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1204 THE LEADER. [Saturday ,
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The Prince of Prussia has visited the Em...
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Panslavism is again causing some uneasin...
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CITY MATTERS. Some time ago the City Pol...
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MR. MECIirS BALANCE ; AND HOW H& GOT IT....
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bulletins make no mention of the fall of Ackalzich , but it is indirectly confirmed by that published in the Invalide Eusse , which reports an action which took place between the Turks and Russians at Atskhour , some leagues in advance of Ackalzich , and on the road to Tiflis . The Lloyd states that at the capture of the fort of Safa , near Shefkatil by the Turks , the Russians lost 400 killed . The same journal , and with it the Ost . Deutsche Post , announces that in the renewed attack on Shefkatil on the 17 th , the Russians were repulsed , with heavy loss . The attempt was made to land troops , but the men , the
in . number 1800 , were compelled to return to ships , leaving 400 killed and wounded , and one gun Schamyl and Selim Pacha , operating in concert , were gradually approaching each other , and taking the fortresses on their fines of march . Prince Woronzoffwas surrounded at Tiflis , and his retreat was cut off . The Lloyd ' s despatches state that the large and important fortress of Alexandropolis , Gumri , was besieged by the Turks ; and the Ost . Deutsche Post announces its actual capture . The latter journal adds that Redout-Kaleh , on the Black Sea coast , and Kislar had teen taken by the Turks .
On the other hand , despatches from Vienna report that the Russian General Andronikoff has totally defeated the Turks in a battle at Akhalzik , on the borders of Turkish Armenia . Two Russian steamers were cruising near Varna , to cut off the Turkish reinforcements . The Turkish bulletin respecting the operations of the European army attributes the retreat of Omar Pasha to the necessity which there was for getting his troops , which had begun to suffer from the biting cold , into their winter quarters on the right bank of the river . On the 11 th : of
November , on -which day the snow had begun to fall , there was but one battalion with two batteries left on the island between Turtukai and Oltenitza . On the following day the Russians made an attack on the tete-de-pont on the island , but were repulsed by Halil Pasha . Rodzewitch , late secretary to Prince Gortschakoff , has arrived at St . Petersburg with an eseort . He was at once transferred to the casemates of the fortress . It is generally believed that Rodzewitch and another Pole , who was likewise accused of having kept up a correspondence with the Turlrsy have been shot .
The St . Petersburg Court Gazette contains an impromptu by M . Nev / achowitscb , supposed to be occasioned by reading the Emperor ' s manifesto : " The Czar gives the word , and all is prepared . The land overflows with bravery and courage . Every Russian heart beats with solemn emotion , and th 3 Russian standard will wave in bloody war . Behold the fields covered with our soldiers ! See the fame-covered warriors ! mark the death-bearing bayonet ! look upon the brethren gathered under the standard of the cross , and cry , * Great is the God of Russia ! ' " - It is stated that Prince WorohzofF ( who is at this moment seriously ill , and as whose successor Prince Menchikoff is mentioned ") lately reported to St . Petersburg that he knows
that great frauds are now being practised m the army in the Danubian Principalities by the commissariat , and that the soldiers are exceedingly ill-cared for . An old officer of his 6 taff was immediately sent from St . Petersburg to the Danube to investigate the facts . He found everything in the fairest possible order , and Woronzoff received rather a sharp answer . He persisted in maintaining the accuracy of his information , and a second officer was sent to the Danube , and discovered the true state of the case . For a monarch so careful of his soldiers as Nicholas I . this must have been a very disagreeable discovery . Usually the sick in the army are reported two per cent . This proportion suddenly increases to thirty per cont . as soon as an inspection becomes probable .
It . appears certain that Persia has declared war against Turkey , and that the British Minister at Teheran has broken off relations with the perfidious Shah . What Afghanistan may do remains to be seen ; but it is quite probable that another British expedition to the Persian Gulf may be necessary . From Syria wo learn that the sentiments of the people are favourable to the Turkish Government ; and now the Christian population , for the most part , sympathise with the Turks . Most of the Christian districts of Lebanon have promised to send auxiliary troops to Constantinople ; and the question has already been directed to the Porte , whether it is inclined to accept the offer of the Maronites . The Druses , it is said , are only awaiting a steamer from Constantinople to carry them to the scene of hostilities . Their
destination is to bo Djelol > « Jakfur , near Krzeroum . The cavalry of the Druses , for which 12 , 000 horses aro required , ttill proceed to the same place by land . One of the Knurs has received 1 . 0 , 000 piastres for the equipment of the above troops . Several hundred volunteers are also about to leave Syria for Constantinople . The export of arms and ammunition to Bosnia has been prohibited by an order of tho Austrian Government . The Christian population of Bosnia is in a Btato of great excitement . Tho Prince of Servia , doubting his safety at , Belgrade , has loft tlmtlcity for Topola . Prince Gortschakoff lias declared that Gaktz and Urailow shall bo considered neutral ports for tho export find import of merchandise . Riota have taken place at Galutz between tho Wallachian militia and tho ltuHsinn troops . A battalion of tho Wallachians refused to obey tho orders of : i Russian gonnral . Tho
battalion in nuoBtion sum four companies of Wallachians were consigned to their barracks . General JJudberg , tho new Russian Commissary Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Moldo-Wallachiu , in Jittended by a staff of fifty officers of tho Czar ' s guard . There lma been a rumour at Berlin that tho United States of America hare offered a very considerable * « um to tho Porto , on tho condition thut noinu small inland in tho Archipelago ah all bo ceded to them . The French Government him authorised tho Credit Fonder to Bubucrihe a portion of the Turkish loan , now being negotiated by Nanuk PuhIui in I Win , on condition that ; tho English Gpvnrnmont guarantees tho rent . Tho Charivari Bays thin wurliko act of tho Credit Fonder him horrified the pacific flharcholdorfl . ' Tho Sic ' cle , in publishing the warning alluded to l > y our
Paris correspondent , as by law bound to do , pleads in extenuation that it yesterday voluntarily published a contradiction of the paragraph from the Gazette des Tribunaux . The real reason of this pretext having been hit upon to strike the Siecle , is thought to be that in a recent personal controversy with M . Louis Veuillot , of the Univers , the Sieole has lately written a warm panegyric of Victor Hugo , in which it said , in answer to some vituperation of the organ of the Jesuits , that everything written by Victor Hugo would live . As this prophecy would literally include "Napoleon the Little" and other later writings , for which the police are at this moment making diligent and frequently baffled searchesit is construed as seditious .
, In the night of the 7 th the telegraphic wires between Calais and Boulogne were cut . It is reported that Government has convoked a general meeting of the directors and principal engineers of all the railways in France , to concert measures of public safety . This railway congress is expected to assemble towards the end of this month . There has been an extraordinary fog at Lyons and in the neighbourhood . In the city carriages were brought to a stand-still , and people lost their way as completely as they might have done in Thames-street . On the 8 th the navigation of the Saone was reported to be entirely suspended . The mail from Paris was sent by land , and made very slow
progress , owing to the fog . The Emperor was not present at the opening of the new Boulevard de Strasbourg , it is said , in consequence of an intimation of a plot against his life . Ne 7 ertheless , he is described as driving and riding out with little or no escort , and of walking with the"Empress in the Bois de Boulogne . Mademoiselle Georges , the renowned tragedienne of fixe Empire , is about to take a final benefit in the part she performed at sixteen ( she is now between seventy and eighty ) , Cleopatre , in the Rodogtinde of Corneille . A splendid representation is being organised by all the first dramatic artists in Paris for this solemnity , which , we suppose , is to be under the special patronage of Napoleon III . Mademoiselle Eachel has positively dated from St . tire of the Theatre
Petersburg her resignation as Socie ' a Francais . According to the terms of Napoleon's celebrated Moscow decree , she expresses her intention of leaving the stage altogether . Ifc is said that she has a very lucrative engagement pending in America . Her success in St . Petersburg has been prejudiced by the company she has taken with her , whose incompetence is considered an insult to the Court and aristocracy of St . Petersburg . The Federal Grand Council of Switzerland has declined to suppress the duty on corn at the solicitation of the Cantonal Governments of Berne , Appanzell , and Geneva . The following are the results of the elections in Piedmont of members of the Chamber of Deputies : —Ministerial ^ , 123 ; Radical Opposition , 40 ; Reactionary Oppotition , 15 ; elections of which the result is not known 26 .
This is the fifth election since the proclamation of the Constitution , and the readiness with which the electors came to the poll , shows a growing intelligence of the rights of citizenship . The Liberal-Conservative party has not lost a single member . The Ministers—Cavour , San Martino , and Ratazzi—were all returned by large majorities . Tho prominent feature of these elections is the failure of M . Brofferio , the Radical Deputy and Advocate , and unceasing opponent of the ministry .
The total number of members composing the Chamber of Deputies is 204 . The final result of the elections cannot be known for some days , but there is no doubt that the proportions of parties will be maintained in the totality as they now stand , and that tho Government will get a strong working majority . Amongst the members just returned there aro several distinguished Lombards , who , although naturalised Sardinian subjects , have had their properties in Lombardy sequestrated by tho Austrian Government . Several more arrests have taken place in Naples , owing to some verses ( in everybody's mouth ) said to have been posted up in tho street . The rhymes say : —
" Tho' Naples be so fair and good , We ' ve naught but Indian corn for food . Were Masaniel ' , alas 1 not dead , Wh y wo should feel no lack of bread . If things go on till then as now , B y Christmas time we'll have a row . The French aro coming—God bo praised—And price of bread will not be raised . " f hero can bo no doubt of tho existing poverty and high
price of food , with a decrease of commerce , which falls heavily on tho poorer classes . M . do Muupas has had another dispute with tho Neapolitan Government . Under pretence of tho cholera at Paris , all persons coming from Franco aro subjected to a vigorous quarantine , which has excited much discontent . M . do MaupaH has addressed an energetic note on tho subject to tho King of Naples , threatening to return to Rome , and , it is said , hinting that if tho affair were not set right , ho might find it necessary to request tho French Government to wond nomo ships of war to Naples !
Tho shado of Joachim Murnt will not let King Bomba sloop upon bin bloodstained pillow . At Madrid a coup ( I'dtat is expected . Tho dobato on the question of prerogative , raised by tho Scnafo on tho occasion of tho railway bill , wan concluded oil' tho Dth in . st . Tho Opposition obtained ti majority of SG votes . A Royal docroo of tho 12 th inst . Huspcndcd tho sitting of tho ' Cortcw , without fixing iiny period for their now mooting . A Icttc-r from Lisbon , in tho Heraldo of . Madrid of tho 7 th , KayH that , tho King Regent of Portugal intended to demand from tho Cortes tho proclamation of tho majority of his son , King Pedro V . ; also that it was reportod that tho young King intended toinako a journey ^ in Spain and Portugal . At tho present moment , it in affirmed , negotiations aro coiner on for tho simultaneous evacuation of tho Koman
Stated by tho iM'onnh and Austrian minion of occupation . It appears that a Hccret treaty oxintn by which that double occupation wan to last foriivo yonrs . The livo yoar . i arc about to oxpiro , and tho Popo in anxious to get rid of hia foreign
protectory and to trust his safety to the safeguard of Itnr troops alone . With this view the King of Naples is at tv present moment organising a body of 20 , 000 men , whichT promised to Pio Nlono , during his residence at Gaeta tW he would' place at his disposal . The whole of these troo are to adopt the Pontifical cockade , and to protect the Hid See , along with the 12 , 000- men whom the Pope has already in Ins service . . ' ¦ ¦ ¦? We wish : the-Pops joy of his 12 , 000 men , and of his Nea polifctn contingent . Without the French and the Austrian * his tiara would not be worth an hour ' s purchase and h knows it well . But what interest English Protestants have in seeing the Pope at Rome we are at a loss to discover . We do not believe this report . But the prolonged occupation of the Roman States by French and Austrian troops isaques . tion that demands immediate settlement .
1204 The Leader. [Saturday ,
1204 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The Prince Of Prussia Has Visited The Em...
The Prince of Prussia has visited the Emperor of Austria at Vienna , en route to Italv .
Panslavism Is Again Causing Some Uneasin...
Panslavism is again causing some uneasiness at Vienna and the agents of the Government in the southern part 3 of the Austrian monarchy ^ are called to exercise redoubled vigilance . At Agram , in Croatia , Louis Gaj , editor of a paper , has been arrested and brought to Vienna . Servia , it is . feared , may make use of her position , and appeal ' to panslavistic sympathies . Letters from Baden show that the conflict between the ecclesiastics and the civil power is carried on with
undiminished spirit on both sides . A letter from Constance , in the Bresigau , states that the parish of St . Augustin is in a manner tinder interdict . The church is closed , and no kind of worship is celebrated . The keys of the edifice have been taken to the Dean of St . Stephen's , and the Archbishop ha 3 left the parish without religious instruction . The dean has buried one body upon his own responsibility , but he has refused to marry two couples who presented themselves . The numerous sick persons in the hospital and elsewhere have been left without the consolations of religion .
A letter from Rome of the 30 th , in the Milan Gazttte , states that nine new arrests have taken place there , all belonging to the middle classes . It is not known whether fhey are connected with the conspiracy of August 16 , now under inquiry , or not .
City Matters. Some Time Ago The City Pol...
CITY MATTERS . Some time ago the City Policemen made an application for increase of pay , alleging , among other things , the rise in rents and provisions . Their application has been handed about from the Court of Common Council to a Police Committee , and referred by them to the Court of Aldermen . At a special Court , on Saturday , the Lord Mayor , commenting on this , said , he thought the matter had better be referred back to the Common Council , who
were quite competent to deal with the question in ^ all its bearings . He also stated that the force was deficient by eighty men , whereas the Metropolitan force always had enough and to spare . Mr . Alderman Lawrence stated that the deficiency was fiftysix , not eighty , as stated by the Lord Mayor . Mr . Alderman Thompson and Alderman Lawrence both suggested that the standard of height should he lowered , as the difficulty of getting men five feet eight inches in height was the cause of the deficiency . Mr . Alderman Wire , however , said that it was the superabundance of employment everywhere that made policemen scarce . Finally the question of the pay of the men was referred io the General Purposes Committee for their report , and a special Court is to he called to consider it .
At a meeting of the Common Council , on Thursday , the Coal and Corn Finance Committee presented a triumphant report on the result of the investigations ^ the Select Committee of the House of Commons last session on the coal dues , me causo of the rejoicing is that the P arliamentary Committee could not agree upon a report ; wluit they recommended that the inquiry should be continued . Tho sittings of tho City Commission are now suspended , it is believed , until after Christmas , nothing of now importance waa elicited at the examination ' of witnesses li is t Friday .
Mr. Meciirs Balance ; And How H& Got It....
MR . MECIirS BALANCE ; AND HOW H & GOT IT . Mn . Mjcohi , the modern Paladin of distressed agriculture , tho amateur farmer who has eo K lUU' ™ * confronted adverse balance-sheets , and so pcrsov ingly sought out new sources of strength for his » has found them , like . Antame , in touching tho ea » As a reward , he has got a profit of 000 / . this jw « At > a meeting of the Society of Arts , on Wodnesu jj ho told his hearers how ho got it , and what "jl ^ . deserves tho most extensive circulation . We , ^ fore , append extracts from the paper he read ai mcothiff . Having read tho items of luu ^ aul sheet , he proceeded : — « iion f «' ' " Now , nir , this bnlnnco-shcot opens up a vnflt q «'"» ' Ilt reflection , both in town and country - Why i « Jt . , "L tho from my former one ? Principally because l " \ .. j 0 VV power of irrigation . Ifc in' true that prices aro i" U ¦ ftl . than then , but crops aro Uias productive , arid «* 11 jnHC ( ,. higher . , Nearl y tho whole difleronco between t ins ' i ( i ( l () , lI , ti Hheot and tho former ono iirin « n in tho livo , btocl . - j ' my Hy irrigation ' I am ' unnbkd to 'doublo , if not "J ^^ ,. jngroon and root crops , and thus ronder tlioin )> juublo utoad of unprofitable . It is quite clear that it A
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1853, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121853/page/4/
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