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      Letters From Paris. (Fbom Otf Jt Oww Cor...

      Eng land are visibly backing put . Vely Pacha , the Turkish Ambassador in Paris , asked Bonaparte the other day to lend the Porte a General of Division , a General of Brigade , and a staff of colonels . Bonaparte gave no reply , but at once consulted the British Government , which pronounced itself for the negative . It appears , too , that M . de Kisseleflj the Kussian Ambassador , has terribly frightened Bonaparte by declaring that at the first hostile movement of France he would demand his passports . And this is why the allied fleets which were to be at Constantinople on the 14 th , were not within the Golden Horn on the 20 th . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦ a

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      Continental Notes. At Lengthl The Monite...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . At lengthl the Monitewr entitles us to say the fleets have entered the Dardanelles , and > are anchored off Gallipoli , at the entrance of the sea of Marmora . According to M . Xavier Raymond , who represents the Journal des D 6 bat at Constantinople , and whose information is worthy of all credit , the Turkish Minister had assured the Ambassadors of the Western Powers that after war had been declared , the Porte could onl y desire the presence of the fleets at Constantinop le in the character of active ^ allies . The idea of coercing the Turkish population was simply absurd ; for the Sultan and his people are not two in council and in action , as in some States , but one . The Government is one with the nation . The correspondent of the Journal des JDdbatswho cannot be accused of any predilection for

      , the Turks , having written , at Paris , much w the spirit of the Times on the Eastern question , now bears this unimpeachable witness to the admirable conduct of the Turkish population . " I still find it difficult to understand how it is that the truth has not come out , in spite of all who are interested in representing the Turkish capital as a prey to the most ^ menacing agitations . When . I yesterday received by the Austrian mail newspapers from Europe , I was more astonished than I can tell you , to find it generally believed that all the Christians and all the Pranks in Turkey are threatened in their persons and their property . Nothingis more false , I state positively . On this point , at least , all nere were agreed , and all Pranks , whether English , French , Italianor German , acknowledge that never have

      Christ-, ians enjoyed such ^ perfect security , or been treated with more respect than they are here now . " The same correspondent states that when the Turkish Government definitively refused the note of Vienna , it was disposed to invite the assistance of the fleets , on the plea of pr eserving the tranquillity of the city , which was never threatened - , the real object being to induce the two Governments to compromise themselves by a movement which would be regarded by Russia as aggressive ; but that when once war was deelared and diplomacy suspended , there was a scarcely disguised disinclination to admit the fleets within the Dardanelles , except on clearly defined terms ; and a ¦ distinct opinion expressed that their appearance at Constantinople would be a confession of weakness in the Government of the Porte , if it wore not a movement of active

      alliance . . . M . X . Raymond states the universal conviction at Constantinople to be , that the Turlcs will be superior to the Russians , at all events in the first encounters . He says ho 1 ms not met a single person -who holds a contrary opinion . The new patriarch Anthemos has publicly declared himeelf opposed to the pretensions of the Czar . We trust this declaration may not shorten the Patriarch ' s existence . It is reported that M , do Bruck , the Austrian Nuncio , has presented a fresh note to Rescind Pasha , on the subject of the refugees in Omer Pasha ' s army . Tho Porto has officially recognised Schlamyl and the other chiefs of the Circassian insurrection , by giving them titles according to their grade , and sending them arms and ammunition .

      At Odessa there has been a panic in tho corn market . Trices have fallen a third , from the fear of exportation boing suddenly interdicted . Wo shall sec whether Christian Hussia will be as humane as barbarous Turkey , which haa promised perfect security to neutral flags . Tho Russian officials w ; ero to leave Constantinople on tho Slut inet . Tho Austrian Government has addressed a circular to its diplomatic agents abroad to tho effect that it would observo « strict neutrality in the event of hostilities between Russia and Turkev . and that " it did not yet despair of a

      pacific solution . " Of course not ; whon did diplomacy ever despair P It would bo a confession of impotence . Tho Monitor of Thursday publishes tho following despatch from Bucharest , dated Oct . 22;— " Two Russian etoamors and eight gun-boata forced a passage on tho 3 ) anubo on Sunday , and wore encountered by a smart fire from tho Turkish forts of Isftcteha , between Honi and Ismail . The Russians hud n lioutonont-colonol , throo officers , and twelvo men killed , and fifty wounded . They allege having set firo to tho fortroHS of Isocteha . " Advicm from Moldavia state that fresh Russian troops

      are ntill pouring in and inarching to the Danube . Tho town of . Tassoy has a garrison of 0 , 000 Russian troops . Precautionary measures have bora ! taken to prevent tho < M > tranco of Polish travollors into tho Ranubian Principalities . Tho now Patriarch has boon invited to attend the flittings of tho Privy Council . Tljo Minister of Finance , Mouktar Boy , has resigned hifl post . Moussa Safotti Pasha lias boon appointed in Jus place A corps of 26 , 000 Ruseians lion boon landed at Redout Kalo , with a view , it w

      supposed , of attacking Batoum . General Cluyon ( our countryman ) of Hungarian celebrity , and who ban since the war commanded at PamascuH in tlw * quality of a Pasha , boa boon appointed do a command in Asia . Gonoral Klapka ie not ) yet in Turt « y . Ho is rapootod 2 n Constantinople early in Noyoznbein General Pom-Wmeki is ataled to havo left Parifliw ijlw Mmo domination

      " Three great facts / ' observes the semi-official Fatrie , " result from the article of the Monitewr ( the official article which appeared on Thursday on the entry of the fleets into the Dardanelles ) : —l . The intimate union , the perfect understanding , of Prance and England in common action as in negotiations . 2 .. The firm resolution of the two Powers to maintain the sovereign rig hts of the Sultan —the only sure basis of the independence of the Ottoman Empire / and , consequently , of the balance of power in Europe . 3 . The neutrality , from their own interest , of Prussia and Austria , notwithstanding the maritime demonstrations in the Dardanelles , and the hope of tjieir cooperation in all the ulterior negotiations which may hereafter serve to facilitate the solution of the difference .

      All accounts represent the Russian army as decimated by disease and desertions , ill-disciplined , and demoralized ; while the Turkish forces are stated by eye-witnesses to be in the highest state of health and efficiency . Le Charivari which displays more good sense with wit , than heavy official journals without it , on the Eastern question , thus ridicules the diplomatic story of a " pacific solution . " After a pitched battle , the following is to be the solution of the Rusao-Turkish dispute . " The Generals will advance to a tent hastily pitched in the middle of the p lain , a brilliant staff wUl surround them , and several diplomatists will form part of the cortege . Omar Pasha is to be the first to advance . ' General , ' he will say to Prince Gortschakoff , ' now that at least five

      thousand of his subjects remain on the field of battle , the Sultan , my master , loudly declares that he has no kind of repugnance to accept the note of Russia , and that he will sign it as soon as the Emperor shall think proper . ' Prince Gortschakoff will reply to Omar Pasha , ' General , the death of ten thousand Russian soldiers in the late battle permits me to declare , in the name of the Czar , my master , that he has never entertained the slightest intention to attack the consideration' of his old and faithful ally . ' The two Generals will embrace , and the diplomatists will advance to the front of the tent and sing the final couplet which M . Clairyille * is occupied in composing at this very moment . 'And do you really believe , ' asks our

      interlocutor , ' that things will pass off in this way ? ' 'Positively , do . ' ' That Russia , after having put in motion an array of 2 ) 00 , 000 men , and invaded two provinces , will quietly return home after exchanging a few shots ? ' 'I have no doubt of it . ' 'That Turkey has exhausted her last resources , and demanded from Islamism its last man and its last piastre , to accept the note after an insignificant demonstrationP 'It is certain , according to the Con-stitutionnel' On receiving this reply , our man left us to go and spread the excellent news at the Bourse and on the Boulevards . The return of Clairville is expected every moment . He haa been , it is said , made a Russian Pasha by the Emperor , and a three-tailed Boyard by the Sultan . "

      Continental Notes. At Lengthl The Monite...

      • A well known vauOcvUllate .

      The Emperor And Empress Returned From Co...

      The Emperor and Empress returned from Compiegne to Paris on Thursday . They are expected to go to Fontainebleau in a few days . Railway accidents are becoming almost as fashionable in France as in England . There have been three or four serious accidents within a few weeks . The latest took place on Wednesday last , on the Versailles line , and was occasioned by a rail breaking , between Courbevoie and ABnieres . The train ran off the rails , and dashed with great violence against the iron columns of a bridge . Three of the carriages woro upset , and dashed to pieces . According to one account , seven passengers were wounded , t"wo

      whom have since died ; according to anothor , throo were mortally and nine dangerously hurt , and several received contusions more or less severe . The subsequent trains were delayed for an hour boyond their time in consequence of the accident . Several letters appear in the French papers on the causes of tho recent severe accident on the Bordeaux lino . Thoy agree in attributing it to the fact of there being only ono lino of rails , and to tho confusion of goods and passenger trains through the unpunctuality of tho latter , and they call for tho samo simplo remedies as we arc for ever ineffectually demanding nearer home .

      Three persons have been convicted of selling portraits of various " pretendcro" of tho two Bourbon branches , and sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment and a fine of 300 francs . A tragical affair has happened at Chalons-sur-Morne . Tho General commanding tho district has been shot doa * l by ono of his nidcs-fle-camp , who was entertaining illicit relations witli tho GeneraTe wife . From tho 27 th inst . public solos of butchers' meat aro to bo hold by auction at tho Italics . Surely it would bo far bettor to abolish tho octrois , and to tlirow open tbe trado . TJUo Atlantic squiulron , composed of four ships of $ ho lino , two steam frigates , and n stoam corvotto , sailed from Cherbourg for Brest , on tho 21 st .

      Strange complications aro nio among tbo ' Powers . * Louis Napoleon lias been affronted by King Bomba of Naples , and has withdrawn his brother sinister and ambassador to that court , M . do Maupas . Ho had sent three staff o / licors to attend tho review of King Bomba ' s army ; but it scorns that tho antecedents of one of these officers , M . do Irfispane , woro obnoxious to fcho Neapolitan Monarch . Accordingly , on tho sorry pretext of quarantine , tho Froneh officers woro not permitted to land . After ineffectual remonstrances , they decided to return in high dudgeon to Franco , and report tho insult io fcho JEmneror .

      It jfl thought that tlu ) King oil Naples , having tho fear o ( Murnt before his eyes , > vill bo content with having indicted this petty affront upon France , and will patch up Mio quurrol how ho can . A certain Polish Saint was to bo canonided . According to custom , the ^ o <« l wo » ka of the Saint are specially cxaminod . Certain Polish monies woro referred to on tho subjooi ., who , without tionaulting tho i'ojio of the Russians , ¦ Miohobis tho Ctfur , gavo t fw information desired . Thin Midopondonoo ou tho part , of tbo Volm of his spiritual authority so grievously olfcndod tho Cz , ar that ho rosolvod

      to recall bis Ambassador , M . de Boutenieff . Perhaps the Ambassador has incurred disgrace for having suffered this insult to the Emperor . It may be remembered that when the Emperor Nicholas apologised to Pope Gregory XVI ., for the barbarous treatment of the poor nuns of Minsk , the aged Pope rebuked the Emperor with a fearless humility that made the proud Czar quail .

      A Deputation Of The Refugees At Turin Ha...

      A deputation of the refugees at Turin has presented an address to M . de Cavour , repudiating any implication in the recent riots in that city . M . Ratazzi , President of th e Chamber of deputies , and a decided liberal , has been appointed Minister of Justice , in the place of M . Boncompagni , who had resigned . The Piedmontese government is said to have refused its exequatur to the newly appointed American Consul at Genoa , M . Foreste .

      Tbe Young Emperor Of Austria Returned To...

      Tbe young Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna on the 22 nd inst . from a visit to his intended bride at Possenhofen , where he had been living in amarous retirement . A writer in the Vienna Zwschaner proposes , as a panacea for all revolutionary apprehensions , that the Continent of Europe should be hermeticall y sealed against the Anglo-Saxon race . Why not propose to dry up the Thames , and to drain the Atlantic ? * The Ring of Prussia has returned from Magdeburg to Potsdam . His excitable majesty has been delivering a characteristic speech against religious liberty ; a strange contradiction to the tenets of the recent Evangelical conference at Berlin . There has been a great deal of diplomatic business going on at Berlin between the King , M . de Manteuffel , and the Ambassadors of Prussia and Austria .

      It is stated that the Austrian Grovernment have commenced , within the last few weeks , an issue of a n © w kind of inconvertible paper , in the shape of 5 per cent , mortgage bonds , to an amount equal to 4 , 000 , 000 ? . Were this a revolutionary government , we should hear a cry of assignats ; but under an Emperor , it is all order and propriety . Advices from St . Petersburg of the 19 th inst . mention that in a second interview which some of the English merchants had with the Minister of Finance , they were informed that , as regards any Engh ' sb vessels that might be in the port , in case of war , their treatment would entirely depend on that received by Russian vessels from Great Britain . The French garrison at Rome is decidedly to be increased , although the Moniteur denies the fact .

      An Arrangement Between France And Piedmo...

      An arrangement between France and Piedmont , with the consent of England , is whispered of in the event of certain European eventualities , by which the revolutionary movement in Italy would be restricted to proper " constitutional " limits , and Austria would at least be preserved for the sake of the'" balance of power . " We shall notice this di plomatic mystification more particularly on an early occasion .

      The Reception Of The Queen Isabella At S...

      The reception of the Queen Isabella at Spain , at tbe Opera , on the 19 th ult ., alluded to in anothor part of our paper , is thus described in a leading article of the Times on the decline of the passion of tho Spaniards for monarchy : a passion which , indeed , has been severely put to the test . Ne totcchez pas a la Heine , was once the law of Spain : to touch a monarch , even to save him , or her , from death , waa treason . But Isabella the Second has herself been the first to break the tradition . We have alluded to the morals of the Spanish Court more than once of late . Wore wo to enter into details familiar to all

      Madrid , « should be unlit for family reading . Yet Isabella offers up frequent supplications to tho Virgin of Atacha , and is still styled " Her most religious and Catholic , " ( not hor Most Moral ) Majesty . " " The Queen , " says tijio Times , " entered the Royal uox with her consort —with tho consort of Louis Philippe ' s finding . She stood prepared for tho usual loyal demonstrations . The splendour of tho scene waa mechanically suspended that tho Royal March , according to custom , might give time and harmony to tho glad acclamations of Jier subjects . But from all sides of tho hall—of a hall crowded with tho

      most illustrous personages of Spain—a cry of aversion resounded . There should bo no inarch played . Thoro should bo no glad cry of welcome . Whoro tho Queen of Spain looked for cheers hor ears was greeted with hisses and expressions of disgust : — ¦ ' Basta , basta , de eso J '— ' Wo havo had enough of this !'— ' Quo continue la opera P—• Let tho opera proceed ! ' Was it insensibility—waa it scorn P Tho Queen did not change countonanco . Not so tho husband of the Queen by registry and by name . Not so tho moment

      another pornon in that house , who at present occupies a post at Math-id for which no name is given m the hierarchy of Spanish dignifies , although a Spanish muleteer would bo at little loss to supply the requisite denomination . Thero stood tho nuccoHHor of Charles V ., glancing down upon tho people , who woro cursing hor in their hearts , and hissing at her with their Jips , with no ono to rely upon nave the person who lor the moment had succeeded to hor favour . A 11 this parcel at Madrid on tho evening of Tuesday , the 18 l . li of tho prcHiinfc month .

      The Bakba.Bianh And The Civilized. (From...

      THE BAKBA . BIANH AND THE CIVILIZED . ( From Lo Chitriinitri . ) THK BuflHiaiiH who , if wo are to believe certain writers , aro a civilized people , invade , in tuno of peace , the territory belonging to a friendly nation . Tho Turks who pass for barbanam in tho opinion of Homo , maintain a perfect respect for nil thoir noigh-) O Tho civilized Power roplioH to observations addreHHed to it on its interpretation of public law , tliat it acts tlniB because it lwtiovoH itHolf to bo tho tttnmgost . Tho barbarian , Power pauses at tho representations of its allioH , who entreat it to wait awhilo boforo driving out tho enomy from Hh borders , ho ax not to compromiHO tho pcaco of Europe .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1853, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29101853/page/5/