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_ <~ E E 4 N' N G STAR_ • I * . LONDON. . THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1891. ALL SALets.....lleiltlay at the Beak. The Paris Papers of Sunday and' Monday have • arrived. A letter from Barcelona, of the 17th Oc tober, gives a frightful picture of the ravages which the plague continues to make in that devoted city. Dr. Marrr, one of the French physicians who went there with the benevolent object of arresting the progress of the epidemy, has fallen a victim to it: another, M. REILLY, is dangerously ill. The remaining three, MM. PARISET, Faaucots, and Ro• cuoux, had determined to withdraw to some of the' country houses in the neighbourhood, to wait till the malady has abated. The greatest embarrassment is experienced at Bar celona in consequence of the accumulation of dead bodies, with which the streets are filled. Persons cannot be prevailed on for any price to undertake the dangerous business of removing them. The funeral of Cardinal PERIGORD took place on Saturday. It was celebrated with great solemnity in the metropolitan church of Paris. Macdoval, an account of whose trial for forgery will be found in the 'preceding page, has appealed against the sentence condemning him to hard labour and pillory. He persists in asserting that he only' passed himself for his brother, who, he says, will not fail to come forward and prove his innocence. French Funds, Oct. 27, Five pa Cents. 90f. sc. We have received to-day Madrid Papers to the 18th ult. The following ate extracts: MADRID. OCTOBER 16. Excepting in a place the name of which we do not care to recollect, the parochial elections made in the Provinces show the cams spirit of order, moderation, and love of the Constitution, of which Madrid has given such a distinguished example. The elections have generally fallen on persons worthy of the public confidence, and who promise not to frustrate the hopes of the friends of the Constitutional System when the time for the district elections shall arrive. This uniformity of opinions is a fresh proof that the public spirit becomes every day more and snore consolidated. YELLOW FEVER. BARCELONA, OCTOBER la Rennin. New eases. Cured. Deaths. Oct. 6, 603 124 23 $9 -7, 621 117 21 74 •-••-• a, 643 120 14 B 4 -9, 665, of whom 111 are stated to be convalescent. The above list includes the City, Barcelonetta, and Hospital. PUERTA DE SANTA MARIA, OCTOBER 6. From the Ist to the 6th inclusive, there have died in this place, and Hospital, 39 persons ; 52 have been cured, and the number of the sick is at present 814. LEBRIJA, OCTOBER 6. This town begins to be attacked by the fever. In eight days 33 persons have been seized with it; eight have died, and two recovered, and the cases of the others are in general dangerous. Almost the whole population have gone into the country. The Alcalde and Municipality facilitate this only means of salva tion, by distributing among the people wood and reeds to build barracks. GRANADA, OCTOBER 10. The fears of the epidemic disorder diminish daily; but we do not neglect to take the necessary precautions. Ocroseit 11.--• We have received a dispatch from Malaga, and the accounts of the epidemy are very afflicting. The Junta and the Municipality have met, as it seems, to double the measures of precauti on. SARAGOSSA, OCTOBER re. The superior Board of Health has been informed by its Commissioner, Don Augustin Quinto, that the sickneis at Mequinenza is drawing to a close for wAnt of food, hardly twenty inhabitants haying remained in the town ; the great number having gone into the country ; that even should any of these latter be at tacked, no great alarm need be excited, as the fami lies are fully kept asunder, and the duty of the Cor don was strictly performed. MADRID, OCTOBER 16. The Herculena frigate, from the Havannah, has brought news of the arrival of General 011onoju at Vera Cruz, where he took the oath, and entered on his functions on the 23d of July ; on whi'ch day he published an energetic Proclamation to the Inhabi tants of New Spain, shewing the evils to which they exposed themselves, if they persisted in separating from the mother country. He aimed also a Procla. 'elation to the troops, praising their good conduct.— He set out for Mexico with a few soldiers, but was forced to return, pursued by the Insurgents to the very streets of Vera Cruz, where, after an obstinate combat, they were defeated with the loss of 1.50 men. The insurrection, however, gains ground, the Insur gents being masters of all New Spain, except Mexico, Vera Cruz, and Puebla, and we since find that they have taken the latter. If they send more troops against Vera Cruz, it must fall ; and Apodaca, it is feared, will soon be obliged to capitulate at Mexico. We have since learnt the deposition of Apodaca. The Cartes continue the debate on the Division of .-the Territory. The following Provinces have been approved, thgir Capitals bearing the same tame, et ceps where otherwise expiessed a Rioja, Capital Lcogrona ; Salamanca, Santander ; Segovia, Sevillf ; S9ria, Toledo ; Valladolid, Teruel; ,Tolosa,,Bildna ; and one or two others. The Capital of the Canaries is not )et determined. We have received, this forenoon, a file of American., 'Papers,to the 2Sd of September. The following are extracts: NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 27. Maxtco.—We yesterday announced that an armis tice for three months had been entered into by the Patriot and Royal troops in Mexico: we find, how ever, on perusing the translation of the documents l furnished by the Hasanna Noticiose Mercuric' of the Bth September, that on the 17th July a suspension of hostilities between the Royalist troops in Vera Crua and those of the Patriots besieging the place, subject to the approval or rejection_of the General-in-Chief of the Independents, had alone taken place, and that no period for its continuance or termination is stated in the article. In fact, all seems to depend on the will of th. Patriot leader. An armistice for three, months may, no doubt, have followed as a conse quence of this suspension of arms at Vera Cruz, but the Journal we have quoted snakes no mention of this event. TREATY OF CHICAGO.--(FROM rms DETROIT GAZETTE OF SEPTEMBER 7)• Thursday last, Governor Cass and Mr. Sibley, the Commissioners appointed to treat with the Indians, returned from Chicago, together.with the Gentleman who attended at the treaty. We understand that the object of the Government has been fully obtained, and that a cession bas Leen made by the Indians, an favourable terms, of all the country extending from the southern boundary oL this' country to Grand River, containing, by estimation, upwards of 5,000,Q00 of acres. Not less than 3,000 Indians attended the Council, and, during the whole progress, they con ducted themselves with propriety. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CHILI, DATED SA NTIACiO, MAT 18. ge The Malted States frigate Constellation sailed from Coquimbo on the 30th March, for Aranca, to demand of Benavides, the master and crew of the whale ship Hero, and hei provisions. A Decree has been issued that tobacco shall be a Government article, but the Decree had not yet taken effect, the Government not having funds wherewith to purchase large quantities of this article, which are expected from Peru." NEW YORK BOARD OP HEALTH, SEPTEMBER 27. There has been reported to the Board of Health, by the resident physician. two cases of malignant fever. The Board also states, that two persons wbo were taken sick were sent down to the Marine Hos pital ; both had worked on board the ship Maria, lay ing at quaran4ne, a sickly vessel, from which four persons had died at the Marine Hospital. The follcining is an extract of a letter from Mar seilles, dated 20th October : " English travellers at this season are continually Socking to Marseilles. There are also here about 330 Gelman, Swiss, and French, waiting for a passage to the Morea, to join the Greeks. We have been threatened here with the yellow fever, which was imported by two Danish vessels, but by the rigorous attention of the Board of Health, it hag, thank Goo, been confined to the lazaretto, where several have died, but the City bas been clear of that dreadful scourge." The exterior of the King's Palace, in Pall-Mall, has undergone repairs previous to his MAJESTY'S return to England. It has been new painted, &c. The Pa- lace-yard has been new paved and gravelled. Yes- rerd d y, BENJAMIN CHARLES STEPHENSON, Esq. the Surveyor-Ceneral of his MAJlesTv's Works and Pub lic Buildings, and the Right Hon. CHARLES Lotto, the Chairman of the Committee for the Inspection of National Monuments, attended on the Parade in St. James's Park, and gave directions for the spot where the celebrated French Bomb is to be placed, which is between the west side of the wall of the CHANCELLOR of the EICHIHVER'S garden and the Canal. During the autumn a considerable improvement has been made in Hyde Pails, near the Chesterfield Gate. The flat pan there, which was so low as to be often overflowed, and was somewhat unwhole some to the neighbourhood, has been raised by a thick stratum of brick rubbish, now pretty well covered with mould. The new ground is, however, too ex tensive to be turfed, and it may be long before there is a good sod upon it. ENGLISH OPERA.--Last night Miss CLARA FISHER, who astonished the town some years ago by her ex traordinary precocity of talent, appeared again before the Public at this Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. BEN GOUGH. Four years hive elapsed since she made her first appearance at Divvy-Lane in GA Raice.alarce of Lilliput, and acquired a degree of popularity which I induced the Manager to gratify the Public with a complete company of infant prodigies. This child. certainly possesses very extraordinary powers. She performed last night successivelyin The Spoiled Child, The Turnpike Gate, and Actress of All- Work, in the two former of which she sang and danced with much sweetness and grace, and in the last personated six different characters with a spirit and truth of co louring which surprised and delighted the audience. An occasional Address was introduced, in which she deprecated the seveity of criticism, reminded the au dience that " acting should not be measured by the yard," and addressed the following couplet to Mr. KERN, who was luckily seated in the Stage box :- 14 Were this the standard, I believe, hard by, Out greatest Rieharrsi is not six feet high !" The performances of this evening were given with a view of retrieving the ill success ot a former benefit, and , we were glad to see every part of the House crowded ---• •DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND, • PROS/ THE DUNCAN JOURNAL OF MONDAY,. Our intelligence, received this morning, from Li merick and the southern parts of the country, is far from gratifying. We can perceive no indication of 'repentance on the part of the peasantry, or even any relaxation of their efforts to accomplish their lawless measures. Thursday Loa, a numerous party of the banditti , attacked the house of Mr. HENRY SHIRE, of G a r - 1 ranroe, situated between Croom and Adare, and rob - 1 bed him of two muskets. Friday night, several houses were attacked in the vicinity of Cappaville, county of Clare, and plundered offire-arms. GEOROR LEAK; Esq. while returning from Rathkeale, county of Limerick, narrowly escaped assassination. lie was attended by an escort of two dragoons before him and two behind. When the first passed, two men armed with muskets, rushed out of a house at liar nakyle, with intent to fire, but observing the escort in rear, which they had not previously noticed, they quickly retired, and effected their escape. In the vicinity of Newcastle, the peasantry have carried their outrages to the greatest extent. En- WARD SIIEEY, Esq. of Ballintobber, possesses the farm of Glenahine, from which the former tenantry had bees evicted for non-payment of rent, and according to their usual system, be is annoyed in every possible way. Saturday se'nnight Mr. SHEET sent a man to the farm to bring a bullock, whose legs had been broken by some ruffians the preceding night. Two fellows who were making hay in the adjoining mea dow, rushed upon the unfortunate man, and beat him to unmercifully with their pitchforks, that no hope is entertained of his recovery. Another servant of Mr. SIISEY had been fired at, and his herdsman was cruelly flogged. Under such circumstances Mr. Sii/LEY s farm is rendered of no value, and as no man is safe to reside on it, the lawless banditti have suc ceeded in their object. To aid the military, the Government has placed the Adare Yeomanry on permanent duty. At Newmarket and Buttevant, in the county of Cork, the spirit of insurrection has strongly mani fested itself. A Meeting of Magistrates was held on the 24th at Newmarket-house, when the following Resolution was adopted That we are of opinion that two Volunteer Corps of Cavalry and Infantry should be raised in and about Newmarket and Kan turk to aid the military to preserve the peace." A Meeting of Magistrates and Gentlemen was also held nest day at Buttevant, and it was resolved una nimously—" That it appears to us that certain parts of the Baronies of Duhallow and Orrery are in a state of disturbance, and other parts threatened with be coming so, unless seasonably prevented. It is, there fore, abso lutely necessary that the most efficient mea, sores be taken to check the spirit of insurrection, wherever it has appeared, and to prevent where it has threatened." The object of the Meeting was to ap ply to Government for military assistance. h If insubordination shall extend much further in the west and south, the whole military force, at present in Ireland, will scarcely be sufficient to preserve tranquillity, and to guard against unhappy core quences, the Magistrates and Gentry should form vo lunteer corps of the well affected part of the commu nity. The local knowledge of a force of this descrip tion would render it far mote effective than any other, and the expense would be only a small sacrifice to ensure their lives and properties, which are, by a system now extending, very seriously menaced. The influence of the Roman Catholic Clergy, in former times so influential, is now nearly, if not altogether disregarded. A Catholic Clergyman who reprobated, from the Altar, the atrocious conduct of the pea santry about Newcastle, was privately visited that very night, and threatened with death if he should venture again to open his lips on the subject. The desperation of this banditti is such, that they neither respect the laws of GOD or man, nor do they .value their own lives. They are bound together by oaths, which they deem obligatory beyond any duty they owe even to . humanity ; and such is the fierce ness of their resentment, that Mr. Rom, of Nante nant, has been ordered to put away his wife, or fly • the country with her, under the penalty of death.— 'This Lady is the daughter of Mr. HOSKINS, the late agent on the COURTENAY estate, and thus they resent their quarrel with her father. We are informed on authority, on which we rely, that when the committee, or leaders of the banditti, resolve to murder any person obnoxious to them, or to commit a robbery, they draw lots for those to be charged with the execution of the deed, and if they should hesitate or refuse they would be proscribed themselves and put to death. This mode of proceed ing renders it difficult to identify the perpetrators, as they are taken from lists of associates who are strangers in the particular district, where the murder or robbery is committed. This sort of caution, which is the effect of system, imparts a character to their plans exceedingly formidable, and nothing, in our opinion, will check their audacity but local associations for the special purpose of maintaining the peace of the country. COUNTY OF MAYO. The Magistrates who assembled so numerously in Castlebar, on Saturday last, to take into consideration the present state of this county, adopted a variety of resolutions, which compose seven separate document?, intended for circulation among the peasantry. The first of these papers states the existence, in different parts of the county, of a " spirit of insubordination, riot, and daring resistance to the laws, especially at all fairs and public meetings," and tr;, Magistrates having reason to believe that those evils proceed from conspiracy and from the attacks of those who are mom upon those who are not, proceed to warn and admonish the People generally of the terrible conse ' quences, under the White-boy Act, to such of them as may unfortunately engage in this illegal combination. . The linen trade in Montrose, Arbroath, and Aber deen, is so much more flourishing than it was, that every hanJ is employed, and wages have risen. The Duke of Kent packet has brought a Mail from Lisbon, the private advices by which are to the 22d ult. On the 17th, dispatches were received fi am Rao Janeiro, and, by the same channel, private letters were obtained by the Portuguese merchants. Their tenor is represented to be of so alarming a nature, although apparent tranquillity prevailed in the Brazils, that the Portuguese were not disposed to enter into commet cial speculations of any magnitude, either with Rio Janeit , or with any other ports of the it azilt. ANIVIISERSARY OF THE 10 ) V WRY BIBLE SOCIETY. t sterday, the Annual Meetin g of t h e 404 deify was held in the Egyptian Hall of the Ilan;: House. The attend:ince was numerou s a A tec able. The centre of the room was app ro p ri a te Ladies, and Was completely filled by fe ma l es . gently attired, and of most interesting appe arance we,.t , parts of the room appropriated to G entlemen e to overflowing, but the strict est decorum pr e , ai f si w under the superintendence of the LORD NIAVOR,;! presided on this occasion. A strong sensati,n...° produced by the introduction o f an Indian Ip in the full costume of his country. He wa s =rn l, o f or demeanour, intelligent aspe c t, an d greatly atrat the attention of all present. The_husiness a tis . 141 , commenced at about half-past elevez u4y The Lon') Mevon, on taking the Ch a i r at hour, addressed a tew words to the Ifee t i n in trhi he expressed himself sensibly flattered b. ) ° , the nonott they had done him, in calling him ma) impo, ta „.. e situation, when a subject of such deep an d nniven4 interest to the happiness of mankind was to be under consideration. He could not help feeling, 4 the same time, that he was surrounded by nu ny sons more competent than himself to undertak e , a 1 an office ; hut as he felt proud of the distin et i nni should be his endeavour to discharge the duti es e n imposed on him to the utmost of his abilities-4 plause).—The Annual Report was then read b r Rev. Mr. CLAYTON. Al er some introductory 0: 11 , 1 lions, the Report proceeds as follows: _ - " Your Committee are happy to he able to announ ce t h a4 receipts and issues of this year have exceeded these et years, the particulars of which will be d, tailed in the T reats k statement. The amount received during the year is 1t421. le t The amount paid to the Parent Society is 102121. is. ed. number of Bibles and Testaments distributed since the he port, is 1502 Bibles, 534 Testam e nt s , ma ki ng a total ofsks copies of the Holy Scriptures circulated since the comae of the Society. " The Committee have not been inattentive to the which they received at their appointment, respecting the tiers of a Lidice Branch. After having teptatedly dem v upon, and cautiously examined the plan recommended Parent Society, the Committee adopted most of its regeLri e and having convened a Public Meeting at the City of Leiii Tavern, succeeded in establishing a Ladies Branch to th e c a of Laudon Auxiliary Bible Society, under auspices mots toS, able than they had ever ventured to anticipate, " Her Royal Highness the Ikulseas of Kent has to become the President of the Society. " Ladies have accepted the office of Vice-Presidents. Fry ;Ind Mrs. John Deacon have consented to act as surers, and more than 170 Ladles have engaged to wants of the poor, to receive their contributions, and *die butt the Scriptures with system, punctuality, and pen*" The Committee will refrain from expressing the deliyhdi anticipations which this measure has excited, and will cockl e " wait till the return of another Anniversary before th e y ci i" upon this interesting subject. They may then probablylove* 1 1 opportunity of appealing to experience and to facts hod* don of their animating hopes. " The Committee have now the painful duty to Win& Meeting, that the lice. D. Wilson has been constrained hyille to resign the office of Secretary—an office In which he hat esi ferred important benefit upon the Society. " During the past year, the Honourable and Rev. G. T.Nat and the Tier. W. Dt•altry, have preached sateen in behalf the S xiery. One of these was attruded by th e Right lints I Lord Mayor and Mr. Sheriff V I sithruan._ " The Committee would now gratefully recetd their obks tion to the Corporation of the City of London ' who haven. seated to the Society the liberal donation of one hundred gnats When the Committee acknowledged this grant, they requeed the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to accept a complete sa of the Annual Reports of the British and Foreign fine Society, and of yopr Auxiliary, with which request his lordship coat. plied in the most courteous manner. " In passing from this allusion to the Chid Islasigran, is Committee woun not withhold a public acknowledgments( the obliging attention and assistance which they hare demi from several of the Aldermen, and from both the late Skids This assistance has been of great importance to the Canine in their efforts to supply the I'risuns of the Metropolis slide lloly Scriptures. • In Newgate, forty-two Bibles and thirty-three UMW have been distributed, in order that every cell and d may have copies of the Scriptures, in proportion to dwelt of its inmates. The Committee have repeatedly seen delis ners reading the Bibles, with which they have !sten seggifit your liberality. • Giltspar-street Prison, twenty-eight Bibles law bra distributed, some of which are chained to particular stair, and placed upon desks prepared for them by the Gunnar. " To the Fleet Prison twenty-four Bibles and twestpit Testaments have been granted, which are kept by the Gowns and ban to those persons who are willing to read them. " A zealous Agent of the Society is accustomed tovnt tii prison, in order to offer Bibles to the prisoners at reduced FM " From Whitectoss-street Prison the Committee keen ceived additional testimony of the benefits which are rad* from the plan adopted in that Establishment, which Was tailed to you in the last Report. The Bibles occupy a cm* cuous station over every sable; they were gratefully mink are carefully streamed, frequently read, and highly valued. Al the Governors of these Prisons have afforded the Cemmine every possible facility in the performance of the undertones. " The Committee have also, through the recommeodatiesti Mr. Sheriff Williams, presented one hundred Bibles to the female convicts who were sent from their native country; aid the Committee would now renew an expression of gratitude that Gentleman, fur his assistance in the execution of this graa Upon the cover of each Bible was stamped in large characterp ' 'l'hie Gift of the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society,' al within the cover was written the name of the woman to who it was given. The Bibles were delivered to the convicts by le of Mrs. Fry's Ptison Committee, after the vessel had sail from London. _ " The Committee cannot turn from this important and bigisl! interesting department of their labour withou► expressing au r dent hope that at least a few of the many inhabitants of the dreary abodes of misery and vice may learn from the Scripton which you have sent to them, that there is a captivity of thesd lnituitely more hortible than that cf the body—a bondage dli• far noire dreadful in its consequences than that which Moo laws can inflict, and chains which none hut I)rittna grace en burst asunder. From these Bibles they may learn, too. do I Commission has been issued from the Court of MAVEN • re lid up the brotea-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captise, Isi the opening of the prison to those who are bound.' They nil do more than learn—they may feel the influence of this itsP reviving declaration, and they may experience • that li'! wherewith Cultist. !has made us free-- • A liberty which Monarchs cannot grant, • Freedom which piisons have no power to bind, • Which whom tastes can be enslav'd no more; 4 A liberty of heart deriv'd from Heaves, ' Bought with nits blood who gayssit to mankind, • Aid see', d with the same token. It is held 4 By cliei ter, end that charter sanctioned sure • By tai unimpeachable and awful oath • And promise of a Cour - - The Report thus concludes: " But while the Committee mourn over the ignorant , Si misery which etill eider, they acknowledge with admiring la* tude that the 1)i ter blessing has prospered hi an astonisltinSP grey the undertakings of the British and Foreign Bible Scarf " They will not attempt to describe the operatioos ohl sults of this toddy Institution; for who can number the lugs it has dispersed in every quarter of the globe? Who sf .fullow it thnity,h the different nations of Christendom, and task the igncrance it has counteracted, the sorrows it has asitiar' the miseries it has healed, the asperities it has softened, tilos''' rity it has enkinetcd, the souls it has saved?' " Who can follow it through the vast regions of Asia... 4 ciliate the numerous copies of :he Scriptures iu the varioos_ . ,2"" roast s of th: 1......5t„ which it has eirculateAs and sim"" atoidio rl , e ~moirli:s enveloped in Pagan or Jilaheousiall ds . nose? Eve.:l Africa, iu its western, southern, m iaow arg:ta : $ 1 I 1 .I o h u