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      la the general business of the Port of London during the same -week there has been little elange . The number of ships reported inward -was 154 , being 17 less than in tbe previous week . These included 10 with cargoes of sugar , 30 with , cargoes of corn , flour , rice , &c , and 4 with cargoes of tea , amounting in all to 33 , 105 packages , 15 , 511 chests of which were brought by the American ship King Fisher . The number of vessels cleared out was 85 , including 10 in ballast , showing a decrease af l . —Idem .

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      THE OBIENT . CHINA . The JkTonitetir dela Flotte ( says the Times Paiis correspondent ) contains news from China not hitherto , published . It was known at Macao that the Russian Government had obtained permission , at Pckia for their ships to enter the five ports . This fact ia considered to le extremely important . Russia has had for some years extensive commercial relations with China by land , and , according to the terms of a treaty signed in 1725 , the town of Kiachta , situate on the frontiers of the two empires , serves as a commercial entrepot . Commerce has increased , and is considerably extending itself on that point . It is impossible to give an . idea of the

      Control oa Saturday , to the effect that the Shah has accepted the terms of peace offered by England , not on account of the fall of Bushire , but on general grounds . " SIAM . The French papers contain some very glowing accounts of the reception by the Siamese court of M . de Montigny , who has been sent out from Fiance to conclude a treaty of commerce . There was much mutual astonishment ; the Siamese being wonder-struck at the portraits of the Emperor Napoleon and his Empress , and the French at the barbaric magnificence they saw around them .

      anarchy which prevails at this moment in various provinces of China . Highway robbexy is organized on a most extensive scale . The Government has neither force nor authority to suppress the highwayman . The mandarins execute a multitude of inoffensive beggars , but they are helpless against thieves . Yeh , tlie Viceroy of Canton , is one of the most abominable and cruel men in the empire . He maintained a xmtnber of mendicants of the most unfortunate description , and every time any act of violence was committed in the city , being too feeble or too great a coward to dare to arrest the assassins , he selected a dozen mendicants , whom he ordered to be decapitated , and then wrote to the emperor that a

      horrible crime had been committed , but that the authors had been arrested and punished .. It is by these repeated falsehoods that the mandarins deceive the emperor , who is never permitted to know the truth . The insurgents , with their chief , Tac-ping , are completely masters of the province of Kiang-Su . Their headquarters are at Nankin . That city may he regarded as for ever lost to the emperor , for Ms authority can never be re-established there . It was impossible to show more incapacity than the imperial generals . The insurgents have fortified the Yang-Tse-Kiaug , and the mouth of that river is closed against the Chinese fleet . By the latest accounts , Admiral Seymour was still at Canton . H " e had established himself so as not to be

      annoyed by the Tartar troops . He had been joined by the hospital-ship Minden , and had sent the Winchester and Coromandel to Hong-Kong , the Sybille to Whampoa , and the Pique and Hornet to Shanghai . He had done so at the request of the British consuls , who had demanded-them for tlie protection of British subjects . Accounts received at the close of last week , from irregular sources of information , state that Commodore Armstrong has attacked and dismantled the Barrier forts , in consequence of the Chinese wantonly firing on a man-of-war ' s boat under American colours- The price of tea has advanced , and the supplies are short everywhere . These announcements , however , -together with those which we published in our last issue , are open to some doubt .

      PERSIA , Bushire surrendered on the 9 th of December , after four hours' fire from the fleet , vithout a single casualty . Fort Rishire was captured on the previous day after a smart action . Brigadier Stopford , Colonel Malet , and Lieutenants Utterson and Warren were killed , besides about twenty rank and file . Only one officer , Captain Wood , was wounded . Karraclt was occupied on the 4 th of December . Largo reinforcements are to be sent up the Gulf . —A large mass of official correspondence from Admiral Leeke , General Stallcer , and others , has been

      published ; but these documents only give the military details of the facts above indicated . Brigadier Stopford was killed in chnrging eight hundred Persians who were entrenched near the fort . The enemy was driven out in brilliant style . Cclonel Malet was shot by a treacherous enemy whose life he had saved . Bushire was bombarded by the fleet for four hours , when the Persian batteries were nearly silenced . An opening was then made in the wall of the town , by which troops could enter ; and the plaice speedily surrendered . Bushire is declared to bo a militai'y post under British rule .

      The Morning Post of Tuesday contains the subjoined announcement in prominent type : —" Wo believe we may state that official information has xenched our Government of the probability of the Court of Teheran agreeing to our demands . TLie Turkish Minister at that capital has sent a despatch to his Government , informing tliem that , having heard of the full of Bushire , the Persian Government ' decided ' to make peace upon tho English terms . On its reaching Constantinople , this intelligence was immediately forwarded , by telegraph , by Lord Stratford , and ita authenticity may bo relied on . Wo may therefore hope for a Hpccdy settlement of tho Persian difficult } ' -. " Tho writer , however , adds , that we must not bo too sanguine . —Tho Daily News learns , " from good authority , that a telegraphic message from Lor < l Stratford do Rcdcliuo was received at tho Board of

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      IRELAND . The Bank of Ireland and the Sadlelbs . —Application was made in the Irish Court of Queeu ' s Bench , on Friday week , on the part of the Bank of Ireland , for liberty , under the thirty-fourth section of the Common Law Procedure Act , to substitute service of the summons and plaint on the defendant , Sir Matthew R . Sausse , at present a judge in Bombay , by serving the process on his sister , who resided in Hume-street , and with whom it was sworn he was in constant communication . The action was brought on foot of promissory notes for 700 ? ., of wliich Sir Mlatthew Sausse was the maker and James Sadleir the payee ; these were dated only a few days before the defendant left this country for India , -where he had been promoted to a seat on the judicial bench . The court refused to grant the required powers .

      Model FARMiNa .- —A return has just been issued , showing the last year ' s expenditure of the National Board of Education for the Encouragement of Model Farming and the Science of Agriculture generally . Some of the figures contained in it do not indicate a satisfactory state of things as regards the experiment . An Irish journal , generally favourable to the Education Board , observes : —" It appears by the returns of the past year ' s labours in rural enterprise that the Glasnevin model farm , consisting of about 180 acres , was cultivated at an expense of 5150 ? ., and that the proceeds of sale of crops only amounted to 1445 ^ ., thus involving a direct loss of 37051 . in this one instance . , . ... Leaving the chief farm on the ' model' principle , we

      find Kilkenny far up in the list of expenditure . Last year ' s outlay was 483 Z . and the income 12 i ., showing the handsome balance of 4717 . in favour of agricultural quackery . The Ulster ' model' is quite equal to the rest of its economic brethren . Last season ' s expenses were 750 ? ., and the proceeds of sale of crop and other sources of income amounted tc » the round sum total of 40 ? ., thus involving a loss of 710 ? . on the year ' s experiments . " It appears that the total outlay on the nineteen " models" was 12 , 348 ? ., and the returns 3724 ? . giving a direct loss of public money amounting to 8624 ? . The Tipperaby Bank . — In the case of Bergin v . M'Dowell , tried in the Consolidated Court , Dublin , on Tuesday , it was decided that Mr . John Scully was a shareholder of the Tipperary Bank .

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      AMERICA . Some charges of corruption have been brought in the House of Representatives against tho honesty of various of its members . They originated in the New York Times ; but , being brought before the attention of the House by one of the members , another honourable gentleman said that he knew them to be true , from personal experience . He added , that a distinct proposition , was made to him . by a member of the House of Reprcs « ntatives for a vote in favour of tbe Minnesota Land BiU , for which he was offered 1500 dollars . The House determined to investigate the matter . —A bill for reducing tbe duty on imports has been brought in by Mir . Campbell , of Ohio , who said that the committee contemplate diminishing the high schedules , and either abolishing or raising the low ones .

      , wenttowaTds him , beckoned to a negro to move out of the way , raised a gun , and fired . Burns was looking round at the moment , and received the whole charge in his face . He sank to the ground , and Stovall , advancing nearer , fired a second time , hitting his victim in the back . Burns cried out , " I ' m a dead man ! " But Stovall again advanced , drew a pistol , put it close to the head of the dying man , and fixed a third time ; then , putting the pistol to Burns ' s breast , he discharged a fourth shot , and , getting composedly into his vehicle , drove off , as Mrs . Burns and the children were rushing from the house , screaming . The accounts from Kansas continue to report dissension . Seven of the members of the Free State Legislature have been arrested , and more arrests were expected to take place . Governor Robinson has resigned .

      The Supreme Court of California has recommended the repudiation of the State debt , all but 300 , 000 dollars , on the ground that it is unconstitutional . They advise the adoption of the debt by the Legislature , " the question of repudiation to be submitted to the people . " No transfer of stock has been , made since the decision . The people , however , are " opposed to repudiation , and meetings have been held in various partB of the State to give expression to public opinion . " The war in Nicaragua , at the last advices , had come to a pause ; but a struggle between Walker and his enemies was anticipated . Walker would seem to be greatly inferior in force and equipments to his opponents , who are said to be supported by the natives . The steamer Sierra Nevada has left San Juan with a large

      number of recruits for Walker ; but , previously to her departure , an attempt was made to sink her . u It is stated , " says the New York correspondent of the Times , " that Walker had been beaten and compelled to evacuate Granada , and take refuge in the Island of Ometepe . The mode in which Walker dealt with the property of the Transit Company has created him powerful enemies here—among others , the extensive steamboat proprietor , Mr . Vanderbilt . Costa Rica has obtained a loan of 500 , 000 dollars , and a war-steamer is fitting out here , which will probably recover for the company one end of the transit route ; the aid it is understood the Costa Ricans are now receiving from New York will he likely to overbalance the recruits that have recently left to join the army of Walker . "

      Hostilities have occurred at Puget Sound , Oregon , between the United States steamer Massachusetts and the Indians , who submitted after having twenty men killed and twenty-one wounded . The steamer lost only one man . The Mexican advices still speak of revolutionary contests . Alvarez has declared his intention of supporting Comonfort ' s Government ; but the Presidential troops have been engaged at Orizaba with some insurrectionists . The latter were defeated , and lost their artillery , &c . The New York commercial advices report an improvement in monetary matter .

      The New York Board of Councillors has resolved on giving an oflicial welcome to the English officers of the Retribution , in the event of their arriving there . To this proposal there was one opponent , and one only . Tho noncontent gentleman was of opinion that it was not right to pay honour to Queen Victoria . High satisfaction is expressed by the New York papers at tho reception given to Captain Hartstein aiul his fellow-officera in England , and at tho appointment of a new Minister to Washington , who is erroneously supposed to be the Hon . C . P . Villiers . Several of tlie journals givo vent to considerable exultation At tho idea of the supposed new English representative being- a man of aristocrntieal blood , and " tlio brother of Lord Clarendon "—an indication of feeling which the New York Times rebukes ns " slightly snobbish . "

      The Governors of several of tho S tntos have been sending in their annual messages or financial statements . These indicates a general condition of prosperity . An association to promote emigration to tho Pacific lins been formed nt New York , in which city a movement is on foot to establish " a hospital for inebriates !" A murder , presenting features of more than usuul savngeness , has been perpetrated nt Slackvillc , Missouri . The proprietor of an hotel quarrollod with a Dr . Stovnll , and blows wcro exchanged . Soon afterwards , Stovall was passing by the stables in » vehicle Burns , the hotel-keeper , was in Btablos : and Stovall , getting

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The termination of the Neufchatel dispute has given rise to the annexed article , "which has appeared in the Moniteur : — " The ITeufchatel prisoners have been liberated , and are already on tho French territory . The Helvetic Government , in con « ert with the national representation of tbe country , has performed an act which does it honour , and which is in perfect keeping with the true interests of Switzerland . The Government of the Emperor had advised that measure already in September last , and had renewed its advice in a communication dated the 26 th November . Aware—in confidence—of the conciliatory intentions of King Frederick William , and knowing that tho whole question lay in the unconditional liberation of the prisoners , it found it necessary to insist on making the Federal Government understand the full bearing of the request that was made to it . If

      Switzerland refused , Franco could no longer deter the King of Prussia , whoso spirit of moderation she highly appreciated , from having recourse to arms to procure a just satisfaction for his oflewded dignity . If , on tho contrary , Switzerland complied with the counsels ot Franco , tho latter found herself engaged to make use of that concession with the Cabinet of Berlin to prevent any coercive measures , and to claim n satisfactory solution of the Neufchatel question . We therefore congratulate ourselves upon tho resolution taken by the Helvetic Confederation . She may at once fearlessly dismiss her contingents , and the Prussian Government having already announced that it is ready to commence negotiations on tho ground itself of the dispute , a final arrangement may bo hoped Cor conformable to the interests aa well as to the dignity of both parties . " It ia very evident that Switzerland will not be pleased with this oflicial emanation .

      The Court of Cassation having met for tho purpose of considering "Verger ' s appeal , the convict ' s counsel claimed a delay of ten day * from the data of tho appeal , and this was granted . In the meanwhile , the papers are " recommended" not to publish any more details respecting tho assassin . An election for a deputy for Niames , in place of M . Baragnon , took place on Thursday week . " Theofficial return . " says tho Daily Ntwt Paris correspondent , " in

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      January 31 , 1857 ] THE LEADER , 101

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1857, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2178/page/5/