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dence were passed in both . Houses by large majorities . The vote in the Upper House being 16 to 8 , and in the Lower , 71 to 31 . It is not improbable that there will be a dissolution , although the Governor- General is strongly opposed to such , a step . The excitement at Toronto had greatly increased according to our latest accounts . Mr . Gait was called in by the Governor-General on the 4 th , but declined to undertake the formation of a Cabinet . The Parliament rnet on the Gth , and the announcement -was made that the lion . BIr . Carticr , in connexion -with the Hon . John A . Macdonald , -was forming a Ministry . The Legislative Council hnve passed a resolution , declaring their regret at the vote o ' fnhe Lower House on the seat of Government question , and denouncing , it as an insult to her Majesty .
The Lecompton Constitution lias been rejected by an overwhelming majority . The popular feeling was decidedly in favour of its rejection .
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The Atlantic Telegraph. This Magnificent...
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . This magnificent undertaking has at length readied completion , and its success leaves nothing to be desired . Mr . G . Seward , the secretary and manager of the Atlan ^ j Telegraph Company , writes as follows : — I have the pleasure to inform you that the line from Talentia to Newfoundland , is now working satisfactorily loth ways . The following message was despatched yesterday evening from the directors in . England to the directors in America : — " Europe and America are united by telegraph . Glory to God in the Highest ; on earth peace , good will towards men . "
This message , including the addresses of senders and receivers , occupied thirty-five minutes in transmission , and consisted of thirty-one words . Immediately afterwards a message from . her Majesty the Queen to his Excellency the President of the United State ? , consisting of ninety-nine word ? , was received by Newfoundland in sixty-seven minutes . Both messages were repeated back toValentia to test the accuracy , and were found to have been taken with great ¦ . exactness .- Of course , unless permission -were given , the contents of her Majesty ' s despatch cannot be made public . This ( Tuesday ) morning we have the following message , the last thirty-eight words of which were received in twenty-two minutes , from Sir .-Cyrus W . Field , -who is at "Newfoundland : — '
"Cyrus W . Field , Newfoundland , to Directors Atlantic Telegraph Company , London , —Xeivfoundkind , Monday- Entered Trinity Bay , noon of the 5 th . Landed cable on the 6 th , On Thursday morning ship at once to St . John ' s . Two iniles of shore cable , with end ready for splicing . " " When was cable landed sitValentia ?' ¦ Answer by telegraph and forward by letters to New York . " The line is now worlced with perfect accuracy , and the public will be enabled in a very short time to avail themselves of its advantages . A morning contemporary felicitously remarks , that " This Gospel message was transmitted to the other side of the world in little more than half an hour of time—a result which almost seems to beat the Apostolic miracles that were effected in order to communicate the same truth eighteen hundred years ago . "
The excitement in America about the successful laying of th « cable is intense . It has been celebrated with illuminations , torchlight processions , military parades , ealvoes of artillery , and other demonstrations of public feeling . Failure had been generally anticipated . The following message was sent from the President of America to Mr . Cyrus Field , as soon as he lieard of the laying down of the cable : — " I congratulate you with « 11 ' my heart on the success of the great enterprise with winch your name is so honourably connected . Under the blessing of Divine Providence , I trust it may prove instrumental in promoting perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations . I have not yet received the Queen ' s despatch . " Yours , very respectfully , " Jamks Buciianazt . " This letter is dated August 5 .
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COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE WEST IS DIES . Tub " West India press strongly protest against the withdrawal of the English squadron from the coast of Cuba . They predict that that measure will occasion such a revival of the slave trade as -w ill effectually prevent the successful competition of free with slave labour . An English and a French squadron -were at La Guayrn , to demand an apology from tlio Venezuelan Government for Boiwo insult which had been offered to English and French subjects . AUHTHiWLIA .
An electric tolograph bettt'oen tho two capitals , Mdbourna and Sydney , a distance of about 500 milcu , is on the « vo of completion , tho extension to Albany , on tho boundary of the two colonies , from ono metropolis to the other , ia also advancing . Sydney papers stutc that within a few days , in June last , nearly two thousand Chinese landed on their way
to the gold diggings . The number of Celestials who have of late swelled the population is so great that a bill is before the Legislative Assembly to check further immigration by imposing a poll-tax , as in the sister colony . From Sydney also , we hear that an Electoral Reform Bill was m committee of the House of Assembly . Great efforts were made to keep up an excitement in favour of a measure which goes to establish almost universal suffrage ; but in general the public are very apathetic on the subject . Among the recent arrivals in Sydney , the Rev . Thomas Binney , minister of the Weighhouse Chapel , London , has absorbed a large share of public attention in the Dissenting interest . The visit of air . Binney to the antipodes is said to be for the renovation of his health .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FKAXCE . Fetes took place on Sunday last at Paris , in honour of the St . Napoleon . The inhabitants of the gay city were greatly disappointed in their expected treat , for everything was done in an indifferent manner—the openair theatres , booths , orchestras , & c , were less numerous than , formerly , the illuminations were more rare , and the fireworks inferior . The streets were consequently not crowded as usual , and the people evinced little interest iti what they saw . In the country towns , on the contrary , the fijte was celebrated with considerable pomp . The proceedings were invariably the same ; official receptions by the Prefect and Divine service in the morning , followed by reviews , with illuminations and fireworks in the evening . Half of the French squadron that went to Cherbourg from the Mediterranean is to return to Toulon , the other half to remain at Brest until further orders , There is a talk , of an expedition against Madagascar by a combined English and French force , to punish the piracies of which the savages of that island have been guilty . ¦ Nothing- is yet positively decided , but the necessity of some such measure is recognised . The conference engaged in regulating the Danubian Provinces held its sixteenth sitting on Thursday . On Monday the provisional signatures will be affixed to the document , which is to bear the diplomatic title , " Additional Act to the Treaty of the 30 th of March , 1856 . " -The question of the free navigation of the Danube does not enter into the provisions made . The two Principalities are said lo be spoken of in the text of the document as . " the Principalities now constituted into the united provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia . "
Ihere is less water in the rivers in France than anybody remembers to have seen . Many of the small mills are stopped , and those situated on larger streams are not al > le to do more than half the usual amount of work . The Prince Imperial , who was enrolled in the 1 st Regiment of the Imperial Guard , a few days after his birth , has been promoted to the rank of corporal . Some mechanics arc about to be tried in secret on a charge of having something to do with the manufacture of bombs like those made use « f by Orsini in his attempt of January- "last . These workmen were captured at St . Etienne . A project of an electric . telegraph , to connect Europe with China , is now in course of preparation , and will be presented to the Emperor on his return to Paris .
SPAIN . General O'Donnell has fallen ill , and has been subjected to thermal treatment at the baths of Las Caldas . It is alleged that the examination of the electoral lists has led to the discovery that not fewer than 30 , 000 names were improperly inscribed on them , and that this accounts for the pretended majorities which the last two Cabinets obtained . Some of the journals assert that the law authorities have recently discovered that the disturbances which took place last year in Andalusia were got up by French Legitimists . All the journals , without exception , treat as absurd tho supposition that Spain can ever think of ceding Cuba to the United States .
11 is stated that small-pox is making fearful ravages in several provinces of Spain , notwithstanding every effort that has been made to check it by the general use of vaccination , which was performed gratuitously in every potty village . The royal seat of La Granja has been half depopulated by this dreadful pestilence . It is expected that the forthcoming elections will result in tho sending many efficient members to the Cortes . Nino great asylums aroto . bo founded in Spain for the reception of tho aged and distressed ; and mendicancy , that dreadful pest of the country , is to bo put a stop to . Nino millions of renls are to bo employed towards paying the expenses of these asylums , and tho Queen proposes to make up tho rest of the monoy necessary by means of appeals to public charity . Amongst the edifices to be set apart for asylums me the Escuriul and the famous San Martin de Santiago . FUU 8 . SIA . It is rumoured to bo tho intention of the King formally to transfer the government of thu kingdom to hia brother on thu 2 ! Jrd of October . It has not trnnsp ' red whether his Majesty \ v i 11 abdicate , or whether tho Prince of Prussia will rule as Prince licgent .
ITALY . A person , named Parodi , who had something to do with last year ' s insurrection at Genoa , turned round against his unfortunate comrades , and , to save himself , gave evidence against them . Parodi had gona to Locarno in Switzerland , and while there , a-pistol was discharged at him . He fell mortally wounded , and the assassin , -who is unknown , escaped . There cannot be any doubt that Parodi has suffered for his treachery . ¦ . ' ' TURKEY . The island of Candia seems to lave recovered its tranquillity in consequence of the large concessions made to the Christians . The Mahommedans are leaving the island . Bosnia romains in a state of civil war . HOLLAND . The report circulated last week , that the King intended to abdicate in favour of his son , is contradicted .
Egypt A1sd Syria. ~ Western Influence. (...
EGYPT A 1 SD SYRIA . ~ WESTERN INFLUENCE . (¦ From the North British Review . " ) Tins article is not so much a review of some halfdozen works on Egypt mid Syria , as it is an exposition of our status in those unsettled an d coveted countries—of oar mistakes in policy , together with a powerful elucidation of the- rival policy of other European powers . The whole article is well worth attentive perusal , it is eminently suggestive , aiul . though we do not entirely agree with , some of the writer ' s strictures and conclusions , ' upon the whole , the writer ' s ability and information have carried us with him , and we especially commend his remarks on our consular appointments in those regions to the notice of the high authorities of the empire . The writer says : —
The whole system of Consular government in the East requires * -amendment . These European representatives are too strong and too weak . They can . defy and they can be defied , even in matters of law and justice . They are quite strong enough to oppress the feeble ; they are not strong enough to resist the powerful . They would not , perhaps , defile their hands -with a bribe like an Eastern kadi ; but they are accessible to influences which are quite as corrupting ; the blandishment or the menace doing effectually the work of the bribe . Stimulated by rivalries , one part of their vocation is to thwart each other . Acting as political delegates from their several governments , their object is to Tvatch each other ' s
movements and countercheck each other's schemes . Ostensibly they come to Ccire for the interests of the men of their , own nation ; in reality they concern themselves as much about the interests of those beyond their juris diction . Holy Scripture speaks of men who are " busybodies in other men ' s matters , " , aa the word is , aXXoTptocTrlo-Konoi that is , " everybody ' s bishop but their ownV and , perhaps , we might , without injustice to some at least , use the word here , and say that many of these men of authority are everybody's consuls but tlieir own . Espionage becomes the consulate as ill as the embassy ; Imr , in the present jealous condition of Western politics , the consul is compelled to act the part of spy , or at least sentinel ,
Nor is one surprised at the large consular establishments of Alexandria ; nor the smaller but equally numerous vice-consulates of Cairo ; nor at the recent elevation ( a few months since ) of the French vice-consulate at Suez into a regular consulate . Suez , indeed is little better than a large khan , a station on the great Ifaj road to M « cca through tlio desert { nor can it ever be a port , on account of the shoals of the Red Sea , and the drifting sands on both sides , which are yearly compelling its waters to retreat ; but then its importance as an cntt'pj > 6 t both for France nnd England cannot easily be overrated , ut least until tho Euphrates Railway shall attract into tho Persian Gulf the commerce that now
passes up tho blue strip between the peninsular peaks and the bluff's of Bus Atakah . Cairo , both for size and Oriental celebrity , has some claims upon European notice , though , from its position , it is not likely to bo a focus cither of enterprise or intrigue . Alexandria , certainly , is tho groat centre where East and Weat meet , and in it Europe ought to be well represented , — England , above all , for she has the most at stake . Yet , if report speak true , tho diplomacy , the nerve , and the influence , arc monopolised by France , winch , always true to its national interests , seeks out men for places , not places for men , and sends talent to courts or consulates where England is content with title .
But it soniuwhat surprises one to find ' some six or eight Europe An consuls or vice-consuls at Jerusalem . What can they bo doing there V A first-rate power , like England , might , if it were not so passive and easy-minded , secure a very much larger share of power in ltome than sho has at present ; but a second-rate power , such as l ' russia , has little likelihood of success , whatever energy alio miylit throw out . At Jerusalem , however , Prussia has ii considerably better chance . Sho has but to send u tolerably clever consul , not over-scrupulous at inotliat , with Instructions to spare neither chicanery nor violence , in cjijolin ^ , menacing , and bullying Pasha , Effciidi , or follow-consul . Anil if
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1858, page 829, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_21081858/page/5/
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