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into Bristol , 77 , 898 ? . 15 s . 2 d ., and duties received on goods from other ports , 27 , 168 Z . 7 s . The export trade to ' foreign ports during the past month has been extremely dull , and in staple articles of commerce—iron , coal , and coke—the business transacted has been considerably below the average . The total exports of iron have teen 1115 tons , of coal 2 tons , and of coke 31 tons . Compared with , the fortnight ending the last day of April , these returns show a falling off of 986 tons of coal , and an increase of 369 tons of iron , in : the five weeks of May as against the weeks in April . The exports of coal from the Severn ports ( including Bristol , Cardiff , Swansea , Newport , Llanelly , Port Talbbt , Neath , and St . David ' s ) , during iheTnonth of April , were 113 , 540 tons ; in the corresponding period of last year , they were 120 , 670 tons , thus showing a decrease of 7130 tons .
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AMERICA . The question of the outrages by the English on American merchant vessels continues to be the great subject of conversation in America , and the excitement is said to have startled our representative at "Washington . He expresses his confident' opinion , however , that there has been some mis-take about the instructions sent out , and that his Government will make satisfactory explanations . In the meanwhile , the outrages continue . The brig Maria Triban , which lias arrived at Boston , reports that she was hoarded in the harbour of Sagua la Grande by men from an English cruiser . The John and Albert which has arrived at New Orleans from Genoa , also reports having been fired into live times by a British vessel ofwar . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ "' . '' . . ¦ ¦• ; ¦¦ -. '¦ . - . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ A bill has "been introduced into the Senate enabling the President to obtain by force prompt redress for the perpetration . of'outrages upon the flag , soil , or citizens of the ; "United States , or upon their property . It proposes to authorize the President to make reprisals wherever the adoption of such a course is deemed necessary . A loan' bill for 850 , 000 dollars , redeemable at any time after the expiration of fifteen years from the first of next January , to be issued at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent ., has passed the Senate . Ttvo New York regiments have tendered their services to the President in case of war with this country , and an additional appropriation of 50 , 600 dollars for the Brooklyn navy-yard has been made . The Minister of Marine has given orders for the armament and departure of all the ships © f war . The recent intelligence from Salt Lake , to the effect that the quarrel was likely to be compromised , has not caused any intermission in the preparation for hostilities . The peace proposals are now said not to be progressing favourably . General Smith , commander of the United States army , has died at Port Leavenworth , and is succeeded by Brigadier-General Harney . The civil war continues in Mexico , where the Reactionists appear to be losing , and the Constitutionalists to be gaining , ground . The latter anticipate an easy victory . Vera Cruz has been blockaded for three days by the Government steamer Guerrero ; but , in consequence of her fuel running short , the vessel was obliged to leave . The war in Tampico is over . The Government troops , having attacked the insurgents under Garza , dispersed them . A party of Mexicans has attacked the camp of the Apache Indians near Fort Thorn , and butchered indiscriminately men , women , and children ; but they have since been captured . lieutenant Lloyd , the Admiralty agent of the British mail steamer I > ee , with the English mails , has been captured by General Garyas , the revolutionary general at Tampico . It appears that Lieutenant Lloyd was conveyed ashore from the Dee , lying off Tampico , with his mails addressed to the British consul at that place , in a . native boat , and the crew of the boat , being in the interest of Garyas , treacherously conveyed the English officer to a spot where there was a camp of the revolutionary General . Garyas did not happen to be there ; so Lieutenant Lloyd was sent on to a place-where he was stopping , and word -was convoyed to the latter of the capture that had been made . The Lieutenant was afterwards sent to Tampico , whero he obtained the projection of the American consul .
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CONTINENTAL 3 SOTES . T 1 ^ L T v i ¦ ctoiatiau feeling is to be confR ^ S&oK-S . a * ^ feu ' o -f il Human race but that to which itaeltbeWgs . Dn . Arnoid . FBANCK . ¦ Tub period of the suspension of the imU pcndanca liehc ended about ten days ago ; but the paper was not allowed to be issued from tho French Post Office Its entire suppression is said to bo decided on , unless it consent to dismiss a director obnoxious to tho French Go vennnent ; to appoint certain of its correspondents on edHion !^™ ° tU ° BamCj mUl tO imblisl 1 onl > ' ° « " i » J ?« r iS ° . 1 ? iotat » tUe 8 mft 11 Port of Cassisa , and tho ¦ P 0 " ** Marseilles , arc to be fortified . The Tnbu . ua of Correctional Police l . ns tried fourteen
men , one in flight by default , for having formed a sec ret political society for the assassination of the Emperor a ^ d the overthrow of the Government . Some of the menadmitted the truth of the charge . Three were acquitte d , and the others found guilty , and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment ( none of very long duration ) andi to fines of divers amounts . " A M . de Chasot , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , " has been elected a member of the Corps Legislatif for a section of the Orne by 14 , 326 votes out of 27 , 178 , the remainder of which were distributed among various candidates , most of whom , it is alleged , were equally devoted to Government . It is also said that the Government , for the first time , abstained from nominating a candidate . No reliable particulars of the election are yet known . "
M . de Sacy has just published in two volumes the most remarkable of the articles which he contributed , during a period of thirty years , to the columns , pf the Journal , des Debats , of which paper he is one of th-e editors . The Journal des Mines published ,. a few ' weeks ago , am abstract of an article in the Times on the Atlantic Telegraph . The abstract was signed by one of the gentlemen connected with the paper , and was copied into various other journals , the signature in each case being different . In all the reproductions , however , a blunder which had crept into the original— - " Queenstown , Iceland , " for " Queeristown , Ireland "—was repeated . The French Mediterranean fleet , composed of the steamships of the line Bretagne , Arcole , Ulm , Prince J " rome , Donawerth , and the steam frigate Isly , has anchored in Toulon roads .
M . de Pene is much better . He has at length been aT ) le to take some solid food , and it is hoped he will soo-n bear removal to Paris . M . Turgot , French Ambassador at Madrid , landed at Marseilles on Sunday from Valencia . He set out immediately : for Paris . '¦ ¦ ¦' .. The journals which were most sanguine in their anticipations of an improvement in commercial affairs noiv admit that all hope of a reaction inust be abandoned for some months to come . The Moniteur publishes a Senatus-Consuftum relative to the appropriation of theBois de Vincennesfor a public promenade .
After all , Lieutenant de Mercy , who recently killed a brother officer is not to suffer capital punishment . He has been degraded as an officer , and , after the performance of the ceremony , he was taken before the court-martial ¦ which tried him the second time , to hear read the Emperor ' s letters patent commuting the capitalsenteh . ee . M . Chaumeiul de Stella , the officer acting as judgeadvocate , thus addressed him : — " De Mercy , you owe your life to the Empress , whose noble heart takes an interest in all who suffer , pray , and repent . Your sword will presently be broken , and the pieces thrown at your feet . Who knows but that at some future period you , purified by a long and painful expiation , rnay , obedient to the instincts of your race , one day draw another sword in honour in some distant climate "V " So the murderer is reserved for great deeds .
A dreadful fire , which spread consternation among the inhabitants of the Faubourg St . Germain , took place on Sunday night , in the great establishment called the Grand Conde " , which , before the fire , occupied one lionse in the Rue de Seine and two houses in the Rue de l'Ecole de Medecine . The calamity is supposed to lhave been caused by an explosion of gas . It has led to si great destruction of property , and to the wounding of two or three by-standera by falling beams , &e . " The Emperor , " says the Moniteur , " has had the pious idea of securing to France the possession of the habitation where the Emperor Napoleon 1 . ended his days , and of the tomb where his ashes reposed . Associating ' itself with the august solicitude of his Imperial Majestv ,
the Legislative Corps lias voted an extraordinary credit of 180 , 000 francs to be placed at the disposal of the Department of Foreign Affairs . The acquisition of those precious ruins is now an accomplished fact . On tho 18 th of lust March , a decree passed by the Legislature of St . Helena , and ratified on the 7 th of May following by an order of the Queen of England , conferred upon the Emperor of the French , and his heirs for ever , the absolute right of property in the domain of Longwood and of the tomb of Napoleon I . Thus , thanks to tho willing intervention of the Government of her Britannic Majesty , those sacred localities where incomparable destinies wero fulfilled belong henceforth to France . " The riyaro has been sold to M . Auguste V . illemot , who leaves tho feuilleton of the Indtpendeince Behja to devote himself entirely to his now task .
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TURKEY . The number of the insurgents \\\ Candia is increaaimg , and five other districts of the island have risen . Curaki ' the principal lcailer of tho revolt , is advancing on Caneaj at the head of ono thousand meu , The English Conmil-General at Belgrade has been attacked and severely wounded by two Turkish aoldiora . A Russian frigate ia going to ltiigusa . Thero lma been a aail accident at Pera . A scaffolding
erected in a temporary Greek church gave way , and thirty people were killed or wounded . As the steamer Djeddah was starting , a few days since , for Syria , it blew up , and there was great loss of life . There have been extraordinary rejoicings at Constantinople on the occasion of the marriage of the Sultan ' s daughter . ITALY . The Exhibition of the Manufactures and Agricultural Produce of the Sardinian States has now been open at Turin rather more than a month ; and the Times correspondent gives some account of its contents . The most remarkable of the' inventions appears to be the autographic telegraph , a discovery of Siguor Bonelli , the director of Sardinian telegraphs . " In a small machine that stands on one side of the room , you insert a slip of prepared paper , which looks as if it were silvered , and on which you have written a sentence . This machine communicates by an electric wire with another machine , of similar appearance , at the other end of the room . Between two small rollers of the latter machine you insert a slip of yellow paper , which passes through the rollers , receiving-in its passage a green stripe down its centre , on which appears , in black , the exact fac-simih of the writing on the paper put in at the other end . The transmission is only across a room , but it is presumable , and the inventor assures us , that it might be made with equal ease and correctness across a continent or under an ocean , the wires once laid down . The marvel is effected by a combination of chemistry and electricity , —The only other object in the Exhibition , which I noticed as being an invention is an ingeniously contrived ' railway writer , ' by an English resident in Turin , Mr . Smallwood , formerly paymaster of the Italian Legion . It is a portfolio , in -which , with a hardpointed ' stick ; you write between bars , which serve to guide the hand and diminish the inconvenience of the motion of the carriage . There is also a contrivance by which you know where you have left off writing , so that the thing might be iised almost in the dark . The writing is on a black surface , and is reproduced on a sheet of paper underneath , in the manner of a manifold writer . " . ' .: . '"¦ ,. ¦ " ' . ' .. . : ¦ : ¦ ' . ' . . ' ' . ¦ Vesuvius is again blazing and casting forth streams of fiery lava from many openings in its side . A writer from the spot says : — "The lava is making considerable progress in various directions , towards Ottajano , Pompeii , and Resina , at which place many persons are of opinion that it must arrive in a v « ry short time . The reports of the guide which I have sent speak of there being only two streams ; how many there are it would be difficult to saj ' , by such a network of fire is the mountain covered . Were I to attempt the calculation , however , I should speak of four—one which descends upon Ottajano ; another which is close to it , and which . issues from some part of the Atrio del Cavallo , at the foot of Somma ; a third which rolls towards Pompeii ; and a fourth , which is rapidly coming down upon Resina —in fact , it has taken the course of the old stream which formerly came down upon Herculaneum . The first and the last merit most attention . The one which , descends on Ottajano is perhaps afcout . a quarter of a mile in width , and , after proceeding through the Atrio del Cavallo , take 3 a serpentine direction round the back of the Hermitage . It passes over the stream of 1850 . It moves on iu one mighty mass , and its progress is marked by the detaching of mighty fragments , which fall down by their own gravitation , apparently not breaking the entirety of the stream , and opening up fountains of living , scorching fire . The Resina stream is fed by three new openings , not in the cone , but at a quarter of a inilo , perhaps , from tho base of it , which putt' and pump up continually the ceaseless stream of lire which is making rapidly for Resina . The vineyards are burning up in all directions , and , while some of the peasantry look sadly on , others are kneeling and praying to their saints in a roadside oratory . " Sir . Hodge , who was arrested in Piedmont some months ago , embarked at Genoa on tho evening of the 26 ' th ult ., on board the English steamer Teneriffe , bound for this country . The appeal against the condemnation of the Cagliart came on for hearing before the Superior Court , Naples , on the 31 st ult . The case was adjourned to tho 8 th inst . SPAIN . A disturbance has taken , place among tho medical students at Madrid ; but it is saul not to have had anything of a political character . The accounts received from tho provinces with respect to the growing crops are not favourable . The diligence to Dayonne was stopped on the evening of the 3 rd inst , about six miles from Burgos , by seven armed men , wiio beat the guard , and compelled him to > deliver up a sum of fifteen thousand franc .-s which he hud in the vehicle . No violenco was shown towards the passengers . An English officer of tlio cavalry regiment stationed at Malaga , named Vivian Uutlor , was assassinated on tho 31 st ult . at a place called G uadnlmcdinn , in tho suburbs . A man has been arrested on suspicion . Tho act arose out of a street quarrel . Their Majesties have safely returned from their ox—
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No . 42 £ , June 12 , 1858 . ] T K E L E A D E R . 559
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 559, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2246/page/7/
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