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no slight trouble to do away "with the sinister impression that these most probably idle rumours have made on the good Piedmontese . Upon a question by Count Balbo , on the sitting of the 27 th ultimo , the Minister of Commerce , Count Cavons , gave the most positive denial to the report of any threat having been addressed to the Government . The Minister likewise alluded to the unfavourable reports that had been spread to the disparagement of persons of the
highest rank , adding that , by this time , they had been proved to be nothing but absurd fabrications , and that no feeling remained in the country except heartfelt regret that they should , even for a moment , have found any belief . The alarm throughout Piedmont is very great , nevertheless , and not easily to be allayed , even by the welltried sincerity of the easy and benevolent King , and by the high honour and patriotism of his Prime Minister .
The Sardinian Government and Parliament , nevertheless , proceed with heart and soul in their career of reform . The bills for the abolition of primogeniture , of entails and feudal rights , have already received the royal sanction , and the journals are preparing the public mind for the discussion of the Civil Marriage Bill , to be brought before Parliament without delay . As the adoption of analogous measures in Switzerland has called forth the protests of the Papal Nuncio , the Piedmontese are looking out for a renewal of their differences with Rome . The people , most fortunately , can scarcely be said to entertain two opinions of the subject . Every Piedmontese is a very Siccardi at heart ; and the subscriptions for a monument to that minister give everywhere the most ample token of the enlightenment of
the masses on these matters . The King of Sweden has met with a rude denial of his gratulatory assertions respecting the exemption of his subjects from the revolutionary vertigo of the age . Students' riots have been enlivening the streets of Stockholm on the 18 th . The police have been beaten off the field , and the military had to be called out . Forty arrests have been made . More serious disturbances , said to be of a dangerous character , have also broken out in Norway , in the district of Stordal , above Drontheim . That district and the town of Levanger have been declared in a state of siege .
lhe Duke of Sotomayor has , it is reported , been recalled from his embassy at Paris , on account of some overstrained civilities shown to the ex-minister Narvaez in his disgrace . Courtly intrigue and favouritism is the order of the day in Spain , in sheer contempt of a free press and of constitutional forms ; and it is difficult indeed to take great interests in the affairs of a nation to which a quarter of a century of revolution has failed to communicate any except the most artificial and galvanic vitality . M . Isturitz is expected at Madrid from London on leave .
Several important changes are announced as having taken place , or being in contemplation , in the diplomatic corps . Bravo Murillo seems to have abandoned all thoughts of a dissolution of the Cortes for the present . A new concordat with the Pope has been drawn up , and is ready for signature .
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THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES IN LIVERPOOL . 7-i i T Sardinian bri f ? Ar P » entered the Queen ' s l ^ oc . k , Liverpool , on Wednesday about noon , having on board 2 G 2 of the refugees who sought shelter in lurivcy , alter the disasters that befel the Hungarian » rmy under Kossuth . Tho Arpia is from Constantinople direct , and the expenses of the voyage to this country will be defrayed by the Ottoman treasury , it Having been arranged with the authorities of Liverpool that the whole of the refugees should find a Hospitable reception there , and be provided with tht means of joining their brethren in tins United Stm .-M
u . as early u period ns possible . So great whs the interest attached to the arrival of this band of brave nen tluit as early a 8 ten o ' clock considerable numbers were attracted to the Bhores of the Mersey eager to ' iimji sight of the patriots ; and when the Arpia in" ! l ( I ° thcre wns u K «» wnl expression of In !!' ii wolcomo «» d sympathy among the many < ove 1 a 8 st " nblcd - 'i'li" deck of the vessel was « Mm ° WUl 1 tlle re ' ugot'fl in their various costumes , tJ no wearing the square red cap of Hungary , others i ' oli T 7 Itallan blouse * , ami others the significant in ,.,. i " Alno » g them ure some lino intelligent
wm i i H ° me moro fit"pl » iB 8 , whom the beholdei Hold- H H ? r Iy dlHlm old eilOU B h < lv « - tlu ; perils of an « triiiiL » e " I * ** Wlir . * , ei . h » t «« n months' captivity in n lhe ,, „ ¦ '' ri' *'» B <^ s "peak in high terms ol Turk ! l "" I" th ( T huv <) « - ' «^ . oini « H , Mlcr of tho V ( , ^ , 3 the i-ai " - ' ' r ' to h " K iven in Liverpool to aid in »< 'rii > ii « f i innd for lhL ' « - " » iK » Uion , and u Huh-Puri )« i «; . m CU «""» n « i « : < J < l for the same , laudable ami ,.,,,, ; 7 inon of lh ( i higher local influence tl n i "TrCla ! "tn" <» i »> ir ure » uid to have interested l »«« t ftmr Uiev b 0 hulf « f «» ' «*•!?«» . At a quarter uu y were received at their temporary home ,
where an excellent and substantial dinner had been prepared for them . Among the officers are General Szeredy , the leader of the Vienna Zringi Legion Major Wallinski , Captain Zsabitzky Lieutenant Sipos , &c . Not one man was absent from indisposition on the list being called . This says much for the attention bestowed on them during the voyage .
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INDIAN NEWS . The intelligence from India , by the last Overland Mail , though not of much interest in a political point of view , contains several noteworthy things . The Bombay papers contain a report of a farewell dinner given to Sir Charles Napier , which was attended by 107 gentlemen of all ranks . Sir William Yardley in the chair . The chairman having proposed the health of the guest of the evening in a highly complimentary speech , Sir Charles replied . He spoke in high terms of the bravery of the Indian army , " but called attention to the poor return which the brave soldier received for all the dangers and sufferings he endured for his country . He complained especially
of the treatment of certain officers who had done more for him , during the war in Scinde , than he had done for them , and who were now in disgrace . One was Major M'Murdo , another was Ali Meerza Acbar . The latter , who had been Sir Charles ' s moonshee through the whole campaign , did more towards the conquest of Scinde than any other thousand men , and yet he was now in Bombay , disgraced , without ever haying had a trial . He then went on to speak of what might be done with the Punjaub , now that it was under English rule . If they only acted wisely , the wealth of that rich country would come to Bombay , and soon make it a far greater place than Calcutta .
The disturbance in the Nizam ' s dominions , which he has been unable to put down without assistance , began in the following manner : —In 1849 about 200 Rohillah prisoners , taken with arms in their hands , were immured in the strong fort of Dharoor , where they have since remained . About noon on the 2 nd of January , while some sixty or seventy of the guards were outside the fort cooking their dinners , the prisoners managed to escape , set fire to the sepoys ' houses , and in the melee which ensued , the whole contrived to secure their freedom . The commander of the garrison was next laid hold of , and tortured till he ordered the whole of the troops to evacuate , leaving their arms behind them in the hands of the
insurgents , lhe country round was laid under contribution , and preparations made for a siege ; the idle stray troops throughout the country , flocking meanwhile to the post . The Rajah of' Ellichpoor had shortly before disbanded a large number of men , and from these further reinforcements were drawn . Dharoor is twenty-five miles from Mominabad , the head-quarters of the cavalry divison ; from which place large bodies of troops and several pieces of artillery have been sent . By the 25 th of January there were expected to be some 2000 men , with eight pieces of ordnance , before the fort , the whole commanded by i 3 rigadiiT Beutson , a distinguished soldier . Strong as was ihe fort , the rebels were expected to capitulate at once before a force so overpowering .
A slight skirmish took place between the Scinde horse and the Muree robbers , on the 21 th of December , in which several persons were killed . It appears that a number of mountaineers had assembled in the Murrovv valley about the 20 th of December , / or a raid on Itozan , but were deterred from their purpose by heaving of a detachment of the Scinde horse close by . Some more needy or daring than the rest made a dash on ISoordeka , from which they succeeded in carrying off some camels . The native officer in command of the detachment of Scinde Horse at Ivhumlkote hearing of this , started in pursuit on the 21 th . The track was soon found , and the robbers overtaken at a place called Sunree . The pursuit was so hot that the bootj r was abandoned , and the camels nil returned , but the gallant , natives officer , not content
with tins , pushed on to chastise the ; marauders . The party of horse had already ridden thirty miles that day without halting , and many of the horses bad fallen down from fatigue . Two horses had already dropped down through exhaustion under the commander . He mounted a third , and galloped after the fugitives , pushingsoine way into the hills . His party now consisted of two Seinde horsemen and a Beloochee guide . They were now in front of some forty of the enemy ; they charged over ground so rough that fresh horses could scarcely have acted on it , ; they were dragged from their hows and cut to pieces , but riot , before nearly half of their opponents had fallen by their hands . Tho K "' ' '» wIumc advice to withdraw in time had unfortunately been disregarded , alone escaped , severely wounded .
, The city ol" Rangoon , in JJiirinah , was almost , entirely destroyed by fire on the 2 St . h of December . A man engaged in boiling sonic ; oil , went , out to nee a Burmese ship of war just then arrived in the harbour : he forgot his charge , the oil boiled over , and the house was in a moment , in flames . The fin : spread instanil y through the Htreets , the bulk of the houses being of wood . The Catholic church , when in the midst of the ilame . s , was waved from
destruction by a sudden shift of the breeze . The buildingyard and vessels in the harbour were preserved by the wise precaution of pulling down all the sheds and other combustible structures around . Several ships were burnt to the water ' s edge . The property destroyed is valued at £ 300 , 000 . The Post-office Commissioners assembled at Calcutta , will , it is said , recommend to Government the adoption of a three-halfpenny postage all over India , instead of the present exorbitant and unequal charges , and propose that the privilege of franking be extinguished .
The trial of the Americans charged with murdering the poor man Knox at the Calcutta icehouse , has terminated in the acquittal of two of the prisoners j the lad Verry , who confessed , has been convicted , but the jury recommended him to mercy on the ground of his having been the tool of others—the others having just before been pronounced innocent . Trial by jury in India is the greatest of conceivable humbugs ; the menacquitted have since been held to trial on a charge connected with the murder . Verry is to be hanged . o-P ^ ° lera has been very P revalent in Bombay . About 2 oOO , mostly natives , are believed to have died of it ™™ m a cou P le of months ; during January close on < 5000 deaths have occurred in the island , of which 1850 have been caused by epidemic .
lhe Queen , steamer , and the Sesostris , -which arrived at Bombay lately , both ran out of coal between Aden and that port , and were obliged to burn their lower decks , their topmast 3 , spare yards , and hawseis , losing an infinitude of time on the way , their progress occasionally being under three and a half knots an hour with this expensive fuel . The Commander-in-Chief , Sir "VV . Gomm , has issued an order on the subject of debt , in which the views of Sir C . Napier are complimented and adopted . On the 30 th of November an aerolite fell at Sulkea
, near Bissumpore , about three o ' clock in the afternoon . It was accompanied by an explosion like the discharge of ordnance : it buried itself some four feet in the ground . On being extracted it was found to measure three feet by one and a half in circumference . On the 8 th of January a meteor of surpassing brilliancy was seen at Beerbhoom , about twenty minutes past nine in the morning , and full sunshine . It burst as it approached the earth , and a great block was seen to fall from its fragments towards the ground . It has not hitherto been picked up .
A slight shock of an earthquake was experienced at Calcutta , and a more severe one at Burrisaul , on the 8 th of January ; another was felt at Mooltan and Lahore while the moon was under eclipse on the 17 th . Inquiries connected with the case of the Settanee Joetabhye , at Baroda , are still in progress ; the property , which for many years was withheld from her , exceeds a million sterling in value . Of this nearly a third is said to have been squandered in bribes by the wretch Bab Nafday , who stole her child , and blackened her character till she was believed one of the most worthless of her sex . The charges have all been proved false , but such is the influence of tue money of her accuser that £ 100 a-year is all the pittance now allowed her out of an estate worth £ -50 , 000 a-year—to be kept under trustees till the heir becomes of age .
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ANOTHER KAFFIR WAIL Another Kaffir war has commenced , which threatens to be both bloody and protracted . A mass of papers from that colony down to the 8 th ot January inclusive are almost entirely filled with reports of the frightful doings of that dangerous tribe It appears that in the hostilities between them and the colonial troops , the latter suffered considerable lows . Sir II . Smith , the Governor-General , had a narrow escape at Fort Cox , the Kaffirs having completely hemmed him in , from which precarious situation he was only able to extricate himself by a cool and determined effort to force his passage , which he
fortunately accomplished without t-ustaining the least pcrHonal injury , though showers of shot fell around him during his hazardous enterprise . During Sir H . Smith ' s unwilling detention all communication was cut ; off between him and the other parts of the colony , which induced Colonel Somerset to attempt his release . For this purpose he despatched troops in different directions , but they had scarcely commenced their march when they found themselves opposed by a considerable number of Kaffirs , who were speedily reinforced ; when the critical Hituation in which Colonel Somerset was placed induced him to give orders for his troops to retire . In complying with them ; instructions , however , they were feroiiouHly attacked by the enemy , and the struggle became exceedingly severe , every inch of ground
being stoutl y contented . Colonel Mackirinon also had to encounter a strong fire ; from the rebels , while puNsing through a narrow gorge of the Kei . skamma , in hiH search after the chief Sandilli . The affair was blood } ' on both sides , and though the Ivaflirs wen ; defeated with great loss , on our side there were 18 men killed , and a large number wounded . On the same day , fourteen men of the -l . 'frd Regiment , three of whom had been sent on escort duty and the others despatched in quest ,, of them , were waylaid and murdered . Fort White was also attacked , and all the cattle collected by the contractor for the troops were carried off . Several wagons , it wim reported , had been captured by tho Ivaflirs ; and large numbers of cattle bad been swept , off" by them , some from within a mile and » half of Graham ' s Town . On the following morninir it was found that tho
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March 8 , 1851 . ] C !) £ 3 LfaiT £ t \ 217
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1851, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1873/page/5/
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