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Election Intelligence. Tiverton.—Lord Pa...
Uf—almost usurping the functions of Providence—that we should go in almost all parts of the world to redress wrong and to see that right is done . I think we should confine ourselves to those legit imate ^ international rights which a moderate army and a moderate military power will enable us to command . " , _ ¦ _ Windsor . —On the resignation of Iiord Charles Wellesley , Mr . Samson Ricardo and Mr . Hope issued addresses . A very sharp contest was expected , but at the last moment Mr . Hope withdrew , and Mr . Ricardo was returned-without opposition . In returning thanks to the electors , he said that he was in favour of any measures for educating the people , and would do all in his power to improve their condition . He would support the new Ministry , believing they would do all they could to alleviate the Bufferings of our troops , and to tiring about an honourable peace . , ' '
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Canada. The Late Acoqunts From Cjanada S...
CANADA . The late acoqunts from CJanada say that the new Governor , Sii ; EdmjindHead , is likely to become very p 6 pnlar ^ - ' ' EwY ^ # 4 t , wiU ; ineet .. 6 n thp 23 rd . The Canadian sympathy for the Allies is strong , every steaBaer'a news being anxiously ; looked - for . ^ . S . uh-Bcriptwn * tQ the Patriotic ! Fupd continue to flow in from all paxt » 43 ^ Me country . Meetings are held everywhere fop the purpose- Toronto and Hamilton have voted each iOQOt Quehbc has subscribed 600 L , and other places in like proportion . The pro-Russian feeling in the . IJnited States continaea to excite indignation in Canada .
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: .. ; ; - . : ¦ - . - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ , ¦ ; . ¦ INDIA . ¦ ' Tib : Overland Mail brings us more than usually exciting intelligence from the East . The Bombay Tinted thus sumsi tiprecent news-i' " Our Indian aimaJs for the past fifteen days have not been without their infereHt . A battle has beeh fought at Bunder Abbas between . the Arabs and the Persians ^ in which the latterwere-. successfril . A Persian force of l £ O ( JO hprsemen , - with six- guns and two mortars , appeared before > Bander Abbas in the beginning of December , and shelled the plfece for two days and niehta : on ' the third day the ganisony consisting of
ifrOfr men , metfthe Persiansiatthe gatesy and an . engagemerit to ^ p lafce- which lasted , for ; several' bouta ' . ; The Arab forced overpowered 6 y nunibeTS , took to their boats Mid Ked'to'the & u ^ f-waf ^ belonging to ! the . JIfiaautri ; of Mfa & jati ' The Arabs lost ' in killed and , wounded about fgOtfl ' yrWat tEfe' ^ efcriaiw lost ¦ about 4000 . The Arabs yren commanded T > y the eldest 'son of ( the Imaum . " He U ' deterjnJnedto hazard another battle fiefofe ' ^ giving up Bunder Abbas ' to the Persians . The Imaum is said to fee'mustering a targe ! force ,, which he will Command in person ^' so that we , may shortly expect to hear of another engagement . ; .
" Our little fleet in the Persian Gulf has had some eipplQyment against an Arab piratical chief , with two thousand followers / ' The account ; of the ' affair , as given by ' a ^ dlitemporary ; IT as"follbw 8 : ^ = Tlicr attack was made in 12 boats , containing an armament of about 300 men and boys , eight guns---trca twelve and six three-pounders —and one rocket boat . The Arabs fought . wey , and several of the Seamen were wounded , but none of them severely . ; The water was yerytshallow and several- of of the heavier boats were aground during the whole time of ., the action . , / Aif ^ er having been shelled and well peppered with canister shot , the chief sent a flag of truce / with ah intimation that -he'Wotild deliver up the bungalow ; "Which was immediately burned upon the spot . The pirates must have sustained a los » of upwards of
100 , killed and wounded . The expedition seems , to have been well planned , and admirably executed j not a-eingle iHehavirig been lost . " ' ' - .. ' ... ' " Thelatest news from Burmah is to the 28 th December and ia unimportant . The Burmese ambassadors have returned t 6 Rangoon . 'At then * final interview with the * Governor-General they revealed their real object in coming ; they had- been sent to seek restitution of the whole of 'the captured . Provinces in Burmah . Lord Dalhousie told them they would obtain nothing , i .. ¦ ¦ A' The ' communication by electric' telegraph is ' how complete between the three presidencies , the > North-t West Provinces , and Lahore , . The lines , between Bombay and Madras were joined ( by moonlight ) near Bolgaum on the night of'the 81 st of December , and the communication between the two presidencies completed ' on the : first day of the year , i ' ... ¦ ¦ - ¦ . . • - . '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; . ' '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . ¦¦ ¦
" There have been meetings'in all thfeV presidencies in aid of the Patriotio Fund ^ By the latest accounts the subscriptions to the fund amounted in the' city of Oalcnttit to 70 , 000 r .,. in thecity of Madraa to 80 , 000 r ; , and irf ' . thje city of Bombay to 66 , 000 ^ These figures renredent pretty , faUIj . thfepn » par * tiye intelligence , wealth , aw ^^ uence . of the throe pre ^^ pntial oitiea . "
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last four years , was 186 , 684 , 088 dols ., divided thus : in 1151 , 34 , 492 , 000 dols . ; in 1852 , 45 , 779 , 000 dols . ; in 1853 , 54 , 906 , 956 dols . ; andin 1854 , 51 , 506 , 132 dols . This shows a decrease in the present year of 3 , 400 , 821 dols . from 1853 , but which is accounted for by the drought of this winter . " These amounts , however , give but a very imperfect return of the gold which really left the country , as great quantities are earned away by passengers leaving by every steamer vt & Panama and Nicaragua , while considerable sums are also taken by passengers and remitted , for the purposes of commerce , by the masters of sailing vessels destined for the various countries on the Pacific coast , for the islands in the Pacific , and for China , and other countries , which it is do the amounts mani
not necessary to manifest . Nor - fested" by any means indicate the production of the mines . To ascertain this latter fact , we must add to the account the gold taken away by the miners returning to Mexico by land , as well as that coined in San Francisco , that used in the manufacture of jewellery , & c , and the amounts in circulation and hoarded in the mines , and throughout the country generally . These latter amounts exceed the amount exported as , " manifested . But the population of miners engaged in extracting gold , and a computation of their earnings , afford the most reliable data from which to form an estimate of the production . The number of miners is ascertained to be about 100 , 000 . Taking them at this number , and allowing that each miner extracts three dollars a day—a moderate estimate
—the aggregate amount , of gold extracted in the year ( counting working days only ) would exceed 93 , 000 , 000 dols :, and persons competent to form an opinion estimate this year ' s production at 100 , 000 , 000 dols . A striking evidence of the rapid growth of San Francisco is affordedby the large number of vessels owned and registered a , t this , pprfc .. These amount in number to 631 , ' having a tonnage 63 , 423 , while there are in addition 23 steamers of aa aggregate tonnage of 23 , 566 , belonging toother ports , engaged in the trade of the place ., Altogether there are 80 steamers engaged in the traffic and in the passenger , trade of the port of San Francisco . This is " goingahead' | i » four years . ;
California is this-year visited by one of its periodical droughts ^ which has continued so long , as to be called a ¦? water famine . " The want of rain is seriously felt by all classes . The miners are in many cases idle and poor . The . farmers have not been able to plough or sow , as they cannot " break" the ground until after the first winter rains ; and merchants , tradesmen ,. mechanics , and labourers , all suffer from the stagnation caused by the short supply pf gold ; . ; ¦¦ ' - ¦¦¦ -. .
Sir Charles Hotham's Policy. From Tho Co...
SIR CHARLES HOTHAM'S POLICY . From tho correspondent of the Time . ? at Melbourne , we arc treated to an insight into tlie internal economy of the colony , and the steps taken by the , new Governor , who appears to . be most desirous of qualifying himself for the high-office to which he has been called .. It is already well known t , hat his activity has already resulted in some unpopularity . JlSir . Charle 8 . HothanA . is _ prpceejiing ^ p ^ i sive inquiries into the- details of the administratioh ^ pf every branch of the Government . . No one doubts that there has been laxity and abuse of every kind , jn every quarter , and when that is the case , public , opinion very often takes , an exaggerated view of the evil . There has no doubt been a good deal of what is called 'jobbing ;' first opinion , and then rumours , have converted this into ' something far worae . The case pf one magistrate charged with accepting a bribe from a person desirous of obtaining a public-house license , is now under investigation . He must be a clumsy practitioner , for , generally , the ' squaring , ' as it is called , is so managed as to elude full exposure . ¦ *
" The method adopted by Sir C . Hotham for the pro- ^ seoution of these inquiries is tO' issue a commission to inquire and report , similar to commissions of a like nature issued in England . Thud , we have had a Finance Commission , and have now a Police Commission ; a Goldflelds Commission , a Squatting Commission , and others are talked of . These commissions are unpaid . In most cases they are composed of Government officers iri whom the public have confidence , with ono person wholly independent of the Government . The officers Pf
the Government , especially those who are connected with tho department Buspected of laxity or jobb ' ery , "do not half like these . boards , and in some cases very palpable attempts are made to thwart , them . They have , however , the support of the head ' of the executive , who seems ' disposed to givo them all the powers they require , and the public will aid them , because it is perceived that they ' may be instruments of good . " " From the Bamo source we derive some' information relative to the wooi-trnde . ' - ^ > J
There was a general impression two years ago that the attractions " " of the gold-fields woiila ( deprive' the wool-growers of labour to ah extent to ; causVa very considerable decrease in tho '' production' pf Wool . This fear has not' been realized , for the quantity exported has increased from 21 , 7 . 65 , 1041 b . in 1858 , to 22 , 598 j 6 881 b : in 1864 . ' 'I fchln 1 c it not unlikely , htywavei , that wool is now shipped in not quite such clean condition , and riot generally so well prepared for expbrtatibh tfs'it tised to ' bo . " '"' ' ; Vl ¦ " ¦ ' ¦ " " - " f ' "¦ . " ' ' '
L.Ouis Napoleon's Victims At Cayenne. Th...
L . OUIS NAPOLEON'S VICTIMS AT CAYENNE . The following letter , Which , to its honour , our contemporary * the Morning Chronicle ^ has published , finds a natural place in our columns . We beg our readers not to forget that the author of these atroci ties is that sovereign whom Lord Derby recently described with emphatic adulation as " that great man . " M . Louis Blanc says with strict truth , that this is not a question of political feeling , but of simple justice and humanity . We may remind our readers that these tortured victims are men who have never so much as been accused of any crime , who have never been tried by any court , nor even prosecuted by any form of law . But they are men whose votes were wanting to complete the astonishing unanimity of Imperial France in January , 1852 .
( To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle . ') Sir , Every one knows that there are in Guiana a great number of Frenchmen who were transported some years since , not in consequence of any lawful judgment , but by the mere impulse of political passions , on account of their enemies having got the mastery through force . It so happens that four of them have lately succeeded in making tkeir escape from Cayenne , and three have just reached England , amidst numberless dangers . The account they give of the distress of our poor countrymen at the Isle St . Joseph is really heart-rending . The contents of the following letter , which I am desired , and feel it my duty to make as public as possible , perfectly concur with the verbal statements I have received , and , I hope , will not be found unworthy of insertion in your hospitable columns , even ; at a time when public attention is engrossed by events of such momentous importance .
Whether the French Government ore aware or not of the gratuitous acts of barbarity committed ^ in their name by agents whom , at a distance of about 6000 miles from France , the absence of control and Uur sense of impunity may goad into all sorts of . violence , is not for me to decidef but in the latter supposition , who can be more concerned iffi being apprised of the facts , ias below stated ; than those whose character and power-would be brought to shame by such shocking deedsi ? I therefore apply to you , sir , with confidence—the liberty of the English press remaining 4 She only possible chance for the oppressed to h » ve the rjustice of their complaints at least examined ... ¦ . -. •; . ;" . ' : ' , . '' -It should be , borne ' in . ' n ^ dV > tli ^ - ;; t ^' . . iniw ^ por *< S »< fe Cayenne are political victims , belongingto all classes of society—artists ^ tradesmen , . worknie % barristers , physicians , farmers , journalists ,, scholars , . v ,
- ¦«« to the crrizztr totnrs blanc . u Citizen—In the name of the republican martyrs of 1848 , I , as one of the proscribed in French Guiana ,. call upon you to lay before the' civilised world the unworthy treatment to which ' we are submitted , vat a distance of 2000 leagues from our own country , in * -a .. colony called French . . . * Without any regard to the laws of civilisation , in the nineteenth " century , men who lave committed no other crime than to be conquered , after taking up arms fSr ^ tFe' ^ efence ' of ^ their Hjghts , " ai * penned onarTock in Southern' America , and used more' cruelly than the blacks during their period of slavery , under a burning s * y- ¦ " ¦ " ¦ "¦ ' : ¦'¦ ' ... ¦ ' : ' ' : ' . .. i
" Side by side with the md 3 t vile criminals , they have been subjected to forced labours ( travaux Jbrce ' s ) . The regulation of the galleys are'applied to them in all their rigour . " They w ' ear the old clothes of the deceased convicts , with the letters T . F-, and the very word ' galleyslave * is trritten in capitals < m the" upper-leather of their shoes . " Like galley-slaves they have been-compelled to cut their hair ; and when thejr go to mass it is their degrading duty to give the military salute to the gaoler before whom'they defile . •" ¦ " . ' ¦¦ " Like galley-slaves , they are bent eight hours a day , without any -kihd of remuneration , on the hardest and iriost dangerous labours . ' In' the dockyards , after the iriatraer ' o'f those In galleys , they are conducted and watched by des garctes-chioumuss , a barbarous set of men who are as sharp upon'them ascan be imagined .
, " Their food is that allowed to galley-slaves . For the first months of their Sojourn hero they have exclusively lived on metuel and couac , which was the diet of the blacks before the abolition of slavery . " The money sent out to them by their families is kept back . ; ' " ¦ " Starvation being added to sorrow , and the influence of a deadly climate to ill-treatment , "flve-aud-thirty bodiesj but of 200 men , have been , In a few months , cast as prey to sharks ; for in the Isle St . Joseph the prisoners than the
have'ho ' other cemetery sea . " Dungeon , chains , and protracted fasting are tbo mildest punishment inflicted , under the most flimsy pretext , upon tho unfortunate men . \ ., A _ ,. 44 If oho of them ventures to remonstrate against tno bbuhdless inBolerico of their subaltern , tyrants , woe to him ! Ho is immediately put to the rack . This is an intprovement for which wo are indebted to M . de BonnaW , a captain in the riavv , Governor of Guiana . The sufferer is tied to a stake , w ^ ilh thick ropes around Ws arms ' , legs , ' neck , belly , arid broast ; the' duration of such a corporal punishment bohig four . hburf" a'day , during
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 17, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17021855/page/8/
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