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    • No. 427, May 29, 1858.] THE LEQEB, 509

      No. 427, May 29, 1858.] THE LEQEB, 509

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      the Manager and Editor a peremptory requisition to publish in their journal a statement from , one of the seconds of the assassin of M . de Pene . Under the existing military regime of France , the luckless Manager and Editor had nothing for it but to comply . " The statement fully confirms the worst accounts that have been given-of the dastardly crime . It is therein plainly stated that the officers of the entire Trench- army arrogated to themselves a right to call out M . de Pene one after another , on the preposterous ground that he had insulted all . He " was responsible for his article , not only to an individual , ; but to a * class . " The proprietors of the Figaro have been ordered not to publish anymore bulletins as to M . de Pene , and to close the book in .-which inquirers after him write their

      names . "A deputation of colonels , " says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , " has waited on M . Espinasse to ask him to suppress the Figaro Utterly . His reply was , that his relation , M . de Couitiel , had behaved very well on the ground , and that the rest he did not care for . However , it is positively stated that the journal will be suspended for tliree months , but that M . de Villernessant will receive an indemnity . I may add that Mare ' chal Vaillant has caused an order . of'the . day . to be fixed up in the barracks ; to the effect that any officer fighting with a civilian without permission -will be degraded from his position , and , if necessary , cashiered . This may , perhaps , have the desired effect for a time ; but strong circumstances conspire to prove that the bourgeoisie and the army may , ere long , come into serious collision . "

      M . M . Courtiel and Hyenne ( the principals in the two duels with M . de Pene ) , and M . Itoge , second to those gentlemen , have been summoned by the ) Juge dTlistruction of Versailles to appear before him and undergo an interrogatory . The proprietor of the Figaro has also been required to attend . The Minister of War , wishing to stop the consequences of the duel , has addressed a circular to the colonels commanding regiments to forbid the writing of litters by officers to the directors of newspapers , adding that tlie " honour " of the armv stands too high in the estimation of the French people and of the whole world to be affected by the ill-timed pleasantry of an obscure journal .

      Sigaor Dal-Ongaro , an . Italian literarj' gentleman , has received a peremptory order to leave France , without any reason being given for so arbitrary an act . At the same time he was told that he should have a passport for Algeria , or for any other country which would not refuse to receive Italian refugees ^ excepting England . It is whispered in Paris that Lord Mulmesbury is at the bottom of this disgraceful exception . Signor Dal-Ongaro has not latterly concerned himself in politics , but has devoted his attention entirely to literature . The Minister of the Interior lias addressed a circular to the Prefects on the subject of the enormous landed property possessed by the hospitals and -. other charitable foundations , setting forth the great advantages which would result from the conversion of such property into Government stock . The proposal has excited a . good deal of opposition .

      M . Havas , the founder of . the lithographed political correspondence bearing his name , which has been well known in Europe for ' the last quarter of a ccnturv , died on Friday week at the age of seventy-six . It appears now to . , be finally decided that Prince Napoleon shall he placed at the head of the Government of Algeria , and that his title shall be that of Lieutenant of the Emperor . The Prince , it is understood , has obtained his own terms—viz . that he sliull be uncontrolled by a Minister in Paris . Kumour states that there will be a Minister of the Interior and a Minister of War for Algeria , and General Duumas is spoken of lor the latter post .

      The sentence of . death on Lieutenant -lie'Mercy , who has recently lieen found guilty of inurderinghis comrade , Lieutenant Rosier— an act which h « endeavoured , 'by a series of contrivances and falsehoods to represent as a du « l—has been commuted . He will probably now lie condemned to perpetual imprisonment ; but how far that sentence will bo carried out is doubtful , since the absolute pardon which has been extended to Captain Doincaii , the officer who conspired to murder a Sheikh in Algeria , and who , after being condemned to death , was subsequently ordered to be imprisoned for life . Captain Hosier , the brother of the lieutenant murdered by De Mercy has died of a brain fever brought on l > y the excitement occasioned bthe lamentable

      y affliction which had overtaken him MW facts , taken in connexion with the takable colours the alarming condition of military bouliTur ^ "f . 1 ? ™« ch nation has been reduced , and Sim ? , win ir muilI | yfro » M « i » i-l .. noiu for atrocious dimes which I lie army «<> w enjoys The trial of the Chiilons conspirators ( who were con-Marci \ , " T V ° rtlV ? iUtein " fc" ««^ lon 1 st March ) has been brought to , i conclusion . One of the prisoners , named Sercy , has been sentenced t ,, four y 01 S fjeasw . lrovez , Douard , and l . ' m . get , to two v < W imprisonment and « || , w of lOOfr . ; wliilc Mossrs 1 one TeSTn ^ flrC ^^ « " -a . no flno aS « no yeav a imprisonment . There were thirteen othei

      prisoners , against whom the evidence of guilt was entirely presumptive , and they were acquitted . The French naval division in the Pacific , under the command of Captain de Saisset , is to be increased , in consequence of the importance attaclied by the Government to New Caledonia . Prince Vogorides , Kaimakan of Moldavia , has forwarded to Fuad Pacha , to be communicated by him to tlie Conference at Paris , a full statement of all the acts of his administration and of the financial position of the country under his jurisdiction . M . Baraguan , private secretary of Prince Vogorides , has arrived in Paris . The Paris Conference met for the first time last Saturday . Of course , nothing is known as yet of what passed .

      Galignan ' Cs Messenger has a full jtccount of the French " Derby" at Chantilly on Sunday . The-stands' were thronged , chiefly by ladies ; but the ground was covered by crowds of gentlemen and humble folk . Ventre Saint Gris was the winning horse . A dinner of horseflesh has just been eaten at the Hotel du Midi , Bourg , when soups , cutlets , steaks , and roast joints were made from a fine animal which it had been found necessary to kill . The Journal-de VAin states that the guests did not much relish the food , which bad a certain flavour sui generis , not pleasant to delicate palates . The Emperor and Empress , the Queen of Holland , the Prince of Wurtemberg-, Prince Napoleon , the Princess Mathilde , and their suites , left Paris on Sunday by the Lyons Railway for Fontainebleau .

      An Imperial decree , not yet published , decides that all the English who shall establish themselves in the French colony of New Caledonia shall enjoy the same rights and advantages as Frenchmen . . Mr . Ingieby , an Englishman , lias been compelled to quit France , owing to his not having procured the visa of the French Consul in London to bis passport . The English Government has transmitted to Count Walewski twenty-one silver medal s and one gold medal , to be presented to certain citizens of Calais in acknowledgment of the courageous services which they rendered on tiie occasion of the wreck of the British schooner Excel , of . Wcymouth . .. It is also the intention of . the

      English Government to present a lifeboat to the town of Calais . In acknowledging , in a letter-to . Lord Cowley , the receipt tif the medals , Count Walevski says : — ¦ Permit me , your Excellency , in thanking you for this communication , to assure you that the Government of his Imperial' Majesty the Emperor highly appreciates the noble and generous manner in which the British Government has been pleased to recognize the services rendered by our maritime population to English merchant vessels , and that the Government recognizes in this particular mark of . gratitude displayed towards the town of Calais a new . means of cementing that cordial harmony which should exist between the navies of the two nations . "

      The arrival of the Russian fleet from tlie Baltic on the coast of France , as announced in some foreign journals , is incorrect . The Russian fleet will not quit the Baltic this summer . . The Independauce Belyexs to be prevented from entering France for an indefinite period . M . Migeon intends to resign and to propose to the electors of Alsace a warm partisan of his own . The Government , apparently , not wishing to risk another defeat , will , it is said , make no opposition , but adopt M . Migeon ' s j'l'oteye . .

      POBTUCAU The young Queen of Portugal arrived at Lisbon on the evening of the 17 th inst . Tlie festivities on the Royal marriage commenced on Tuesday . Crowds thronged the streets of Lisbon- the houses were decorated with Hags ; and the city was illuminated . " There is a rumour , " says a letter in the Paris Presse , " of a fusion between the Royal family and the ex-Pretender Dom Miguel . According- to the report generally credited , the pension recently granted by the young King to his uncle is the prelude to a reconciliation between tho two branches of the house of lirngnnza . "

      TUKKKV . The caravan which left Syria about two months ago for Mecca having been attacked by tho Ik-douina beyond Damascus , the Porte lias adopted " measures to repair the disaster . Mousuni-Kllendi , brother of the Minister of Finance , embarked on board tlie steam frigate Malnkoff , taking with him u considerable sum of money to relieve the distress of those who had lieeu despoiled .

      MONTICNICQItO . Some scattered : uid not very important operations against tlie Turks have been conducted by the Montenegrins since their great triumph near Grnhovo . Several Turkish villages hnvo been burnt , and the suvago mountaineers liave returned to their homes laden with liooty . It now appears probable that the defeat of the Turks was owing to their having been surprised during « truce , and as ( hey were about to withdraw from Grahovo to Klolmk . After their discomfiture , ( hey loudly exclaimed that they were betrayed , and they threatened to take the life of the , KuKsinu consul , who was in their camp . Fortunately , however , the Licutciiant-General , Hussein Pacha

      took the consul into bis camp , and protected Tiitn . It ia asserted that one of tlie Pachas put another under arrest , though what for is nc * fc known . According to accounts received in Paris , Mirko was not aware , when he made his attack , of the negotiations which , were going forward between Ferukh Pat lia and the Montenegrin chieftain . Phillippoff for the conclusion of an armistice . It has attracted notice that the French Government suppressed the despatch containing the news of the defeat of the Turks , on the 13 th inst .

      Orders have been sent ( according to a letter from . Vienna , of the lGth-Hjst ., in the Cologne Gazette ) by the Austrian Government to Venice , to send the two frigates sationed there to Cattaro . They are to take a battalion , of Chasseurs , two battalions of Infantry , and a battery . The frigates after landing the troops are to cruise off the coast . Colonel Stratimorich proceeds to Cettinye on an official mission , to make representations to Prince Danilo on the consequences of his policy . The conduct of the Austrian Government will depend upon the result of this

      mission . " According to authentic advices from Ragusa , " says the Vienna correspondent of the Times , " Kiamil Pacha retired oa the 18 tli inst ., with a part of the regular Turkish troops , from Grahovaz , a place near the Montenegrin frontier , toMIostar , the capital of the Herzegovina . It is stated that Prince Daniel of Montenegro lias recentlyreceived . 200 , 000 ducats ( about f > 8 , 000 / . ) from the Russian Government , but the chances are that he has got nothing from St . Petersburg but his regular salaryor subsidy . " ' The Catholic Prince of the Mirdites , in Upper Albania , offered Kiamil Paclia his services against the Montenegrins ; but they were declined , although the Mirdites are generally considered the bravest men in the Turkish Empire .

      I he reinforcements of troops sent from Constantinople arrived on the 22 nd at Trebinye . They are composed ( says . a telegraphic despatch ) of 3500 of tlie guard , and make the force now under the command of Hussein Pacha amount to a total of 6000 men . The Ottoman General has dismissed the irregulars , wlio , being undisciplined , were rather an embarrassment to him than otherwise . He has therefore no longer with him any but soldiers well armed and disciplined in the European manner . He occupies an entrenched camp at a short distance from- Trelrinye . He has received orders from his Government not to undertake any movement against the Montenegrins , ' arid not to penetrate into the disputed territory , but to remain in his position and confine himself to covering the Herzegovina .

      " The affair of 3 Eontenegro , " says a letter in the Nord , " may be considered as arranged : the Porte has formally accepted the proposition for a regulation of the . frontiers on the bases of the status quo of 1856 , presented to it by France , England , and Russia . This determination is prudent and wise , for the demand of the three powers , without being an ultimatum in form , greatly resembled one by its general character , seeing that it cast on Turkey the responsibility of the grave consequences , ' which a refusal might occasion . In consequence of this resolution of the Porte , announced by Fuad

      Pacha , an order was to have been scut to Admiral Jurien-Lagravi 6 re to return to France , but it is possible that in consequence of the news of the sending of Austrian frigates to the vicinity of Cattaro , it has not been despatched . In any case , however , the ill-judged proceeding of the cabinet of Vienna will not prevent the regulation of the difference . The negotiations are to take place , some say at Constantinople , and others at Vienna ; but the former city is considered more probable , and a representative of Montenegro is to take part in them . "

      . The Princess Frederick William is said to be suffering from the effects of a fall she bad on tlie staircase of tlie Royal Palace at Ucrliii . Queen Victoria inquires daily by telegraph about the health of her daughter . . The Prince and Princess arc residing at the Castle of liabelsberg .

      ITALY . The Sardinian Chamber of Deputies has been engaged for some time past in debating various financial questions ofliitle interest to the general European reader . In connexion , however , with tho hncumerametito , or proposed contiscution of church property , necessitating the support of the . clergy by the State , Cavour mailo some remarks which may bo here reproduced . u I think , " said he , ' the measure would liavo for certain effect either to render the clergy of oar country servile , or quite to alienate them from tho niateriul interests of societj ' , and to leave them animated only by a spirit of caste . I do not think

      the former result would coino to pass , because 1 too highly esteem our clergy to believe , that they will ever sacrifice , their independence and the duties of their ministry to pecuniary interests . But , if this were to be , should we have conferred a . benefit on society or liberty ? AVo should have done , I think , the greatest possible harm to liberty ; \ vu should liuve constituted an administrative- despotism . It has been my lot ( littlo to be envied ) to be Minititer t ' ur several years , and 1 will any that , if to tlie meana of action possessed by the Government them were to b < i joined a menus of notion on the clergy , the Government would bo rendered tot powerful for t ho interests of liberty . If tho clergy wen ;

      No. 427, May 29, 1858.] The Leqeb, 509

      No . 427 , May 29 , 1858 . ] THE LEQEB , 509

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/5/