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appearance , her , fleck being very . black , and her eyes SS ? from ^ the fearful injury Aft had ^ ceived . faeaatime , the other villains were ransacW the hquse fyxmoney , and , unfortunately , about 30 LfeU into their hands . They all had Hieir faces covered with , black -crape , or masks of some description , so that their features could not be discerned . The entrance was effected about half-post one o ' clock , and they departed abput two , saying they would go down stairs and have some refreshment , and telling Mr . and -Mrs . Hampshire that it would he at the peril of their lives if they made any alarm . However , Uie burglars did not make any long staybut hastened away .
, Past Onb o'Cjuock . —Mr . Appleby , a master butcher had been " drinking freely " at the Elephant and Castle , 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 , had them driven away by the police . The cab stopped at a public-house some way further on , and Mr . Appleby and the driver regaled themselves with genial libations . The caliman , being a merry soul , then signified his intention to drive his fare to the Haymarket
that they might liave " a lark ; " but he drove buck , 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 ; aod the victimised Appleby then discovered that he had been robbed of a gold watch and a purse . containing 47 / . The fair Esther was taken into custody the same night at the Surrey Coal-hole ; and a policeman , after she was in custody , overheard a conversation in which she admitted having robbed " a bloke " of . 57 . 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 botderers on the Mormon territory much annoyance ; in consequence of which , General Harvey is engaged preparing an expedition agafnst 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 the Indians by which 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 , tvA fieneral Comonfort has been appointed in his " place . The troops under General Castro at Matamoros have capitulated on favourable terms 10 the " Liberating Army , " which has gained some other successes . The war between Honduras and Guatimala 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 , baa been sentenced to death by the Havunnah Military
Commisby diplomatic privileges , are'iridictable as malefactors by statute . 7 . Foreign cbnstils are not exempted * either by treaty or the '' law of ifatioasi . from the penal effect of the ' statute . 8 . In case of indictment of any such consul , or other official person , his '' conviction of misdemeanour , or his escape by reason of arranged instructions or contrivances to evade the operation of the statute , is primarilv a matter of domestic administration , altogether subordinate to the consideration of the national insult or injury to this Government involved in the fact of a foreign Government instructing its officers to abuse , for unlawful purposes , the privilege which they happen to enjoy in the United States . " American Relations with Russia . —The Washington Correspondent of the New York Herald writes on the 29 th ult .: —" Thereare , 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 . "— " Anaericus " 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 yon may be powerless afterwards to quench ; or you 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 seen fit to take ? '
Bion—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 an American vessel for a breach of the neutrality laws i ! P conveying the shipwrecked crew of the Russian frigate Diana from Petropaulovslu to San Francisco , and thence across the Ochotsk Sea to the main land . Commercial affairs , by thje Jost accounts , continued much the same . At New York , the stock market was inactive . . Exchange was dull , hut rates were steady . Telegraphic reports had been received from various sections of the cotton region , speaking of a killing frost .
Rights or Belligerents in thu United Status . -i-rThe following explanations have been issued by the United States Attorney-General j— " 1 . It is ft settled principle of the law of nations that no belligerent can rightfully make use of the territory of a neutral State for belligerent purposes without the consent of the neutral Government . 2 . The undertaking of a belligerent to enlist . troopa of land or stain a neutral State , without the previous consent of the latter , is a hostile attack on its national sovereignty . 8 , A neutral State may , if it please , permit or grant to belligerents the liberty to raise troops of . lnndoreea within its territory ; but for tho neutral State to allow , or , concede the , liberty , to qae belligerent
and not to all would be an act of manifest belligerent partiality and a palpable breach of neutrality . 4 . Tho United Stutea constantly , refuse this liberty to uil belligerents alike , with impartial justice- } anil that prohibition is made known to the world by a permanent Act cf CongresB . 6 . Great Britain , in attempting , by thongency of her military and civil authorities in tho British . North American provincta , mid her diplomatic and consular functionaries in tlto United States , ( o raise troops here , commit'et an . act of usurpation against tho sovereign rights of the United States .. 6 . All persons engaged in uob . undertaking to ruiae troopa in tlio Uniiod StuUo for ihtomlUtnry service , of < Jreat JJrituin , whether cHizqns or fowlgnerB , individuals or officers , except they bo protected
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FRENCH CRITICS ON LIBERTY . M . Boilay , Secretary-General of the French Council of State , has published an article in 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 there are . many honourable men who , while hostile to the 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 ; but , adds M . Boilay , these very person * , in their secret hearts , know that the 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 rioters 1 You may tell me that you do not advocate liberty of 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 question 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 senBe replies that if
Mithridates , 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 the assertion that France might at least huveas much liberty as England , M . Boilay points to the conduct of the Jersey exiles as an evidence of the use which the Socialists make of English freedom ; and ho thus concludes : — " For all these reasons , Franco lias now as much of political liberty ns she requires , and has more of the practical liberty ( which is desired by all ) than she ever
before enjoyed . JLet not , therefore , Clio ' Parliamentary party' ask , of France , in presence of the domestic enemy , vyljo . is watching for the first breach in her ramparts—do not , I say , ask her to exchange the legality of ta-day-r-thaf : is , the legality that suves and vivifijee—for th « legality of a former period , which , in tho memorable expression of one of your own party , is the legality that kills ( Vfyalite qui tuo ) J " An article ; of a contrary tendency bus appeared in the Siecle . The writer discusses , the problem why France , which has given liberty and civilisation to bo muny
nations , shouTdconstantly b * told that she is not " ripe foir liberty "herself . " ' He tb . ua ^ concludes : — "It appears' to iis 'that the French race , pre-eminently above any Other , exhibits that maturity of which we have been speaking in this article . France is a providential element ' of progress arid liberty . in the world , arid further , liberty is engrained in our habitsdeeply rooted there , as every one admits . Liberty is in our civil code . How 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 Sieves and Mirabeau . It will be said that there are in France incorrigible minorities who would use their rights as a weapon 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 country . 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 1 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 notr , eternally expiate the faults of a few . "
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Marsal , 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 , iri reporting in favour of the army estimates for 1856 , compares the latter with those of 1854 and 1855 , and finds that , including the supplementary credto decreed in 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 pay off a portion of the debt owing by it to the Corporation of Madrid . The Tariff Board has concluded its labours respecting iron wares . 1 he 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 Sardinian Chargd d'Aflaires ( in which he intimated an intention to support Tuscany ) , Sardinia has consented to patch up her quarrel with Tuscany . Count G « a . ti has received another appointment ; but the Marquis Souh will return to his post , and the Tuscan Government will eend to Turin a resident Minister . Great soreness , however , will still necessarily be felt by Sardinia 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 political law ,
treated as foreigners . _ , The financial embarrassments of the Tuscan Government are becoming serious . The report of the Minister of Finance on the Budget of 1854-tho last publjshed-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 » f « rtt « r .. d * m ' n " : tion of 830 , 000 ? ., but the circulation Jjf •* ^^ ses : j ^ s » x $ k £% 1 , 200 , 000 / . in the Treasury balances , « nd nearly
1 , 000 , 000 * . in the discounts . nnta , Famine threatens the Danubian Pnncipalities , notwithstanding that they produce four times as much corn aa Ihoy can consume . The Hospodar Stirbey , it is asserted , has bought up large quantities of corn , meat , and other necessaries , tie price of which he has rawed to three Jime / fts legitimate value ; and he has encouraged others in doing the aauie . He is also accused ^ "P" ^ with the public moneys , and of applying large sums to the payment of his creatures . The Ro . nance P ° P «»> £ tionfaHirmaa correspondent of the Daily News ,. are so disheartened that , though formerly they demanded arms to use against the Russians , they would now wel come the Czar and his troops if they could ihua rid them selves of thu Austrian curse . , t On the 28 th of October , the Austrian sentinels aliot a Swiss named Giacomo Zunata on the Ticino territory , and as much as a kilometer from the / ron er . *» ° m « n \ UA nttfimnted to Bmuggle soino tobacco into
tombardy , and the Austrian soldiers , forgetful ot « ncer national law , pursued him and shot him to death , i . ne cantonal authorities have instituted an inquiry to collect evidence Oh which to found a remonstrance against w »» violation of territory . , _ ... , j Two disputes have arisen between the English «« Spanish . Governments , which , threaten disagreeable o ° n-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 1100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2115/page/8/
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