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      Letters From Paris. [Fbom Ottr Own Corre...

      in spite of the official denials of the fact ; and this has raised fresh murmurs . But , by way of compensation , the authorities , I am informed , have arranged to produce % n artificial fall on the 15 th of August , the day of Bonaparte ' s fete . Preparations are being made for that day . Illuminations ( I need not say official ) of a new description are in preparation .. Behind powerful jets , of ; gas willbe placed multiplying reflectors , revolving with wonderful rapidity : between these reflectors and the gas will be placed coloured multiplying glasses , equally movable . By this means will be obtained prodigious effects of light from

      all the colours in succession . It is the city of Paris , with its 165 millions ( of francs ) of debt upon its shoulders , which will have to pay for all these new feus de joie . Moreover , the Tuileries is being restored . You remember , six months ago , some ten millions ( of francs ) were expended on that palace . It seems that it is now to be all redecorated and regilt . Orders have been given to have all ready for the 15 th of Augusb , the day when his Majesty is to do the Parisians the honour of sleeping at the Tuileries . Meanwhile , Trianon , too , is being refurnished—the Trianon of poor Marie-Antoinette— -for the consort of his Majesty . I hear of rural tastes ( gouts champetres ) having

      developed themselves rather suddenly in our amiable Empress of late ; and it is even proposed to reconstruct the Swiss dairy . Whether we shall hear of disguised ( imperial ) dairy ^ maids , I dp not hear ; but the idolizing husband has amiably consented to all the caprices of the beloved one , and as I write the masons are busy at Trianon . Who's to pay ? Certainly not the purse of the august pair : if I am not mistaken , the civil list of twenty-five millions of francs ( 1 , 000 , 000 ? . ) has been long devoured and dissipated . For three months past economy has been the principal resource . The house has been swept out ; chamberlains , equerries , ladies in waiting , ladies of the bedchamber , and , in fact , all the haute domesticite of the chateau have been

      sent about their business . And after the high has come the turn of the low . It has been the office of M . Fould , in his capacity of a child of Israel , to prune all these superfluous parasitical expenses . The Court has lived of late " on tick . " When the purveyors and other tradesmen ask for payment M . Fould offers them —the Legion of Honour . All this only makes us laugh , you may well believe . . ' ' . ¦ I have now to announce an important piece of news . The Virgin Mary has appeared in Provence . Several people have seen her ; others have spoken to her , and she has answered them in patois I Think of the commotion in those countries—women and children

      deserting in hot haste their infants and their schools to betake themselves in procession to the highly favoured cabane of Mouans , near Cannes , the celebrated residence of Lord Brougham . * Unfortunately the subprefect of Grasse , who no doubt has been a reader of Voltaire , gave orders to the commissaire de police at Cannes to pull down the cabane , which was incontinently done . The next day , instead of 1000 people , there were about 10 , 000 on the ground . The subprefect is now in deliberation with the gardes champetres ( rural police ) of the canton about what he can pull down next in order to prevent these riotous assemblages of the " faithful . " S .

      Letters From Paris. [Fbom Ottr Own Corre...

      . * We trust tho noble lord who , if only as tho biographer of Voltaire , in ho well calculated for such an inquiry , will on his return to Cannes prosocuto researches into this mysterious apparition . Hul , it may bo apprchonded that tho bare announcement of tho versatile and vonerablo Lord ' s return to those favoured and classical shores will induce any virgin who " answers questions in patois" to make on ; or at least to abate her protelisions to a moro than terrestrial origin , —Jiv .

      750 The Leader. [Saturday,

      750 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

      Continental Notes. Tjfr All-Engrossing R...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tjfr all-engrossing Russo-Turkish question leaves tho rest of Europe a blank . The few scraps of news worth noting may bo condensed into a very small compass . In tho north of Europe tho squadron of Russia , which lias moved from Cronstadt , is beginning to attract tho anxious observation of the lessor Powers . Tho accounts of tho ravages of cholera at Copenhagen aro still distressing . On tho 20 th ult . the medical report wan , sick , 270 , dead , 149 ; total 4413 cases , of which 2323 deaths . The Icing had , it is said , proposed that an extraordinary health officer should bo appointed , with dictatorial j powers , so that tho various clashing committees and authorities ( his Ministers included ) should submit to his directions . There being in Copenhagen , as in some othor cities wo could mention , an army of boards and commissioners , and committees , and abuses , but no energetic unity , this step has also boon demanded by tho whole press , of all colours . The Queen of Prussia ( sister to the Emperor of Russia ) lms started for Isold and Vienna . Notwithstanding tho conferences of tho four Western Powers at Vienna , under tho auspices of Austria , it is difficult to beliovo that , in tho' event of tho gravest c ' ontingoneies , Austria will bo ablo or willing to co-operate with . Franco and England against Russia . Tho ( "loop obligations to tho Czar , and tho overhanging dread of revolution , paralyze tho initiative , and stultify tho traditional policy

      of Austria in the east of Europe . Prussia , doubly exposed to the inroads of Russian ambition , is scarcely less afraid of revolution than Austria , and consequently scarcely less averse to risk the chances of a conflict with Russia , the great patron of European Order . Any real co-operation , between the foiir Western Powers is , as we said last week , an impossibility in the present condition of Europe . Diplomacy is nevermore contemptible than wh' en it congratulates itself on having , by its long-suffering towards Russia , conciliated the combined support of the two ' German Powers . Of course , when we speak- of Austria and Prussia , we mean the Courts of Austria and Prussia , the nations being put of the question altogether"—delirant rcges , plectuntur Achivi . "

      In 1849 , Austria , aided by Russia , destroyed her own chief bulwark against Russian aggression . Prussia rejoiced , and England connived at' the subjugation of Hungary . Is it to be believed that in 1853 Austria and Prussia will act with France and England against Russia ? The Nemesis of nations and the fatal logic of events forbid it . Diplomatists may draw up notes in common , but England and France can , only act with Austria and . Russia at the cost of the most ruinous humiliations to Turkey , and sooner or later , to themselves . No man knows this better than the Earl of Westmdreland at Vienna , and Lord John Russell , when he talks complacently of the four Western Powers in concert , knows as well as Lord Palmerston that lie is lending hisl officia tongue to a delusion . The recent arrests in Vienna include several ladies of

      high distinction . The King of Piedmont recently scraped the rocks in the Bay of La Spezzia , and was obliged to get on board another steamer for safety . The Austrian military commandant of the city and port of Leghorn has published a sentence by court-martial , dated the 27 th ult ., condemning three porters and a boatman respectively to 12 , 10 , ^ 7 , and 3 months' imprisonment in irons , for having on the 29 th of May last hoisted a tricoloured flag on the wall of Saint Cosimo , and let off a quantity of squibs in the adjacent streets on the occasion . Throe more have been dismissed for want of sufficient

      proof , and one acquitted . Only four applications have hithertobeen made to the fund of the 400 , 000 francs subsidy voted by the Sardinian Parliament on behalf of the Lombard exiles whose proporty had been sequestered by Austria , and these applications are only to the amount altogether of 8700 francs . The King of Naples , who has long ceased to see his capital , and lives in the strictest seclusion , fenced by guards " and spies , is now at Isehia , in great alarm at the prospect of a war .

      The Austrian Official Journals Talk Very...

      The Austrian official journals talk very grandly about the . satisfaction to be demanded of tho United States for the affair at Smyrna . On the other hand , letters from St . Petersburg , published in German papers , state that the Czar , upon hearing of the Smyrna affair , advised the Austrian Government to wind it up as soon as possible , and do anything rather than open a door to the interference of the United States in European affairs . The Czar is reported to have a great respect for the United States Government , whose policy is at least intelligible . The Madrid Gazette of the 30 th announces officially that the Queen is in the fifth month of her pregnancy . The Ministerial crisis is adjourned . We have a few notes to add to tho intelligence upon the Eastern question , to bo found in other parts of our

      paper . While diplomatists are busy about accommodation , Russia is steadily and actively pursuing her warlike preparations . " On tho 20 th of July ( says tho Times ) , a ukase was published raising a levy of seven men per 1000 on tho population of tho eastern half of tho Empire , which is supposed to amount to 23 millions . At the same time tho arrears of men ( three per 1000 ) who had been excused on tho last levy , are called up , so that in some districts the conscription will amount to 1 per cent . Some pressure has begun to bo felt for money to support these enormous military preparations , and tho Executive Government applied to

      tho Minister oi Finance ior permission to use a portion of the gold reserve deposited in the fortresses of tho Crown . But this gold is the basis of tho Russian paper currency , and tho Minister of Financo raised strong objections , which wero not for tho present overruled , to tho ' appropriation of any part of this fund . Tho Emporor then applied to tho Sacred Synod for a loan of 60 million rubles . " Tho Synod expresses its readiness to comply , but its desiro to bo excused . This last demand indicates not only a groat want of ready money and a severe demand upon tho resources of tho State , but also a decided intention to make tho forthcoming conflict a religious war . Tho Turks , it is true , may play tho eamo game , and with equal effect .

      But what renders theso several ukases tho more remarkable is that even those districts which had been exoinptsd for a certain time from tho recruitment , in consequence of bad harvests , aro called on to furnish their contingent , as aro tho Jews . The above ukase was accompanied by languago in the Aheillo of St . Petersburg ( where , it must bo remembered , all journals aro subject to censorship ) of an exceedingly warlike nature , " which tho French journals liavo been interdicted to publish . Tho following is a specimen t— " Russia fears nothing . In Ftpito of calumny sho pursues her ' course in tho interest and for tho greater glory of tho orthodox faith , and will in tho end scatter like ( lust all her enemies . " It is worthy of remark , loo , that at tho ( Into of this furious tirado the Czar had reeoivod tho proposition of Franco and England . While our Court is entertaining two Princesses of tho Imporial family of Russia , tho Czar is not less ostentatious , it would ( Kmiii , in his expressions of personal regard to tho representativo of St . . Tuuion ' h at ; St . Petersburg .

      A letter from tit . Petersburg , of tho 24 th ult ., in the 1 ' atrlc , says : — "The evening before last tho Emperor gnvo u grand feto at his jmluco of tho Hermitage . On thin

      occasion , the ambassadors of Franco and England , it was remarked , were the object of particular attention from his Majesty . " Letters from Jassy and Bucharest to the 14 th and 19 th , of July give details respecting the Russian forces , who are fortifying themselves in a formidable mariner in the Principalities . Every day there are arrivals of artillery intended for the works of defence established in the , strongest points of . the country . The Russians are formingthree entrenched camps , Which are intended to protect aB their lines , and which are to be rendered . impregnable .

      Accounts from Odessa of the 17 th Jul y announce that the Grand Duke Constantine , lately named Grand Admiral of the naval forces of Russia , had just arrived in that city . He was to proceed forthwith to Sebastopol , to inspect the two naval divisions in the Black Sea . He was accompanied by a considerable suite of naval officers and by several , engineers , who are about to make hydrographic suryeysalong the shores of the Crimea . The Grand Duke Constantine peculiarly represents the old Muscovite and fanatical party , with whom Russiandomination is an article of faith .

      La JPresse , in noticing the important personnel of scientific officers accompanying the Grand Duke Constantine ,. adds the following significant remarks;— - " The respect due to the public and solemn declarations of the Russian Government would induce us to believe that nothing but a survey of the coasts of the Crimea is in fact intended ; butwe cannot help recalling , in relation to this inspection , apiece of news which we derived more than a year ago from ) the Gazette de Cologne , long before the mission of Prince

      Mensehikoff was talked of . " A rumour has recently beem spread , says the Gazette of Cologne of July 25 , 1852 , that a number of Russian engineers and officers are at the present moment traversing Servia to map out and study the military situation of the country . The Porte havingordered inquiries to be made , it has been discovered that eighteen Russian officers have traversed the north-east of European Turkey , taken plans of Widdin , Sehumla , Ruttchuck , and Varna , and ware at present in the Balkan examining the principal passes of that range . "

      This exploration of the Balkan undertaken lasfc year speaks ill for Russia , as it undoubtedly tends to the recentacts of that Power the character of premeditation . Turkey and her allies are not remiss in preparations * .. There is great risk , however , of a precipitated denouement of the long suspense , by the fanatical levies under Omer Pasha taking the war into their own hand' s , and ' attacking . the Russian forces , in spite of diplomatic attempts at accommodation . The exasperation of the Mussulmeri is necessarily increasing with every fresh delay ,, and fears of an insurrection or of an attack on the Christian population are entertained ; the more so that Russia , contemplates such a contingency with particular eagerness ,, as she would then assert her Protectorate with somethinglike a cause .

      The Governor of Damascus has summoned the principal Christians and Mahometans , and strongly urged them to live in peace together . The Governor of Aleppo , who is renowned for his energy , has seized some thirty fanatical Turks , and locked them up in a fort between Alexandretta . and Latakia . On tho 14 th ult ., Admiral Dundas , with all the captains * of his fleet , made a reconnoissance as far as Gallipoli . Or * his return he inspected minutely the fort of Chenek ,, which is the most important that the Turks possoss on ) the Asiatic coast . Lord Stratford do Redcliffe was ex ~ pected at Be 9 ika . Admiral Dundas was to accompany hi * Excellency on his return to Constantinople . The Portajbglio Maltese , of the 16 th ult ., announces the arrival at Malta of tho French steamer Ajaccio , wifeh fift y- ' two French superior officers on board , who are to > enter tho Ottoman scrvic . It also stateB that the French steamer

      Leonidas left Malta on tho 15 th for Constantinople , withi 120 chests of muskets on board . The Egyptian fleet is now in the Turkish waters . Jitters from Trobisond announce that Abdi-Pacho has organized there a corps of 20 , 000 men .

      Tho Monilcur Records With Evident Deligh...

      Tho Monilcur records with evident delight tho unprecedented event of a French horse having won tho cup at-Goodwood . Tho names of tho siro and dam of tho winner ,. Sting and Currency , sufficiently betray , however , tho Saxon : lineage of Jouvence , although sho wan born upon Frenchv soil . Bosides , tho JkConitcur forgots , or probably isignorant , that French horsea aro treated almosfc as hacks in England , being allowed 21 lbs ., equivalent to > a start of about a mile and a half . Nevertheless wo shoulff see no cause to regret even if , par impossible , a real Fronch horse , ridden by a real French jockey , wore some day towin tho Derby . In theso days of unrestricted competition ; it would bo an immense stimulus to our stables !

      The Camp. The Queen Visited The Camp On ...

      THE CAMP . The Queen visited the Camp on Thursday , again riding a black charger , and displaying nu an hunted interest in the proceedings . Tho charges of cavalry wore brilliant and well managed . Tho troops then defiled boforo the Queen . Around her stood her husband , her children , and tho Princo of Wurtemburg , non-in-law of tho Einpcror of Russia . Tho Morning . Post in , « h usual ,, particular in its record : —" Tho Queen exhibited great , interest , > and replied with much animation to tho

      nuinoroiiH questions put to her b y th « young prim ** , whoso attention jjcjcinwl much attracted to tho ricot * ( hoys and tho 8 th Hussars . Ab tho 97 th marched past , her Majesty , who was in excellen t spirits , bent linio with vivacity to tho lively air of "Kory O'Moro , " ho gaily played by thoir band , »»< t paid both tho 7 th Fusiliers and the 88 fch ( Comiuught Rangers ) tho compliment of specially directing tho Princo of Wurteinburg ' a uttoutiou to thorn . " Tho attention of hiw Iui-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1853, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06081853/page/6/