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THE BOMBARDMENT OP TANGIERS . Ru mours were received in Paris ,, on Wednesday , of a renewal of hostilities between France and Morocco , by the bombardment of Tangier . The fact appears to be that one of- the Morocco forts fired at a French man-of-war , mistaking it for a Spanish one . The captain immediately returned the fire , and in less than half an hour destroyed the offending fort . The French admiral immediately demanded explanations from the governor of Tangiers , and told him that if , as lie had reason to believe , the French ship was fired on by mistake , he would not hold tlie government of Morocco responsible for the conduct of its officer , and that the . friendly relation * between France and Morocco would continue as heretofore . " ,
The Constitutionnel of Thursday says : — We have reason to believe that the rumour of the bombardment of Tangier has been singularly exaggerated . The facts have been erroneously stated : there was no French squadron engaged , but one frigate only ; no bombardment , but a vigorous act of retaliation for what was either an insult or a serious misconception of orders on the part of the Moors . The Pays says : —We are assured that the Governor of Tetuan has ordered the arrest of the commander of the Moorish forts , who , acting without orders , has rendered himself guilty of an unjust aggression against a , nation at peace with Morocco .
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Fuancjs and Monocco . —A Paris letter speaks thus of the latest contretemps , between tlieso Powers — . "I hour An explanation of the Tauylcrs bombardment affair , whlulf is probably not fur from the truth . A French ship was tired on , by n sinull isolated fort somewhere between Tungiurs » md *«'"« " The squadron proceeded thither , and immediately bombarded aud destroyed it . Afterwards the commander of the squadron sent word to Tangiers that , notwithstanding this " iucido . it , pogrotiablo . 'J- the relations between Franco- and Morocco continued quite iiniiciiblu . Such friendship is striking , though not obvious—• ' ' l \ irliAi )» It wns rhjhfc to diwaomblo your lovo . but wli y did you kick a » u down atixin !
Btkaws on tiiu Surface . —On-tho 2 t ) th ultimo , a political demonstration was made by a detachment of Lombard soldiers as they left Verona by mil for JDosonzano . Tiio men woro desired by their officers to got into the carriages prepared lor thorn , and itnoiid hardly bo said tlmt tho order was readily obeyed . As long as tho train was at thu gtutiou the Boldiors ni » pearud to fool pain « vt quitting their oflluors , but as soon as tho carriages wuro in moyomunt tlicty stuck Italian uoukudon into their AuHtrlaa cup " , < uhT shouted " Evuivu . I'ltuliu ! ' until tho welkin rang ayaln . i i i i j I
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POSITION" OF SARDINIA . The Opinionc designates Cavour as the natural jepresentative of Piedmont , and consequently of Italy , at the Congress . The illustrious statesman , the journal says , withdrew during the deliberations of the treaty of Zurich , which have sanctioned a position of affairs ' in which he could not be implicated , but now that the horizon is clear , and that the Congress is about again' to discuss the Italian question , who better than Cavour can uphold in the councils of Europe a cause that lie first evoked among them ? . The obstacles against ths appointment of the . Count sis Sardinia ' s first plenipotentiary at the Coniiress : cannot come from the- minister Ratazzi nor . from Cjimt Cavour himself , true " to his past career . Can those obstacles proceed from diplomacy ? This question the Opinione reserves for its examination in a future article .
The Piedmontesj Government ha 3 received no communication intimating the opposition ' of Austria to the Congress on account of the nomination of M . de Buoncompagni to the Regency of Central Italy . The-difficulties made by Tuscany to the delegation of the Regency to M . de Buoncompagni have not yet been settled . Mons . de Desambrois will leave for Paris in the first days of December . In consequence of the conclusion of peace at Zurich the diplomatic relations between Austria and Piedmont , which have been interrupted for the last three years , will be immediately re-established by the mutual- nomination of official representatives having the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary .
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Italian deliverance—I am excited and sad ; consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again , to aid you in finishing the work so gloriously begun . " For you , as forme , the greatest of all possible misfortunes wtfuld be not to , 1 ) 0 present wherovor there is fighting for Italy . Young men who have sworn to be faithful to Italy and to tho chief who will lead you to victory , lay not down your arms ; remain firm at your post , continue your exercises , persevere in-the soldier ' s discipline .
but GARIBALDI . The Corricre Mercantile publishes the following proclamation , issued by General Garibaldi on his arrival at Genoa • — " TO MY COMr-VNIOXS IX AltMii IN CuKTKAI , Italy . " Let not my temporary absence cool your ardour for the holy cause that we defend . "In separating myself from you , whom 1 love as the representatives of a sublime idea—tho idea of
" The truce will not last long ; old diplomacy seems but little disposed to see things as they really are . Diplomacy still looks upon you as the handful of malcontents which she has boen accustomed to despise . Sho does not know that in you there aro the elements of a groat nation , and that in your free and independent hearts there gorminato tho seeds of a world-wide revolution , if our rights shall not bo recognised , and if peoplo will not allow us to bo
masters in our own homo . " We desire to invmlo no foreign soil j let us remain uumolcstod on our own ! Whosoevor attempts to gainsay this our determination will find that , wo will never bo slaves , unless they succoeil in crushing by force an entire poople ready to die for liberty . "But , oven should wo all fall , wo Bhall bequeath to futura generations a legaoy of hatred and vci » - geaiuio against foroign domination j tho inheritance of each of our sons will ho a rifle and tho
consciousness of his , rights ; and , by the blessing of God , the oppressor will never sleep soundly . " Italians , I say again , Do not lay down your arms ; rally more closely than ever to your chiefs , and maintain the strictest discipline . ^ "" . Fellowcitizens ,, let not a tnan in Italy omit to contribute his mite to the national subscription ; let not one fail to clean his gun , so as to be ready- —perhaps tomorrow—to obtain by force that which to-day they hesitate to grant to ourjust rights .. " Genoa , November 23 . " Garibaldi . " ' In a letter to the Podesta of Milan , General Garibaldi says : —" If I have left a post which I could not any longer fill with dignity , I do not on that account separate myself from the cause which is the worship aud religion of my whole life . Moreover , not having any military occupations at present on my hands , I may devote my time to promoting and propagating more than ever a measure which has met with universal sympathy . " A letter from Genoa says : — " I think that there will be more than one royal personage in Europe who will not turn a deaf ear to the stern and terrible proclamation of the Italian general . The future conduct of the great patriot will teach them that these noble words are not mere boasting . If diplomacy is not disposed to leave the Italian people to themselves , there will be great bloodshed , and the Peninsula will remain . in a chronic state of rebellion . It is for Europe to choose . " . The Nizzardo of Nice states that a large number of . Englislr residents in that , place niade a demonstration in honour of Garibaldi , going to his house in twenty-three carriages , with an address numerously signed .
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V' | CHINA . Advicks from Hong Kong are to October 13 . The China Herald says : —" Since tho dospatoh of las < t homo mail nothing has occurred ot importance affecting our relationship with the Chinese . There has boon no more rioting at Shanghai . Admiral Hope , who has njnv ontiroly recovere . l from the wounds ho received at Talcu , is at present in this harbour on board tho Chesapeake . So also is tho French Admiral Pagot , of Tahitoan renown , who has eomo out to relievo Admiral Riguulb do Gonouilly , who has sutFored much from sluknous during tho lattor part of his stay in the lOust . It is expected that Admiral Payee will commonco a now system ot policy In Cochin China , and not attompt to malco movements unless they promise to bo moro uflootual than those hitherto mudo . On tho 10 th September thoro was another combat between tho French and tho Cochin Chinese , in which both aides wo said to
have suffered greatly . Some efforts have been made to induce Sir Hercules Robinson to remove Mr . Tarrant , the editor of the late Friend oj China , from the criminal side of the gaol into the building appropriated for debtors , but hitherto without success , as we understand that his ' excellency considers himself entitled to remit , but not to modify , the . sentence , and is not disposed to regard Mr . Tarrant ' s serious and unproved libels against Colonel Caine with that leniency which those do whose sense of propriety in these matters has been somewhat dulled by the extraordinary quantity of libels which have been freely published in Hong Kong within the last few years .
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SPAIN AND MOROCCO . Three encounters have already taken place between the Spaniards and the Moors . The first was not attended by any very severe casualty , as only one man of the Spanish army was hurt . In the second combat the casualties were greater , as seven Spaniards were killed , and about thirty wounded . The third battle is reported rather vaguely in the Madrid telegram of the 27 th . 4 , 000 Moors had attacked the position of General Echague in front of Ceutii . . " They retired / ' says the despatch , " leaving the field of battle strewn with dead . Our ( the Spanish ) loss was more considerable than in the previous affairs . " Whether " the field strewn with dead " be one of those figurative expressions usual on such occasions it is hard to say . If it be taken in its literal sense , the casualties ought to ba certainly more than seven killed and thirty wounded , as the Spaniards enjoy no immunity from powder and shot . Private accounts from Madrid of the 27 th state that General O'Donnell has demanded 12 , 000 soldiers more , in order to . complete the 50 , 000 , with which force he purposes to take the field . The latest telegram from Madrid says that a sharp engagement took place on the 25 th instant between the Spanish troops and the enemy . The losses of the Moors were heavy , and on the Spanish side the casualties were 80 dead and 400 wounded . Reform at Home . —Letters received here from Rome confirm the rumour that Cardinal Antonelli will represent the Pope at the Congress , — The Official Journal of Home , of the 24 th inst ., says : — ? ' Certain journals exaggerate the reforms which are to come into operation . " , Stokms in the Blacic Ska . —Advices from Constantinople , dated the 23 rd inst ., says that . " during the last six days storms of unparalleled violence have prevailed in the Euxine . All the vessels out at sea have been driven on shore , and about eighty vessels have been lost . The coast ife strewpd with wrecks , as well ns hundreds of corpses . The inhabitants of these inhospitable shores havestripped the . survivors of the wrooTc of thoir property . Tug steamers have been sent to the Black Sea in order to render assistance in tho recovery of property wrecked .
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No . 506 . Dec . 3 , 1859 J THE LEADER . . 1317
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THE PANIC IN VIRGINIA . The last American letters say that the excitement consequent upon the Harper ' s Ferry business continues unabated . The ¦ . militia is constantly under arms , and . the smallest unusual occurrences sends thGm by forced marches to any part of the state . There have been several cases of incendiarism within the last few weeks , mostly of corn or hay in farmyards , and of coursa suspicion falls on the ' * villanous abolitionists . " A hayrick was set on . fire on'Friday last , near Harper ' s Ferry , and the result was that nearly 2 , 000 men and a couple of batteries of field artillery was sent in hut haste to the spot , in full expectation of finding a large force
of abolitionists ready to receive them . The pres in the meantime continues in violent denunciation of the North , and never allows a day to pass . without a laboured exaggeration of the extent and doings of " the plot . " Foremost . in this alarmist craze is the Richmond Enquirer , paper edited by the son of the governor , Mr . Wise , and of course the organ of the executive . Nothing could exceed the frenzy of its appeals to the passions of the pr 6-slaVery mob , and the boldness of the colours in which it paints the horrors and dangers of the actual crisis . It is to its manifestoes , unquestionably , that a good deal of the prevalent panic is due , and the object of its labours is now generally acknowledged to be the
nomination of Governor Wise himself as a candidate for tho Presidency at the approaching Charleston convention . With this view , * the South and its institutions are represented to bo the objects of avowed assaults and bloody conspiracies on the part of the Northren anti-slavery men . Virginia , has been selected as thq first point of attack , ana Virginia is ready to meet' the first shock of the encounter . For this she needs a man of nerve , decision , and energy , at the head of affairs , and such a man she has got . Who ho is it is needless to mention . The inference is obvious . What can the whole South do better than put tliismnu m the post of honour antl of dungcr in tho coming struggle ? ..
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JAPAN : RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY . From Japan we learn that matters remain on a very unsatisfactory footing , and the Government throws all sorts of obstacles in the way of a friendly settlement according to treaty . The murder of a Russian officer and sailor has brought about the dismissal of the Governor of Kanagawa , and it is stated that General Mouravielf , the Governor-General of Siberia , who was present with twelve ships of war , has taken advantage of the opportunity to obtain the lowerportion of the island Of Saghalien for the Russian crown . We cannot vouch , however , for the correctness of this report .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1859, page 1317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2323/page/9/
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