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      Naval And Military. Thk Following, Gentl...

      vernor , by . civilians . Colonel TPullP . cn is mentioned as the future Governor , at a salary of 2000 J . per annum . Two courts-martial have been held at Sheerness on officers of Bt . ftL steam-sloop Alecto , for alleged insolence to Commander James Hunt . The first case-was that , of the ship ' s surgeon , Dr . M'Sharie , against whom it was alleged that " he did , on the 14 th day of August , 1858 , on board the said sloop , act in an insolent manner towards Commander James Hunt , by stating to" him that if he had not got awnings he had better get . them —such statement having reference to a representation made , by the said Charles M'Shane to the said commander that sickness -would occur on board the said sloop if awnings were not kept spread ; and by turning his back in the face of the commander while the latter was addressing him . " Dr . M'Shane ' s defence stated that he was only actuated by zeal for the service , to preserve the health of the crew and Officers ; the disrespectful conduct he denied . The decision of the Court was that the charges were proved ; but , "in consequence of his excellent testimonials , and the high character given him by his present commander , the Court do only adjudge the prisoner to be reprimanded , and he is hereby reprimanded accordingly . " Charles Frederick Puckett , late master of the vessel , was tried for using- insubordinate language to Commander Hunt , by stating that he would make him prove his words with reference to a statement that he thought the said sloop was at the time thirty miles out of her position , contrary to the directions given by the said commander to the said C . F . Puckett ; and by the said C . F . Puckett stating to the said commander that he the said commander gave him no course , which statement was untrue . The decision was that both charges were fully proved , and the prisoner was sentenced to lose six months' time , and to be severely reprimanded , and admonished to be more careful in future .

      38 The Leader. [Ho. 459, Jantjaby 8, 185...

      38 THE LEADER . [ Ho . 459 , Jantjaby 8 , 1859 .

      Passing For A Cornet. There Was A Young ...

      PASSING FOR A CORNET . There was a young gallant , of strong martial bent , A juvenile hero , on glory ; intent ; The blood of a warrior ran hot in his veins ; A full heart was his , but he bore empty brains . This hero that would be , since now some twelve moons , A Cornetcy sought in a troop of dragoons ; But he first had an examination to pass , For how a horse-regiment can't let in an ass . So what did our hero in such a hard strait , Impassable quite with his ill-furnished pate ? He just went and borrowed another man's head , A substitute hiring to pass in his stead .

      The substitute stood the ordeal at once , And passed in the name of our valiant young dunce , Who obtained thus by proxy a first-class degree ; His commission he bought , and gazetted was he . The knave he had been fool enough to suborn Soon fixed in the young dragoon ' s saddle a thorn ; The threat of exposure hard bought off , and then Renewed , and bought off , and repeated again . Ten months of this life the bold stupid youth bore , Until he could buy off the rascal no more , Who , his avarice now sopped no longer with pay , Peached forthwith on the dupe that had ceased to yield prey .

      From head-quarters down word of question prompt speeds ; Fact can ' t be denied , and dismissal succeeds . The price of Commission escheats to the Crown , And the red coat is doffed , and the wearer done brown . Oh , gallants , whose valour your wit doth excel , There ' s no longer a chance for a dense dashing swell ; You must now learn and labour to furnish your brains , Before you can have them blown out for your pains . In the eating's the proof of tho pudding , ' tis said ; Some think fighting tho proof of your good pudding head ; Tho head that reflects like the pudding , whom hot , And is fit to supply food for powder and shot . But trust wo that boobies do not fight the best , And scholars won't fail when they come to tho test ; And though , ere in war they can vonturo their luck , They must take a degree , will show no want of pluck . T- * Pwmh .

      Tmt Omnwkjs Opposition Nuisance.—-The Di...

      Tmt Omnwkjs Opposition Nuisance . — -The disputes between tho London General and Saloon Omnibus Companies are now likely soon to reach a termination . At tho last hearing of tho charge of conspiracy at the Westminster police-court , on Thursday , tho 28 rd ult ., tho oaso was adjourned until tho 12 th . instant . Since that time a more amicable spirit has arlson between tho representatives of each company , and Mr . Vining , tho solicitor for tho Saloon Company , drew up a draft of the proposed forms of roforonce , which has boon submitted to , and , with slight alterations , approved of , by Messrs . Wilkinson and Stevens , tho solicitors , of the . others , it being agreed that tho question ah ould bo referred to Mrs Baratow , of tho common law bar , his dpeision and award to bo final .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . ¦ . FRANCE . An Imperial decree , dated Dec , 18 , ordains that the Abbey of St . Denis shall be the b urying-place ; of the Emperors of the French . It is known to be the wish of the Emperor to remove the remains of his uncle from the Invalided to St . Denis ; he thinks it would be more •* dynastic " that his family should be buried among the ancient kings of France . The Presse has reason to know that nothing has yet been decided with regard to a new meeting of the Paris Conference . Galignani states that upwards of three thousand persons paid their respects to the Emperor and Empress at the Tuileries on New Year's-day . No English paper , save the Leader , was . seized on Sunday last .

      Count Sercey , a retired staff colonel , has gone to Egypt on a secret mission . . The Independance says that the insurrectional movement in Algeria , which , led to the sudden departure of General MacMahon , is more considerable than any that has taken place in that country for a long while . The most profound secrecy is observed in official circles as to the origin of this agitation . The Shah , of Persia has banished his late Sadr Azam , Mirza Aga Khan , from the Persian territory , with liberty to choose a residence in AVestem Europe . He has consequently chosen France for his residence . The French Government is preparing to send magnificent presents to Foev-Tsigo , the new Emperor of Japan . An attache' of the Minister of Foreign Affairs has left Paris for Servia on a special mission . - . ' , .

      There has been an extraordinary panic at the Bourse , in consequence of a rumour of something said by the Emperor to M . de Hubner on New Year ' s-day , from which it is inferred that the relations between France and Austria are in a very critical , not to say alarming , state . Some have suggested a similitude between that incident and the famous , interview between the First Consul and Lord Whitworth in 1803 , just previous to the rupture of the peace of Amiens . In . the Constitutionnel , however , we find what purports to be the exact text of the words employed by the Emperor to M . Hubner , namely : — "I regret that our relations with your Government are not so good as they were , but I request you to tell the Emperor that my personal feelings for him are not changed . "

      The Paris correspondent of the Dnibj News writes : — " The impression that ^ we are on the eve of a general war gains ground immensely . A few days ago it was said—and said truly- ^ in a Belgian journal that war was not believed in except in barracks . That exception had , perhaps , for importance than was generally attributed to it . I can now assure you beyond a doubt , that whatever turn events may subsequently take , the French " army of Italy" is at this moment ready to march " on paper . " The commander-in-chief , the generals , the

      aides-de-camp , the staff , the regiments , the artillery , the engineering corps , are all fixed upon , and tho telegraph might in half an hour send them on their way across the Alps to-morrow . Be well assured that I do not say this lightly . Notwithstanding all these symptoms , a great war is scarcely upon the cards . The Emperor is not strong enough internally to risk tho tremendous discontent which would be engendered in France by the catastrophes , the desolation , which would be produced by a war of any long duration . "

      AUSTRIA . Tho official Oesterrcichiaqhe Corresponded , of Wednesday , announces , that reinforcements will go from Vienna to tho armj * in tho Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . It is expressly said that the troops are sent for tho protection of the peaceful inhabitants of tho kingdom against tho revolutionary party . ' People at Vienna are no loss persuaded of an approaching war than at Turin . At Vienna they think tho recent occurrences in Servia wero brought about through tho instigation of Franco , with a view to compromise Austria , It has also been reported at Vienna that a conspiracy has boon discovered at Cracow , and that forty persons had been arrested , some of whom wore Russian agents .

      Disturbances took place on tho 27 th at Modcna , which wero directed against tho lottery , because the lottery is ono of tho sources of the public revenue . On tho 2 nd tho Duke of Modona left for Vienna , it is not said on what errand . Tho Austrian general officers of Italy are holding a military congress at Vienna , in ¦ which tho commander of tho troops in Parma takes a part . ' , A Milan correspondent of tho Daily News says ;—• " At Venieo and Milan , as also" in tho provinces , tho agitation is grco ~ t , with a strong mixture of prudence and common sense in it notwithstanding . They are willing enough to have the affair of ., 1848 over again , but no more pMorilitics , hectoring , and swaggering-, no more silly braggadocio . They are organising themselves quietly aaU steadily , but solidly and with a will , Tho

      Austrians seem bewildered , and are taking measures never heard of before , and which some think perfectly absurd . In 1848 you would meet with scores of people that upheld Austria's good right and her virtuous intentions , but you would not find now half a dozen in the whole Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . ' Every one is now convinced that if the Austrians were only once out of Italy , the King of Naples , the Pope , and all the petty princes of the peninsula would soon change their tone , arid that a lasting peace might then become a possibility . No one dreams of a republic , no one hints at socialism . What Italians desire is , to have Italy governed rationally by native princes and native laws . " ¦ ¦ :

      The Patrie publishes a letter from Milan of the 1 st inst ., which contains a statement to the effect that some bodies of the people passing by the barracks crying " Viva tItalia" were responded to by the soldiers within the barracks with a similar cry . General Gyulai had returned to Milan .

      SERVIA . The petition of the National Assembly that the Sultan will be pleased to instal Prince Milosch as Hereditary Prince of Servia , is already on its way to Constantinople . Milosch has arrived at Cernitz , in Wallachia , and there met the deputation sent to . offer him the crown . He has accepted it for himself , and not for his son Michael . The Porte does not require that Prince Alexander should be restored . On the contrary , it is willing that the executive authority should repose in a magisterial council , composed of those who are Ministers . Then , this done , the election of a new Prince would proceed according to the wishes of the Servians , and in tho way it was done at the fall of Prince Milosch in 18 J 9 . .

      . - ; ¦ ' ' SPAIN . ' ¦ . The committee of the Deputies had made its report on the authorisation demanded by the Government to levy arid lay out the public revenue from January 1 , 1859 , according to the estimates . The report was favourable to the Government . An amendment on the bill was proposed by M . de la Vega , but it was rejected by 1 G 2 to 13 . It appears that the Spanish debt amounts to the enormous sum of 14 , 000 ; 000 , 000 reals . The Spanish Government and Legislature have taken great offence at , the way President Buchanan , alluded , in his Message , to the probable purchase of Cuba . The supposition that Spain would sell Cuba is protested against as offensive . A resolution proposed to Congress in support of this declaration was agreed to .

      The Spanish Government has been informed officially that complete satisfaction has been granted to Spain for the exactions of which the Spaniards had been the victims at Tampico , in conformity with the demands of the authorities of Cuba .

      SARDINIA . There is no relaxation in those preparations which , seem to indicate tho proximity of war . Besides extraordinary efforts for supplying the army with requisites , the workshops of the iriilitary arsenal are busy getting ready new field-batteries . General Garribaldi baa been summoned to Turin to bo questioned upon two points : —First , how , in case of war , ho would set to work to organise and mobilise a national guard ? Secondly , how and in what space of time ho could raise bodies of volunteers , so as to have tea thousand men ready for tho field ? Garribaldi has already returned to Nice , whore he usually resides , and where he will wait for fresh orders .

      THE PKESCIPALITUCS . Tho immense majority of the electors just chosen in Moldavia for oxercising tho trust of electing the llospodar , arc Conservatives in tho Austro-Turkish sense ; and , consequently , Michel Stourdza , tho candidate- of that party for tho Hospodariato , hus tho groatost cluuico to become tho future ruler .

      JSAPI-KS . Lord Stratford has loft Naples for Rome . His long visit has been solely in consequence of Lady Stratford ' s weak stato of health . Lord Stratford has not meddled with the question of politics , and , least of ail , with tho politics of Naples , and ho baa scrupulously avoided any intercourse which could give riso to « uch an idea . The Grand-Duko Constantino hus left tho Sardinian territories for Pulormo . Tho French journals contain some further communications . Tho King of Naples is said to have flatly refused tho request to erect a coaling station at Uriiulisi , on tho ground that Rusijia is in friendship with Piedmont , His Majesty cannot understand how anybody can bo his friend and tho friend of Victor Emmunuo ] at tho flame time

      roivruoAi .. Tho reply to tho discourse from tbo throne has boon paused by' tho Chambor of Deputies , and is now under difiousBlon in tho Upper House . Tho chief topic of interest iias boon that of tho Charlos-ot-Uviorgos . Tho proceedings of tho Kngliuli Parliament are anxiously awaitod in Lisbon . Tho Count ilo Vits & hum has been delegated by tho King of Saxony to negotiate tho preliminaries of tho , marriage between tho Infants * Donna Maria Anna and Prince George . The accounts of tho late vintage aro vory satisfactory , and tho yield of wine has boon ovon more abundant than was at am anticipated .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/6/