extraordinary rejoicings at Constantinople on the occasion of the marriage of the Sultan ' s daughter .
ITALY . The Exhibition of the Manufactures and Agricultural Produce of the Sardinian States has now been open at Turin rather more than a month ; and the Times correspondent gives some account of its contents . The most remarkable of the inventions appears to be the autographic telegraph , a discovery of Signor BonellL , the director of Sardinian telegraphs . " In a small machine that stands on one side of the room , you . insert a slip of prepared paper , which looks as if it were silvered , and on which you have written a sentence . This machine communicates by an electric wire with another machine , of similar appearance , at the other end of the room . Between two small rollers of the latter machine you
insert a slip of yellow paper , which passes through the rollers ,, receiving in its passage a green stripe down its centre , on which appears , in black , the exact facsimile of the writing on the paper put in at the other end . The transmission is only across a room , but it is presumable , and the inventor assures us , that it might be made with equal ease and correctness across a continent or under an ocean , ' the wires once laid down . The marvel is effected by a combination of chemistry and electricity , —The only other object in . the Exhibition which I noticed as being an invention is an ingeniously
contrived ' railway writer , ' by an English resident in Turin , Mr . Small wood , formerly paymaster of * the Italian Legion . It is a portfolio , in which , with a hardpointed stick , you write between bars , which serve to guide the hand and diminish the inconvenience of tho motion of the carriage . There is also a . contrivance by which you know where you have left off writing , so that the thing might be used almost in the dark . The writing is on a black surface , and is reproduced pri . a sheet of paper underneath , in the . manner of a manifold writer . ' * " " .
Vesuvius is again blazing and casting forth streams of fiery lava from many openings in its side . A writer from the spot says : — " The lava is making considerable progress in various directions , towards Ottajano , Pompeii , and Resina , at which place many persons are of opinion that it . must ' arrive in a very short time . The reports of the guide which I have sent speak of there being only two streams ; how many there are it would Le difficult to say , by such a network of fire is the mountain covered . Were I to attempt the calculation , however , I should speak of four—one which descends upon Ottajano ; another Avhich is close to it , and which issues from some part of the Atrio del Cavallo , at . the foot of Somma ; ai third which rolls towards Pompeii ; and a fourth , which is rapidly coming down upon Resina —in fact , it has taken the course of the old stream which formerly came down upon Herculaneum . The
first and the last merit most attention . The one which descends on Ottajano is perhaps about a quarter of a mile in width , and , after proceeding through the Atrio del Cavallo , takes a serpentine direction round the back « f the Hermitage . It passes over the stream of 1850 . It moves on in one mighty mass , and its progress is marked by the detaching of mighty fragments , which fall down by their own gravitation , apparently not breaking the entirety of the stream , and opening up fountains of living , scorching fire . The Resina stream is fed by three new openings , not in the cone , but at a quarter of a mile , perhaps , from tho base of it , which pulF and pump up continually the ceaseless stream of lire which is making rapidly for Resina . The vineyards are burning up in all directions , and , while some of the peasantry look sadly on , others are kneeling and praying to their saints in a roadside oratory . "
Mr . Hodge , who was arrested in Piedmont sorao months ago , embarked at Genoa on tho evening of tho 20 th ult ,, on board the English steamer Tencriffo , bound for this country . The appeal against the condemnation of the Cagliari came on for hearing before the Superior Court , Naples , ¦ on the 31 st ult . The case was adjourned to the 8 th inst .
8 PALN . A disturbance has taken place among the medical students at Madrid ; but it is said not to have had . anything of ji political character . Tho accounts received from tho provinces with respect to tho growing crops are not favourable . Tho diligonco to Bayonnc was stopped on the evening ' of the Ord hist , about six miles from Burgos , hy rovcii armed men , who beat the guard , and compelled him to deliver up a sum of fifteen thousand francs which ho had in tho vehicle . No violence was shown towards the passengers .
An English officer of tho cavalry regiment stationed at Malaga , named Vivian Butler , was assassinated on tlio 81 st ult . nt a placo called Gumlalmcdina , ill tho suburbs . A man has been arrested on suspicion . Tiio act arose out of a street quarrel . Their Majesties liavo safely returned from lhoir ox-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/7/
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