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AUSTRALIA . rijE parliament of Victoria rose on the 17 th of December , for the Christmas holidays , and reassembled on the 11 th of the . following January . It was at first expected that the session would be a very brief one , and that after the rapid despatch of some necessary business , a dissolution would prepare the way for a new parliament , elected on the basis of the reform bill recently enacted . Several causes had conspired to disappoint this expectation . The opposition lose no opportunity of importing into the debates of the Assembly the most extraneous :, and irritating topics . ¦ ~ Of the labour market the Melbourne ArpusBoyB : "Every week the report from the labour offices in town is . / that the demand is dull , and that many many more men are offering their services than are immediately required , " Iu railway affairs , the event , of the month had been the opening of the first portion of the main line from Melbourne to . Sandhurst . On the 13 th of January this niid the line to WiUiamstown "were formally opened by the governor , accompanied by the members of Parliament , the city corporation , government officials , and some 3 , 000 persons . The Araus reports that the gold market has been , as is usual tit this season of the year , dull . Production has been at its lowest ebb , and the quantities disposed of by the miners have been small as compared with the general averages of previous years .
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THE NEW FRENCH COMMERCIAL CREDIT SOCIETY . The inauguration of the subscription for the new " General Society of Industrial and Commercial Credit , " at Paris , may render interesting some details respecting the objects of the undertaking . The duration of the society is fixed , in the statutes at thirty years- The society is authorised to discount commercial bills payable in France and . abroad , to make advances on warrants for goods , issued in conformity with the law of the 28 th of May , 1858 , and on commercial instruments generally ; to make advances on [ French funds and the shares and bonds of indus ^ trial undertakings to the extent of two-thirds of the value in the market ; but these loans are not to be for a longer period than ninety days , nor to exceed in amount one-fifth of the paid-up capital plus one-half of the reserved fund . Advances may- be made ; to French , industrial companies for a period of six months , with a like limitation as to the aggregate amount . The society may make and receive payments , of all kinds at home and abroad , open accounts current , and execute commission business in stocks and shares . Subject to- the authorisation of the Minster of Finance , it may open for account of third parties subscriptions . public loans and industrial undertakings . As an important feature we notice that the society may receive , in the shape of current accounts , a sum equal to 150 per cent , of its paid-up capital and reserved fund ; and may allow interest upon such
balances , the aggregate amount of which may be extended , with the approbation of the Government . The aggregate of deposits , bills current , and paper in circulation bearing the society ' s endorse ^ nient is never to exceed six times the amount of paidup capital and reserved fund . The capital is fixed at 60 , 000 , 000 ff , or 2 , 400 , 000 * ., in 120 , 000 shares of 500 f ., or 20 ? . each . In the first instance , 80 , 000 shares , representing 1 , 600 , 000 /; , are to be issued , and , until these shall have been taken up and the first payment of 5 / , per share made thereupon , the society will not be definitively constituted . The liability of the shareholders is limited to the amount of the shares held . The directors are to bo twenty-two in number , and the President is to be named by the Emperor .
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Tins Exiles . —The third party of the [ Neapolitan exiles arrived at Bristol on Saturday . They met with a reception equally enthusiastic with that which was accorded to their fellow exiles who had preceded them . A public meeting is to be held in the Bolton Town hall , on the 5 th inst . to raise a fund for the relief of the unfortunate Neapolitans , John Huntjsb . t—The remains - of Hunter , the physiologist , after reposing since 1703 in the vaults of St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields , were on Monday xointerred within the precincts of Westminster Abbey , on the north side of the nave , at the feet of Bon Jonson . The re-intorment took placo immediately after the afternoon service . The trustees of the
Museum ,-the president and council of the College ot Physicians , the president ana council of the College of Surgeons , and several of , the most eminent members of the medical profession , proceeded with the Dean of Westminster tq tho Jerusalem Chamber , where a procession was formed , which , as the organ pealed forth the ' Dead March " in " Saul , " proceeded to the north transept , whore the remains were lying , and returned with thenato the grave , into which they were lowered without any additional church ceremony . Among those present wore Professor Owen , Professor Ferguson , Mr . Hepburn , Mr . Alexander , Dr . Forbes Wlnslo * v , Mr . J . M . Arnett , Mr . kuk , Dr , Elllotson , Dr . Coupon , Mr . J . P . Clarke , Sec .
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Oxford University . —The high stewardship of the University of Oxford , rendered vacant by the death of the Earl of Devon , has been conferred by the Chancellor < the Earl of Derby ) upon the EarL of Carnarvon , the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies . His lordship was educated at Christ Church and graduated in 1852 , ¦ when ho took a first class in classics . Ejection Items . — Sir M . F . T . Berkeley resigns for Gloucester , writing : — " My legal advisers inform me that , as I claim an existing peerage , I ought not to allow myself to be elected a member
of the House of Commons . I feel that I have no alternative but to request the Reformers of Gloucester to choose another candidate . "—At a meeting of the electors of Nottingham , it was resolved tuftC communications should be addressed to the following gentlemen , with a view of obtaining one of them to be nominated at the next elect > on for tne borough . —Mr . Samuel Morley , Mr . George Moore , and Mr . JLayard . —Jt is said that , in the event of a dissolution , the friends of Sir . John Young moan to ™ t .. ™ iiim n « t . ho rfinrosontativo for the county 01
Cavan . —Mr . fcoftus T . Wigram , M . P ., *> f < ° ™ , £ notified his intention of resigning-his seat tor ^ am bridge University . The friends of Mr . Selwv ^ Q . C ., and Mr . Beuesford Hope , have b 6 en actively mbvassingfor somo days past . —There are flve oaadi dates in the field for the representation ot wrowwj city ,-Major Gavan , Messrs . V . W . Bussoll , Jjjg Spaight , John Ball , and Honry O Shea .-Mng r Windsor Parker has issued an address to the electore of West Suffolk , in which he stntes lumsel {* o too a conservative , and sincerely devoted to the incrests of agriculture . —There , are already three oAndjtottJ fn thn field for Avlesburv . Tho conservatives we
Mr . T . T . Bornard , tho sitting member , ™ WJJ K . Brine , R . E . ; and Sir Kicfiard Bethell , who has represented the borough for somo yoars will stare w the liberal interest . It is anticipated that Mr . *• Vernon Wcntworth will also take the flold » opposition to Captain Brino .-In tho ovenot fl . J » solution the Conservatives of South ^ " 3 ^ intend to bring forward the Hon . Augustus Jgojwg second spn of the late Earl of EllcBmore , as a c « n <» date , in oppo-siUon to Mr . John Pomborton UJJ wood . —MrfVincent Soully is to start ugaln fi » ww representation of tho county of Cork .
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tents of the memorial . Matters have arrived , at such a pass that the interventibn of the Secretary of State appears to be imperatively called for .
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Dane arrived on Monday , with Cape news to February 21 . At the Cape prosperity was general . Peace had been maintained along the frontier . A communication had , however , j ust been received from Natal that war had broken out between Umballi , chief of the Imponda Messa tribe , a nd the Bacas . The former had lost about fifty men , and Umballi was making large preparations to retaliate * There was a rumour that the citizens of the republic beyond the Vaal river intended the destruction of the chief Mahura and the stations of Mofiut —the centres of those great preparations to which the attention of the world has so recently ^ been drawn b 3 r Dr . Livingstone and other missionaries . to
The first turf of a railroad from Cape Town Wellington was to be cut by the end of March or beginning of April . A company had also been formed at Atala for the construction of a railway from D'Urban , and that Was likely to be finished within the year ; if so , it will be the first railroad in South Africa . Parliament was summoned for March 16 . The smallpox had disappeared as an epidemic from Cape Town . The shipment of horses to India was proceeding rapidlv . The Rev . \ L . Lewis Grant was about to print a grammar of the Zulu language .
Three more Arab dhows , fitted only for the slave trade , had been captured and destroyed on the Mozambique coast , by the Xyra ; and Captain Oldfield had been complimented by the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court on his vigilance and success in repressing this odious traffic . Mr . C . R . Bigley , master ' s assistant of her Majesty ' s ship Triton , Liieutenant ^ . Commander Barton , entered St . Helena on Sunday , the 27 th February , in charge of a brigantine , name unknown , cap-Coast of Africalat
tured off Killongu , on the West , . 4 ° 32 ' S ., long . 10 9 S 2 E . The Triton was at anchor when the brigantine was first discovered standing in shore ; she altered her course immediately , and stood to sea . The Triton got up steam , and chasing all night , came up with ; her at 7 a . m . No colours were exhibited or papers produced . She was fully equipped for the slave , trade ,. and had on board dollars to the Value of 3002 . Her captain came passenger , but was not likely to oppose condemnation .
The assets in sixteen banks at the Cape amount to 2 . 732 , 1561 .
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CHINA . Tub overland mail has brought us intelligence from Hong Kong to tho 15 th February , at which date Lord Elgin was at Canton . His lordship appears now fully alive to the necessity of quelling the war faction , and our troops have been constantly on tho move , visiting the various villages in tho neighbourhood of Canton , An expedition , has just returned from Fayune , and another is projected on a grander scale , to explore the western branch of the Canton river as far as practicable . As to Lord Elgin ' s future movements little js known . Some say ho will accompany the expedition up the Canton river along , with Boron Gr . qs , and thon await the arrival of tho new ambassador hero $ others nflirui that lie
will shortly return to Shanghai ^ there joined by Mr * Bruce . Meanwhile , sucii a force is being organised for the north as will mOst probably be required to make the Chinese fulfil the treaty of Tien-SIR ¦ ""¦' ;'''¦ ¦¦' , ' ¦ Great surprise has been occasioned at Shanghai by Lord Malmesbury ' s dispatch regarding the trade with Japan . No vessel left for Japan before the 25 th of October , and his lordship ' dispatch is dated the 24 th of November , when the latest date from Shanghai was the 20 th of September .
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COCHIN CHINA . The Nord contains a letter from Marseilles announcing the receipt of accounts from Cochin China tp the 30 tli January . The admiral had left with the flotilla to commence operations in the South , and it was said that he intended to attack Saigan , a town which is considered as the granary of Cochin China , on account of the large trade in rice carried on from it to China . Hue was to be besieged as soon as the expected , reinforcements had arrived .
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ANOTHEB JNILE EXPEDITION . A letter from Marseilles states that a fresh es-Pjedition has been organised for discovering the source of the Nile . The expedition is conducted by M . Mianii a Venetian / who has lived at Cairo for the- last ten years . ; He is a member of the Geographical Society of Paris , and the author of a map of the valley of the Nile . He has carefully studied the various difficulties attending his perilous enterpris e . He came to France two months since to complete the materiel and the personnel of his expedition , [ the Emperor Napoleon authorised the Minister of "War to deliver to M- Miani the arms and ammunition , necessary for his escort . The director of the
arsenal of Marseilles has consequently forwarded 100 flint muskets and 3 , 000 cartridges to Alexandria The expedition is composed of the Parisian painter Dumas ; Captain . Peyhoux , of the French commercial navy , whose mission is to make observations and fix the degrees of latitude and longitude , and to construct boats to traverse the lakes which the expedition may meet ; of M . Poussel , of Avignon , secretary to the expedition , a physician , a naturalist and a chemist , who are now in Egypt . The expedition will fix its head-quarters at Kartoutn , in , Upper Egypt , a town in which about a dozen natives of Marseilles and Genoa reside . M . Miani is supplied with a formidable materiel , and his escort is to
be numerous . He takes with him a quantity of French trinkets , to present to the chiefs of Arab tribes or to African princes , or for traffic . M . Miani ' s expedition has a double oharacter- ^ -firat scientific , and next commercial . M . Miani has already contracted , with merchants in Paris for the delivery of elephants' teeth , gold dust , copper , coral , indigo , and lion , panther , leopard , and tiger skins , which are of great value in Paris . The members of the Miani expedition are armed with Minie rifles which kill at 1 , 000 yards , and -with sabres similar to those of the Chasseurs de
Yincennes , which fit tb _ the rifles . They are likewise furnished with cuirasses and . metallic masks , to protect them from the bite of poisonous insects . They also carry with them a supply of frightful masks calculated to terrify the most savage tribes . The members of the expedition , who will feed themselves as they can , and chiefly by the chase , will traverse Nubia , Sennaar , and Abyssinia . They expect to go far beyond the Equator , and to ascertain whether such a tribe of Negroes exists as the Niam-Niam ; . nnd , if they find protection , they will traverse Africa through its entire length , and come out on the coast opposite Zanzibar .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2288/page/10/
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