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      The Tbial Oj? Verger. The Trial Of Verge...

      On being removed from' the Conciergerie to the Roquette , Verger became greatly agitated and alarmed , fancying that he ' was about to be executed ; audit was afct till after he had arrived at the latter prison that his fears were calmed . Hie petition -to the Emperor is coached in very humble language . He states that Christianity requires regeneration ; that the inferior clergy ought to be enfranchised from the yoke of the superior ; and that he looks upon himself as the new Peter the Hermit of a new Crusade . He therefore prays tkat his life may be spared , and that he may be sent into a " noble" and " honourable" exile . The preservation of his life apparently occupies all his thoughts , an ! he is now greatly depressed- On leaving the Conciergerie , he embraced all the officers , and , with tears in his eyes , thanked them , for their kindness to him .

      Jfantrary24, 1857.7 The Leader. 70

      JfANtrARY 24 , 1857 . 7 THE LEADER . 70

      Continental Notes. France. Fbbukh Khan, ...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . Fbbukh Khan , the Persian Ambassador , arrived at Paris on Sunday night , with a suite of thirty-one persons . He is lodged in a private hotel of the Champs Elysees . A dinner to the chief Crimean officers was given one day last week by Prince Jerome- The affair passed off with great enthusiasm ; but there appears to have been an entire absence of any allusion to the part borne by England in the late war . The Presse and the Estqfette are to be prosecuted for reproducing from the Swiss papers a letter on the affairs of Switzerland , said to have issued from the Secretariat of the Emperor . This letter , it appears , is a forgery . The National of Brussels publishes an address from M . Icftdru Rollin , dated London , January 13 , to the electors of France , in which the principle of abstaining from voting is vehemently condemned . " Can it he , " he says , u that , by voting , you misconceive one of the primary principles , the preservation of the integrity of which conatitutes bur power ? I must confess I cannot perceive tho validity of this obj ection . What will be its effective operation ? To carry out the system of universal suffrage , to exercise a right which owes its birth to the Republic , and not to the Empire , and to exercise it with w bat olject ? With the intent to overthrow that very Empire . Then , in making use of this Republican right for a Republican object , how are you guilty of an anti-Kepublican act ? I repeat that this objection . is beyond my comprehension . " The mail bags , -which were being conveyed in a vehicle from the post office of Bordeaux to the railway station at La Bastide , have been robbed of a sum of 200 , 000 fr . The theft must have been , very quickly effected , as the journey from the one place to the other only occupied a few minutes . The affair is involved in mystery . The Imperial Prince has been suffering from a slight catarrhal fever . He was better on Monday eveniug , and his condition , according to the Moniteur , is not such as to justify uneasiness .

      It is stated with great confidence that the charter of tlie Bank of France is to be renewed till the year 1900 ; that its capital is to Le increased ; and that some other changes are to take place . The Neufchatel prisoners have arrived at Besancon . Cardinal Merlot , Archbishop of Tours , will iu all probability bo the new Archbishop of Paris . He has twice refused the appointment : but it is said that he ha 3 now consented , at tho earnest request of the Emperor .

      AUSTKIA . A despatch wa 8 addressed by Count Buol on the Cth inst . to Count Trautmansdorf , Ihe Austrian representative at Berlin , expressing the satisfaction of the Austrian Court that Prussia had postponed her warlike demonstrations against Switzerland to the 15 th inst . ; intimating the sympathy of the Imperial Government with tlie Prussian claims to Neufchatel ; and urging the necessity of holding a conference , to settle the questions in dispute . The Augsburg Gazette gives some particulars rclativo t © the sequestrated property of tho emigrants . Not only will every description of property bo returned to the rightful owners , but also all tho revenues and interest of tlio same . The Emperor has also ordered that the outlay for the management of the prop-arty during the absence of tlie owners—which amounts to 560 , 000 silver florins —aliall be paid by tlie State .

      . JTho President of the Council has announced to tho Diet , that tho Noufcliiltel prisoners having been set unconditionally at liberty , the quoation of war id at an end and that there is every reason to hope an amicnblo arrangement will ho effected by a Conference , at which all tho groat Powers are to bo represented . SWITZERLAND . The Noufch & tel prisoners , escorted by a detachment of Swiss troops , wore conducted on Saturday night to the . French frontier , which they crossed nt Pontarlicr . The Federal Council has issued orders for immediately disbanding the troops already assembled . " A curioua phase of mediaeval religion has shown itaalf . in Switzerland , " says tho Morning Star , " not very

      complimentary , we think , to the Protestant profession of the Cantons . A dramatic performance took place in one of the churches , with a view to make the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception impressive ; and vre learn that a body of people rushed into the building when service was over , seized the drapery in which the sacred drama was performed , and made it blaze into an excommunicating fire . "

      ITALY . The reply of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies to the King's speech contains the following passages : — " Sire , —Never was it so dear to the Deputies of your people to present you their homage , their loyalty , and their affection , as now , when they salute you surrounded by new glories of the army and of its valour , and they see you hold incontestably in our peninsula , and before Europe , tliat high position which had been already assigned you in the hearts of all . The splendour of your House thus increasing and rein-vigorating the hopes of a better fate for the common country , we feel that we can with more tranquil spirit continue the difficult work of internal reforms , in which there will be no little comfort in thinking that the grave sacrifices supported with serene constancy by your people begin at last to attain the desired , result . "

      Strong hopes are now entertained that the Austrian garrison will be removed from Parma about the middle of next month , after having been quartered there ever since 1849 . In the event of a state of siege , they have held military possession for six or eight months at a time . The General Commanding in Chief has received orders to hold himself in readiness ; and there is consequently little doubt that the hated presence will very shortly be removed . A duel has taken place between an Austrian officer and a young Milanese , owing ; to the intolerable insolence of the former towards the latter at the Scala theatre . The contest was with sabres , and resulted in very serious injury to one of the arms of the Milanese ^

      • " As the date of the Emperor of Austria ' s arrival at Milan draws near , " says the Times Turin correspondent , " the stricter has become the vigilance of the police there . The police , it is said , has enrolled a great number of soldiers who are onfwrlough for the last years of their service as special constables . These men are engaged at the rate of 2 f . 75 c . a day during his Majesty's stay , and their duty is to go into all the crowded places and . report to the regular police ( to whom they are distinguishable by a medal or token of some kind ) what they see and hear . " The love and devotion of a loyal people , rejoicing in the presence of its Emperor , requires , it seems , avast deal of jealous watching , lest it should suddenly malce a spring-, and bite .

      The bill for the reorganization of the supreme administration of public instruction , now passing through the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies , has excited considerable opposition among some of the liberal members . Among others , Signor Tola , a member of the right , declared himself an advocate for freedom of instruction , and opposed the measure under consideration as calculated to create a monopoly . By this "bill , " he observed , " public instruction was to be entirely modelled after the viewsof the Cabinet , and inspired by the minister . The Church itself was to be forced to teach according to the supreme will of the State . And yet what was to become of instruction if deprived of tlie influence of religion ? Party spirit would g « t the upper hand , and the Government -would become a faction . "

      The Emperor of Austria has granted a full pardon to the thirty-two persons who were convicted of high treason at Mantua in their absence . Fresh aTrests have been made at Naples , says a letter from that city . They Avere supposed to have connexion with a secret society in correspondence with a Mazzinian club in Genoa and Turin . Pieces of money are also said to have been discovered newly coined , and stamped with the effigy of Lucien I ., King of the Two Sicilies . Some of the parties arrested wore subsequently released ; the others are still in custody , and an investigation is j ? oinpr on .

      Ihe news of the assassination of the Archbishop of Paris led to the countermanding at Naples of the fetes and balls which were to be given on the anniversary of the birth of the King ( the 12 th inst . ) , and the theatres were closed . There iras a grand reception at the palace , however , iit which all tho members of the diplomatic corps at Naples were present . The English frigate Malacca hoisted its colours , and fired a salute of twentyone guns . A great nnmber of arrests -were made on the evening of tho 9 th inst ., nt various corToo-houses , and tho prisoners were marched , oil" to gaol , bound by cords . Tho

      cafes -were then closed by onler of tho police ; but on the following morning a printed placaTd appeared on tho walls , bearing tho words : — " Tho faction -which calls itself the ( jo-vernment arrests the wholo city . Patience . Tho hour of the tocsin for vespers -will arrive . " The next night , according to a letter from Naples , " tlie city was deserted and tho cafes empty . The g « s has been turned ofl' from a part of tho Royal Palace , from the Th « atro of San Carlos , and that of tho Fonda , as nn explosion is apprehended . Tho theatres are to be closed fort 3 iree days , tho 11 th , 12 th , and 13 th , in ordur to avoid a demonstration which was prepared

      *? « m for the 12 th , the King's birthday . To-morrow , the 12 th , the Royalists are expected to make a demonstration of affection for their ? adored Sovereign . ' The word has been sent round for all honest men to . keep within doors ; the streets will be deserted . Many families have already quitted their houses in the Rue de Toledo . At Penta , in the province of Salerno , a person named Petrone chanced to make some remarks about the King in a cafe . The gendarmes made an attempt to arrest him , but a priest , a brother of Petrone , issued out with a poniard in his hand , attacked the gendarmes , killed one of them , wounded three , and put the rest to flight . The whole family at once quitted the place , and repaired to the mountains . In this country , those who would enjoy liberty must lead the life of brigands . It is a civil war without a truce . " After the explosion of the powder magazine , a police commission for the army was established .

      The inhabitants of Milan have subscribed a considerable sum of money to raise a monument to the honour of the Sardinian army . The people of Lombardy have sent the amount of their first subscription for the one hundred cannon of Alessandria . A madman has created a great deal of alarm in the Vatican , into -which he had contrived to introduce himself , and to remain unobserved until a late hour of the night , when , says a correspondent of the Daily News , " he suddenly aroused the inhabitants of the apostolic residence by vociferating in stentorian tones that He

      Pope was dead , following up this startling piece of intelligence by another vague assertion , that he himself was about to succeed his Holiness on the Pontifical throne , and that , as the first fruit of his authority , he should order the Cardinal Secretary of State to be shot . It may be easily imagined with what consternation these overwhelming announcements were received , until the ill-omened individual was laid hands upon , and tho state of his intellects discovered . The great gates of the Vatican have been closed at nightfall since this untoward occurrence . "

      Numerous ex-ecutions are constantly taking place in . Sicily , and the town of Catania is in so disturbed a state that the troops mount guard every day with loaded muskets .

      HA . KOVER . It will be remembered ( says the Daily News ) that the Second Chamber of Hanover , already several times dissolved for its refusal to acquiesce in the modifications which the Government seeks , at the demand of the Germanic Diet , to introduce into the Constitution , was , a short time ago , again dispersed for similar reasons . The elections to the new Assembly commenced on Sunday , and , if we are to judge of the whole by the earliest results , the Government will find its relations towards the Chamber unchanged . A despatch from the capital informs us that out of eighteen districts , the elections in which are already known , ten . have elected members of the Opposition , and this , notwithstanding the fact that the elections occur under the new and restrictive electoral law .

      RUSSIA . Intelligence Teceived at Vienna , from Constantinople , confirms the report of the victory of the Circassians , under Ibrahim Pacha , over the Russians . The latter lost a general in the action . It -was at Giuvka that the contest took place . The Circassians took nino pieces of cannon from their adversaries . TVBKKY . The diplomatic conferences on the Principalities have completed the task of revising tho finnan .

      sr- . Arrests continue to be made in Madrid of those who are accused of Republican efforts to overthrow tho Government . O'Donncll has retired for the present , it is not precisely known where . A Ministerial crisis of some kind is understood to bo impending . The tribunal of War and Marine has decided that there was ground for prosecuting General Prim , for tho publication of Ms recent letter ; and a court composed , of generals is about to be formed to try him . Tho Gazette publishes a Royal decree , convoking tho Cortes lor tho 1 st of May . The elections -will take place in conformity with tlio law of the 18 th of March , 184 « .

      Obituary. The Duke Of Rutland Died Nt Bc...

      OBITUARY . The Duke of Rutland died nt Bclvoir Castle , near Grantbam , on Tuesday afternoon , in his eightieth year . During tho whole of his long life ho had been a thorough Tory of tho old school , opposing every measure of liberal progression , from the Emancipation of Catholics and Disacntera down to Free Trade ; but ho was greatly beloved by his tenantry , and was also noted for generous and princely hospitality . lie is succeeded in tho Dukedom by his oldest son , Charles Cecil John , Marquis of Granby , whoso elevation will cause a vacancy in the House of Commons for North Leicestershire . Ho belongs to tho Conservative , or Protectionist party . Dr . Tatuam , tho Master of St . John ' s College , died last Sunday night , at twelve o'clock , in tlio aeventyciglith year of his ago . Ilia deccaso was expected by his friends , as ho Lad been gradually declining for several

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011857/page/7/