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    No. 412, -Febuvauy 13, Igggj THE LEADER....

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    THE PROGRESS OF THE PRINTCESS ROYAL. The...

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    CONTINENTAL, NOTES. That narrow and unch...

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    closed the secret of the Government opposition to his Nicaragua scheme w hich was a rejection of their proposition that he should go to Mexico and incite a war there , with a view to the United States acquiring that territory . Resolutions were passed denouncing the Government ,-and ; demanding the trial of Commodore ^ Lor ^ Na pier gave one of the most brilliant fetes ever -witnessed in Washington in honour of the marriage of the Princess Royal . . The city of Mexico has been bombarded by the opponents of Comonfort , and a desperate conflict continued for several days , resulting in the loss of more than a hundred lives and the wounding of a large number more A truce of a day was agreed to . The last report is that the coalition was marching on the city , and that civil raging

    war was . _ . „ ,. . The ship North America has come into collision , between Tuskar and Holy head , with the American barque ieander , which went down in about five minutes . Nine men and the captain ' s wife were drowned ; the rest were saved . The steamboat Fanny Fern has blown up near Cincinnati , and several lives have been lost .

    No. 412, -Febuvauy 13, Igggj The Leader....

    No . 412 , -Febuvauy 13 , Igggj THE LEADER . 151

    The Progress Of The Printcess Royal. The...

    THE PROGRESS OF THE PRINTCESS ROYAL . The progress of the Princess Royal and her husband through Belgium and Prussia has been marked by as many ° stately observances and as much . affectionate regard for the fair young girl who has left her home and country for new scenes and duties as signalized her departure from England . At Aix-la-Chapellc , the streets were gaily decorated , and the young couple were heartily received . Cologne was bright with illuminations ( the arrival took place after dark ) , and the cathedral was brought out into magnificent relief . The correspondent of the Dally Telegraph " The grand and wondrous cathedral , -which until that moment had been hidden in the midst of darkness , suddenly burst into view , radiant with the most gorgeous light . On every side it had been illuminated with a rich red glow , which brought out even the minutest tracery of the architecture into strong relief . The eflect was almost supernatural . The whole building stood out against the background of night , like some fairy temple that had been called from empty space at the bidding of an enchanter ; and this lasted , not for a minute , but for a good quarter of an hour . During all that time , the pans of red fire which had been p laced upon the parapets , And on various parts of the outside of the building , continued to blaze , and to reflect their lurid glow upon

    pillar , upon pinnacle , and upon sculptured figure . As you gazed upon the glorious building , thus tinted with fairy colours , you might have supposed ' yourself in the golden East of fable and tradition . You might have fancied that the palace of some gorgeous dream had suddenly started into form before your eyes . Such a magnificent illumination was never , probably , seen in any other city of Europe . While red fire was thus burning without , I learnt that the electric light was shedding a pale and ghostly glow within ; and that the Prince and Princess were there in order to see this marvellous building , under the influence of a double illumination so imposing . But the doors I soon found were pitilessly closed to all who sought admission , anil accordingly I am in ignorance as to what took place in the vast old temple at this particular moment . The * one great illumination of the town completely eclipsed all tliu others .

    Yet of these , however humble they might appear , it was impossible not to take noto . Nearly every house in the princip al streets of Cologne wore , more or leas , a holiday giorb . Some had flags drooping from tlioir casements , and coloured lamps shining in their windows ; others contentod themselves with displaying ranges of liyhtod ¦ candles in the place of lamps . Everywhere there was universal light . In the streets the crowd waa sufficiently numerous to render locomotion through the narrow , crooked , and puzzling by-ways exceedingly tiresome work . The peop le who had gathered round the station to greet the arrival of the Prince and Princess , hastened . away to see the cathedral as soon as thoy had gone . Thus every street in tlio neighbourhood of this building was soon filled . The soldiers had some difllculty in keoping order , and did not diminish Unit difficulty by chocking everybody hi tlio roughost innnnor who endeavoured to nastt certain ill-understood limits . "

    The Prince and Princess afterwards attended u grand concert given In the G Urzonieh Siiulo , or G uildhall , a building of immense size , witli Hue sculptured itJcabor in the roof and on the walls . It was not until nine o ' clock thut the Royal visitors arrived , and somo of the audience hud been there from five . Tlio concert was given by the celebrated Cologne Chorul Union , and the apodal feature was mi original com-. po 8 itlou ^ ni ^ hpupur _ ui _ tlw _« x « kvt . u _ XU . e J ^ Ji 5 U 8 l National Anthem waa huro introduced , and was rocejvad with groat enthusiasm , tho wliolo company standing . The audience was very brilliant , and tho ladies glittered with jewellery .

    At Magdeburg and Potsdam , thorp wore grand receptions , and tho trades ' companies formed processions through the streets . Homo remarks wore uiaUe At the former town on the fact of tho JUoyal oouplo

    driving by in a close carriage ; but this , it was explained , resulted from the Princess being rather unwell , owing to her long journey . The entrv into Berlin on Monday was a very brilliant affair . The weather was clear , bright , cold , and exhilarating ; the citizens were out in their best arisay and in the highest possible spirits ; and every accessory that could add splendour to the scene had been showered forth with copious liberality . The correspondent of the Times reports : — " The authorities gave us ( the English ) permission to

    erect the English flag outside the gates of the town ( a locality courteously described in the ofiicial programme as 'the commencement of the Theirgarten' ) , and assemble round that attractive point to give the Princess a hearty British cheer as she entered the town . This item of the proceedings , as set forth in an official programme , the Prince of Prussia was p leased to approve , and accordingly we assembled to-day , about one hundred and thirty men strong , besides the gentler sex , under cover of a noble Union Jack , a fed ensign , a pilot flag , and a fourth that exceeds my flagging powers to describe .

    " When her Royal Hig hness drove past in the procession , and accidentally made a short halt in front of our post , we gave her an unmistakable British cheer that went to her heart , if we may judge by the pleased and kind expression of her eyes . She looked infinitely better than on Saturday at Potsdam , where she was probably fatigued and over excited . As well as wo could see , the Princess was to-day dressed in white , and she certainly wore . a very comfortable ermine mantle , that did one's heart good to contemplate as she sat at the open window of the State carriage , bowing to all , and smiling where here and there some incident provoked it . We flatter ourselves that she smiled at tlu very British

    manifestation which she met with outside the gates at our hauds and throats , but in another instance she laughed outright , and has won the he : » rts of many by so doing . As it is stated to me , the people at one portion of the distance to be traversed outside of the town threw flowers into the carriage as she passed before them , for -which she bowed her smiling acknowledgments ; but , just as she was at one time bowing , a tolerably substantial nosegay flew in at the window and struck her in the face . The well-meaning donor stood aghast at the contretemps , till the hearty goodnature of the Princess manifested itself in unconstrained laughter at the concussion , in which Prince Frederick William

    joined . "The sight of that most noble of promenades , Unter den Linden , to-day , was most imposing ; from one point where I stood I calculated , with the assistance of a military friend well versed in these matters , that above 1 SO , 000 persons were standing in quiet expectation of the Princess ' s arrival , surrounded by the most tasteful and ample decoration ^ and in the presence of some of the most beautiful monumental sculpture that any capital of Europe can boast . " There were separate decorations of this festal Mall at every point where a cross street intersected . Thus , at the intersection of the Schadow-strusse , the above-mentioned flugstafts were not only decorated , as before , with garlands and banners , but in this case were converted

    into obelisks , on different stage * of which the busts oi the various members of the Koyul family were placed in due order and relation . At the intersection of the Friedrich-strasse , the erections took a still more monumental form , nud allegorical statues of the . size of life were mounted therein niches many feet from tho ground , and , like the busts on tliu obelisks , were surrounded by evergreens , by embluzonries , flags , and various legends . At various othor points wore decorations l « - "ss elaborate than these , while tho accidental presence of certain barges in tho canal over which tho Scliloss-brUoke loads had given rise to as pretty a demonstration us any to

    bo found throug hout thu whole fostal line . Ihe vosscla wore hauled up close to the bridge , and had not only flagged and sported very appropriate banners in addition , but they had slung their taeklo from mast to mast outside tho bridge , across tho road , and on those lines ha d hung transparencies that oven by daylight wore good looking , and in the evening woro highly un ' ootivu . Ono of these bore as a legend , ' A hearty welcome to tho noble nowly-murriod oouplo ;' tho other , ' All happiness and good wishes from tho Prussian Navigation . ' Tho whole distance of tlio lino of procession from tho monument of Frederick tho Groat down to the Schloss was marked out with a double lino of flagstaff ' s , decorutoil as before described , and along tho sidos of this portion were to bo found at ovury available point stands uroctml with scut * for spectators , containing from a few hundred to 2000 persons each , ami ornamented with groat skill , taste , and liburulity ; niuny of thoso erections wuro so tastefully designed and so prottlly JUM "l'JJiiLUli ^ would bo bo ophoiriorul . Nor were thoro many housoa in the wholo length of tho festal lino that did not sport some spooies of decoration , tho very leant of which conaintod of two or more Hags waving I ' roin tho roof or uppor windows ; in many oasoa rich carpula were exhibited ut tlu > windows in tho Italian stylo , anil iu rarer hiHtuncue expensive and elaborate decorations of theontiro facades had boon got up . "

    The strewing of flowers by young girls , the 2 > roeessions of the trades' companies , the displays of military and civic power , and the thouscind-and-one little minutiaj of such an occasion , contributed to adorn with a flush and superabundance of life and gallantry the progress of the Princess and her husband to the Schloss , which they reached at a quarter past two o ' clock .

    Continental, Notes. That Narrow And Unch...

    CONTINENTAL , NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress ' of foreign , nations , and caves for no portion of the human race but that to which itself belongs . De . Arnold . feaxce . A transIj . vtiox of a despatch from Count "Walewski to the French Ambassador at London , on the subject of the late attempted assassination , has been laid on . the table of the English House of Commons , and published in our newspapers . It is dated January 20 , and , after alluding to previous acts of the same kind , all of which , it is remarked , were concocted in England , it asserts that the French Government is ' penetrated with the sincerity of the sentiments of reprobation' of the recent attempt which have been expressed in this country . France , it is affirmed , honours the principle of protection to refugees maintained by England ; she observes the same principle herself , and Ls far from comnlaining of the shelter granted in our territories to refugees who remain ' faithful to

    their opinions , even to their passions . But there are certain persons who engage in conspiracies for assassination . " Ought , then , the right of asylum to protect such a state of things ? Is hospitality due to assassins ? Should English legislation serve to favour their designs and their manoeuvres , and can it continue to protect persons who place themselves by flagrant acts outside the pale of the common law , and expose themselves to the ban of humanity ? In ' submitting these questions to the Government of her Britannic . Majesty , the Government of the Emperor not only discharges a duty towards itself , it responds to the sentiment of the country , which demands s ' uch a proceeding , under the pressure of most legitimate' anxieties ( qui Vy invite sous I ' empire des plus Itirjitimes preoccupations ) , and which , in a circumstance where joint responsibility ( solidarite between all nations and all Governments is so evident , " believes that it has the right to count upon the co-operation of England . The recurrence and the perversity of these guilty enterprises subject France to a danger against which we are all bound to provide . The Government of her Britannic Majesty can assist us in averting it by giving us a guarantee of security , which no State can refuse to a neighbouring' State , anil which we arc authorized in expecting from an ally . Full of confidence , moreover , in the exalted reason of the English Cabinet , we abstain from all indication as regards the measures which it may be suitable to take to satisfy this wish . We rely in this matter entirely on them ( ^ the English . Cabinet ) for the care of appreciating the decisions which they shall judge the most proper to lead to this end , and we flutter ourselves ( nous nous contplaisons ) with the linn belief that we shall not have appealed iu vain to their conscience and their loyalty . You will be so good as to read this despatch to Lord Clarendon , and give him a cony of it . "

    It is said thut Ferukh Ivlian , the Persian Ambassador , acting on a special authority i ' roin his Government ; , has signed a trouty with a Paris merchant for the qxclusive spinning by niuyliinery during twenty-live yoara of all tlio silk produced in 1 ' orsia . The conditions of tlio trouty , it is added , will enable the French merchants to savo a portion of the 200 , 0 00 , 000 francs they pay annually for foreign silk . . M . IJilluult , Minister of the Interior , has resigned his office , and the resignation has been accepted by the Empuror . Gunoral L'Espinasse , the Emparor ' a aide-decamp , has sucaoudud to tho vacant , post . M . Corneau , i ' relect of tho Lundcs , is appointed General Secretary to tho Minister , in pluue of M . Muuueuux . Genorul do L'Espiuusso lias issued a circular to tho Prefects which , may bo considered as a manifesto of the now policy which is to bo inaugurated in consequence of th o attempt on thu lifo of thu Emperor . Tho Giuneral writes : — " Franco , tranquil , prospurouti , and glorious under a

    Govewiinent of rorttoi'ntiun , 'hu . s abandoned hursuu ior six years to , perhaps , an execsnivo conlidunoo in tho sub- ' siding of anarchical pu- ^ ioiis which thu euerg-y of tho Sovereign und tlio uoluinu will of tlio country uuoinuu to havo entirely auiiihilutod . Tho goiiorosity of tlu Emperor , multiplying parduns ami uinnestlus , iUelf gave a pledge for this natural , but incomplete , return to quiot and union . An uxucruhlo attempt has opened all eyes , and has revualed l . o us tho savage rosoutinunt and tlio culpable hopes which still glimmer uniouy tho ash us of . fcU « J . o .. ^ lulivn . u , ry ^ ProYot , wo inudt neither overrate nor imdorruto tuo strength . Its odious attempt has ulurinod iho country j wo must givo it tho plodyus of mifuty it roijuiro . i . Dlaorutionury or bujKirlluims inuauuroo aro not tho point in question . What wu want in u watchful , iueuaauut » ur ~ ouilliiuoe , ready t |> jirpvuiu , prompt ami linn to tnippross , alwayd calm , a . i pmvor anujuitijuo should bo ; in fact , our j > onulutk > us , who havo boon Jiwtly alarmtnl , muat bo

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 13, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13021858/page/7/