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      AUSTRIA . The Emperor has given instructions for the erection at P ' esth of a full-length statue to the memory of his uncle , the late Archduke Joseph . He has also decreed that , after the beginning of next year , no further contribution shall be demanded towards the fund for rebuilding the castle at Buda ; and the sums already paid are to be divided for the good of the empire , more especially of Hungary . A notorious bandit , named Rosza Sandor , has been captured in a singular manner , the incident being like a scene in a melodrama . He had been the guest of one Paul Katona , who knew the character of Sandor . One day , the robber suspected that he had been betrayed by his friend . Drawing a pistol , therefore , he fired it at the head of Katona , who was wounded , but not dangerously . The wife of Katona thereupon felled Sandor to the ground with an axe , bound him hand and foot while he lay senseless , and then fetched the gendarmes . According to another account , Katona , who was himself at one time a bandit , really did design to betray Sandor , and that he began the fray by making-an attack on him . One of the cashiers of the National Bank at Vienna has absconded , leaving a deficit of between 200 , 000 and 300 , 000 florins . He has since been apprehended . The two little daughters of the Emperor have been very ill . The murrain has made its appearance at Olschan , near Olmutz , where there is one of the largest cattle fairs in Austria . The first Austrian man-of-war intended to circumnavigate the world , the frigate Novara , left Trieste on the 30 th of April for Gibraltar . The Emperor , by means of an autograph letter , has remitted all arrears of the war contributions imposed on the Hungarians at the end of the war of independence in 1849 . ITALY . Signor Gasparini , a distinguished Neapolitan botanist , who , after the events of the year 1848 , though he had given no offence , was deprived by the King of Naples of his Professorship at the University , has been appointed by the Austrian Government to a similar post at the University of Pavia . On hearing of the intention to do this , the Neapolitan monarch protested against it ; but the Emperor of Austria has not heeded the protest . The feast of the Statuto in Sardinia has passed off with great brilliance . The Piedmontese Gazette announces that the Italians residing at Mexico have sent the sum of 2479 francs to the committee for the subscription to the guns of Alessandria . The Monltora Toscano of the 10 th inst . statesthat , in consequence of information received by the police of Leghorn of two vessels having-been freighted by persons suspected of political intrigues , and of their having set sail in the direction of Civita Vecchia with a number of heavy chests , the authorities of Leghorn took immediate measures to prevent any revolutionary attempt on the xioast . On the 27 th ult ., a small hoy was seen off Leghorn , and was visited by certain individuals whose opinions were well known ; but she stood out to sea again , steering westward . Nevertheless , the police learnt that on the night of the 1 st a considerable number of chests had been landed between Gombo and Migliarino , and then conveyed to Pisa in carts ; whereupon , the governor of that town immediately caused several houses , suspected of having received them , to be searched , and at length succeeded on the 9 th in capturing ninety-ei g ht muskets and live chests of ammunition . The persons implicated in this affair have been arrested . RUSSIA . On occasion of his birthday , the Emperor issued a further amnesty , extending his pardon and mercy still further than in that published at tho tirno of his coro- ; nation . Tho classes pardoned on this occasion arc : — 1 . Those natives of Great Russia who wero condemned in December , 1849 , and have served in tho army since with i credit to themselves ; their rank is to be restored to i them , but no claim to tho restoration of their property is to bo educed from this . 2 . Those natives of tho Western provinces who were convicted in connexion I with tho Polish Revolution or for other political offencos , I nnd who returned to thoir homos previous to tho Emperor ' s coronation . 3 . Those natives of tho Western Governments who have been convicted of political offences ] and hnvo sinco served with credit in the army . 4 . Those c natives of the Western Governments who had left thoir country without permission and had returned thither ] previous to the coronation arc to bo reinstated in their I hereditary rights . 5 . To such of tho above as belong to the nobility of the privileged classes it shall bo per . t mittcd to enter tho civil servico after conducting them- i solves woll for throe years . C . Thoso who have 1 Borvod in tho army during thoir period of banishment c Bhnll bo admissible at onco into the civil service . 7 . n Thoao of the above who belong to tho noble cla . SHoa have t a Bpaoa oT two yoara allowed them to produco tho nccoa- t sary documentary evidenco of thoir nobility , to bo rock- 1 ; onod from the date of this publication , and , for thoao n who return iu consequence of tho present ukuso , from the r day of their return . —Times Berlin Correspondent . 1

      SPAIX . The Correspondencia Autografa contains the following curious announcement : — - "Yesterday , at five in the afternoon , took place in the royal apartments the ceremony of placing the nail possessed by the Chapel Royal —one of those which suspended Jesus Christ—in the magnificent and unequalled reliquary that her Majesty the Queen has had constructed to replace that which was stolen when , on the 27 th of May of last year , the most holy nail disappeared . The ceremony commenced by the benediction of the reliquary by the Patriarch of the Indies . The reliquary being afterwards placed in the oratory of the same royal habitation , the Patriarch returned to the chapel , and , with all the clergy and music of the same , conducted the holy nail in procession to the roj'al apartment , where their Majesties , with her Royal Highness the Princess of the Asturias and the Infanta Dona Christina , were waiting upon their knees with the chief officers of the palace , & c . The music played . the prayers which the Church possesses even for such unusual cases as this , and , the procession having reached the royal chamber , the holy nail was placed in the new reliquary , and the officiating divine offered for adoration this inestimable instrument of our redemption , their Majesties adoring it first . Many persons of those present in the chapel also adored it , and it was subsequently deposited in the sacred place where it is to be preserved , in spite of sacrilegious hands , for the greater honour and glory of God . " The first sentence here is extremely obscure ; but , as far as one can understand it , it would seem that the Queen of Spain has an unlimited supply of these holy nails on which Jesus Christ was suspended , and that the loss of any one can be supplied at discretion . We have not the same art here in heretic England ; and so the old woman who had been interested with a skull of Oliver Cromwell at one Museum was doomed to disappointment when inquiring fur the same relic at another . The Mexican squadron , which has been fitting out for the last three months at Cadiz , has set sail for the West Indies . It is composed of six ships . They carry 2450 troops , thoroughly equipped . This force is commanded by Generals Mendimata , Santiago , and Parrido . In the sitting of the Senate on the lGth inst . ( says a despatch from Madrid ) , General Calonge presented an amendment to the address , in which he attacked the Vicalvarist Generals who got up the military movement of 1854 . Marshal Narvaez , in opposing the amendment , declared that it was the firm determination of the Queen , that her Government should follow a conciliatory system , and such was also the desire of the members of i the Cabinet . In the same sitting , M . Pidal , Minister of ; Foreign Affairs , presented a bill to authorize the ratifica- ( tion of the treaty fixing the boundaries of Spain and ] France . The Government presented in the Congress a i bill on the press , increasing thrs caution money to 15 , 000 j douros . Articles are to be signed , and the jury to decide f on press offences is to be composed of judges of the first 1 instance . c There-appears to be a good prospect that the English ] sailors who were arrested a few weeks ago at Malaga ] will soon be released , the Spanish Government having , exhibited a conciliatory disposition . ; tukicey . ' It is asserted that the Porte has asked the powers - that signed the Treaty of Paris to occupy tho Danu- t bian Provinces with an army corps , on account of the great agitation now so rife in those two countries . The i Revue Contemporahw , Count Wulcwski's organ , enters i into sonic explanations on this subject . It confirms the < existence of such a note , and asserts that it has met I with no success , and that the Courts of Paris , London , ( St . Petersburg , and Berlin have unswored iu the noga- ' tive . —Daily News Paris Correspondent . ' "A violent shock of earthquake , " says a letter from < Erzeroum , of the 28 th ult ., in tho Presse d'Orient , " was t felt two days ago in tho neighbourhood of Mouch . Tho s oscillations continued at intervals for thirty-six hours , c Several villages in tho Plain of Bolanek were destroyed , i mul nearly one hundred and eighty persons lost tlioir ^ lives . " f SWICDKX . C The King is ill , owing , it is said , to a too close attcn- I ' Lion to business . He will go to Drottningholm to take \ - Lho benefit of tho country air . li HOLLAND . U Tho workmen of Holland ( nays a letter from tho h [ luguo in tho Emancipation of Brussels ) aro striking all li ) vor the country for an increase of wages . The men r working on tho canal of Wcmclrfingo huvo struck , and b > illiigo ( l tho public-houses along tho canal . Troops have t > oen sent from Fort Bat la to maintain order . C Tho Dutch Government , it appears , liko those of Por- b ui ^ al , Sardinia , and almost every other maritime state ft n Europe , bath great and small , intends to tako part , at p ciiHt us a witness , in tho y ; roat intervention or display tl if foroo which is about to bo mado iu tho harbour * and a ilong tho coastt ) of China . Wo hear from the Hague n hat Holland has resolved to contribute t > no vossol of war n o that roniarkablo nu ' val congress which is about to bo u told in tho Eastern Sean , and tho results of which aro inticipatcd , on behalf of tho general intorortta of com- o norco and civilisation , with ao much interest . —Daily ci Yetva Paris Correspondent . d « ie ; - ie y ia > t y e e - c e 1 a e 3 - I ^ r - ? i 1 I " > 1 I - " t I i - - l p ri b M of

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      May 23 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 487

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      OUR CIVILIZATION . ? A GALA DAY AT CREMORNE . Brightly shone the sun in the afternoon of Monday , the 18 th of May , as an intelligent foreigner landed on the shores of haughty and perfidious Albion , a few yards below London-bridge . M . de Mabille , a brilliant illustration of the Younger Empire , was too old a traveller to allovr his movements to be impeded by a superfluity of trunks , cases , carpet-bags , and hat-boxes . His luggage , consisting of a pocket-comb and a shirt-front , being safely and conveniently secreted about his person , he escaped all spleen-begetting detention at the Custom House . He had naturally intended , in the first instance , to visit the Tunnel ; for , with the exception of the Tower , it can hardly be said that this island contains any other object worthy of the notice of our unprejudiced and accurate neighbours on the Continent . It so happened , however , that as he set foot on the water-stairs , his eye alighted on an enormous placard , headed , ' Royal Gardens , Cremorne . ' No doubt there would bo an opportunity of beholding her Majesty and her illustrious Consort , surrounded by their interesting family , familiarly associating with the enthusiastic multitude invited to this royal entertainment . The temptation was not to be resisted , and a few minutes afterwards M . de Miabille found himself on board a steamboat bound for Chelsea . But imagine his indignation and horror on making the terrible discovery that he was patronising a Citizen . Muttering between his teeth an execration on ' Canaille !' he spat fiercely on the deck , aud then stared a modest young girl out of countenance . It being , fortunately , dead low water , he was enabled to judge correctly of the natural colour of that river , of which every Briton is so justly proud . Murmuring to himself , Vidimus flwvum Tiberim— - 1 have smelt the ill-flavoured Thames '—II . de Mabille proceeded to enjoy the panorama of brick and tile that extended for miles on either hand . A . little behind him , on the right , he observed a lofty pillar , surmounted by an enormous golden wheat-sheaf , evidently dedicated to tho Genius of Agriculture . In front of him , on the same side , rose , the gigantic dome of St . Paul ' s , which the First Napoleon had proposed to remove to Paris as a roof for the Pantheon . Presently he glided past- the gardens of the Temple , and moralised on the whirligig of time that had brought up wigs , gowns , and briefs , to replace the crested helmet , the emblazoned armour , and the quivering lance . Farewell to gentle chivalry and knightly prowess—on . the opposite bank , In Memoriam , stands the ungainly Shot Tower , fatal alike to the bold yeoman in Lincolngreen and the steel-clad man-at-arms . Somerset House next revived recollections of Paris , but on turning his back upon that imposing pile , M . do Mabille ' s mind returned to his body , for ho beheld the British lion standing guard over a brewery . The traveller smiled ; he had recognised in that allegory the acknowledgment of the fact that the solidite Anglaise is based upon brown stout . Further on he beheld an omnibus slowly passing over a bridge supported by woodwork resting on quicksands , and he thought of the earth on the back , of an elephant that stands upon a tortoise that slumbers upon nothing . He thought , too , that the famous New Zealander would not have long to wait for the ruins of a bridge whereon to imlite his ' Lays of Ancient London ; ' not so long , indeed , as the senators of Britain for the completion of their senate-house . Ho gazed upwards at the wooden thumb-stalls , on the four corners of tho tower ; ho glanced at the architectural ornaments that mark tho retrogression of art ; but ho turned from the dead animals putrifying at tho foot of the terrace . And as lie turned lie saw the palace at Lumbotl ) , and rendered reverential homage to the inoek and fielfduiiyiny virtues of tho Christian priesthood . Ho know that the head of the Anglican Church lived on a humble stipend in a mere corner of that palaco which ho had converted into a peaceful u . sylum for pious widows aud unfriended orphans . Nearly opposite , lie observed a-still more spacious building , likewise appropriated to tho friendless , who aro there comfortably maintained at thoir country's expense for having violated their country ' s aws . But it is a Christian ' s duty , privilege , and leasure , to pile red-hot ooals on tho uncovered head of hid enoniy . With yet nioro pleasurable feelings , bowover , did our enterprising traveller survey the verdant lawns and umbrageous thickots of Buttorsca l ' nrk , aud ho acknowledged , unreservedly , thut tho Times waB quito ght in declaring' that there was no point of comparison , etween it and tho Bois do Boulogne . Proudly did ho then direct his Hushing eye to tho shady walks of Chelsea Ilo .-tpital , for ho know that they wore peopled by tho sad relica of tho British army annihilated by arshal Soult at Toulouse , Even wo may forgive tho patriotic sigh that regretted thoao glorious dayfl wliou tho oaglo wiw over driving tho slinking loopard into tho atormy aea that begirla tho Spanish peninsula . But Ilia martial lire ( Slickly subsided as tho steamer uoaroil tiio modern gardens of AlcinoUa , cool , rural , and iuvJUngV aud at that hour hushed in grateful repose . i Having carefully studied tho Voyage < 'e JJv *< igromeiit $ that singularly woll-inforinod writer U . Julon J-ocouuto , M . do Mabillo wiw »» ot mo nirioh iwtoiitoliou . as disgusted whorl called upon to pay a shilling * or flU-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23051857/page/7/