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    THE FUNERAL OF MAZZINPS MOTHER There is ...

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    Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...

    bathing before the fetes : a telegraphic order recalled him to Paris for the 15 th . Sane or insane , he certainly manages his little affairs very comfortably . He has lately purchased , at the price of 600 , 000 francs ( 24 , 000 _Z . ) , the fine estate of St . Vincent , near Roauue ( Loire ) which belonged to the Due de Cadore . Everybody asks bow a man who walked almost shoeless in the street six years agQf can have economized 600 , 000 francs , bis salary as minister being only 80 , 000 francs . This affair has g iven rise to so much scandal , that the Moniteur is obliged flatly to contradict tbe purchase—which is ' not the less a fact .

    On the occasion of the 15 th of August , we have had a perfect avalanche of decorations , and of promotions in the Legion of Honour . It is calculated that during the last three years , as many crosses have been bestowed as by the Napoleon and Louis Philippe in twenty-eight years . All the official world of lacqueys and functionaries , all from whom any little service is expected , receive the decoration . That saltimbanque journalist , La Gueronniere , is one of the latest recipients of the honour !

    The Moniteur announces that the President ' s visit to the southern departments will take place , but that it is deferred till September 15 . One of the causes of its postponement is the rupture of commercial negotiations with Belgium . Bonaparte cannot present himself at Bordeaux without a treaty of commerce in bis hand , granting a favourable entry into Belgium of French wines . The negotiations recently broken off were resumed on Friday last . A number of reasons have been asserted for the rupture of the negotiations . Bonaparte , some sav , wanted to exercise a certain pressure

    on Belgium , and demanded of King Leopold an engagement to present a new law on the press to the Chambers in the ensuing session : a demand which the king had nobly repulsed . Others say that Leopold has entered into the system of the new Holy Alliance , which proposes to establish a species of continental blockade . * However tbis may be , tbe old commercial treat y expired on the 10 th inst ., and was not renewed . Bonaparte , who was once so dry and menacing in bis manner and language , and who was the first to break off the negotiations , has now , with a very softened tone , ordered them to be immediately renewed .

    The ball given by the market-women ( dames de la halle ) to Bonaparte , could not take place on Sunday last , and was adjourned till to-day . These ladies have invited the butchers' wives , the cafeiieres , and the women cooks of Paris , and it is in the midst of such a novel world that Bonaparte is invited to dance to-night . A fete was to be given to him at the Palais Royal , but thc sorry welcome given by tbe shopkeepers in the Palais to the subscription , renders the ball impossible . Only a very few subscribed , the immense majority refused to sign the list . So great is thc enthusiasm of tho nation for Louis Bonaparte !

    The warnings to the journals are unceasing . They fall in an incessant shower ; nn ollicial epidemic ; . Tho evil has become so deep-rooted , the Prefects have encountered such a storm of ridicule , that a Ministerial circular has been addressed to them , enjoining them for the future not to " warn" a journal until after due reference to the central government . The Prefect of La Dordoyne having given a warning which affected M . Paul Dupont , a deputy of that department who has lately been decorated , the latter made a direct

    complaint to the Elysee , anel the Prefect is to be dismissed . It is to be hoped that these warnings will become less frequent . Thc movement of imperialist petitions bus slackened of late : it is not so considerable as was pretended . The veto of the Khnperor of Russia is a troublesome difficulty for tho Government , which less openly supports the movement , and leaves it entirel y to tho zeal of the local authorities . Only the petitions of the two departments of . ' La Charenle and ' . La Meusc lire cited as examples . S .

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    _CONTINENTAL NOTKS . « riie I Yes it le mi I , eliel not uttcnil ( be grand ball eif ( he 3 Tulles on Tuesday night . His absence ) gave rise te > a variety of rumours . Semie suiel that a pled . Intel been discovered by the police , which rendered it , unsafe ) for him lo trust bis person to a mixed _erowel ; and that several arrests hail been made . Another rumour imputed the ) sleuy of the plot to Iho arrest of tho working carpenters cmpleiycd in preparing _ttto temporary Salle , who struck , for higher wage's the night before ; tho ball . The te \ e at St . Cloud was excessively brilliant unel crowded . Hemic idea may be formed of the thronged state of the rooms by the fact of the file ) of carriages reaching

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    * We incline to beliovo that neit heir tho ono nor the other of these ingenious rumours is exact . Literary copyright has , perhaps , more ) to elo with the difficulties e > l tho * negotiation , than any political question . Franco rightly _niHists on tho suppression of that organized piracy which , it may bo feared , Belgium is too well disposed to protect , anel " by which thc litoraturo of the one country is shamelessly robbed , while tho other is rendercel impotent to produce any literature at all . —En . of Leader .

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    beyond tbe bridge of Surennes . It was observed that neither the Prince de Canino nor Napoleon Bonaparte , the son of Jerome , was present . Marshal Jerome was absent from tho fetes of the 15 th . He was on that day at Nantes , where he engrossed a large amount of Napoleonic enthusiasm to himself , attended a St . Napoleon mass , received the civil and military authorities , and accepted a banquet given in his honour . General D'Ornano , who has just been named Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour , was born at Ajaccio in the year 1784 . He descends from a Corsican family which has already given two marshals to France , under Henri IV . and Louis XIII . He entered the army at the age of 16 , and made his first campaign at Marengo . He

    was afterwards aide-de-camp to General Leclerc in the expedition to St . Domingo . After the battle of Jena he was named colonel of the 25 th Regiment of Dragoons , at the head of which he made the campaigns of Switzerland and Poland in 1806 and 1807 . After the peace of Tilsit he served under Marshal Ney in Spain and Portugal , and was made general of brigade after the battle of Fuentes d'Onor . He followed the Emperor into Russia in 1812 , and was promoted to the rank of general of division on the eve of the battle of La Moskowa , where he was at the head of tbe cavalry . In 1814 he commanded the army which covered Paris . General D'Ornano reckons

    fortyeight years of service and twenty campaigns . He was named grand officer of the Legion of Honour in 1834 , and grand cross in 1850 . The accounts of inundations from the late heavy rains in the south of France are again numerous and distressing . The Rhone has been constantly rising . The Isere and Drome have also risen considerably . The latter , being well enclosed with dykes , has caused no damage ; but the Isere has inundated large tracts of country . The torrents of rain that have fallen in the vicinity of Strasburg have also swelled the Rhine , so that all the lower portions of the banlieue of that city are under water .

    General Bedeau has written to the Independance of Brussels , to state that there is no truth in the report which has been current that he is about to take orders in the Church . M . Paul Meurice , sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for an article in the old Evenement , was liberated on Monday from the Conciergerie , his term of imprisonment having expired . General Changamier has taken up his abode at Malines . The Duchess of Orleans is at Geneva . The 15 th of August was celebrated in Berlin , Vienna , and Frankfort , by solemn ceremonies in Catholic churches , at the instance of the French ambassadors , and by grand

    diplomatic dinners . The invitations were placed to the account of fhe fete of the President , there being some delicacy in celebrating the f ete of the Napoleon in the Prussian and Austrian capitals . Thc States-General of Switzerland , confirming the decision of the National Council , voted on the 9 th the rejection of the Posieux petition by 29 votes against 9 . Both legislative councils of the confederation having now rejected the impeachment of the Frieburg Government b y the Jesuit party , there remains no appeal or legal resource for the latter , who must choose between suffering a liberal Government and incurring the risks of another Bonder - bund civil war .

    Thc latest accounts state that the negotiations between Belgium and France have led to a preliminary convention . A provisional convention , which maintains the municipal regulations of thc former treaty , and likewise comprehends the suppression of Pelyian reprints and several other new dispositions , has receiver ! tho assent of the Belgian Government , anel will come into immediate operation ; so that there is no apprehension either of a lengthened interruption of tho existing relations , and still less of a tariff

    war . The reception of tho Emperor of Austria at Presburg , on the 13 th , fully equalled , wc aro told , tho expectations of the people . Jlis Majesty rode ? into tho town accompanied by the Archduke Albert , anel followed only by a band of mounted _Crawuton ( Sclavonic peasantry ) , in number about 800 , whoso wild equipments caused a good deal of diversion . As a matter of form , tho Vienna corporation sent a deputation to Presburg , to obtain thc Imperial sanction for the fetes of tho 15 th . The address contained

    expressions of the utmost devotion entertained by tho citizens of Vienna lor thc person of tho monarch . The homage was of _ceiurso graciously accepted , anel Vienna was forthwith to bo " turned inside out" for the triumphant welcome of tho beloved Franz Joseph . The Hamburg artisan ' . Kusczack , whom fho Austrians seized in his own slate , and carried off by foreo to Vienna , bus learned bis fate from the military governor of Vienna _, lie was first tried by court martial , anel was sentenced to die by the ; hands of the hangman . The military governme'nt , of the , city has commuted tho sentence to eighteen _ye-ars' fortress imprisonment . It is expected that the se'iiate of Hamburgh will renew its entreaties on behalf of the' kidnapped prisoner , in which case some slight mitigation of tho punishment maybe conceded .

    An Austrian imperial decree of tho 31 st , . 1 uly formally abolishes the institution of the National Guarel , anil in its stead tbere is to be a "Reserve . " After having served ( lie fli _ght years appointed by law , every Holdier , sailor , gendarme , pol ' eainuii- —tho military borderers exeoplodwill belong Lo the reserve for two years . The _dutie-s of the reserve will be , "in case of war , or under extraordinary circumstances , to enter into active service } , which aed . ive _se-rvie-o will ccuso with the unusual circumstance . " The Austrian Government has taken a new anel import nut _ste-p in Italy . Letters of the Oth instant , from Parma , amiemnco thai , tho resolution has been taken at Vienna te > deprive the Duke of Parma of tho administration of his States , anil to put in u regency , of which Ward is to be _thei head . This Ward is ii Yorksbiroman : and was once a groom . * On the night eif the 7 th inst ., several thousands of workmen from . 'Turin und other places , preceded by flags and a

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    band of music , deposited in the vault of the _rovnl _i _™ . i- „ the house of Saxony , at Superga , a tablet , S & _SSf _t * following inscription : — « To Charles Albert , whxw _^ g he to his people a new fife , wished to render free all _^ _fTHJ Thousands of workmen have consecrated this _marhlt i _^ l bol of an eternal gratitude . Aug . 8 , 1852 . Sym _" The Official Gazette of Savoy of the 16 th states f Florence , that the authorities of that cit y have caused _ti _^ Hippodrome to be closed on account of an anti-Bonannrt- * demonstration made by one of the equestrian perform _^ . A shock of earthquake was felt at Pau in the _nieht p 6 th , which lasted several seconds . ° ° *

    The Funeral Of Mazzinps Mother There Is ...

    THE FUNERAL OF _MAZZINPS MOTHER There is still life m Italy . The obsequies which th people of Genoa have celebrated in honour of Mazzini ' mother , who died on tbe 6 th of August , show that th sentiment of the noble and the kindl y still glows ' _° the Italian breast . Even those who dissent from th political views of Mazzini are compelled to _acknowledg e his clear intellect , his pure and elevated imagination his impassioned sincerity , his fearless and perseverin ' character . He is tbe apostle of a political creed and all his sentiments and all his actions corre spond with that elevated character . To be capable of _admiring and loving sucb a man is for a people to be capable of freedom . The relations which existed between Mazzini and bis mother were beautiful and touching . From

    the time of his boyhood be had only seen her once— at Milan in 1848 . But tbeir love bad not _waxjsd cool in consequence of their separation . Week by week they corresponded without fail for a period of twent y-two years . This filial devotion knit Mazzini to the Italian heart by a purely human and domestic tie , and it shed over the mother a reflex of her son ' s glory . She was even in ber lifetime inscribed in the calendar of patriot saints for Italy . The solemnities of her funeral , characterized by the fervid feelings of Italy , show what a hold mother and son had ( and have ) upon the Italian mind , and how tbe contagious influence of their countrymen ' s love and veneration has caught hold of even the colder children of tbe north . A correspondent of the Daily News furnishes the following letter : — .

    Genoa , August 12 . Yesterday morning the funeral service of the mother of Mazzini took place in the churcli of the Carmine . The Signora Nina , although ill , and scarcely able to stand , insisted on placing herself at the head of the ladies , amongst whom were Fanny Balbi di Negro and Maria Quartara Passone . The Signora Carolina Celesia could not , unfortunately , be of the number , as the incessant filial cares which she rendered to the deceased had brought on an attack of fever , which confined her to her bed . The church was crowded , in spite of the numerous disguised spies . A more sublime and moving scene than the accompaniment of tbe corpse to the Cemetery Staglieno ,

    Genoa has never been witnessed . It may be said that the entire city was there . In the morning all tbe English and American , with some Dutch , Swedish , and Danish vessels in the harbour hoisted their flags half-mast high , and lowered their pennants in the form of a cross , in sign of mourning . At six in the evening the _cortege started from the Church of tho Carmine , followed by all tho emif ration , all tho associations of working men of Genoa , St . 'ier D'Arenc , and the suburbs . Every class took part . All tho naval captains of Genoa and tho Riviera were present , thirty or moreboing from the Gulphand Lerici ; and the immense body of sailors , with the associations of the boatmen of the port . * Many Genoese and foreign ladies , besides those above named , except thc Signora Nina , who could not bear tho trial of her strength , and was forced to withdraw , earned which

    tho funeral palls , and surrounded tho coflin , upon were deposited numberless "wreaths , woven by thorn , una presented by tho association , tri-colourcd banners , and ribbons and flowers without end . Eng lish and American , tho Swedish , Dutch , and Danish captains woro present ia deep mourning , ouch in their turn seeking thc honour ot bearing tbe coflin , which was alike claimed by the working mon , tho emigration , and those of all classes who were present . Tho civic bands led tho procession , playing _rohgious music . Tho procession numbered at least 15 , ( XJU , walking in two columns of four _a-breast . Tho entire population lined tho streets , and tho moat perfect order reigned amid manifestations of tho sinccrest grief . When tho _cortege reached Staglieno , tho night was far advanced ; and tho whole valley of tho _Bisaprno was illumined on every siele . There was not a _poasant's hut or a nobleman s _pahie ; o without a light in ovory window , illumi nating WW corliU / o on its elarksomo way .

    ( From Iho Italia e Popolo . ) Gknoa , August Vi . Yesterday evening tho funeral of the mothor of . Josep h Mazzini toeik place We cannot describe in words tho _iuiprcssion that the sight of the compact mass of citizens , as spectators or as _feirming part of tho _cortege , made i'l '" us . "Wo will only say , that so numerous a body ot ei _«« 'i never before assembloil around a coflin , anil that no funo procession was ever conducted with such order and digm j * Wo well know that there exists in the hearts of the P' _* _' _*^ u deep fooliiig of gratitude and sincere affection lor men who have fought and suffered in itseauso ; still ««» that the name of Joseph Mazzini is sacred as that oi . * exilo whom the whole of tho reactionary party 1 , ftB . " or . niatcel , and every policy has marked out for unwor ( Iiy _f > secutiem ; but wo woro neit prepared for sue ' l ttn . ° j 0 ] _j whelming testimony of the vo nor ation in which ho is as was afforded by this immense concours e ot p 1 ' From Jiyo o ' clock p . m . tho _Btrada _Nuova was anuuuiou _mj

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081852/page/4/