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      Young openly defies the Federal -authorities , and incites the Indians to plunder and murder all who do not belong to the Mormon community- Mormon murderers of the Gentiles are acquitted by Mormon j uries , and open rebellion is threatened . " There are also signs , " writes the Times New York correspondent , " of further troubles in Kansas . The Free State party have not decided to take part in tbe approaching elections , so that it is certain that Kansas Slave State

      will apply for atlniissiou to the Union as a . The ground upon which the Free State party justifies its neglect is that the offices are all in the bauds of those who tyrannized over them in the days of ' bleeding Kansas , ' and that they cannot expect fair dealing at their hands . The question must then come directly before the next Congress -whether Kansas shall be admitted A 3 a slave state ; and , although there will be much dis-Qassion , I apprehend there can be but one result—its admission"

      , _ . The railway riots near Baltimore have been brought to a close , but not until very serious conflicts with the military had taken place . Tbe latter were sent in large numbers by railway train ; and , as this passed along , it was fired upon by a body of the rioters stationed in the fields . The fire was returned with great effect from the windows of the train , which continued in motion ; and several of the-rioters fell , while others made off . Further on , a brass swivel was posted against the train . Here a

      very raking fire was poured in by the military , -which did not a little execution . It was intended that the military should then alight from the train , and charge the mob with fixed bayonets ; but , the eugineman having made a mistake , or purposely disregarded his orders , the train went on , and was only stopped by an obstruction some way in advance , placed there by the malcontents . Two of the soldiers were seriously injured , together with the eagineman and fireman . The riotera have since submitted .

      The western farmers are suffering from a hog distemper , caused by eating grain from which whisky has been made . It appears that in America strychnine is used in the manufacture of the spirit in question . A most singular incident in connexion with a murder at the town of Newburg is related in the papers . The dead body of a very handsome young woman was found i » a field early one morning by a labourer going to his work . It was nearly naked , and had been subjected to great violence . Three persons recognised the corpse as that of a Miss Bloom , who had been missing for some

      days ; and the sister of that young lady testilied to the same effect with the most perfect confidence on seeing the body . Identification , indeed , was not difficult , for a Bear over the left eyebrow , a sore upon the elbow , a mole above the right knee , and a very unusual formation of the little toe of the right foot , were there , and were also known by the living Miss Bloom as marks peculiar to her missing sister . The face , also , as far as could be recognised for the discolouration , was the same . The dead woman was found to have been pregnant ; and , as Miss Bloom was known to have left Newburg some

      days before with a married man named Jenkins , since which time he had not been seen , it was thought the man had a sufficient motive for getting rid of her . He was therefore arrested , but denied his guilt . The body was buried in the midst of the assembled village ; but , at the moment when the funeral train was leaving the church , there suddenly appeared the very Miss Bloom who was supposed to be murdered . The identification , after all , was at fault . On this , Jenkins was at once set free .

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      STATE OF TRADE . The trade reports of the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday show no material alteration , but the tendency in many casea has been towards a further diminution of activity . At Manchester there is considerable dulneas , priced of goods being scarcely supported , even in the luce of another advance in the raw material . The Birmingham accounts describe steadiness in the iron-market , aud a good American demand , For the general manufactures of the place there have been numerous foreign ordera , and an increase of activity ia expected from tho recent , reductions in tin aud copper . In tbe woollen districts there has been a alight revival , but great caution continues to bo exorcised . Tho Irish linen-raarketB have beau , heavy . — Times , '

      In tho general business of tho port of London there has been Borne improvement during tho mime week . This ia owing to tlu > change of wind . It is supposed that there wore more than 600 ehips weather- bound in tho Channel at tho beginning of laat wcuk . Tho number of auipa reported inward was U > 2 , boing Gl more than in tho previous week . Thoae included 51 witli cargooa of corn , Hour , rico , &c Tho number cleared outward waa 141 , including 17 in bulloat , showing an increase of G . — Idem . Mesara . Lawa and Co's Bank at Preston ban stopped payment , owing , according to an announcement posted up at tho promboa , to the- sudden death of Mr . Lawo who was in fact the aole . proprietor , and who had mudo no arrangements for carrying on tb , o concern . The bank had branches at Ormakirk aud Southport , Tho PreaCon Guardian , states , on what it considers excellent

      authority , that the depositors are not likely to suffer any loss , and that a great portion of the estate can be realized with ease , almost immediately , by the representatives of tbe deceased gentleman . The stonemasons employed at Liverpool have struck for an advance from 28 s . 6 d . to 30 s . a week in summer , and from 26 s . to 27 s . in the winter months . They complain that the rate of wages is higher in the metropolis and in Manchester , and they also plead the increased price of provisions as one reaaun why they are entitled to an advance . There is also a strike among the carpenters , who require a similar advance—from 28 s . to 3 Qs . a week . Some of the masters have given way , but there is still an almost entire cessation of work .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The Emperor , Empress , and Court , together with their royal visitors , continue to ruralise in the embowering shades of Fontainebleau ; and the Pari 3 papers treat their readers to long accounts of imperial and regal personages in their forest wanderings , and at their stag hunts , their- grand banquets , their picnics , and their other recreations . The theatre attached to the palace has been newly decorated with great splendour ; and here tbere have been performances by the actors of the Theatre-Francais .

      The Grand Duke Constantino , having departed from Fontainebleau , spent two days incognito at Paris / While there , he left his card at the Turkish Embassy . On the card were the words " The Prince Constantine , " written in his own hand and in Turkish , which he speaks well . Last Saturday evening , he left for Creuzot . Here he visited the celebrated iron-works , with which he was much interested . He was afterwards entertained at dinner by tbe proprietor . On a subsequent day , he went to Bordeaux , where he had a very enthusiastic reception .

      The expose des motifs of the bill presented on Wednesday to the Legislative Body for modifying Art . 1 of the organic decree relative to the election of deputies , assigns the following as the reasons which call for the change : ' According to the terms of the constitution , there must be one deputy for every 35 , 000 electors . In attributing , according to this provision , to each department one deputy for every 35 , 000 electors , Art . 1 of the organic decree of the 2 nd February , 1852 , states that departments in which the additional number of electors amounts to 25 , 000 shall have one deputy more . It is on these bases that the elections for the present Legislative Body , which reckons 201 members , took place . Since these elections , however , the number of electors

      has changed in several of tbe departments ; in some i t has increased , and in others diminished . Thus the departments of the Seine and of the Loire , in consequence of the augmentation of the number of their electors , have each a right to one deputy more . Nine departments , on the contrary—the Cotes-du-Nord , Gei-s , lnclreet-Loire , Piiy-do-Ddme , Haute-Saone , Sarthe , Seine-et-Marne , Sonnnc , and the Var—have had their electors diminished , and must each lose one deputy . Following , therefore , the provisions of the . organic decree , the next Legislative Body would only consist of 254 members , instead of 261 . That result , which would deprivo nine departments of a . representative , excited the attention of the Government , and it conceived that without infringing on the constitution it might by a simple modification of

      tho organic decree maintain the present state of things and even enlarge the bases . It therefore proposes to lix at 17 , 501 instead of 25 , 000 the surplus number of electors giving a right to an additional deputy . The result of this modification would be to maintain for the above-mentioned departments , with tho exception of that of tho C 6 tes-du-Nord , their present numbwot representatives It would , besides , give an additional one to the departments of the AUier , Corsica , the Loiret , and tho Meuso . Tho adoption of tho bill will therefore open tho doors of tho Legislative Body to three new deputies , and , as tbe departments of the Seine and tho Loire have a right by tho increase in the number of tlteir electors each to one deputy moro , there will in the whole bo Uvo more deputies to elect , and the number of members of the Legislative Body will be 206 instead of 261 . "

      A most atrocious murder has boon committed at the village of Olivet in the department of the Loiret . _ M . Leclmux , tho murdered man , was a retired builder , nixtyfour years of ngo , and a member of tho Municipal Council . He was paralytic , and this natural misfurtuno waa heightened by tin unnatural feud between himself and bin sun , a man of forty , relative to tho partition of fcho property loft by Madame Leehaux , who ia dead . A fow clayn ago , as tho father was getting out of hii carriage , tho son approached , angrily asked hia parent

      how ' he daral dlspoao of some timber without his permission , and , after some altercation , soissod the old man by tho collar . Tho latter raised his cano , but tho son dragged him into tho workuhop , whoro ho aoizod an axo , and , notwithstanding the utmost oiKorta of M . Locihnux ' a daughter , killed hia parent by repeated blows , llo then locked himself into hia room , and vary coolly bogan to ai-rungo certain mattoro of account . Tho police , having bcoi * summoned , demanded admittance . Tho munloror ropliod , " In a few mimitea ^ Hare patience : I will not

      destroy myself ; I will not do my family that honour I will die on the scaffold . " The door was presently opened , and the criminal said to the officers , " It mu « t have happened sooner or later . " He is a verv powerful man , is unmarried , and possesses an independent fortune . Murders have recently been very common in France . The session of tho Legislative Corps has been pro . longed by Imperial decree to the 28 th of May . "Ac cording to reliable reports , " says the Daily News Park correspondent , " the dissolution will probably immediately follow the closing of the session , and the electoral colleges will be convocated for the 20 th and 21 st of June . The 20 th of June fulls on a Saturday , and on

      the following day will be accomplished the general examination of the votes . " We read in the same letter- " The proposed law to make the previous sanction of the police authorities requisite for the publication of non-political journals and other light fugitive literature , is likely to be defeated , since the" Corps Legislatif appears almost unanimously opposed to it The Government , however , already resorts to indirect means for effecting the same object . For instance , the editor of the Tribotdet , being a writer whose antecedents made him not agreeable to the powers that now be , has been ordered to relinquish his connexion with the Triboulet Avith a bint that unless he did so the journal would be suppressed at the lirst opportunity . The proprietor of the journal has been advised by the police to alter its name , and it is henceforth to be entitled L& Rabelais "

      The Emperor has sent to Alexander Humboldf , through Prince Napolecm , the decoration of grand officer of the Legion of Honour . The-King of Bavaria arrived at Fontainebleau on Sunday evening . The accounts from the agricultural districts of Franco speak very highly of the line appearance of the growing crops . The apprehension of a failure in the silk crops ia passing away ; and under these cheerful prospects trade is becoming more buoyant .

      The Cour Imperial ? , aft ^ r a lung deliberation , delivered its judgment in the aftair of the Napoleon Docks on Tuesday morning . The sentence of imprisonment against MM . Cusin , Legeudre , Duchesne de Vere , aud lJerryer , as pronounced by the Tribunal of Premiere Instance , is affirmed ; but the fines to which they were condemned are reduced to 30001 " . for Cusin aud Legendre , to 2000 f . for Arthur Burryer ,. and to lOOOf . for Duoliesne de Vere . M . Orsi , who v ; as acijiiitted on the former trial , has been declared guilty of complicity on account of his participation in the n ^ reinuent with Fox and Henderson , and . has been sentenced to ihree months ' imprisonment and 100 : ' . line , and , moreover , to restore 4400 dock shares . The prisoners are condemned to the costs in different proportions .

      M . Vieillard , senator , who was tutor to the Emperors brother , died on Tuesday morning at Paris . Louis Napoleon visited him during the last days of his illneaa . The Marquis de Pas tore t , senator , also died on tho same morning . A certain number of Hungarian refugees , who have resided in Paris since lfel'J , have presented themselves at the Austrian Embassy to demand passports to return home , in consequence of the amnesty granted by tbe Emperor of Austria . M . Charles Thurneyssen , a Paris banker and sharcclealor , has absconded to America , with , debts variously stated at au amount equal to from SUU , UOO / . to 1 , 000 , 000 / . General Wrangel , Director-General of Artillery oi the Army of tho Mexican Confederation , lms just arrived in Paris , charged with a mission from hid

      Government . nmr , aiUM . Tho Belgian Government contemplates a revision oi the laws and regulations bearing on tho importation ot foreign goods into Belgium . The object id to assimilate the Belgian system as nearly as possible to that now m operation in England , under tho Customs Consolidation Act . Towards this end , tho Belgian Minister » 1 Commerce lately made application to tho English Government for such information as could , bu consistently supplied , and tho mutter was referred to lliu Commissioners oi Customs , who have shown every anxiety to ailoia aasirttunco . An official in tho CuaLoms was specially appointed to prop . uo and fill up tho various books mm documents in uso , and to report upuu the general piailivo . —Times , I'KUSSIA .

      Tho betrothal of Prince Frederick William of 1 rn » with tho Prluocaa ltuya . 1 of England is niiblwlwil m i « Jlorlin Sluttts-AHZaijtir ( official jrnwitto ) of tiumluy as piece of muni grutilyiny iiiLullitfuiiw . Tl . undiiV l ' rinco Napoleon left JLJuriin fur Dnwlou on * " " "j week . At Dresden ho wu . s received by the' Cl 0 W ' Princo of Saxony , with whom ho drwvo to 1 ihiiim ' ^ deputation from tho . lh-Ubh branch of the 1 IJviiiglical Alliance had au interview with tho " ^ monarch » u Friday vvcok . ' ^ \ ^ ^\ ° ^{ nnw , cordially recoivc . l , and wore iwlcml <> fiU % . " , "" , " ,, after which tho King talked a good clou witJ » ^ ° ' . Kngliah . A mooting of tho Alliance la to bo hold at »« ltn next September .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2194/page/6/