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No. 395, October 17, 1857.] ^J^J^J^AJ^^J...
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IRELAND. The Circumlocution Office.—The ...
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CONTINENTAL 3SOTES. FItAN'CE. Some very ...
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America. The Financial Affairs Of The Un...
Baltimore , Cumberland , Norfolk , Wheeling , Wilmington , 38 orth Carolina , and theinterior towns generally of those . States , Providence , and all the provincial banks . " The exchange market , both foreign and domestic , was very much deranged at the last dates . The transactions i n continental bills were very slight , but sales were considerable . Bills on London were four to six and a half per cent , premium . A partial or total suspension of labour has taken place in the woollen and cotton manufacturing establishments of New England ; but the American papers notice the steady accumulations of deposits of small sums in the savings banks and tlie increased number of depositors . Among the reported failures are Foster and Co ., Abbott , Dodge , and Co ., and J . M . Mackay and Co ., of New York ; Lovejoy and Co ., of Boston ; Tirrel and C . Hearsey , of South W " eymouth ; "VV . H . Bottom and Co ., Bottom , Tiffany , and Co ., and James S . Stirling and Co ., of Trenton ; J . B . Holmes , of Cincinnati ; J . P . Jewett anclCo ., of Boston ; Bogy , Mittenberger , and Co ., Anderson andCo ., and Dawley and Barkdale , of St . Louis ; Garner and Co ., of Baltimore ; and , lastly , E . J . Tinkham and Co ., of Chicago . The Boston Traveller gives currency to a rumour that -a large amount of forged paper has been discovered , stated by some at 30 , 000 dollars , and by others at 50 , 000 dollars , and conjectures that the forged paper \ ia . question is that which has been freely circulated in the city within a few months , tearing the supposed signature of James Paul and Co ., small traders , of Biddeford or Saco , Maine ,, and the endorsement of Hallet , Pinkham , Quimby , and Co ., a dry goods firm , of Han-© Ter-street , in that city , which failed a few days since . Mr . Law ton , tlie cashier of the Erie City Bank , Las been arrested for embezzlement , and , after an examination ,. has been held in bonds of 10 , 000 dollars to answer . the charge . -All hope of the safety of the commander and missing passengers of the Central America has been abandoned . An extraordinary affair has happened at Honeygall , a 4 } in-all settlement in Georgia . A band of thieves has for some time committed depredations on the property of . the farmers , and it was at length resolved to punish them by Lynch law . They were therefore ordered to leave . the locality , with a promise that , if they went quietly , they should be paid their travelling expenses , and be compensated for what little property they might leave behind . One of the principal of these thieves was Moses Hornsby , a man with a wife and family . He promised to go by the required time , though never intending to do so ; and , as he continued to stay after the stipulated term was up , fourteen mounted 'Regulators , ' as the executioners of Lynch law are called , made their appearance outside his house . All were armed , witli two exceptions . A Dr . Foreman advanced to parley ; but at that moment a shot was fired from the house through a sort of porthole . Foreman's horse was struck , and fell ituu umci vi uic xrivi miuscii
uwuj . un -uvguiaiors -wounded by a second shot , and made off " , crying out to -his comrades to ' scatter . ' The firing from the house continued rapidly and fatally for some minutes ; and the Lynching party were forced to fly , leaving four of their number on the field . One of these , a young man named Ua & cliffe ( whose father was also present and seriously wounded ) , was struck mortally ; but he resolved to have some revenge before he died . Crawling to a stump , lie rested his gun on it , and fired through the porthole , killing Hornsby on the spot . He then fired again at another . figure whlcli ho perceived somewhere on the walls . This was Hornsby ' s wife , who was immediately struck dead , while an infant sho was carrying in her arms was wounded in the legs and hips . At this moment , Mike Hornsby , son of the elder Hornsby , appeared with a gun in his hand , fired one barrel , and was about to discharge the second , when one of the ' Regulators' who had remained on the field cautioned him that , it he fired aguin , the shot Avould bo returned . Mike did lire , and than turned to fly ; when the 'Regulator discharged his . piece , and brought him down , mortally wounded . This aeems to have concluded tho affair . Some slaves have been landed in Cuba , despite tho officers whose business it is to prevent it . The correspondent of tho New York Tribune says : — " The American ship Mazoppa , or General Paoz , bus been seized , near Cardenas , by tho Spanish schooner Habanera while an the act of landing a cargo oi' Africans . She was aahoro at the time , and the schooner approached and boarded hor for the purpose of rendering assistance . When the officer came on deck hin eyes met with one of thoso awful bccucs so common in the slave trade . The deck and hold were strewed with hundreds of naked Africans in different Bt « ge » of tho small-pox . The able-bodied . portion of tho cargo bad bison successfully landed , and it bcoiiih that the captain wiih making arrangements to get oft" tho rocks and procowd to sen again until tho diseaao had disappeared . The vcsmuI wais carried into . tho . port of Curdenutt , > vhure she will undergo fluaruntino . Her , cuptain is an American , and nearly all tho crow Spaniards and Portuguese . The mini bur of negroes saved was about five hundred , and had aho not been aground she would not lmve been suspected bv tho Spanish cruizor . " Shortly after , some ono went into tho harbour of Havannah , immediately under the guns of
the Punta castle , and close to tlie sentry ' s box , and landed four hundred negroes . This occurred at midnight . The mahogany cutting in Belize , Honduras , has this year been a decided failure , falling short of the first estimate by nearly 10 , 000 , 000 feet . The product of logwood has also fallen short .
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Ireland. The Circumlocution Office.—The ...
IRELAND . The Circumlocution Office . —The Cork Itejwter mentions that the Great Britain steamship was recently chartered by Government to take two cavalry regiments cut to India . The men , however , were not directed to get themselves ready to start until after tlie contract was made . Of course , a great delay took place , the vessel all the while being a heavy daily expense to the nation . The day of starting was fixed for the 2 nd inst . ; but then it was found that the soldiers ( who , on such occasions , are obliged to take out new equipments with them ) had not a single saddle ! This entailed a further delay of six days , at an expense of 30 01 . a day . Of such were tlie blunders which lost , us an army in the Crimea ; such are the triumphs of an exclusive system of administration ! The Belfast Gun Club has laid down its arms . A meeting of the members was held on Thursday Aveek , when , after some discussion , the following resolution was adopted : —" That , inasmuch as this club \ yas established solely for mutual self-defence against the attacks of Orange rioters , and as , on the appeal of the peaceful portion of the population of Belfast , an investigation has been held into the causes of the recent riots which disgra ' ced our town ; and as , furthermore , the Government have , through the voice of the Lord Chancellor , pronounced condemnation on the Orange system and its leaders , the cause of these distm-bances , as dangerous to the peace of society , we , -willing to believe that the authorities will afford us henceforth sufficient protection for our lives and properties , do hereby dissolve this selfdefensive society , and throw ourselves on the Executive for that protection to which as peaceful citizens we are entitled . " Ref-ormatokies for Juvenile Cmsnsr ^ VLS . —Jlr . Serjeant Berwick , the chairman of the East Hiding of the county of Cork , in opening his court , on Thursday week , delivered a charge to the grand jury , in the course of whick he spoke at some length on the question of secondary punishments , and the substitution of penal servitude for the old system of transportation to the colonies . Alluding to the committal of children to prison for vagrancy , ' or , in plain English , begging , ' he continued : — tl The law which enforces imprisonment for vagrancy is , in my mind , a cruel and unjust law . I have Jong sought to get it altered , and 1 never shall cease to struggle until 1 have it established that the child who begs a piece of bread or asks for a . halfpenny shall not ba considered a criminal , as at present . I can answer for it that the month in gaol for vagrancy is the tuuiiiiiii uj in uniliu wuicu 10 llie
njujuuui a uumiug SUCKS child during the term of his life . If the gaols could be managed as well as one could in the highest flight of fancy have wished , the term of imprisonment is still never one of reform . One , two , or six months is never sufficient for training . " lie mentioned that a Roman Catholic reformatory is about to be established in Ireland , and expi-essed his opinion—in which he says he is encouraged by the views of eminent philanthropists in England —that ' a mixture of creeds' in the persons instructing the children would be impracticable . " Mixed education is a most excellent thing among tho ordinary classes ' of society for tlie time during which they arc engaged in ! school education ; but , when 3-011 come to deal with the ( whole peiiod of the children ' time , ami particularly with their liearts , " the case is different . Mr . Serjeant Berwick proceeded . — " When I tell 3-011 that this society , which has undertaken the establishment of a reformatory , i intends to havo a number of Protestant patrons , it will j show you that there can be no injury by its being con- ' fined Lo a society devoted to the teaching of Roman ( Ja- j tholic children . I have a return of the number of juve- ¦ nilc convicts who have bomi in the County Cork Gaol \ for the last nine mouths , from the 1 st of January to the 30 th of September , and in the whole of thorn there are \ but tvvo Protestant children . That will show you that the great majority , if not almost the whole amount , of ; the criminal population aro from the lowest class—aro all Roman Catholics . 1 uhouhl , however , bo very glad if the different counties in the south of Ireland would join together for the purpose of establishing a Protestant reformatory , and 1 would ( jivo the samu assistance and support in every way in my power to the one as to the other . " Tiik Lath FitAuns at Bicli . \ ast . —The Belfast magistrates sat in private on Friday wet-k , mid issued , a wnrraul for tho upprchini . siou of Andrew Harbison , a cleric in the employment of Moore , lie was arrested shortly afterwards . Mooro is now known to Imvo left Ireland , but it is ulmo .-st curtain that he has not succeeded in gutting oil' 1 ) 3 ' the Asia to America , lli . s defalcations lo creditors aro variously ntnti : d at from OUUI )/ . to 10 , O 0 O / . The persons in oimtotly were on Saturday remanded till the following Wednesday . Henley was admiitml to bail in pornonal . security of 500 / . and two tuiruLicd of iiC > 0 / . ouch . Tho other prisoners were recommitted .
Murder near Dkojuua . —Mr . John Alexander Eankin , a grocer living at Aughneskeagh , near Diomara , has been stabbed on the highway by a Mr . William Hanna , of Gransha , a sewing agent , with whom , he had a quarrel . He died almost instantly . Hanna is not yet in custod 3 ' . Inauguration of the Moore Statue . —The statue of Thomas Moore , the poet , was unveiled in the presence of the Lord Lieutenant , the Lord Mayor , and other distinguished persons on "Wednesday .
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CONTINENTAL 3 SOTES . FItAN'CE . Some very amusing stories in connexion with a singular embassy' from Prance to Algeria are related by the Paris correspondent of the Times , who writes : — " Every one has seen or heard speak of the great Robert Houdin . Besides being the prince of conjurors , he is an able mathematician and mechanician , and his electric clock * made for the Hotel de Ville of his native town of Blois , obtained a medal at the Paris Exhibition . It is not generally known that lie was sent to Algeria by the French Government on a mission connected with the black art . Its object was to destroy the influence exercised among the xlrab tribes by the marabouts , an influence often mischievously applied . By a few clumsy tricks and impostures these marabouts pass themselves off as sorcerers ; no one , it was justly thought , was better able to eclipse their skill and discredit their science than the man of inexhaustible boitles . One of the great pretensions of the marabout was invulnerability . At the moment a loaded musket was fired at him , and the trigger pulled , he pronounced a few cabalistic words , and the weapon did not go off . Houdin detected the trick , and showed that the touchhole was plugged . The Arab wizard was furious , and abused his Erench rival . ' You may revenge j-ourself , ' quietly replied Houdin ; ' take a pistol ; load it 3-ourself : here are bullets ; put one in the barrel , but before doing so mark it with your knife . ' The Arab did as he was told . ' You are quite certain now , ' said Houdin , ' that the pistol is loaded and will go off . Tell me , do you feel no remorse in killing me thus , notwithstandiug that I authorize you ? ' ' You are my enemy , ' coldly replied the Arab ; " ' I will kill j-ou . ' "Without replying , Houdin stuck an apple on the point of a knife , and calmly gave the word to lira . The pistol was discharged , the apple flew far away and there appeared in its place , stuck on the point of the knife , the bullet the marabout had marked . The spectators remained mute from stupefaction ; the marabout bowed before his superior : ' Allah is great ! " he said , 'I am vanquished . ' Instead of the bottle from which , in Europe , Robert Houdin pours an endless stream of wine and liqueurs , he called for an empty bowl , which he kept continually full of boiling coffee 5 but few of the Arabs would taste it , for they made sure that it came direct from tlie devil ' s coiree lie tnen
| \ own -pot . tola tnem that it was in his power to deprive them of nil strength , and to restore it to them at will , and be produced a small box , so light that a child could lift it with its finger ; but it suddenly became so heavy that the strongest man present could not raise it , and the Arabs , who prize physical strength above everything , looked with terror at the great magician wlio , the 3 doubted not , could annihilate them by the more exertion of his will . T ! ie 3 expressed this belief ; Houdin confirmed them in it , and promised that , on a day appointed , he would convert one of them into smoke . Tlie day came , . the throng was prodigious ; a fanatical marabout had agreed to give himself up to the sorcerer . They made him stand on : i table and covered him with a transparent gauze ; then Houdin and another person lifted the table by the two ends , and the Arab disappeared in a cloud of smoke . The terror of tho spectators whs indescribable ; they rushed out of the place , and run a long distance before some of tlie boldest thought of returning to look after the marabout . They found him near the place where he had been oyapovatod ; but he could tell them nothing , and was like ji drunken man , ignorant of what had happened to him . Thenceforward Houdin was venerated and the marabouts were despised ; the object of the French Government was completely attained . The fashion of ' testimonials ' having , it appears , infected even the Arabs , a number of I chiefs presented the great French conjuror with a piece of Arab writing , wonderfully decorated , hyperbolical and eulogistic , and to which they were so attentive as to append a French translation . Besides this uuunoriul of his Algorine trip , Houdin has a rosary which ho one day borrowed from an Arab to perform a trick with , and which tho owner , persuaded that tfheitan in person was before him , refused to receive back . " Jules Favro , tho Republican barrister , who defended Hol-IIiidj , oni ! of the Arab chiefs Iat « l 3 found guilty at Ornu of tho murder of Abdullah Aga , and oondonined to hard labour for life , recently arrived at tlm ' : « inp at ( Jlifiloiis to present to the lOmporor a petition from tho culprit , pni 3 'iiig for u mitigation of tho hdiiIi-iico . Tho advocate was accompanied by a liltlu boy , tlm son of Bol-IIadj . The Emperor granted an uudii'iiuu to Jules Favns and the boy , and it is »« id promised to pardon the chief . Thero seems to be no doubt that tho aentonoe of doatb
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/7/
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