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-Past One o'Clock . —Mr . Appleby , a had been " drinking freely ? ' at the Elephant and Uastle , and , about one o ' clock , got into a cab to be driven to Kennington Gate . A fair creature , named Esther Herbert , together with another young lady , essayed to get into the cab ; but the jocund butcher , not desiring their company , bad them driven away by the police . ± he cab stopped at a public-house some way further on , and Mr . Appleby and the driver regaled themselves with genial libations . The cabman , being a merry soul , then signified his intention to drive his fare to the Haymarket that they might have " a lark ; " but he drove back to the Elephant and Castle ,-where Esther Herbert and her friend got in , on which the cab started off again immediately .
Ultimately , the women jumped out , and rushed away as fast as possible ; and the victimised Appleby then discovered that he had been robbed of a gold watch and a pnrse containing 47 i . The fair Esther was taken into custody the same night at the Surrey Ooal-bqie ; and a policeman ' , after she was in custody , overheard a conversation in which she admitted having robbed " bloke ' of 5 T . She was remanded by the Lambeth , magistrate .
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AMERICA . The latest advices from the United States exhibit some probability of the disagreement with England being settled , notwithstanding an ill-advised document ( which we give in a separate paragraph ) issued by Mr . Attorney-General Gushing , and setting forth the rights of belligerents in the United States . The Sioux Indians continue to give the borderers oh the Mormon territory much apnoyance ; in consequence of which , General Harvey is engaged preparing an expedition against the red men .
The settlements north of Utah county have been greatly plagued by swarms of grasshoppers . From Nicaragua we learn that Colonel Kinney has concluded a treaty with ithe Indians by whicli . he will be enabled to penetrate into the interior with safety . Civil war , as usual ) rages in the Spanish and Portuguese republics . The Mexican President Alvarez has resigned , and General Comonfort has been appointed in hjs pla i ce . The troops under General Castro , at Matamoros have capitulated on favourable teims to the " Liberating Army , ' , ' which has gained some other successes . The war between Honduras and
Guatemala * continues . A sanguinary struggle has taken place at Tabatingna , in Brazil , between some Brazilians and some citizens of the United States , terminating in the slaughter of the whole of the latter . Morales has been sentenced to death by the Havannah Military Commission—a sentence which was afterwards commuted by General Concha , to eight years in the chain-gang . A case is : pending in the California District Court against the owner of on American vessel for a breach of the neutrality Jaws in conveying the shipwrecked crew of the Russian frigate Diana from Petropaulovski to San Francisco , and thence across the Ochotsk . Sea to the main land . Commercial affairs , by tbe last accounts , continued much tho same . At New York , the stock market was inactive . Exchange was dull , but rates were steady-. Telegraphic reports had been received from various sections of the cotton region , speaking of a killing frotU ,
Bights of Belligerents in tub United Status . —Tha following explanations have been issued by the United States Attorney-General : —« M . It is a settled principle ,, p ( f the law of , nations that no belligerent can rightfully malt © use , ; of tho territory of a neutral State fw / bejligexejnt fiurppseq without , the consent , of the neutral Government . 2 . nChe . un ^ tokiSng , of a , belligerent to ealiat troops of land © rsta ia « neutral Sta ^ e , wltho ' ut the prewiouB consept of the latter , la a hostilo attack on its national sovereignty .,, $ . A , n « utroi Stfttomay , if i $ , please , p ^ mit op grunt to belligerents the liberty Jto raise , £ roopa of . land or sea within , its territory * but for the neutral State to allow or concede the , , liberty iq one belligerent
and not to all would ,, be , an act of manifest , belligerent partiality and a palpable breach of neutrality , 4 . The United SuttB constantly refu ^ o this liborty to all belllg « cent « ulike , with impartial Joatice ; and that prohibition i » made known to tho . world by ,, a parman , < jn $ act p < Congress . 5 . Great Britain , in « ttemptingi ; by tlio agency of her military and civil authorities , in the Brftjeli , , North American province , and her diplomatic , and consular fanctionurloa in the United SUtes , ( o raise troops here , commit : el aa act of , usurpation against the , sovereign lights of the United States . Q , All persona engaged | n auch . , undertaking to ruiao troqpa in the United jStatva for tl )« xnUU * ry tervicp ofj Great . Britain , whether citizens or famfenathiindivlduulA or officers , except they bo protected
bjy ^ iplowafa priy ^ kges , . are indictable as malefactors by statute . 7 . Forei ^ consuls af | not e ^ enapted ^ either by treaty or the ; law ; o"f . nations , ; frpna ; the ~ penalY . effeet of tie statute . S . ' In case of indictment of any , such consul ,, or other Qflicbal person , his conyictipn of misdemeanour , or his escape by reasoja of arranged instructions or contrivances to evade'the operation of the statute , is prithariiy a matter of domestic administration , altogether subordinate tp the copsideration of the national insult or injury to this Government involved in the fact of a foreign Government instructing its officers to abuse , unlawful purposes , the privilege which they happen to enjoy in the United States , "
Ameiucak Relations with Russia . —The Washington Correspondent of the New York Herald writes on the 29 th . ult .: — " There are , I see , some doubts expressed about the advent of a new Ambassador from Russia , but I repeat that it is a fixed fact . . He will bring , besides his regular credentials , a confidential communication from the Czar , of the most important character , relative to the terms on which alone Russia will consent to a peace . What I now state will be known to the public in a few weeks . Russia mediated between Great Britain and the United States , and now the United States may mediate between Russia and the Allies . She does not ask American mediation , but she will accept it , and will at once indicate her terms , which , as I stated in a former communication , will embrace such vast commercial advantages for all the world that the industrial classes of France and England will clamour for their acceptance as soon as they are generally understood . "
America , and the " Times . — " Americus ' writes as follows to the Times : —*• I can hardly express the pain with which I have read the various articles which , have recently appeared in the Times upon the subject of the existing difficulties between the British Government and that of the United States . Your columns are almost universally believed in America—rightly or wrongly—to represent the opinions and feelings of the English people , and every rash assertion or intemperate expression contained in them is supposed to emanate not alone from the individual conductors of a
newspaper , but from the community whose organ they are supposed to be . This circumstance imposes a responsibility upon you which you cannot avoid . You have it in your power to fan a flame on -the other side of the Atlantic , which you may be powerless afterwards to quench ; oryoii can , on the other hand , do much , if not everything , towards allaying morbid excitement there , if it exists . And which of these two courses have you teen lit to take ?'
French Critics O2t Liberty. M. Boilay, S...
FRENCH CRITICS O 2 T LIBERTY . M . Boilay , Secretary-General of the French Council of State , has published an article iu the Revue Contemporaine , in which he argues that France , under the existing system , has as much liberty as she really desires or can safely be trusted with . Nevertheless , he admits that thereare many honourable men who , while hostile to tlie doctrines of Socialism , are dissatisfied with the measure of freedom granted to the people , and sigh for the old days of Parliamentary discussion , and for the latitude of comment granted by the Republic to the press j but , adds M . Boilay , these very persons , in their Becret hearts , know that tbe restrictions imposed by the Empire are the only safeguards of their property and
their lives . " A redan , a single curtain , the less , would make them tremble . They have their horses , their carriages , their mansions in Paris , and their villas in the country . What a tempting booty for the Communist rioteru ! You may tell me that you do not ndvCctite liberty ot discussion without certain limits and restraint , But , then , have we not the advocates of absolutism , who despise your ideas of liberty as well as ours ? When once you put any restriction on liberty , say they , you destroy it . When liberty is in creation we must have none , or we must have it in its Utmost plenitude . It is only according as one becomes saturated with it that he becomes accustomed to it , and no longer finds it dangerous . Common sense replies that if
Mitliridates , in order to accustom himself to poison , had begun by swallowing as much as possible , he , very probably , would not have lived long , enough to test the value of his experiments . ' * In answer to tho assertion that Franco might at least huvoas much liberty as England , M . Boiluy points to the conduct of the Jersey exiles as an evidence of the use which ( he Socialists make , of English freedom ; and . he thus concludes : — " For all the sq reasons , France hue now us much of political , liberty aa she requires ^ and lias more of the practicul liberty ( which Js desired by all ) than she ever
before enjoyed . Let not , therefore , tho * Parliamentary party' ask qf Franco , in presence of the domestic enemy , < n ; ho is watching for tho first breach in , her raaiparfs—<| q not ,, | say , ask ht , r lo exchange the legality of to-day—that is , tho legality thut saves and vivifies—^ for the legality of | a former period , which , in the , memorable exureaekm of one . of your own party , is the legacy that , kills ( I V <» ft < 4 ««* <« 4 fl ) , " An article , of a . contrary tendency hus appeared in the Siecle . The I writer discuaaea ithe problem whylfrunce , which hu given liberty and , ciyilimuion to ,. bo mtmy
nations , should'constantly be told that she ia not " ripe forHberfy" herself : " He ^ th u ? cdncbaAes : — * ' " ' ji' appears . to us that the French' race , pre-eminently above ' any , other , Exhibits that maturity of which , we / have ., beeii speaking ;; , in ; this article . " , France is a providential element ' of T jjirogres 9 and _ liberty in . toe world , and further ,, liberty Is engrained in our habits— . deeply rooted there , as . every one admits . Liberty is in our civil code . ETov ? is . it that liberty is not the one prominent feature of , our political life ? This is what astonishes us . We shall be answered , it is true , with
an objection older than the time of Sieyes and Mirabeau . It will be said that there are in France incorrigible minorities who would use their rights as a wea pon against those of everybody else . We are forced to admit that at many epochs certain egotistical minorities have done the greatest injury to liberty and their couatry . By their conduct they have given strength to the adversaries of their cause . ' It is to these minorities , and not to France , that it should be said—Show yourselves worthy of liberty ! It is very desirable to confine the injunction to those to whom it applies , for it is certain that the entire people cannot , and will not , eternally expiate the faults of a few . "
Continental 1stotes. Maksal, The Noted C...
CONTINENTAL 1 STOTES . Maksal , the noted Carlist Chief , and several of his band , have been captured in Spain . The Government has laid before the Cortes a bill for the abolition of the practice of farming out the salt and tobacco monopolies . The cholera has almost ceased . The Committee of the Cortes , in reporting in favour of the army estimates for 1856 , compares the latter with those of 1854 and 1855 , and finds that , including the supplementary credits decreed ia 1854 , the whole amounted to 342 , 492 , 342 reals in 1855 it was 271 , 658 , 003 reals ; and for 1856 ,
, it is fixed at 279 , 325 , 762 reals , which includes 19 286 689 reals for the provincial militia . For the first six months of 1857 , the amount of the army budget is 138 , 192 , 918 reals . The Finance Minister has read a project of law in the Cortes , by which a credit of 2 000 000 reals is accorded to the Government in order to nav off a portion of the debt owing by it to the Corporation of Madrid . Tbe Tariff Board has concluded its labours respecting iron wares . The differential duties on all classes for the protection of the Spanish flag are proposed to be fixed at ten reals per
^ Pressed by the earnest solicitations of France and England , and mollified by an explanation given by Count Buol , of his conversation with the Sardm an Charg 6 d'Affaires ( in which he intimated an intention to , support Tuscany ) , Sardinia has consented to patch up her quarrel with Tuscany . Count Xasati has received another appointment ; but the Marquis Soal will return to his post , and the Tuscan Government will send to Turin a resident Minister . Great soreness , however , will still necessarily be felt by Sardinm at the fact of Austria claiming Count Casati as a subject , notwithstanding her patent of emigration of March 24 , 1832 , which declared that '' persons duly authorised to emigrate , lose their quality of Austrian subjects and are , for all and every effect of civil and politico ] Jaw ,
treated as foreigners . _ , Tho financial emb arrassments of the Tuscan Government are becoming serious . The report , rfthe Minister of Finance on the Budget of 1854-the last published—showed an increased deficit of two million scudi on a gross rental of thirty-six million scudi The Bank of France returns for the past month have just appeared . The bullion shows a further dimmu-J tion of 830 , 000 ? ., but the circulation has , , J the same time , experienced a reduction of > ™ >? ° ? .. ^? has likewise been a reduction of 280 , 000 / . m the advances on public securities ; 1 , 000 , 000 ? . in the advances on railway shares ; 700 , 000 ? . in the private deposiU , 1 , 200 , 000 / . in the Treasury balances , and nearly
1 , 000 , 000 / . jn the discounts . . . , Famine threatens theDanubian Principalities , notwithstanding that they produce four tirnes as much cornas they can consume . The Hospodar Stirbey . it is » wj » has bought up large quantities of com , meat , ana ot ™ £ necessaries , the price of which he 1 ms raised to three times its legitimate value ; and he has encouraged others in doing the same . lie is also accused ° f ' ' P " 5 with tlie public moneys / and of applying large sum » the payment of his creatures . The Romance population aWrns a correspondent of tho Daxly News ,, a . e so disheartened that , though formerly they demanded arms to use against the Russians , they would now _ wcl come the Cz » r and his troopu if tbev could thus rid them
selves of the Austrian curse . . , ,. On the 2 ' 8 th of October , the Austrian sontinels ohoc a Swiss nwned Giacproo Zanata on the Ticino territory , and as much as a kilometer from the frontier . . *» ° mim had attempted to smuggle some tobacco « w Lorubardy , and the Austrian eoldfcra , forgetful of international law , pursued him and shot him to deutn . i »» cantonul authorities have instituted « n inquiry to co" ^ evidence on which to found a remonstrance wguinst ii" » violation of territory . ' ' ,, Two disputes have arisen between the English « Spanish Government * , which thriritcn disagreeable con
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111855/page/8/
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