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      jiauous complaints respecting the foraging of the jprses . Colonel Tulloeh . was tlien examined , He entered into several detaOs in support of the correctness of his and Sir John M'Neilf ' s report ; disavowed any personal hostility to Lord Lucan ( whom he had never seen till then ); censured Lord Lucan ' s disparaging remarks on himself and his coadjutor ; asserted that his ( Colonel Tulloch ' s ) calculations of the per c ^ ntage of deaths among the cavalry horses was rather \ mder than over the mark ; and met Lord Lucan's statement , that there was no Heavy Cavalry regiments in the Crimea in the -month of October , by quotations from the official return , which proved that several of those regiments were landed at Balaklava early in that month . Iu concludh % his evidence ,

      Colonel Tulloch stated what , in his judgment , might have been done for the relief of the horses , his suggestions herein agreeing with some which had pre- j viously been made by Colonel Griffiths . la cases where trenches , nine feet square , and almost five feet dee ]) , had been dug , the earth being thrown up so as to form an artificial wall , the horses had suffered infinitely less than the horses which were wholly exposed . Sail-cloth , also , would have formed an efficient temporary shelter . Plenty of means of obtaining it existed . Her Majesty ' s fleet lying at Kamiesch , contained many thousands of yards of sail-cloth , &c . ; and . could , anything have been easier ttra , n to apply to the naval authorities for a quantity of it to save the perishing horses ? Carpenters might , have been had from the ships , and , under such circumstances , would have been readily spared . After a short statement fronx Major Thompson , of the 5 th Dragoon Guards , the Court adjourned till Friday .

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      THE PEACE . The Opinions , of Turin ., gives what the Morning Post calls " ¦ a very fair sketch " of the terms of the Treaty of Peace . They are thus set forth : — ^ " 1 . Neutralisation of the Black Sea , in which Russia and Turkey are allowed to maintain tea armed vessels each for the defence of the coast . " 2 . ISTicholaieff to be reduced to a commercial port . " 3 . Russia accepts the eonsids of foreign ^ powers in the Black Sea and the Baltic . " 4 . Non-reconstruction of Bomarsund .

      " 5 . Russia gives up a portion of Bessarabia , including the fortress of Ismail . '' 6 . Renounces the exclusive protectorate of the Principalities . " 1 . Renounces the protectorate of the Greek subjects of the Porte . " 8 . The Danube is open to the flags of all nations . " 9 . A commission is to be sent to the Principalities to examine the state of public opinion , and the wants of the country , and to study and fix the new frontier of Bessarabia . On which subjects , a Congress will deliberate on the receipt of reports . These ( questions therefore , are all left oi ) en . "

      The Morning Post adds that " it has every reason , to believe" the correctness of this statement , and observes : —?• ' Turkey , of course , may have as large a fleet as she chooses in the Sea of Marmora and the waters of Constantinople , and may exercise it in the Mediterranean . _ It is obvious that ten vessels for each State is the minimum number of ships required in a sea of the m agnitude of the Euxu xe to prevent its coast becoming the refuge of pirates , and to secure the safety of the commerce of all nations in its waters . The presence of the Consuls of England and other Powers in the ports of Russia will bo the best guarantee that this slight armament will not be exceeded . "

      Count Buol has received instructions to remain at Paris , iu order to take part i n the deliberations upon such , details of execution as yot remain to be settled . It is said that Austria , has consented to evacuate the Danubian Principalities , after showing great unwillingness . A report from Vienna states that the Plenipotentiaries are to send a commission into tlieso provinces , to ro-orgauiso their constitution . The Congress , it is thought , will bo able to bring its labours to a close about the beginning of next weok . The text of tho Russian Emperor ' s Manifesto on the Pcaco has boon published . Wo gavo the sub-Bfcanco of tho document last week .

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      IRELAND . 9 COR 13 Fqrcieiubb by John Sadleir . —A London flofooUoc ( says tho Dublin Evening JPoat ) appeared on Jttpn , d , ay in the Regietry-ofllco with a carpet bag con-WJW » g ; a number of deeds , iu ordor that ; it should be fts , oorl ; ained . whether they had boon registered in acpQrdww ? With certificates of registry which ho pro-WfoA < J . ho deeds purported to be convoyanoce of Spates sold in tho Encumbered Estates Courts to do ^ n SaxUoir and the cortiflontos of registry , whioh ¦ 3 SS ^ f - ^ * ^ ' ? l > tlonQd books *« which tho mo-2 £ ha \ ° * £ f ??¦** » wore stored . Ono of tho EE ^ Vft * ^ ' OWgnaturo of tho Ufa Mk . Walter CUasoook , who < U « d before tho

      establishment of the Encumbered Estates Court . The other certificates purported to be in . the handwriting of Mr . Chapman , First Assistant-Registrar , and to be signed by that gentleman . On examination by Mi . Morgan O'Connell , Principal of the Registryoffice , and his assistants , it was found that no such books were in existence , and that all the deeds but one , and the entire of the certificates , were forgeries , The deed that was not forged had been originally a conveyance of a small property purchased for £ 2 , 000 ' , but the amount was changed to £ 5 , 000 . The total amount of the consideration money on the five conveyances was £ 44 , 000 ; the sum lent upon those securities was , £ 16 , 000 . Murder . —Mrs . Kelly , of Dublin , a lady whose name has been a good deal before the public in connexion with the lawsuit of " Kelly v . Theroles , " was shot on Tuesday evening while walking in tier grounds in company with her nephew . Two men dressed in petticoats and black veils , approached , told the neph « w to stand aside , and discharged their pistols afc the lady . Her death was instantaneous . The Murder of Miss Hinds . —The Cavan Special Commission for the trial of the men charged with the murder of Miss Hinds has now commenced ; but the result has not yet l > een arrived at .

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      AMERICA . Further particulars have reached England of the speech to the Senate made by Mr . Clayton on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty . He advocated a firm , but temperate , upholding of the claims of America , and proposed to continue negotiations in the hope of " bringing England to reason by argument . " In the meanwhile , however , America should arm . and fortify . " Not , however , " added Mi * . Clayton , " to make our country rival Great Britain . We should take time to do that . It is our right to do , so , war or no war . But this is the worst time we can engage in a war with Great Britain . She is armed ceep-d-pie , capable of throwing 40 , GOO troops from "the Crimea on our coast , and with the greatest naval equipment ever

      known in the history of the world , while we are almost defenceless . If Great Britain should ^ see we are resolved to enforce our rights by pursuing the doctrine laid down by Washington— ' in time of peace prepare for war' —should she see we are building up our fortifications and naval power—the people of England will compel their Government to yield its positions . Since the publication of the correspondence between Lord Clarendon and Mr . Buchanan , public opinion in England has been rapidly tending towards an acknowledgment of the justice of our construction of the treaty . " Mr . Clayton further said that the appeal must be to the English people , who would rather turn out any Ministry than fight with " such a nation as the American . "

      The debates on the Kansas election case in the Hoxise of Representatives have been brought to a close , after a discussion of ten days' duration , by the adoption of , Mr . Dunn ' s motion to appoint a committee of three" to proceed to Kansas and investigate all the facts , charges , and statements connected with the return of the rival candidates . A bill has been reported in the New York Senate to incorporate the Transatlantic Telegraph . Company , -with a capital of 11 , 000 , 000 dollars . It is stated to bo the purpose of the company to establish telegraphic communication between the continents of Europe and America , with liberty to construct any other line or lines between the points where the main trunk across the Atlantic shall touch N " orth America , or any other point in the United States that may be determined on by the company .

      In the Maritime Court at New Yorhp in a suit brought against tho British Consul to recover five hundred dollars alleged to be due to the plaintiffs for tho services rendered and moneys expended under a contract to prooure men for enlis tment in the British army , the Consul , through his counsel , pleaded tho privileges of his official position , and the Judge , sustaining the objeotion , dismissed tho case . A fearful catastrophe has ooourred to the ship John Rutlodgo , on its journey from Liverpool to Now York .

      On the 19 th or February , she encountered an iceberg , which stove a hole in her bow , and , as it was found that she was sinking , tho orow and passengers got off in the boats . Some , howover , wore loft bohind with the vessel , in which they Hank ; and , in ono of tho five boats whioh put ofF , tho thirtoon oooupimts drifted about for several days in tho ice mud stormy atmosphere , and died one by ono from ookl and starvation , until only a youth was found ulivo whon tho boat was rescued ou tho 28 th of February by the Gormania , bound from Havre to New York . Indian depredations continue nt Florida and Texas . G reat fonrs lire entertained at Now ( Means of an overflow of tho Mississippi river .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRAUCE . Opinion in France . [ From a Private * Correspondent . ] Paris , April 7 . There havo been some significant passugos in our public life of lato . You may bo interested to ol > tain a few personal impressions of tho last grand military exhibition , at which I was quite an involuntary spectator . On my way to the Champs Elyse ' , I found myself arrested on tho Pont-Royal by tho troops defiling , aud had no ohoico but to tnko my place iu ono of tho liuinorouB groups " which

      completoly fillod tho quays . With tho most cheerful resignation I stood listening to tho romarks of tho blouses , " Will you believe that I did not hear owe who appeared to regard , thnt grand parade with tho slightest enthusiasm ; not ono who breathed a xvovi about the author of the ffito ; not ono who took tho least account of that splendid melodrama in the open air ? Strange it is , but true . Other oyo-witnosHos , scattered over twenty other points , received tho snmo impression aB myselt . There waB hut a single nioniout of anything like omotlon , and that was in honour of Mobno

      tho ZouavoH , who havo become , lUcotho Gar < lo of ' 48 , the favourites of tho populace An to Vive V limpcrcur , the only timo I hoard it nhoutod nt all , in concert , was at tho defile of tho Imperial Guard , j » whoso Prrotorian mouths it moans , of course * , Vtr << . the life o / Jlff / Uivg cooks at Paris J I -. van told that oortu'U regiuxonts shouted Vive la , grucrro J instead of , tho I tra I'MmpercwI commandod by tho staff . But this 1 did not hoar mysolf . As a contrast and counterpart to tho review , tuke the athmccnt tho Academy ou Thursday last . A voriti'l'lo Orloanist demonstration . M , do 13 roglio wuh U > ' »* j Vi >' ocivod : M . Nisard was to roplytotUo now aioaduinioian .

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      than recapitulate the facts with which our readers are already acquainted . The General emphatically asserts his innocence of the charge of writing , or causing to be written , the anonymous letters reflecting on General Hall ; and he asserts that several of his friends , as well as three experienced judges of handwriting , seated before the Military Court of Inquiry their confident belief that the communications were not penned by General Cavendish , though apparently there had been an endeavour to imitate his style of "writing . The approaching Naval Eeview at Spithead . —Great preparations are being made for the grand naval spectacle which is shortly to take place . The fleet is continually augmented by new arrivals , and

      a rehearsal was gone through on Monday , under the superintendence of Vice-Admiral Sir G . yeyrnour , K . C . B ., the cominander-in-chief , on board the steamyacht Fire Queen . At half-past ten the iieet weighed in two columns , the line-of-battle ships first , frigates a nd smaller vessels following , the Commander-iu-cliief in . the Arrogant leading , the others following according to seniority . As they stood ovit from the anchorage , they presented a grand spectacle . Having run the distance marked by the two stationary vessels , Gorgon and Merlin , the weather division rounded the Gorgon or the westernmost vessel , aaid the lee division rounded the Merlin or the . leeward and easternmost vessel , and made towards Portsmouth again iu the same order as on going out , and anchored in line

      at about four . On the passage back , the steam-yachts Black Eagle and Vivid , and the steam despatch gunvessels Intrepid and Coquette , Commanders Wood and Risk , were ordered to try rate of speed in a run from ab-out three miles below the Nab ~ to Cowes ; but the superiority of the Vivid was speedily so manifest that all competition was out of the question . The gunvessels were pretty nearly equal , and kept within hah 0 a mile of each other all the distance run . One went ten and a quarter and the other ten knots , while the Vivid went twelve . The shores were crowded with spectators . The review has been postpone-d , in order to allow' time for the arrival of a still larg « r number of first-class vessels . It is now thought that it will take place about the 23 rd or 24 th .

      Admiral Sy / monds , who died frona consumption m his passage from Malta to Marseilles on Sunday week , has been buried in the Protestant cemetery of the latter town . Collision off Tarifa . —A disastrous collision has taken place between the iron-screw steam-ship Mino , of Barcelona , Captain Marquilles , while bound to Liverpool , and the English sailing transport Mindeo , which was towing the Bustler steam-tug . The Mino was going at the rate of ten knots an hour , and sank five minutes after she was struck . It is feared that about ninety persons have been drowned ,, ibo captain being one of the number .

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Oaviqwdibh and Haix CoimiovJsnsY . —Cleiioral Cavondiah publishes in tho Times of Monday a long communication with reference to tho matters in dispute between himself and General Hall . It does littlo more

      The Pacific —The English steam-ship Tartar , sent in search of the Pacific , has returned to Gahvay without obtaining any tidings of the missing vessel , although she proceeded as far as 25 deg . west , and about 55 deg . north latitude On tho 29 th \ ilt . she met with the American ship Joseph Badger , in great distress , with four feet of water iu the hold , and supplied her with provisions and with eight men to assist in navigating her .

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      342 THE LEADER . [ No . 316 , Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1856, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2136/page/6/