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January 17, 1857.] THE LEADER. 61
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IRELAND. BIubberisr Carlow.—A.horrible c...
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AMERICA. We hear more by the last mails ...
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A RUSSIAN SCHEME FOR REGENERATING EUROPE...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. The funeral o...
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The Orient. T"Ebsia. The Persian Troops ...
men to free ingress and egress into and out of the city of Canton , and pointing out the necessity that exists for a new treaty , ia which " it will be necessary to revise the tariff & d valorem rates for the assessment of duties , and it would be desirable tx > obtain permission to trade at any otiaer in addition to the five ports , permitting in retain Chinese vessels from all ports in China to trade with Hong Kong ; and for British subjects to pass into fh « interior of the eoimtrj' , to which no objection seems to be made by the population in the vicinity of Shanghai . " Lord Clarendon , through his secretary , lias promised to give the subject every consideration .
Ji . great deal of excitement prevails in . Cochin , owing to the Barjab . of Travancore having opposed the removal by the &©> aganies from his dominions of one of their idols which they took there in the year 1792 , -when tue tribe emigrated to Travaucore in order to avoid certain persecutions . They have recently returned ta Cochin and carried th « idol with them . The Rajah of Travaneore denounced this act as a theft , and appealed to the Madras Government , and finally to the Court of Directors , who decided on the restitution of the idol , after which the Court would decide on the rival claims . The Konganies have memorialized the Madras Government against thus decision ; and in the meanwhile a riot Las taken place , but happily with no loss of life .
January 17, 1857.] The Leader. 61
January 17 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 61
Ireland. Biubberisr Carlow.—A.Horrible C...
IRELAND . BIubberisr Carlow . —A . horrible crime has been committed in Carlow . A farmeT , named Dyce , was returning home to Tullow , in company -with his brother-inlaw , -when he stopped opposite the house of another farmer , named M'lJean , for the purpose of lighting his pipe . He = knocked at the door , but was repulsed by the farmer ' s wife . On this he departed , making some insulting remarks on the -woman , whose character is held in rather light estimation . Burning with rage , she went to trer husband , who -was at work in a field , and complained to him . The husband called on his brother to help him to avenge the insult ; and they departed , armed ¦ with heavy sticks . Dyce , becoming . aware of the pursuit , rapidly fl ed over some fields ; but , after he had run about a mile , the M'Leans pounced suddenly TTpon him . and his brother-in-law ( who -were unarmed ) , and beat them unmercifully . Dyce only survived a few hours , and the other man had his head , ribs , and one of his arms broken . The murderers have left the country .
America. We Hear More By The Last Mails ...
AMERICA . We hear more by the last mails of the contemplated slave insurrection . Considerable excitement and alarm still prevail ; numerous further arrests have been made , and plots discovered ; and more negroes have been huiuj , either by law or by the mob . The Mayor of Louisville , has issued a proclamation stating that , in consequence of information which shows a disposition on the part of the coloured people to rise against tho whites , all slaves are to be imprisoned during the holidays , who are absent from home after half-past eight in the evening . The law substituting confinement of free coloured seamen to their ships instead of imprisonment , has passed both Houses of the South Carolina legislature .
Some tliree hundred persons , most of whom are currently reported to be recruits for Walker ' s army , got safely off in tho Tennessee on the 2-lth ult ., bound for San Juan del Norto . They are described as the very scum of tlie city from which the y departed . The President has been preparing a message to Congress recouuneuding thg appropriation of a sum of money to enable the Atlantic Telegraph Company to lay down a cable between the coast of Newfoundland . and Ireland , to the same extent as tho English Government . The New Tor / a Tribune says , it is a matter of certahity that New York has been for a number -of years the centre of tlie trade in slaves between the coast of Africa
and Cuba . Tho number of slavers despatched from Neiv York within the last three years , though not easy to State with precision , did not full short of twenty-five or thirty . But , though only one of the thrao vessels captured has becjn condemned , and only two out of forty-six persons held to answer have been convicted , the zealous and persevering- efforts of the United Statoa District-Attorney and Dqiuty-Marshala have not been quite thrown away . A mumber of the anost active participants in tho traflic have been driven out of the city , as well as several slave captains and persons who visited New York with tho object of buyiug or of fitting up vessels . The Portuguese Consul has been auepoixdcd from his functions on ; suspieion of complicity .
A bill is beforo tho Arkansas Legislature to compel all free negroes to leave tho State , under penalty of immediuto salo into uluvery for life . A billnllowing nogroes , Indiana , aud mulattoes to give evidence in cuses where white persons uro parties , has passed the Senate branch of the Iowa Legislature by a vote of 10 to IS . A bill " to encourage and promote matrimony" has been introduced into tho Legislature of North Carolina . Huntiugton , tho forger ( whoac history we gave lafvt week ) , h-as been found Guilty , and sentenced to i ' our yoara and ten months impritioiimcut . Tho Now York commercial udvimt . s report increased activity in tlio money-market , tho demand coining more especiall y from parties holding stocks .
A Russian Scheme For Regenerating Europe...
A RUSSIAN SCHEME FOR REGENERATING EUROPE . Some curious comments on the assumed approximation of France and Russia are contained in a letter from St . Petersburg which has been received in Paris , and transmitted to the Londcoi papers . The writer remarks that Russia is thoroughly French at heart ; that the upper classes prefer the language of France to their own ; that the political institutions of the two countries are identical , as well as the character of the two Emperors ; and that France and Russia , being placed at opposite extremities of Europe , with powerful states between , they have nothing to fear from each other , and everything to hope from a union . Europe , he says , has no reason to dread the Colossus of the North . " Russia has admitted
that she could not any longer gain , a single foot of ground without raising against her a general crusade . Henceforth it is towards Asia that the eyes of the Cabinet of St . Petersburg will be turned , and to which all her efforts will converge , —Asia , which must be tributary to Europe , ajid whose subjection to its civilization -we ought to hasten by all the means at our disposal . But are we to conclude that Russia has the intention , at least at the present moment , to extend her possessions ia these countries , —that she is doing her utmost , as some of the English papers pretend , to work her way to Calcutta . ? Certainly not : the apprehensions expressed on this point are simple nonsense . To convince ourselves of tfce fact , we have only to cast a glance on the map . Before reaching Calcutta , the Russians would have to
traverse vast , unhealthy , and barren steppes , some of them scorched by the sun ; and , Russians , heat is the most formidable enemy . They would have to combat warlike tribes , against which so many powerful-efforts , hare failed . They would have to sacrifice whole armies . For such an undertaking they should be richer than they are , and money , which is indispensable for Avar , would f ail them completely . When , therefore , a systematic tendency towards the North Pacific Ocean is attributed to Russia , and a wonderful perseverance in shortening the distances which separate her from it , greater honour is paid to her policy than she deserves . " After informing us that the only alvalry England has to f ear from Russia iii the East is one of industry and commerce , the writer proceeds :-
—" The development of the productive powers of Russia impels her to open a passage to the tablelands of Central Asia , and Continental Europe ought to rej oice at seeing her take that direction . Europe has an essential and a paramount interest in preventing England from absorbing and monopolizing or her sole benetit the trade of Asia . Above all , France has an immense advantage in encouraging that expansion of Russia towards the extreme cast . Her manufacturers can supply Russia with many things which she is still in want of , exchange them for her anetals , her wood , and other primary articles the produce oX Russian soil , and the products of India and Persia , which she receives every year in the greatest quantity ; and these" products can bo advantageously purchased with French merchandise .
" This , however , you will understand , is but the -weak point of the question . Its political meaning has far greater importance . Let us admit—and this supposition has nothing rash in it , I assure you—that to-morrow the union of the two nations was an accomplished fact ; what should we then see ? France , as the ally of Russia , could considerably reduce the expenses of her army and employ the surplus in giving to her industry , her commerce , and lier navy all the extension of which they are capable . Trance , as the ally of Hussia , would become a naval power of the first order—the centre and
pivot of a great maritime confederation . Tho freedom , of the seas would have nothing more to fear from the audacity of the British flag , whose relative superiority would then be eff aced aud its gigantic proportions lo-st All chanoo of a struggle by sea would thus disappear , while by land an armed conflict -would not be possible . Who , in fact , would dare to attack Franco and liustaa united—Russia , moreover , having at her disposal the whole force of Prussia , when the aggressor would bo most assuredly crushed ? It is then , but only tlaeu , that the words spoken at Bordeaux , ' & Einj > iro e ' est hi , puuc ,, ' would be tho truth . "
The writer conceives that some modification , must take place sooner or later in the Treaties of Vienna , which , ui poiut of fact , were hut tho solemn confmuatiou of tlie absolute supremacy of Croat Brituin . " He accuses England of having contrived , on tho conclusion of £ 3 io war with France in 1815 , to remodel themap of Europe , and to introduce into every state " a cauao of weakness , an element of dissolution , a priuciplc of decay , " in tlie shape of some incongruous nationality forcibly included within , the limits of all tho chief Govcrruncjuts , or eanxe constitution unfitted to tho people on whom it was
imposed . Thus , Poland , Novtbem Italy , Sicily , Belgium , tho Ilhenish Proviucoa , Ncufohutel , & c , wore distributed among Powers to - \ vhom they weac naturally antagonistic ; and France " was inoculated with tho virua of a constitutio n u VAughnse . " Thus , by tho liand of England , were " tho elements of disorder placed with infernal art under ovory throne of tho Continent . All this was more thun . suilieiunt to occupy tho aovoreigna in their own dominions , and it condemned them for ever to tho riiyiiitv of an nnnod peuco ; but this regime is tho augmentation , every yenr more onerous , of public
oxpouditure ; it , is tke progressive discontent of populations , the perman-ent menace of trouble and of revolution , the decline and the decay of all the Continental Powers , the sentence of annihilatioa passed on their industry .. One country only profits by all these internal embarrassments . That couatry is England , -whom , her insular position exempts from the maintenance of costly armies - England whose manufacturing industry enables her ta profit by all the obstacles created by the armed peace against the development of every class of industry which could rival her own . Do people really know how much , this system has cost Continental Europe for the last forty years ? JSTearly 60 , 000 , 000 , 000 f ., of which the greater part has entered the coffers of Great Britain ! It is England only that has grown rich by the general disaster ; and it is still England -which is alone benefited by the treaties of 1815 J ! " /
-But the writer thanks Heaven that " tliis abnormal system " is nearly at an end , and asserts that " notes have been drawn tip on the question , overtures made , communications exchanged , and , in a word , negotiations are at this moment carried on in the silence of Cabinets . " The contemplated alliance , we are told , is " to regenerate the face of Europe , " and , moreover , it is * ' inevitable . " The writer is said to be in some way connected isith the Russian . Chancellerie .
Continental Notes. France. The Funeral O...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The funeral of the Archbishop of Paris took place last Saturday at the Cathedral of N " otre-Dame , in the midst of a large crowd o spectators , and with much religious and military pomp . The ground was occupied "by troops ; a battalion of the Line , with its hand of music and muffled drums , escorted the procession ; and several Ministers of State , members of the Senate , priests , the Papal Nuncio , and other persons of note , attended the obsequies . The cathedral was hung with black , -which , together with the gloomy state of the atmosphere and the constant showers of hail and sleet -which fell upon the half melted snow of the roadways , contributed to a very striking and mournful effect . " Crowds lined the streets , " says the Tunes Paris correspondent , " and . the remains , borne slowly along , received marks of profound and , I helieve , the most sincere veneration ; every man . bared his head and bowed ; several knelt on the ground , all mud and melted snow as it was ; and the women , some of them weeping , made , -with every mark of devO " tion and sorrow , the sign of the cross , beat their breasts , and repeated aloud prayers for the repose of the departed . On its arrival at the entrance of the church , the prebends and honorary canons , and the parish priests of the diocese , preceded by the cross-hearer , -went to the door to receive the remains of their late Archbishop , and , with tlie canons who had brouglit it from the palace , tore them to the catafalque hefore the high altar . Then rose from the choir the solemn music of the dead , and , after
the mitre , crucifix , and crosier of the prelate were deposited on the coffin , the funeral service began . The solemn dirge of the Dies Tree , which more than any other , excepting , perhaps , the Miserere , awakes with the thoughts of the grave those of atonement and redemption ; the gloom of the old building , made darker still by the sombre atmosphere and the melted snow , which pattered against the high windows ; the black tapestry , varied by the armorial bearings of the prelate ; the funeral costume of the attendant bishops and clergy ; the body beneath the altar before which the departed
had so lately ministered ; tlie pealing notes swelling throtigli the lofty aisles , and floating along the vaulted temple ; the consciousness that the man whoso remains all were sorrowing over had not been removed from among them by mortal decay , but had been foully murdered "while in the performance of his sacred office—all this seemed to make an appeal to the heart which it would he difficult to express , but which was told in many a moist eye . " The BisLop of Meaux officiated . During the mass , salvoes of artillery were fired , anl the bells tolled .
The Legitimist journal , tho ZTmon , publishes a letter of tho Cointc do Chainbord to M . Pag « ot , formerly French Minister at Washington , directing him to convey' to Madame do Salvandy and her children tho deep regret of tho writer at hearing of the death of Count do Salvandy , who avjis extremely influential in bringing about the fusion between tho two branclves of the Bourbon family —an event which , says the' communication , " Franco as now right in regarding as ono of tho firmest guarantees of the future . " Tlie Presse , remarking on this letter , says : — "The noto is of some interest , inasmuch as it contniira tho official notification of tho fusion . It is a piece of news , "but nothing more , It is certainly not < iu event They must be clever buildero , indeed , who could construct sl solid vessel "by tho fusion of two wrecks . "
" The affair , says GaTignam , " relative to tho autograph manuscript of tho late King Louis Philippe , entitled , Continuation dc Tfiintoire Gdnuuioglque ct Chronolof / ique dc la ' M . aison Itoyafo He France , desX \ iirs , < £ c . which excited so much attention last summer , has come on again before the Civil Tribunal- It may bo remembered that the lato King , when Duke of ( Moans , occupied hia leisure hours in writing the continuation of tho liistory in question , which , having been commenced by n monlc limned Father Auselme , was only brought down
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 17, 1857, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17011857/page/3/
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