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    870 THE LEADER. ' /[No. 358, Saturday

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    are 506 officers , surgeons with the xank of officer , and paymasters . . ¦ ¦ PRUSSIA . Two nights following , the sentinels placed at one of ¦ the gates of the palace of Charlottenbourg have disappeared from their post , and their bodies have been found the following-morning in the Spree , bearing marks-which show that tley must have been first stunned by a sudden Wow and tfien thrown into the river . The police are making tie most rigorous search to discover the authors « f this outrage . Another German prince serving hvtbe Prussian army has sent in his resignation . . His debts amount to 40 , 000 thalers . He was concerned in the affairs of the Jockey Club which resulted in the Kinckeldy duel . Techen , ex-lieutenant of police , has been brought to trial before the tribunal of Berlin , on a charge of high treason , arising out of the theft of despatches . The trial bas taken place with closed , doors , and Techen has been Found guilty ., and condemned to eight years' imprisonment , followed by ten years' police surveillance .

    "We are assured from a good source , says the Jiourse Gazette of 'Berlin , " that it is not Baron de Koller , but Count Linningen " Westerburg , who is to replace Count Esterhazy as ambassador of Austria at Berlin , " " A piece of Court gossip is current , " says a writer from Berlin , " for wticb . I will not assume any responsibility . It 5 a aaid that the widowed hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen is not unlikely to appear as a suitor for ¦ the hand of her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge , who is at this time with the Duchess , her mother , at Baden . On the other hand , the English Princess is said to have a rival in . Princess Mary , younger sister of the Grand Duke of : Baden and of 'the reigning JDiichess of Saxe-Coburg . " .

    . ; . - . , " . .. .. . - GEKMANY . . . ~ ' ¦ . -. The Cartsrulie Gazette publishes two decrees , by the terms of -which , the Regent Frederick takes the title of ' Grand Duke of Baden . ' Since the death of Leopold , in 1852 , Frederick has governed under the title of Regent .. ' .. > . . ' - ' . . ¦ , ' , ¦ ' . ' . .. ¦ •' . ¦ ' ¦¦ : ¦" .. ; ¦ SWITZERLAND . The recent rising at Neufchatel appears to have been prompted hy ; Prussia , and carried out by a small party of aristocrats possessing strong sympathy with royalty in general , and with the Prussian monarchy in particular . There was a . simultaneous ' movement at'Lode . As soon as the disturbances -were known , General T > enzler put him 3 elf at the head of a levy of armed Republicans in

    the Val de Travers , and . marched on Neufchatel . The castle here had been seized and occupied by some two or three hundred Royalists , who had arrested several members of the Council of State , hoisted the Prussian flag , declared the town in a state of siege , and . issued a monarchical proclamation . The Republican forces retook the castle and the other positions , and . restored order in the course of an hour . About fifteen of the Royalists were killed , and thirty wounded . The Federal troops from Yverdun reached Neuichatel an lioar after the termination of the contest ; but their services were not required . From two to three hundred of the Royalists were taken prisoners ; and among them are three members of the family of Pourtales and al . de Meuron .

    Colonel de Meuron and MM . de Montmolli a and de Gelliac , who escaped by water from Neufchfitel , have been captnred in the canton of Friburg . The last , named is a Swiss officer in the Prussian Guards . Two clergymen have been arrested as connected with the plot .

    1 TAL . Y . There is a talk ( says a letter from . Rome in Voaa ' a Gazette } of a collective note which the Italian Governments friendly to Austria , namely , Naples , Rome , Tuscany , Modena , and Parma , with Austria herself at their head , are said to be about to address to the Great Powers , -with , a -view to put an . end , or at least a limit to , the growing influence of Piedmont in Italy . To this note there is joined , it is reported , a memorandum intended to serve * s an answer to that sent by Count Cavour to Paris . At the same time , a fresh , protest against tho conduct of the Sardinian Government towards tho clergy is in preparation at the Vatican .

    The ever fertile archaeological soil of Eomo has just yielded fresh treasures in that part of the city placed between the churohos of St . Ignatius and tho Minerva which was formerly the site of the Temple of Isia , surrounded , by the priests' houses , in which the Emperors Vespasian and Titus spent the night before entering tho city on their joint triumph . Excavations for restoring the foundations of an old house , behind tho apsis of tho Minerva Church , have brought to light successively the marble steps conducting to the tomple ; a red granite

    group of a cow suckling a child , unfortunately wanting tha « aliaal ' B head and forelegs , but otherwise in good PJ ^ wwAiloa , and evidently representing the mystic di ~ *»»*«» ^ tfliU and Horua ; and , lastly , a column of grey granite , with , figures of Egyptian priests sculptured on the ab & ft in , hawo-rclicvo , about two fcot and a half tagu , » eaw » a tho eraUemaUc implements of their wor-Btup . The objects mow excavated are to bo attributed to the time of Adrian , orevon Alexander Soverua , who waa a great reatoro * © f Egyptian , worehip , tho style being that of Roman imitation rather than original Egyptian

    workmanship .- The marble steps of the temple being about twenty feet under the surface of the soil , have been left in situ and covered with earth , again . —Daily JVe » s Jioman Correspondent . Some changes in the armaments of isTaples are about to take place . " I have spoken several times within the last few months , " says the Times Naples correspondent , " of new armaments taking place in different parts of the kingdom . I have now to speak of disarmaments , with a view to the introduction of cannon of a greater power and a newer construction . During the last ten days , all the pieces of artillery remaining in the Island of Capri have been removed and carried off to Gaeta . A

    partial disarmament took place a few years since , but most of the old iron cannon were left behind as not worth the expense of removal . It is expected that his IMajesiy and the Hereditary Prince will shortly visit Capri , and will direct the formation of a battery ajior diacqua ( at the water ' s edge ) . As 6 oon as Capri has been disarmed , the same operation Is to take place on the opposite point on the continent , at the Carnpanella , with the same ultimate object ; so that the narrow strait wlicb separates the island from the mainland will be completely swept from either side . Similar changes and improvements are to be made on the Catanian coast . "

    Books , with the stamp of the British Library on them , are in future to be permitted to circulate freely in Naples . This is a concession of some importance , but it does not extend to books belonging to private persons . * Some suspicious vessels off the coasts of Italy liave caused great alarm to the Papal Government . They are believed to belong to the revolutionary party ; and an additional force of artillery and gendarmerie has been despatched to the coast stations in consequence . The Papal Government has made certain modifications in its regulations with respect to those excommunicated persons , subjects of Sardinia , who supported the Taw dfcreeted against Church property . These modifications are in the direction of greater leniency . For instance , a marriage . ' may-be performed between an excommunicated person and one not so situated , if the priest finds all his persuasions against the marriage fail ; , and the offices of the Church may be performed with respect to the interdiotedj provided they express their penitence .

    An address has j ust been presented by the Provincial Council of Brescia to the Cavaliere Burger , Lieutenant of Lombardy , complaining of the enormous taxation to winch then : province is subjected in consequence of the great military establishment maintained in the country by the Austrian G overnment . - It is believed that the Austrian Government intends transferring the arsenal establishment , & c ., at Venice , from that city to Pola , on the Istrian coast of the Adriatic , ¦ where some military works are going forward . Tha whole , peninsula district south of Trieste is to be organized into a naval command , and given to the Archduke Ferdinand , who will have his head-quarters as Lord High Admiral at Pola .

    Several persons have teen condemned by the Supreme Court of Lucca to various degrees of imprisonment for having formed part of a republican conspiracy . The cliief members , a schoolmaster named Martinelli , and a tailor named Peruzzi , have been condemned to sixtythree months' imprisonment in irons ; the others to much shorter periods of the same punishment . The Florentine priests have wreaked a piece of petty spite on the body of a man who had professed Protestantism , by refusing for a long time to bury it . At length they were compelled to do so from fear of infection ; but the corpse was cast into the ground set apart for criminals , In tho meanwhile , the wido ^ f ( also a Protestant ) was subjected to iusults and threats .

    M . Landucci , tho Minister of the Interior in Tuscany , has just offered a gratuitous insult to Pi < ulment by ordering several Sardinian subjects to leavo tho Tuscan territories within a few hours' notice , and refusing to listen to any remonstrances or explanations on the part of the Sardinian representative , so that his order was literally carried into effect .

    SPAIN . It is reported by the Gazette that the brigands who seized on M . Leonardo Garcia Espinosa , of Alooa , after receiving the 9000 piastres required for his ransom , and dividing the same among them in his presenco and that of tho servant . who was tho bearer of it , put their prisoner to death in the most barbarous manner . The Government has received a despatch from IBurgos , announcing that live armed men , among whom -were one of tho Hierros and Villalain , entered . Aguilar do CJampo , in tho absence of tho civil guard , who had been Bent to maintain OTder at n neighbouring fair , and robbed the funds belonging to the Government , to the Administration of the Xientas and the Ayuntainionto . Tho brigands afterwards fled with their booty en the approach of a patrol of tho Queen ' s troops .

    O'Donnell , who until now has exhibited tJie most bitter enmity to Queen Christina , has brought forward in tho Council of Ministers a projoct for tho restoration to her Majesty of all her property in Spain upon which sequestration was lnid after the revolution of 1854—a proceeding which O'Donnell now donouncoa as revolutionary and iniquitous , Tho project was agreed to unanimously .

    Two of the members of the present Ministry— Canieio and Bayarri—are likely to resign , owing to dissensions . with their colleagues on the subject of the law of Ht $ a moriizacion , which they insist on carrying through . Such French exiles as are in the Basque provinces are to be forthwith removed to the interior © f Spain . . The Epoca , says that the Emperor of the French has conferred the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honoar on Geaeral O'Donnell , and accompanied the favour hv " an autograph letter highly flattering to the man -who in Spain has saved the cause of monarchy and society " The suppression of journals adverse to the Government has conuueuced . The harvest is -very bad . A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces ihat the Emperor of the French - \ vas on Tuesday at St . Sebastian . .- ' . ¦ ¦' .

    SAVEDEK . The Minister of Foreign Affairs , AI . Stzerneld , has resigned . He intimated his intention 1 o take this step at the end of August .

    TURKEY . Sudium Kaleh and Redout Kaleh had been restored to the Russians . Rumours of Ministerial modifications are current at Constantinople , particularly of the removal of the Seraskicr . 21 . de Thouvenel , French Ambassador at Constantinople , bas given a banquet to M . de Boutenieff , Russian Ambassador , at which all the members of the Tuikish Ministry were present . The Russian Generals Dainese and Kirikoff , members of the Bossarabian Boundary Commission , have arrived at Constantinople . Messrs . Koller and Benzi have also arrived , and M . Easily and Sir Henry Bulwer are shortly expected . The Smyrna and Aiddin Eailway has beea conceded to Mr , Wilkins , the representative of an English company , which also claims the concession of the Adrianople Railway .

    The Irerich Consul returned , on the 7 th , to Erzeroum , where he was received with great honour . The Russian Gonsul was to resume his functions on the lGth . Kars has been evacuated by the Russians . The Turks took possession on the 6 th vlt . Three of the English officers attached to the British commissary" with the Turkish army in Asia , jtfajor Stuart , Major Fraser , and Mr . Evans , were present at the surrender , not in their official capacity , but as spectators . As in . the Crimea , the Russian officers seem to have been verv

    communicative on past events , especially about the main subject of interest , their unsuccessful attack on Kars . They say that Mouravieff was entirely against an attack , and opposed it to the last moment , in spite of the urgent entreaties of several of his officers . But the troops were so dissatisfied at this seeming want , of confidence of their leader in -them , that he was in the end obliged to yield , against his own better conviction , and ordered the attack . According to the accounts given by the Russian officers , the thing was decided one evening at dinner , and executed . — Times Constantinople Correspondent .

    1 'be new Persian ambassador to France , who is also charged with the settlement of the Anglo-Persian dispute , will open with tho Turkish Government , when passing through Constantinople , the vexed question of the frontiers between Turkey and Persia . Not leas than two hundred and thirty different claims and grievances have been collected by the Persian Government , which , among other things , desires to obtain the pass of Khutur .

    RUSSIA . A joint-stock company has just been formed in Mos-* otv , for the most part of Itussian men of letters , for the publication of the earlier productions of Slavonian , and more particularly of Russian , literature . The technical management of the undertaking ia to be confided to a German long resident in Moscow and Kasan . An amnesty is granted in reference to tho events of 1825 , 1827 , and 1831 . Tho confiscations , arising out of the same events , are to remain in force .

    GHEECE . A serious quarrel has arisen between the French Admiral , Bouot do Willauniez , and the Greek Government . Mojoi Angholopoulos was appointed by the Queen Commander of the Pirojus , in place of Mnjor MCelingos , . who had shown great attention to the French . Tie French Admiral said bo would net acknowledge him ; denied that tho power of tho Greek Government extended to the Piraeus ; proclaimed , tho command there exclusively French , and confided it to Mujor llcboul , of tbe Marines . Tho small Grede garrison was immediately

    sent back to Athens , and tho French . Admiral signified to Major Angliclopoulos that he tolerated his presence at tlie Pirams solely because ho was decorated with the Legion of Honour ; otherwise ho utould hayo scut him away in custody of a detachment of gendarmes . On hearing of theso events , tho Queen consulted with the representatives of Prussia and Bavaria , and a protest was drawn up . Tho English Minister , Mr . Wywe , approved of what had boon done , and told tlio commander of the English troops at tho Piraeus to support the French Admiral till farther instructions should bo received from the Home Government .

    870 The Leader. ' /[No. 358, Saturday

    870 THE LEADER . ' /[ No . 358 , Saturday

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13091856/page/6/