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No. ' 449, October 30, 1858.1 THE X, E A...
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WEST INDIES. CUBA. In the explosion at H...
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MEXICO. We have received Mexican news vi...
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ABYSSINIA. A Paris journal, the Moniteur...
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TAHITI. Tub ManUeur Tohitien publishos a...
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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE —.—? . . ¦ ¦
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No. ' 449, October 30, 1858.1 The X, E A...
No . ' , October 30 , 1858 . 1 THE X , E A P E B . 1153
West Indies. Cuba. In The Explosion At H...
WEST INDIES . CUBA . In the explosion at Havanna on the 29 th ult . the loss of lives was 112 , and 128 wounded ; loss of property over 1 , 000 , 000 dols . = JAMAICA . Advices are to the 6 th inst . The inhabitants were much pleased with the arrangement by which the Panama steamers are to touch at Kingston monthly . The weather was fine , with moderate rains . GUADALOUFE AND MARTIXIQCB . From the French islands we learn that Guadaloupe had received a large accession of labourer ? , comprising 700 Africans and 750 Asiatics . The sugar crop of the current year in Martinique was estimated at 55 , 000 hogsheads .
Mexico. We Have Received Mexican News Vi...
MEXICO . We have received Mexican news via Havanna . The steamer had arrived at that port from Vera Cruz on the 3 rd inst . A courier arrived there that morning from the city of Mexico , stating that Vidaurri had been defeated by General Miramon , near St . Louie , and that the General had captured a thousand prisoners and several pieces of artillery . At eight o ' clock the same morning a courier arrived at Vera Cruz , stating that "Vidaurri had defeated Miramon , and that the latter had blown out his brains in despair .
From Tampico we learn that Governor Garza had levied a contribution on all foreigners to the amount of 100 , 000 dollars . On failing to raise the sum , he imprisoned a number of Spaniards and Americans for thirty-eight hours , allowing them nothing to eat or drink . They were finally released on a promise to pay the amount , and a number fled to the nearest station . The Spanish Consul took refuge in a Spanish vessel of war at Tampico , while his family went on board the Solent , and were landed at Havanna . Some important despatches are on their way to Washington from the Spanish Consul , and the American Minister would sail from "Vera Cruz , on the 18 th , for the United States . . ; . On the way from the city of Blexico the diligence was attacked by robbers ; three of them were shot by the diligence party , who escaped uninjured .
Intelligence received by . the Arago confirms the rumour of the defeat of Vidaurri liy Miramon , and other battles on a smaller scale had occurred , but the results were doubtful .
Abyssinia. A Paris Journal, The Moniteur...
ABYSSINIA . A Paris journal , the Moniteur defArmae , publishes the following information relative to Abyssinia : — "A war has just been commenced between the followers of Ilas-Ubie , King of Tigre ' , and the celebrated Kasai , who has proclaimed himself Emperor , under the title of Theodore I ., and whose dominions comprise Amhara and the entire south division of Abyssinia . A letter from Alexandria gives some details respecting the army of this Prince , of which the organisation is remarkable for that country . The army consists of 30 , 000 men , and is formed into three divisions , of which two are infantry and one cavalry . The latter is commanded by a former noncommissioned officer of the Chasseurs d'Afrique . The troops are all armed with muskets , of which a third have percussion locks . The artillery is composed of
twelve field-pieces well appointed . It is commanded by an Italian , who was formerly a captain in the Neapolitan army . The troops are formed into regiments , battalions , and companies , and they manoeuvre well . The Emperor Theodore occupies himself much with his army : lip is possessed of great natural talents , and owes nil his success to hjs own exertions . This sovereign professes a great respect for the memory of the first Napoleon . Ho has had the history of his reign translated in the Abyssinian language and read in the public schools , which are numerous in his dominions . The Emperor Theodore ia to commence hia campaign next month . If ho succeeds ho will unite the kingdoms of Tigrc nnd Selioa with the Amhara , and he will thus constitute a vast state as important as the ancient Abyssinian empire , of which Strabo has left us a description , "
Tahiti. Tub Manueur Tohitien Publishos A...
TAHITI . Tub ManUeur Tohitien publishos an account of the opening of the native Legislative Assembly at Tahiti on the 12 th of July . Tho French Commissioner , with hia Staff , accompanied Queen Poninro to tho Protestant Church , where tho ceremony took place . Tho Queen nnd tho Imperial Commissioner woro received by a deputation of twenty deputies , and headed by tho Regent Paraita . Tho Kov . A . Simpson , a Protestant minister , delivered tho usual prayer , and a hymn was sung by tho children of tho charity schools . Tho Queen ' s speech mentioned that her son , ' Jolnvillc , " had boon entrusted by her to tho Imperial Commissioner for tho purposo of being oduoatod in the French lays and language . Tho Imperial Commissioner afterwards nddrossou tho Asnombly m . n Jojig Bpoech , In which lie pointed out all tho improvements which had taken place since tho last session , nnd drew a very flattering picture of the prosperous state of the country .
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EBANCE . { From our own Correspondent . } Pajbis , Thursday , 6 j p . m . " Amon'g independent and intelligent men there is but one opinion as to the conduct of the respective Governments of Portugal , France , and England in the matter of the Charles-et-Georges , that is to say , the revival of the slave trade by France . The behaviour of the , first has been , under circumstances of great difficulty , courageous and dignified , that of the seqond the overpowering of a
hectoring bully , and that of the third none of these things . Rarely has so great a slight been offered to Great Britain as on this occasion , and with the best intentions towards Lord Derby ' s Ministry , it cannot fail to be regretted that the conduct of Foreign Affairs should have fallen into the hands of a gentleman who esteems a French alliance aboye all things , even above honour and a loyal observance of treaties . When the conduct of Canning , under similar circumstances , is contrasted with that of those who pretend to follow bis policy , it will be seen at what a long way off they do follow .
Those who bear no love to England , and their name is legion here , do not attempt to conceal the fact that the despatch of two vessels of war to the Tagus and the peremptory conduct towards Portugal were intended to show the world what a little store is now set upon the English alliance , and how completely subservient are English statesmen to the Imperial Government . No one denies , except those " unfortunates" who are hired to do so , that the French Government is now reviving the slave-trade in a disguised form . And it is boasted that , although England has spent twenty millions sterling , and covers the ocean with her cruisers , yet the French colonies skallbe supplied with workers—whether they be called slaves or immigrants is of no moment .
The Jlloniteur , in answer to an article in the Times which has stung the Government to the quick , and proved that the English people are not participators in the cowardly abandonment of their most ancient ally , comes out this , morning '* with ' , an article in which the [• roofs of guilt arei suppressed in the most barefaced manner possible . "What was true the official paper suppresses , what is false it prints . It would not be profitable , but simply nauseating , to wade through the string of falsehoods . Nothing is said about the immigrants coming on board with theirTirms tied behind their backs , nothing of the admissions of the Government Com- , missary , but this impudent conclusion—" The Charles-et-Georges had been carried to Lisbon to be there judged
in appeal before a higher jurisdiction . The Government of the Emperor , who from the commencement neglected no effort to enlighten that of his most faithful Majesty on the true character of this affair , hoped that the Cabinet of Lisbon , after having examined all the circumstances of the arrest , and the documents relative to the proceedings at Mozambique , would be anxious to recognise the irregularities of the proceedings adopted by the Governor-General of that colony towards a vessel which the suspicion of being engaged in the slave trado could not even reach . (!) This hope was at first deceived ; but the Portuguese Government , brought back by a more attentive examination to more exact application , has given way to the first representations of the
Government pf the Emperor , A determination to conform to equity , in causing to disappear all traco of misiutelHgence between the two countries , will have for effect , we do not doubt , to restore to their relations the cordial character they had before this regrettable incident . " Tlio Portuguese Government lias been compelled by the abandonment of her oldest ally—Grunt Britain—to restore a slaver nnd her captain to liberty , and to pay an indemnity for having taken them in pursuance of the treaty with Great Britain , It must not bo forgotten that this slaver wua enpturod in pursuance of
stipulations made with England to prevent the slave-trade . For the loyal fulfilment of this engagement Portugal has suffered outrage , and ia to bo compelled to pay . There may be no wish to forestal the account which the nation will ask from Lord Derby ' s Ministry , but Englishmen cannot fail to remember that there was a timo when , if two French men-of-war hud dared to take a ship out of Portuguese water , a British fleet would have boon sent to Toulon to carry tho captured n \\ d the captors to the Tagus . But from Chatham to Malnu ' . ibury there is a falling oft' indeed !
l ' robably your readers arc wearied ero this with discussions relative to the fraudulent Ixiptium and scandalous abduction of tho Jewish prodigy , young Mortaru . Tho ovont , it is believed , Is prcgniuit with much greater importance than may appear nt first night . When tho ( iivjt account wan published , a typographical error , held to bo intontioniuly committed by sumo malicious priii * tor ' s devil , subntltut ^ tl an *' o" for tho " u" hi the second syllable of tho immo , and people read in " Mortora " mart aux r < tta—an ominous signification that tho affair would / prove a death-bjow to tho Ultramontnnoa—rat * d'Jglitte , as they arc familiarly called occasionally—and put a stop for ovar to their burrowing and undermining
of the foundations of society . The mercantile speculations of a former Pope in indulgences separated England and Northern Europe from Rome ; and there would be nothing surprising if the blunders of his successor in . trampling upon the laws of nature , the setting at naught the authority of fathers over their offspring , the impudent concoction of ' miracles ^ and the insolent charlatanism of Ultramontanes should cut off France from the diseased system which has its centre in the city of Seven Hills . I do not mean to say that we may shortly look for the wholesale conversion of France to Protestantism , although I conscientiously believe that were its ministers free to preach the Gospel , its growth and development would be rapid beyond all measure ; but it is evident to
all men not blinded by fanaticism that the French Catholic or Gallican Church will become separated more and more from that of Rome , and this separation would be hailed with delight by the great majority of the population . It suits the purpose of the present Qovernment to flatter the Ultramontanes , and to affect great devotedness for the Holy See , for the sake of the support it receives in return . The priests are looked upon as useful auxiliaries in maintaining order , and hence they are courted and encouraged in their inroads upon liberty ; but the people , including all classes of society , are heartily sick of their prurient curiosity in confession , and of their tyranny . The chief evils of which the populations complain , and with just cause , are auricular
confession and the forced celibacy of the priesthood . The first is held to be often made the means of gratifying nasty passions , so filthy as to be nameless , and workmen believe the confessional to be no better than the Lion ' s Mouth in Venice . There is scarcely a married man or father of a family who would not look upon the abolition of enforced celibacy as a benefit to humanity , for although marriage may be prohibited , the gratification of sensual passions is indulged in , as the records of police-courts would abundantly prove were not . these trials invariably held with closed doors—a huis-clos . No Frenchman irhagines that being debarred from marriage enforces continence among the priesthood , and a story is related of a country cure who , in pronouncing a funeral
oratiori Jjyer his housekeeper , said , " C ' e ' tait une excellente femnie , mes ties chers frbres ; pendant vingt ans elle a demeure' dans ma rnaison , et ejle ne m ' a jamais fait d ' enfans !" . Eighteen months ago , a gentleman , recently married at Renries , remarked in his wife a gradual estrangement and an attempt to return to a state of " celibacy , for so it must be called for lack of a better expression . He questioned his wife , and at last ascertained , amid tears and earnest supplications for absolute silence , that her confessor had represented the marriage state to next door to sin , and had recommended her to observe n strict continence towards her husband , as far as possible , which would render her acceptable before Providence . The husband was indignant , for he was fondly attached to his wife , and determined not to tolerate such a nnsly interference in his household , He waited next da \ for the cure crossing the public
phice , and , accosting him hat in hand , held language to the following effect : — " Sir , I have been informed of your dirty insinuations to my wife . If you dare ever again to pry into what passes in my bedchamber I will wait for you , not here , but as you leave the church , and bufiet you on the check ; nor shall I hesitate to tell aloud -wherefore I do so . " With the public mind brought into tho stiito of discontent which actually and universally exists , it may be easily imagined what an effect has been produced by the rnpo of Mortara . Government officials term it a most untoward event—one which must evidently plnce the French Government in the position either of Antagonist or of accomplice of Roman tyranny . Sincuro and conscientious Roman Catholics do not hesitate to assert that the conduct of the Papal authorities is diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Fathers of their Church . And as it would be most unfair to allow it to be supposed that so numerous a class of Christians approve of forcible conversion—the doctrine compelfe intrare—much less child-stealing , perhaps you will make room for tho following extract from a letter on tho subject , written by one of the most learned in canon law , and as fervent a Catholic as over lived : —" I am curious to see how M . Louis Vouillor , that famous champion of Ultramontane doctrines , will manugo to refute St . Thomas , the angelic doctor ; Pontnn , iloutor in utroque and Penitentiary of Paris j Bancel , celebrated commentator of St . Thomas ; Jacques do Suinte-Beuve , who , seeing his great learning and tho holincsH of hia life , was the oracle of bishops , chapters , cui ' iia , princes , and magistrates ; tho Sacred Congregation of Cardinals , having for mission to interpret tho $ acrosnnctiini Council of Trent ; tho docree of these sacred interpreters , and tho solemn approval given t'horoto by Pope Innocent X ., tho greatest Jotm ' t of all , ho ovun who has bpqn for evor roiulural so celebrated by his bull against tlio prutuiulod Five Propositions of Jonaonlim- lo do so , M . Veuillot must make himself more Papist than the Popo , and tho Holy College more Jesuitical than the GQiurnl Aqulviva , or tho General Wool , and ftgreater inquisitor than tho inquisitor Grillunuus , in the JJlatiommh'o c / w Cat da Con *<; icnoo , by Pontas , Doctor in Theology / Penitentiary of tlio . Oliwroh In Pa rls ( 8 voIh . folio , Pari ., 1711 ) , vol . i . p . 871 , it if stated : ' Case 21 . ~ -Mac \> uI , nrlost-inlaulouuiy in the kingdom
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30101858/page/9/
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