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ever , does not yet create so much talk as M . Poitevin ' s silly ride on an ostrich hanging to a balloon : so pleasant is it to the Republicans to see a man make a fool of h imself in a mode piquant from its novelty—so difficult is it to devise a novelty in that line . , In the United States , the refusal of the Texan Governor to comply with the decrees of the Federal Government , dwindles into insignificancy as compared with the gigantic crime imputed to a woman who has opened an asylum for foundlings , apparently to trade in the allowance paid for them , and then to murder them—a Mother Brownrigg on a Transatlantic scale .
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LORD STANLEY ON THE LAND . One of the most interesting speeches made by any member of Parliament since its breaking up , was that of Lord Stanley , at the inauguration meeting of the Bury Agricultural Society . Lord Stanley had complied with the request that he would preside on the occasion , and , in conse-S uence , there was a large attendance at the dinner , [ is speech was not very re-assuring to
Protectionists . Beginning by congratulating his audience on the spirit of improvement and on the expenditure in agricultural improvement which are going on in the neighbourhood , he expressed his confident belief , that that spirit of improvement and that expenditure would be equally beneficial to the landlord and the tenant . He was aware , he said , that some of those who would very shortly be acquainted with what he was saying , would
ask" Who is this holding out this encouragement to the farmers to lay out their capital ? Who is this indulging in these dreams of agricultural prosperity , and promising this unbounded success as the result of further expenditure , of skill , and capital ? Is this Lord Stanley , who , in the House of Lords , and elsewhere , has been avowing his belief that recent legislative measures have altogether swamped the energies of the farmer , and placed him in a situation of unparelleled difficulty , and subjected both him and the landlord in many parts of the country to distress and ruin ? "
He accepted the imputation , and attempted to clear up the apparent inconsistency in his views and conduct , by showing that his advice was intended simply for the farmers of Lancashire and those in equally favourable localities . Considerable impatience being expressed when he was assigning reasons why , in purely arable districts , it would be no longer worth while to grow wheat , his Lordship hastened to place before the Lancashire and Cheshire farmers a more agreeable picture of the future . That , he said , was not a purely agricultural , or an exclusively agricultural , district . In fact , in many parts it was not to
any great extent at all dependent for its prosperity on the price of corn . The farmers had at their doors the inestimable advantage for their produce of an almost insatiable market , with the further advantage of an almost inexhaustible supply of manure ; and , lastly , they were very far from having arrived at that expenditure of capital which , being permanently sunk in the soil , had led to an artificial fertility ; they were not yet at that state of advancement , indeed , in which they could say they had placed the soil in the condition of even its natural fertility . The noble L «» rd then wt > nt on to recommend encreased expenditure of capital on the land in the following strain : —
" Go on boldly—go on cultivating , notwithstanding the discouraging position of a « ricultural affairs generally , and improve the land . If you mean to cultivate it at all , cultivate it in an improved and scientific manner . " The Protectionist journals are greatly at a loss to know what to say about their leader . At the annual meeting of the Worcestershire Agricultural Society , the principal speakers spoke much after the same manner as Lord Stanley . Sir John Pakington exhorted the farmers to take courage and try to get the greutest possible amount of produce
from the land in the most economical manner . A very wholesome advice , but much more easily said than done . He added , however , that •• a well-considered tenant-right was due to the farmer , " and that •« an equitable adjustment of rent was necessary . " Lord Ward , the president of the association , made some remarks in the same strain , but as ho endenvoured to cheer up the farmers by telling them that a slight improvement had taken place since last year ; they indignantly repudiated the notion , and he was forced to bring his remarks on that head to a sudden close .
In Ehscx a gTeat gathering of Protectionists took place on Wednesday , at the annual dinner of the Saffron Waldcn Association , and , as was to be expected , the speeches there were very different from those at Bury and Worcester . Major Beresford made a most gloomy oration on the prospects of farming .
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AMERICAN SLAVERY . All the bills relating to slavery have passed both Houses of Congress . These bills are five in number , and all have been signed by President Fillmore , so that they are now the law of the land . Their titles are—a Bill for the Adjustment of the Boundary of Texas ; a Bill authorizing a Territorial Government for New Mexico ; another providing a Territorial Government for Utah ; a Bill in relation to the
restoration of Fugitive Slaves ; and , lastly , a Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia . In Texas , the governor has refused to sign a bill leaving the question of settling the boundary with the United States to the next election ; and it is said that the Texan Government will take the responsibility that , at any rate , Texas will receive the 10 , 000 , 000 dollars , so that all clanger of conflict seems over in that quarter for the present .
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HESSE-CASSEL . General Haynau , who was appointed commanderin-chief , in lieu of General Bauer , is now in Cassel , where he is busying himself in an anti-constitutional way . He dissolved the Civic Guard on the 4 th instant , intimating to its members to immediately surrender arms , so that by six o ' clock in the evening of that day every weapon should be in the arsenal ; but up to the Cth instant not one musket was surrendered , and the commander of that guard has declined to obey the orders of General ITnynau to give up his office , declaring that he would only yield to force .
He ( Haynau ) likewise suspended all the journals , occupied the hall of the Assembly by a detachment of troops , shut in the members of the Permanent Committee , and ordered many arrests to be made , amongst others that of the proprietor and editor of the New Uessian Gazette . The Auditorial General , on the application of the Permanent Committee , has ordered the garrison court to commence an investigation of the chatges alleged against General Haynau and those who executed his orders , in virtue << f which the said court constituted itself on the / 5 th instant for that purpose . General Haynau is said to have reported himself ill .
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A REBELLION IN CALIFORNIA . The last arrivals from , San Francisco brought abundance of gold—no less than 1 , 500 , 000 dollars , worth—but they also brought intelligence of a serious collision having taken place between the " squatters " and the proprietors who bought land from Captain Sutter under the new Helvetia grant from Mexico . The settlers portended that the grant in question did not cover this territory , that it rightfully belonged to the United States Government , and that , therefore , they ( the settlers ) had moved on it and erected buildings , claiming the usual preemption , right . A
suit was brought , and decided in favour of the claimants under Sutter ; and on proceeding to execute writs of ejectment , on the 10 th of August , the officer was met by a body of armed squatters who resisted him . Four days afterwards several persons were arrested for rebellion , in resisting the officers , and two of them were committed to the prison brig for want of bail . On the following day a body of settlers repaired to the brig to release their two companions , where they met Sheriff M ' Kinney , Mayor Bigelow , and a posse , who drove them from the ground , but no force was used until the settlers had retreated from .
the river , near the Crescent City Hotel , -when they were overtaken and turned at bay with pistols and guns . Forty or fifty shots were fired between the parties , by one of which Mayor Bigelow was shot . The leader of the rioters , Mahloney , was also shot dead . The horses of both leaders were pierced with balls . Assessor Woodland , an auctioneer , was killed while supporting the officers . Mr . Harper , Assistant P . M ., was shot in the left hand and right shoulder , and others of the same side are wounded . Several
other persons were killed and wounded , and the greatest excitement prevailed when the steamer left . From six to nine hundred of the rioters had assembled at the corner of J and Ninth streets , resolved to fire upon whoever approached them . The city is declared under martial law , and every citizen is required to enrol his name at the City Hotel . The accounts given of gold placers , vast lumps of gold worth from 2000 dollars to G 000 dollars each , are more florid and tempting than ever . At Carron's Cret-k lumps worth 19 , 000 dollars had been obtained by two men in two-and-a-half days ; one lump
weighed eleven pounds ; it was as smooth as glass , and absolutely pure ! At Feather River Dam seven men obtained 12 , 000 dollars in five days . These golden prizes are dearly won , however . In addition to the formidable riot already mentioned , there are accounts of horrid crimes in the San Francisco papers . According to the Alia California of the 15 th of August , a most horrid outrage was perpetrated on the previous night , at Wood ' s Ferry , San Joachim river . The ferry was in the charge of two men of the names of Watts , an American , and Boyce , an Englishman . On Sunday morning the tent was found deserted . Boyce ' s bed was covered with blood , and the pillow
besmeared with the brains of the murdered man . A watch and chain lying beneath the pillow was completely divided , from which circumstance it is supposed that the murder had been committed by a sharp hatchet , which had severed the skull of the deceased , pillow , and watch . The ground between the tiver and the tent was marked with traces of blood , and showed clearly that the bodies of the murdertd men had been dragged to the water ' s ed ^ c , and then thrown into the stream . At Sullivan's Creek two Mexicans entered the tent of two Americans , who at that time lay fast asleep . One awoke at the instant , but a Mexican , with a stone weighing thirty pounds , smashed his face completely in ; the other then seized his arms , but the assassins had escaped .
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WHOLESALE MURDER IN AMERICA . The New York papers contain a strange story of the arrest of a Quaker lady at Morrisoniana , in that state , on a charge of having poisoned 130 children . The lady , a Miss Shortwell , was the proprieln ss of a foundling establishment at Ford ham , whence aho removed in May last to Morrisoniana . The A ' ew York Herald relates that before she left Fordham many bodies of infants had been buried there , from her establishment , a couple of inches under the earth , and that nine were found in a single pit . Parts of these remains were carried away by hogs , and a labourer on the railway one day actually took the arm of an infant out of a pig ' s mouth , nnd restored it to the earth . It is stated that she had about forty chil-
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title of Archbishop of Westminster . The Consistory on this occasion was one of the most remarkable in modern times , from the circumstance that ten out of the fourteen cardinals chosen were foreigners , and only four Italians . A Roman Catholic correspondent of the Daily News , writing fr om Rome , on the day of the ceremony , gives the following account of it : — " This morning a Consistory was held , at which the Pope announced to the cardinals present his intention of conferring a mark of favour upon the various bishops « uj v > vAla »» a nhnsa •¦ fiaiifiofttinnj ) Vip hripflv nnfcifled . WW kw
All U , % Ji d ( K ^ O UV 0 V ^ J »•¦<•« » v »« w » v *»» a *• ^^ J The cardinals expressed their assent , and his Holiness then proceeded to publish the names and declare the formal nomination of the fourteen cardinals according to their rank and seniority . Three messengers were sent to announce the intelligence to each of the four cardinals at present in Borne , and other messengers will start in the course of a few hours to convey the news of their promotion to the cardinals residing in foreign countries . These messengers are chosen from among the noble guards of the Pope , and are followed by young prelates , whose mission to the new cardinals is of a more formal
character . " As soon as Dr . Wiseman received the notice of his elevation he placed himself , according to the usages , upon the threshold of one of the state rooms at the Palace of the Consulate where his receptions take place , to receive the congratulations of the cardinals and ambassadors , who send their attendants for the purpose . This visit , styled from its hurry the visita di calore , occupied two or three hours . Tbis afternoon each of the new cardinals will proceed with the blinds drawn to the Vatican , where his Holiness will give them the red beretta or cap , after which Cardinal Wiseman , in the name of the others , will return thanks , standing , for the honour bestowed upon
his colleagues and himself . As they leave ; the Pope s apartment they will receive from an attendant the red zucchotto or skull-cap . They will afterwards go home with the carriage darkened as before , and during the next three days they must remain always at home . This evening the cardinals , ambassadors , and nobility , Roman and foreign , present their congratulations in person to each of the new cardinals . The Bishops of Andria and Gubbio reside in the House of the Theatines , at Sant Andrea della Valle , and ladies will not be able to attend
their reception , but the cardinals who reside in the city usually request one of their own family , or some lady of rank , to receive the princesses and other ladies who may wish to be presented on the occasion . Our countrywoman , the Princess Doria , will do the honours for Cardinal Wiseman , and the Princess Massimo will receive for Cardinal Roberti . On these occasions there is generally a grand display of the diamonds of the noble Roman families , and curiosity is attracted by the brilliant jewels of the Torlonias , and the splendid heirlooms of the Doria , Borghese , Ruspigliosi , and others . "
NOMINATION OF Dll . WISEMAN AT ROME . In the Consistory of the 30 th ultimo , at Home , Pope l'ius named Dr , Wiseman cardinal , uuder the
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part of the town has been destroyed by fire , proceeding from the Holstein shells . It is stated that the Holsteiners have already lost 500 men in their attempt to carry the said town . Both the besieged and the besiegers have displayed the utmost bravery through , out the whole time . In its sitting of the 5 th instant the Chamber of Kiel has issued an address to the German People in general , vc which thanks are expressed to them for the assistance they have hitherto given in men and money , and inviting them to persevere in that noble conduct . In the same sitting the Chamber has adopted extraordinary measures to the effect of considerably increasing the number of the army , and has for that purpose voted 3 , 292 , 687 marks .
THE WAR IN THE DUCHIES . From the 29 th ultimo up to the 5 th instant , the Schleswig-IIolstein troops , amounting to about 6000 men , have daily attacked and bombarded the town of Friedrichstadt , defended by 3000 Danes , but unsuccessfully , so strong are the furtiticntions surrounding the town , and so bravely is it defended . A groat
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 12, 1850, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1856/page/2/
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