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offl ompromise which have been made by certain shareholders of the Tip perary B ank , and which were ^ approved by the offic i al manage r a nd b y the Earl of Besborough and Mr . Armstrong , the representatives of the shar eholders appointed under the 20 th and 21 st Victoria . The Master ' s decision in some of the cases was postponed . BerrpRN of Emicwasts . —" Daring the last two months , several persons who had emigrated from Kilkenny to America have returned , and are warning their friends not togo to the Western Republic . Many Irish , it is said , hprB died of American fever , and a woeful picture of desolation and poverty is drawn .
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THE ORIENT . OHINA . Ghwbral Ashbubnham and Colonels Pakington and Wetherall had left Hong-Kong for India on the 29 th of November . Lord Elgin has gone to Macao , at which place -the French Plenipotentiary and the Russian Minister are staying . Admiral Seymour , with the chief part of the fleet , has advanced up the Canton river . Ail was quiet in the north of Chiua at the last advices . CIBOASSIA . The Circassians took the fort of Adekou on the 14 th lilt ., after a strenuous resistance , and put the whole garrison , numbering 1200 men , to the sword . The assailants were commanded by Sefer Pacha .
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AMERICA . Walker has been taken prisoner . After landing , he took possession of Scott ' s Buildings and a schooner lying at Point Arenas . Captain Chatard , of the Saratoga , informed him that he must give up the schooner and evacuate the buildings . This he did , and , moving farther up the Point , hired a few small huts , and hoisted his flag . On the 6 th of December , Commodore Paulding arrived in the Wabash , and , being subsequently joined by other vessels , he commenced operations against Walker . A force of four hundred men was landed , and Captain Engle , who had the command of them , was met by W alker , who invited him to his hut . Captain Engle then gave the Filibuster a communication from Commodore Paulding , on receiving which , Walker said , " I surrender , and am under your orders . " " Then , sir , " said Captain Engle , " haul down your flag . " Walker
immediately obeyed , and , it is said , wept . Subsequently , Walker was taken on board the United States ship Fulton , together with the rest of the men , and conveyed to the Wabash . The correspondent of the New York Times states that Captain Ommanney , of her Britannic Majesty ' s ship Brunswick , wished to take part in the capture of Walker and his men ; but they were Amer i cans , and Commodore Paulding reserved the right of punishment to himself . Walker asserted on board the W abash that , if the English had landed a force , he would have fought them , doing all the damage he could , and then taking to the bush ; or , to use his own expression , " If you had landed with red coats on , I would have done you a great deal of damage . I would have fought to the last man . " The Fulton was to remain at Greytown and arrest Anderson ' s party . The Susquehanna was also there .
Walker was afterwards aet at liberty on his giving his word of honour , in writing , that he would go to New York in the first steamer , and deliver himself into the hands of the United States Marshal there , Captain Rynders . This promise ho redoomed , and was received in a very friendly way by the Marshal , who said , " As Captain Rynder 3 , General Walker , I am most deliglitod to boo you ; but as Marshal , you know , it is a different thing altogether . " Walker then renewed his parole , and the Marshal said he thought the best thing he could do would be to proceed to Washington , and present himself to the Secretary of State . Ho according ly w ent , accompanied by Captain Rynders , and was informed by General Cass that the Government did not consider him n
pris on er , and that it was only through the action of the judiciary that ho could be lawfully hold t o answer any charge against him . He wns therefore set at liberty . The Government is angry with Commodore Paulding for having arrested Walkor , his instructions simply b ein g to preve nt the p irates landing . PaulUing has boon ordered homo , and will bo brought to a court-martial , as the Administration asserts that the lauding of hid men on Nioaraguiin soil was a violation of international law . The detachment of Walker ' s forou under Colonel Frank Anderson was , it would sooin , etill in Nicaragua at tho last dates . Anderson was sont by Walkor with
fifty men to tako possession of Fort Gu-nillo and four atflftniqrd . jwJtfsk-SflEyjc ^ A Now York journal mentions a report that Aiuloivon popMoaed " throo months' provision , six pieces of artillery , « nd abundance of ammunition . Throo of the captured utoamora w « ra handed by Walkor to Garrison and Mongan ; the fourth , which wan tho only onu that oaine dtrnn tho river , ' was geized by Commodore Paulding , and handed ov « r to the American Consul at Groytown . PfWfoasly to the arrival of Commodore Paulding , Captain Ouiutturd hadomolally i n formed Wa lke r th a t , If ' any raatw-Aaittiaiin property or any of hU olfioera were
molested , he would blow General Walker out of the wate with shot and shell . ' " The enlistment of Filibusters for Nicaragua is progressing with much spirit in various places . Eight hundred men have left Texas for Nicaragua , and there are about fourteen hundred at New York awaiting shipment . A despatch from Washington says that Walker demands that the Government shall convey him back to Nicaragua in a national vessel , and saluts his flag on arriving at the Isthmus ! Walker is about to proceed to New Orleans , where the excitement in his favour is immense . It is understood at Washington that the Persia hrought despatches announcing an earnest protest by the British Government against the Yrissari Convention , as an infringement of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty . Despatches in reply have been transmitted to Mr . Dallas .
Civil war is once more raging in Kansas . The vote for or against slavery was put to the people of Leavenworth some time in December , and resulted in 238 suffrages in favour of ' the peculiar institution' against only 9 in opposition to it . Many Missourians ( advocates of slavery ) were present , having come on purpose to influence the election . The form of oath administered is said to have been— " Are you at this instant an inhabitant of the territory . " Some of the Missourians have been arrested ; but Judge Lecompte has issued writs of habeas carpus for their release . The general result of the votes of the whole territory has not yet been transmitted to
England ; but the last advices speak of the commencement of hostilities between the rival parties . Several serious conflicts have occurred ; a mong others , a fig ht between the Government troops and a body of Pro-Slavery men , in which several were killed and wounded , including the United States Marshal for the district . General Lane , the leader of the Free-State troops , has entrenched himself with a large number of followers at Sugar Mound ; and a battle between this force and the Government dragoons appears to be inevitable . The whole country is in a lawless state , and acts of great violence are of frequent occurrence .
Secretary Cass ' s reply to Governor Walker's communication , tendering his resignation as Governor of Kansas , which resignation was accepted , has been published . The Secretary says : — " If every oflicer of the Government who feels himself constrained to refuse obedience to the instructions of the President shall pursue this unusual course , and thus place on the files of the appropriate department a criticism on the policy of the Adiniuistration , no person knows better than yourself to what consequences this might leal . We must either cause the charges and arguments against the President to be filed among the public archives of the country , without contradiction or reply , or it must spend the time which ought to be devoted to the public service in controversies with subordinate officers who may disapprove the President's policy . "
Of the progress , of the army of Utah , we are informed , iu a despatch received from head-quarters , and dated Blackfork , November 5 th , " that the detachments under Colonel Johnston and Colonel Smith , together witli the supply trains , had united with tho main body under Colonel Alexander , and the entire force had advanced to within sixteen miles of Fort Bridger , en route for Salt Lake city . The troops were in high spirits , being plentifully supplied with provisions , while the snow had fallen sufficiently to protect the grass from fire . " A letter of general instructions from Daniel Wells , Lieutenaut-Geueral of the Mormons , to a Major Joseph Taylor , which was intercepted , owing to the capture of Taylor , indicates the determination of the Mormons to make tho struggle , if need bo , a war of extermination .
President Buchanan and the Secretary of tho Navy warmly approve , and have acceded to , the application of the Atlantic Telegraph Company for * tho steam frigate Niagara to assist in laying tho submarine cable between Ireland and Newfoundland next June . Mexico is again in tho throes of a mortal conflict . Tho constitution of tho country has boon overthrown ; tho Federal Congress , and Supreme Court have broken up and dispersed ; and Comonfort is proclaimed absolute dictator , with power to oall un extraordinary Congress . These events appear to havo boon effected by a sudden coup d'atat , plaunod with great skill and executed with much , vigour . Somo men of distinction wore arrested , uud several of the military sont iu their resignations tho sumo day . Tho pooplo of tho capital are said for tho most part to havo exhibited groat satisfaction at tho turn mutters had taken ; but many of tho provinces have declared ngiiinst Comonfort , and a civil war all over tho Stato sooms imminent . The struggle in Yucatan still
continues . The New York commercial -advicea report that tho Christmas festivities havo somewhat interfered with tho usuul progress of businoss . Tho transactions in tho » took-market Imd consequently been to a limited oxtont , Tula wouiTt ' pro b ab 'l y remain so during " £ hd succoocHng"f 6 \ v days . Tho Trousury Depurtmont , under tho dlrootion of President Buohuniui , lius fixed tho rate of interest to bo borno by tho first Issue of Treasury notes , ( 3 , 000 , 000 dollars , ul throo per cent , per annum , tho notes to run for one y o u r , but receivable at all timoa in payment of Customs and other calculated dues , with tho accumulated interest calculated to tho day of payment . Tho Supremo Court of Providence has decreed u perpetual injunction on the Rhode Island Bank . *
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian , feeling is to be condemned which regards with , jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion of the human race bat that to which , itself belongs .-. Dr . Arnold FKASCE . The funeral of Rachel did not , as first announced , take place on Friday week , but on Monday . The body lay in state on Saturday night and Sunday , and at twelve o ' clock on Monday it was deposited in a hearse drawn by six horses . The coffin was covered with a white pall sprinkled with silver stars , and on it was a crown of immortelles . The Grand Rabbi of the Jewish Consistory of Paris walked immediately after the hearse , and the chief mourners were the father and brother and the two sons of Mademoiselle Rachel . Alexandre Dumas , the elder , held one of the corners of the pall . The cortege consisted of sixteen mourning coaches and a considerable number of private carriages . An immense crowd followed , consisting of all the most celebrated men of art and letters , and deputations from all the theatres of Paris . The body was conveyed to the Jewish burialground , at the extreme end of Pere la Chaise ; and , after the religious rites had been gone through , speeches were made by MM . Jules Janin , Bataille , and Maquet . Janin alluded to the loss within a short time of all that was celebrated , glorious , and free , and expressed his regret that the only man competent to eulogize the deceased—Victor Hugo—should be now in exile . Several detachments of cavalry were on the spot , to preserve order . A company has been formed for the conveyance of pilgrims to the Holy Land and back . During the recent frost at Paris , the Emperor went out skating in the Bois de Boulogne , in the midst of the throngs of pleasure-seekers . The Empress all the while looked on from a carriage ; and Louis Napoleon seems to have gained popularity by this democratic association of his own amusements with those of the people . The return of General Lamoriciere from Brussels to France having given rise to various reports , the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegrap h undertakes to lay the real facts before the English public . When the General ' s first child fell ill at Paris , Lady Holland , who is a frequent visitor at the Palais Royal , interceded with Prince Jerome for the father . The Prince at once spoke to the Emperor on the subject , and the answer was , " If General Lamoriciere wishes to return to France , let him ask permission , and it shall be granted . " The General declined to do so . The Emperor then sent a ' provisional' permission to the exile to return ; but Lamoriciere still thought that * the door which had been opened for him was too low . ' Finally , the Emperor gave an absolute and unconditional permission to the General to return . In the meanwhile , the child had died . Lamoriciere , however , accepted the permission to return , and a pompous account was given in the Nurd , from which it was copied into the Paris papers , of the manner in which the General was received on the frontiers , of the respect paid to his baggage , and of the profuse professions of gratitude made by his family to the Emperor . The Telegraph correspondent discredits the excessive gratitude on the part of the General , but adds that "it is certain that the exiles who remain at Brussels are dissatisfied with the General ' s conduct , and seem inclined to look on him U 3 a lost sheep . " Improvements in various parts of Paris , on a much vaster scale than any yot carried out , are talked of for the present year . "A deplorable accident , " says tho Times Paris correspondent , " took place in tho Church of St . Suljiiuo ( in Parish ut half-past ten on tho morning of Friday week , during Divine service in the Chapel of tho Virgin . The ca / ori / ere which warms the church with hot water burst with a loud noise , and scattered pieces of metal and streams of boiling water in every direction . Three persons wero killed by tho explosion and five others wounded , two of them severely . It is supposed that one of the pipes for conducting the hot water was obstructed by some cause not yet ascertained . Tha Prefect of tho Suino proceeded immediately to tho church to instruct tho architect to adopt measured to prevent a similar accident in future . " M . Affro , brother of tho Archbishop of Paris who was killed at the barricades of June , l « 4 tf , died at Khodoz a few days ago , ngod sixty-seven . Ho was a sub-profoct under the Restoration , and a member of tho Constituent Assembly of 1818 . The affair of tho J ' rosna has terminated by M . Millaud retaining pormuueutly thu title of rddactour on chef ; and the appointment of M , Guoroult aa principal rddaotour . Some of tho shareholders nro noriously alarmed at this rosult . M . Guoroult is un old St . Simonjiui , and j wayb"e * said * to coino-ti ) -the-jP / ' <« d « - witU 4 lM » JitjoroJiu |! niitiR ^ M , at hia smoulder . Afl is well known , tho St . Slmoniuna retain littlo of their anclunt characteristics , and aro chiefly remarkable for tho facility with which they adapt themselves to any rdgimo , and their determination to gpt on In tho world . Thoy are mixed up in «» manner of industrial apooulatloiw . H is a pity to soo tho Preaae fall Into tholr hands j as for tho future Its polltloul importance will bo null . M . Guoroult was sont out aa Consul to some place in Amorloa undor Louis Philippe .
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Ko . 408 , January 16 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 55 ^ 7 ¦ —
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 16, 1858, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2226/page/7/
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