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    The Case Of The Cagliari. The Correspond...

    inustyand stale , unless better were paid for at the rate of a halfpenny a glass ; rats scampered about the floor at night , flat lizards ran up and down the walls by day , -and . vermin swarmed out of the un- j picked oakum beds which were hired for fourpence a night . If no beds were hired , there was nothing but mouldy straw to lie on . One of the incidents related by Mr . Park is like a bit out of the romances of Mrs . Radclffie : — "I was taken out of my cell , handcuffed , and , escorted by three gaolers , we proceeded down a dark passage . When at some distance , the men told me to stop , and

    stood whispering behind me . They then told me to go on again , and then again to stop , followed by the same i -whispering . This process was repeated several times , j we still going through the dark passages , until I must confess the thought occurred to my mind that they ¦ were going either to make away with me secretly , or , at the very least , apply some species of torture . But , after all the whispering , and ascending and descending , and turning in the passages of the prison , we arrived at the chambers of the Procuratore Generate , or Attorney-General , where I was subjected to an ' interrogation , ' the learned gentleman's object being to get me to substantiate certain assertions which he made . When he

    had finished his interrogations , and the attendants were about to convey me away again , ' Take him , ' said the Attorney-General , 'the other way ; ' and lo ! I was in my cell " in a twinkling , having passed through nothing but one well-lighted passage . " During this interview , the Attorney-General said that the crew of the Cagliari ought to have burst the boilers rather than permit the insurgents to land ! "When at Salerno , our countrymen were better treated . Of the liev . Mr . Piigb , the Protestant clergyman resident at Naples , a strange story is told . " He took , " says Mr . Park , " twenty dollars away with him that had been entrusted to his care for supplying our wants ,-if needed , without ever proffering them . " "With respect to the trial , Mr . Park says that the judge appeared to be a very good old leaning to the side of the prisonersbut the iiouiiviiU

    man , ; lLktXLlj ICHXllUg LU 11 IC C 1 UU XJX . , 1 . 11 V * ^ j •***»* v n ** . ^ telegraphic wires were always pJying to the King at Gaeta , who in fact directed the trial . The Sardinian Government has laid the whole case of the Cagliari before the judgment of Europe in a long memorandum sent to its agents abroad . It is here urged that the Neapolitan Government in effect admits that the seizure of the vessel was a capture on the high seas , inasmuch as it has submitted the case to a prize court , and justiiies the act by a reference to common law instead of international law , the former of which would only be applicable had the seizure taken place in the Neapolitan waters .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to tie condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign , nations , and cares for no portion of the human race but that to which itself belongs . Du . Arnold . fkance . The Council of the Order of the Legion of Honour have after due deliberation , resolved that the order of St . Faustin , founded by the Emperor Soulouque of

    Hayti , shall take its proper place among the decorations which French subjects will be permitted to wear . The Toulon fleet , which at present consists of eleven ships of the line , is to be increased to fourteen . Orders have been given that a model of the gun presented by Queen Victoria shall be cast , with a view to depositing it in the Imperial collection , 'Major Arnaud , a veteran of the old Imperial army , has recently died at Marseilles , hia native town . The Moniteur , in its official part , contains the law decreeing a levy of 100 , 000 recruits of the class of 1-858 . It likewise contains ft law granting to the Government a supplementary credit of l , 20 Q , OOOf . ( 48 , 000 / . sterling ) , to bo charged on the budget of 1858 , for covering the W W W ^* 0 ^* F "" ^ Cl ^^ * - — — ^^~— — — ^^ - — — - f ¦ - ^^

    expenses of secret service in the interest of public safety . The sum which the Emperor has subscribed to the fund now being raised for M . do Lamartino is 10 , 000 f . Prince Jdrdme has directed his private secretary to address a letter in bin name to one of the members of the committee named to receive contributions , anil has uubacribed the sum of lOOOf . ' Signor Masszini publishes in the English papers some observations on the retroactivity of the infamous Loi deaStiajpects , which lie calls a " monstrous achievement . " Ho adds ;— " Hundreds of men , merchants , lawyers , ^ working-Hion .-are-now ^ trttnaporifce , ^ locality . From the 14 th of March downwards , every night a convoy of prisoners has roaclied Marsuilles , each convoy containing from thirty to forty poisons . Tho men thus doomed h « vo boon generally invited , for tho aako of avoiding Hcandul , to tho Prefecture , to hour some communication relating to their pviviito interests . And this Is called a Government , ft normal legal power ¦ worth alliances , protection , antUconepirncy-to-murdor WHb and prose prosecutions I This wo aro cnllod on to respect . " An instance of police tyranny ia given in a latter tftam Paris to Ww Grondwet of Antwerp . If true ,

    it 'exhibits a state of things little short of diabolical . i The writer states : — " The surveillance of the visible and invisible police is carried to such an extent in I the so-styled capital of the civilized world , that its inhabitants are no longer free to receive even their friends in their own houses without previously obtaining a permission to that effect . One of the ions bourgeois of Paris , being lately about to betroth his daughter , applied to tho Prefet of Police for leave to assemble about thirty friends at the festive board of a family fete . To this application the Prefet replied that he would willingly grant the permission , provided the applicant increased his btwo to be desi

    the number of guests y persons gnated by him . The dinner-room , however , not being sufficiently capacious to admit of such an increase , the Prefet , after having veritied the fact , demanded to see a list of the thirty guests , with the view of selecting two whose names could be erased therefrom ; but , having cast his eyes on the paper , he politely folded and returned it , significantly observing that all was perfectly correct , two persons already known to him being among the future guests . " The ceremony of inaugurating the new Boulevard de Sebastopol took place at two o ' clock on Monday afternoon . The Emperor presided , the weather was highly

    favourable , and large crowds assembled on the spot . The scene was a very gay one , for the houses wore decorated with streamers , draperies , and inscription ' s . The National Guard and the regular troops kept both sides of the way , from one extremity to tlie other . The Emperor was mounted on a charger with rich housings . Ho was preceded by half a dozen Cent Gardes , and followed by a numerous body of general officers ; but they rode at a distance of some fifty paces from him . The Empress was in an open carriage . A huge curtain , studded with golden bees and the Imperial arms , and stretched between two gilded minarets , concealed from the public the new section of the line till the arrival of the Emperor , when , at a given signal , the curtain fell , and the magnificent vista was disclosed . The terminus of the Strasburg Railway was richly decorated ; and , in the interior , under the peristyle , was a

    1 _ — __ " 1 _ - __ - _ . _ ^ ~ .--- - l --H- ~ n— _ . £ ^ . 1 — >• C t 1- * ^ - ¦^¦¦^^ ¦ v » - ¦ <> il 1 » * ¦ *! *• r » %% /»***** n ii rl handsome saloon , decorated with green silk drapery and crimson velvet , for the purpr . se of receiving the Emperor and Empress , who were met by the members of the Municipal Council with un address . The Emperor warmly thanked them for the activity they had shown in the completion of the works . On returning to the Tiiileries , lie did not go by tho way he had come , but rode , -with his staff of generals and his six Gardes , along the Boulevard to the Rue dc lji Paix , where there were no soldiers , but , probably , a great many police agents and spies . He was well received , and the occasion passed off without any disturbance . In replying to the address , the Emperor said : — "The

    Municipal Council had a manifold work to accomplish : it was first necessary to secure the financial resources of Paris , to favour new constructions , so as to be able to lodge a sudden excess of population , and , on tho other hand , it was indispensable to demolish to throw open now thoroughfares , giving light and health to unhealthy quarters , making new great arteries favourable to the development of the city , by bringing the centre closer to the outskirts . This double result has been achieved : the constructions have exceeded the demolitions tenfold ; but y our efforts did not stop there . Uuring the famine thankt thBakers' d Institution

    years , s o e Fun , you gave the people cheaper broad . No plan of improvement or benevolence escaped you . While founding new hospitals , you increased private charities ; you built new churches and new schools ; you helped tho supply of provisions for Paris by establishing central markets ; you commenced tho purification of the city by a gigantic work of underground galleries , worthy of the works of ancient Rome ; finally , you united to tho useful whut would satisfy the eye and inspire elevated scntimonlc But our tnsk , gentlemen , is by no means accomplished . You have approved a general plan , which is to continue what you havo so well commenced . Tho Chambors , I trust , will shortly voto it , and thus wo shall buhold

    every year now arteries thrown open , populous districts rendered more salubrious , rents loseonud owing to tho increase of houses , tho ¦ working classes onrichod by lubour , poverty diminished by n better system of bonevolonco , and Paris responding m oro and moro to her high calling . " A bill Is , by ordor of the Emperor , to bo pvoBontod to tho Legislative Uody for granting penuions to tho l ' amilies of tho persons killed in tho last attempt on his Majesty's life , nntl to tho persona who wero injured . "Tho Committee of tho Legislative V ' v ou tuo I 3 ud * jct , " says tho Times Varia correspondent , " lius conducted its examination . Tho Government had demanded i ^ ltTfoTjpTiyfiT ^ tain classes of employ fa of tho Ministries , but tho committee declares that it does not think them necessary , and it jiroposoH that tho incronso . granted to porHons who receive 1500 f . sulirry shall bo taken oil ' , timl that tlmt granted to inferior functionaries ahull not oxooud 1501 ' . Tho committee , besides , strongly recommends that tho numbor of functionaries ulinll bo coiiHidonibly roduuoil , us it exceeds wlint wati fixed by docroon iiv 1801 and 1852 | alno that tho formalities observed in transacting business In tho Government offices shall bo simp lified .

    Ihe committee also calls for the suppression of the auZ mentation granted to Juges . de Paix and their clerks " Various other suggestions arc made , of less genemJ interest . . s rat " The Moniteur " saya the Paris correspondent of thP Daily Telegrajth , " contains a long biograph y of ftr Cochdet , formerly French Consul at London , and re cently deceased , after having been raised to be Councillor of State , and then senator . Of course , as Ar " Cocheli't has breathed our fogs , an opportunity '' « ' not lost of caressing one of the darling prejudices of the French natiou ; and the public is iij formed that h that

    , althoug gentleman has resided in bvery part of Europe , and even in E gypt , it was the climate of London that undermined his constitution . However , he managed to live until near seventy aad would have been living now had he not been so deeply affected by the attempt of the 14 th : — ' Although full of confidence in the future , the security of which aii august wisdom had just guaranteed , he could not recover . ' What i ^ uoblu balderdash ! ' ' - : The French Government has been informed that Felix Pyat , hearing that he was to be arrested , together with his printer , has disappeared from London and quitted England .

    ITALY . The Courrier Franco-1 tulivu states that Si gnor Rossini has just written a new melody , or nollurno , for the violoncello , which he has presented to i \ I . Servais , the sola player . The insignificant towu of Lantona , in the Duch y of Massa , has been declared ia a state of siege , and occupied by sixty Modenese toldiers . Madame Orsini has left Paris for Italy . The frieuds of Italian liberty have subscribed for her the sum of 2 J 00 francs , which were put in her hands at the moment of departure . The subscribers are mostly English . A decree of the King of Naples , dated Thursday , allows Park to return to England , lie is acquitted . The I'icdiaoiitiise Ouzct / e , containing Orshii ' s letter , was stopped at the post in Lombardy . AUSTKIA .

    . Tlie funeral ceremony of Count Gorskowski , general of cavalry and Governor of Venice , recently deceased , took place on the ~ 22 iui ult ., with great splendour . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , tho Cummander-in-( Jhief of the Lombardo-Venetian foives , and other persons of eminence , Avere present . Tlie Austrian garrison of Uulc ^ na h ; i 3 been reinforced , owing to the fear of an insuirection in the Legations . The demolition of the fortifications at Vienna has begun . These constructions were commenced three hundred and thirty years ago by lUaxiinilian I ., at the time of the advance of the Turks on Vienna , but were

    not completed until lo"G 3 , under Leopold I . rouTuo . u .. The Louie * Administration , finding it impossible toretain oflice with tho existing Parliament , has resolved on a dissolution . SPAIN . In the sitting of the Congress , on the 30 th ult ., Senur Gonzalez de la Vega called on the Government to give explanations respecting the fusion of the two branches of the royal family , which , ho said , according to report , was on the eve of being concluded . The Minister of

    Public Works s-nid that he would obtain information on tho subject , and answer on a future day . Sonor Gonzalez do la Vega expressed surprise that tho Government should not bo informed on a matter of so much importance , especially as some of the journals had referred to it , and been seized for so doing . TUUKIiV . . Omar Pacha , who has been sont into tlie Ljaiet w Bagdud , met with resistance at his entry into that ciij , and a light took place iu tho streets , in which Jus i » ujutant wiw killed . , . Tho Archbishop of Saloniki , having n-fiwuil the pain arcliul seat at Alexandria , lias been ordered Lo eomo * ' \ _ . 1 A _ . . . 1 _ le

    Constantinop . ,, ,,. According to letters from Uosnia , in tho J tut OtUtm of Frankfort , thu Mahometan landowners continue , i subject tho Unynha to gross exactions , ami to ii t' em most cruelly . Amongst , other tiling . " » " . that forty inhabitants of tho village of iMiirineo , >' district of NovIIhii , not being able to | "iy win" «" quired , wore Btrippcd of their clothe * , tied two u } ^ to treoa , had wntor poured over them until u not ,, were then left , covered with ice , during « wliolo b Tho next morning threo had diud , and huvunu < n wero in a daugonnirt wtatu . , The railway from Smyrna to Aidln ww op aw * ~ tho- £ Brd * ulU ~ lii « tho ~ prOHHiKO .-uOO'u : ^^ dditflitod crowd , oiul with tho uocompuiumoiit o * ¦ '» uuihIo and other honours . . m 0 yf Tho Turkish Governor of Utouhbh w hhM ' 0 «» thu Athenian papors to havo commit , M' < J tto 1 " ? .. ! i .. wi , fll aeta of vlolonoo on the GroolcH of that town , l " ^ * ' It is said , not merely oxpoln tho Greeks , inu ^ tlioso ho dldllkos , or luirt them « sda 9 » Imi ( il ' l servants . . , i , con Tiio colobratod chief Ghoumn , of Xii ""'' . n " ur ldlled In un notion with the Pacha d troops ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10041858/page/6/