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s duty of a Tviae statesman to pluck the sting out such anniversaries . The 1 st and 12 tli of July , heir historical events , would have brought no reions fatal to the charities of after times if some men of after times w « re not strangers to the spirit rity . If it -were not for such recent sanguinary tions as have periodically disturbed the peace of orth of Ireland , the battle of the seventeenth v would do now but little harm . Suffer not , then , petition of tlie savage scenes of Belfast or Dolly ' s to become a just apology for endangering the ty of your Administration . * With such
conble factions—become formidable only through exs indulgence—no wise or vigorous Government fear to grapple ; and if their unhallowed spirit effectually laid , the names of the Boyne or of itn . would be as powerless in arming against each : he children of the same soil as is now the name loden in exciting to deadly conflict the peaceful era of England and Scotland . " id Egmntoun ' s Toub . —The Lord-Lieutenant , panted by several members of his household , left i on Wednesday morning by the Midland Great rn Railway for Killarney , via Athlone and Kil-5 Potato . —According to the Clonmel Chronicle , [ ght lias actually made its appearance in several in that locality , but , as often remarked , statelike these are of annual occurrence since the first ranee of the fatal scourge twelve years since , and e last seven or eight seasons there has been hapttleor no foundation for the alarm created by a olated cases « f the old disease .- —Times . nok Alfred arrived on Tuesday morning , in the alfcy yacht Black Eagle , at Queens town , from tin . On the evening of the same day , his Royal less left , and arrived at Youghal about ten o ' clock fart :. ¦; . . ¦ . - ¦ . .. . . . . ¦ ¦ " ¦ ¦ . ... ¦ - cide at Dublin . —The Rev , Dr . Sadleir , one of oior Fellows of Trinity College , and Senior Dean « year , has committed suicide by hanging himself i tree . The motive does not appear .
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THE QUEEN AT ALDEKSHOT . The Queon and Prince Consort have been making a stay at Aldershot this week . They arrived at the camp on Monday evening , and on the following day reviewed the wholo of the troops stationed there , 20 , 000 in number . The weather was fine , and additional interest was derived from the fact of the Duke of Malakhoff being present . His Excellency arrived on "Monday about an hour and a half after her Majesty . He was * received at the station by Colonel Kennedy , who attended by the express command of * the Queen ; A guard of honour was also drawn up at the station , and escorted him to the Royal Pavilion , where lie- dined with her Majesty and Prince Albert .
The review on Tuesday commenced at eleven o'clock . About an hoar before that time , tho -wind blew cold , and rain fell heavily ; but the weather afterwards cleared up , and became very fine . Tho troops brought under review consisted of three brigades of Infantry , a Cavalry brigade , two troops of Horse Artillery , and the Engineers Train , numbering in tho aggregate upwards of 22 , 000 men . The 1 st Infantry Drigado , under tho command of Major-Generul Lord W- Paulet , consisted of tho Btith Foot , the 99 th Foot , tho 2 nd Warwick Militia , tho 1 st West York Rifles , and the Limerick and Kerry Militias . The Second Brigade , commanded by Major-General Spencer , was composed of a battalion of tho Grenadier Guards , tho 5 th Foot , four companies
of the GOth Foot , the 2 nd Cheshire Militia , and tho Oxford , East Kent , and Stirling Militias . Tho Third Brigade , under Majo > r-Gcner ; il Lawrence , was formed of tho 15 th Foot , theG 7 th , tlie Ord West York , tho JLouth , Donegal , and Dublin Militias . The Cavalry Brigade , commanded by Major-General Lawrenson , consisted of the 2 nd Life Guurtln , the dth ( lloyal Irish ) Dragoons , the 4 th Light Dragoons , tlie 10 th Hussara , the 11 th Hussars , mul two battalions of tho Military Train . There were also two troops of Horse Artillery and four field batteries , commanded by Colonel Wardo ; and a battalion of Mounted Sappers , with pontoons . Tho infantry wero drawn up in the Long Valley in lines
of contiguous columns , wltlt the cavalry in tlielr rear , and tho artillery on tho rijrln and left Hanks . Shortly after eleven o ' clock , tho Queen , attended by a brilliant retinue , approached tho Long Valley from tliu Koyal Pavilion . Her Majowty was mounted on a chosnut charger , and wore a ncurk-t jacket with a CJenoral ' a sash , and a plitmo of rod : iu « J whitfl feathers in \\ ov hat . Tho inspection of tho troops IwvEiig taken place , a sham fight ensued , which tin ; ltoyal party witnessed from a commanding position on tho < cre » t of an adjoining hill . At the conclusion , they ' took up a position in the vallflv , and tho troops miircliod past . Tlie Quoeu thun lull " tliu Hold . At a later hour in tho after-
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CONTINENTAL * NOTIS . That narrow and Tinchristiau feeling is to be condemned whicEi regards -with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion of the human race but that to which itself belongs . 1 ¦ I > eI Abkoxj ) .
FRANCE . The Palace of tlie Elyse ' e , the residence of the Emperor while lie was President of the Republic , will be again occupied next winter . Extensive repairs are about to be made in the Palace - of the Tuileries which will necessitate tlie change . Prince Jerome , who passes part of the sutnnior every year at Havre , intends to take bis departure for that seaport about the 25 th . The Moniteur publishes the names of the generals who will have commands at the camp of Chalons , and announces that Marshal Canrobert will have the command-iJi-chief .
The Pays announces that the Bank of France will cease to negotiate " obligations" on account of railroad companies . It adds there only remain for distribution 75 , 000 , 000 of " obligations" necessary for the execution of the works of 1858 , and that a subscription -will be . opened for those " obligations . " French ships of war are to repair to the island of Crete , to protect , if circumstances require it , the subjects of King Otho . The Greek Government originally thought of sending a ship of war ; but the design was abandoned , as it was feared it would lead to complications with Turkey .
" The Constitutionnel , " ' says the DailyNe-ws Paris cor-., respondent , "is moved , I know not by what influences , to go against the current of recent articles in the Government press , and to defend Lord Brougham . It says it has reason to know that his lordship never uttered in the House of Lords the expressions imputed to him by all the English papers , to the ' effect . -that he was not surprised that the negroes On board the Regina Cceli had massacred all the crew but one , and that some people regretted that single exception . It speaks of Lord Brougham as a man who has lived in France long enough to love it , and who is almost a French citizen . " Baron Humboldt has written a letter to a friend ( extracts from which have been published ) strongly denouncing " the imposture called the importation of free negroes , which is only a pretext for encouraging slavehuntioff in Africa . "
The Emperor lias signified his nigh approbation of the conduct of Lieutenant Pointel , of the navy , in the affair of the Kegina Coeli , by conferring ; upon liina tho cros 3 of the Legion of Honour . The young Prince of Ou . de , Avith a numerous suite , arrived , in Paris on the morning of Friday week . A provincial paper asserts that Queen Victoria has been actually invited by the Emperor to the Cherbourg review . It is said to bavebeen determined by tho Paris Conference that there shall not merely be a common Senate for Wallachia and Moldavia , but also a common High Court of AppeaL There are to be two Hospodars , holding their powers for life . AUSTRIA . A case of sacrilege has occurred at Layba < : h , in Illyria . " Some wax tapers having been stolen from the Franciscan church , " as we read in a letter from that town , " a -watch was set , and a young woman was discovered to be the thief . By order of the ecclesiastical authorities , she was exposed at the principal entrance of tho church , fastened to the wall by a large chain , and some of the stolen property was suspended above her . A crowd assembled , hooting and insulting lier . At length , after tlie lapse of an hour , the police put an end to the disgraceful scene by carrying off tlie woman to prison . " The Austrian Government has sent orders that a copy of the statue of Napoleon I . by Cnnovn , which id at Milan , shall be offered to tlie French Government , and it is believed that it will be erected nt Paris . The official organ of the Austrian Government publishes an Imperial decree which modifies tlio pciuil procedure recently adopted . This decree , which is . applicable to all the provinces of the monarchy , with the exception of tho Lombardo-Venetian kingdom , withdniws from the cognizance of tho tribunals numerous misdemeanours , the authors of which will b « sent before the administrative authorities , and judged summarily . A Panslavist conspiracy has been discovered in a seminmry nt Lernberg , in Austrian Poland . The object was to free tho province from the yoke of Austria , and then to join a Slavonic confederation . It is suspected that the conspinitors were in corniBpotutoncQ with some of tlie Czechs in Bohemia , ami with South Slaves in and out of Austria . Several persons huvo been arrested , and somo of the students aro sent to serve in . the rniik * of tho army . itrssiA . The issue of a loan of from HO , 000 , 000 to 40 , 000 , 000 roubles , at four and a half pur uont ., repayable at par ., and to bo contracted exclusively in Uuttsin , lias juut been announced nt St . PoLci'dbiirg . It ia announced from Warsaw that tho revolt of the pcusanta in J&jthuuiu ih bupprosHi !< l . HWITZKHUANl ) . A general roviaion of tlie Constitution of Neufcliatel Is
taking place , and a most extensive franchise has just been voted . The minimum age of voters is fixed as low as nineteen , nnd they are not required to reside for more than a year in the canton in order to acquire the suffrage . Interpellations have been addressed , in the National Council of the Federal Diet , by M . Vogt , relative to the motives which led to the change in tlie Swiss representative at Paris . No explanation was given .
TURKEY . A misunderstanding has arisen between Turkey and Persia , owing to some disturbances among the Koords on the frontiers of the two empires . The Turks and the Persians both complain that their territory has been violated by the troops of the opposite power in quelling the disturbance , and Persia lias concentrated troops in the direction of the scene of the dispute ; but it is thought that nothing serious will grow out of the matter .
SPAIN' . In consequence of rer . iarks recently made in the English House of Lords by the Earl of Malniesbury , touching the conduct of Spain in connexion with the slave trade , orders have been given to the Spanish Ambassador at London ( Sefior Gonzales Bravo ) to quit his post . O'Donnell , it is reported , will dissolve the new Cortes in a vci'v sliort time .
SICIL . Y . The Criminal Court of Catania , in Sicily , on the 14 tli of June , passed sentence upon thirty persons of that province , who were accused of wishing to change the Neapolitan Government . Six of them are condemned to the galleys for lengthened periods ; in one case , that of a man named Pellegrino , the sentence is twenty-eight years * penal servitude .
GERMANY . The Hanoverian Chambers have consented that the police in the larger towns shall be a Government , instead of a municipal ; institution . The German Federal Diet has resolved to abide by the loth inst . as the last day for Denmark to answer its summons . If ho concession be tUen made , an army corps , consisting of Hanoverian and Saxon troops , will occupy the Duchy of Holstein , accompanied by civil commissioners of the Diet , who will be invested with , the administration of the country in the name of the Diet .
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AMERICA . xoitement on the subject of the outrages has now at in America , and the question appears to be set i by the explanations of the English Government , i principal Mormon elders have consented to dethemaelves into tne custody of the United States al , to await their trial on the charge of treason , ied they wwe tried by a jury in no way connected the army . A . patty of Mormons , who arrived lip Scott in a half-starving condition , represented urch as being torn by dissensions , and said they 1 to return to the United States . Sufficient intele has been received at Washington to leave no that Captain Marcy and his command have arrived np Scott in safety . The latest accounts contradict cent assertions with reapeot to the pacific disposi-> f the Mormons . all has been promulgated at Leaven worth signed my citizens , for the organization of a Vigilance rittee in that city . The public meeting held purto the call discountenanced such an organization , lopted resolutions declaring that no necessity exfor its establishment , and expressing entire cona in the authorities . Five persons have been shed" iu Texas under , circumstances of great i Washington correspondent of the New York i says that , from a source in which he can place ce , he has b « en positively assured that , under the tan Comonfort Government , or that preceding it , a rees 8 ionwns made of 89 , 000 , 000 acres of land in a to a colonizing company in the United States h&ad-quarteis are in the city of New York ; that the ia - « ras completed ; tliat the proofs ore in one of ew York Banks ; and that the Administration at ington know all about it . Sefior Roble , the : an Minister at Washington , has emphatically 1 tbifl stntemont . v York has been visited by a most fearful tornado , i , though ouly continuing for half an hour , has most destructive to property , and has killed two md . injured numerous persona . loral Walker and Colonel Anderson , the Fili-: s , have entered into their own rooynizunces in Orleans to observe tlie neutrality laws . It is said , / er , thmt the former has still his eye on Nicaragua . Bttor has left for New York . The Mobile papers hnt General * Walker mid ll « nningseii wore rel there with oxtravagant demonstrations of onthuaNew Gran-adian House of ltopresontntivos has ted without alteration tho Cass-llevoii Treaty , ; h tha Senate haa not receded from its amendments ' soxpectod , liowcvcr , that the two Houses would , int ballot , pass the treaty wi thout any material ications . e r « cont explosion on board tho Rtoainer Pcnnayl-, by which ao many lives were lost , w alleged ' been oocuaioned by tlio culpable nogligonce of the uora . —The groat yacht race at New York was doon the 25 th alt ., the Itobocoa being tho winner .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1858, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2250/page/7/
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