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      Continental Notes. Death Of The Emperor ...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OJP KUSSIA . NEwawas received in Berlin on Thursday night that the Emperor of Russia was dangerously ill ; and subsequent accounts mention his death .

      The Sardinian Chamber Of Deputies Has Co...

      The Sardinian Chamber of Deputies has continued the debate on the Convent Bill , and on the 17 th Count Cavour made a vigorous speech on the financial , economical and political bearing of the mfcasure ^ and as to its opportuneness . Financially he showed that this bill Would benefit the Treasury in three Ways—in the first place , by relieving the budget of a sum amounting to nearly 1 , 000 , 000 francs ; secondly , by freeing the Treasury from rent for places that might be required for different objects ; and , thirdly , by procuring extraordinary means with which to supply the deficiencies of the budget . Finally , he contended that the introduction of the bill was not inopportune , as had been asserted ; and lie pointed out the danger of withdrawing the measure , by precedents from English history .

      Count Nesselrode has addressed a circular to the Russian agents in foreign states , notifying that Russia is at war with Sardinia , The document asserts that the King of Sardinia has placed 15 , 000 men at the disposal of England , for the invasion of the Crimea , " without any ostensible motive , without any legitimate cause of complaint ; " and complains that the Sardinian Government has left it to the public journals to warn the Court of St . Petersburg of the aggression , instead of openly declaring war . Sardinia is reminded of former occasions on which . Russia has- taken up arms to assert the

      interests of the House of Savoy ; and a covert sneer thrown out as to the name which ought to be given io the auxiliary Sardinian troops . Sardinia , it is said , cannot pretend to serve the cause of Cliristianity by unfolding its banner by the side of the Crescent ; " nor can . it be affirmed that she seeks to defend the weak against the strong , when she joins her arms to those of France and England . " The Emperor of Russia , however , still undertakes to afford protection to the private interests of Sardinian subjects entertaining commercial relations with Russia , who are permitted to remain in the empire . The Russian agents at Genoa and Nice will receive orders to suspend their functions .

      The diplomatic relations between Austria and Prussia are extremely cold , and so they are likely to remain as long as the Berlin Cabinet continues to give its secret support to , Russia . It is not one of the least significant signs of the times that permission has been granted by the Emperor to Count Buol , Baron Werner ,-JBaTon Hiibner , Baron Meysenburg ,. Baron Ottenfols , Prince Schonburg , Prince Richard Metternich , and Count Txaun , to . wear the orders they have received from " His Majesty the Emperor of the'French . " The . ofiicial Wiener-Zeitung- contains the Imperial rescript on the subject , and . it- has excited considerable'attention , as no Austrian subject was allowed to wear orders given by the younger branch of the-Bourbons .

      The Austrian correspondent of the Times asserts that the Imperial Government at Vienna is not likely to consentthat"the * destruction ' of the-Sebastopol-fortifications shall be made . one of the conditions of peace at the approaching ; Congress , on aecount of the improbability of Russia ' s consenting to < any such' step . The Paris correspondent of the Daily Neios , writing on Monday evening , says : " I believe I may safely announce that : all . doubta about the EmperorJs journey to the Criraeaare . at an end . It is certain that he will go , and that very , soon , unless some very unexpected event should occur to prevent him . " M . Ame'dee da Cesena haa written a . very remarkable article in the ' Conatitutionnel—an article which is

      regarded : as a semi-official announcement of the Imperial intentions . In . the event of , the failure of the negotiations , the writer anticipates the- presence , not only of the allied fleet , but of an army also , on the Baltic ; and avers that " Austria ; and France will bo found combating side by side on the upper part of the Vistula , in- a common struggle which may prolong itself to the frontiers of Poland ,, aa well aa to the banks of the Danube . . . . Wercan no more confirm than we can , deny , " continues the writer , "the rumours -which attribute equally to the two sovereigns of Franoo and Austria tho intention of taking thotoommandi respectively of thoir-armies .

      liat already , in , anticipation of this great event , the people , whose instincts are rarely nb fault ,. haa > characterised , in ita own > picturesque langnnge , tho ensuing spring campaign as" tho War of tho Three Emperors . " M . do Cesena * prophesies that the war will , load to a solid and durable peace * . and conduce to European prorgress and civilisation ; and : ho add a : " Franc © shall bo scan everywhere-with her- fleets and her armies . She shall be aeou ia > tho Baltic , in tlw Crimea , on the Vistula . What ait , immense ascendant does not this glorJQOjg r & Ut which , she hao taken in the Enetern question guarantee to her future-position in tho world 1 "

      Hamburg letters mention , further purchaser of sugar of better qualities for transmission to Russia ) encouraged : by , the facilities for conveyance presented by tho "lodge , roads . Coffee ^ tea ,, and . cotton hud also been taken . far the same quarter ,- and the trade viA Poland was bridk . It is important to notice that sales of tho

      Russian Five per Cent Loan of 1854 are reported as being continued at Hamburg , Berlin , and Amsterdam . As low as 81 £ , 81 £ , and even 80 f per cent , was stated to have been accepted by the Czar ' s- agents , and it was whispered that at the last mentioned reduction purchasers might still be accommodated to a considerable amount . . Although : these operations are apparently conducted with great secrecy , it is difficult . to imagine that they can escape the ' attention of the authorities . It may be as well for-the English Government to keep an eye on these proceedings , which , reasonably viewed , are equivalent to a breach of neutrality on the part of the states in which they take place . The proceeds of the sales , it was understood were not going to St . Petersburg , but it was surmised were intended to meet the

      dividends on the old Russian stock in the markets of Western Europe . Holders of Russian securities who have hitherto shown such faith in the Czar ' s fidelity to his financial engagements will do well to bear in mind the precarious nature of the resources by which their claims from half-year to half-year arc shown to be met . The anxiety evinced by the Russian Government in propping up the market for its old stock is also explained ; for any serious fall in the latter would render further sales of " newly created stock almost impossible , unless at a still more serious sacrifice . In consequence of these operations bills on Russia were quite without demand , and offered at 31 ^ . Money was less abundant . A postscript states that further sales of the Russian loan had just been effected at 80 ^ per cent ., being a further reduction . —Daily News , Feb . 28 , City Article .

      It was said in well-informed money circles that Messrs . Rothschild had withdrawn their agent from St . Petersburg—a fact of much significance at a time like the present . —Morning Post , City article , Wednesday . About five or six weeks ago , the Milanese police arrested some men of whom they had suspicion , and were thus put on the track of what the Trieste Gazette calls " a vast Mazzinian conspiracy , " of which proofs were soon discovered . Forty persons , some of whom belonged to the upper classes , were , in consequence , arrested . According to Madrid journals of the 21 st ult ., General Paseual ^ . Real had been arrested , and placed in secret confinement , on suspicion of having been concerned in one of the _ recently-discovered Carlist plots . The treaty for the settlement of the disputed frontier line betweeji Switzerland and Baden—a dispute which originated as far back as . 1623—has been ratified .

      The correspondent of the Times says : — "Of the Emperor ' s departure for the theatre of war , no reasonable doubt seems now to be entertained by any one . It is known that his Majesty has devoted much time to the study of a plan of operations drawn up by himself and submitted to a very few eminent military authorities ; and that the plan has been communicated to the Austrian military commissioner in Paris , who in turn transmitted it to Vienna , where it is now under the consideration of

      the Emperor of Austria . " It appears that the Emperor ' s journey is objected to by the English and Austrian Cabinets . A special correspondent of the Morning Post , writing from Paris , on Tuesday , says that u His Majesty will decidedly leave . Even the day is fixed for the departure—Saturday next , the 3 rd , or , at latest , Monday , . the . 5 th ., JTheJEmperpr has nominated tho personages who arc to attend him . " The latest probable news is told by the Paris correspondent of the Times ; —

      " Not long since some of the Generals of the army in active sen-ice had an audienco with tho Emperor on business connected with the Piedmontese contingent . Those officers recommended very strongly that there should be one General who should have the supreme command of the operations before Sebastopol , in order to secure unity of plan and operations . They took occasion at the same time to allude to the subject of the Emperor's departure , with the object of ascertaining whether the intontion was persevered in . Tho Emperor listened , as is his wont , to . all they had to allege for or against it , but said nothing of Ins finul resolution . It appears that in tho reports addressed by General Niel , on tho works before Sebastopol and tho position of tho

      allied armies , it was stated that while tho General approved thoroughly what had been done , it was nevertheless his decided opinion that the point of attack had been badly selected , and that it should be much more to tho right , in tho direction of tho English camp . General Niel is admitted to bo a very skilful officer , and tho changes ho suggestod wore , it appears , unobjectionable . On conversing with a certain personage on those points , the Emporor took from a cabinet a plan of Sebastopol very carefully and eluborntely drawn , with pins , tho heads covered with wax of different colours , stuck here and there to mark tho positions and movements of tho

      camp . Ho pointed out that tho point shown by General Niel as tlio best for attacking tho city was tho one whioli ho had himself selected long before the Gonoral ' s reports had renched him ; and ho very naturally folt ploased at tho coincidence , which proved his genius for war . I huvo'boen informed that tho Emporor has received letters from General Niel from before Scbastopol . TliOHe , letters appeared to give his Majesty much Hatisfaotion . Tho family of General Niel ; residing in Paris , havo also received letters from him . Tho General is ordered to romnin in the Crimea . " Woilnd tho following in tho Mdrning Post : —

      " The Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva having adopted the maxim that the Church should be : separated from the State , the majority of the committee intrusted with the framing of a bill for that purpose , haa made the following propositions : —1 . The State makes no difference between citizens of different creeds ; 2 . No person shall be prevented from the exercise of the religeon which he has chosen , so long as he does not not disturb the public peace , or act against the laws ; 3 . No one iy obliged to contribute towards the support of any worships ; nor shall salaries be paid either by the State or the communes for that purpose . The ecclesiastical pro- ^ perty belonging to the Protestant Church is to be distributed among the Protestant communes , except that which has been appljed to the establishment of the Bank of Geneva and the Mortgage Bank . " Geneva is in advance of England in this respect . * " *

      The Journal de Frankfort gives the following in a letter from Genoa r loth ult .: — " His Majesty Victor Emmanuel , who has been severely afflicted in his family relations by losing three members of it in less than a month , entertained an idea of abdicating in favour of the Prince of Piedmont , his eldest son , aged ten , ¦ under the regency , during his minority , of his cousin Prince Eugene de Savoie Carignan . Victor Emmanuel , who is a gallant soldier , would then go and seek in the perils of war in the Crimea a diversion for his grief . ^ It required the supplications of his Ministers and of Prince Eugene , and a representation of the convulsions which might take place in Europe , in the course of the approaching summer , to make him comprehend that he ought not to quit his elevated post . "

      A letter from Rome of the 20 th ult ., quoted in tha Morning Post , says : —" The Eternal City has been just menaced with an inundation . The continued rains had swelled the Tiber , and forced it to issue from it 3 channel ; All the low quarters of the city , the Ghetto , the Orso , the Ripotta , and the open space of the Pantheon were under water . " Baron Prokesch von Osten has been appointed second Austrian Plenipotentiary to the Vienna Conferences . The American papers bring accounts from Buenos Ayres to Dec . 27 ( Mendoza ) . There were strong hopes of an amicable arrangement between the province of Buenos Ayres and the rest of the Argentine

      Confederation . - - . _ A letter from Bucharest , of the 5 th ^ in the Pays , says : —" A curious affair has occurred here , and has created some sensation . Four persons wearing masks , but whose appearance indicated that they belonged to the higher classes , ^ rai ted two days ago on Mr . Golquhouri , the English consul . On being introduced to his office , they carefully ' closed the door . He at first thought they were carnival maskeis ; but they produced . a number of papers and presented them to him . Amongst them there was a complaint , drawn up in strong torms , against the administration of Prince Stirbey . Mr . Colquhoun begged of them to take off their masks , but they refused . When they left he examined the papers , and found that they contained some verv curious details . "

      M . TiiiEKS has met with a rather serious accident . Aa he was leaving his own door , he slipped on some frozen ice , fell , and broke his wrist . The pain was intense at first ; but no fever set in . The Emperor sent an aidode-camp to inquire afteF M : Tfiiers' health . M . ~ do Lamartinc and all the most eminent political as well as literary personages , without reference to party , also hastened to express their sympathy and their good wishes for his recovery . Fears have been entertained

      that amputation of the arm will be necessary . Tiirc Siecle waa to have been prosecuted for publishing a feiiillcton'of the well-known Socialist writer , EugJmc Sue . The romance of which it forms a part is entitled the Lorettes , and some scenes and descriptions in it being of a nature similar to the more objectionable ones in tho Mysteres do Paris , attracted the attention of tho Procureur . But the prosecution lias since been abandoned : Tufc Siecle announces that M . Dupont ( do l'Eure ) w so dangerously ill as to leave scarcely any hope of his

      recovery . Admiral NAcnrwoFF has just received from the Czar tho order of tho White Eagle , aa a reward for his service ? at Sebastopol . . A kitmour is afloat in Constantinople to tho effect hat Lord Rodcliffo is about to retire . General It oso Is talked of as his successor . The Emperor of the French arrived on Thursday fit Boulogne from tho camp at St . Oiner . Ho was expected to return to Paris on Sunday .

      Mots In Australia. Advicbs Have Arrived ...

      MOTS IN AUSTRALIA . Advicbs have arrived from Melbourne up to too £££ ^ ry S ^ a ^ rt ^ s &^ s ^ s ^ ss ^ on to previous day . WuJo . irn from tho Melbourne Iri s th ^ t nt 10 , a . m ., Messrs . GoiHiuwbioikt . RjdJ ani Johnson , with a troop of mpuntel ™ d foot Sice nrr ooilwith drawn swords nml fixed bayonet * demanded from tho diggers" their -licenses . This . ™

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031855/page/7/