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aeeounfc of the rebelliousness of the two first , and , with vespaot to the last , as an exhibition of " impartiality , " the Telegraph having always been a zealous supporter of ecclesiastical authority . Since this act of expulsion , the Tablet has changed hands , the new editor and proprietor being a Mx \ John E . Wallis—an Englishman , it is said , and one of the Oxford converts . An Etkjiing Landlord defeated . — The ejectments brought by Mr . Allen ,. Pollock , the purchaser of a property in the county of Galway , against his tenr
antry on the Cregg esiate , have been a second time defeated owing to legal informalities . The number of individuals whom these ejectments would throw upon the world is 2 , 700 . Mr . Pollock is a Scotch gentleman , who purchased the Cregg estate and other Irish properties in the Encumbered Estates Court ; and his object is stated to be to change the position of hi& tenantry from that of land occupiers to that of day labourers , he himself opening a large market for labour .
Suicide op an English Engineer in Ireland . — Mr . Frederick D , Mansfield , of , London , an engineer employed at the Bandon railway , has committed suicide . It seems that lie made an ineffectual attempt to hang himself some time previously . He had been suffering for a long while from a violent headache and inability to sleep , which he attributed to the distressed state of his mind . The Weatheb and the Chops . — The weather continues uninterruptedly favourable for the agriculturist , and a greater bi'eadth of land has been placed under cultivation than was ever the case at this period of the season in former years .
The Catholic University .- —The total subscrip ? tions towards the funds of the University in St . Stephen ' srgreen , collected since the month of January , amount to £ 1 , 73 . 0 . A church in connexion with the College is about to'be erected on a scale of magnificence never before attempted in Ireland . In accordance with Dr . Newman ' s wish , the building is to be in a style of architecture almost unknown on this side of the Alps—an Italian basilica . The walls are to be encrusted with Irish marbles of various hues , and with inosiae paintings , above which large subjects in encaustic are already tieing prepared from the works of the early masters in the studios of Rome . Preparations are also in progress , and at great expense , for the musical par t of the administration , and a- Dublin ecclesiastic of great experience is understood to be engaged in the necessary arrangements for the selection of a choir of first-class excellence .
A . MUKDEB 3 ? Of t THE HONOUR OF ST . PATRICK . A . Slir ' ^ d Ballyconnell , Cavan , on St . Patrick ' s Day , was attended by" ti ° se scenes of drunken brutality common tG Ii-isntestivities ; ana a maii , ZZZ £ L < John Gallaher , was killed . He observed some ruffians beating a boy , when he begged them to desist ; on which they turned on him , and , with short sticks loaded -with lead , beat his skull in . It is thought that the boy also will die . Some men have been arrested on suspicion . Archbishop Coxlen's Frankincense to tre
French Emperor . —A Te Dewm was performed last Sunday at the Roman Catholic metropolitan church , Dublin , in thanksgiving for the birth of an heir to the French Emperor . Archbishop Cullen presided , and abundantly exalted Napoleon for having " restored peace and order to a long distracted country , conferred the greatest benefits on religion , " and restored the Pope . The Empress is also praised for her charity and piety ; and the French are described as being " branches of the same mystic vine" as that to which the Irish belong 1 .
The Irish Jodges . —Addresses continue to pour in upon the three judges whobe capacity for the discharge of their duties was lately questioned in the House of Commons by Sir John Shelley . The latest manifestation that has appeared in print is ono from the Mayor and corporation of Londonderry to Baron Pennefather and Mr . Justice Torrens . The Encumbered Estates Commission . —A notice was issued on Monday by the Encumbered Estates Court , announci ng that no furthe r postings for sales of eetatos would be signed by the Commissioners after Thursday , the 26 th , day of Juno next . Tho arrears of business , however , which still remain to be disposed of waust necessarily occupy a groat deal of time , and it is very pro bable that a vnst addition will be mado to tho business bofore tho end of the onsuincr month . °
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THE ORIENT . PERSIA . There is some prospect of Russia mediating between England and Persia , if we may credit a statement in a letter from St . Petersburg , the writer of which says : — - " Colonel Bar . tolpm . ei—who was sent by General Moioravieff to the Shah of Persia , in company with the Ambassador charged to announce to the Persian Prince the accession of the Emperor to the throneshas returned here from Teheran , by Tiflis , where he stayed some time . He has been received by the Emperor . According , to . this officer , Persia is in such a state of disorganisation that it cannot in any way be relied upon , and there only remains to urge it to the promptest possible reconciliation with England . " ABTSSENIA . Tlicnc ™ ¦ Enr'crcr of Aop " u 5 ini « , T beodosia l , is said to entertain vast projects of conquest . Jfcte nas already taken possession of the territory of Hurrua , near his states , and has given the government of that province to an Englishman named Bell , who has long been iai his service . INDIA .. Ze JVord denounces the annexation of Oude as an abominable spoliation , attempted to be justified by " lying pretext . " Dost Mohammed , the Khan-Serdah of Caboul , has , it is said , taken possession of the pi * ovinee of Kandahar . Persian troops are marching against him .
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steamer Eldorado , were to the effect that , in case of a similar outrage committed on a vessel rightly bearing the United States' flag , he mu&fc promptly interpose and resist the exei'cise of the assumed right of visitation , and repel , the interference by force . The Executive takes the ground that the conduct of the authorities of Cuba , in hailing and searching American vessels , « annot rest on the plea of territorial jurisdiction over the high seas in the vicinity of the island of Cuba , as the United States' Government denies the existence of any state of facts to warrant the exercise of belligerent rights . A resolution directing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to consider the expediency of reporting- a bill effectually abrogating the treaty with Denmark , and repudiating the payment of the Sound dues , was adopted in the Senate on the 7 th inst .
A bill in the Kentucky Legislature , to establish a patrol on the Ohio river , to prevent the escape of slaves , has been referred to a special committee . Mr . Nuttall advocated the bill . He said 100 , 000 dollars ' worth of slave property had escaped from the border counties since Christmas . A Dutch fleet has arrived at La Quayra , it is said , to demand indemnity from the Venezuelan Government for demands of Dutch merchants whose houses
AMERICA . Tnn news from tho other side of tho Atlantic this wook iB oxtromoly meagre . In tho Soiiato , on tho 3 , 0 th inst ., the bill appropriating 8 , 000 , 000 dollars for increasing tho armament and munitions of war , and for the manufacture and alteration of arms , in accordance with tho recent recommendation of tho Pronidonb , was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading by a vote of 22 against 12 . According to documents submitted to tho Senate on the 10 th in « t ., tho instructions to Commodore M'Caulay , commander of tho United States' homo Hquadron , issued in April last , after the Spauiah mgato Forrolana luul ( hod into tho United Statoa
were sacked and whose persons were maltreated last year by the populace of the city of Coro . Advices from H _ a . yti of February 26 th , state that the Emperor Fa ustin returned to the capital on the 14 th , and irumediately issued a proclamation to the effect that be ha d been obliged to " retrace his steps for a time . " F rom Japan , i ) ia , California a we hear that the city of J eddo was destroyed by an earthquake on the 12 th of November . 100 , 000 houses were in ruins , and 30 , 000 lives had been lost .
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the Tribunals of Correctional Police in the departs meats of France of persons found " guilty of propag ating false news . Prince Jerome is now so far recovered that no more bulletins will be issued . The Empress is also sufficiently well for the bulletins to be withdrawn . The Paris journal , Figaro—which has lately fallen into disgrace for the freedom of its witticisms—has published a burlesque petition to the Imperial Baby , to intercede in its "behalf . For this course , it quotes a precedent from Napoleonic history : — " Forty years ago , a prince was born in the Tuileries . A few days after this event , a person came to the palace with a petition for the King of Koine . The Emperor , your ancestor , willed that this petition should be presented to his heir in . person . Then he said to the petitioner
' What answer did the King of Rome make V ' He said nothing , sire ; but , as silence gives consent , T am justified in thinking that the prince grants nqy request . ' Napoleon ratified the tacit agreement of his son . " The Pai-is Correspondent of the Daily News says that " M . de Villemessant , the redactewr of the Figaro , has been summoned to appear before the director or public safety , to be taken to task for the extraordinary freedom of Ms petition to the Imperial Prince . I hear thatM . Villemessant defended himself so cleverly that he . ¦ will probably carry his point . It is curious that , of the three principal editors of the Figaro , one is an , Orleanist , one a republican , and one a legitimist . I hear it stated to-day that an amnesty for all press offences will be published immediately . " '
The widow of the late Heinrich . Heine writes to the Debats respecting the proposed erection of a . mausoleum over the remains of her husband : — " I cannot permit auy one , Monsieur , to shEtre with me the duty of preparing a last and pious resting place for the man of genius who did me the honour to associate his life to mine , and who preserved for me , up to Ms last hour , his best andmost affectionate sentiments . " The French Minister of War is at present engaged in . effecting a complete codification of all the military and naval laws and regulations .. . The Tribunal of ¦ Correctional Police of . Tours has recently beeu condemning to fine and imprisonment several so-called " sorcerers" who have been imposing largely on the credulity of the peasants by charms and potions .
CONTINENTAL NOTES . PRANCE . The Monitcur publishes the official documents relative to the birth of the Imperial Prince . The letter to M . Aohille Fould is as follows : — " M . Achille Foulcl , Miuistsr of State , —As the Empress , our much beloved spouse , is approaching her confinement , wo have ordained that , as soon as she feels the fn-st pains , you shall be apprised thereof , to proceed to the Palace of tho Tuilerics to the room appointed for you , that you may be introduced into the chamber of tho Empress at tho mom ¦ nt of her delivery . Our wish \ a that , with the aid of tho Presidont of our Council of State , you may draw up tho act of birth conformably to the 8 th article * of tho Senatus-Comultuni of the 25 th of December , 1852 , and tho 13 th article of tho Statute
of tho 21 st of June , 1853 . Wo have selected as witnesses his Imperial Highnoss Prinoo Napoleon and his Highness Prince Lucien Murat . Whoreupon , M . jo Miniatre , I pray God to hiwo you in health nnd His good keeping . —Done nt the Palaco of the TuHorios March 12 . Napoleon . " Tho communications to Prince Napoleon , Prince Luoion Muvat , and M . Abbatucoi , Koopor of tho Soals , aro of tho same nature . These documents nvo followed by an official statement to tho offoot that tho injunctions of tho Eraporor wore duly oarriod out ; and tho statement in signed— " Napoleon , Prinoo Napoleon , Prmoo Murat , Pi-inooes Mathildo , Prinoons Baoiocchi , Princess Oarolino Murat , Prinoo Joachim Murat , CountoBB do Montijo ( DuoIiohh of Pcnurandn ) , Aohille Fould , J . Raroobo , Ablmtuoei , " Tlio Rounmins ( natiyos of Walkohia and Moldavia ) now romdont in Paris liavo addressed to Count
Walowflki a motnonal praying for tho uuion of tho « o provinces , aH a first stop to rolorniing them . Several condemnations lunvo rocontly tnkon placo by
A protest signed by twenty-five French Bishops , has been sent by Cardinal de Bdnald , Archbishop of Lyons , to the Pope , against the resignation ( forced on him by the Government ) of the Bishop of Lugon . The protest is said to be rather strong , and the Cardinal declares that , if the Bishops are to be thus forced to resign when the Government wish it , they will in reality be nothing more than . 'public functionaries rS 22 CY ? b !? 0-t nleasure . The . Bishop of Laicon , who is now at Kome , nas u ^ ix ^ r—l """ "J , ""~ ~ " *~ ** ~* " * * ber of the Congrenation of the Index .
PRUSSIA . ' It is said that Prussia lias the intention , of effecting a complete reconciliation between the courts of Vienna and St . Petersburg , and that there will be an interview between the Emperors of Austria and Hussia and the King of Prussia in some town near the borders of the three countries . The Berlin Moniteur ( Stacots Ansciger ) contains an order addressed by the Minister of Commerce to the Committee of the Stock Exchange , forbidding brokers to buy or sell shares iu foreign undertakings when the sa , me are not fully paid \ ip . Brokers disregarding this injunction will forfeit their privileges . . The subscription opened for the family of the late M . do Hinekeldey , Director of Police at Berlin , amounted on tho 18 th to about 60 , 000 francs .
Count Canitz , who was announced , about three weeks ago , to have killed himself , a . nd afterwards to have fallen in . a duel , now turns out to be alive and well , The editor of tho Kreuz Zeitung recently affirmed to a cirole of guests at tho Russian Minister ' s soiree , that " tho theft of private papers at Potsdam was organised in tlie Prince of Prussia ' s palaco , " and that " measures must booix bo taken to give tho prince another entourage . " One of tho bystanders commu-Mxmstor
nicated this to tho Prince , who requested tho' of Justioe to hjivo tho ox-editor proceeded against for calumny . It was found , however , that the informant could not Bwcar to tho oxuet words ; and tho Prince wan advifiod tbu . 1 ; tho indictment oould not bo maintained . On this , tho Prince ' s adjutants and tlio gonmon of his uou . Boh . uld , " who folt thomsolvon pouiouauy insulted , doteriiiinod on clwlluiiginy the ullogod calumniator ; but tho IJinkoliloy duel junfc then took plaoo , and it was thought adviwiblo to allow tho matter to bo pasBud over .
TIIJU DANUW IAN riUNOJU'ALITIKS . Tho courier- wont from Jas . sy to Count Walowski , with a jioUtiou for tho union of tho two Principalities , ban boon nrrotitad at CzornowitK . Public mnnifusfcar l , ions aro intordiotod . Tlio Star of tho Danube id supprcHHod .
IIUBSIA . A groa . t doal of oocjuottiug hai boou going on lately botwoon Franco and Russia . At a rooont roooption , wooording to a letter from St . Potornbury lu tho Con *
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2134/page/7/
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