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isolated places . At Sundeela , 50 miles from Lucknow , two chiefs , Hurpurshad , Moulvie Mohammed , with 7000 men , have been annihilated by . Captain . Dawson with 1500 police . They lost upw ards of 1000 men ; onr loss was nine killed and sixty wounded . A raid was made on the 5 th against the rebels at Meangunge , who were worsted by Brigadier Eveleigb . ; with a loss of 200 killed and wounded and two guns . A fight occurred on the 8 th of October at Powayne , in Rohilcund . The rebels on this occasion attacked the garrison of the place , but w ere repulsed , with a loss of four killed and nineteen wounded . Another action , near Sbahjehanpore , on the same day , resulted in a loss to the enemy of 300 killed and two guns . In Behar , General Douglas has regularly opened the campaign by the occupation , on the 20 th insr ., of Jugdespore , which the rebels had evacuated .
Both at Calcutta and Bombay great preparations are made for the proclamation of the Queen ' s assumption of rule . Illuminations on a grand scale are to be made . Lord Elphinstone is at his country place , Malheran . The ex-King of Delhi has been sent to Calcutta under an escort of Carabineers .
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WEST INDIES . HAYTI . The details of a grievance said to have been sustained lately by the Haytian Government at the hands of the Washington Cabinet have just transpired , and seem not without importance . About a year back a party of Americans established themselves in the island of Navaza , about thirty miles from the Haytian eoasr , which is claimed as a dependency of that country ; their object being to ship cargoes of guana . The Haytian Government sent two commissioners to examine , who found a regular establishment , consisting of a wlarf , boats , houses , and fifty workmen , provided with weapons , and their guano was being actively collected . Thereupon the Haytian Government sent a protest to Washington , and waited the arrival of orders to the interlopers to withdraw . On the 15 th of August last , two American men-of-war visited Hayti and notified that so far from
the Washington Cabinet having any intention to comply with the request made , .. the vessels had come to protect the alleged intruders , and to warn tlie Government of Hayti not to interfere with them . The ground assigned was that by an Act of Congress of 1856 , the American Government had been authorised-to protect citizens of the United States who may discover guano in any island " not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government . " The Haytian Government then sent a new protest to Washington , and in this position the affair at present stands . It is evident from the notice given that the United States are disposed to deny the Haytian jurisdiction .
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PERSIA . Letters from Persia state that at a banquet given at Teheran by M . Auitschoff , the Russian Ambassador , in honour of the Czar ' s birthday , Mr . Murray , the English Minister , astonished the company by retiring with his attache ' s before tho toasts were proposed . According to other accounts ho left the house for some unknown reason before dinner was servod . Unless this news is to be classed under the head of canard we shall necessarily hear more of it .
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TASMANIA . Tub opening of tho Tasmanian Legislature took place on tho 7 th September . The Governor , Sir IX . Young , announced that bills would bo introduced to provide for the more effectual audit of tho public accounts , to cnublo tho Council and Assembly to deal with questions of their own privilege , to render Government employ ^ ineligible to a sent in Parliament , to vest in tho judges of tho Supremo Court the powers of tho Land Claims Commissionors , to legalise and regulate the establishment of volunteer corps for the defence of tho colony , to endow prize scholarships for Tasmanian youths to pursue their studies at English universities , and to incorporate the provisions of the new Divorce Law and Fraudulent Trustees Act in colonial legislation .
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NEW ZEALAND . Tins Now Zealand Parliament , waa prorogued on tho 21 et " of August . Tho results of tho session are thus do-Bcribcd by tho Governor : —" Tho enactment of permanent laws to carry into effect tho financial arrangements of the last session finally closes various irritating questions . The act for roguluting the management of tlio wasto lands of tho Crown will accomplish an effective
administration by the local authorities under the supervision of the Government of the colony . Several acts have been passed for the improvement of the administration of justice . The revision of the electoral laws has secured' an improved system of registration . The measures for extending to the aboriginal population the benefit of free local institutions promise to promote the civilisation of that portion of her Majesty ' s subjects . The act which provides for the establishment of new provinces affords to the rising settlements of the country the same advantages of local government as are enjoyed by the existing provincial centres . I most heartily congratulate you on the progress of active industry throughout the country , and on the prosperous condition of all classes of the community . "
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CANADA . The Montreal Gazette says : — " In Lower Canada , as before in Upper , the hero of Kars , General Williams , has occupied the chief place in the public eye . His progress through the country has been the signal for demonstrations of respect for him and the gallant exploits with which his name is associated . " One more election for Legislative Council for the Gulf division has taken place . Mr . Tessier , the candidate for the Moderate party , was elected by a large majority . * ' The Quebec people have again taken up in earnest the construction of the North Shore Railroad between this city and the ancient capital . Their city council has voted 50 , 000 dollars to begin with . " Two of the banks of this city ; the Bank of Montreal and the City Bank , have declared dividends at the rate of eight per cent , per annum . "
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AMERICA . A despatch dated Washington , October 31 , states thai the English and French Governments had addressed a formal note to the United States Government , announcing their determination to force the provisions of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty , as understood by them , in protecting the com party organised by M . Belly for the construction of the interoceanic mail across the Isthmus of Nicaragua . - President Buchanan has issued a proclamation warning citizens against joining the Filibustering expedition preparing against Nicaragua under Walker , enjoining all officers of Government to vigilance in repressing these illegal enterprises . The successful laying of the Atlantic cable was celebrated in San Francisco on the 2 nd of October by a great procession , illuminations , and fireworks .
further interference of Government . General Pae : whom a successful revolution makes President , still r < mains in the States , and has had interviews with tt President and Cabinet at Washington . These inter changes of courtesy and personal visits should result I an amicable settlement of the claims against tUat Be public .
The Ariel arrived on Wednesday , having left New York on the 30 th ult . In the English Channel she was detained sixty hours by a perfect hurricane blowing from the east-north-east . Captain Ludlow , the commander of the Ariel , was struck down with a sea , and broke his knee-pan . He was so ill in the Solent that it was hardly expected he would live to reach Southampton . The Southern papers are already overwhelmed with dismay by the resiUt of the Indiana , Ohio , and Pennsylvania elections . They all declare they see little further hope left for the South in the Union , and denounce the " Unionists , " as they call those who preach union and repudiate " sectional differences . "
Highly important intelligence has been received from Oregon , in a letter frpm the army . The news is fifteen days later than any other received from that region , and was expressed by Indian runners . The Spokan and Pelouse Indians had been defeated after two days' fighting , tho Spokan chiof being captured by the troops and nine hundred horses having been taken from the Pelouses . All the plunder which had been taken from Colonel Stoptoe ' s command in his unfortunate affair with these Indians had been recovered , even to Colonel Steptoe ' s pistol , which was found on the person of an Indian who was killed . Tho army did not lose a man . Tho writer considers the war in that quarter at an end , the Indians begging for peace and complying with all the demands of tho United States authorities .
A Now Orleans telegram of the 2 nd of November says : —" Tho deaths from yollow fever yesterday were twenty-scveni . The fovor ia no longer epidemic . " Tho fever commenced on tho 27 th of Juno , and from that date till tho 24 th October , 7270 persons died of tho disease . Tho Washington correspondent of tho New York Tribune eayu that Mr . Wurd , tho President of tho Cincinnati Convention , which nominated Mr . Buchanan for tho Presidency , has boon tendered the Chinese mission . Mr . Mason haa finally agreed to retire from the French mission in the spring ' , contemporaneously with Mr . Dallas . Advicos from Japan stato tliat a Prince of that country was about to visit tho United States , attended by a suite of fourteen persons .
The Paraguay fleet ia to consist of twonty-flvo vessels of all kinds , containing about itflOO sailors and marines . Onp journal estimates tho available number at about 2400 who can actually take part in the conflict , should there unfortunately bo one . Tho controversies with Venezuela promise to tako earo of themselves , without
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MISCELLANEOUS , The Covrt . —The Royal family at Windsor continue in good health . Her Majesty and her daughters take exercise in the riding-house during this inclement weather , varied by occasional walks in the Home Paik . The Prince shoots occasionally . The visitors at th « Castle last week included the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh , Prince Philip of Wurtemberg , the Prince of Leiningen , the Dukeof Malakoff , andToassoun Pasha , only son of the Viceroy of Egypt , who was introduced to hex Majesty by Sir Moses Montefiore , to take leave on Lis return home . The Prince Consort presided at a meeting of the Council of the Wellington College this week .
The Prince of Wales . —His Royal Highness has gone by way of Brussels and Cologne to Berlin , on a visit for about three weeks to the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia . Colonel the Hon . B * Bruce and Major Teesdale , R . A ., are in attendance on . the Prince . The Pbince Arthur . —The young Prince is to be trained a soldier , and will go through all the regimental grades of the service ; like Prince Alfred , in the navy , he will begin at the lowest grade , and , as soon as ho is old enough , and has got sufficiently forward with , his studies , the country may expect to see him pursuing his education at Sandhurst like any other cadet . — Court Journal .
The " Fciorr Pulpit . "—Sunday afternoon lectures to the working classes have been resumed in several places . The Rev . A . Mursell has lectured at Manchester , the last two Sundays , on " Stand at Ease" and " Lodgings to Let . " This is going quite far enough out of the beaten track . The titles of some of the lectures are opes to positive objection on account of their flippancy . Thus , at Huddersfiekl , the Rev . J . Hanson has been lecturing from " Breach of Promise ; " and at Halifax , the Rev . W , Walters has taken as subjects , " Love ' s Labour Lost , " and " Light of Other Days . "—Birmingham Gazette .
The Papists and the Freemasons . —A letter from Buenos Ayres , in the Journal du Havre-, states that the bishop of that place has excommunicated all freemasons ,, arid declared their doctrines incompatible with those of the Catholic church . In consequence of this , the clergyhave exhorted from the pulpit the wives and children of freemasons to quit them , and servants to denounce them . The Trial by Jury . —At the meeting of the Law Amendment Society on Monday , Mr . Serjeant Woolrych read a paper having especial reference to Lord Campbell ' s proposal to introduce majority verdicts into our common jury system . The learned gentleman strongly urged the maintenance of the practice of unanimity . A special committee was appointed to report on tho whole subject of the paper .
Court op Common Council . —At a court held on Monday , a report from the Inquiry Committee was read , suggesting that the corporation should not introduce into Parliament a bill of their own for Corporation Reform , but that they should empower the committee to endeavour to effect such modifications in the ministerial measure as might be desirable . After an animated discussion the court refused to delegate such largo powers to tho committee . Journalistic Novelties . —Tlie . left bank of the Seinq is occupied by tho long , silent streets of the Faubourg St . Germain , and by that populous hive , the Quartier Latin , where law , lovo , logic , medicine , the
art of " self-defence , " and the science of " tick" are assiduously cultivated by the studlosa juventus of modern France . Those ingenuous youths , or rather , a email fraction of them , have juat started a paper—Journal de la Hive Gauche . It is spioily written ; but the topics it touches on are exclusively interesting to tho dtudiants and tStitdinntea > vho form tlio bulk of the population of that classic neighbourhood . On tlie right bank , wo have also tho appearance of a now journal to chronicle . The tailors have already got their organ ; and tho haircutters have now determined to follow their example , and have started Le Journal des Coiffeurs . A Parisian wit desoribos It thus : — " II friso la politiquo et met lea lot ties on paplllottos . "
Parisian Dinners . —The French correspondent of a contemporary has tho following : — " Paris waa always a groat plnce for extravagant dinners . Tho other day Prince Napoleon treated an assembly of connoisseurs to Chinese dishes , aueii as birda ' -nosts soup , < ftc A still more eccentric banquet took place at tho Trois Frdreo , at which tho novel feature of rats ' -taila soup was Introduced , Ono of tl » guests ' , a man wholly < lovoiU of projucUce , assures mo that it dooa not coino up to ox-tn 1 by any moans . Thoro V « s also a chiokon , killod and dressed after tho Horntian precept—• Dootus orls vivnm inlsto moraare Falarno Hoc tonoram faciot , ' Mid a dish of Menaced t jymnoti , or eleotrlo ools , only to bo found in tho muddy watora of tho Nile . Apropos of
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No , 452 . November 20 , 1858-1 THE ¦ LBADB B ,. 1249
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MEXICO . Accounts from Vera Cruz to the 22 nd ult . report that a rumour was current there that Cabos , the Commander of Zuloaga ' s forces near Orizaba , had received orders from the city of Mexico to join Echeagaray at Jalapa . It was reported that Genera ) Degalladp , Commander of the Constitutionalists , entered Guadalaxara on the 5 th of October .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 1249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2269/page/9/
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