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Washington , and compelled to return and anchor in the North . River . Two officers were sent on board , where about three hundred and fifty young men , mostly in destitute circumstances , were found . A disagreement arose between these officers . and Captain . Tinklepaugh , a custom-house agent , and ultimately the hawser was cast off ^ and the steamer proceeded down the bay on her voyage , with the United States officers on board . The revenue cutter was towed after her , and she was again brought to . The passengers were ordered to remain on board during the night , but some were smuggled on shore . On the following morning security was given , for the ship ; the chief officers were held to bail ; and the steamer was released . Several persons , including the Nicaraguan minister , were arrested , and many of the passengers were pu 4 ashore .
Referring to this event , the Tribune says that the United States authorities have beeu furnished with affidavits and documents—which they deem irrefutable—showing that a wide-spread movement has been commenced all along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to send men and arms to Nica ragna , for the purpose of organising an army in that State to deseend upon Cuba and St . Domingo , and wrest them from their present possessors . After the consummation of this design , the parties interested in the movement propose to unite into one confederacy the State of Nicaragua and such other portions of * Central America as may be acquired by conquest or otherwise , Cuba and St . Domingo , and either to set up a separate republic , or to apply for admission into the American Union as slave States .
At new York * there was an active demand for naoney , but with an adequate supply , at ten to twelve percent . A Legislative Quakkel in Geenada . —The legislative business of the Grenada session was opened on the 27 th of November . In consequence of a difference which existed in reference to the Money Bill for 1856 , the House sent an address to the Executive , playing for an adjournment until the 17 th of February . This not having been granted , the House had refused ^ to meet , and it was rumoured that hie Excellency intended convening it by proclamation for the 18 th of December . It was believed that this would lead to a dissolution , which would be fraught with , great inconvenience to the public .
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THE ORIENT . BuEUAH .- ^ Pr ( m a Private Corre * pondent ) . —Thera is but little news to s . end you from Burmah . Major Ehayre ' s embassy was to have lef t Ava on the 15 th and would reach Prome on the 22 nd . The Governor-GeneraV is expected to visit Rangoon during
November , and win pernaps majse a trip up ; country , but will of course not visit Ava . This whole country is jjerfectly tranquil . The embassy was most cour-¦ teously received , and it is said that the arrangements made by Major Phayre with his Burmese Majesty have been satisfactory to both parties . This countiy is marvellously fertile , and only requires nun properly so called to make it of immense value . An Englishman ' s Expebien&e of the Rebellion IN China , —A geutleman in China , writing to a friend in Exeter , says : — " The rebellion still continues in China ,, but is now principally confined to the mountainous parts , The rebels in the neighbourhood
of Canton were some time since driven away and captured , and the trade has been revived . By a report , obtained recently from good authority , it appears that upwards of 70 , 000 men have been publicly executed in Canton since the commencement of the Chinese new year , on the 17 th of February last . The same authority states the number put to death at Shan-king-fu at 27 , 000 , and about 25 , 000 at the taking of the fort inBlenhoim Reach , and the subsequent captures among the villages thereabouts . I believe , however , that the nimiberslare very much understated . I was at Canton in February last ; and visited the rebels at the fort in Blonheim Reach . I went oIbo
to the execution ground at Canton , and it stank worse thfi « half-a-dozen slaughter-houses , The aides of the walls wero sprinkled and covered with blood . The cloths and 'tails' of the unfortunate wretches were lying in heaps , and the ground was covered with clotted and dried cakes of human blood . In many of the villages noar Blenheim fort , and other placea adjoining , houses h five been erected where suspected or proscribed persons may commit suicide , and thua cave their posthumous reputations , and bo buried by their frionds : and hundreds arc said to hayo jrono to
ace three grades of this mode of execution ; the other two , where the criminal is divided into twenty-four or thirty-six pieces , not being considered so disgraceful . This leader headed the bands which threatened the north of the city last autumn and winter . More that three hundred of lesser note were executed the same day , and on one day last month over seven hundred were executed . There has been a festival of seven days lately held , something like
an All Souls' festival , for the repose of the spirits of the officers and soldiers killed during the contest . One of the most affecting sights connected with the matter is that of one hundred or more coolies , lounging about the streets , waiting for the executions , that they may pounce upon and seize the yet palpitating bodies , to hurry off with them to the pits . I have no doubt that the number of lives lost on both sides throughout the empire , since the rebellion commenced , is 2 , 000 , 000 . "
Torture in India . —A man named Muntoo , who was arrested at Calcutta on a charge of theft , has been tortured by the Mohurrir to make him confess . According to his own account , he was hung to the rafters by the wrists , severely beaten , and squeezed with a bamboo . The fact having been brought under the notice of the higher authorities , the Mohurrir and his accomplices were committed for trial , and , being convicted ., were sent to work in chains on the Alipore gaol .
these places ( whore their bodies would be identified ) , and put an end to their exiatouce by hanging or taking opium . Many woanon ( probably those who had lost all hope of support or safety ) havo also destroyed themselvos . Such things an those ahow how sad ia the state of native Bociety , and how vndo-sproad ia tho doHolation the insurrection has caused in that province . Its results , bo fur as one can judge , have boon unmitigated < ovila to the people of both parties . On tho 9 th inst . one of tho lenders , named Kain Sin , wna put to death by a lingering punishment- —having been out up into one hundred and eight pieces . There
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IRELAND . Legal Promotion rs Ireland . —Mr . Matthew B . Sausse , Q . C ., formerly Crown prosecutor on the Leinster Circuit , has been appointed to a seat on the judicial bench at Bombay . The salary is £ 6 , 000 a . year . Sir William Jeffcott , Recorder of Penang , another member of toe Irish bar , had been recentlj promoted to that office , but died before he heard of his advancement . The Shipping Trade op Belfast . —The Belfast papers publish the annual list of the vessels registered in the Custom ' s revenue , as arrived at that port on the 1 st of January , 1856 . From this semi-official document it transpires that the commercial relations of the past year have been less favourable to speculation in the shipping trade than in either of the two years preceding the present war .
Irish Mining Enterprise . —At the half-yearly meeting of the Irish Mining Company , a very satisfactory report was read , showing an exceedingly prosperous condition of the copper , lead , and coal mines ' . RiBANDiSM in King ' s County . — The northern portion of King ' s County has been the scene recently of riband conspiracies and agrarian outrages , t Lo ^ gJt these latter ^ have happily Btomw * ri » t » oi +. r > f *» ,,, «^«~ . . . . . 1 i me rest of Ireland is tranquil .
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LETTERS FROM PARIS . ( From a Private Correspondent . ) I regret having been unable to write to you au account of the reception of the , troops . It was truly a grand spectacle , and a curious one to observe . I never kneAv till then how thoroughly military a nation was France . The population was moved not by a sentiment of compassion , but of glory : moved to tears . I confess , in all humility , I was as weak as the rest , And yet no one despises more heartily than myself tho profession of a soldier . To slaughter men for a sou a day ? Fie ! In the midst of the general emotion , I picked up two mote interesting enough . A bourgeois , a real Prudhomme , seeing the movement in the streets and in tho feelings of the people , growled out between his teofch , " Tout \ ga ., e ' est encore du ddsordre . " We have fellow-citizens whose ideal of a well-constituted society is an oyBter-bed ! When the Voltigeure de la Gard-o began to file off , I heard behind me a sturdy voice saying , " Oes Jean F—'« la t IfeureuscmenC , il n ' en veste que le tiers . " I turned round to look at the man who was speaking so energetically—it was tho venerable chaplain of the Zouaves , en soutane , if you please I His mot reminded me that tho Guard had exchanged a shot or two with the Zouaves . But all this is past nnd gone . In tbo financial world , nothing is talked of but the last cottp of tho Pereires , who havo ( some say ) " made" (" convey , tho wise it call , " ) fifteen millions of francs ( £ 600 , 000 ) in tho amalgamation of the gas companies . In the month honnele , the Bubjcct of all convocations lias boon the death and burial of our groat Bculptor , David 3 >' Angers . His death has boon liastoned hy oxilo , by chagrin , by his country ' s sufferings and by his own ; in n word , by tho Second of December . Ho was a very rare exception , almost unique , amongst u » , in that tho grandeur of Inn genius was united with uprightness of heart . Ho loved , with equal passion , nrt and liberty ; hia political lif < o wan spotless ; ho made no concession to iieruoniB , nor to circumstances ; and ovon in tho presence of death , when all his limbs wore paralysed , his fix-m and porsistent energy of will clung to tho grent Ideas of hi » life . Ho dcairod that his funeral
should he of the strictest simplicity in memory of hiB poor and humble origin , He forbad his bodv tn be earned to the church , that he might not rer form an act of hypoorisy after death which he kaii never performed in life . He . would not permit a decoration , which he never wore in life , to be placed upon his coffin , nor the uniform of the Institute which he considered absurd . ' The crowd which followed his body to Pere la Chaise numbered from 1 , 000 to 1 , 200 persom and was composed of two distinct sections—artists and republicans . All our great artists were present to render homage to the father of our modern sculpture All the chiefs of the republican party had appointed to meet at his grave : Carnot , Goudchaux , Cavaignac Guinard , Jean Reynaud , Henri Martin , Bdranger Martin de Strasbourg , Jules Simon , Sarrans Jeune ' Marie , Cre " mieux , Manin , Yaulabelle , Pelletan , DespoiB , Charton , Charles Thomas * Corbon , all the writers of the St ick and the Bstafette , and many others , whose names I omit . Behind the leaders de Vopinion honnete , came that elite of the schools which seeks to revive public spirit : these -were the young men who hissed Nisard and Sainte Beuvethe other day , and who hiss La Florenthte every evening at the Odeon , not only because it is a wretched piece , but because it is supposed to be under the patronage of Prince Nanoleon . ¦ , r The cortege was closed in by two lines of police agents , some in private costume , others in uniform These gentlemen were so numerous , that a man of the people asked if tbe departed was General of the sergents de ville , seeing that they had all come to his funeral ? The approaches to the cemetery were guarded by cavalry . Within these were detachments of gendarmerie mobile on all sides , occupying every height carbine in hand , vigilantly watching the cortege . A few select persons were enabled to reach the tomb . The rest were prevented by crossed bayonets . M . Hfllevy delivered an address , simple , heartfelt , and almost courageous . After which the crowd retired in perfect order , under the eyes of the police . Coming out of the cemetery a few young men cried , Vive Beranger ! The patriarch of song replied to them with his paternal - accents : Mcs enfanls , ce sera bientot mon tour . A few , more imprudent than the rest , shouted , Yiie la Liberty ' ; they were immediately laid hold of , and I have not heard of their destination . Allow me to mention an incident , which may give you some idea of the depth of hypocrisy to which we have sunk . The very day of the funeral , a former friend of M . David came to the house of the departed went inLt oJthejpoiter s lodge , and said . to the concierge in an \ metuouz ^ Z ; ^ f ^^~ te x l- ^^ c David that I heard she had not sent the body of her husband to the church , and that I have been to psay for him . " Now , who do you think this excellent Christian was ? M . Veuillot ?—No . A new . convert , M . Nisard ? Do you give it up ? It was M . de Cormenin , the author of the " Livre des Orateurs ! ' '
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . PEACE PBOSrECTa . The ill-feeling of Austria against Russia increases day by day . It ib said to have been caused by the insolent bearing of the Russians towards the subjects of Francis Joseph , who are openly taunted with their , obligations towards the Czar . One of the Russian diplomatic agenta is reported to have said of the Austrians , " Th « Be wretched creatures to whom , n few years since , we gave back a kingdom ( Hungary ) , are ready to assist in taking from us a province . " Groat coldness , therefore , exists between tho two empires ; but it is doubtful whether AxiBtria will draw tho sword—at least , during the present year . Tho differences on the subject of religion—the claims of each nation to bo considered as belonging to the only " orthodox" church—ai c adding their contribution to tho fuel which may at length bo kindled . The Austrian clergy- are very much opposed to Russia ; and the Emperor , as we know , is greatly under the influence of tho Church . A circular from . Count Nossolrotlo , dated Dec . 22 nd , Iioh been transmitted to Austria , It contains proposaln for pea . oo , which aro a . repetition of thofla which wore presented a few wcekn ago by Princu Gortsohnkoff to Count Buol , at Yionnn , and with which our readers aro acquainted . Their object is to oxcludo all ships of war from tho Black Sea , with the exception of those belonging to Russia and Turkey , who are to determine the number whioh will satisfy each , without tho ostensible participation of any other Power . Those torma , it is needles to » ay , will not bo listened to . That tho RiiHBian ambassador at Vienna ooh not feel himoolf or » comfortable torm » with tbowo of Franco and England ia © videncod by an anecdote ro > lafredby tho Times Austrian con-onpoiulont , who nays , "On tho 8 lHt of December , M . Vow Staokhaimon , tho Hanoverian Minister , invited Homo acquaintances t « boo tho old yonr out and tho now ono in , nnd hin gti < jfitfl woro , tho members of tho [ turanlan , English ,
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32 THE LEADER . [ No , 303 , Saturday .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2123/page/8/
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