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      Continental Notes. The Insurrection In C...

      subject of some others explanations from the organs of ? he Government . Since the last session , Conferences hare takea p lace on . the general bases adopted in principle hif all the contracting Powers , and which appeared calculated to lead to peace ; these Conferences , however , have only led to the continuation of hostilities . Has too much jealousy of the honour of the country been ghawn or have its permanent interests been sacrificed to _ exaggerated susceptibility ? These were certainly Questions which it was our right and our duty to ask ; tit every one of us is convinced that the Kmperor has rortfied to them beforehand . " The President also stated

      ? hit the committee wished to inquire into the financial affairs of the nation , a degree of uneasiness having been felt in consequence of a belief that a part of the new loan had been already expended in anticipation . This beEef , it rejoices to learn , was fallacious . In short , the few fault objections which the committee ventures to hint soon pass off into vague generalities of approval ; and finally the President observed : "To sum up —from « B these considerations , your committee charges me , unanimously , to propose to you to adopt the bill . " It ia needless to add that this was done . So much for Parliamentary opposition in France .

      The Vienna Gazette contains a semi-official article in reply to the Emperor Napoleon ' s speech , in so far as the latter touched upon Austria . The article in question maintains that Austria has fulfilled the obligations impeded on her by the treaty of December 2 nd , aud that she is not bound to take any further steps . During his Tecerit tour through his dominions , the Emperor of Austria is said to have shown particular attentions to the Poles . Is this in order to check-mate the French Emperor ? The Prince of Prussia is going to St . Petersburg on family business The journey is alleged to have no political signification .

      The disturbances in the Ukraine are said to be by no means suppressed- The peasants refuse their accustomed labour-tax , aud demand liberty and land . Conspiracies have also been discovered at St . Petersburg , at Moscow , and in other parts of Russia . Several very high persons of what is called the Sclavonic party are said to be mixed up in them . The ConstitiUionnel says that the foreign policy of Napoleon III . ia conservative , and not revolutionary . The Phare de fa Loire , of July 6 , says that arrests to the number of thirty-four or thirty-five were effected in the night at Nantes . These arrests are supposed to be political , and connected with the discovery of a secret society . In Paris , several persons supposed to belong to the secret society of La Marianne —a cant name for the guillotine—have been apprehended .

      Cholera is raging at Warsaw . A letter from that city states that the Russian soldiers there are in such a miserable state that they beg aims of passers by , even when . atauding sentry . Prince Stirbcj , the Ilospodar of Wallaehiu , is thought to have entertained no less a design than to declare himaalf independent of the Sultan . But he has become exceedingly unpopular among the people of the Principalities , who , it ia said , desire his expulsion , and a cessation of the execrable tyranny exercised by the Austrians .

      A private letter from Berlin , from a Russian source , States positively that the health of the Emperor of Russia is in u bad state . It is believed that he is attacked by consumption , and a good deal of uneasiness is fSft aa to its progress .

      Persecution Of Protestants. Ifem Committ...

      PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTS . Ifem Committee of the Protestant Alliance have subnitted bo Lord Clarendon the cases of Domenico GBWhetti , Borzinsky , Dr . Gomez , and other secedera frojn Boman Catholicism to Protestant ism , who have f * Uon . under the persecutions of the various continental staies to which they belong ; and have accompanied this statement with the expression of c heir earnest hope that tiW English Government will make some representation OB remonstrance to the respective foreign Governments .

      Ta this document , Lord Clarendon , through hw secrotitty , haa replied that continental Governments aru sometimes prevented by tho fanaticism of their people &•»; acting aa liberally « m they might intend , and that gmt caution is required in dealing with thorn oh such Wtera . The reply then mate * that , " Tho Grand Duko fltftFiiacany has been made nwuro that ho could do iiotlfiw more agreeable to the Government and people of ttfcgnmd than to liberate Cec-ehetti . With respect to tbVqaaarin Austria of which tho Earl of Clarendon had

      l * fc heard , and which his lordship thank * the coinnntteo tot making known to him , Lord Clarendon will inako we necoaaary application to tho Austrian ( Jovorninent wtwtglt her Majesty ' s Charge * d'Affuims at Vienna , and tfo cttnmltteo shall ba informed of tho rosult . Instruction * will also be sent to her Majesty's Charge" d'AtVaires * t Lisbon , to afford such protection an may bo in his P ^ ror to Gomez ; but Gomez ia a Spanwh subject , and iHe treaty to which tho commit too nlludos only pro-**¦&¦• ft * the free oxemiso of their relig ion by British W *| B « t » in Portugal , lror Majiwty ' a Government cannot "UllttUt aflLctally in UlatbehiJf . "

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Queen, Pri...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen , Prince Albert , and the Princess Royal , together with the King of the Belgians and other notabilities , visited the Crystal Palace on Saturday afternoon , and dined there . On the same day , previous to starting , the Queen held an Investiture of the Order of the Bath at Buckingham Palace , when Admiral Dundas , the Duke of Cambridge , Sir De Lacy Evans , General Sir James Maedonell , and General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross , were made Knights Grand Cross ; and Lord Lucan , Admiral Plumridge , Lord Cardigan , General Buller , Admiral Chads , and some others , were constituted Knights Commanders of the Order . —The Court have , removed to the Isle of Wight .

      Her Majest y . s Visit to Paris , which had at first been intended to take place on the 2 nd of August , is now definitively fixed for the 17 th . Parliament will , of course , be prorogued before her Majesty's departure . Kmigratiox from Liverpool . —The quarterly returns of emigration from the port of Liverpool show a considerable falling off as compared with the departures in the corresponding quarter last year . Discovery of the Body of Balmat , the Swiss Gc idk . —Jacques Balraat , the celebrated guide of Chamouni , who was lost in the ascent of Mont Blanc about

      twenty years ago , while acting as guide to some travellers , was found a few days ago , according to the Gazette de Lausanne , in the broken-up ice which forms the arch ( route ) of Aveyron . To the astonishment of persons passing that way , the body of a man was discovered , the upper portion being still buried in its frozen tomb . After cautious efforts with pickaxes aud other instruments , they succeeded in disengaging the remains of the old and popular guide , Jacques Balmat , in a state of the most perfect preservation . Jacques Balmat acquired some celebrity by being one of the guides to M . Saussure , the naturalistin the vear 178 G .

      Moke Chisicse Akkivai-s . —A son of a celebrated Chinese tea-merchant , named "Whampoa , has just arrived in this country by the Indian mail , having been sent here bv his father to be educated . He is about sixteen , and , we are told , has a " very large head and most intellectual countenance . "' The latter , to judge from the specimens we already have over here , is a very remarkable thing for a Chinese . The youth is to remain in England four years , when his father will visit Europe , and take his son back to China . The Crops . —We continue to read the most satisfactory accounts of the state of the crops , both iu England and Ireland . Two Yot ~ x <> Ladte-s—Miss Rees and Miss Anne Rees—were drowned the other day while bathing near Carmarthen . Their governess rushed into the water to save them , and was also drowned .

      A Powoer-mill at Glenlean , Scotland , has blown up , with a report , the shock of which was felt for several miles . Four of the men were killed . It is only three months since an explosion took place at the same works , and four explosions have taken place there in all , but none previously were attended with any fatal results . AiiAix , Mu . Jeukmiaii Smith , Ex-Mayor ov Rye . —Mr . Jeremiah Smitli , who was recently tried and convicted of bribery , at the Old Bailev . has iust been tried

      at the Lewes Quarter Sessions , in conjunction with another person , named . lames Robertson , for a common assault . The charge was preferred by Mr . Payne , churchwarden and overseer , of Playdon , near Rye . It appeared that , on the 8 th of May . Mr . Smitli applied at improper hours to see the parish hooka . Mr . Payne reluctantly produced them , and , directly he did so , Mr . Smith roughly seized the books , and threw them into a neighbouring garden , where they were picked up by Robertson . Smith was lined 10 / ., and Robertson 10 s .

      SirxnAY Lixa . sLA'rroN * . —Ou Saturday , n meeting was held nt the Literary and Scientific Institution . Doctors ' Commons , in order to protest against Sunday legislation . The meeting was addressed by Mr . Ernest . Jones , Mr . Nash , and Mr . Finley , who strongly recommended " mass meetings" in Hyde Park , but advised the populaeo not to infringe the law , and to behave respectfully to the authorities . Ikklanii . —Serious riots have occurred in Nenagh between the militia and the populace ; but tlie exertions of the respectable inhabitants and the constabulary have restored order . A collision also took place between the rotintrv people and tho police at Bellowstowu races , the former having rescued a deserter out of tho hands ol" the

      police . Tine Administrative Reform Movement | in Ijirmimuiiam . —<> n Moniijiv , according to advertisement , it was arranged that the lirst annual meeting of tho Adininirttrativo Reform Association of Birmingham should bo held . At six o ' clock , however—and , indued , half an hour nftcr that -only . tome half dozen persona attended ; coiiMonui-ntly no business was done , and tho meeting was ailjournod slnv

      , Thk CniMitAN "Navviks . "—Kopoatod applications have recently boon made at tho police offices by poor women whoso husbands are with the Land Transport Corps in the Crimea , mwl who havo been unable to obtain their l >« y .

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      Leader Office, Saturday, July 14. Lord J...

      Leader Office , Saturday , July 14 . Lord John Russell has ceased to be a Minister . We believe we are correct in saying that Lord John Russell has resigned . By this act he has done , we will not say with the best grace , the best to repair the ill effects of his conduet upon his own character and upon the situation of his colleagues . Out of doors there was bat one opinion on the position into which he had worked himself , and tlie House of Commons must have pronounced the verdict of the constituencies .

      House Of Lords. The Only Business Done W...

      HOUSE OF LORDS . The only business done was forwarding several bills a stage , and the House adjourned .

      House Ot Commons. The London "Writ. A Di...

      HOUSE OT COMMONS . THE LONDON "WRIT . A discussion arose on a motion that Lord Hotaam be discharged from the Committee to inquire into the question of Baron Kofchschild being allowed to sit for London in consequence of his having contracted for the loan , Lord Hothatn having some scruples as to connsel being heard only on one side . At the request of Mr . T . Duncombe his lordship consented to remain on the Committee . ARRKARS OF PAY TO IXVALID SOLDIERS . In answer to Captain Knox , Mr . F . Peel aaid that invalided soldiers at Chatham had not received arrears of pay , due to them since last January , in consequence of the pay-lists of their regiments not having been sent home from Scutari . A SCPPLEJIENTAL BUDGET . In answer to Sir HE . "VVilloughby , the Chaitceixor of the Exchequer said that it was found that the expenditure of the navy for the year would be in excess of the snm already voted , and that it was probable a further sum would be required for the war generally . Supplemental estimates would therefore be proposed some time before the close of the session in Committee of Strpply ; and if they were agreed to he should have to propose the necessary means of raising the sum required in Committee of Ways and Means .

      At a subsequent part of the evening , in answer to Mr . Disraeli , the C & ancellor of th-e Exchequer said , that it was not intended to ask for a loan of the same kind as that now in existence , at any rate before December . IXQUIUT INTO THE COKDTJCT OF THE POLICE IN HYDE

      PARK . In answer to Mr . T . Duscombe , Sir G . Grey said that a commission , consisting of the Recorder of London , the Recorder of Manchester , and the Recorder of Liverpool had been appointed to inquire into the conduct of the police in Hyde Park on Sunday week . They would have power to examine witnesses on oath , and it would be at their discretion whether the parties on both sides appeared by counsel or not ; but every facility would be given to the parties aggrieved to make out their cases . In reference to an objection that a commission could not take evidence on oath except by Act of Parliament , he said that there were precedents for such a power being given .

      THE WAR . Lord Palmerston stated , in answer to Mr . Palk , that news was received every day from the array , but nothing of importance had arrived that day . The health of the army was satisfactory . THE RIOT IS BELGUAVIA . Lord H . Vane asked whether means would be taken to protect Belgravia against rioters next Sunday , or whether the inhabitants were to be allovired to defend themselves ?

      Sir G . Grey said that he had no reason to anticipate that any disturbance would take place on Sunday next , but every precaution would bo taken to protect the districts in the neighbourhood of Hyde Park , lie suggested whether these constant references to the probability of disturbances were not cnlculattxl to rouse the curiosity of many persons . And induce them to go to Hyde Park , thus causing a crowd which would not otherwise assemble , and producing the evil it wns intended to prevent .

      IIILLISTTINO OF TUB MILITIA . Mr . Com-an complained of the evils arising from billettiog the militia in Scotland , and Lord Pai-wet « - ston stated that Lord Plinmure was considering tho beat course of putting an end to the present state ol things . The House then went into committee ou tlio Ten a nts Compensation ( Ireland ) Bill . The discussion commenced at clause 15 , and after dcbat Vi « 7 !« moved that tho clause be omitted ; and o » » dlivuuoa ^ tuo ^^ TS ^ n- ^ S ^ SSESS ^ SS ?

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14071855/page/7/