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      930 T H E Lea De R. [No. 442, September ...

      930 T H E LEA DE R . [ No . 442 , September 11 , 1858 .

      Titkkey. A Letter From Damascus, Of The ...

      TITKKEY . A letter from Damascus , of the 12 th ult ., in a Trieste lournal , says that the flag of the Russian consulate had been insulted by fanatics , because the consul had formed a connexion with a Kurd woman ; the consul had retired to Beyrout in consequence of the fanatics having yowed to be avenged on him . " Ifc is reported , " says the Journal du Havre , " that Abdul-Azziz , brother of the Sultan Abdul-Medjid , will shortly visit France . Should that take place , it will be an event without precedent in the annals of the history of Turkey . "

      A despatch in the Nord of Brussels , stating that the French , Greek , Austrian , and American consuls had been murdered at Stanchio , is explained by a subsequent despatch to have its foundation in an insult offered to the French . Consul only , who represented all the other " powers . A telegram from Marseilles , dated Sept . 4 , says that there has been a panic at Aleppo which lasted three days . The Mussulmans bought arms , and closed their bazaars ; but , thanks to the authorities , apprehensions had been allayed ; the Mussulmans , however , continued to arm , and to provoke the Christians . There had been a like panic at Tripoli ,, only dispelled by the arrival of a ship of war . Traffic in arms continues to be active in Tnrkev .

      The Municipal Commission of Constantinople having proposed to put a tax upon Europeans , and to render them , liable to imprisonment for non-payment , M . de Thouvenel has convoked the representatives of the Powers to consider whiat arrangement should be made . The laying down of the Bagdad telegraph cable has been . interrupted by the severe illness of both Colonel Biddulph and lieutenant Hbldsworth , the superintending engineers . Both officers have arrived , at Constantinople from Ismid , on the Marmora , suffering from , a bad attack of intermittent fever , engendered , doubtless , by the recent severe heat and the low , marshy situation of the scene of their operations . As every other preparation , however , has been made for the efficient carrying on of the works , it is to be hoped that this untoward interruption will occasion but a short delay hi their prosecution . :

      The inquest into the debts of the imperial household , now instituted by Riza Pasha , has brought most extraordinary things to light , One Armenian banker is the Sultan ' s creditor to the amount of 1 ^ , 000 ? . sterling , ¦ while the actual value of the articles furnished by him does not amount to more than about . 100 , 000 ^ . sterling . Riza Pasha has announced that henceforward whatever is sold to the Sultan on credit , without the visa of the commission of inquirv , will not be paid for .

      It is asserted that by the mail of the 27 th a protest of the Turkish ( Government against the bombardment of Jeddab , which then had become known at Constantinople , has arrived in Paris , It is said to bear the form of a circular note . Another complaint of Turkey is described to refer not to England but to France . It is one pointing to the attacks in the French newspapers on the Sultan ' s Government , for which the Sultan ' s Government holds that of the Emperor of the French responsible . A letter from Jerusalem dated 18 th August seems to show that conspiracy is at work , not only to promote the extermination of Christians , but to excite action against the present Sultan , who is believed to be betraying the cause of Mahomedanism . Some persons who were arrested at Gaza have been put in prison at Jerusalem . They are charged with belonging to a society ¦ which intended to repeat the massacre at Jeddah either at Jerusalem or Gaza . We are also told of a Mnasulman propaganda which has been in existence for some years . BUSSIA . The Emperor Alexander left Moscow on the 22 nd ult . to . visit Nijni Novgorod , where the celebrated fair , jabping . held , and he was to return on the 26 th , the anniversary of his coronation . On the 2 nd inst . ho was to sot out for Poland , The journals of St . Petersburg publish a report from General Evdokimoff , commanding in the Caucasus , announcing that on the 21 st of July the Russians succeeded in dislodging the Circassians from the defile of the Argoun ; but after this , Schamyl collected nine thousand men in the plains of Yarandi , and proceeded to fortify himself , without the Russians being able to prevent him . A letter from St . Petersburg , in the Ddbata , says that the Emperor has ordered that a town , to boar the name ""^ TJIHgo ^ ttrttetts ^ sh ^^^ the Sel and the Amur . The Russian Government in now having made in Prussia 6000 Minitf rifles on a now system . The longest range of those rifles is 1200 pacos ,. and they aro wall suited to light infantry . It is said that for the future all the musket barrels aro to bo mndo of cast steel . Another disastrous gunpowder explosion hns boon experienced . According to advices from St . Petersburg , dated , the 81 st of August , a groat explosion took place on the morning of that clay at oomo powder-mills in the vicinity of tho city , by which it was foarqd several hundred , lives had boon lost .

      Titkkey. A Letter From Damascus, Of The ...

      . SWEDEN . A letter from Stockholm of the 30 th ult .,. says : —¦ " The Prince Regent returned yesterday from his excursion in the Northern provinces , immediately dissolved the provisional government , and afterwards visited the King and Queen at the Palace of prottningholm . The ' Prince from thence went to his summer Palace of Ulriksdal . " According to the last accounts from Stockholm some cases of cholera have appeared hv that capital . MONTENEGRO . The Agram Gazette publishes a letter from Dalraatia , which announces that Prince Danilo has issued to his Montenegrins the very trying order to restore the booty they took from the Turks at the capture of Kolatchin . A letter from Vienna Bays that powerful efforts are now being made by Austria and England at Constantinople , to support the Porte in its . refusal to grant to Montenegro a port on the coast of the Adriatic . . It gives as a reason that such a port would be principally used for the advantage of Russia , as it would be a permanent harbour for her navy , and that dangers might be caused by the continual presence of the Russian nag among the Sultan ' s Greek subjects .

      too close to the coast of Sardinia , were captured by a cruiser , a little tpo eager , perhaps , to avenge the affair of the Cagliari . In consequence , however , of the friendly intervention of France , the Piedmontese Government has released the Neapolitan vessels . . -

      DENMARK .. Intelligence from Copenhagen continues to be favourable to the probabilities of a satisfactory arrangement of the pending difficulties between Denmark ai » il the German Diet . Baron Bulow had arrived at Copenhagen to explain the situation of affairs to his Government , and to communicate to it verbally the demands of the Diet . A council had been held , the King presiding . It was stated positively that the Danish Government was disposed to do all in its power to meet the German Diet in its disposition to settle matters by negotiation .

      HOLLAND . The King and Queen of Holland , with their family , ieft the Hague on the 3 rd for Amsterdam . The . Prince and Princess Frederick and their daughter the Princess Marie met the Royal train at Voorschoten , and proceeded with it to Amsterdam , where splendid fetes are to be given on occasion of the anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Orauge . There is again some talk of the English Princess Alice becoming the Princess of Orange , and future Queen of Holland .

      NAPLES . . We read in the official journal of the 25 th ult . that the Communes of Lucerne , Biccari , Rosseto , Celle , Ischitella , and others of the province of the Capitanate , have suffered considerably from tempests of late ; in some places the storms have lasted for six days without interruption . Hail and the inundations have destroyed a great -part of the corn crops and devastated the green crops . The local authorities are said to be actively engaged in distributing relief to the sufferers .

      SWITZERLAND . A Parisian letter says that M . dcTurgot has accepted without hesitation the post of ambassador in Switzerland .

      komjs . A correspondent of the Daily News , writing from Rome on September 4 , says : — " It is beginning to bo rumoured in several creditable quarters , and I have heard it myself from ecclesiastical sources , that Pio Nono , who has already ventured upon many steps that hia more cautious predecessors would never have dreamed of , is determined to add to tho memorabilia of his eventful reign a Papal pilgrimage to Palestine , with the full consent and approbation of his Imperial brother ( speaking temporary ) , but implacable enemy and rival ( speaking spirituallyj , tho Sultan Abdul Medjid . The Sultan has always shown himself personally partial to Pio Nono . "

      TIIM VR 1 KC 1 VAIAT 1 KS . A letter from Vienna states that , . tho Kannakan of Moldavia , Prince Vogorides , has sent iu his resignation to Constantinople , assigning as liis reason that the rorsults of tho Conference of Paris have responded so little to the hopes of tho Roumans that an insurrection is to bo foarod . Tho lottor , however , says that tho real reason of the Prince ' s resignation is , that as the Conference has decided that tho future Hospodar must bo born of Koumim parents , ho , being a Fannriot , cannot become a candidate . The lottor concludes by assorting that tho nows from the Principalities in satisfactory , and that Princo Vogoridos ' s fours of an outbreak aro perfectiy imaginary . ORUICCK . " - "flPho'rKginpfwoft . Qroouo . flmlv . tad-at-Mun ^^ , fin , , t u ' ° 2 n ( 1 i . and intends to remain there several wook « .

      A lottor from AtUuns stuUm that tho Queen of Greece had with aomo solemnity laid tho first stone of a Legislative Palace , and liad ordered tho Minister of Finance to go into tho provinces to examine tho system of levying taxes and propose improvements in it .,

      hi A K DIM A . Tagani , tho eloquent advocate who defended Niootora on hid trial at Salerno , lias made his escape from Naples under a disguise , and nought rofugo in Piedmont . Some Neapolitan boats Booking for coral , approaching

      China: Nothing Is Yet Officially Known R...

      china : Nothing is yet officially known respecting the terms of the alleged new treaty with China . The following summary has received publicity , but no reliance can be placed On the perfect accuracy of the-statement : — " With regard to the new treaties , the Russian and American have been signed , and go home by this- mail . They are short , and eontain , it is said , only thirteen or fourteen articles , including the ' mpst favoured nation ' clause . Two new ports to be thrown open , and Russia to be allowed consuls at all the ports as other nations . " The French is reported to have thirty-nine and the English sixty-three articles ; last accounts say they were nearly arranged , and may be down iu time for this steamer .

      " Contents , briefly summed up , are rumoured to be to the following purport : — " The Emperor agrees to all our demands . "Expenses of war to be paid to the K-nglbh and French —about 10 , 000 , 000 of dollars to the English , and G , 000 , 000 to the French . ¦' ' Money to be paid out of Canton duties , which are to be received by foreigners till the amount is liquidated , and Canton sUM held as a material guarantee . " We are to have an ambassador at Pekin , but he is not to reside within the walls . " A consular agent at Tien-sin . " The navigation of the Yang-tse-Kiang to be thrown

      open . .... ; . " All seaports to be open to foreign trade . (?) ( One account says Hang Chaw , Swatow—a port in Hainan , south of Hong-Kong—and Taiswan , in Formosa . ) " A Chinese mission to England , but no representative to be considered as a permanent resident . " (?) The Monlteur de VArmue says that the diplomatic agents of the European G overnments will reside a portion of each year in Pekin—during the mouths of May and June , it is stated . It continues . ' thus : — "We must not deceive ourselves as to the treaties that have just been signed with the various Powers ' .

      The Chinese will continually elude their execution ; but the mere existence of those documents is not the less a c o nsiderable fact ; it is , for all the contracting Powers , the constitution of a right , and the mutual obligation to enforce it . China henceforward is legally and officially open to the couiinerce of nations . The latest news from Tien-sin announces that measures were taken with a view to the expedition to Cochin China , so often spoken of . The French squadron , under the command of Vice-Admiral Rigault de Genouilly , is to quit China in the month of October for the Bay of Tourau . It ia the most favourable season at which to approach the coast of Cochin China . "

      The Times of Tuesday announces that it has been put in possession of private letters which give the derails of the negotiations that have taken place between the European Powers and the Court of Pekiu . On the 4 th of June two Chinese Ministers of high rank arrived at Tien-sin . One of these was n Chirianinn , the other a Tartar . The senior , Kwei-liang , is described to bo about seventy-three years of age . Tlu-se people declared themselves to bo " Plenipotentiaries , " and upon the faith of tins declaration " tho English and French Ministers consented to meet them . An isolated

      josshouse south of Tien-rfiin was the appointed rendezvous . It was arranged that Lord Elgin should have his interview first h and then Bnron Gros ; tho Russian wna to come third , and tho American last . On the 5 th of June , Lord Elgin and 1 h " h ontiro suite proceeded to tho conference , and Kwoi-Hang opened the business by saying that his Imperial master hail received Lord Elgin ' s letter , and had deputed . his servants , to arrange matters npuodily . Lord Elgin replied that he was glad to-sec thd Imperial-Ministers , and that his Queen hud granted him certain

      powers to arrange all matters on a safe and proper footing . On tho Imporiul commissioners producing their powers to treat , they wore found to bo couched in vague and not very respectful lunguugo . When this document had boon road to an end Lord Elgin arose , anil ordered his chair to bo brought , enying to Kwoi-liuiigi i" cur ' manner , that tho powers of tho Imperial ooinniimsioners wore unsatisfactory . Tho liarl ' a chair waa lnirriwl up » tho guard presented arms , tho staff entered tlioir chaiw , and the mandarins were left making npoochos . h

      On tho 8 th of Juno it became known that Koy ) g «»« 'avrived- ^ abUiliQn . nlii Kiw . in .. . hiu || b , o , pn dofirmUia < " » account of tho fcroaty of Nankin 5 ho was nowWiirdown to redeem hie credit by confounding tho buvbanttO councils . His tactics were only an imitation of tuoso which he had soon suooood for ji while at Canton . iW intrigued to got himself appointed a oo-ooniniiwHloner , and succeeded . Ho then instigated the p (» pu »«« ° vo manjtoat ill-will to the strangers , nnd , as at Cunton flff « t Tlon-Hln , quibfc Europeans wore insulted and tftonou . But Lord Elgin and Sir JMlohnol Soymonr woro cjiurti w tho occasion . Captain Owborn , with hia ffulloy s ° . \ l m < X wHU Cantttln Dow and Mr . OlipbAut Uelplng «» m

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091858/page/10/