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      daring to call things by their right names . This plain speaking finds an echo in the hearts of the great bulk of the Austrian nation . The report that Austria has recently addressed a note to the Sardinian Government , requesting it to state why such great armaments are being made , deserves no credit . The story of the march of some thousands of Groats to Italy is also an idle invention , for Austria has already quite as many troops in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom as are considered requisite . We learn from Milan that a medal , bearing the motto " Emmanuel , King of Italy , " is being secretly distributed . The most absurd rumours are in circulation . One of the current stories is that Russia haying demanded 200 millions from Austria for the expenses of the war in Hungary in 1849 , Austria , having no other means of payment , proposed to sell Lombardy to Piedmont .

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      WEST INDIES . Thb Parana arrived at Southampton on Wednesday , bringing news from Jamaica to the 11 th ult . JAMAICA . The Legislature was opened on the 10 th by a lengthy speech from Governor Darling . The island was healthy and weather much colder , but more rain was required . Business operations were very limited . Her Majesty ' s ships Imaura , Devastation , and Valorous were at Port Royal . Commodore Kellett returned from Greytown on the 10 th of November in the Devastation . Devastation .

      BARBADOES . The weather had improved and crops looked better . The Legislature met on the 2 nd , and both Houses presented addresses to the Governor in reply to his opening speech . The House of Assembly adjourned for three weeks , and a new Education Bill will be read a second time at the next sitting . The island continued healthy . HATTX . The town of Jacmel has been visited by a fire , the loss by which was estimated at 1 , 000 , 000 piastres . DEMERAEA . The Court of Policy met on the 29 th of October . The principal business related to measures for preserving the sea defences . The Court met again on the 5 th and 8 th nit ., and entered at considerable length into the long-vexed immigration question . *¦¦ '

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      MEXICO . By the ship America we learn that at New Orleans rumours were current that the city of Mexico had been attacked by the Liberals and four hundred of Zuloaga ' s soldiers killed ; also that the whole country was in possession of the Liberals , with the exception of the capital . Another despatch says : —We have received Vera Cruz advices of the 9 th ultimo . Guadalajara was recaptured by the Liberals on the 28 th October instead of the 18 th . It was most desperately defended , and the Liberals had to be reinforced by a thousand men . The people were rejoicing at their success . Zuloaga was anxious to retire from the field , but the clergy had offered him another million not to do so . Mazatlan was in possession of the Liberals . San Bias was the only town on the Pacific held by Zuloaga .

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      SOUTH AMERICAN STATES . The steamship Parana , which arrived on Wednesday , brings the following news : — In Chili a strong opposition was manifested against the existing Government , but the President met it in a firm and determined manner . No breach of the public peace was anticipated . Commercial matters wore a brighter aspect ; the panic which had lasted for many months had given way to a better feeling , but great inconvenience was felt from the want of circulating medium , gold and silver coin having been almost entirely exported from the country .

      Several attempts At a revolution in the Republic of Bolivia had been successfully put down . The President-Elect of Peru , General Castllla , was proclaimed on the 24 th of October , and for a time Peru -was at peace * General Echeniquo had commenced to foment revolution in the south , while a war with Ecuador was threatened in the north . The Peruvian steamfrigate Callao was in the river of Guayaquil , ready to blockade the river and burn the town if the final proposal respecting the boundary question was not acceded to .

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      LORD BURY AT TORONTO . On the 13 th of November Viscount Bury , flLP ., was entertained at a complimentary dinner in the Kossinhouse , Toronto . Upwards of a hundred gentlemen sat down . The Mayor , Mr . Reed , occupied the chair , having the guest of the evening , Lord Bury , on his right , and Sir Allan N . Macnab , B art ., ou his left . After assuring the assembly that politics had nothing -whatever to do W » tli his visit to Canada , Lord Bury said : — " I must say that the progress of Canada , which I thought I fully understood when I was here before , struck me afresh on my return to this country , I confess I look upon the rapid growth of your towns and the development of your institutions with as much astonishment as ever .

      The condition of your social position is progress , and you want three things : more rapid means of communication to every part of your country ; the bono and sinew which shall make these means of transport valuable <—you want an organised system of emigration ; lastly , you want some means of annihilating , as far as practicable , the distance between this country and tho mother country . With regard to tho providing quick communication , I have become connected with several undertakings which have that great object in view . First , with a company which la to shorten the steamboat journey across tho sea from one continent to the other ; and it was my good fortune when in St . John's , Newfound *

      with Canada and the other provinces the tei-m . " " which this railroad can be carried out . It seem ?* P ° n hat this is a project which is very important to Can ' ?" inasmuch as access to the seaboard throuch rc vfc territory can never be matter of indifference eitWT Canada or to the mother country . A railroad on reasonable terms will be offered you , and if accented * will in a very short time see a railroad from here tJS ? Atlantic . I think it is impossible for any man L i t with prophetic eyes on the map and on the physical « a natural features of the country without seeing that Can h must eventually become the great carrying power of rt ? world . We have heard the theory advanced that tfc olonies should be represented in the Imperial Parliament There is a mode of representation which would noti . open to objection ; it is that gentlemen from the colonies who have rendered themselves conspicuous among their fellow-citizens , in politics and other wav < T should have conferred upon them life peerages which would make them members of the British Parliament

      land , to sign a contract on behalf of that company for tho malls to be carried between Newfoundland and Gnlwny , As tho Atlantic telegraph is not yet an accomplished fact , I think these steamers nro the next bqst thing . Thoir terminus ia at present placed in New York , but I have powers from tho directors to endeavour to enlist the sympathies of Canada in tho project , and If wo quo . oeed in so onlisting tho sympathies of Canada -we are prepared to bring a weekly line to Quebec . Arrived on the chores of the New World , I hope to sec provision made for a communication with tho interior , mul that a railway will be constructed botwoon Halifax and Quebec . 1 am tho bearer of full powers to treat and to conoludo

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Her Majesty continues at Windsor with her family , and all are in good health . The Queen and the Prince Consort have visited tbe camp at Alderahott this week , -when there was a parade of the whole of the troops . The visitors to the Castle this week have included the Earl and Countess of Ilardwicke , the Duke and Duchess of Manchester , Lord Stanley , ' Lord John Russell , Sir James Clark , and the Dean of Windsor The Court Circular says that the Prince of Wales was expected to return from Berlin at the close of the week .

      St . Pali- ' s . — The Sunday evening sen-ices commenced ia the cathedral this week . The Bishop of London pTeaclicd the sermon , and the congregation numbered nearly 3000 persons . A far greater multitude , however , assembled outside the cathedral unable to obtain admission . This crowd not only encircled St . Paul's , but extended a considerable distance down Ludgiite-hill , and must have numbered many thousands of persons . The scene was rather a disorderly one .

      Mrsozs J-AMii . v . — "Of the two sons of Queen Christina , both ' of whom have been educated at Versailles , " says a Paris letter in the Journal du HaiTe , " one has been admitted to the military school of St . Cyr , and tha other goes to England to continue hi 3 studies , being destined for a'diplomatic career .-. Bv her marriage with the Due de Rianzares , the Queen has also three daughters ,. the Princess C ' zartoriska , another married at Eome , and the Princess Christina , who lives with her mother at Malmaison . "

      Thk KovAt SociKry . —The anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held on Monday , at Burlingtonhouse , on 'wbich occasion Lord Wrottcsley delivered his annual nddfess , reviewing the progress of science during the past year . The medals were then awarded as follows : — -The Copley Medal , to Sir Charles Lyell for his various researches and writings on geology ; a Royal Medal to Mr . Albany Hancock for his various researches on . the anatomy of the mollusca ; the second Koyal Medal to Mr . William Lassell for his astronomical researches ; and the Kumford Medal to Professor Jamin , of Paris , for researches on light . The election of new council and officers then took place . Sir Benjamin Brodie , Bart ., was elocted president . SiiAK . si'KARK in Ki' . ssi . \ . — One branch of fino nrt survives in Russia- —love for the stnifo—if wo may judge

      by the reception given to Shnkspenrc in that country in tho person of his sable represent a t . ivo , Mr . Ira Aldridge . A negro aa the Moor catches the IJussian taste . Plate , compliments , conches , overwhelm the happy nctor . We do not know whether political feeling helps a S ° lavo audience to appreciate what is no doubt good in itself , though we should not ourselves like to stand i » the papoosb . es of that " gcntlcinnn of colour " who should dare to essay Othello before a Morisco nudienco . Mr .

      Aldridge , private letters toll u . s , has finished < m engagement at Hign , to demonstrations of delight sucli as once rewarded Kllulor or Taglioni , crowned by the j > n ; scntftT tion or ft . silver nugget from tho Ural mountains uy Prince Suvarotf" . Shnkspcnro is now on liia wny t ° »*• Petersburg , engaged to lodgo nt tho Czar ' s oxponso , to ride in tho Czar ' s conch , mid appear twelve times nt tuo Imporial Theatre , nt GOl . n ni tf lit . Who enn say tnot England is not cpinprehondecl on the Nova ?—A thenaum . Chuihtianity in China anp Japan . —A mooting

      was hold on Wednesday , ut > V-ilHs ' n Kooms , for tho purposo of directing attention to " tho providential oponings " which havo recently been innuu for tho > " »»•»' " « - tion of Christianity into China and Japan . IN Jfwnop of London , who occupied tho oh . iir , attributed tho "I 1011 " ing up of China and Junau to tho agency of Clou , nn « said that when lie blwiwd tho nntlon with biicmms ¦» " war and uoininuruo , " it bocninu o » ' - duty to m n «" Christianity l . v tho country with which wo h «« e 0 " brought In oontnat . Tho llhhuji ndmiUo ; ! that or wore grunt dilllcultioB In tho wny ol" » ' « * loni 1 % ' , i prluu In both China mid , r « i | iiui . Tlio I * i » hop ol u * wj howevor , reiterated tho opinion * <> n wtiloli ho im" « l »"' with s » nuiuh eloquences in tlio ll . m-u »\ . ' ?™*' . inlral Kum >« l uppmruil to fuel tlwl tlio lAtlwv "' ; ford ' s rouiarUn placed him In mi ° '''''' inT " ^ 0 if for Ue proceeded to say that an uta profession w « 9 o »

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      be forthwith sent to the naval forces in Central America , having in view the enforcement of the President ' s antifilibustering proclamation . —A . letter from Havannah says : " The Spanish fleet , expected here daily , will unite with the English in maintaining the independence of Nicaragua , and no filibustering will he permitted . The British and American Governments will probably demand the adjustment of all disputes concerning the isthmus by mediation . " A fire at Providence , Rhode Island , had destroyed the theatre and other property , valued ia all at

      200 , 000 dols . A St . Louis telegram says : " Judge Eckles , having in charge Henrietta Polidore , who was rescued from the Mormons on a writ of habeas corpus at the request of the British Government , has arrived here . This girl was abducted from Gloucestershire four years ago . We have accounts from Salt Lake City to the 16 th ultimo . General Johnston went into -winter quarters on the 12 th . Heavy rains and high winds prevailed at Camp Floyd . The snow on the mountains was three feet deep , and the ice three inches thick . Considerable excitement existed at Salt Lake City in reference to the reports of gold at Pike ' s Peak , and numbers were leaving for the diggings there .

      __ The steamer Atlantic , of the Collins line , was advertised to have been sold by auction , on the 15 th ultimo , to liquidate the debtjdue to the Government . However , the auctioneer announced that the sale would be postponed to the 30 th . There -were but few persons present . Additional intelligence was received on Thursday by the steamer New York , from New York , and also by the Indian , from Quebec . -The Japan treaty has been received at Washington . The Secretary of the Navy

      would , it was stated , recommend Congress , in his report , to provide niore war vessels of light draught . "Walkers arrangements are so far perfected that it is announced that the first cargo of emigrants for " Nicaragua will leave Mobile on the 20 th of November . Information had reached Washington that a large number of adventurers had assembled , but it was considered certain that they would not he permitted to leave for Nicaragua , unless they succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the United States officers .

      •'• A large amount of counterfeit notes on the National Bank of Austria were recently disposed of to several of the keenest bankers in Wall-street . The fraud was not discovered until the return of the bills in the steamer Vanderbilt . Three Germans are arrested .: The great State Arsenal at New York , which was in course of erection , and well-nigh finished , was totally destroyed on the 19 th by the collapsing of the roof , which in its fall crushed out three of the walls of the building , and did other serious damage . No loss of life was occasioned .

      AMERICA . Tub Fulton has arrived at Southampton , with American mails and advices to the 18 th ultimo . The greater part of her news has boon anticipated , Later advicoa from Bermuda announce a terriflo hurricane , doing great damage . Letters from San Francisco announce the dose of the Oregon war , the Indians having sued for peace . The miners were returning from Fraaor River , the gold found being insufficient to pay the diggers ' wages . By the steamer America we learn that orders arc to

      The New Orleans papers contain details of the injury done by a hurricane which swept over a portion of Jasper , county Mississippi . The residence of the Rev . J . Moody , methodist minister , nine miles from Paulding , was demolished , killing him and eight members of his family , and wounding several others .

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      1312 THE I / E ADEB , [ No / 454 / December 4 . 185 S

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 1312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2271/page/8/