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      THE CONFERENCES . •^ Some information , apparently official , with respect to Jo % the approaching resumption of the Paris Conferences , 13 pr 0 contained in a recent number of the Constiiutionnel A tha summary of this article , with extracts from the more a n (] important parts , is given by the Times Paris Correspon- alS ( dent . We here learn that the French writer notices , for tioi the purpose of contradicting them , the rumours which tur have found their way into " foreign journals" relative pm to an adjournment of the Conferences , the doubts enter- - tained in high quarters as to the utility of opening them , bu ( and the new difficulties that have arisen from the pre- prc tensions of some of the Powers who are to send Plenipo- nis tentiaries — pretensions which , were not admitted by ifc , others , and which might lead to the abandonment of the ne < . ^ Conferences altogether . The Conslituti & nnel states that pT there is no foundation for theae rumours ; that there is pe ] no reason to doubt that the Plenipotentiaries will ce ; assemble at the period already indicated , namely , ^ j , towards the end of the present month ; that nothing of jQ ( a serious nature has occurred to the present date to im- W ( pede the preparations for the meeting ; and that the wl delay had been foreseen and -was inevitable . No time t 0 has been lost , as the Conferences could hot be held v £ before the arrival of instructions for the Ambassador of la the Sublime Porte , The convocation dates from the 1 st c ^ of December , and the instructions of the Porte left Con- ou stantinople on the 12 th . The bearer of them is one of ^ the sons of the Grand Vizier , and he is expected in Pans vi in a few days . " The delay which lias taken place , ' observes the Constitutionnel , " ' has been turned to account , re and the spirit of conciliation and the judgment which de- o { cided the reunion of the Plenipotentiaries have not ceased , t y in the meantime , to reconcile differences of opinion , and C € to conduct matters , as nearly as possible , to a solution . U ] There is every appearance that some few sittings will C £ suffice for the labours of the Conference , and that these 1 ; sittings will not be prolonged beyond the first days of a ] January . There is reason to hope that the question of , -j . the frontiers of Bessarabia will then be settled , as well Q ] as the other difficulties of less importance which relate to a this part of the treaty . The labours of the Congress t ] ¦ will receive from the first days of the new year their definitive sanction , and no further obstacle will exist to v their execution . " p The Constitiitionnel then alludes to the organization of j the Danubian Principalities , and the impossibility of j c convoking the Divans in order to ascertain the wishes ' of the population , owing to the presence of foreign t troops on the territory . The foreign occupation has not £ ceased , because the frontier question is not yet decided . t When the qaestion is decided , the troops will evacuate t the Moldo-Wallachian territory , and the Divans will { forthwith assemble . When the wishes of the Prin- ^ Cipalities are ascertained , the European Commission will terminate its labours ; the Conference will once more , j and for the last time , assemble in Paris , as the treaty , prescribes ; it will take under consideration the wishes , of the Moldo-Wallachian people as expressed by the ( Divans , and also the report of the European Commission , 1 which will serve as the basis of that important question . The article concludes :-:- " We may therefore flatter ourselves with the hope that this last phase of negotiations which have kept alive the attention of Europe since the Congress in Paris , will no longer meet with any serious impediments , and that the new organization required by the Principalities will take effect in the spring . " The substance of the instructions received at Paris by the Turkish Ambassador as regards the Conferences is that Bolgrad and the Isle of Serpents shall be given up by Russia . Complete fulfilment of the Treaty of Paris , for the organization of the Danubian Principalities , i 3 demanded , as well as a settlement , as soon as possible , of the Turco-Bussian frontier line in Asia , when the season of the year will permit it . The great Powers are begged to take into serious consideration the state of Turkey , which desires to develop its resources , to become a strong Power , and to be no longer a source of anxiety to the West . The Sardinian Plenipotentiary has received instructions . The day for the opening of the Conferences has not yet been fixed . that and also tion tures it > cei to ve lay 6 , re of f on J 5 y lf lf iof s n lfc ' ^ " ^ ' 13 16 "> ' Q- '" 13 ie as ) V 9 y is U . ' * f , ' ' , tv re"

      Continental Notes. France. M. De Conoy ,...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . M . de Conoy , French Consul-General in China ( says the Coum'ier de Lyon \ hoa received orders to demand reparation frdm the Emporor of China for the death by violence of the Abbd Chapdelaine , who fell a martyr to hla religion . This demand will be supported by the French squadron , charged to compel the Emperor of China to allow a representative of France to reside at Pekin—& privilege which Russia alone has hitherto enjoyed . The Emperor and Empress made an afternoon call on Friday week upon Baron James Rothschild , at the liouae , Hue Lafittc , No . 17 , in which M . Salomon de Rothschild lately died . This handsome house was formerly occupied by the Queen Hortonso , and Louis Napoleon was born in it . —Daily News Paris Correspondent . ays ind by 1 tho of 0 at erto Ion tho 1 de for- Na- lent .

      Baron James de Rothschild has just placed for the poor of Paris , at the disposal of the General Administru- tion of Public Assistance , 30 , 000 kilogrammes of bread , first quality , to be taken from the different bakers in the capital . The tickets for the distribution of this gift were immediately divided among the various bureaux de lien- faisance to bedelivered to the poor . —Idem . The attention of French merchants is drawn by the Journal des Debats to the excellent market for French productions which is offered by Persia . The natives of country , it is said , are possessed of a refined taste , are willing to pay for what they like . The Persians , , unlike the Turks , do not feel any religious objec- to works of art representing figures of living crea-, natural objects , & c , and would therefore gladly purchase European pictures and engravings . A report by the Minister of Finance , submitting the budget of the Civil List for 1857 to . tie Emperor's ap- proval , has been published in the Moniteur . The Mi- nister writes : — " The experience of the past year makes my duty to call the attention of your Majesty to the necessity of putting a limit to your munificence . The previsions of the budget of 185 G , adopted by the Em- eror , presented at the end of the year an excess of re- pts which acts of liberality have nearly cancelled , Many of these expenses consist in pensions and annual indemnities , which will be renewed in 1857 , and it would be running the risk of compromising that balance which your Majesty has always advised me to maintain accept too readily the requests made daily for sub- ntions and aid of every description . It is as well to before your Majesty the sums which , in 1856 , were charged upon your civil list for such purposes . This outlay , which ' had not been provided for , exceeds 300 , 000 f . Despite these calls , no branch of the ser- vice suffered , no payment was delayed , all the con tractors were paid regularly , and yet the provisional turn of 1856 offers , though small , it is true , an excess receipts . It is only to . provide for the future , as thanks to the wisdom of your Majesty ' , we Lave sue ceeded in preserving the past , that I must lay a stress upon advising the Emperor to keep his acts of riumifi cence within bounds . The accounts of the . civil list for 1853 have been examined and audited by the committee appointed by the Imperial decree , of the 26 th of May 1853 , and their report was placed before your Majesty the 3 rd of May , 1855 . At the present moment the accounts of 1854 are in the hands of that committee , an those of 1855 will shortly be submitted to it . " A Captain Morrison / of the English Artillery , has written a history of Napoleon III ., and the French papers publish the following letter of thanks from , the EmpeTor'in return for a presentation copy : — " Palace the Tuileries , December 6 : Sir , —When the truth so often distorted , it is consoling to see a disinterested and dispassionate writer take iipon liimself the task collecting documents which render to facts their cor tahity , and to intentions all their purity . This delicate task you have been good enough to undertake in favour , and , as I have observed in . many passages your work , you seem to have accomplished it . I very thankful . It is not for me doubtless to praise book which contains the narrative of my life , but I may at least be permitted to express to you how sensible am of the noble motive which inspired the -work . Ac cept , sir , with my sincere thanks , tlic assurance of my sentiments . Napoleox . ' M . Michelot , the celebrated comedian of tlie Theatre Francais , died on Thursday week at his residence Passy , in his seventy-first year . The ruins of a Roman theatre haves been discovered Triguferes , near Montargis . It is seventy yards from the back of the pit to the stage , and sixty wide . It could have easily held ten thousand spectators The interior of the theatre is not yet uncovered . Prince Frederick William of Prussia left Paris Sunday on his return to Prussia . SPAIN . A revolutionary club has been discovered at Madrid Some persons are said to have been arrested , and several proclamations seized . The three hundred million loan 1 ms been definitivel adjudged to M . Mires , at 42 . 56 . M . Rothsch agent offered only 42 . 50 . There is a great scarcity of food in Spain at present time , and destitution prevails to an alarming extent ; but Marshal Narvaoz and his co-Ministers tinue to give receptions of sumptuous magnificence . rigid despotism is enforced ; tho Liberal journals , those devoted to the interests of O'Donnell , are coe into submission to the ruling power , while , on the hand , the Absolutist and Carliat papers are allowed utmost liconco . The Ministers , says a letter Madrid , of the 17 th , " have recently issued orders tho early closing of the shops and caftfs , precisely as did ; and these measures , which arc considered by as precautionary , produce groat irritation among public without any advantage whatever to the Govern mont . Tho Ministers do not stir out without being companied by police agents . Each Minister is attended by three of them aa a body-guard , and when carriage stops at tho door of a house , two policemen placdjfcheinsolvca at tho corner of tho street , nnd thirdat tho entrance of tho houflo . All wear cloaks , and carry under their arms a loaded blunderbuss —General O'Donnollliaahad an interview with tho

      Som got : midi infoi was cons notl aiix quil thai tion to li niei " spoi the call mis ha < 3 por Du cou not in i ing clo the be ; llli -a - \ | sul hci ga bit - th po dr , pe - pe wl - lie be 'I , sn pi si d cc « ri ai ; h o is v , si of b - v t my ' tl of a am ( a I - all - ' at at long yards . lust . y ild ' s tho con-A and rced other tho from for ho them the - achis the large . Queen . Some of the Ministers who saw him in the antechamber I got much alarmed , and a Cabinet Council was held at I midnight . During the interview , General O'Donnell I informed the Queen that he was aware that hia name I was made use of to his injury , and that plans of military I conspiracies were attributed to him with which he had I nothing whatever to do . The Queen calmed O'Donnell ' s I anxiety ; she told him he might remain ' perfectly tran- I quil , as . she did not believe a word of these rumours and I that she was satisfied with his services . The converse- I tion then turned on the loan , and O'Donnell explained I to her 'Majesty tlie bad effect produced in public by that I measure . " I ¦; ¦¦ ¦ V " : ' ¦ ITALY .- . . ¦ . ' I " Some curious scenes , " says the Tunes Turin corre- I spondent , " have taken place at Parma in consequence of I the preaching of some Neapolitan missionaries in the I cathedral . It seems that the archbishop had given per- I mission to these missionaries to preach , and that they I had exercised the privilege at the evening service in the I popular style of Padre Rocco , as described by Alexandra I Dumas in his Imjn'essions de Voyage , only without I courting the responses of their audience , or , at all events I not such responses ns they eventually elicited . Placed in a large box , orpalco ( as it is described ) , with flickering lights on either side , and themselves arrayed in -lia'ir-, cloth , in the dim twilight of the building , they made i the most passionate and grotesque appeals to their hearers , pretending to see purgatory and hell ; and , in ¦ illustration of . what they were supposed to have beheld , i a violent lashing of ropes ' -ends , attended with groaning sufficiently diabolical to convince the most sceptical , was i ' heard from their box to represent the sufferings ofpur-3 gatory , and a horrible rattling of chains , together with - blue Hume ? , was used to give a popular description of - that place which should ; never be mentioned to ears 1 polite . On one occasion , the preacher spoke of the s dreadful consequences of persons dying "without being i , perfectly reconciled to the Church or pardoned by com-- petent authority , and he quoted as an instance a woman s who had died iii Parma a few days before , who , he said i - he was sure was then suffering the pains of the damned r because she had not received absolution in proper form . ie ' Many people here don't believe what I say , probably , ' r , said he ; ' but I hope God will give me the means of y proving my assertion . * Then , after some minutes of ie silent prayer , during which the congregation was , of d course , hi ' " the greatest state of excitement to know the result , he cried out in a loud voice , l Cuturina ! Catais rt ' na ! dovestni ? ' to which a reply was given in agonized : h- accents ( with accompaniments ) , ' In inferno . '' The style , ie however , proved too powerful for the Parmesan taste ; cc one or two women went into hysterics , and at last those is who \ vent to pray remained to scoff . In fact , the misid sionaries were hissed , and'the Government was obliged to of beg the archbishop to interfere to prevent further scandal ; r- which'he promised , to do . " According to the account of to this indcoent foolery , given by the Daily >\' ear , two hundred and fifty piastres to each emigrant ( for-it i & proposed that the expatriation shall he voluntary , though r i the Neapolitan Government wishes to use tlie woru . , ril " transportation" ) , with land and . stock ; and the treatv i 3 to remain in force for throe years , or , as the Km * , ° rely Naples desiros , four years . Tho piastres which tiw utld ' s public is to advance aro to he repaid in five years . _ The powder magazine at the end of the N « w Mole tho Naples , blew up on tlie 17 th inst . with a tcrniic ropo t . . hie An immense amount of damage has heen done to the on- fortificationB , and to vessels in the linrbour , sonio ol A which were sunk ; and sonic sixty thousand wm « and ( including several in the pnlnco ) , have been »]»«"" ¦ rcet atoms , ntrewing the ground with powdered # « £ Ser loss of life is variously e « timaled at from fiUoeii " tlm twenty . Tlio diunnKc to the ( Jovernmont worus i .- « "i Vom posed to amount to 500 , 000 ducntf " . , ., , for The medal subscribed for by tho inH . ihitnn s of W , ho Lcfiations in the Roman States , was presented <~" hom 18 th instant to Count . Cavour . .. omc ^ ioii the The company already in possession ol Hie « . omtern- of . tho railway from Naples to Tarento lin » ol . tnj m d p nc- prolongation of tho lino on tho north to the fronts" . nded railway thus traversing the . entire '"" S ' ™? ; thc mall hia The part . ioulnrH of tne oxooution of M illing ^; ' . , mcn who attempted to stnb the Kin « of Naples , , hnj . the » t > Hg News corroHpondent , " us disgusting as can ^ argc conceived . A ladder rested ntfainst tho cross bean , « V i > uB 8 . which the criminal wns compelled to mount . " i lecn . full five minutes or more to adjust the rope ; ns . «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/4/