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      America. I Ik The Reports In Private Let...

      were . y majorities . The vote in the Upper House being 16 to 8 , and in the I ^ ower , 71 to 31 . It is not improbable tliat there will De a dissolution , although the Governor-General is strongly opposed to such a step . The excitement at Toronto had greatly increased according- to our latest accounts . Mr . Gait was called in by the Governor-General on the 4 th , but declined to undertake the formation of a Cabinet . The Parliament met on the 6 th , and the announcement was made that the How . Mr . Cartier , in connexion with the Hon . John A . Maedonald , was forming a Ministry . The Legislative Council have passed a lesolution , declaring their regret at the vote of the Lower House on the seat of Government question , and denouncing it as an insult to her Majesty . ^^ *^ ^^ ^ ^ ^

      The Lecompton Constitution has been rejected by an overwhelming majority . The popular feeling was decidedly in favour of its rejection .

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      The Atlantic Telegraph. Thi3 Magnificent...

      THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . Thi 3 magnificent undertaking has at length reached completion , and its success leaves nothing to be desired . Mr . G . Seward , the secretary and manager of the Atlaatic Telegraph Company , writes as follows : — I have the pleasure to inform you that the line from Valentia to Newfoundland , ' is now working satisfactorily both ways . The following message was despatched yestenlay evening from the directors in England to the directors in America :- — " Europe and America are united by telegraph . Glory to God in the Highest ; on earth peace , good will towards men . "

      This message , including the Jiddresses of senders and receivers , occupied thirty-five minutes in transmission , and consisted of . thirty-one words . Immediately afterwards a message from her Majesty the Queen to his Excellency the President of the United States , consisting of ninety-nine word .-, was received by Newfoundland in sixty-seven minutes . Both messages were repeated back to Valentia to test the accuracy , and were found to have been taken with great exactness . Of course , unless permission were given , the contents of her Majesty ' s despatch cannot be made public . ¦ This ' ( Tuesday ) morning we have the following message , the last thirty-eight words of which were received in twenty-two minutes , fro : n Mr . Cyrus W . Field , who is at ^ Newfoundland : —

      " Cyrus W . Field , Newfoundland , to Directors Atlantic Telegraph Company , London , —Newfoundland , Monday . Entered Trinity Bay , noon of the 5 th . Landed cable on the 6 th . On Thursday morning ship at once . to St . John ' s . Two miles of shore cable , with end ready for splicing . " " When was cable landed at Valentia ? Answer by telegraph and forward by letters to New York . " Tlie line is now worked with perfect accuracj ' , and the public will be enabled in a very short time to avail themselves of its advantages . A morning contemporary felicitously remarks , that " This Gospel message was transmitted to the other side of the world in little more than half an hour of time—a result which almost seems to beat the Apostolic miracles that were effected in order to communicate the same truth eighteen hundred years ago .

      The excitement in America about the successful laying of the cable is intense . It has been celebrated with illuminations , torchlight processions , military parades , salvoes of artillery , anil other demonstrations of public feeling . Failure had been generally anticipated . The following message was sent from the President of America to Mr . Cyrus Field , as soon as he heard of the laying down of tlic cable : — "I congratulate you with all my heart on the success of tlio great enterprise with which your name is so honourably connected . Under the blessing of Divine Providence , 1 trust it may prove instrumental in promoting perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations . I have not yet received the Queen's despatch . " Yours , very respectfully , "James Buchanan . " This letter is dated August 5 .

      Colonial Intelligence. • , Wkst Indies. ...

      COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE . , WKST INDIES . The West India press strongly protest against the withdrawal of the English squadron from the coast of Cuba . They predict tliat that measure will occasion such . a revival of the slave trade na will effectually prevent the successful competition of free with slave lal > our . . An English and a French squadron were at La Guayra , to demand an apology from the Venezuelan Government for soino insult which had been offered to English and French subjects . AUSTItALlA . An electric telegraph between tho two capitals , Mclbourno and Sydney , iv distance of about 500 milea , is pn tho ovo of completion , the extension to Albany , on tlie boundary of tho two colonies , from one metropolis to tho other , is also advancing . Sydney papers state that within a few days , in June toat , nearl y two thousand Chinese lauded on their way

      to the gold diggings . The number of Celestials who have of late swelled the population is so great that a bill is before the Legislative Assembly to check further immigration by imposing a poll-tax , as in the sister colony . From Sydney also , we hear that an Electoral Reform Bill was in committee of the House of Assembly . Great efforts were made to keep up an excitement in favour of a measure which goes to establish almost universal suffrage ; but in general the public are very apathetic on the subject . Among the recent arrivals in Sydney , the Rev . Thomas Binney , minister of the Weighhouse Chapel , London , has absorbed a large share of public attention in tho Dissenting interest . The visit of Mr . Binney to the antipodes is said to be for the renovation of his health . ^ ^ *

      Continental Notes. France. Fetes Took Pl...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . Fetes took place on Sunday last at Paris , in honour of the St . Napoleon . The inhabitants of the gay city were greatly disappointed itj their expected treat , for everything was done in an indifferent manner—the openair theatres , booths , orchestras , & c , were less numerous than formerly , the illuminations were more rare , and the fireworks inferior . The streets were consequently not crowded as usual , and the people evinced little interest in what they saw . la the country towns , on the contrary , the fete was eelebrated with considerable pomp . The proceedings were invariably the same ; official receptLons by the Prefect and Divine service in the morning , followed by reviews , with illuminations and fireworks in the evening . Half of th & French squadron that went to Cherbourg from the Mediterranean is to return to Toulon , the other half to remain at Brest until further orders . There is a talk of an expedition against Madagascar by a combined English and French force , to punish the piracies of which the savages of that island have been guilty . Nothing is yet positively decided , but the necessity of some such measure is recognised . . The conference engaged in regulating the Danubian Provinces held its sixteenth sitting on Thursda 3 V On Monday the provisional signatures will be affixed to the document , which is to bear the diplomatic title , " Additional Act to the Treaty of the 30 thof March , 1856 . " The question-of the free navigation of the Danube does not enter into the provisions made . The two Principalities are said to be spoken of in the text of the document as " the Principalities now constituted into the united provinces of Moldavia and "Wallachia . "

      Ihere is less water in tlie rivers in France than anybody remembers to have seen . Many of the small mills are stopped , and those situated on larger streams are not able to do more than half the usual amount of work . The Prince Imperial , who was enrolled in tho 1 st Regiment of the Imperial Guard , a few days after his birth , has been promoted to the rank of corporal . Some mechanics are about to be tried in secret on a charge of having something to do with the manufacture of bombs like those made use of bj' Orsini in his attempt of January last . These workmen were captured at St . Etienne . A project of an electric telegraph , to connect Europe witli China , is now in course of preparation , and will be presented to the Emperor on his return to Paris .

      SPAIX . General O'Donnell has fallen ill , and has been subjected to thermal treatment at the baths of Las Culdas . It is alleged tliat the examination of tho electoral lists has led to the discovery that not fewer than i } 0 , 000 names were improperly inscribed on them , and that this accounts for the pretended majorities which the last two Cabinets obtained . Some of the journals assert that the law authorities have recently discovered that the disturbances which took place last year in Andalusia were got up by French Legitimists . All the journals , without exception , treat as absurd the supposition that Spain can ever think of ceding Cuba to the United States .

      It is stated that small-pox is making fearful ravages in several provinces of Spain , notwithstanding every effort that lias been made to check , it by the general use of vaccination , which was performed gratuitously in every petty village . The royal scat of La Granja has been half depopulated by this dreadful pestilence . It ia expected that the forthcoming elections will result in tho sending many efficient members to the Cortes . Nino great asylums arc to . be founded in Spain for tlie reception of tho aged and distressed ; and mendicancy , that dreadful pest of the country , is to be put a stop to . Nino millions of reals are to bo employed towards paying tho expenses of these asylums , and the Queen proposes to make up tho rest of tho money necessary by means of appeals to public charity . Amongst tho edifices to be net apart for asylums are the Escuriul and tho famous San Martin do Santiago . TUU . 3 SIA . , It ia rumoured to bo tho intention of tlie King forinnlly to transfer tho government of the kingdom to hia brother on tho 2 Urd of October . It has not transpired whether his Majesty will abdicate , or whether tho Prince of Prussia will rule ns Prince Kegent .

      ITALY . A person named Parodi , who had something to do with last year ' s insurrection at Genoa , turned round against his unfortunate comrades , and , to save himself , gave evidence against them . Parodi had gone to Locarno in Switzerland , aud while there , a pistol was discharged at him . He fell mortally -wounded , and the assassin , who is unknown , escaped . There cannot be any doubt that Parodi has suffered for liis treachery . TURKEY . The island of Candia . seems to have recovered its tranquillity in consequence of the large . concessions made to the Christians . The Mahommedans are leaving the island . Bosnia remains in a state of civil war . ¦ ' - HOLLAKD . The report circulated last week , that the King intended to abdicate in favour of his son , is contradicted .

      Egypt And Syria — Western Influence. (Fr...

      EGYPT AND SYRIA — WESTERN INFLUENCE . ( From the North British lieview . ' ) This article is not so much a review of some halfdozen works . on Egypt and Syria , as it is an exposition of our slut us in those unsettled and coveted countries—of our mistakes in policy , together with a powerful elucidation of the rival policy of other European powers . The whole article is well worth at tent ive perusal , it is eminently suggestive , and though we do not entirely agree with , some of the writer ' s strictures and conclusions , upon tlie whole , the writer ' s ability and information have carried us . with him , and we especially commend liis remarks on our consular appointments in those regions to the notice of the high authorities of the empire . ' . The writer-says :

      The whole system of Consular government in the East requires amendment . These European representatives are too strong and too weak . They can defy and they can be defied , even in matters of law and justice . They are quite strong enough to oppress the feeble ; they are not strong enough to resist the powerful . They would not , perhaps , defile their hands with a bribe like an Eastern kadi ; but they are accessible to influenceg which are quite as corrupting ; the blandishment or the menace doing effectually the work of the bribe .. Stimulated by rivalries , one part of their vocation , is to thwart each other . Acting as political delegates from their several governments , their object is to watch each other ' s

      movements and countercheck each other ' s schemes . Ostensibly they come to care for the interests of the men of their own nation ; in reality they concern themselves as much about the interests of those beyond their jurisdiction . Holy Scripture speaks of men who are " busybodies in other men ' s matters , " or , as the word is , oKKorpiociricKonai that is , " everybody ' s bishop but their own , " and , perhaps , we might , without injustice to some at least , use the word here , and say that many of these men of authority are everybody ' s consuls bat their own . Espionage becomes tho consulate as ill as the embassy ; but , in the present jealous condition of Western politics , the consul is compelled to act the part of spy , or at least sentinel .

      Nor is one surprised at the large consular establishments of Alexandria ; nor the smaller but equally numerous vice-consulates of Cairo ; nor at tho recent elevation ( a few months since ) of the French vice-consulate at Suez into a regular consulate . Suez , iudeed is little better than a large khan , a station on the great Huj road to Mecca through tho desert ; nor can it ever he a port , on account of the shoals of the Red Sea , and the drifting sands on both sides , wliich are yearly compelling its waters to retreat ; but then its importance aa an entrejwt both for France and England cannot easily be overrated , at least until the Euphrates Railway shall attract into the Persian Gulf the commerce that now

      passes up tlio blue strip between the peninsular peaks and the bluffs of Rus Atukah . Cairo , both for size and Oriental celebrity , has some claims upon European notice , though , from its position , it is not likely to bs a focus cither of enterprise or intrigue . Alexandria , certainly , is the great centre where East and West meet , and in it Europe ought to be well represented , —England , above all , for hIic has the most at stake . Yet , if report speak true , tlie diplomacy , tho nerve , and the influence , are monopolised by France , which , always true to its national interests , seeks out men for places , not places for men , and sends talent to couxts or consulates whero England is content with title . But it somewhat surprises one to find" some six or eight European consuls or vice-consuls at Jerusalem . What can they bo doing there ? A first-rate power , like England , might , if it were not so passive and easy-minded , seciiro a very much larger share of power in Rome than she has at present ; but a second-rate power , such as Prussia , has little likelihood of success , whatever energy she might throw out . At Jerusalem , however , Prussia has a considerably better chance . Sho has but to send a tolerably clover consul , not over-scrupulous or modest , with iiiHtnictions to spur « neither chicanery nor violence , in cajoling , menacing , « nd bullying 1 ' nslui , Effendi , or fellow-consul . And if

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081858/page/5/