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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1856.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The Europa arrived here yesterday from New
York, which port she left on the 26th ult. There
is no political news of the least importance by this
arrival. Of what materials is Mr. Buchanan's
Cabinet to be composed ? What policy is he to
pursue? Will he carry into operation the pro-
gramme laid downia the famous Ostend manifesto?
These and similar questions were asked in print
daily, and in all directions: nor are responses
less frequent. Could we rely upon any of these,
wo should naturally enough take them into con-
sideration, since they touch directly and indirectly
on British interests. But this is far from being
the case. The best informed politicians are at a
loss in shaping out the future, and in foretelling
the issue of that struggle which must take place,
sooner or later, between the Conservative and the
fillibnstering elements of the party that has raised
Mr. Buchanan to office. For the sake of the peace
of the world and the prosperity of the United
States, both of which are seriously threatened by
a clique of rash unprincipled demagogues, we trust
the President elect will have firmness enough
to follow moderate counsels, in spite of the
pledges that must hang like a millstone about his
neck. There has been much said lately in print
respecting American occupation of the Isthmus
of Panama It is not, however, certain that
definite action has been taken, and we forbear
therefore, to debate upon the manner in which
such a proceeding might be interpreted, accord
ing to the terms of the well known treaty. We
regret to say that no tidings had been received of
the missing boats of the lost La Lyonnaise. The
Marion, which had been despatched in search w
them, had returned to New York, without gaining
the least information regarding them, and all hopes
seemed to be given up as to their safety, in conse-
quence of the tempestuous weather then preva-
lent.
The South Lancashire assizes commenced yes-
terday. Baron Al 'Jerson in the Crown Court. His
lordship delivered a long and elaborate charge to
the grand jury, in which he took occasion to ani-
madvert in no very measured terms upon that
abominable and dangerous innovation known as
the " ticket of leave" system He regretted that
such a system was in existence, and explained his
views on the subject. He prefers transportation
beyond the seas, for " it is pretty well known that
the number of persons transported, who recovered
their good name in the colonies, and lived as
decent and respectable people there, was a very
large per centage, whilst of those who remain in
this country and are not transported, but turned
loose again, a very small, if not an infinitesimal.
per centage has been found to reform With regard
to the crime of garroting, his lordship intimated
that in any case where there was a conviction he
should punish the prisoner in the most severe
manner possible.
The domestic incidents of the day are rather
interesting, if not melancholy Mr. Hadfield, an
eminent sail-maker, whose place of business is in
the neighbourhood of Brunswick" street, made an
attempt upon his life in his office, yesterday after
noon, by cutting his throat. Fortunately he did
not succeed in depriving himself of life, but.ho is
at present in a very precarious state at the Nor-
thern Hospital. A young man, who had been
dismissed from his situation at a mill in Bolton,
committed suicide by drowning on Saturday night
last. It seems to have been a very premeditated
act. The inquest upon the bodies of Mr. and
Mrs. White, murdered at Rotherham on Friday,
has not yet terminated, and no trace of the
murderers has as yet been effected. With regard to
the gold dust robberies, the latest information on
this subject will be found in our columns of
this morning. It will "be seen that Tester, for
whom the police have been scouring Sweden and
Norway, is at present in London, and has, through
a solicitor, intimated his intention of giving himself
up to morrow (Wednesday).
Much stress is laid upon the fact that Lord Pal-
merston visited the Duke of Bedford (Lord John
Russell's brother) on Sunday last. According to a
metropolitan cotemporary, it is well understood
that Prime Ministers, and other equally distin-
guished persons, do not go thither simply for the
sake of convivial entertainment. The next
question will be whether Lord John Russell
will really condescend to enter the Palmerston
administration and the House of Lords at the same
time.

We have been much amused by reading the
prospectus of a magnificent scheme of Mr. Dudley
Mann, whe proposes to deprive New York and
Liverpool of their commercial supremacy, by
transferring the trade of the two places to Milford
Haven in Wales, and some port in the Chesapeake
—probably Norfolk. The method by which this
is to be done is the establishment of a line of
weekly steamships, of 25,000 tons burden each,
between the two ports. Mr. Mann resigned his
post as Assistant Secretary of State of the American
executive, and came over to England for the cx
press purpose of inaugurating his scheme. But
we doubt if he lives long enough to see it corn
menced. The state department could very well
afford to lose the services of an assistant who in-
dulged in such airy projects. The Boston Post,
in emulation of the Welsh-Chesapeake scheme of
Mr. Mann, makes an assault upon the other side
of New York, by publishing an equally mag-
nificent project for establishing a mammoth line
of steamships between Boston and Ireland, with
one branch landing at Belfast and another at
Galway. The Boston-Belfast line, it is estimated,
would make a saving of time amounting to nearly
a day, as compared with the passages between
New York and Liverpool. But the great difficulties
in the way of realising these paper plans are the
existing state of things, the proximity of Liverpool
to the manufacturing towns and mining districts
of England, which can neither be transferred to
Ireland, nor brought any nearer to Wales, and the
natural advantages of New York, as well as the
great system of internal improvements which
connect her with the West. Unless these great
advantages can be overcome, all thoughts may
as well be abandoned of transferring the com-
merce of New York and Liverpool either to
Norfolk and Milford Haven, or to Boston and
Belfast.
The gale of last night has prevented the arrival
of our Paris correspondent's letter of last evening,
and the continental news to hand through other
sources is rather meagre. Telegraphic news from
the East, which is always of a doubtful character,
says that the Turkish Government has granted
leave to the British fleet to winter at Sinope ; and,
in direct contradiction to the preceding intelligence
from Athens, and we now informed that the army
of occupation will remain in Greece during the
winter.

As amnesties are the order of the day among
continental sovereigns, the Duke of Baden, follow-
ing the example of more mighty potentates has
granted a pardon to many of the offenders im-
plicated in the insurrection of 1848. The amnesty
of the Emperor of Austria in Italy is much more
extensive, too, than at first announced. The stern
Swiss republicans continue insensible to the
influence of these acts of grale.
Information from a source, usually reliable, has
been received to the effect that the insur-
rection in Sicily, far from being put down, has
acquired very large proportions, and that it is likely
to spread throughout the Island. There is every
reason to think that the stoppage of the mail on the
Cefalu road was a stratagem executed for the pur-
pore of making a diversion and drawing away troops
from Palermo. Between Cefalu and Palermo there
is one of the best high roads in all Sicily, and the
former fort is besides readily accessable by sea. A
worse spot could not have been chosen by insur-
gents who meant fig,hting. But the governor of
Sicily seems to have fallen into the trap, for he at
once sent a much larger body of troops than the
Moniteur speaks of.
Rumours about the forthcoming Congress are
multiplying at Paris faster than ever. At one

moment France is said to be in direct accord with
England on all points, at the next she is her most
determined enemy. These contradictions are not
difficult to understand, a party tinge being upon
all of them. According to Sunday's Moniteur, the
Treaty of Paris has, in its application, encountered
some difficulties which have given rise to differences
in the views taken of its purport by the contracting
powers, and have rendered necessary the re-assem-
bling of their respective representatives, for the
purpose of facilitating the execution of the con-
ditions of peace. The greater part of the powers
which signed the treaty have already, with this
object in view, consented to the convocation of the
conferences at Paris. It is therefore to be presumed
that the conference may possibly reassemble before
the end of this month, and everything justifies the
hope that it will promptly succeed in re-establish.
ing a perfect agreement respecting the points in
dispute. Turkey seems to be the only power
which has not sent in its adhesion to another
Conference, but its assent is considered certain.
The Debate infers from the note in the Moniteur
that the Conference will confine itself to the con-
sideration of the questions raised by the execution
of the treaty of Paris—viz., those relative to Bol-
grad and the Isle of Serpents, and perhaps the
re-organisation of the Danubian Principalities. It
will not entertain questions which are foreign to the
treaty, such as the affairs of Naples and Neufchatel.
The Federal Tribunal held its session yesterday
at Zurich, to settle the preliminaries of the trial
of the royalist prisoners from Neufchatel. The
trial itself will not come on for several weeks,
unless, which is not improbable, it should be
hastened with a view to adjust the position of
Switzerland before the same can come under the
diplomatic action of the Great Powers.
By a despatch received by telegraph, dated
Paris, Monday night, we learn that it is generally
supposed at Berlin that the Neufchatel affair will
be mutually arranged.
We have later news from the Brazils, by the
arrival at Southampton, yesterday, of the Tamar.
The news, taken as a whole, may be considered
satisfactory, as the elections had passed off peace
ably, and trade was rather brisk. Cotton and
sugar had advanced in price, and a good business
had been done in coffee at Rio Janeiro. We give
full particulars in another column.

The True Briton has arrived in the Channel
from Australia. with Melbourne dates of the 10th
September. Her mails are not yet come to hand.

THE Spanish Government have applied to the
capitalists of France and England for a loan of
300,000,000 reals, and the terms on which the
offer has been accepted by the Paris contractors
proclaim the bankruptcy of the borrower, and

expose the means by which the speculators hope
to make the matter profitable. Never were
political assassins or diplomatic buccaniers less
troubled with that virtue called " public honesty."

The mighty champions of the coup d'etat school
must have money, They found 57,000,000 reals
in the national treasury little over six months
since. But what was that for the men who saved
Spain from the horrors of anarchy and the claws
of a rapacious Ministry ? The butchery we wit-
nessed in Madrid, a few short months back could
not have been undertaken without money. Who
would expect O'DoNxEm. to work for nothing,
and then resign the glory of his bloody triumphs
to a NERO—NARVAEZ ? We never thought of
such a thing, as our readers are aware. We
saw from the first that the 57,000,000 reals
which O'DONNELL knew was in the keeping of
ESPARTERO—the Honest. would disappear with a
change of Ministers. We were right, it appears,
and that is all that can be said on the subject at
present. But what does the new proposal mean ?
What European statesman, what nest of arrant
impostors, has dared to offer to sell on mortgage
the future production of Spain—of the Sta e, for
271 per cent. of the debt to be created in stock
bearing 3 per cent. interest ?

Spain, which has never been able to pay one
per cent. regularly on her shameless heap of
foreign debt, is to pay considerably more than 10
per cent. on bonds amounting to 300,000,000
reals ! Was there ever a more barefaced imposi-
tion, or more impudent attempt to obtain money
at any risk short of highway robbery ? The
Spaniards have a religious horror of a man who,l
after he has eaten a whole ox, faints at the tail.
The financier who has proposed this new loan
scheme may, therefore, calculate on being popular
with his countrymen until the day of reckoning
arrives. When the dividends on the " new stock"
are called for, however,the tale will change. The
payment of the first instalment of interest will be
descado como aqua de Mayo, but we fear the
fervour of the national honour will be seriously
damped by the usual announcement from the
Treasury—" no effects The depth of the mon-
ster political fraud will then be found out. The
London Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse,
if they should be induced on any intelligible
grounds to allow the " New Bonds to appear
in their official lists, will hold committee
meetings, protest, call together the Spanish
creditors, and send forward memorials to Madrid
written in the .dljamia tongue, or Cornhill
Spanish. All this would not be so very bad if it
would bring the duped subscribers of Madrid
lotteries a prize, but the plundered creditor
might as well address a remonstrance or a candid
opinion touching the honour and honesty of the
financiers and coup d'etat butchers of Spain to
the Prime Minister who guides the destinies of
the nations, who we are told inhabit the moun-
tains in the moon.

O'DoNNELL found a fair balance in his favour
when he reached the high pinnacle of power to
which he aspired ; and why not give NARVAEZ,
that respectable, moderate, humane, and merci-
ful mortal something worth while counting among
the good things of this life ? But to be serious.
Can it be possible that there is an Englishman
breathing who would lend his hard earned money
to a Government composed of human butchers
and lawless reactionists ? We hope not. The
Spanish people, it is well known, are suffering
the bitterest anguish from a scarcity of food,
bordering closely on actual famine, and if we
have anything to give to wretched Spain, let it
be sent to her hungry and naked children in
charity, and not to her political assassins and
financial impostors—not to base liars, who called
the restlessness of a starving nation an insurrec-
tionary movement, and who silenced a people's
cries for bread by the roar of cannon employed to
massacre thousands of men and women. It is

bad enough to be compelled to inhabit the
same hemisphere with such heartless and
dastardly beings; but to lend them. money, or