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      Contineittal Notes. Trance. Prince Jeros...

      monk 4 'foi-the-birtli of the Imperial infant on the plea of ""want of room . " Vemust repeat the same excuses . AUSTRIA . Some ulterior designs of Austria , to be t > rought forward on the conclusion of peace , are unfolded by a-Vienna correspondent of the Frankfort Post Zeitung , who says : — " Count Buol intends again to direct his attention to a matter which was set aside when the European-Russian difference assumed such formidable dimensions . The matter in question is a claim which Austria made on the Porte when Count Leiningen went on his mission to Constantinople . What is desired is the cession of a lit tle strip of land called the Sutorina , -which runs into the Austrian territory in Dalmatia , and has frequently led to quarrels . " Counts Oi'loff and Buol , if we may believe report , have had a violent dispute at a fete given-at the , Palace of the Tuileries during the performance of a play ; and hav e since been on the most frigid terms to one another . These tales , however , must onl y be ¦ taken for what they are worth ! ' A statement comes from Vienna to the effect that it will be impossible to regulate the Bessarabian frontier without despatching a commission to the spot . In fact , the topographical details at hand are very incomplete , and the projected frontier of Chotyrn to the Lake Sasik is- neither marked by a stream ' cif water nor a mountain chain- France , it is said , has already fixed on her commissioner , who will be General tetang ; Austria , England , and Russia , are on the point of naming theirs . Sardinia will . not be represented in this commission . ' . : ' . : : ' ' " . ' ¦ ¦ . ' ¦' . ' ' V & pBSLA ,. ¦ -... :,. The President of Police , .. ECer Vpn Hjnckeldey , wa * shot -in . a duel , on Mpnday jnorning , by Her Von KoichoWi ¦' .. whom ] te had felii pbliged . tp challenge . Biiac ^ eldey , who was a Liberal ^ : had given offence to the Gonservative party ! byejx 4 eayouring to set ; up the power of the police byer that of the military , and by a naistake whichhe made a few . months ago ia arrestr ing some young nobles at a club under the . inapre 3 sioii thaj ; they wjere blacfeiegs , A dead set has been made at iai 3 i > i and lie has been systematically insulted —• Kochovsr at length provoking- the duet by : dpixbtinghis veracity . After the termination ofJ' ^ he duel , Rbchow reported himself and the : circumstehces at the Comnxandant ' s and at the Ministry of the Interior , and was allowed' to gP ; on parole , but was afterwards arrested , an < j ? again Hb 8 ratecL . The King , on hearing of the . - dea ^ hl ' of his Minister , uttered' the bitteresi ; exclama tions <> f grief and rage . ' ¦ ' . Here Von Baumur and Count Canitz have shot themselves . ¦ ¦¦ fYXxft . Tt ? ¥ » nciai € > i * f ^ tnT 7 OT"riTvittnf : 'TWoiriTVrr i ^/ ioi-iftTr isri + Tirvnf \ t

      ^ fe Jl *^^ ^ b A ^ 4 fejyAiWU XJV V WJL M m m * n . * i ' . * pil V V 1 * f \ -- ¦ ™' r" ¦ " > ' 1 A " r J m TfT AV . Mv *^ V the sanction of the Chambers , withdrawn from the diataiers the advantage of a drawback on the distillatibn of ' spirits ( the object being to diminish the consumption f or such purposes' of grain , fee ., hi anticipa- ' lion of ' $ scarcity )^ Count Scliwbrin iutrodiiced iiit *> tnei House of Representatives a motion expressing the opinion of the House that the Government tad acted contrary tp the spirit" of the Constitution in arbitrarily issuing such an enactment . This motion was resisted by Baron Von Manteuffel , who said that , according to Count Schwexin ' s view of things , t ( the person of the King vanishes entirely , " adding , that the programme of the ministry was ^— " We are the servants of his Majesty the King . " Some time back , several of the Silesian nobility and eentarv cot ur > an address to the Emperor

      Alexander , in which ! they expressed their admiration and gratitude to him for tpie pacific sentiments be had evidenced . The address was forwarded to tlie Emperor by the Russian Minister at Berlin , and throtigh * b e same channel the Emperor has sent the annexed answer : — " I thank you , gentlemen , for the v sentiuaent ^ and kind wishes that you express to me in ' yoijr address , not only in your own Oapae , but in thai : ' of all Prussians , in whose hearts the Christian and paoiflo spirit of their Royal Master is dear and Bocred . I , too , desire the speedy restoration and "the permanent assurance of peace , and trust that the God of Grace will hoar the prayers that I and others who think and feel with me put up to Him . I beg all of you , gentlemen , whose honoured nam , os I haVo with sincere pleasure read ab the foot of tho address , tq receive tho assurance of my special esteem . ¦¦ ¦¦' « Alexander . « St . Petersburg , Feb . 4 , 1850 . "

      An important proposition ( says ttie jsombc QqtzettQ of Berlin ) has just been pieaentod to tho Chamber of Deputies , emanating from M . Gh'uner and thirty othor members , and is to the following offeot : ~ Tjhq , Ohainber of Deputies expresses to the Government its hope that it will use every effort to have proper attention paid to' the legitimate complaints ¦ which have been raised for many years past , partiou-. Tw ? 3 y in , the pastern provinces , against tho oharges . JWaiS ^ tin ^ '"from the Russian prohibitive system and fiwa th . ^ j ol (> suig of tho Russian frontiers , and to »* $ &}¦ $$ ?*>*« Btitfia of things bettor suited to the " ^ SM ^ ? , % 9 PWM » orce of the two countries . JWe find it etoMA j ^ letter from , Berlin that Prince Frederick WiUiiitn , otffy Bpn ofthe Prince * t PruBsto ,

      - and heir presumptive to the crown , will pay another visit to England in May next , and that it will be of rather long duration . RUSSIA . A very remarkable comment on the corrupt state of the administrative system in Russia is furnished by a letter from the Grand I > uke Constantine , » s High Admiral , to Vice Admiral von "Wrangel , dated November 25 th ( December 7 th ) , 1855 . The Grand Duke observes : —" The immense variety of forms with us paralyses the elasticity of administrative action , and serves as a cloak of impunity fop the official lie so common with us . Cast a glance at the annual reports and accounts , and you will find that everywhere the greatest possible amount of work has been executed , in every direction , progress has been made , everywhere have the prescribed works advanced , if not with excessive haste , jret at least in due relation to the exigencies of the case . But when you come to look closer at the actual state of things , to examine into them , to divest them of all false colouring , to separate what really is from what only appears to be , to distinguish the true from the false , or the pnly half true , there will seldom le left any positive and beneficial result . On the surf & ce , spaciousness ; beneath it , corruption ; Among the products of our official phrasyology , truth finds jao place ; it is concealed and stifled under diction , and where is the official reader who knows how to extract it . " SWEDEN ANl > NOEWJ . Tr . It is generally considered in the north of Europe ( says the Union ) tlbat the receat prohibition by Russia of the exportation of fresh or salt b ; eef from Finland is a measure more or less hostile to Sweden . The population of this country , aaid principally that on the shores of . the Gulf of Bothnia has been accustomed , to , draw its provisions front the little ports ol Finland . It is knovyn that the exportation of-all sorts of corn and dry vegetables is still * strongly forbidden ) and it is by ho means rare that . Finnish boats arc stopped and fined whilst leaving some small port ir order to introduce their cargoes into Sweden . A commercial crisis has shown itself in Norway , At Bergen , twenty-five houses have suspended pay menfc . TCTBKET . A financial crisis has broken onfc at Constantinople The exchange on London has l-iseri tol 3 F ; that . oi Yienna to 520 ; the French piece of 20 f . wor th 111 piastres , and the English , pound sterling 140 . Th < Minister of Finance has appealed fco the merchants and invited them to devise some means of remedying theevili The Danube is reopened , and -the Lloyd steamer ; : have recommencerl thfiir sftrvin « n-n f-. Vi sv +. vivAr .

      The Government -is directing its attention—not before jt " was needed-r-to the financial condition and the material resources of the empire . It is proposed to establish a bank on the plan of the Credit Mobilier pf France and Austria ; and , should this be carried out on a liberal basis , it will probably have an excellen . t efifect in releasing the lai-ge amount of hoarded capital which ^ from the want of some safe means of investing , is now withdrawn frornt general circulation . There is also talk of a railway frota Constantinople to Belgrade , touching on many of the chief towns , and , by means of a branch running to Sohumla and Rustchuk , connecting the Danube wita the Golden Horn . The coal mines of Kosloo , which' for eighteen months have been worked by the English Government , have up to the present time yielded satisfactory results . A

      new layer of coal , of excellent quality , has been found m the neighbourhood of ELosloo , at Oozelruaz . It is now proposed to construct a . railway theuce to Zungelduk . The cost would be £ 10 , 000 , part of which , according to the convention , would be repaid by the Turkish Government vfhen it shall again take the administration of the coal mines into its hands . THE DAN 0 BIAN- TRI ^ airALITIES . An innkeeper and his two partners at Bucharest have been robbed by thieves , who , after subjecting them to dreadful torture to force from them n confession as to where they kept their money , murdered them outright . The police having requested tho public prosecutor to investigate tlie matter , he refused on the ground that the crime w ( is " an accomplished fact . " SPAIN . The Eajtwna tells a strange story , to the effect that commumcaxions

      yeroai . were reoenxiy aaaxessoa oy Oount Waleweki to M . Olozaga , tho Spanish Ambassador , at Paris , in tho presence of Count Buol . The French Emperor ^ Count WalewsfeL is reported to have said ) was dissatisfied at the anarchical condition of Spain , and was doubtful whether the Spanish Government , however Avell infcontioncd , were strong enough to put down insurrection . Tho same observations , it is asserted , were expressed l > y M . de Turgot . Finally , Bays tho Eapnjiu , tho Government , having held a counoil on the ' subject , determined to send a reply to the Fronoh Emperor . Such is the story ; wbrfoh , however , is rendered improbable by the faot of very ftiondly relations still existing between France ai ^ d Spain . This friendlineps has recently received a

      proof in the new postal arrangements betwoen the two countries , and in the settlement by France , to the entire satisfaction of Spain , of the Aldudes f Jontier question , which has been 'debated for the last eightyrfive years , Spain considering that France has hitherto made exorbitant demands .

      50 Tge Leader, [No. 312, Saturday,

      50 TgE LEADER , [ No . 312 , Saturday ,

      Naval And Military. The Case Ob> Oenebax...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Case ob > Oenebax Cavendish . — Colonel Cavendish , son of General Cavendish , has addre ssed a letter to Sir De Lacy Evans , with respect to the case pf his father , obscurely alluded to by the member for Westminster in the debate on Mr . Roebuck ' s motion on Friday the 29 th ult . The Colonel states that Sir D « Lacy was incorrect in many of his particulars , and furnishes his own version of the story , which is to this effect :-r- * ' A gross and unfounded chai-ge" was brought against General Cavendish in March , 1848 ; but the Duke of "Wellington , instead of investigating the accusation , silenced it without even allowing the General to know that such an imputation had ' "been mode against him—a knowledge which only reaxhed him in November , 1852 , when he applied to Xord Hardinge to cause " a public , solemn , and immediate investigation" to be made . This was refused ; but a board was appointed , consisting of sundry members and a Deputy-Judge-Advocate-General . By the latter , a great deal of evidence which , according to . Colonel Cavendish , " would have made the ease clear , was rejected > but several gentlemen « ame forward to testify tp the preposterous nature of the charge . After me finding of the Court , which was in favour of the accused , General Cavendish applied ; to the eommander-in-Chief to reconsider the first . application for a trial on oath ; but this was positively I declined , and the General Was recommended to leti the subject rest , and to " treat the author of the ( charge and his supporters with the contempt their j despicable conduct deserved , " To this statement ,, t Sir De Lacy Evans ( who seems to have implied that General Cavendish was screened as a concession to , his aristocratic station ) replies by expressing his . regret that he had fallen : into any error with respect to the details . He adds : " I thought and said- then , and I think now , that the course adopted by the late . illustrious Duke of , Wellington towards General i Cavendish was in all its particulars utterly indefensi-L ble , and of grievous , unheard-of , and unexampled 3 iniquity . " l } The loss of the Polyphemur —A court-martial , commenced sitting on Monday morning on board the ship "Victory , to try Commander Warren for the loss 3 of the steam-sloop Polyphemus , the 29 th of Januarv . in the Baltic . The case exited considerable

      interest from the rank and family connexions of the prisoner , and the fact of the master and several of the crew having lost their lives by the catastrophe . A pledge was exacted from the reporters present that no part of the evidence should be published until the termination of the trial . The inquiry was concluded on Tuesday , when the finding of the Court was as follows : — " The Court agree that the loss of the said steam-sloop is to be ascribed mainly to the irregularity of the currents on that part of the coast of Jutland on which her Majesty's steam-sloop Polyphemus was wrecked ; but , while the Court consider that there is evidence of much attention having been paid l > y the commander , and no want of general vi g ilance' was imputable to him , it is nevertheless the opinion of the Court that blame is attachable to the said Commander

      Frederick Pelham Warren , in not having slackened the speed of the vessel to obtain , accurate soundings , especially when running in thick weather in the neighbourhood of land where tho currents are known to be irregular ; the Court considers that every exertion was used after the wreck , and , upon consideration of all the circumstances of the case , do adjudge the said Commander , Frederick Felham Warren , to be reprimanded for his negleot on the occasion . " The Preparations for Wah continue at Woolwich un diminished . Last week , bo great w < is tho number of artillery which started thence for tho Crimea , that twelve special trains , independently of the ordinary departures , were despatched from tho Arsenal station to Southampton , direct . Two trains were oocupied with gun carriages , and one train convoyed the baggage alone . The horses numbered 580 . Several batteries of'Royal Artillery are under order * iuiuo jiiiuou

      go emuum , r . The WREok supposed to have Beconohd to the Paoijtec . —The following notice has been published : — ' ? Glasgow , 7 th Maroh . The pieces of wreok soon by tho Edinburgh ( S . S ) on the ioo , wero in lat . 46 N ., long . 40 W ., and not ia lat . 41 N ., long . 40 W . f as reported on the 29 th of February . " Nova Sooxia ' s Tribute to Oibnuiral Wilmamb . — The Legislative Assombly of Nova Scotia has placod ouo hundred and fifty guineas at the disposal of tho Government to px * esent a sword to General Williams , who is a native of that province . In order to enhanoo the gift in the estimation of tho gallant officer , it has been determined that it shall bo made entirely of materials produced in hifl native country . Two

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15031856/page/10/