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America. The Disturbance* Among The Unem...
Nicaragua . are being made to intercept the expedition . The New York Times complains that certain men were shipped on board the Saratoga , United States sloop of-war , ostensibly for eight months , but that they have been detained for more than three years , and cannot get their discbarge . " This , " says the journalist , " looks very much : like swindling , tyranny , and cruelty . " A . train of twenty-six waggons lias been captured by the Mormons , twenty-five miles from the Pacific Spring . No one ' was * -killed , ' as resistance was not offered . As soon as the President heard of this , the cabinet was summoned " , but it was considered hopeless to send reinforcements or supplies so late in the season . The new constitution in Mexico has been suspended , and President Cornonfort declared Dictator . Campeachy has surrendered to the Government forces . From Yucatan it is stated that the whole people of that district are in arms .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . -. ¦ ¦' ; '• ¦ . ' ¦ ' . " . * ' ' FRANCE . ¦ ; '¦ . ' " ¦ : . ; ' ¦ ¦ The Emperor and Empress returned to Paris last Sunday , from Compiegne . Xord Brougham has arrived in Paris . A funeral service was celebrated last Saturday in the cliapel of St . Ferdinand , at the Ternes , for the repose of the soul of the late Duchesse de Nemours . No invitations were sent out , but more than . a thousand persons attended , including several members of the Senate and the Legislative Body , of the bar and of the pTess . Many ladies of high rank who found the chapel full on their arrival knelt in the , open air , though the day was cold . Several of the members of the French Corps Legislatif have arrived in Paris for the short session before Christmas . It is said that the Opposition deputies , Darimon , Ollivier , and Curd , of Bordeaux , will take the oath , whilst Carnor , Goudchaua :, and Henon of Lyons will refuse to do so . .
M . Dupin . sen ., formerly President of the National Assembly , has been appointed Procureur Imperial in the Court of Cassation . Dr . Scrive , -who acted as Physician-General to the Trench army during the last war with Itussia , has just published a book which contains an account of the losses and sufferings endured by the ^ French troops landed in the East , but particularly by those engaged in the siege of Sebastopol . From this work it appears that the army and navy of our ally lost an immense number of men from the effects of weather and from disease ( increased by a deficiency of cleanliness ) during the summer of 1854 , the ensuing -winter , and the early part of the year 1856 In consequence of information given by Cardinal . Aiitonelli to . the French Minister at Rome , some Italians ¦ who some time since arrived in Paris have been arrested , it is supposed on a charge of conspiracy against the Emperor .
M . Dauhigny , the Government candidate , has obtained 18 , 000 votes for the department of the Sarthe . Jules Favre , the Republican candidate , polled only 4000 votes .
AUSTRIA . " A day or two since , " says the Times " Vienna correspondent , " the long-expected order for the reduction of the army left the Emperor ' s Cabinet . Some time may , perhaps , elapse before the exact contents of the Imperial ordinance become known , but the reduction in the cavalry will not exceed € 000 men . It is not probable that the ariillery will be much reduced . The fourth battalions of the sixty-two regiments of the line will be entirely done away with , and many of the men forming the third battalions will also receive an indefinite leave of absence . No estimate of the number of men to be sent to their homes can yet be given , but it is stated in financial circles that the expenditure for the army during the military year 1858 ( beginning November 1 st , 18 & 7 ) is not likely to exceed 100 , 000 , OOOfl . "
GERMAHY . The explosion at Mayence , which we briefly notified in our Postscript lost week , appears to have been one of the- greatest catastrophes . which ever befelatown . " Travellers , " says the . Cologne Gazette , " who havejust arrived from the scene of the mischance , state that the magazine contained 75 , 000 . kilogrammes of gunpowder . Not only have the windows in every part of tbe town been broken , but even in the surrounding villager ' Enormous blocks of stone from tho rampart a have been carried to an incredible distance . It is dangerous to walk in tho streets on account of falling houses . The explosion was distinctly hoard at Bingen . " A despatch from Mayencc ,
dated November 14 th , four p . Sr ., about an hour after the event , says : — " The old prison tower at the Gauthor , which had bcon converted into a powder magazine , has exploded . A groat number of persons in the vicinity have- been killed . Tho Church of St . Stephen is a heap of ruins ; tho Evangelical Church ia also much damaged . In tho citadel , tho soldiers wora at drill when the explosion took placo . A great number of them yrertt wounded . The so-called School of English Young Ladies is destroyed ,, but the inhabitants are saved . Onohalf of tho Gail-street and tho Old Gaatricht , with one hundred and fifty shops , are in ruins . An enormous block of stone foil on tho roof of tho Cafe de Pom , and
crushed through all the stories . Shells are continually bursting near the powder magazine , and no one is allowed fea approach too near . " A further account is given by the writer of a letter from the battered city , who says : —" I live in the Gau-street , in a solidly-built mansion . I was writing in my room , when I felt a terrible shock , accompanied by a terrific noise ; at the same time , all the windows were smashed to atoms , the doors were thrown oft * their hinges , nnry books and papers were scattered about the room , and bricks fell out of the walls . A dense smok « and dust poured in through the windows , and prevented my seeing what had taken place . Wheu it cleared off , I saw the roof of St . Stephen ' s Church riddled like a sieve ; most of the houses were in the same condition . All the inmates of my house rushed into my room in a state of alarm . Most of them were hurt and
bleeding ; I only then perceived that I had been hurt in the hand and was bleeding . We soon heard that the powder magazine had exploded . I went to the door and found that the other side of the street was in ruins ; the street was filled -with groan 3 and lamentations . The military were taking away the dead on stretchers . The gas-papes having been damaged , the whole city was soon in darkness . At the Carmelite Church , a wall from seven to eight feet in . thickness was rent asunder . Some
heavy guns vere thrown into the air like sticks . Some of the Federal troopa were exercising at the time ; two Anstrians and nine Prussians were killed on the spot ; ninety-five Austrians and thirty-four Prussians were wounded ; eighteen dead bodies of civilians have been taken from the ruins , and three hundred are dangerously wounded . The military authorities have taken every measure to afford relief to the sufferers . " The number of dead and wounded is variously stated by different writers ; but in any case it seems to have been large .
M- Gall , editor oF the Telegraph , published at Treves , was recently arrested at Stuttgard , at the demand of Bavaria , for language used against the Bavarian administration . Being taken to his lodgings at Stuttgard to get his effects , he managed to lock the door on the police-officer , and then got away in a carriage , which was obtained for him by a friend . By the Federal law , he cannot be arrested at Treves . A Count Ortowski , a Hungarian Major , has been arrested at Kehl . Several false passports and revolutionary writings were found in his portmanteau . Distressing repoTtai are still received from Hamburg with reference to the financial condition of the commercial world- Failures are of constant occurrence , and business is nearly at a-standstill . . . . '¦ . ' .. TURKEY . . ¦¦¦ .. - ¦ ; . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦' " ¦ ' . " ' Omar Pacha . lias started for his command at Bagdad . ; A Turkish man-of-war was put at his disposal , in order to convey liim and his family to the Syrian coast . . . itai-y . ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ .: ¦ ¦ ' .. ¦' ' '¦ ' . Tha National Bank of Turin has raised its discount to ten per cent . Naples is being amused with another ' miracle' . The holy -thorn , of the crown worn by Christ has been covered from the base to the summit with foaming blood ! Hereupon many religious ceremonials and penitential scourginga took place ; and Naples , greatly sanctified , feels peculiar ^ ' Messed and favoured . In the mean - while , the objects of the King ' s fear and hatred languish and rot , untried , in the prisons , and our own countrymen , wait in vain for justice from the Government which oppresses them , or succour from their own . The Custode Mnggiore of the Vicaria has been dismissed from his office by a . telegraphic order from Gaeta . It is . thought he will be madu the scapegoat in any justification which may be attempted in tho matter of the English consul having been refused permission to see his countrymen now confined in prison . The democratic journals of Piedmont promise their support to the Cabinet , if it pursues a boltlly liberal course . Garibaldi is not elected . Brofifcrio has received an ovation at Turin , where he has defeated Count Revel , who was elected , however , by three other constituencies . Coant Maiuiami has been elected for I ' ont , in Savoy . The Minister of "War , General La Marmora , was defeated at one place , but has been elected at Biella . Rattazzi , thft Minister of the Interior , has been elected for Alessaudriu , ; and Lanza , tho Minister of Instruction , for fc ' rasaineto .. TUo Genoese journals announce the death of the eminent naturalist , the Marquis Maximilian Spinola . Count Cavour has prououueed against the forced currency of bank-notes . FRUHSKA . M . Manteuffel ' ft note , dated October 10 th , in reply to the second Turkish note relating to the Danubian , Principalities , has been published . Tho minister observes : — " The Turkish circular appears to me to bo written under tho influence of a feeling of great distrust of the Divans . I regret thia circumstance , for I most sincerely desire to aeo the moral ties which bind the populations of the Danultian Provinces totheSHltan ' aGovcrnmentstrengthoned as much n » possible , but I cannot th « loss regard tho Divans as being tin organ . s of . tho country legally convoked and constituted , and as having consequently the right to fulfil tho task imposed upon them by tho Treaty of Paris . Moreover , the information which , has reached us lonvoa m « noground to fearthat
theaoassemblies are so ignorant of their interests and duties as not I to respect the suzerain rights of the Porte :. In any case I it appears to us that the Porte could not but contribute j to assure a happy result to the deliberations of tlu > j Divans if she would abandon her purely negative atti-I tude , and take an initiative which , as comiii" -from a suzerain power , no one could contest , by pronoTiacimj a more explicit opinion as to the reforms which are desirable and admissible in her o ~ wn point of view . It is on this account . , that we have observe * - ' -with satisfaction that passage in Aali Pacha ' s despatch wherein he speaks of the possible assimilation of administrative laws ; and we trust that the Ottoman minister will enter into fuller and more distinct explanations upon this head . " RUSSIA . ., . - -. .
The financial crisis which now weighs upon Europe , " says the St . Petersburg correspondent of the N ' , " has had a disastrous influence on Russia . Gold has become extremely scarce . For notes of one hundred roubles the discount office gives only five roubles in specie , and yet it is beset every day with crowds of persons who wish to get gold for their paper . On the 14 th of November , the half-imperial , the value of which in ordinary times is five roubles fifteen copecs , was quoted at the Bourse at five roubles fifty-six copecs . The bankers are" charging fifteen per . cent . 'for-discounts . " ' . '' ¦ .. Prince Gagarin , the Governor-General of Kbutais an . d Mihgrelia , has been assassinated by Dodeck Kiliane , one of the petty sovereigns of Mingrelia . L The cause . which ' led to the act is not known .
Accounts from St . Petersburg represent that a strong feeling is springing up among the Eussian landholders against the emancipation of th e serfs , and that the Czar , who is understood to be firmly bent on it , will find difficulties he is at present little prepared for .
\ ¦ ¦ : . . . , . ¦ .: SPAIN . . " ¦¦ " . •¦ ¦¦ -. . The financial crisis which has passed over a large part of the globe is beginning to be felt in Spain . The Three per Cents , have fallen owing to the influx from other countries of a mass of paper of the Consolidated Debt , the holders of which desire to turn it into cash , with a view to the large profits presented by- tho exportation of the precioaa metals . "Lord Howden , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " is about to return to Madrid . His Lordship has been
detained at Paris some time by the Mexican question , which still presents some difficulty , and even danger , if left unsettled . It is understood that Lord Howden . is charged to show the Spanish Government the expediency of receiving M . Lafragna ( the Mexican Envoy ) , and thus allowing the mediation of England and France to proceed without delay , as , beyond all doubt , there is a numerous party on the borders of the United States and Mexico only waiting for an opportunity to envenom the quarrel , in order to turn it to their own advantage . While the British Minister at the Court of Madrid has
instructions to thiseirect , the irench Minister m Mexico will receive others to endeavour to persuade that Government to withdraw its * pretension of having M . Lafragua received at Madrid as an indispensable preliminary . " rORTU'GAr ,. The fever still continues , varying in intensity on different days , but generally becoming much less on cold , clear days . The Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon is among the recent deaths ; but very few English subjects have been recently attacked . nKi ^ oinsr . The new TJelgian cabinot has published in the Hlotu ' - teur a circular from the Minister of the Interior , addressed to the governors of provinces , which is , in fact , a programme of the Ministerial policy . That policy is delined as " one of Conservatism and of order , and one which pursues progress with perseverance anil constancy . THE OANCBIAX PKINCIPALinES . The Divan of Wallnchia unanimously adopted on the 19 tli insr . the memorandum explanatory of the four resolutions of the Eouman people m agreed to on the 21 st ult .
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OBITUAUY , Pbokkssok Flkmiho , Professor of Natural Science in tho Free Church College- at Edinburgh , and author of several works of repute on zoology , died , on Wednesday week , of a spasmodic complaint . Viscount STUA-Noronn , formerty the Hon . < Aeor ; ii ! Sydney Smythe , M . l ' ., one of the defunct Vountf England party , and of somo reputation as an author and journalist , died on Monday in his fortieth year . Tin-: Kiev . Du . Duncan MAci . \ mu , ax , Principal of the University of Glasgow , and minister of the High Church , died on Wednesday morning in the eightyninth year of his age . Tor tho last ten years , ho was tho oldest clergyman in the Church of Seodiiud , nrnl was therefore regarded as the father of that Church .
Admikai , Walkman died on Monday morning ;< t hm residence at Coraton , near Bath . He was iu . hi * ciguty-Becond , yoar , and died rather suddenly iu hw bed from nnoploxy ..
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28111857/page/6/
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