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    ^.vrnm 2, 1856.] THE L8ADBB. 72?

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    ^.Vrnm 2, 1856.] The L8adbb. 72?

    ^ . vrnm 2 , 1856 . ] THE L 8 ADBB . 72 ?

    Continental Notefo..-X-Bahob. Jlours Kap...

    CONTINENTAL NOTEfo . .-X-BAHOB . jLours Kapoleon has spokento the world through the irons of lie . Moniteur , and approved of the O Don-Si- co * p'd ? aat , that -reflex of his own The official "SoiSr ^ ays- : "We-liave watched with interest the Ceat eVento infipain , and we have approved them to a Srtaia extent , as we fancied we discovered therein a favourable chance for establishing the Constitutional Government on a firm basis ; for France , which represents in Europe the ideas of 1789 , can entertain no other wish . than . that of beholding a neighbouring state , in ¦ whose prosperity she takes a deep interest , avoid anarchy . or despotism—those two shoals so dangerous to progress find libertyandas the Espartero Ministry did not seem

    ; , to possess either the power to prevent excesses or the requisite energy to lead a great country , it is natural to hail with -sympathy a change of a nature to consolidate the throne of-Isabella II . Some foreign journals , i > liaded by their unwarrantable preference for a name , have designated as a coup d ' etat that which was simply a resignation of Ministers , accepted purely and simply by the Queen after reiterated refusals . If the resignation had been that of O'Donnell they would have found it perfectly constitutional . Party sp irit should never misrepresent things to such an extent , and thereby endeavour to mislead public opinion The disorders which have agitated Spain for the last few

    years must be attributed to the fatal idea of certain Ministers , four years since , to make a coup d ' etat , when Spain was tranquil and prosperous , and when there was no cogent reason to urge them to make a sudden change in , the laws of the kingdom . For a coup d ' etat to be legitimate in the « yes of posterity , it must be justified by a supreme necessity , and be regarded by all men as the sole means of saving the country . We know those who dreamt of coups d ' etat not with a view to modify some institutions , but to subvert the throne or change the dynasty , either by uniting Portugal to Spain under the House of Braganza or by establishing a regency . We are therefore thankful ( nous savons gre ) to Marshal

    O'Donnell for having attempted , without a coup d ' etat , to restore order in Spain , the first and indispensable basis of liberty . Let us hope , then , that the recent changes will put an end to those coups dYtat and to those baneful pronwiciaanientos , for it is our sincere desire that Spain , which contains so many elements of strength and prosperity , -should resume , in the midst of quiet , the rank which is her due , instead of descending to the level of certain Republics of South America , where neither patriotism , nor civic virtues , nor high principle are to be found , but only a few Geuerals who dispute the power with the help of soldiers led astray by empty promises . "

    The Emperor Las just ordered Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , who was in Spain , to return to France . On passing a farewell review of the two divisions forming the late camp at Boulogne , Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers thus addressed the troops : — " Soldiers ! — The camps are about to be raised . The army of the North is dissolved . You are under orders to march to Paris , and I understand . all your joy . I should share it most heartily did I not feel a deep regret at quittingregiments and officers with whom I have served for the

    last eighteen months , who have so entirely satisfied me , a , nd whom I have been so proud to command . I know not what the Jut tire may resei-vejhr us ; but , if it answer to my desires , we shall meet agaiu , and in that case I shall refy upon you as you may rely upon me . We arc animated by the same sentiments of devotion to our country and the . Emperor , and we shall ever have for our rallying cry , ' Vive I'Empercur ! ' " The General , according to report , is appointed to the command-inchiof of the army of observation on the Spanish

    frontier . The Afoniteur publishes a report of M . Rouhor , Minister of Agriculture , & c to the Emperor who has issued a decree naming . seven members of the Council of Commerce Agriculturo , and Industry , as a commission to inquire into the manner in which the project of law brought before the Corps Ltfoislatif , repealing certain custom duties , will affect French commerce . Large arrivals of soldiers and of military stoTes arc constantly taking place at Marseilles from the Crimea . M . H . Castillo 1 ms just published , aa part of a scries entitled Political Portraits in the Nineteenth Century , a akotoli of the Marquis del Carre to , formerly Neapolitan Minister of Police , and lias dedicated it to Mr . Gladstone and Lord Clarendon . It contains an elaborate

    doscrip-11 O 11 of t . Ilft linrtYii * u *\ C * lwv ! ,. « . „ . „ .. « .: i * 1 : i : „ .. i tiou of the horror * of th « bayne , or prison for political and other oflendoca , ut Niaida . AURTUIA . For the furtherance of Catholicism in Central Europe- , thQ Kmporor hus granted permission to all thw Catholic Unions ( Vereine ) in Germany and Austria to sond deputation s to Llnz , in ITppur Austria , when ! a conference will be held from the 23 rd until the * 25 th of , September . H has been decided by tho Ministers of Public Instruction and of tho Interior that ( ho . Jows in Austria Hmll -eatattlfeh public schools for their children , and that at thetr » wii expense . * h « draft of a new law of conscription or enrolment uaa boon drawn up , and will soon bo laid before tho

    Emperor for his sanction . The principal features of the law are said to be the following : —The obligation to enter the army begins with the end of the twentieth and lasts until the completion of the twenty-fifth year . The recruits are to be divided into five classes , and as a rule only the first and second ( the men of twenty-one and twenty-two ) will be taken . The period of service is eight years , three of which may be passed on furlough . After the eight years are at an end the soldier enters the so-called " reserve" for two years more , and in case of need is liable to be called into active service . Young men who are being educated for the Church , and other " distinguished" students , are exempt from military service . — Times Vienna Correspondent .

    The Emperor has set out , with the Prince of Tuscany , for Aussig , whence he will proceed to Teplitz , where , it is asserted on good authority , he will shortly have an interview with the King of Prussia .

    srAiif . " Order" has not yet been restored in the Spanish peninsula , where the struggle is still maintained against the sanguinary despotism which issues its decrees from Madrid . O'Donnell ' s position is by no means assured or settled . Dissensions are said to have commenced already between him and the Queen , who wishes to stop the desavwi-tizacion , and who is opposed to the reorganization of the National Guard . There have been rumours of a ministerial crisis , in the sense of further reaction . The rush of place-hunters is so great as in itself to

    present a serious difficulty . All the Progresistas will probably be turned out of oflice for the sake of the adherents of the new power , with the exception of those who are dishonest enough to change their colours with a view to retaining their posts . The Marquis of Tabuerniga , a notorious " Vicar of Bray , " is spoken of as Under Secretary of State for the Interior ; and Don Bernardo Iglesias , once an adherent of Espartero , has issued a proclamation at A ' alencia , of which city lie is civil governor , threatening extreme measures against the Liberals .

    Bands of robbers have availed themselves of the disturbed state of the country , and committed great depredations on ^ ihe Madrid road , near Valladolid- The Basque provinces and Navarre . are perfectly tranquil . The insurgents have been suppressed in Catalonia . Brigadier Smith , of the Revolutionary Junta of Saragossa , passed over to General Echague , with his secretary , on the 25 th ult ., and said that some troops of the garrison ivere about to follow him . Two companies of the regiment of Saragossa presented themselves to General Dulce , and , as the commissioners from the insurgent Junta requested a suspension of hostilities , five days' truce was granted to them . The rising at Gcrona has shared the same fate as that in other parts of the kingdom . The contest appears to have been very sanguinary , and tho garrison , it is stated , deserted to the side of the Government . The Gazette announces that

    tranqmllity prevailed at Avila an the 18 th , at Corunna on the 16 th , at Pontevodra on the 15 th , at Orensc on the 15 th , at Castellon on the 17 th , at Cadiz on tho lflth , at Ciudad Real on the 18 th , at Huelva on the 15 th , at Malaga on tho lGth , at Seville on the IGth , at Burgos on the 18 th , and in the Guipuzcoa on the 17 th ult . The Kpoca records that the journalists of Madrid have had an interview with the civil governor of the province , who expressed a hope that they would not give circulation to false and alarming rumours , nor boeome the apologists of dangerous doctrines , " as otherwise the

    Government would find itself under the painful necessity of decreeing severe measures against the press , a course which would be contrary to its ideas of liberty and toleration . All the journals without exception continue to appear , and not one of their writers has suffered tho slightest annoyance . " Later accounts entirely nullify this statement . Wo also learn from the Epoca that General San Miguel , after remaining by the bido of the Queen in tho hour of danger , has , through a feeling of delicacy , thought proper to tender to her Majesty his resignation of tho post of Conuiiander-Uoneral of the tlulberdier . s . Unless the ( Joncral insists , tho Queen will not accent his resignation .

    The rcw Ayimtamiento of Madrid met for the first time on the l !) th ult . The Marquis do Turgol , Ambassador of Franco in Spain , has left , or is to leave , for Dux . In his absence , Count do C / Oniniiugcs Guitaut , first Secretary of the Embassy , is to act as Charge" d'Aliaires . \ Vc reported last week that Espnrturo had left Madrid guarded by eavaliy : it now appears that this was incorrect , and that ho is still in Madrid , apparently at liberty- Ho li . is entirely lost tho confidence of the Liberals , on uocount of tho weakness and irresolution he has exhibited during this Into events . Sonic are of opinion that he . ought not to have resigned , but should liavo Miicrilicd lOseosuni ; others blame him for not houding tho insurrection .

    Puchota ' H band , together with tho men whom the gallant torroador released from prison , are to bo transported to ft now ponal wcttlomont which tho Spanish Government is about to croato in omi of tho Marianne or Ladrono Islands , in tho North Pacific : Ocoan . Some ahurp lighting hua taken place at Corunim . On

    Saturday , the 19 th tilt ., a sanguinary conflict occurred between the militia and the regulars , when two of the former and six of the latter were . killed , and several wounded on both sides . The next day , fresh , forces having arrived , the militia laid down their arms . The conflict was confined to the troops . Hlhe militia and the populace are in favour of Espartero ; but they knew little of what was transpiring in other parts of Spain . There are now about 3000 soldiers of the line at Corunna , which is under martial ilaw , the gates of . the-towa being closed . Tranquillity is in some measure restored for the present . The Cap tain-General of Corunna was inclined to resist the proclamation of martial law ; but the second in command caused it to be proclaimed , and , to use his own words , " the Captain-General was immediately afterwards " decorously arrested . ' " M . Olozaga and the first Secretary of the Embassy at Paris , " says a semi-official Spanish paper , "have given in their resignations . It is still unknown whether these have been accepted : all that is known is that the resignation of M . Olozaga has given rise to hesitations and vacillations which prove how much his merit is appreciated and of what importance his . services are- " Part of La Mancha has risen . A . t Alcazar de San Juan , at Madrilejos , and at the Puerta d'Almansa ( according to a Brussels paper ) , the people have set the ripe crops on fire , and have fired also a splendid estate known by the name of La Serena . At Badajoz , three estates have had their harvests destroyed by fire . Teruel has pronounced ; the entire garrison has retired on Valencia . At Saragossa , General Falcon is organizing companies of free corps , and it is thought he will make a desperate resistance . There is a great dearth of news , however , from this quarter . Detailed accounts from Barcelona show that the fighting was desperate , and lasted four days . The insurgents were at length suppressed . - Natvaez has returned to Paris from Bayonne . " He received there , " says the Paris correspondent of the Daily News " a polite letter from O'Donnell thanking him for the offer of his services , but saying that he had no occasion for them . The Queen also wrote to him , and I am told that the substance of her letter was simply to desire him to return to the place whence he had come . ' " . It is stated by the writer of a letter from Bilboa , that , on the sitting of the 7 th , on a proposition signed by all the representatives of towns and communes , the Juntas decli " 7 '^ np- Imperial , son of the Emperor of the Frenc * . ' " We : ' m the . '¦ l " tbe S ! ^' obeying the suggestions or ^ . - j ^ pi > iSS »««^^ rounded , frankly demanded from Jlio . ^ p ' l the return of her mother . The minister om ^ / by a respectful silence . " That the struggle is not yet over seems very probable . "It appears , " says the DaVy News , " that at Granada the National Guard , having obtained permission from , the Captain-General to assemble , immediately assumed a hostile attitude . The troops sent against them ' showed so much indecision ' —that is the expression used by a party favourable to O'Donnell—that the Captnin-General felt it necessary to ' consent to an armistice of six days . ' In other words , he was constrained to allow the insurrection to organize itself . The National Guards put themselves in communication with various neighbouring localities , whore risings took place , and General Blanco , who had been sent by Government to supersede the Captain-General on account of the ' weaknoss' shown by the latter , was taken prisoner by the brothers Merino while attempting to reacli his post . At Malaga , tho troops joined tho National Guards , and , headed by tho civil governor , made their pronunciamiento against the coup d ' etat . It is , however , reported that all tho officers above the rank of cliaf da bataillon withdrew from their men . The latest news represents Almeria and Jacn as still maintaining a hostile attitude . " ITALY . The military commission now sitting at Massa , by virtue of the state of siege existing at Carrara , has published another sentence , by which four persons , one of whom is sixty yearn of age , and another nineteen , are convicted of having belonged " to tho secret or Maz-/ . inian society , otherwise called Society of Freemasons , and of having sworn to exterminate ) the true religion , to overthrow kings , & c . " Two of tlio culprits are condemned to tho ergastolo ( imprisonmont in irons with hard J / tlxnir ) for life ; another to tho same punishment for twenty years , and tliu fourth to ten yoarfl' html labour . An insurrectionary movement has tnken place in the ) duchy of Massa-OaiTura , which belongs to tho 'DukO ' Of Modena , whoso estates touch the frontier of Parma . Tho telofrrnphio wires for n time wero broken ; but 'it has transpired that the rising was speedily HupprosMeu " . About sixty persons crossed from the Sardinian territory : of these , twenty woro arrested on tho frontier . A dispute has Alison between tho Archbishop of Milan and tho civil authorities on a question of motfaln . Appealing to tho Concordat , tho archbishop claims tho right of confining all immoral persons to one quarrtor of tho town ; but tho civil powera resist . No result hoa yet been arrived at . Tho New Pnmimt Gazette , hrt . i a communication from Vienna of tho 24 th , which states that the largo iuous-

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/7/