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      Continental Notes. Fkance. A Imputation ...

      night for Switzerland . Prussia has reduced her terms so far as the money is concerned ; she now accepts and Dr . Kern engages for Switzerland to pay , l , 000 , 000 f . by way of indemnity ; the King of Prussia retains the title of " Prince of " Neufclatel , " and Switzerland -will give him a guarantee respecting the proper administration of charitable institutions in Neufchatel . The Emperor , by a decree of the 3 rd inst ., has pro" * moted several English officers and soldiers to the Order of the Legion of Honour . . The 1 st Regiment of Zouaves has just encamped at Tizi-Ouzzou , close to the frontiers of Kabylia . Tizi-Ouzzou and Dra-el-Mizaa are the two advanced posts which the Governoi-General established last year . " Redpathism " seems to be extending into France . " Three accountants , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " are unremittingly employed in examining the accounts of a joint-stock manufacturing company , in -whose hands several hardworking men -were permitted , as a great favour , to deposit their savings of several years . If the reports current be true , many miner delinquents may possibly escape in consequence of some high names being , it is said , implicated . An unwillingness exists in certain quarters that the extent of the mischief should be known to the world . " Tlie Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Toulon on Monday . Immediately on landing he spontaneously offered to review the troops , which were drawn up in line to receive him- At nine o ' clock the following morning he visited the Arsenal . The crowd assembled was very large . A warm reception was given to General Todleben . The ceremony of administering the oath to Cardiual Morlot , the new Archbishop of Paris ^ took place last Sunday at the Tuileries . On its completion , the Emperor went on his knees to the ecclesiastic , and asked him for his first benediction . This having been done , the Empress and the Prince Imperial were similarly blessed in their own apartments . ¦ . ;¦ . Austria . :. ¦¦¦ . ¦¦;¦ . ' : '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ; The Austrian frigate Novara , 1700 tons burden , has just started on a voyage round the world . Some particulars of the vessel and of the contemplated expedition are given in a letter from Trieste , where the Novaia was built . It is there stated that" her speed is about 12 knots an hour . The crew consists of 16 officers , 14 midshipmen , 200 sailors , 100 marines , and 4 . medical men . The scientific commission consists of Dr . Hochstetter , for physiology and geology ; Drs . Frauenfeld and Celebor for arts and sciences in general ; Dr . Scherzer for ethnography ( statistical accounts of nations and races ); M . Zeleny for landscape painting ; and M . Gellinekfor horticulture . The route to be taken is from Trieste to the island of Lissa , Gibraltar , Rio Janeiro , Buenos Ayres , Cape of Good Hope , the islands of St . Paul and Amsterdam , Ceylon , Calcutta , the Nicobar Islands ( the expedition will arrive here in December , and remain three months ) , Sumatra , Borneo , Celebes , Manilla , Amoy and Hong-Kong , Fermosa , New Guinea , Australia ^ Melbourne and Sydney ) , New Zealand , New California , the Society , Marquesa , and Sandwich Islands , North America ( not to San Francisco ) , Canada , Central America , Valparaiso , and by Cane Horn to the Falkland

      Islands . " The Triester Zcitung seriously states that M . Cavezzali , an apothecary at Lodi , has discovered a means of making silk out of mulberry leaves . An article on the close alliance between Austria and England is contained in the Verona Gazette . The writer says that this union does not result from Austria changing her policy , but from Palmerston changing his . Palmerston is " repentant . " A covert allusion is then made to the isolated position of Sardinia . This , observes the writer , cannot last long , " although a repentance like that of Palmerston is not to be hoped for . For such a regeneration , it is necessary to have the lofty genius and frank character of Palmerston . " A new census law for Hungary has been published . Formerl } ' the census was taken in such a way that the authorities knew where to find the men who were of an age to shoulder the musket , but nothing more . Tho census will now be taken ever } ' six years—except in the military frontier districts—in the following manner : — 1 . The number of cities , towns , villages , hamlets , and houses will be registered . 2 . The number of inhabitants , according to their religion . 3 . The number according to their professions or trades . 4 . The number according to their age . 5 . The number married or single . 6 . The number according to their residence . At the name timo , statistical information must he given relative to the number of animals kept . The animals which must bo entered in tho tables arc stallions , mares , geldings , fouls , mules , asses , bulls , cows , oxen , calves , sheep , goats , and swine . —Times Vienna Correspondent .

      ItUSSIA . Tho Paria journal , Pays , publishes a private letter from tho Crimea , of tho 3 rd inst ., which announces that , in pursuance of a plan recently adopted at St . Petersburg , great works arc being commenced at the : port of Katl ' a , which will render that place the most important commercial and maritime establishment in the Black Sea . It is now denied , on tho authority of tho Nord of Brussels , that tho Grand Duko Constantino intends to

      visit England and Some after leaving Paris . The expected visit of the Dowager Empress of Russia to France is likewise contradicted . The Grand Duke , it is stated , will return to St . Petersburg via Belgium , Holland , Hanover , and Prussia . ¦ " ¦ ... M . de Tegoborski , member of the Council of the Russian Empire , but more celebrated for his financial works , died at St . Petersburg on the 11 th inst . Some of the Schapzugen tribe crossed the Kuban ( which -was frozen over ) on the 1 st of February . They were about five hundred in number , and , divided into three parties , they attacked the Russian posts on the right bank . The Cossack riflemen , however , received them with a brisk fire , causing the first body to fall back on the second . A heavy weight was thus concentrated on one part of the ice , which gave way , and the greater number of the Schapzugens were drowned .

      . ¦ ¦ • SPAIN . ¦ ' ¦ : . ' . ¦¦' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ,. ' Several persons , chiefly priests and ex-Cai-list officers , have been arrested at Madrid on a charge of being concerned in a plot for effecting an insurrection in six or seven provinces on Easter Sunday . It is believed that the affair is greatly exaggerated by the Government . Catalonia is still in a very disturbed state . Orders , it is rumoured , have been despatched from Madrid to the Spanish seaports to suspend the preparations for the expedition against Mexico . The difference is m a fair way of adjustment at Paris . Violent altercations have taken place between the King and Queen—owing , says scandal , to the King ' s pecuniary requisitions , and to the Queen's " interesting situation . " A Royal decree for the enlargement of Madrid has been published in the Gazette . ¦ PORTUGAL . The Government has contracted provisionally ( subject to the approval of the Cortes ) with Sir Morton Peto for the construction of the railway from Lisbon to Oporto .

      PRUSSIA . ¦ ¦ "¦ /' . V - ¦ ; - ¦ .. : ¦ The Government has caused its representative at "Washington to remonstrate with the United . States Government on account of the many acts of violence committed on Prussian immigrants in American ports , by forcing or entrapping them on board American vesselsfor compulsory service . The Prince and Princess of Prussia , and Prince Freidrich Wilhelm , are expected to visit Queen Victoria about the beginning of June-Several portions of the loaves of bread which gave rise to suspicions of poisoning at Hong-Kong have been forwarded to Baron Liebig , at Munich , for analysis . The Prussian Government has finally resolved to prohibit the circulation of bank-notes of any other state without exception .

      DENMARK . •' The Equestrian Order of Lauenbourg , " says a Copenhagen letter in the Neio Prussian Gazette , " lias gi ven up its intention of laying its complaints against the King of Denmark before the Frankfort Diet . The Vice-Marshal of the duchy , Count dc Kiehnansegge , arrived lately at Copenhagen , of his own accord , and begged the King to listen favourably to the representations of th < order . The result has ' been that the Chamberlain d < Karsdorff has been charged by the King to come to ar equitable arranp ; einent with a commission appointed b ^

      the order . " The scene which led to tho break up of the late Danish Ministry is thus described in Voss \ s Gazette of Berlin : — : Count Scheele submitted four manuscript documents on the Sound Dues question to the Supreme Council , together with the printed protocols . M . Andrae expressed his surprise at this course , anil maintained that the comtminication of these documents to the Council was needless , and at any rate ought not to havo taken place without his being informed of it aa President of the Council . This was said witli some warmth ; Count Scheele replied with equal warmth , and a violent discussion ensued , which led to a definitive rupture . It is stated that tho President of the Council afterwards discovered that ho had made a mistake , and learned that the documents had been submitted to the Council of Ministers ; bat it was too late . M . Jtall , the Minister of Public Worship , has been charged with the formation of a Cabinet .

      ORItMAST . In an official part of the Uumbury Correspondent of April ICth , the Senate has published a proclamation of the Hanoverian Government prohibiting tho importation of cattle over tho land frontier , all the way from tlio mouth of the Elbe at Ottcmdorf up to Artlenburg ; thirty miles above Hamburg , without a certificate of origin mul bill of health , under iicnnlty of a line of iifty dollars , or a corresponding term of imprisonment for every cane of contravention . Tho united Diet of the two Duchies of Saxe Coburf ; and Saxo Gotha was opened by the Duke on tho Mitli inst ., at Gotha . In his speech upon this occasion , ho dwelt upon the great inconveniences which are caused by maintaining a Beparate administration , and legislating separately for cuch of these , states . 14 It is positivoly stated , " saya a Baden letter , " that tho Government of Baden , following the example of

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      Wurtemberg , has opened a negotiation Trith the Court of Rome , and that a convention will shortly be concluded to regulate the situation of the Roman Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy . " ITALY . The Jesuits are making increased efforts in Tuscany to get the education of the people and the direction of public affairs into their own hands , but at present with little success , as the popular feeling is strongly against them . The Tuscan Government is in great disfavour with the Pope , on account of its taking every opportunity to diminish the effect of the Concordat . Some of the Tuscan sees are vacant , the Government refusing to present candidates . The decrees published by the Emperor during his late stay at Milan are said to remain almost a dead letter . Only a few of the prisoners have been released , and among these are several professed thieves , so that robberies have been very numerous of late . A great many promised public works are indefinitely postponed , as the corporation is overloaded with debt , and the Government taxes are excessive . The responsible editor of the Avvisafore Alessandrlno , a Piedmontese paper , was condemned by default a few days ago by the Court of Appeal of Casale to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of GOOQfri for having published an article under the title of " The Insurrection , " in which he advocated the overthrow of the constitutional mo-¦

      narchy . . : ¦' . The Neapolitan Bagni have been placed under the supervision of the Jesuits . It may be doubted , however , whether this Avill lead to any reform of their horrible iniquities . " Count Pisani , of Venice , " says a letter from Genoa in the Constitutionnel , / 'has just been fined 700 , 000 swanzigers ( sixteen sous each ) by the Austrian Government for having disposed to the English Government of 'The Tent of Darius , ' one of the best productions of Paul Veronese . This sum represents the double of the price paid by the latter to the count . The fine is justified by a law which prohibits the exportation of objects of art from Italy , and which was the first brought iuto practice by the Grand Duke of Tuscany . The circumstance has afforded- 'much , satisfaction in Italy . " " Accounts from Rome , " says the Union , " announce that M . Lazzaroni , member of the Consulta , has been assassinated in a corridor of the palace . He-was proceeding to pay the clerics of the establishment , and had with him a pocket-book containing 1200 scudi . lie was stabbed in the stomach , and the assassin escaped - ¦• -t ¦ ' 1 ? - ¦'¦ ' ¦¦¦»¦' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ; . with the

      .. money . The Neapolitan Government , through one of its newspaper organs , denies the truth , of the story about " the cap of silence , " an instrument of torture said to be used in the state pi'isons . Piedmont , it is stated , is arming , and placing its fortifications in a state of readiness , as if a war with Austria were inevitable . ¦ Several of the illuminations and fireworks outside St . Peter ' s , for which Easter Sunday and Monday have long been celebrated at Home , were omitted this year , because , as it was alleged , the Empress of Russia could not arrive in time to see them . Great indignation has been felt , especially by disappointed foreigners , and there are rumours that the real cause of the omission was a fear of some disturbance . A work is now in circulation in Naples , called " The Praises ' of the King of Naples in the English Parliament . " It opens thus : — " To-day the praises of Ferdinand 11 . the Intrepid ( such is the name reserved for him' by dispassionate and truthful history ) shall hi sung , not by us , but we will hear them sung iu England , in London , in the English Parliament , by members of the Houses of Lords and Commons , by Lord Derby , Lord John Russell , Gladstone , Disraeli , and Milner Gibson . Let us listen to them . "

      TUKKICY . Admiral Lyons , together with his squadron , has been received at Smyrna with much ceremony by the Turkish authorities , the French naval division , and the English residents . Admiral liouct-Wilhuumez ; , at a . fete , which ho gave to the English Admiral on board the Potnonc , gave a . toast , " To the union of tho French and English Hags . " Admiral Lyons replied in a long speech , in which lie expounded what he conceived to be the advantages of the Anglo-French alliance . At tho dose of the investigation into the affair of the Kangaroo , the Sultan has pronounced Meheme . t Bey , chief of the expedition , with Fevhad and Ismail , guilty , and lias sentenced all three to banishment . The operations relative to the Turko-Kussian frontiers in Asia will begin on tho 18 th of April . Forged Turkish bank-notes ans now manufactured in Austria , und conveyed into the Sultan ' s dominions . A man from Trieste was recently arrested at Constantinople , ¦ with a vast number in his possession .

      CIUOASBIA . Mehcmet Bey is organimng regiments . The Russian fort of Salish ban been taken , and tho garrison put to the sword . The villages of Daghestan have sent in their submission to the Na'ib .

      MONTKNKCIKO . The diu ' erencc between Austria und Montenegro ( saya

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/5/