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feeling . This is said everywhere of Cobpesj and Bbight ; it is not lsss felt with regard to Fox and Hex-worth ; Miaxl would have been certain to iind a seat , so would Arthur Gordon . We have named several of the more conspicuous new members who have been put into the vacant seats ; those who are best known are decidedly more Liberal than the average of the men displaced , at least politically—r-as Elton , Kingiake ,
Thompson , TreiAwny , Slangy , Coningiiaai . If ' fom others we may not expect larger professions with regard to the suffrage jextension , from . some of them we have had at least a more positive and determined enforcement ' of opinions favourable to the . interests , of the largest numbers . . / James Caikd , returned for Dartmouth , will bring into the House of Commons a considerable amount of active and practical information on the subject , of agriculture arid its progress .
ami many other deadly forms of epidemic- —all permitted , to-go straight from the foul stables of disease through the slaughter-house and the kitchen to the living human stomach ; and all for want of something like effectual inspection . Fraud in meat almost parallels the frauds in money . ; , whereof a diseased case was anatomised this week , in the person of Mr . Ai'sle y Pellatt , before the Court of Bankruptcy .
The political news from over the seas partaies of the same uncertain character that we have ' noted for some time past . General Sir James Outraju : has inflicted a slashing wound upon , the army of Soojahooii-Mooi . K , the Persian General , who has been degraded , it is said , for Ms failure . ILis whole army may be said to have been beaten by afew squadrons of cavalry . But , inflicted after the decUvration . of peace , the stroke is not in all respects happy . It is not likely to unsettle the settlement , for " such things have frequently happened : and if Persia were to
complain , we might reply that it serves her right for having no penny post , railways , or telegraph to expedite intelligence . In China matters remain exactly as they were , the Admiralty message notwithstanding . Admiral Seymour still short of forces , but still keeping up a fire against Canton . And instead of ordering Yeh to conciliate , the Emperor , if he has ordered anything ; , has ordered the Commissioner to add hypocrisy to obstinacy .
The Avithdrawal of Count Paar from Turin by Count Buol , accompanied as it was by a despatch ¦ personally offensive- to Count Cavotoi , has been followed by unmistakable demonstrations on the 22 nd of March in Venice ; the anniversary being celebrated by allusions to Victor Ejijiaki'ei / , as King of Italy , and Ca-vour , as Prime Minister thereof .. The state of events is becoming critical ; and again we say it would be interesting to know what our Government is at ?
We have the tex . t of the treaty between this country and the United States on' the subject of Central America , with some indications of the alterations in the Senate , though the copy before us is not perfectly : intelligible , Our Ministers had retained some degree of protectorate over the Mosquito Indians , which the Senate has completely disallowed . But it is scarcely possible that our Government can throw up all the advantages of the treaty from any punctilious offence on that point . If it do , it will certainly sacrifice English interests to personal pique . The sudden visincp of the iBank discount on
Thursday from 6 to 6 i per cent , occasioned a feeling of surprise , though the reasons for it arc su . tticiently obvious . The people in Paris have been trying to makeup 2 , 500 , 00 ( U as the first instalment for the . Russian railways— ¦ wi thout complete success . The Russian Government has been trying to raise the ¦ wind for the same purpose . Spccmatovs in Germany and Holland nave been taking advantage of tho lowering the discount in Amsterdam to 4 per cent , as a means of raising capital for ' railway extensions of the widest kind , centring in Berlin . In every quar ter the demand for money is brisk—from the United States to India . The' Government loan of 5 percent , in India is a failure ; at the same time , tor military and otlioial purposes , the Couvt of
. Directors arc pouring their bills into the Eastern ¦ Lmjnre , and a stale of tliincrs lias been produced which has compelled tho BankTof Bengal to raise its interest on the deposit of Government securities to 14 iicr cent . In fact , there is a universal raising ol tho wind all round , especially in the Worth nnd East , and tho Bank of England would soon have had a vacuum if it had not put on 1 ho screw YVluU ; , the North , of Europe is Inking away our gold , it is sending us the cattle murrain , which is imported direct from Holsttin—tho place it , has reached irom the Eastern steppes . The London newspapers are beginning to create a panic about ii and tho prospect of including typhoid beef mnon . st our imports has drawn attention to the fuel , that hi tho meat customarily sold in tho public markets and especially to tho poor , too large a proportion contavns phthisis , motvslcs , small-pox , typhus , cholera
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THE REVENUE . YEAR AN 1 > QUARTER TO MARCO 31 , 1857 . Tiik Official Return ( says an abstract in the Morning Post ) shows an increase on the quarter of 115 , 074 ? .. and on the year of 2 , 525 , 006 / . Customs . —The increase on . the year arises on nearlv every head of duty , except tea and coffee , on which there is a decrease ( or postponement ) of revenue of one million , principally owing to the anticipated reduction of the duty in April . The quarter ' s revenue is more especially affected by the same cause . Excise . —An increase in the year of 853 , 848 ? ., and in the quarter of 91 , 2227 . ; arising principally on spirits , hops , and paper , &c . There would have / been a much greater increase but for the repeal of the war duty on malt , 'which has affected the revenue of the year about 1 , 000 , 000 ? ., and that of the quarter about 250 , 000 £ ( including the drawbacks on stocks on hand ) .
' Stamps . t-An increase of about 296 , 000 ? . on the year , and 103 , 000 ? . on the quarter ; ¦ arising'from additional revenues from legacy and succession duties and other Item ? . Land and Assessed Taxes . —Unimportant variations both on the year and quarter . Income-tax—Sho-ws an increase of more than a million , derived from the additional twopence in the pound imposed in 1855 , and which did not take full effect until the second half of the year 1855-G . The quarter shows a smaller comparative increase , the full rate being then in operation .
Post-office . —An increase of correspondence has produced a similar addition to the revenue of both the quarter and the year . Crown Lands . —No variation of any amount . Miscellaneous . —Casual variation only .
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shall be my agreeable duty , as Delias my earnest d * ir * 7 loertMe the friendship and mutual good-wil ? now soha ? pily aubostuig between the two countries , andTo 3 * these sentiments strong and enduring With such < £ , and heartfelt dispositions on both sidfs , shou MdfCS ever arise between the two Governments , these will £ easily adjusted in a spirit of mutual forbearance alS concession . I return your lordship my thanks for \ w kind expressions and wishes in reference to myelf a « a feel confident that in our future intercourse we shall nro ceed harmoniously and satisfactorily in discharging III respective duties . " h l tt , ^! ^ rendon * ty has been passed by the United States Senate by a . vote of 32 to 15 , bein ^ uS one over the required number . Some amendments have
been introduced , asserting that the sovereignty of the Bay Islands is vested exclusively in Honduras th ' t the sovereignty of the Mosquito coast belongs esclu sively to Nicaragua , the Indians only having a * ™* sessory right to their lands there ; and that the Lilted States do not m any -way guarantee any grants of land made to any parties by the Mosquito Indians . The object of the last of these provisions is said to be the discouragement of English colonisation ; but it is thought that England will accede to all the amendments
The United States Senate has refused to ratify the proposed treaties between the United States and Mexico which were signed by Mr . Forsyth , the American minister at Mexico , on the 11 th of February . These treaties were five in number , depending one on the other and the whole combining an arrangement , the object cf which was to extract Mexico from its financial embarrassments . Telegraphic despatches from Washington announce the basis of a new treaty with Mexico . It embraces the acquisition of Sonora and Sinaloa , with the command of the Gulf of California , in consideration of a sum of money .
A horrible railway accident is reported . There is a bridge over a canal at one part of the Great " Western Railway , Canada . This bridge is elevated sixty feet above the level of the water , and it is a swing-bridge . Some injury , it is supposed , had been done to the structure by a train -which had passed ' shortly before the accident . The consequence was that the next train was thrown off the line , and precipitated into the canal . From seventy-five to one hundred passengers were in
AMERICA . The New York papers contain accounts of the reception of our Minister , Lord Napier , at Washington . We are told that he '' was introduced to the President by General Cass , and presented his credentials as Minister from England . He was in . court dress . In addressing the President as the Envoy of her Britannic Majesty , he said he was instructed to convey to him the earnest desire maintained l > y tlie Queen to preserve and advance on all occasions the interests and happiness of the people of England and America , which are so deeply involved in their amicable intercourse ; and to manifest to him tho hearty good wishes which her Majesty cherishes for
the prosperity of the United States . He ventured to congratulate the President on his accession to the highest elective dignity in the country and the world , saying : — ' May you enjoy it in health , and peace , and ever-increasing honour , and may the period of your government be distinguished by all tho features of public welfare . Permit me , ' ho continued , ' to express to you my gratification in being selected to renew and avow at Washington those relations of international friendship which have been so ably sustained by your representative in London . This important and grateful duty might have been committed to others moro capable of doing justice to tlio sentiments of benevolence which animate my sovereign , her ministers , and even' order of
her subjects , but no one could approach your Excellency with greater respect for your person and your office , or a warmer good-will to the American people . ' Lord Nirjiicr then delivered the credential letter which her Miijesty had been graciously pleased to entrust to his care . Tho President in reply offered to Lord Napier a hearty welcome ns Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from her Britannic Majesty to the United States . ' Your sovereign , ' he said , ' I am convinced , could not liavo selected a more acceptable representative- than yoxirsolf to renew those relations of international friendship -which I trust may never hereafter be interrupted . The earnest and gracious desire expressed by her Majesty to preserve and advance upon all occasions the interest and happiness of England and America ,
and the hearty good wishes ¦ which her Majesty cherishes for the prosperity of the United States , nro cordially reciprocn ( cd on my part , and will elicit mi entuusiuslie response from the hearts of the American people . No independent powers have ever bum * bound together by material interests of Kudi magnitude as those which unite Circnt Britain and tho United States . Indeed , the prosperity of the one is nc < : e * . surily involved in that of the other ; but mutual interests , however vast , without mutual regard , nro not nlwnya sufliciont to preserve friendship between nations . How happy then am 1 to receive tho assurance that your anvaroigii , her minidtors , and every order of her subjects , nro animated by sentiment , ' ) of benevolence toward the Government and people of tho United States ! During my administration , it
the carriages at the time , of whom only fifteen were taken alive from the wreak , and of these five have since died . Another railway accident , though less destructive , has occurred . It happened on the 13 th nit . on the Pennsylvania Railroad , at Altoona station . An emigrant train standing on the track was run into by a heavy freight train , crowding the rear car into the one before it , causing the instant death of six of the passengers , and mutilating ten or twelve others .
The city of Sarapiqui has been retaken by Walker , who attacked it -with a force of two hundred men and two nine-pounders . The assault went on for about fourand-twenty hours , when the Costa-Ricans were obliged to yield . Walker , it is said , lost only two men kilkd and . three wounded ; the enemy had eleven killed and twenty wounded . Castille is also reported to have fallen into Walker ' s hands , witk a loss of eight killed and twenty wounded on his side , and thirty-two killed and ' sixty wounded on the part of the Costa-Ricans .
One of those disgraceful personal encounters -which are unfortunately frequent in the American Houses of Legislature , took place a short time ago in the Missouri Parliament . Mr . Albin , of Gentry , was making " a personal explanation" —generally " a great source of quarrel ; and in the course of it he reflected severely on Mr . Singleton , of Andrew . What follows we give in the singular and somewhat Rabelaisian language of the fnquirer : — " Here Mr ; Singleton , of Andrew , rose from hia seat and advanced to the side of his desk , towards the left centre aisle ; when he arrived nt tho front edge
thereof , he with his right hand grippled for his inkbottlc ; a second clutch secured it . Drawing back , he throw it with much force at Mr . Albin . The bottle , scattering its contents all along its route , struck the desk of Mr . Albin iu front of him , and bounced off , carrying with it a handkerchief , just glancing over the face of Mr . Darncn , of Scott , whoso seat is about in a line with the seat <¦ Mr . Albin . Upon this , and quicker tbnn we can pen the act , Mr . Albin drew from his breast a seven-inch Colt ' s revolver , which he pointed with unerring certainty , and which he lield with a wonderful steadiness , directly
at Mr . Singleton . Gentlemen surrounding either person rushed towards them , not , however , until Mr . Singleton had stooped down , in the attempt , as it would appear , to raise a spittoon , Mr . Clover , of St . Louis , who happened to bo near , cauglit the arm of Mr . Albin , awl , nt tho same time , with his left hand , forced the pistol up to tho ceiling . By this time , the Speaker collected himself , and ordered tho two persons under arrest . Mr . Albin made some resistance by words , , on tlui recommendation of his friends , ho left the hall in cuxtoily ol tho Scrjoant-at-arins . Mr . Singleton was not for the proHcnt molested . "
The new President is very unwell , owing , in ft i ^ rcal degree , it , is said , to the constant -worrying of V ' ^ l > Iaco-huntcrs , who importune- him for posts night ami 11 ay , and try to force themselves into Inn private rooms Ho w / is slightly aflectcd by the climate , but was gctU » £ well again , when tho anxiety cauRcd a relapse . Commander Swartwont , of tho United Stutcs ^ stcnrnp ' .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 4, 1857, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2187/page/2/
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