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ever , he las survived bis assailant , who died at Washington on the 27 th of January . He had had a severe cold , and , -while telling his friends that the crisis had passed , was seized with croup , and died La about ten minutea in dreadful agony . A letter from one of an English , party of emigrants to the Mormon territory , dated Levenworth City , Kansas , and published in a . Leeds paper , gives a pitiable account of the sufferings of the men , and still more-of the women , in passing to their settlement . They had to walk ; and many of them were knocked up , and died .
"Walker is reported to be in a better condition than ever , and . to have 1200 able-bodied men at Bivas , well supplied with provisions and ammunition , while at Punta Arenas was . a body of nearly 300 men under Colonel Longbridge , who intended to attack the Costa Bicans at Castillo and San Carlos , and retake the river , as soon as he had the means of transportation . Other accounts , however , are less hopeful . A few more reinforcements are on their way to him ; but some have teen arrested , anil detained .
New York has been suffering from an unusually severe frost . Tor a few days , the city was bright and loud with the sleighs , and their gaily-dressed occupants , and the bell-tinkling horses ; but the cold soon became too Arctic for that sport , and every one who could possibly get in doors did so . Business has been greatly reduced in consequence ; railway traffic for a time was stopped ; passengers were snowed up ; the New York streets have been turned into avenues of ice ; and at the latest dates there was no prospect of a thaw . The shipping has suffered horribly .
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THE ORIENT . ISTDIA . A copy of a letter addressed by tlie Directors of the East India Company to the Governor-General of India on the 10 th of December , 1856 , on the question , of Oude , has just been published . The Directors regard with just complacency the acquisition of a territory of nearly 25 , 000 square miles , and containing 5 , 000 , 000 inhabitants , " without the expenditure of a drop of blood , and almost without a murmur . " The Directors approve the amount fixed for the annual stipend of the ex-King of Oude—viz ., -twelve lacs of rupees . They are unanimously of opinion that it is not advisable to perpetuate
or to prolong the tenure of the royal title , which will accordingly die a natural death with the present titular sovereign , " VVajid Ali Shah ; at all events , no promise has been made to the contrary . The royal descendants , however , will enjoy a certain stipend , as the twelve lacs of rupees settled on the ex-king will descend as an hereditary grant . The young prince 3 are to be trained and educated so as to become " useful citizens ;" and it is suggested that the family ill ay be made "jagheenlnrs , " so as to prevent them from sinking into degraded habits of life . The payment of the arrears due to tlie army of Oude is approved . The conduct of the Governor-General of India , and of Sir James Outrain , is warmly commended by the Directors . —Times .
PERSIA . General Buhlar ( says a despatch from Marseilles ) has bceu sent to the theatre of war , but he has left Her at and Candahar in a good state of defence . The Persians are very much excited by the English invasion . A great agitation prevails in the Province of Ourmiha . Confirmation lias been received of a revolt at Maracu . The insurgents sacked the town , fifteen English ships were anchored before Bender-Abbas , —It is now stated that the Shah , so far from yielding , has . proclaimed " a holy war" against the English . The Teheran Gazette of the 2 Cth Raby-el-tliany ( 2-lth of December ) publishes an explanator } ' reply to the English declaration of war issued from Calcutta on the 1 st . of November . Wo have discussed the chief statements and arguments contained in this document in . another column .
CHINA . Some particulars of tho recent hostile operations against Canton are given by the writer of- n letter which appears in the Moniteur de la Flotie , of Tuna . It would hero aeem that tho damage sustained by our foreign inorchants in tho course of the bombarding has been greatly exaggerated , though at tho best it was considerable , being augmented by an irruption of some of the thieves and ruffians who belong to the floating population . These follows began pillaging right and left ; and it \ itia found necessary to throw some shells among them . Tue captain o * a French frigato sont a detachmeut ofhua
men . oa shore with four light howi tzers , which completed tho brigands * discomfiture ; but they had already act several places on fix «>— The French have been making 8 <» no vigorous hostile demonstrations against tho city of TWanue , in Coohiu China . Tho authorities had contemptuously rejected a letter presented to them by the captain of the corvette Catinat . Thereupon , tho French entered tho town , spiked tho cannon , wetted tho gunpowder , and returned untouched ; the result being that the auihoritioa niodo tho most humble apologies , flued for pardon , And carried tu * rejected letter with greui poutp to tho capital .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . fhanoe . Tue Tribunal of Correctional Police has finished the trial of the twenty-five men charged with belonging to a secret society . Fifteen ivexe found guilty , and sentenced to fines , various terms of imprisonment , and interdiction for a certain number of years ; the remaining tea were acquitted . —The same tribunal has acquitted the proprietors , editors , & c , of the Revue de Paris ( which , lias been suspended for an article offensive to the King of Prussia ) of a charge of publishing the commencement of a romance antagonistic to " public ruDrality and reli gion . " The story is by 31 . Flaubert , and is entitled " Madame Jiovary . " The editor of a medical journal , called the Moniteur de llqpitaux , has been forbidden to publish an article which he had announced , and the object of which was to show that Verger was insane . A similar instance of ridiculous repression has arisen out of a lawsuit against the Lady Superior of the Picpus Convent of the Sacre ' Coeur , which establishment is accused of inducing a person of weak mind to make a will in its favour- The advocate for the plaintiff made a sharp attack on the Archbishop of Chalcedoine ; and this speech the journals have been ordered not to report , nor , indeed , any of the proceedings . In the state of the public mind arising out of Verger ' s stifled and imperfectly heard denunciations of the higher orders of the clergy , the attack iu question would no doubt have a powerful effect . But these unnatural repressions will of course exacerbate tlie final and inevitable disclosures .
" Advices from Paris , " says the Times City Article , Wednesday , " mention that the Southern of France Railway will bo opened throughout from Bordeaux to Cette early in March—an event of considerable import * ance to commerce . Cette , the second French port of the Mediterranean , -will thus be within twelve hours of Bordeaux , and the transit between the two seas , - which has already become important by means of the lateral canal of the Garonne , will be in a condition to receive its full development . The distance between the mouth- of the British CJiannel and Marseilles will be diminished from
2100 miles to 760 , and Malta will be practically nearer for goods and passengers by 830 miles . Such an economy of distance , it is contended , will be a compensation for the transhipment of goods at the termini of tho railway , since the saving of time will be even greater in proportion than that of distance , and vessels can freight goods at London or Liverpool , destined for Bordeaux , Marseilles , southern Switzerland , or tlie ports of the Mediterranean . Bordeaux and Cette are also expected ^ to become important etiireputs for the -wool trade of Spain as soon as the Spanish railways shall have been completed to Bayonne . "
The Ottoman Ambassador at Paris is said to have asked for information on the subject of the article in the . Moniteur on the union of the DaimbianPrincipalities . The answer was vague . The Austrian representative has also , it is reported , asked for an explanation . Paris , it is said , i 3 now definitively named aa the place of meeting of the Conferences on the Neufchatel question , and the time of meeting will bo the beginning of next month . A commission has just bfseu . appointed to examine thoroughly the question of the currency . The principal members are—MM . Michel Chevalier , do Parieu , de Boinvilliers , Guillefroy , aud other Councillors of State , tegether with MM . Schneider , Leroux , and several members of the Senate aud Legislative Body . The cominiasion lias tlie right to examine witnesses . —1 'tints Paris Correspcndent
AUSTRIA . King Maximilian of Bava . ria haa arrived at Milan on a visit to the Umperor . It was at first expected that lie was about to visit the King of Sardinia at Turin ; but he appears to have abandoned that intention—a change which haa excited several comments . The Credit Bank of Vienna has resolved lo establish branch banks at Peath , Lembcrg , Prague , and iSrunn . Tho sudden arrival in Vienna , at this cold season of the your , of Count Rudolph Appony , from London , has caused some political gossip aa to the probability of the relations between Austriu and England being made " still more intimate . "
1 TATA' . Tho correspondent of a German paper says that the pro-legate at Bologna , Cardinal Vialo Frela , whose rigorous administration has discontented tho inhabitants of the Legations , was somo time back assailed by tho population , whilst driving out , with showers of apples and stones . He escaped -with difliculty , and has since fallen 511 from the effects of the attack . Tho Austrian Gazdte , however , attributes hi . s indisposition to inflammation of tho lungs . For a long time past , the Cardinal ' s decree ) wore regularly torn down in tho night by the population .
Several political trials , ending iu convictions , have taken placo at Koine . l ) r . llipani , of Cremonu , who waa bo me time ago sentenced to hard labour for twenty years , has boon pardoned ut tho instance of tho Preach Government , which churned him . Ho wub physician to Garibaldi ' s legion , and after tho fall of liomo ho remained under tho protection of tho French .
The 29 th of January—the anniversary of the granti ' of a constitution to the Neapolitans—was celebrated King Bomba ' s capital by the arrest of seventv-nine \ ^ sons in the ' cafes and billiard-rooms near " the Teat Fiorentiui- The King remains shut up at Casert closely guarded by soldiery ; but he can no ion ™ depend upon the axmy , which is deeply penetrated wHl , a revolutionary feeling . Several seldiers have recentbeen arrested , and not a day passes without fresh seizures among them . The entire regiment of the third battalion of Cacciatori was put under arrest on the 27 th
nit . A proclamation and a biography of Milano are slid to be circulating among the army . The Government ° ia in a great state of anxiety about a descent -which it is feared is about to be made upont the coasts of Sicily w armed emigrants from Malta and Genoa .. A double cordon of Urban Guards has been , drawn , round the island ; the powder mills have been closed , the powder carried off to the Royal castles , and suspicious persona arrested . According to the Sicilian consul at Malta ! the expedition from that island haa alread y started ^ Rumour also spoaks of am Englishman who has - a ujiim * wdw nj kim iiouixitiAi
rpnontK »«« . « op » . cm . jLjii ^ > voo xi & s recently * passed through Italy , and taken revolutionists into hk P ay-The Grand Duke Michael of Russia arrived at Turin on the 5 th inst . The Duke was to leave the folloivine day for Genoa ^ whence he would return to Russia . Prince Orsini has been- elevated to the rank of Sanatore ( first magistrate ) of Rome , with a pension of tea * thousand crowns . The post is said to be a mere livetied nonentity ; and all the other Roman Princes haveucfused to accept it .
. SPAIN . A democratic conspiracy at Barcelona has been discovered . It was on the eve of breaking out when the authorities seized those who were implicated . The proposed journey of the Queen southwards has been definitively abandoned .
TURKEY . The Commissioners , for the Danubian Principalities had an audience of leave of the Sultan on the 24 th ult . It was a private interview , and consisted simply of certain formalities . Some intelligence from Constantinople is contained , in a communication from Marseilles , which , says :- — "A despatch , from . Vienna has been addressed to the Ottoman Porte , announcing that Moldavia , and Wallacnia will be evacuated by the Austrian , troops before the 24 th . of March . The Turkish troops are not to cross the Danube before the departure of the Auatriaus . Thunion of the Principalities gains ground : it will be an .
proved by the majority of the Moldo-WaUa-chian Divans The Ottoman Porte at present confines itaelfto the rejection of the nomination of a forcigu prince to govern tlie united provinces . The Porte is abou t to take possession of the delta formed by the mouths of the Danube . The Poite , considering as illegal the sentence , of exile pronounced by the Hospodars , permits the exiled to return to the Moldo-Wallachian territory , their country . The brother of the Khan of Khiva has offered his alliance to the Shah of Persia . Great embankments are projected on the Euphrates . The plan has been sent to London . The Arabs are troublesome in that country . "
1 urkey is making fresh endeavours for self-reformation . Some conferences of Ministers have- taken place at Constantinople , with a view to forming a commission of six members and a president , who are to study the existing abuses and corruptions in the state , aud to propose a plan by which they may be remedied . The first subject to be considered is the administration of the provinces in all the great departments of government . When the commission shall have elaborated a plan of provincial administration , it -will first be tried in , one particular province—probably Broussa or Adrianoplo , as being near to the seat of government ; and if it succeed , it will be generally adopted .
RUSSIA . It is stated that very warlike preparations aro leing made by Russia in connexion with the present state ol things in the Caucasus and Persia . The writer of the letter which conveys this information say a that there is no truth' iu the assertion that Russia is endeavouring to reestablish her position in the Black Sea . On the contrary , the term , " Russian fleet in the Black Sea , " has been erased from , the Imperial Almanac , nnd id replaced by that of " Flotilla of the Black Sea . " Hut that rafl . v be part of a ' dodge . ' Tni ! DANOIIIAN VIUNCIPALITIES .
The Wallachian Minister of Finance has been , despatched to Paris and London , iu order to form au Austro-Anglo-Frcnch Company , with the view of commencing a railroad between the WnU « chiun frontiers , bordering on Transylvania , and Uustdiu It . The Minister is reported to have had but ilL success vith tho 1 ' rcncU capitalists . OKKMANV . Tho cattle- disease which for the last few years Has manifested itself in vurioun pnrtH of Kussiiii , throatens t » ttprend into Germany . Tho recent ravages * of the disease in Russia have been a chief causo in tlio lato advane « of th < j tallow market .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 14, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14021857/page/6/
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