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Ko. 421, A rail, 17. 1868.1 THE XEADER. ...
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AMERICA. Kansas continues to attract att...
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Ir Bland. Tiik Pomck Inquliiv. — This Af...
IT t u ~ Zo ret for what he had done— " regret which H alonVwith him to his grave . " These remarks * ° made under tho influence of the most violent Ctio and r aTtheir conclusion , the colonel left the Tl aiJt e overcome . The cross-examining counsel 2 ?« w & ° « uld not ' " " s entleman f ^ Cololiel Browne a . iv further questions after so handsome an Browne a collegians who were present SlS ' cd , and so thf matter has A pparently come to an end . -
Ko. 421, A Rail, 17. 1868.1 The Xeader. ...
Ko 421 , A rail , 17 . 1868 . 1 THE XEADER . ,
America. Kansas Continues To Attract Att...
AMERICA . Kansas continues to attract attention . General Lane wtVcs ' i-ned the Presidency of the Constitutional Conation , " which adjourned from Minneola to Leavenlorth on the evening of the 25 th ult . Charges of Eruption prevail ; but the advocates of extreme oninions are becoming more moderate . It is expected that the Topeka ( or anti-slavery ) Constitution will be adopted , with some modifications . Sandy Hook , near Wew York , is to be fortified . The Navy Department at Washington has received despatches from Lieutenant Craven , ° dated Pisisi , February 17 th and 22 nd saying that the exploring party had returned to the Gulf of Darien for want of provisions . Considerable ill-health prevailed , and Surgeon O'Hara was left at Pisisi to attend to the sick . On Lieutenant Craven ' s way down the Atrato , he met Lieutenant Michlan ' s division , who were running a level with great rapidity . Lieutenant Craven confidently expected that the survey would be completed by the 20 th of March . The number of volunteers for the Utah expedition is very great . The War Department contemplates increasing the force of the expedition to 5500 men , and giving the command to an officer of a higher grade than ColonelJohnston . Several battles have been fought in Mexico between the Constitutional forces and those of the Zuloaga Government . General Parrodi has retreated before General Osallos , of the Zuloaga party . Pronunciamientos are still the order of the day ; but the Government of Zuloaga seem to be gaining ground . The ¦ city of Vera Cruz is under martial law . General \ 1-daurri has issued a proclamation at Matarnasas , declaring it a free port , and demanding the payment of twenty-five per cent , on all money due for church property . From Yucatan we learn that the Indians , having taken the town of Baccalar , and ransom not being forthcoming , massacred all the inhabitants . Peru ami Venezuela are still in the throes of revolution . A Mr . Maxwell , a slave-owner , has been killed by two of his negroes , in revenge for having flogged two of Ms black women . The murderers afterwards , ( led , but were pursued and captured , and will probably be 'lynched . ' An American pap ? r says that Mr . Maxwell was wealthy , " and a very honourable upright man , not at all unkind to his serrants . '" The black women who were flogged would probably give another account .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of forej ^ a nations " , and cares fur no portion 01 the human race but that to which itself belongs . Dll . AUNOLD . 1 ' RAKCi :. A commission has been appointed to examine ami report on the best system for placing the French commercial ports in a state of defence , a question in which the Government takes great interest . The Emperor reviewed , lust Saturday , in the Court of the Tuilerles and the Carrousel , thu lUth and 17 th battalions of Rifles , the 1 st , 5 ' 2 nd , 74 th , 82 mi , 84 th , riM " , 9 l 8 t , 98 th , and 100 th ltegiments of Infantry . Those troops were commanded by General Ulrich , of tlio Imperial Guard . It is eaid that a serious misunderstanding has recently arisen between the Kmporor and Prince Napoleon , but no details arc given . Madame Victor Hugo , who with her daughter has l > ocn in Paris for some wonks past , lias aguin left for Guernsey . The visit of Madame Hugo to the French capital ( sayn Oalignani ) was rendered necessary by the state of health of her daughter , who hus been much benefited by the ¦ chango of air . Tlvi Proourour-Impdrlal at Pan hns ordered a prosecut ion ngainat tho authors of uoiue neunilalims statements Affecting tho honour of thu Carmelite sisters in that town . Signor MnKzini furnishes to tho English papers sonus woro illustrations of tho Roigu of Terror now existing in SVauco . He writes : — " Tim work of persecution in franco is going on silently , but unceasingly . Doomed _ . pii 30 jiors . Aco . eoutiiiuing-to-, reuoU-Mui' 6 eUled-clv . er > viiigUt from ull tho departenmna . Tliey are convoyed , like the "tpriado Justice , in cellular vnns . Tho nr-renta woro nil p rodotonniuod . They took plaoo simultaneously in all iocaUtloa a low days boforo tho promulgation of tho L . iw <* Public Safety , from old and rouoiH lists of nninoa , » W » ly ma-rked with tho word Republican . ' They aro Wry numerous . Tho Governor of Algeria writes , urging « f * otUor places of conllnomout being chosen . Algiers
. alone has already 700 prisoners . It is , in the midst o t at least apparent tranquillity , a second and enlarged edition of the coup d ' etat . The ferocity in the execution of the orders is rivalling the Syllan despotism of the measure . " He then gives several instances , of which the annexed is one of the most gross : — " M . Lebrun , a notary at Charot , arrondissement of Bourges , department of the Cher , was arrested at the end of his dinner-Struck by the suddenness of the measure , he was taken ill . He was refused all help , and was brutally dragged into the van . On the way , at St . 1 'Iorent , he implored for a medical man , and was equally refused . Oil reaching the Maison d'Arret , at Bourges , " his state was such that the gaoler declined to receive him . He was taken to the hospital , where , soon after , he died . " M . Migeon , the deputy who was recently prosecuted for electoral corruption , on account of his having offended the Government of which he had originally been a servant , is now undergoing his term of one month ' s imprisonment in the prison of Oulmar—a sentence passed on him , not for electoral corruption , which charge has b ; en abandoned for prudential reasons , but for the offence of illegally wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour . A paper having stated that lie had lied to Switzerland , M . Migeon writes to d * ny that charge . lie only wont to Basle until lie received a guarantee from Government that he wouli not be treated in the same way as common prisoners . That having been given , he surrendered . He alleges that , " under pretext of arresting him , a search was made at his residence , in Park , on the olst of March , and that , on the pretext of electoral propagandist !) , all his letters were opened and read . " M . Persoz , Trofe sor of Chemistry at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers of Paris , has just discovered a method by which photography may be applied to the ornamenting of silk stuffs . If a piece ' of silk be impregnated with bjcromate of potash— a substance extremely sensitive to light—and then exposed to the inliuence of the sun , the parts touched by the rays of light will assume a peculiar reddish tint . For the production of a pattern , cut paper , containing the design intended , must be laid on the silk ; and the result will be that the parts thus protected will retain the original colour of the stuff , while those exposed to the light will be changed . Rich patterns may thus be obtained on plain silks- at a small expense . The report of Baron Ilaussinanii on the new embellishment uf Parrs , to which the Emperor alluded in his late speech , has been published . It is remarked ( says a contemporary ) that this new plan has a strategical feature , and the report makes no mystery of the fact . Tho opening of new streets branching off' round the barracks of tho Chateau d'liau will have for effect to establish a j { direct communication between the fort of Vincennes and j ! the centre of Paris . It may be remembered that , in 18-18 , what tended to prolong the struggle of the iusur- j gents of June was the neoi ^ sity for the Government to j make such a considerable circuit to reach Yiueeiines . The 1 ' utric contains u long article on the decrease of the population in France , and on the decline iu the physical powers of the inhabitants . It attributes this result to the insufficient ( boil of the working classes , and to the discredit into which gymnastic exercises have fallen . AUSTIJIA . The arrival of the Turkish commission in Scrvhi has led thu Austria . 1 Government to adopt certain measures . A body of 1000 Aiibtrians have been stationed atScmlin , and UOUO posted along the frontier . The Austrian consul-general had left f- > r Teuieavnr , to concert with Count Corouini , the commanding officer in tho Bauut . UL'SSIA . Tin ; Emperor hus ordered that tho Polish language be again used in mutters of business by all tho Imperial authorities in Poland . , A circular despatch has been sent by the Cabinet ot St . Petersburg relative to the Christian subjects of tho Porte . According to a letter from Berlin , liussin ile- I man . Is that the uui-sliou of rnyahs should bo brought \ before a Kuropean conference . Tlio prowont disturbances iu the IKuzegovineaud in Bosnia , says tho letter , entirely 1 uriso from the Porto not having executed the provisions ot , lh *« Hatti-llumayoiin , but as the completion of that ordi- ; nance constitutes an obligation based on the treaty ol ( Pari . t , it is thu right , and even the duty , ol the powers who . signed the treat y of Paris to ox . ict that tho position of the Christians in Turkey should bo really Hottlod , and ; without any restriction , according to tho proscriptions ol | the Jlotti-ilunuiyoiiii . The Cabinet of St . Petersburg declares against 1111 isolated Inlorvontiim of Austria 111 this question , and remark * thai , in consideration o tho flii . ihury of religion , mi intervention of Kuasia wouhl bit bettor instilled . Kiw-ia , however , . low not uxpro «» a wish to intorfore , nil her ollbrls being directed to bringing the question before a Kuropoaii conference , which , according to tho treaty of I ' lirln , hus a right to decide it . Th « dct m ^^^^^ and promise * a hoi-Ius of special proofs , which will be iur- ' ulrihed to the ttusttiau ugonts accredited in 'lurkoy . There has boon a slight lnodMoatlon iu tho Uusahiu Ministry . M . Brouk , Minister of Finance , retires , and is uueooodod by M . Kninjovitoh , formerly Director of tho , TrouHury . M . Noroll , Aliiilulor of Public Instruction , ulao retires , and ia replucod by M . Kovalewaki , of I
| | whose talents and qualifications the St . Petersburg journals speak in terms of high praise . The emancipation of serfs is making great progress . The nobles of the districts of Orel and Tver , following I the example of the other provinces , have solicited permission to form committees for regulating the enfranchisement of their serfs . The measure has become general . ITALY . It is the custom in Naples , at Easter , to release- one or two prisoners from each province in the kingdom . This year , six-amd-twenty captives have been liberated , and one of them is a person who , with his brother , was arrested on suspicion of having sold the spirits of wine in which the body of Milano was preserved . The brother still remains in gaoL A story of oppression is told in a letter from Bologna :- ^ "At Padua , a religious service was ordered to be celebrated for Orsini . The clergyman was not informed of the name of the person for whose repose he was called upon to pray ; he was merely told to offer up mass according to the intention of the persons who paid him . his fee . The police were surprised to find nearly the whole of the student . ? of the University at the mass . They suspected the real state of the case , and prevented the priest from proceeding . The students began to chant the De Profundis , but were dispersed , and some were arrested . At Faenza the walls were covered with , placards relating to Orsini , which the police tore down . " The King of Naples ( according to a statement in Paris ) has fitted out a squadron , composed of a ship of the line , three steam frigates , three steam corvettes , and two cutters , in anticipation of an attack from Piedmont . The Sardinian Government has declared itself in favour of the Danube Navigation Act being revised by the Paris Conference . The meeting of this conference is . saiil to be again adjourned to the end of May . Mr . I lodge , whose friends have been feting him , has ( according to a letter from Turin ) addressed a note to Count Cavour , expressing his gratitude for the consideration and excellent treatment he has met with at the hands of the Government . A treaty of marriage has been signed at Gaeta between the ' hereditary Prince of Naples and a Princess of Bavaria , the sister of the Empress of Austria . The marriage will take place next September . The Turin Iinhpeitdente of April 12 th , sa 3 's that the majority of the Chamber met the preceding da 3 ' , to come to an arrangement relative to the counter-project of the minority of the committee on the Deforest a proposition . It was agreed to in principle that conspiracy- against , or . attempts to take the life o ( , a foreign sovereign , or chief of a foreign Government , should be punished by hard labour . A lJoman brigand , named . Vendetta , recently stole from the cathedral of Valletri , near Roma , an image of the Virgin , covered with gold , and decked out with pre-| cious stones , & o . lie then sent iu a written proposal to restore it on condition of immunity from punishment J being granted to him , besides the release of his brother , I whois condemned to dcith , and a pension of ten crown 3 ! a in nth . He did not hero state that it was he who stole the image , but ho said I 13 knew who did . The Pope was communicate . I with , a ' . ul directed that tho first condition should be complied with , but not the other two . This did not suit the brigand , and the Madonna was not produced . In the meanwhile the people grew angry at the loss of their image , and the friends of Vendetta circulated a report thatTthe Jesuits worn guilty of tho theft . A mob therefore broke into tho neighbouring Jesuit convent , sacked if" , and ill-treated tho fathers . Tlio suffragan bishop ascended the pulpir , and bogged tho people to be calm ; j but they would not listen to him , and , on his descending I from the pulpit , Vemlutta , armed with a poniard , went ' into it , and thus spoke : — " patient ! The good 1 fathers are innocent . It is I who stole the Mudonna . But 1 will only restore it when tho Government , to whom 1 grant a delay till Monday evening , shall have consented to tho compact I have proposed to it . Bo culm , therefore , and shout no more . I warn you , iu conclusion , that my rompntiiuiis aro armed us well as 1 . " Tho conclusion of this wild- story—which is like tho plot of some Italian opera—is not yet known . A deputation from the municipality of Vollcstn have hud an interview with the Pope , and troops have boon seiit to tho spot . ( SPAIN . Ono of tlio creditors of tho Government , to whom it applied in its Ilimiicial distress iu 18 . 35 , has Hold tho pledge givon to him iu security of tho debt . Curlist bands urn ro . ipp . sariug iu tho mountains . Tho commit loo of tho Corturi charged to examine tho bill on tho press has introduced into it amendments i ' avourublo to froodom ol' discussion . One provision of tho bill stiitos that attacki directed against foreign sovo-_ J' « igl | W _ i 9 l M JL . l 2 t l i L _ ili ii ' ° l » rosoouHi > u , unless they apply to ~ tho BovTiruign of n"Shu 1 try wirSi-eTTSiTKllWlawis In force . Tho IJuoou has received in private audience Lord Howdon , who coinmunioatod his luttors of rooal , and presented to h * ir Majesty tho Honourable Mr . Plunkctt , attachd of tho Logulion . tukkky : I M . Hichrath , u Prussian engineer attached to tho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17041858/page/7/
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