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THE PEACE . The grand diplomatic consultation is fairly under sail ; but the world is kept , for the moat part , in ignorance of results . The first Conference was held on Mon day , and lasted three hours and a half . It is thought that space of time is not too long to Lave been occupied merely with preliminaries . Strict secrecy is preserved . A declaration in writing has , it is thought , been signed by the Plenipotentiaries , not to reveal directl y or indirectly what passes at the Conferences until the w hole shall be concluded ; and the French journals Lave received peremptory instructions to preserve absolute silence on the subj ects of discussion during the sitting . This is only reasonable , as the dependence of the press on the Government lends a quasi-oi&cial sanction to everything that appears in print . There was no meeting of the Congress on Wednesday ; but on Thursday the Conferences were resumed . The meetings will not take place every day . An Armistice was resolved on at the Congress on Monday . It is to exist until March 31 st ; but it is not to affect the blockade at present established or projected . It is thought doubtful that Russia will , as announced about a week ago , allow of the destruction of Nicholaieff . A cabinet courier , says a despatch from Berlin , has arrived -with directions for Count Orloff at Paris ; and it is add ed that Russ ia consents to what is demanded relative to the island of Aland
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past . Crowds collected in all the brokers' offices long before the adjournment of the board , anxious to get the first intelligence of prices and sales . The market on the following day closed heavy and quiet . Trade , on the whole , Bhows greater activity than it has recently exhibited .
American questions . It is astonishing how coldly the public receive all belligerent demonstrations on these interruptions to the even flow of British and American diplomacy . " Nevertheless , a motion has been made in the Senate by Mr . Cass for an increase of the navy ; and the Secretary-of-War -was requested to report whether any , and , if so , what additional fortifications were necessary for the defence of New York and Brooklyn Navy-yards . Mr . Marcy continues to decline receiving the credentials of Colonel French as Nicaraguau minister . The Legislature of Texas has passed a bill accepting from the Government 7 , 750 , 000 dollars in full payment of the Texan debt . The
money goes to the creditors of the State . About onehalf of the 3 , 000 , 000 dollars due to the Mexican Government , which had been advanced to Santa Anna by certain capitalists of New York , has been paid to Hargrove and Co ., and Howlandand Aspiuall . The Irish of Cincinnati have promised the Government , in the event of a war % vith England , 160 , 000 Iwsh-American bayonets . About three hundred very poverty-stricken looking persons have sailed for Punta Arenas , to join Walker in Nicaragua , without hindrance from the Government , The Alabama State Convention h as passed a resolution denying the right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery . Another message from the President on the subject of the troubles in Kansas has been issued . The town of Lawrence in that state has been regularly for tified as for a siege .
AMERICA . We may now be allowed to hope that the differences between this country and the United States will be suffered to find an amicable solution , since not only has public opinion . in England pronounced clearly against hostilities , but the latest accounts from America show less , of the war spirit than -was prevalent a month ago . " The despatches from the British Cabinet to their Minister , " says the Washington correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer , " are said to be pacific and cordial towards the United States , and to be of such a character as ought to dissipate the slightest shade of doubt that any difficulty endangering the peace of the two nations can grow out of the Central
The weathe r in America and on the Atlantic has lieen extremely severe . The Persia , from Liverpool to New York , encountered in lat . 4 < $ , long . 46 , heavy gales and fields of ice , which detained her thirty-six hours , and caused her considerable damage . Great apprehensions are felt with respect to the Pacific steam-ship . That vessel , which le ft Liverpool on tho 23 rd of January , had not arrived at New York on the 12 th of February ; and it was belwved in that city that her non-arrival was caused by the ice . Mr . Oollins has despatched the steamor Alabama , with a of
large quantity provisions and clothing on board , iu search , of tho Pacific , and for the purpose of conveying relief to other vessels presumed to be detained in the ice in the vioinity of Newfoundland . Lieutenant ttartetom , of tho United States' steamer Arcbio , has also started on a similar errand oix receipt of orders from the Secretary of the Navy . The ports of Philadelphia , Richmond , Newark , Hartford , Providence , Washington , D . O ., Portsmouth , N . H ., Baltimore Alexandria , Albany , New Haven , Amboy , and New London , were bo effectually closed with ico about tlio middle of last month , that no vosaol \ jould cither outer or clear out from thorn .
The Now York Herald mentions Mr . Buchanan ' s name as candidate for tho Presidency . Ho will not return to t # « States , but take a continental tour . Tho Now York commercial advices roporb that on tho 11 th ult . tlio oxoitomont and activity in Wallntrcot was greater than had been known for years
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IRELAND . The TrpPERAEY Bank . —The Carlow branch of the Tipperary Bank has suspended its payments , the manager having paid off all the cash , on hand up to three o ' clock on Monday week . Conversion to Rome . —Mr . John Otway Cuffe , of Missenden-house , Buckinghamshire , and St . Albany , in the County of Kilkenny ( we presume , an Englishman ) , has been received into the Romish Church by the Bishop of Birmingham . He stood for the County of Kilkenny at the last general election , on the Conservative interest . Skibbereen . —The Cork Constitution calls attention to the now flourishing state of Skibbereen , so tragically conspicuous in the famine of 1847 . The workhouse is comparatively empty , having only 556 inmates .
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THE SUICIDE OF MR . SADLEIR . The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . Sadleir , M . P ., has lead to some disclosures of a most astounding and painful kind . It will be recollected that the inquest was postponed in oi"der that certain letters which Mr . Sadleir had written to friends and relations might be produced . These were forthcoming on Monday -when the jury reassembled , and a discussion arosebetween Mr . Wakley and Mr . William T . Manning coroner of the Queen's Household and the Verge , as to whether they should be read aloud . Mr . Manning ,
on behalf of the family of the deceased , said he was instructed to offer po opposition to anything which might facilitate the fullest investigation . Mr . Wakley replied that he would take on himself the responsibility of deciding whether the letters should be read in open court or not ; and finally it was determined that they should be read with the omission of the names of persons referred to in them . The letter to Mr . Anthony Norris , the so licitor who was examined at the former stage of the inquiry , was then put in and read . It was dated on the night of the suicide , and was as follows : — " Saturday Night .
and hundreds of others ruined by my villany . " I could go through any torture as a punishment for my crimes . No torture could be too much for such crimes , but I can not live to see the tortures I inflicb upon others . "J . Sadleir . " Telegraph to , and otherwise when you read this . " Mr . Norris stated , in reply to the coroner , that Mr . Sadleir told him during their interview on the Satur d ay night that some shares had been sent up
because the seal of the court is not impressed on the document or iu wax , but on a large wafer , and attached to it . There is such an estate as the deed purports to convey to Mr- Wilkinson . "I have heard , " added the witness , " tha .- t a large suin of money was given to the deceased in my of fice on the Saturday before he died . I have not heard anything of it since . It is not a matter of which I have any personal knowledge . I cannot say who told me of that circumstance , there have been so many rumours about the matter . " The knowledge that the forgery of the name 3 would be discovered by Mr . Stevens ' s visit to Dublin seems to have liad considerable influence on Mr . Sadleir in determining tie event .
But the critical condition of the Tipperary Eank appears to have painfully occupied his mind up to the morning of Saturday . The object of his call on Mi * . Wilkinson was to ascertain whether that gentleman could suggest any plan for raising money to assist the bank . " He showed me , " said Mr . Wilkinson in his evidence , " some telegraphic me&sageshe had received from Ireland on the subject cf the wants of the bank- He had several schemes by which he thought I could assist him in raising money ; but , after going into them , I told him I could not help him , the schemes being such as I could not
recommend or adopt . He then became very excited , put his hand to his head , and exclaimed , ' Good God ! if the Tipperary Bask should fail , the fault will be entirely mine , and I shall have been the ruin of hundreds and thousands . ' He walked about the cffi . ee in a very excited state , and urged me to try and help him , because , he said , he could not live to see ths pain and ruin , inflicted on others by the cessation of the bank . The interview ended in this , that I was unable to assist him in his plans to raise money . He had not been in the habit of coming into my office for a considerable time until a few days befoi ' e his death , as we had had some difference . "
Several other letters besides the foregoing were put in and read . The punctuation , &c , of all of them & rather singular , and is here given verbatim . The annexed was addressed to Mr . Keating , M . P . : — " Dear Robert ,- —James sent me over his title deeds of Coohammiok and Kilconnel- ^ I have not used -these deeds in any way . I gave J . Gurney a letter from James , intrusted tome by him—which J . Gurney had sent to him—This letter can not be acted on by J . Gumey without my Brother ' s express authority . " John Sadleir . « R . Keating , Esq ., M . P . " 16 Feoy 56 .
" T . Uzielli has a bank bill . £ 2 , 000 on which nothing ts due . It should be at once cancelled—If on Monday the bank is to be saved £ 8 , 200 must be paid to East Kent Railway for 2 Orders £ 6 , 200 and £ 2 , 000 . — £ 2 , 500 nrust be paid in to Glyn ' to meet order at sight issued to-day at Carrick . Gurney knows the orders falling due on Tuesday . All are advised save the one for £ 6 , 200 my favour . This must be taken up on Monday not being advised—I can not live . « J . S . " That letter contained the following telegraphic message : — " Forwarded from Dublin Btation , and received at the Strand station February 16 , 1856 .
" From James Sadleir , 30 , Merrion-square ( South ) , Dublin , to John Sadleir , Esq ., MP ., Reform Club , Pall-mall , London . —All right at all the branches—only few small things refused there . If from , twenty to thirty thousand over here on Monday morning all is Bafe . " ' Mr . Keating , in answer to Mr . Manning , said he foiind , on applying to Mr . Uzielli , that nothing was due upon the draught mentioned in the letter which had just beeu read , and that that gentleman had anticipated the request to have it cancolled . The " J . Gurney " named in the letter was lately one of the firm of WiUdbason , Gurney , and Stevens .
The next letter read was another addressed to Mi " . Keating . The name of Mr . Norris was not suppressed , as that gentleman had no objection to its being made public : — " 11 , Glostev Tei-race , 16 February , 1856 . " Dear Robert—To what infamy have I come step by step—heaping crimo upon crime—and uovy I find myself tho author of numborlcas crimes of a diabolical character and tho cauao of ruin and misery and disgrace to thousands—aye to tons of thousandth " Oh how I feel for those on whom all this ruiu must fall—I could boar all punishments but I could never bow to witness tho sufferings of those on whom I have brought auch ruin—It must bo better that I should not live .
" No on « has boon privy to my crimes—they sprung froux my own cursed brain alono—I hav < Bwindlodawd deceived without tho knowledge of anj Ono—Stevens and Norris aro both innocent and hav < no knowledge of tho fabrication of doadfl and forgorio by mo and by which I have sought to go on in tU horrid hopo of retrieving . " It woa a » ad day for all when I came to London . " I can give but little aid to unravel accounts on transactions . " There aro serious questions as to my into root i tho Grand Junction and other undertakings .
to his house , and he had them , there that evening . The witness acted for Mr . Sadleir professionally with respect to one trust in which he was concerned , but was not otherwise his solicitor , Mr . Robert Keating , M . p . for Waterford , said : — " On the Saturday cf his death , I saw Mr . Sadleir on business at No . 2 , Nicholas-lane , the offices of Messrs "Wilkiusou , Gurney , and Stevens , He exhibited considerable excitement in consequence of the critical position of the Tipporavy Joint-Stock Bank . I was with him about half an hour . I did
not hoar that ho had been made aware then of any gentleman going to Dublin . I heard in -the morning that one of the firm of Wilkinson , Gurney , and Stevens was going over to Dublin ; bub I don ' t recollect that Mr , Sadleir's name was montioned in connexion with that "visit . " It appears , however , from the evidence of Mr . Josiah Wilkinson , of the firm of Wilkinson , Gurney , and Stevens , solicitors , that Mr- Sadloir had been informed that Mr . Stevens was , on that very evening , about to proceed to Dublin , with a security which Mr . Sadleir had given to Mr . Wilkinson , on ocoount of a large dqbt to him . This soourity
purported to be a deed given on iiho purchase of an estate in the Euoumborod Estates Court . It was signed by two of tho Commissioners of that Court , and by two attesting witnesses , in two parts of the deed ; but tho seouriby was nob registered , and when Mr . Wilkinson discovered tho alarming condition of tho Tipporary Bank , he determined to have it registered . On arriving at Dublin , however , Mr . Stevens found that not ono of tho signatures was gonuiuo . ( Tho statement of this faot produced a profound sensation in court . ) Tho document had a seal of the Encumbered EatatoB Court attached to it , and tho Commissioners themselves admit tho eoul to bo goxnnne . That Hoal might havo beau tranafurrod from some other genuine deod to tho npurloua ono ,
" I can not live—I have ruined too many—I could not live and see their agony—I have committed diabolical crimes unknown to any human being . They will now appear , bringing my family and others to distress—causing to all shame and grief that they should have ever known me . . " I blame no one , but attribute all to my own infamous villany , —— , , , ,
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OUE CIVILISATION .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2130/page/5/
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