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      ^ — : have expressed his intention to resign his office as chie of the monastic community if the diocesan meddled in matters which did not concern him . During the last fortnight the medical professors and students at the General Hospital of Vienna have been in a state of great excitement and irritation . The Archbishop of "Vienna not long since gave orders that all the persons who died in the various hospitals and in the lying-in and foundling establishments should be buried without either post mortem examination or dissection , and the consequence of the measure is that during ; the last ten or twelve days there has been only one ' subject' in the great dissecting halls of the General Hospital . Vienna was proud , and had good reason to be proud , of its medical school ; but the Concordat has given into the hands of the clergy the power to ruin its reputation . According to a decree of Joseph II ., the body of every person who died in the public hospitals was to-be opened or dissected , as the case might be ; but the Imperial ordinance has de facto been abrogated by the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna . " The Pesth Chamber of Commerce and Trade has just published its annual report to the Imperial authorities . In this document we find the writers stating : — - " The abolition of villanage and soccage has made labour much more valuable . The enormous prices paid to workmen and labourers , and the new tuxes , weigh ' heavily , on the producing classes . At present , Hungary is unable to dispose of her produce except at ruinously low prices , and there is little prospect of her being able to compete with other corn-growing countries in foreign markets , unless she has more hands to till the soil , and consequently cheaper labour , and a rational employment oi machinery and capital . . . . The principal necessities of Hungary are—1 . The abolition of the limitation of the rate of interest . 2 . Improvement in the adminiRtration of justice ; that is , redintegration of the market-courts [ like the old English' pie-powdex' courts ] , extension of the sphere of action of tlie commercial courts , introduction of a commercial code , modification of the bankruptcy laws , permission to the Jews to acquire landed property ^ , finally , abolition of the antiquated guild system . " The conclusion of the report is as follows : — " Hungary is devoted to its hereditary ' King and Lord . It sees iu him the palladium of its owr nolitical existence . It is attached to him by that snel

      which during so many , centuries madeit hold faithfully , courageously , and devotedly to the Throne . One of the necessities of public life is municipal self-government { biirgerliche jSeibst-VerwaHuiuj ); but , instead of this , -we have an organization which , being full of formalities , and bringing with it a vast deal of writing , is not suited to the matters of daily and hourly occurrence . It is , besides , so expensive that it swallows up a great part of the revenue , which might be applied to the furtherance of useful enterprises . Certain it i 8 that the results arrived at in all the different departments of the Administration are much too dearly purchased . " Well-arranged __ . ;*;„ . * 1 * - * A nnrMtvmnni 1 ra wrj i * rln ** 1 l nw » iVl * iVlAl 1 "fill * ' fl Tl rfi

      needed by the lieges , would be of advantage to the State , and we therefore hope that the last finishing touch has not yet been given to regenerated Austria . " All the members of the Riverain Commission met last Saturday in the Assembly Room of the Palace of the Estates , Vienna , and signed the act for the free navigation of the Danube .

      BELGIUM :. . The new Ministry ( a Liberal one ) has been formed . It is thus composed :- —M . Ch . Rogier , Interior ; Baron dc Vriere , Foreign Affairs ; M . Frere-Orban , Finances ; General Berten , "War ; M . Tcsch , Justice . M . Partoos , Secretary-General in the Department of Public : Works , is entrusted provisionally -with the direction of that de-¦ pfirtment .

      ITAT / T . The eruption of Mount "Vesuvius on the 20 th ult . carlied up with it the whole of the western cono , so that ilie shape of the inouutuin . in now entirely changed .. The opening of the railway from Alexandria towards the frontier of Parma , " which is intended , " says a ¦ writer from Turin , " to connect the Piudmontese

      railways with the Great Central Italian , and so become the main line from the west of Europe to the Levant and Ilgypt , via Anconn , " took place on the 1 st iust . The ¦ chief Ministers ware present , and a banquet was after-, wards given . The utmost enthusiasm prevailed . The captain of the Cagliavi has been allowed by the Hfeapolitau Government , as a grout fuvour , to receive his

      < ihango of clotb . es , which for about four months have reinainod in tbo liaads of the authorities . This act of grace was not preformed , - without a groat doul of preliminary legal fuaa with tho Judgo Instructor , the Chancellor , the Attorney-General , & c . The trial of the two men suspected of having murdered Mr . Blandford in the Btroats of Naples has been further postponed to the 4 th inst . The younger of the iii \ j & wii t tit AAllll

      * |;* iauuuo , »» .. * »» f ^ » u «»« u l & UIIOnlMOll ill " had made on the previous day , declared that it was false , as it had boon oxtorted from hi m by tho bastinado . It is said that tho trial has boon conducted with great impartiality . Mr . Barber , the English , acting consul , has boon present each day . Tho laying down of tho telegraph between Sicily and Malta has boon interrupted on account of tho English

      Government , refusing permission to land the cable at Malta . " - . ¦ . ¦ I The Archduke Maximilian , Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom has issued an order to the directors of the faculties of the universities to send him every six months a list of the pupils who have distinguished themselves during that period by assiduity , success hi then-studies , and good conduct . The Infanta Amalia has died of bronchitis at Naples . She was the wife of Don Sebastian , and sister of the Ihichess of Tuscany . . - ¦ , ' . ' ' spaix . The so-called ' vindication' of Queen Christina , from the charges brought against her , lias at length appeared . It consists of one hundred and fifty-five closely-printed pages , and is entitled— " Report presented tc * her Majesty Queen Maria Christina de Bourbon on that of the Commission of the Constituent Cortes of 1855 charged with the Parliamentary Inquiry relative to her Person . " The persons who have drawn it up are Manuel Cortina , Juan Gonzale 3 Acevedo , and Luis Diaz Perez , advocates of the Madrid bar . With respect to the question of the Queen ' s marriage with Riahzares , it is vehemently asserted that this did not take place until the public ceremony in 1844 . It is generally believed that there was a private marriage in 1833 ; and , could this he proved , her Majesty would have to refund a large sum of money received from the Government . This she objects to do , : though in denying the previous marriage she tacitly acknowledges that for eleven years she lived with Rianzares as his mistress . The authors of this pamphlet ' announce that the journals must reprint the whole of it . or none at all ; and already the Epoca has received notice of a prosecution for having made a short ex-. ' tract . - ; ¦ . ¦ '¦ . ¦ . - ' ' . ¦ . ' . . ¦ . . - ¦ ' ¦' ¦ - . - ' : . ¦ "Itf PiflaV will < rn in "Rrrmrv +. n ' fiifcp . fhft nnst nf

      AmhiWsador left vacant by his brother-in-law , M . Mon , who joins the new Government . , There appears to be a probability of a duel between . Signor Guell y Rente and Narvaez , in consequence of [ the gross insults offered about a year . ; ago b y the latter 5 to the former . A challenge ' has been conveyed by Ge-P neral Prim to Narvaez , but it is riot yet known yhethei i the ex-Premier will accept it . If the fight should take 1 place , it will be of a deadly nature . Guell y Rente has uetore to

      been unable to send the challenge , owing adversary ' s position at the head of affairs . The accouchement of the Queen is expected from day to day . ... "' . . ' :. ' , .. - ¦ " - ¦ . ' ¦'¦ •¦;• ¦ " ' ; . ' ' .. - ; - . ; ¦' ; .: POKTUGAL . The yellow fever ( if such it be ) at Lisbon is declining . Among the recent deaths is that of the Marquis de Soto-Aller , an attache of the Spanish Embassy , who expired after a few hours'illness . SWITZERLAND . Military enlistments haying taken place in some of the cantons for a pretended British Legion , the English representative has declared to the Federal Council that

      no such legion is in existence . In the practice of the Swiss Artillery , some balls having fallen on the French territory , the legation of France made a complaint . The Federal Council ordered an investigation , and , the fact having been proved , a punishment -was inflicted on the oflficeT commanding on the occasion , although he affirmed as an excuse that he not limns oi ihu lrou

      was aware or . me precise uer . TURKEY . A circular note addressed by the late Turkish Ministry to its diplomatic agents , published in some of the French papers , shows that the recent Government was as much opposed as that of Redachid Pacha to tlie union of the Danubian Principalities . The attempts on the part of the Church of Rome , of which our renders have alreadv been informed , to force

      upon the Christians in tho Turkish Empire the Gregorian or Romish calendar , to which they object , are still being persevered in , and the French consuls are doing their utmost to abet the designs of tho Pope . The Grand Vizier , having been informed of these facts , wrote a letter to the Viceroy of Egypt , suggesting tho necessity of protecting the Christians in tho exoroiso of their faith wnicn couiuc

      in accordance with tlioso laws are musv ^ . to their conscience . A copy of this letter has been laid before tho French consul at Alexandria . The Journal da Constantinop le announces that the Turkish Government have decided upon constructing a line of telegraph from Constantinople to Bassorah , on tho Persian Gulf , passing by Bagdad , and that Mr . Stanito to tuu waiMj

      forth has proceeded luigumu purcuuiio ummaterial . Somo of the foreign representatives at Constantinople have offered thoir services to Redachid Pacha , to put an oud to tho misunderstanding between him and M . de Thouvenel . Rodschid is auid to have , accepted them . M . do Tuouvenol holds back . ORURC 13 . nMi « •¦>«» .. T ? i . nii ,. li \ r ! niut « rnt Atlinnq . M . do MoiltllOUUt , amwbwh

      , J , IAVJ kk \ j \ 1 AAvll ^ ' ** iia , » it *>< •***• ¦ wv * - >> - ^ r was roccivea on the 29 th ult . in private audience by King Otho , when ho presented his credentials . H « delivered tho UMual address , and his Hellenic Majesty expressed in reply his warmost sympathy towards Franco and tho Government of tho Emperor . M . du Moiithenat was then introduced to tho Queen , who received him in tho moat flattering manner . I

      . ' ' . . , ' GERMANY . ' '¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ " ' A conference ( says a contemporary ) of delegates Of the German banks ha 3 met at Frankfort . The establishments represented were those of Darmstadt , Hamburg :, Meiningen , Luxembourg , Gotha , Thuringen , Hombourg , Buckelburg , and Rostock . The conference , wnich was presided over by Prince Felix de Hohenlohe , endeavoured to find out guarantees calculated to reassure the public as to then : stability . The delegates decided that the notes issued should be covered by one-third inspecia and two-thirds in good bills with three signatures ; also * that an official return should be published at least once * a month , that a mutaal control should be exercised by the several establishments , and that the Governments should be invited to take part in such control . A statement to the above effect is to be presented to the Zollverein . ¦ - . ' . ' ' . ¦ ¦¦• DENMAKK . - . ' ¦ ' ' ' . ¦ ' France , England , and Russia , it is stated , hasve offered their good offices to bring the affair of Holsteia to a , satisfactory solution . ¦ . ¦' . . ' . ¦" . ' ¦ PRtrssiA ... - ; . ' .. ' . ' '¦ ¦ ; Titles of nobility have been conferred on Chevalier Bunsen . ' . ¦ " . - . . RUSSIA . / : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ' . ¦ ; •¦ ¦ ¦' .. ' A riot on a very serious s « ale haa taken place at Moscow between the * students of the University and the police , owing to an act of aggression by the latter . The affair -will be brought before the notice of the Emperor . Forty Polish refugees have been amnestied . .,. ; . ¦¦ HA 3 IBUK & . : . ' . . . .. .. . . ¦ "¦ . , There was a perfect panic on the Stock Exchange of Hamburg on the 6 th inst . The financial crisis is also beginning to be felt in Sweden and Norway , and money is becoming scarce .

      Y O ; 399, November 14,1857,] The Deader...

      y ; 399 , November 14 , 1857 , ] THE DEADER . 1087 —

      State Of Trade. The Advices From The Var...

      STATE OF TRADE . The advices from the various seats of industry for the week ending last Saturday show the influence on trade of the present financial condition of the country . The demand for yarn and cloth at Manchester has been on an exceedingly smalt scale . Skort time is being worked , bv some of the manufacturers , and it is feared that several mills will be obliged to stop . Manufacturingiicaa

      IlOUSeS lu . JJllimugUUlll . are < U 3 U suucuug , jlc «> orders are given out , ; a nd some even of those in hand . have been suspended . There is an almost entire aDsence of American orders among the u * onmaster 3 of South . Staffordshire , but there is ail improved home demand . The lace trade of Nottingham continues greatly depressed , and there is no improvement in the hosiery business . Trade is sluggish at Leeds , though not so bad as in the cotton and worsted districts . The worsted trade of Halifax continues dull , and short-time working is extending . The same may be reported of Bradford . The Norwich trade in boots and shoes is extremely quiet , owing to the want of advices and remittances from

      Australia , the caution of manufacturers and buyers , the great rise in prices , the high value of money , & c . In the Liveqiool wool market , scarcely anything has been done in foreign and Scotch wools . The demand foi cotton , also , is small . At Barnsley there has been an improved demand for linen , and trade there is generally in a more active state than in other parts of the country . In Ireland , trade appears to be in a healthy condition . The dutie 3 received at the Bristol Custom-house for the month ending the 31 st of October amounted to 124 , 500 ? . 14 s . 4 d ., being the largest receipt for tho month of October on record at that port . The mercantile failures continue . The firm of Deonistoun and Co ., of Glasgow , Liverpool , London , New-York , and New Orleans—one of the largest establishments in this country connected , with the American to to

      trade—has been obliged suspenu , owmg me uuureceipt of remittances from the United States . The liabilities , it is feared , will noarly amount to 2 , 000 , 000 ? . ; but these are spread very extensively . Tho Western Bank of Scotland , Glasgow , \ rit \ x a paid-up capital of 1 , 500 , 000 / ., and deposits supposed to amount to 6 , 000 , 000 ? ., suspended on Monday . The bank has about ^ no lmnrimri i-. mrw . iln « nni l h jis hcoii established twenty-%

      W 1 | Vj ii Mitittuva »^ »» . »¦¦«•• - »» . j ww- — ... ——— . — — v five years . The failure has resulted from the collapse of several Scotch houses of business having American coanoxions ; and the suspension of Messrs . Dennistoun is snid to have acted as the final blow . The catastrophe has also been caused in pavt by Mr . Taylor , tho lato manager , advancing the funds of the bank in tho most rnntli > aa mnnnnr to o . rtnc . enia wllicll WCrO Unworthy Of

      credit , four of which have latoly become bankrupt . The other failuroa include tho establishments of Messrs . Bennoch , Twontyman , and Rigg , of London and Manchestor , agents in tho silk trado ( liabilities ranging from 200 , 000 / . to 300 , 000 ? . ) ; Measrs . Broadway and Barclay , East India and General Merchants ( liubilitius probably amounting to 200 , 000 / . ); Messrs . Hoge and Williamson , of Liverpool , correspondents of William Hogo and . Co . oi jivwpwi

      of Kew York : Messrs . Bubcock niul ( Jo ., . , Glasgow , and New York ( liabilities , 300 , 000 / . ); Messrs . Diailh and Co ., of tho American trado in Liverpool ; Messrs . Foot and Sons , silk msiinifucturorH , of London ( liabilities , 40 . O 00 A ); tho London discount home of Messrs . Sanderson , Sauclomann , and Co ., with habiUtios for three or three and u half mlllioiia ( bolieved to bo

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/7/