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388 THE XrEAPEB,. [No. 370, Sattthday/
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AMERICA. The question of the reinforceme...
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Ireland. Encumbered Estates Court.—The E...
gave their second votes to Sir Charles Coote , they would be ejected from their farms . " This , however , is denied . Church Education Society . —The annual meeting of this Protestant society , which is opposed to the national or secular system of education , took place at Dublin on Thursday "week ; the Earl of Clancarty in the chair . The > report did . not indicate a very prosperous or progressive state of the association ; but the frainers of that document say that they have not lost hope , and that they look for the triumph of their principles in due time .
The Chief Secretaryship- — -The report that Mr . Bernal Osborne is about to succeed Mr- Horsman as the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant appears to be doubtful . It is now stated tliat there was a temporary disagreement between lord Palmerston and Mr . Horsman because the latter was absent from Ireland during the elections , when his "direction" of them was greatly needed by Government . The breach is said by some to have been healed ; by others , not . Food Eiots in the King ' s Covxty . —A large capitalist , Mr . Joshua Atkinson , of Roscrea , having
bought in the Parsonstown market between eighty and a hundred barrels of potatoes , and a considerable quantity of barley , an advance in pr ices ensued , which so ; exasperated the people , that they assembled in large numbers , hooted Mr . Atkinson , stopped his cars , maltreated the drivers , cut open the sacks with knives , and strewed the potatoes aboufi the road . The police were assaulted with stones , and it was found necessary to send for a reinforcement . In the meanwhile , the women succeeded in carrying , off , in their under garments , the contents of between thirty and forty sacks of potatoes .
Dublin Uwiveksity . —The Rev . William Lee , D . D ., Fellow of Trinity College ^ and author of " Lectures on the Inspiration of Holy Scripture , " has been elected to the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History , vacant by the promotion of Dr . Fitzgerald to the see of Cork . MtrRDEROTfS AssatjIjT .- —A ticket-bf-leave man , named Carter , who -was sentenced to transportation a few years ago , has committed a murderous assault on a gentleman living at Rossmore , Queen's County , named Fennell , whose life is considered in great danger . The man came to Mr . Fennell one night , apparently in great distress , and begging that that gentleman would give him a night ' s lodging . Mr . Fennell not only granted this , but
also gave him a breakfast the following morning . Shortly after breakfast , Carter , having observed Mr . Fennell go to work on his farm , seized a spade , and , closing the kitchen door , threatened to knock out the brains of the servant boy and girl unless they told him where . their master ' s money was . The girl screamed with terror , "but the boy took down a gun that was in the room and presented it at Carter , on which the latter fled . Unfortunately , however , he happened to encounter Mr . Fennell in his flight , whom he struck a severe blow on the side of his head with the spade . The servant boy nevertheless pursued Carter , and finally succeeded in capturing bun after a two miles' chase , when he was given into the custody of the Graigue police .
388 The Xreapeb,. [No. 370, Sattthday/
388 THE XrEAPEB ,. [ No . 370 , Sattthday /
America. The Question Of The Reinforceme...
AMERICA . The question of the reinforcement of the United States squadron in the East is said to be still under the consideration of the Washington cabinet , and it is believed that a very imposing fleet will soon be gathered there . Commodore Perry will probably be appointed to the command . It is not the intention of the American Government to co-operate with England and France in their proceedings against China ; but energetic measures will be taken for the protection of the rights of American citizens . To this end , an envoy will be sent to the Celestial Empire , who will be instructed to procure some modifications of the treaty now existing between the Chinese and Americans , and an improvement of commercial relations . Such , in effect , are the statements put forth by the Ifew York Courier and Enquirer .
Some correspondence between our representative at Washington ( Lord Napier ) and Mr . Cass , Secretary of State , haB "been published . His Lordship communicated to Mr . Caas a despatch from Lord Clarendon , expressing the Forei gn Minister's high sense of tho humane and devoted , conduct manifested by tlic crew of an American lifeboat in the rescue of tho English barque Tasso , of St . John's , Newfoundland . Two of tho American boatmen perished on that occasion , as well as four of the ahip b cre-w . To tho widow of one of the deceased boatmen , the English Government sends a donation of 60 / . ; and inquiries are being made with respect to the relatives of the other heroic , but ill-fated man . A letter of the Earl of Clarendon to Lord Napier accompanies tho correspondence , and conveys tho thanks of our Government to the Burvivora . Mr . Cass ' a letter contains a suitable acknowledgment of Lord Napier ' s communication
. According to one account , Walker has in some measure retnevcKl his fortunes by a brilliant victory : but I L - ° » m ¦ ' ° r aCC 0 Unta 8 tatin e t »» t the adventurer is still in a desperate condition , and that his adherents are making a frontic struggle to roach tho coaBt , in order that they may get off . It ia Baid that Walker has opened a correspondence with General Canas to whom ho offered to surrender , provided ho and his men -wore allowed to leave tho country . Tho General accepted tho surrender , and said he would give' pasBportB
to the whole force with the exception of Walker himself , whom he intended to deliver up to the authorities Of Costa Rica . Walker ' s adherents , however , refused to agree to this arrangement . The Baltimore Republican gives an account of a savage and fatal duel which occurred at Winston ( Maryland ) . The parties were fastened down by their trousers to a two-inch oak plank , and fought with bowieknives . " They fought , " says the Republican , " . until Drain was mortally wounded . Young Pendleton was cut nearly in pieces , and now lies in . a critical position . Part of Pendleton ' s knife is still in Drain's head . There is no hope of his recovery . The doctors think they will both die . Drain was twenty-two , and Pendleton nineteen . "
General Concha , of Cuba , has issued a decree revoking the certificates of protection ordered to be issued to slaves , as being insufficient in curtailing the traffic . Two New York vessels have been sold as slavers . The ship New Hampshire , from Glasgow , has been wrecked at sea . The New York stock-market , at the last advices , was heavy , and trade for the most part was dull . An elderly gentleman has had a narrow escape from death at Niagara Falls . He was sitting on the bank ,
when he became dizzy , and fell into the river . He went down the rapids for some distance , and was a good deal knocked about against the rocks that line the bank under the water . At length lie clung to one of the rocks which rose up above the surface . From this he was rescued , though with difficulty , by rope ladders thrown from the bank some two hundred and sixty feet . He was nearly exhausted with cold . A gentleman living close by gave him a change of clothing , and he is now quite well , but he expresses great disinclination to make a . second trip .
Yellow fever still prevailed at the Brazilian ports at the last dates , and had proved very fatal among the merchant shipping . Several masters arid their crews had been swept off by the disease . " The Imperial railroad of Peter the Second , in Brazil , " says a correspondent of the Daily News , "is completed as far as Nazareth , a distance of sixteen miles , and a trial trip was made on the 13 th of March . The distance was run in thirty-five minutes , and the return in twenty-eight . The directors gave a dejeuner to the notabilities present , about sixty sitting down to table . < rreat hilarity prevailed on the occasion , arid , amongst other toasts , those of 'The Emperor , ' ' Queen Victoria , ' 'The English Nation , ' and ' The Brazilian Nation , ' ~ w ere warmly received . "
The Crimean immigrants at Buenos Ayres have been lather unruly . There was a want of previous' arrangements for their reception on shore , and it was therefore found necessary to keep them on shipboard . The men naturally objected ; some rioting ensued , and a few lives were lost .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FKANCE . A imputation of the electors of the Seine Inferieure , according to a Lyons journal , invited M . Thiers to stand for the department at the general election ; but he declined , " for many reasons . " The Patrie angrily comments on this assertion , but does not directly contradict it . It is reported that M . Thiers ' s reason for refusing to stand was that he had nc confidence in the principle on which the present government of France is founded . A man , named Massenot , has been tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for using seditious language . On the night of the 6 th of February ho ran up a score at a public-bouse , and left -without paying it ; and he sung seditious songs , for which ho was arrested . On being searched , a letter was found on him proposing to him to join a secret society formed for the purpose of assassination . He offered to reveal the existence of a secret
society , of from sixty to eighty persons , if ho was set at liberty , but his offer was not accepted . Ho therefore refused to say anything about the letter , but there is some reason to suppose that it was written by himself . Ho was proved to be a bad character , and to have been frequently in prison . He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and to fifty francs'fine . —Daily News Paris Correspondent . A new French Protestant chapel has been consecrated in tho lltio do Madame in tho presence of a numerous
congregation , among whom were the President of tho Reform Consistory , several English and American preachers , and Dr . Kern , tho Swiss Minister Plenipotentiary . Tha building , which has been raised by private subscription , was commenced only a year ago , and comprises , in addition to tho chapel , two schools capablo of accomodating one hundred and twenty children of both soxes , and a residence for the pastor . M . Fisch pronounced tho benediction on tho building , and M . do Presaensu delivered a sermon appropriate to tho occasion . —Fdcm .
A member of tho commission nppointed to study the question of transportation to Now Caledonia has loft Paris for London in order to acquire information as to tho systom of transportation in England , tho French Government being , it is said , resolved to adopt the principle , and to apply it to its penal settlement . Among tho persona recently arrested in Paris ia a man who had a design for blowing up tho Emporor aa
he satin his box at the Thdatxe-Francais . He hZ communicated his plan to some of the refujreec , in t don , but , they suspecting , after a time , that the man w * " a spy , gave information to our police . On hearing £ the conspirator m chief returned to Paris and h greatly enraged , told the whole story to ' the French tlSy otle , r S n int ° CUSt ° dy ' tOgether Wi * « S 2 The Tunisian Admiral at the port of the Goulette has beaten and imprisoned an Algerine who is a French si jeer . He was afterwards forced to make an anrnlp « T logy in full-dress at the French Vice-Consulate a " considerable crowd attended , on whom a ffreat efW was produced . ° tct
An aerolite ( says Galiyncmi ) was seen falling on ti afternoon of the 6 th inst . in the banlieuo of AndolshPm nearColmar . Dr . Dussourt was walking on the loft bank of the 111 , when his attention was suddenlv , tracted by a whistling noise IJke that of a shot or of flock of birds passing rapidly through the air ' At th same moment he saw passing at about one hundrprf yards above him a black body , spherical a t one end IZ pointed at the other , tho whole measuring , we ] l as Z could judge , front thirty to forty centimetres ( eleven tl fifteen inches ) in . length , and about the thickness of a man ' s arm . From the doctor ' s indications , men haw been busied for some time in endeavouring to discover this aerolite , but have not succeeded .
Some Capuchin monks have been holding themselves up to the scorn and derision of the world by certain antics they have been playing at the town of Grasse in the department of the Var . Having preached against philosophers and romance writers in general thev de nounced Alexandra Dumas , Eugene Sue , Georges Sand " Balzac , Thiers , and Lamartine , in particular . ° The in ' habitants were charged , upon pain of damnation , to de " liver up to the parish priest , within four-aiid-twentv hours , all offensive books ,. newspapers , & c . Anaperture was provided in the church door , through which at
night , the terror-stricken inhabitants thrust the dangerous writing which they had been induced to give up The next day ( Holy Thursday ) , these were burnt on a huge pile—not , however , without some ">' chaffing" on the part of the bystanders . Among the newspapers condemned , as . irreligious were the Debatsani the Sikle The Capuchins went home , doubtless , with a great feeling of triumph ; but the real triumph is on the part of those whose works were thus illuminated by the fires which were designed to extinguish them . The cure in Don Quixote , who burns the knight ' s books of enchantin
ment , was a ^ vise man comparison with these nineteenth century priests . Public attention is just now directed towards the very high price of food and apartmemts in Paris . People ask , "Where is it to end ? " As regards the high price of food , it may be accounted for , in some measure , bv the neglect of agriculture , and the withdrawal of capital from land to employ it in speculation at the Bourse . A Parisian journal observes with truth , "We are at tlie head of Europe in speculations , whilst our agriculture is that of the middle ages . " Government encourages cattlo shows and the exhibition of agricultural instruments , but
the cultivation of land will not produce the six , eight , or ten per cent , which money is worth at the Paris Bourse without much risk . —Morning Post Paris CorresjiondenL . The expose ties motifs of the bill for the repurchase by the state of the Exhibition Palace of 1855 has been published in the official journal . It lias been arranged that the basis of the calculation for the repurchase should be fixed at thirteen million ? , being the amount to which the capital bad been limited in tho original concession . The debt of the company to tho state , amounting to 2 , 000 , 000 f ., is to be deducted from the purchase money of thirteen millions . The document contains the text of
the treaty entered into on the 30 th September , 1850 , between the Minister of State and the liquidators of the company , between whom it was agreed that the company should give up all right and title to the building ; that the state should have all tho assets of the company handed over to it , and in return take on itself all its liabilities ; that tho shareholders should receive , in return for the 130 , 000 shares which constituted the capital of tho company , tho quantity of three por cent , rentes required to represent a capital of 10 , 400 , OOOf ., these rontcs , whicb . were to run from the 22 nd of December , 185 G , to be calculated at the rate of 70 f . 72 c , tho average price of the month when the arrangement was accepted by the general meeting of shareholders . The shareholders will also receive the sum of 520 , 000 f . tho year's interest at four por cent , guaranteed br tho state , and which was not duo until October 20 , lBiiii .
The ico began to break up on tho Neva on the 1-lth inst . The fact was announced to tho inhabitants by " saluto of guns lircd atsunriso and sunset . It was cxpi'ctcd that tho navigation of'tho Gulf of Finland , will lie fully open between tho 20 th and tho 25 th inst . The second division of tho Hussion experimental squadron will loavc Cronstadt in tho early part of May . Sonio English thieves ( including a boy and a woman ) have been arrested in Puria , tried , found guilty , nnd condemned to throe , two , mid ono years' imprisonment , respectively . The boy is to be kept in a houso of correction till lii . s twentieth 3 c « r .
Tho Conferences on tho affairs of NcufohiUel M'crc resumed on Monday . Tho business of the Conferences appears now to bo over , and Dr . Kern left on Tuesday
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/4/
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