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THE ORIENT. PERSIA AND INDIA. Some very ...
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Ireland. A Madman In A Coach.—A Person N...
James SADj ^ Eiii- —A letter to the Dublin Evening Eost from Mr . Jarnes Sailleir , in answer- to some states meats by Mr . James Scully , has been published . The v / titer says : " I never owed the bauk or any bank a shilling , but always had a considerable sum to my credit ia the Tipperary Joint-stock Bank , and during the run 5 . 000 / . due to me , which I might have drawn out , or eyen after Mr . John Sadleir ' s death . I never had any connexion , directly or indirectly , with any one of the numerous speculations Mr . John Sadleir appears to have been mixed up in , or any other speculation . From the moment I discovered in London , late in lSoof the
extent of the land transactions he was mixed up in , and railways in England , France , Germany , Sweden , Switzerland , and Italy , I . denounced him in the strongest language I could , for having allowed himself , under any circumstances , to be engaged in so many undertakings , though I had ths strongest assurance irom himself , and some of his friends , that large and immediate payments ¦ were to come to him from each undertaking ; and I have got the sums in a . return given to me that were to come from each . From all the information I could colleet a short time before his death , from himself and some of his friends , I was fully satisfied the worst was over , and that he was fast getting out of the temporary dilHeulties he had got into , and that he would have a considerable surplus after paying all debts that I had any knowledge of . " The letter " is dated Paris , Mav 8 th .
The Potato Riots-. —i urther disturbances to prevent the exportation of potatoes have taken " place at Ovanmore . It was found necessary to bring out the police and soldiery ; and one or two persons were injured by the violence of the mob .
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The Orient. Persia And India. Some Very ...
THE ORIENT . PERSIA AND INDIA . Some very iuiportan t intelligence from the seat of war ia Persia has been communicated by telegraph to the Peninsular and Orieutal Company ' s agent at Alexandria , and by him to the London papers . We here read : — " Before the news of the conclusion of peace with Persia could reach us , an expedition to Mohammerah sailed from Bushire on the 19 th of March , under the personal command of Sir James Outram . The force arrived * in the mouth of the Euphrates on the 21 st . On the 24 th , it moved towards- the fort , and opened a brisk fire at daybreak on the 26 th . The Persians replied with spirit , but in the end the superiority of our squadron was manifest , and our troops having landed , advanced upon the entrenched camp of the enemy , who Hed immediately , leaving behind them their tents , stores , & c . The loss of the enemy has been estimated at 200 killed .
" As a truly tragic episode of this war , we have to mention the death , each by his own hand , of General Forster Stalker , Commander of the Forces , and Commodore Etherege , of the Navy . The verdict on General Stalker ' s body was , that he came by his death from a pistol-shot inflicted by his own hand in a lit oi ' temporary insanity . There was no paper left to indicate this . He was merely heard to complain that the 3 rd Cavalry was not given him , and ho was also uneasy about the responsibilitj' of sheltering the European troops during the approaching hot woather . The verdict on Commodore Etherege was , that ho destroyed himself ¦ with his own hand while sullering under mental aberration , brought about by long-continued anxiety connected with tho duties of his command .
"A mutiny of the Sepoys of tho lL > th Bengal Native Infantry has ended in the disbanding of tho corps . The Governors of the Presidencies are at tho seats of their administration . A further improvement has taken place in our money-market , and wo have to report a further rise in four per cent , paper . The business transacted in the import market during tho fortnight bus been to a fair extent . Freights have fallen in value , and exhibit a downward tendency . " Advices from Constantinople state that , after taking Mohammerah , tho English commander learned that the treaty of pence had boen concluded , and ordered a suspension of hostilities .
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AMERICA . Ti-ikru is very little political news from the United States this week . President Buchanan is indisposed . Tho Filibusters continue to pour buck from Nicaragua ; but another expedition ia tnlked of nt Nesv York , in the interest of Stuitu Anna , tho ex-Dictator of Mexico . Generals Wheat and Hornuby wore among a purty of one hundred and ton of Walker ' s adventurers who " arrived at New OrleanH on tlio' Ot . lv of April . Othorn belonging to Colonol Lockridgo ' n force had boen left behind at Aspinwall , whore they wore taken oft" by n vessel of tho English licet . The Costa Uicans hnvo taken possession of Punta Arenas , together with the steamer JUohcuo , a quantity of ammunition , and six pieces of artillory . Tho transit routo is said to bo open to tho Paciilo . Two thousand trooptt havo boen do * spatuhod from Vera Cruss to tho Moxican capital .
An , insurrectionary movement , in which Sonor Agouluv , a former minister of Sunta Anna , is hnpUcato u , haa btten do tec tod and BUppresHod at Mexico . Tho M 6 a > ionn JMtatraordinary , of April 4 th , says : — "Wo hear ' it atutod
that the Charge d'Affaires of the British Legation haa presented his ultimatum to the Mexican Government , stating that if in nine days his demands ai-e not satisfied I he wiS close tho Legation . Six days of the aforesaid ! nine have exp ired already ; so we may expect in the j course of tlie next few days , to learn tho result of this demand . The road from "Vera Cruz to Mexico city is I now safe . Throughout the whole distance , small partios ! of mounted guards are posted , who ride from one station to the other and protect the road from robbers . A tax of half a dollar on each passenger by the diligence is levied to defrav a portion of the expense incurred by this road
guard . " According to a despatch of General Mora , commander of the allied forces of the Costa * Ricans , Rivas is invested , the Filibusters are being slowly starved , and desertions from their ranks frequently take place . Some accounts say that symptoms of dissension between the Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans had already shown themselves on the Atlantic side and in the interior . 11 From Kingston , Jamaica , " soys the Times , " we learn that on the 16 th ult . . 1 schooner , evidently American , was towed into port by her Majesty ' s brig Arab . It Mas soon ascertained that the schooner was a slaver , and that she had on board a large number of captives . She had been closely pursuedXiy the Arab , and the captain , finding there was no possibility of escaping , deserted , taking with him in a shallop his crew , money , chronometer , and other useful articles . The commander
of the Arab despatched his gunboat with fifteen men , under the command of his first lieutenant , with orders for the capture of the shallop . The chase continued for neaiiy threa hours , and , a shot having destroyed ths rudder of the shallop , the captain , who was owner of the slaver , surrendered . Two of his principal slaves and an interpreter were taken from the shallop , and the crew left in it , to make the best of their way to Cuba . The first lieutenant then boarded the schooner , and found her filled with young Africans , males and females , to the number of three hundred and seventy-three , no less than one hundred and twenty-seven having fallen victims to the horrors of the middle passage during a voyage of twentyMiine days . The poor captives were in a wretched condition ; all of them were naked , and the greater part seemed to have been half starved . They were packed closely together , and covered with dirt and vermin . "
Yellow fever is producing great ravages at Montevideo . Serious dissensions are reported to have broken out among the Mormons , beth at San Bernardino and the Salt Lake . The Indians continue to give great trouble on the frontiers of Iowa , Minnesota , and Nebraska . There has been much slaughter of white settlers , and several contests have taken place with the troops , who are pursuing the savages into their strongholds . Some of the New York papers , however , state that those reports arc either entirely fabricated or highly coloured , for the purpose of keeping up fho price of land in the eastern territories by preventing emigration to tlie west .
Mr . Stevenson , tho newly-elected Lnglush . Superintendent of Belize , landed from her Majesty ' s ship Arab on the 30 th of March , and was sworn in tho next day with much ceremony . On the following day , tlie Arab took him down to Ituatan , where he was sworn in , in tho name of Queen Victoria , as ' Her Majesty's Lieutenant-Ciovcrnor of the Bay Islands . ' The boiler of a steamer on the Delaware and Haarlem Canal has exploded , killing five persons and fatally injuring three others . A collision has occurred on the Ohio river between tho steamboats Rainbow and Julia Dean , owing to which tho latter sank immediately , and livo or six persona were drowned .
Jn the iN ' ow York money market there has been a more cheerful feeling , though trade generally has been dull . The Pacific Express Company ( San Francisco ) has failed .
Spekcii Of Loud Napier At Newyohk. At Th...
SPEKCII OF LOUD NAPIER AT NEWYOHK . At tho annual dinner of tho St . George's Suciuty oi Now York , held on St . George ' s Day , Lord Napier , who was present as a guest , responded as follows to the toant of " Her Majesty ' s Ministers and Represent ativea on this continent : "" Gentlemen , —I beg to ofl ' eryou my very sincere and cordial thanks for tho honour which you havo done mo in associating my name with tho toast and with tho health of ' llor Majesty's Minifltorri . ' I lor Majesty's Ministers will bo highly gratified when they learn that their names and their oilioers aro hold in such esteem , regard , ami memory by their fullow-cotiiitrymoii residing in tho United States . 1 myself , gontluinon , in my own poi-Homil capacity , am fumsiblo that I am undeserving of tho acclamations which you havo deigned to bostow upon my name ; but I see in tho » maimt ; r in which you havo received it a warm revulsion of those fooling * of fiympathy and regard which may bo Hunponded or obscured for a . time , mid by aocidont , botwoun America and England ; but which aio over dooply founded on tho alFootioiVH and tho intoroata of fho two countries . ( Lewd oftecm . ) Tho ollloo which 1 havo tho happin
I may still maintain tiat there is not a more gratefu l more glorious , or a more useful employment than this employment , which I share with my venerable friend the United States Minister in Lond 6 n—the employmen t of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friendshi p between tho two great branches of the English race ( Lottd cheers , ) I feel that I entered upon that employment here at a most auspicious period . I can assure you that I have met , upon the part of the President of " the United States , upon the part of General Cass , upon the part of all the ministers and functionaries of tl- » United States with whom I have been brought into eontact , every manifestation of that cordial and friendly disposition which animates the Government and the community of Great Britain . ( Cheers . ) There are no
questions involving any degree of anxiety or apprehension pending between the two countries—( cheers ) and I am sometimes disposed to hope that the time may soon come when there will scarcely be any subjects of official correspondence at all . ( Cheers . ) If I may not flatter myself with tin ' s agreeable prospect of official vacuity ( Jait ' jhter )—if I must look forward to my fair and natural share of discussions and debates , surely , gentlemen , we have in the experience of the past the Lest grounds for believing that there can never be a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not meet with a prompt , with a peaceful , and with an honourable solution . ( Loud cheers . ) There are many questions at omcc envenomed and alarming which have been settled in a pacific manner in our recent negotiations . Our eastern boundaries have
been defined by one treaty . Our western boundaries have been settled by another . The disputed fisheries , which at one time threatened to embroil us , have been converted , by the salutary engagements of reciprocity , into a source of mutual wealth . Finally , gentlemen , the question of the privileges of neutral trade in time of war—that question which for tio long was the constant cause of complaint and recriminations---has now obtained , by the spontaneous declarations of her Majesty ' s Ministers during the late hostilities , that liberal interpretation so often desired by tlie United States , and which no Government of Kuglaud hereafter will ever be inclined to evoke or to repeal , ( t 'heer *^ Gentlemen , I am justified , then , in saying that by an en S 3 ' exercise of frankness , of mutual forbearance and indulgence , no question can arise between , our countries which will not admit of an easy and an amicable settlement . But , gentlemen , I desire more than cordiality—I desire cooperation . ( Cheer * . ) Now , gentlemen , I do not wish to
alarm the citizens ol the United States who .-ire here present by raising before their averted eyes tlie phantom of ' entanglingalliances . ' ( Luni / ltteraudclutrs . ) Entangling alliances , gentlemen , area kind of political spectre whicli seems to have descended with undinfniisheu terrors from 1 he period of the Revolution to the present day . ( Cheers uiul lawjhicr . ) There may be mutual co-operation where there are no written engagement .- ' ; and , gentlemen , whero tho heart is wanting , there may be written engagements without mutual co-operation . ( Cheers . ) All , then , that I wish to say is , that our respective Governments should perpetually make an early and sincere declaration and avowal to each other of tlu-ir views and intentions with respect to all subjects which involve tliu common interests of tlie two conn whs— (< Iteers)—whereby they will havo tho b . nelic ol' mutual good olHces and mutual counsel , and whereby they will liable to avoid those one-sided resolution * and tliwe . startling announcements which are apt to disturb tlio confidence of commerce and calculate to escitc tlio
sensibilities and jealousies of two high-spirited nation * . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , tho only I'lilnnglin ; , ' allmme which 1 . shall venture to recommend to your adoption h the submarine cable between this country and Knglaml . ( O ' reat latit / lttcr and cherriii ;/ . ) My friend , tho "oil . chairman , ' has been so kind as to alludi : in terms ol -lowing mi logy and encomium to llio . services wlncti members of my family havo boon uiiablod in former times and generations , " to oiler lu their Mi . veri'itf" nml country either in tlio departments of science or in those of war . Tho sincerity with which that . 0110 . 111111111 wns pronounced , and tho manner in which those ub . ^ rviitioiis wore received , aro certainly exceedingly Kialilying 0 my own prido ; and all this is an additional ineuiiUvo to 1 no to endeavour to render myself not . unworthy ol tnojt services which wore performed by iuimhIu' 1 \ -i u ! my lam ' } previous occasions ( Cheer * . ) 1 cannot llnuci
upon . IIIMJI * IF * U * il / IU l w \ . » . inj « wiii * i V , r 1 myself lliut 1 ponso .-w any peculiar ! Hm » n , ° . "" , " uiil oxporl « neo , which could enable mo lo perform dutioM of her Majesty ' * Minister in a dLtu . ^ h I manner . Hut this 1 can a . s . uro you , that I u "" . ' ' lh , so duties with tho highest HiitiMuction and wllH "' happiest auticipaLion . s . ( ' // car , hear , ' and cheers . ) o tlomen , it was sumo time ago observed in wifc » ' and it wiw repeated in hoiuo quarter * in Aim Unit ( ho member * of Iho regular dip lomatic pr lossion of Gre-al ; Uritiiin were . not . qunliiiod l >\ in previous education and experience to eoiilom iliu stubborn and niam . uli . io « . lriii « ii ( H < ' Ai u " politics . ( Cheers . ) H whh suppled , ' h' « n «« ' »| ' ' ' ' .,. wo wore ho inured in tho potty aotH mid m "u
pniuMuurt of ' cabinet intrigu .-, ' that wo wore » 0 otutomod to l . umblo oumalvoi in tho twi tent " » " ' uourtH , that wo wore not qualified nor ill »|>«» o < l to m a free people in tho light of day . ( iMiitt oft « er « O
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Leader (1850-1860), May 16, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16051857/page/6/
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