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      ' S I Uk Land. A Tiactot.Vu Luc-Rums Kuo...

      ( od to our poor and excitable population . I need not t ° ll you that , go where you will throughout this country llnorth or south , east or west—wherever you see a chapel or a place of public worship , adjacent thereto you will be suTe to find one or more public-house 3 . I have been led to make this last remark by a sad experience in the course of my long , circuit . 'duties , that a greater number of crimes of violence and blood are in this country committed on the Lord's day than on any other day of the week , and that the public-house is generally the scene or the cause of the crime . The reason is obvious . The public-house is most frequented on Sunday : Sunday is in fact , the publican ' s harvest day . . . . Cork was the first and chief scene of the meritorious and successful labours of the late benevolent Father Mathew . A terrible reaction , I am sorry to say , has taken place there , and drunkenness prevails in that county to an alarming degree . And when I say that county , let me not except other counties in Ireland . I look to my note of trials at the last Cork Assizes , and what do I find as bearing upon this particular subject ? I take five cases , almost immediately succeeding each other in the pages of my manuscript book . Of these , four were cases involving charges of murder and homicide , and the fifth was a case of dangerous assault . Some of them in volved several prisoners in one trial . There were convictions in all , and of course punishment was awarded in all ; but what I want to remark is , that these crimes were committed on a Sunday , and that they all grew out of drinking in a public-house on that day . " The Judge feared that distillation must still be allowed , but he thought it should be taxed to the utmost ; and he also advised that no intoxicating drinks should be sold at public-houses except to travellers and guests . But will the learned Judge define what a traveller is ?

      May 30, 1857.]_ T H E Ljbad E B. 511

      May 30 , 1857 . ]_ T H E LjBAD E B . 511

      The Orient. China. The Monitenr Tie La F...

      THE ORIENT . CHINA . The Monitenr tie la Flotte ( says a communication in the Times ') publishes accounts from China of the 2 nd of April , which contain some interesting details from the seat of war . Yeh , the Viceroy of the southern provinces of the empire , is at present at Sou-Tche-Ting , a large village of Kouang-Tcheou , about fifteen miles from Canton . He has fortified himself in a good position , which allows him to maintain his communications with Pekin and with the other three provinces which , with the Kouang-Tcheou , form his viceroyalty , and which are the Kouang-Si , the Kouang-Toung , and the Konei-Lin . He is . it present at the head of an army of 30 , 000 men , which he is increasing every day by means of forced levies and extraordinary taxes . A few days previously , it became known at Hong-Kong that a British ensign , two non-commissioned officers , some soldiers , and a few seamen , who had been taken prisoners by surprise on various occasions , were at Yell's headquarters , where they were suffering great distress . It was resolved to open negotiations to obtain an exchange of prisoners in their favour , and a foreign agent , who had formerly had an interview with Yeh , undertook to manage the affair . Yeh consented to receive him , but , having listened to his propositions , refused to comply with them . The next day , the first aide-de-camp of Yehi named Sinoo , said he was authorized by his master to release the prisoners on payment of a ransom of five hundred piastres each for them . The money was immediately sent from Hong-Kong , and the prisoners were delivered up without injury . It was subsequently discovered that Yeh had ijxed the sum at four hundred piastres for each prisoner , and that Sinoo had increased it in order to keep a portion for himself . An unpleasant afiuir has occurred at Foo-chow-Foo , a port on the river Min , the principal market for black tea . The Viceroy having heard that , contrary to his commands , a considerable amount of business was transacted there , sent a company of his guards to the place on a market-day , arrested , several Chinese merchants , and burnt a considerable ' quantity of merchandise belonging to the English .

      America. Tmc Amoricfin Papers Are Full O...

      AMERICA . Tmc Amoricfin papers are full of coinmonts on the rejection by the English Government of the Dallas-Clarcndou treaty wiLli respect to Central America , on account of the alterations introduced by the United States Soniito . TUo Wushinyton Union , of tho Oth inst ., says : — " Wo learn that tho Cabinet have acquired considerable in . siyht into tho motives which prompted Lord Pulinorston to rojuet tho Dallas-Clarendon treaty , lib lordship profo . ssisss only to desire certain very limited protection to tho Indians and to resident British subjects , and the nuxlilication of the treaty to that extent . This position , which ban boon Houu-ollioinlly assigned to tho London Cabinet , is by no means comprehensible by tho President and his Cabinet . Indeed , if wo consider tins asuumed attitude of Lord Clarendon since the rejection of tho treaty , it will bo impossible to comprehend what in reality in tho object of hor Majesty's Government in Central America . " Tho New York Times , on t . ho authority of a despatch from Washington of tho 12 th in / it ,, writes : —• " Nothing i « to bo done rulativu to tho Dallnn-CUareudou treaty ! . Thoro has boon no oorro . ipondoneo botweou Mr . Dallas and Lord Clarendon , but merely a

      conversation . Lord Napier has stated the grounds of ' objection , not only to the Secretary of State , but to I othiers , and in terms of the most conciliatory nature , i The Senate so altered the article of the treaty in regard 1 to the Bay Islands as to require the absolute and unconditional cession of the islands to Honduras , instead of the qualified cession which was proposed . Herein rests the whole objection . I do not think from what I learn that the Administration is disposed to go into a new tr-eaty ; there is no danger of any collision , the whole matter must rest till the next Congress meets . The Administration will not instruct Mr . Dallas to offer new propositions . " The Washington Union of the 9 th announces by authority : — " The Governments of England and France have notified to the Government of New Granada that they cannot approve its position towards the United States . Lord Clarendon has written to the British Envoy here , apprising him of the attitude of her Majesty ' s Cabinet upon this question , and we have reason to know that the contents of Lord Clarendon's despatch have been communicated to the State Department . " There has been a desperate , but unsuccessful , attempt of the convicts to escape from Singling prison . One of them was shot . After a trial of six days , Mrs . Emma Augusta Cunningham 13 urdell and Mr . Eckel have been" acquitted of the murder of Mr . Burdell , the gentleman who was so foully and so mysteriously slaughtered in the early part of the present year , under circumstances which have been related in these columns . The story remains in all its original and ghastly obscurity . The Hon . K . J . Walker , on the 11 th inst ., took the oaths as Governor of Kansas . The Washington Despatch of May 12 says that the negotiations which for some time past have been pending between the Governments of Great Britain and Honduras in reference to the Bay Islands , were concluded early in March , and that the treaty was ratified by Honduras on the 9 th of that month . The New York money market remains in a healthy condition ; but trade is not very flourishing . A report was prevalent at Carson Valley , at the last dates , to the effect that a serious dissension had arisen at Salt Lake City . It is said that Brigham Young had been compelled to flee the city to save him'self from the fury of his flock . The 'difficulty' had its origin in matters relating to the administration of the church property . From Vera Cruz we hear that the archbishop has given in his adherence to the new constitution . Some Filibusters , it is said , have taken Guaymas , in the State of Sonora . Slight symptoms of insurrection in several provinces have been . suppressed .

      Continental Notes. I'Liaxce. The Funeral...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . I'lIAXCE . The funeral of M . Vieillard , Senator , and preceptor of the Emperor's brother , took place on Friday week . It was attended by a great number of persons distinguished in letters and science ; by deputations from the Senate , the Corps Logislntif , the Council of State , the Institute , the various Ministerial departments , and tho political press ; by the Prefect of Police ; by several gentlemen representing the Emperor ' s household ; and by a battalion of infantry of the line . M . Boulny , de l ; i Meurthe , Senator , pronounced a speech over the grave . Great surprise was created , a very-short time before the setting out of the funeral , by the discovery of a document in which M . Vieillard expressly prohibited his remains being taken to any church , and ordered that they . should be carried at once from his house to tho burial-place . They were accordingly conveyed direct to Pere hi Chaise . M . d'Argoiit , the Governor of tho Bank of France , has at length resigned . Ho gave in liis resignation to the Kmpcror in person , on Friday week , and at one o'clock tlic news was communicated to tho Bank council . M . d'Argout has been Governor of the bank over sinco 1831 , except during two short periods , when , at the request of Louis Philippe , lie accepted tho portfolio of Minister of riiiiiuco . lie is now Heventy-Iive years of ago . —JJnilj Ncics Paris Corre & jioiulvnt . '" An event , " says the Courier da ( , ' unt , " which produced a groat sensation at Ninnies on Tuesday week , is the unexpected arrest , by order of tho authorities , of ISI . Chameroy , director of tlie public ; Mores . Tint measure , it is said , ' lias beun caused by the disappearance of merchandise confided to his care . As the investigation ordered has only just boon ( . 'oimm'nccd , wo refrain from saying more . " JLevassour , the great ba . ss linger of tho Opera Frnnouia , retired from the stage last week , after forty-three yoars' professional exertion , in wliidi , it i . i miicl , his vocal powers have scarcely sun ' ored any diminution . This NoufohfUel Conference mot . again on Monday at tho house of tho Minister of Foreign Allah' * . Tho treaty wart concluded and signed on Tuesday evening . It renounces , on tho part of tho King of Prussia , tho aoveroitf'Uy which ho hurt hithorto claimed over the Principality . r ho Grand Duke Constantino has boon visiting Iudrot , ¦ whom ho went over tho foundry . All tho visitors at the palace at Fontaineblenu took

      leave of the Emperor and Empress last Saturday . The Emperor and Court have since returned to Paris . The Budget was voted unanimously last Saturday by the Corps Li ' gislatif , in a house of 242 members . Paris has been visited twice lately by very violent storms of rain , thunder , and lightning . The latter occurred last Monday , when the thunder was very loud , the lightning exceedingly vivid , the rain deluging , and the wind furious as a hurricane . This- state of things lasted about half an hour . The Journal des Chemins de /" erhas received an official warning , in the person of M . Mires , the editor , and M . Devina , a contributor , for an article published on the 23 rd inst ., in which , it is alleged that the motives of the ministerial note of March 9 , and of the subsequent commercial policy of the Government , were calumniated , and an attempt was made to cast upon the Government the responsibility of the evils which may result from excessive speculation ; whereas , on the contrary , declares the Minister of the Interior , all the measures adopted have been calculated to put a restraint upon such speculation . —Daily News Paris Correspondent . The National Guard of the town of Avranches , ill Normandy , has been dissolved by au imperial decree . ITALY . The Empress of Russia arrived at Turin on the night of Friday week . The National Guard and regular troops formed the line of the procession . The Turin correspondent of the Daily News supplies a horrible picture of one of the Pope ' s prisons—a house of torture as horrible as any in the domains of the King of Naples himself . " Fort Urban , " says the writer , " is built upon a small hill in the centre of a marshy moor . It is entirely surrounded by ditches and deep wells of stagnant water , from which issue during the summer the most pestilential vapours and smells , besides breeding myriads of all sorts of insects , with which the air round , the castle is loaded . It has been used by the Government as a sort of penitentiary , but has always been looked upon as the most unwholesome in the Pope ' s dominions . At present , there are eight hundred prisoners here , of whom two hundred are detained without having been tried , and on the mere suspicion that if they were at liberty they might commit some political crime . Many of these poor creatures have been in confinement for years . " They are chained night . and day , and if any one offends the governor , he is chained to the ground , so that he can only creep about for three or ~ four paces . " Every prisoner ' s letter to his family is read by the gaolers , and very often they cut all the letter away except the address and the signature . Visits of the prisoners' relations are sometimes allowed in the presence of the governor and his gaolers , but only for a few minutes . When a prisoner is ill , no medical man can order his chains to be taken off . This must be by order of , and in the presence of , the governor . It appears the medical men arc anxious to mitigate the sufferings of the prisoners , but they not only have no power , but themselves are looked upon as suspicious characters . The poor prisoners arc so altered that even their own relations do not know them . The mortality is very great among them . Thu healthy prisoners and those with the most offensive and disgusting diseases are all huddled together ; but the air of this noisome prison is so , bad thut not the strongest constitution can bear up against it , and to this must be added that there is no provision for the common necessities of nature . Formerly the prisoners were allowed to attend the church , but this is now prevented—it is . suppo . -iod , for four of conspiracy . So here is tiie head of tlie church preventing his ¦ unfortunate prisoners from attending divine service . " Tlie Pope and Cardinal Antonelli are said to be aware of this . state of things ; yet they do nothing to prevent it . Some dav , however , tlicre will be a reckoning . The Pope arrived at Loretto on the evening of the 1-1 th inst . " The Intcnilentc of tho province , " nays the Times Neapolitan correspondent , " visited tho Bnguo of Montesarchio , and in the royal name o He red tho prisoners the choice of voluntary emigration to the Argentine terrilorv . The . oiler was not made to Poerio , the Duke , Ni . sco , Mollien , Doiio , Braica , or Pica ; but among th , oso to whom the gracious privilege was accorded was the cripple Pironti , ami the eyeless Schiavoni . All declined but . four Calabreso , whose names arc Palermo , ( jurcia , Stigliuno , and Barino . " Two Englishmen have recently visited tho ivTonte-.-inrdiio prison , with n previous bins , it is said , towards not linding matters ho bad as they had been reported . They muv tho unhappy prisoners in tho presence of all tho authorities , who discouraged tho captives from sneaking of tho past . Tho English gentlemen , on leaving , exhorted them to forgot bygones , and to hope for the future ! ForgetfuhiesM of uix years of slow and subtle torture , in defiance of justice , law , and humanity ; and hope of tho clemency of King Ferdinand ! A strange story is told by tho O / tiuiona of Turin . Chevalier lloinodei , of Pavia , was on his way to an eatato of his , situate in the province of Vogheru , Piedmont . On presenting his rmssportH at . the frontier to ( ho ^ I 1 S " trian commissary , the latter informed him ll » nl liu »«»« orders to search both his carriage and hi . t person . J . i chtivulior sprang out of ( he coach , knoeKed down n soldier who opposed him , and lied over the Hold * , touring «¦

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30051857/page/7/