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¦ whether the terrible visitation trill afflict them , or be checked in its career . . . New York is swarming with desperadoes , driven out of California by the Vigilance Committee ; and many outrages have been the result of this disreputable importation . ' , . ¦ 7 Of the Ainerican harvest ¥ e read in the Jsew xor / c Journal of Commerce .- — The returns from the wheat harvest of the United States are now complete , and it is settled that the crop is of most excellent quality , and , if not the largest ever gathered since the settlement of the Country , is at least above the average , and will yi eld a large surplus beyond the supply of our domestic wants . " A convention has been entered into between Mexico and Spain , amicably adjusting their differences withi respect to the question of the Spanish fund .
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THE ORIENT . INDIA . ' Some more detailed items of news from the East have been received by the regular mails since the telegraphic despatches published last ' weeK . The -Times Calcutta correspondent furnishes the particulars of a disagreement which we have had Avith the Court of Ava , and which nearly led to a serious collision .: — " A Burmese prince recently took « refuge in Rangoon . He had been , he said , in danger of his life , and consequently demanded Britisli protection- For some months , he resided quietly enougli at Rangoon , payiug- his own way , and interfering with nobody- On the 28 th of June , he was found dead , hacked to pieces . One of his servants , when closely examined , confessed that he had assisted in the murder . It was perpetrated by a man . named Nga-pya , an aidede-camp , or personal favourite of the heir apparent to the throne of Avar Nga-pya was arrested , but the servant , when in the box , denied his own voluntary
and leave the . Persians in possession of Herat , if he docs not receive aid from the Anglo-Indian Government . The allegation that an order has been issued by the Government , forbidding the commencement of all public works costing more than a thousand pounds— -an assertion which has been denied in several places— -is no-w confirmed by the publication in the Madras Government Gazette of the order in question . It is said that the publication was sanctioned by mistake . The King of Oude remains iu the neighbourhood of
Calcuttastatement , and the ruffian was acquitted . The approver was placed on his trial for perjury , and sivore roundly that his original statement was-correct . Of course , even in despotic India , a man once acquitted is held guiltless , but there exists little doubt of the facts . . No one save the heir apparent had any motive for such a . deed . " In Ms original statement , the approver said that he was induced to join the plot by hopes held oat by Ngapya that a high appointment would be conferred upon him hy the king ' s brother ; but he denied that he heard Nga-pya . say by whose order it was that he was about to kill iae prince . The Europeans in Rangoon , and tlie members of the Government themselves , are very indignant a . t the occurrence ; but , there being no positive proof that the Burmese heir apparent was -the instigator of the murder , it is impossible to take any steps against him .
An important reform has been introduced into the Bengal army , with reference to the Sepoys . Formerly they -were only bound to ' march' wherever they might be ordered ; they could not be compelled to proceed by sea . Taking advantage of this quibble , they caused great inconvenience at the outbreak of the liuxineso yar by refusing to go by sea to the place of hostilities . By the new system , the power of refusal is to remain intact with those men already enlisted ; but all new recruits must promise distinctly to serve beyond sea , if ordered . It seems that there is a superstition to the effect that a Hindoo who crosses the Indus loses caste ; bat this , no doubt , will be speedily broken down r and ) tho Bengal native army may then be employed , if need bo , for foreign conquest .
The bill for permitting the re-marriage of widows , " aays the writer from whom , we have already quoted , " ¦ ha * received the Governor - General ' s assent . So far aa one can , judge , it is popular . Three , Brahmin fa nulioa are , I hear , about to give their widowTid daughters in marriage- I asked an old priest what he thought of the law . He Looked round to see that nQbody was : listening , and said , If I speak from niy soul v it is a > good law ; if I speak with my mouth , it ia an infamous piece of tyranny . ' And that is very nearly the opinion of the only class , a very limited one which even pretends to disapprove . The Legislative : Council is literally beset with petitions praying fo r the abolition of polygamy- One * a moat pungent , cleax-spokau affair , baa been received front the Rajah of Nuddea . "
The- Government , has determined upon depriving , of hia hexeditary title any native nobleman who may ho guilty of a dishonourable act . This power always balonged to the Moguls , but Una never yet been exercised by the English : Government . —The monument over the remains of Mr . Von » Agnew and Lieutenutt Anderson ,-who were murdered by the garrison of Monltan in April 1 & 4 S- —acrim » which led to the annexation of the Pua-JAb—haa Jin * been finished . It ia erected on the top- of to * ******* Moultan . T intelligence from Herat does not at all illuminate * ma M » uri * j ^ h * ck has involved that placo for gome im ™ l ! £ ? f a account represents the Persians as . * ri-SiSn ^ u ^ " According to a letter h ^ lSuiSS ^ S ^ " !!^^ Ca » dahar becanse sSssks ssshs
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IRELAND . The Irish Funds—The downward movement in tlie rates of Government securities has been sensibly felt at Dublin . Though the desire to sell did not amount to a panic , there was so great a rush of sellers to the Stock Exchange on Thursday week , that Consols , Vliicli . began at 93 i T for cash ( itself a considerable decline from the prices of the preceding day ) , fell progressively to 92 } -, at which figure the market closed ; but sales were forced after'Change at 92 L Subsequently to this , however , there was some tendency to recovery . The share
¦ England by forcible means . Under all probable ebema-Btances when , in 1848 , this country was reduced by nnsgovernment to a condition more abject th&n any that it had known even in the worst period of its disastrous history , and when we were deprived of all constitutional methods of redress by the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , I thought , and I still think , that resistance was justifiable . " But , proceeds Mr . O'Brien , a little further on , " I accept our , defeat as a decree of Providence ; and if the Irish people think that we can be more happy under the Government of the Imperial Parliament than under that of a loeal Legislature , I nxn compelled to acquiesce in that preference . I acquiesce m it with the less reluctance because this country i&Doiv comparatively prosperous , and because soaie of the evils which gave occasion for discontent have been mitigate < L "
market showed a corresponding weakness : the geneTal share list of the same day was almost a blank , there being no more than three quotations . The Freeman ' s Journal mentions as one of the causes of this depression that " there had been large buying during the present account by mere speculators of stock from London , and they had put off too long arranging to carry over , and that when the account for the dealing of the past month came on for settlement , they vrere in a regular fix . Those that could buy would not , but held off , and bought onlv at their own prices . "
The Harvest . —The crops are now almost entirely gathered in , which is considered unusually early , and , owing to this remarkable celerity , the total expense in labour has been less than ordinary , though wages have been considerably higher per diern . The potato disease has spread but little ; and the supply of the national root is abundant and at cheap rates . EaiiGKA . Tio : sr . ;— One of the Galway papers , noticing the continuance of the exodus from that province , speaks of a counter tide of returning emigrants , persons-who have amassed some wealth or who have fallen into a state of ill-health . The numbers , however , are said to be merely fractional as compaTed . with the outwardbound movement .
Pbotestant Intolerance . —The Cork magistrates were engaged on Saturday in investigating a charge made against several persons for an attack on a house in which the Irish Church Missionary Society were holding a controversial meeting . The Roman Catholics wcreinvited to the meeting , but the speakers indulged in most offensive attacks upon some of their dogmas , asserting that the Roman Catholics must be much worse than asses-to believe them . Irritated at this , the Papi sts made the attack complained of . The magistrates determined on granting informations for riot and assault against faux df the offenders , and at tlie same time advised all Roman Catholics to abstain from going to such meetings , it being a- crime against their own Church to attend them , and a fruitful source of disturbances .
The Crimean Banquet . —Archbishop 31 'Hale , having been requested to contribute pecuniarily to the Crimean banquet , replies by writing a long letter to the Freeman ' s Journal , iu -which , af ter expressing full concurrence "with the proposed festivity , he- dilates on the grievances of which Irish soldiers and Irishmen generally have to complain . He concludes : —" The committee will receive sympathy and support to a large amount if , when pledging the health of tlioBe brave men , they crown it with another , which it w ill not be their fashion to forget- or disregard' —the pledge of never relaxing in their efforts until they succeed in achieving for that portion yet bereft of the enjoyment , free and easy access to thoir altara during war , and the quiet shelter of their native roof after their triumphant return . "
Murder . —Two brothers , named Lydon , arc in custody in Galway , charged with the murder of a girl to whom one of the accused was married . This man had been indicted at the last assizes for a serious offence committed on the girl ; but on the eve of tho trial he got married to her , and the judge was obliged to discharge him . H « then claimed his wife , and she went to live with him ; but she suddenly disappeared , and , after a long search , her body was discovered in the aand on the banks of Lough Corrib . Suspicion attaches to both the Lydona .
Mr . Smith O'Bribk Accepts ' titm Situation . ' — Having Toturned to his paternal seat at Cahirmoyle , in the county of Limerick , Mr . Smith O'Brien has been welcomed by an address ; from tho inhabitants of tho baronies of Rathkoale and Newcastle . In answer to this document , the cx-oxilo wrote a long letter to his sympathizers , ia which he alludes to the altered state of political feeling in Ireland , and adds : — " I am compelled to conclude that my opinions are out of date , and that Irish patriotism no longer means what it appeared tome at Tar * in the year 1848 . L . at me not be misunderstood . I never maintained , nor do I now maintain , that it ia tlie duty- of Irish patriots to seek separation from
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . TRAXCE . Napoleon III . and Louis Napoleon . —The National ( Belgian liberal journal ) and the Nord ( Belgian Russian journal ) announce that the Pays has been forbidden to continue its debate with the Sfeele , a jwopes of the woiks of Louis Napoleon . The Pays , it will be remembered , when it broke off its discourse in the middle , pretended that it could no longer argue with an uucourteous journalist . The Nord says : —" It is well understood that the actual Emperor is not obliged to . agree with the prisoner of Ham , and it is therefore indiscreet on the pait of a ministerial writer to undertake the task of . reconciling the opinions of Louis Bonaparte with the opinions of Napoleon III . "
Socialism in . Nkufchatjx . —The JVbj-d pretendi that the troops of the Confederation have just extinguished a Socialist conspiracy that was about to burst forth in Neufchatel . According to all accounts , the behaviour of the Royalists duTing their momentary ascendancy was savage in the extreme . It may now be said that there is not a person in France who has not heard and discussed the rumour that the Emperor ' s intellects have been recently giving way . There must be some truth in all this ,. espeeially as the Government papers , without alluding to this report , are very anxious to tell the public that the
Emperor the other day walked three or four miles , part of which -was along a ledge , where only one person could pass at ome , from which we are to infer that he walked without being supported . From -what I can hear , the attack is of a nervous character , and arose originally from the well-known affection of the spine . Its symptoms are a wandering of the attention and disgust at public business Extreme parties begin to talk of the tortures of conscience ; but these do not usually begirt to show themselves in the midst of so successful a enreer . Another rumour which finds belief is , that he is nursing an arm — broken by a pistol-shot .
The late visit of the Emperor and Em-press to Sau Sebastian in Spain has beeu described by a correspondent of Galiynani , who is very enthusiastic about the " thundering salute" of the thirty-six , pounders which were mounted on the battlements of the citadel after the late insurrection at Madrid , and about " the Emperor ' s simple blue frock-coat , light waistcoat , and dark trousers , " which " gave him . the air of an English gentleman , to which a regular English-bailt hat not a little contributed . " Tho writer adds : — " On landing , the Imperial party walked to the beautiful church of Santa Maria , where the Empress prayed a few momenta at tho altar , and then proceeded to the Town-house , in the Plaza Nueva . Adjourning thence' to the municipal library , their Majesties partook of refreshments in that apartment , where Lieutenant March , thus British Vice-consul here , had the honour of being presented to the Emperor . This was the only presentation , I believe , which took jplace .
A tour on the hill upon -which tho citadel and the picturesque British cemetery are situate , including an inspection of the citadel and a magnificent bird ' s-eye view of the surrounding country , concluded the Imperial visit to San Sebastian . Tho Emperor read with evident interest tho English inocription on the tombs of several officers and men belonging to the old British Auxiliary Legion , including a white marble tablet to the memory of Sir E . Fletcher and the other engineer oiRccrs who Cell in the siege of San Sebastian in 1813 , and it was remarked that his Majesty left for a moment the £ m-i press ' s arm to decipher the letters better ; Their Majesties evidently enjoyed their visit and appreciated tho welcome which they received . Tlie shadows of night were stealing over the Atlantic when tlw Newton ( -what an example the French set the English in honouring merit and genius 2 ) and the Pelican , hoisting lights at their mastheads , stood out of the bay . "
A sharp affair with tho Kabylos , in Algeria , ia thua reported by the Times Paris correspondent : — " The crops had been gathered , and were- heaped up round tho villageof Dra-el-Mizam , wlien GQOO Kabylea came down to burn them . The whole force tho French had was the native gown , ono battalion of tho 45 th Diegimeniv and a squadron of Chasseurs d'Afrique . They placed tho natives in advance , and arranged a sort of ambuscade with the regular troops . Tto Kabylesc ^ mo on furionsdyr tho ffoum retired before them , and tho pursuers suddenly found thomsolyes charged with the bayonot by the bat-
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894 THE LEiDEl . — [ No . 339 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 894, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2159/page/6/
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