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      him the Prussian despatch demanding the liberation of ( h « prisoners aa a preliminary to all negotiations . This despatch was backed by the representatives of Austria , Bavaria , and Baden , in writing , and the subject of the liberation of the prisoners-was taken into consideration by the Federal Council on the 19 th . At the audience that Herr von Sydow had of the President on the 18 th , th « question of the sovereignty of the King of Prussia in Neufchatel -wasnot touched upon ; the business of that audience "was confined to the subject of the prisoners ,

      with regard to which the Frankfurter Journal expresses the confident opinion that the Federal Council will not accede to the demand in its present shape . The offer to liberate the prisoners on condition , that the King -would also , at the same time , renounce his claims to the sovereignty of the Principality appears to have some time back been made on the one side , and refused on the other ; and it was in consequence of this refusal that General Dufour was sent to Paris , for it tarns out now not to be true that the Emperor 1-ouis Napoleon invited the General to come to him at Paris on the subject . "

      The Swiss Federal Government is resolved , in the present uncertain state of affairs , to take every precaution that may lie within its power to protect itself to the almost against any possible contingency . It is strengthening the fortifications , organizing its forces , and placing everything in readiness . We find it stated that the Federation can bring into the field as many as 102 , 94 : 3 men and 700 guns . In case of an emergency , also , it could call out the cantonal troops , consisting of upwards of 40 , 000 men , and would probably ( says a writer from Paris ) recal the 12 , 000 Swiss wlio form the nucleus of tie army of the King of Naples . Switzerland could probably put on foot a force of about 214 , 000 men . General Dufour left Paris last Saturday evening for Berne , to lay before the Federal Council the result of his mission to the French Government .

      The Federal , Council unanimously refuses to comply with the demand of Prussia to set at liberty the Neufcliatel prisoners . The Council declares , moreover , that it is ready to negotiate , and that it is willing to reopen tie relations of friendship and good neighbourhood with Prussia . Preparations are being made that justice may take its course with regard to the prisoners . ¦ " .: '¦' . ¦ ¦' .:. ¦ . . AUSTRIA-: ¦ - / . ¦ , ¦¦ ¦ ; . ¦ .. The Emperor and Empress arrived at Trieste on the 20 th inst . The " General-Convent " of the Lutheran " Montari-Superintendenz " met at Pesth on the 19 th inst ., and discussed the merits of the Ministerial draught for a constitution for the Protestant Cliurch . Several of the jrovisions they objected to . The Hungarian Protest- ^ ants are making a stand for their liberties ; and the members of the same community in Bavaria have entered a formal protest against the recent ordinances of the Supreme Consistory . But the bigotry of the Roman-Catholica does not relax . The Austrian " Field Bishop " Leonhart , has forbidden Catholic field chaplains to give "their blessing to a dying soldier who is a , Protestant , and lias decreed that the heretic shall be buried without any service whatever if a Protestant clergyman be not present . The Bishop of Linz has ordered that all those Austrian soldiers who go out shooting on Sundays and holidays shall be excommunicated . These and other instances of bigoted oppression contribute to make the Concordat every day more and more unpopular . Jellachich , the Ban of Croatia , is seriously ill at A . gram . It is now denied that Sir Hamilton Seymour intends to accompany the Emperor of Austria in his Italian tour . Sir Hamilton still remains at Vienna . ITALY . " The King of the Two Sicilies , " says a letter from Naples in the Cattolico of Genoa , " has just pardoned two political prisoners—Pasquale do Rosa , condemned in 1851 to nineteen years' hard labour in iron 3 ; arid Vincenzo Farina , condemned to twenty years of the same punishment . The sentence of the latter had been commuted by the King , on the 12 th of March , 1855 , into six years of exile ; and on the 18 th of June following his exile had been again commuted into imprisonment in his own house , " The Marquis Giorgio Pallavicino has written to the National , of Brussels , to deny the truth of a n assertion to the effect that ho advocates Muratism in Naples .

      The Preiissische Correspondenz explains that the commercial treaty , so frequently alluded to in the press as having been lately concluded between Russia and Naples , is nothing more than ft form of declaration exchanged by the two Governments on October 3 , similar to the declarations that have been exchanged this year between the Neapolitan and all other Governments with which Naples is connected by commercial treaties . These declarations have reference solely to the equalization of the footing on which tlie direct and indirect navigation of the two countries stand to each other .

      " Sir Hamilton Seymour , " says a letter from Vienna , in the New Wwzburg Gazette " recently gave to our cabi net the positive assurance that England would not undertake anything-with regard to the Neapolitan affair , of a nature to serve tho projects of a revolutionary party m Italy , or to disturb the tranquillity of tho peninsula . " in another letter , printed in the Weter Gazette , we

      read : — "A ^ pamphlet , published in French , is handed about in diplomatic circles here , which contains an apology for the conduct of Naples , and indicates some reforms which that Government might effect . Among them are mentioned the application of the military conscription , to Sicily , the formation of military colonies for veterans and invalid soldiers , the calling in of the copper coinage , the substitution of charges d'affaires for ambassadors , changes in the customs tariff , the release of Poerio , & c . It is thought that this pamphlet emanates from an official source . " Queen Christina of Spain arrived in Genoa on the morning of the 20 th , on board the Capitole steamer , from Marseilles , travelling under the title of Countess of Quinto . After -visiting the town , she re-embarked for Rome .

      " The Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Hepublic , M . de Busehenthal , " says the Times correspondent , " visited Naples two or three weeks since on some diplomatic mission , and curiosity was awakened to know -the cause of it . From all I can gather , the object seems to have been to request the Government to give up a portion of the criminals condemned for life , to the number of some thousands , to be shipped off to his country . " The request was rather contemptuously refused . A man , named Serego , employed at the Grand Hospital , Milan , las been arrested and sent to Mantua by the police , who have some fear of a Mazzinian plot . Some other persons were admonished , and several houses were searched .

      BELGIUM . A storm has blown with such violence on the coast at Ostend as to make a wide breach , which at one time threatened the town . The soldiers of the garrison , however , worked hard during the nights of the 12 th and 13 th , and , by means of heaping in sand and turf , the gap was filled up . A -very warm discussion , which is for the present adjourned , has taken place in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives . It arose on the Projet cTAdresse , and had reference to the paragraph relating to the system of instruction in the Universities of the State . According to the Brussels correspondent of the Morning Post , " it has raised an issue which it is apprehended -will

      terminate seriously , both as regards the position of the Government and the general peace of the country . The Minister of the Interior opened the debate by placing before the Chamber the correspondence that had taken place between the Rector of the University of Ghent , Professor Laurent * and himself , with the view of defending himself from the charge lately made against him , to the effect that , while publicly proclaiming the right of the -professors to the most perfect liberty of opinion in their -writings aud publications , he had privately

      censured M . Laurent , one of the Professors of the University of Ghent , for publishing a certain -work , entitled ' Etudes Hi 3 torique 3 . ' . " To this charge the Minister replied by what was in fact an admission . He said that Professor Laurent had published a book which attacked the religion of the country , and therefore he had urged that he should , be censured . In the second day ' s debate , last Saturday , the Minister said that he was of opinion that science in the Universities of the State should be independent of every dogma , but that at the samo time it ought to snow its respect for every kind of religious worship .

      . TUBKKY . Aali Pacha and Redschid Pacha were not able to agree , and accordingly the former resigned , after only being in office four-and-twenty hours . It would appear , however , that he has since returned . Arrangements are just now being made in the Dobrudscha for the return of about 1400 Bulgarian families , who had fled into Bessarabia at the time of the taking of Matscliiu and the siege of Silistria . Six hundred wooden houses have been destroyed by a

      firo at Pera . The authorities and the Sisters of Charity have taken charge of the families who were left without an asylum . Another extensive fire has broken out at Adrianople . A catastrophe at Rhodes , occasioned by liglitning having struck the immense store of gunpowder which was placed in the vaults belonging to tho Ancient Knights , has destroyed the whole Turkish quarter so completely that only three children were saved . The Journal < le Constantinople states that a Russian Company in the Black Sea has purchased forty steamvessels . GRRMANY . The Mecklenburg Diet has rejected tho proposal to join the Zollvercin . In tho sitting of the Diet on tho 20 th inst ., the representatives of Austria , Prussia , Bavaria , and Baden , informed the Assembly that the Envoys of their respective Courts at Berne had taken steps in reference to the Federal resolution with respect to Neufchatel . HOLLAND . The Minister of Foreign Affairs has announced to tho Second Legislative Chamber that the Government of Holland lias given in its assent to the principles of Maritime Law which were laid down by tho Congress of Paris . GRTHICE . Tho Minister of Finances of Greece , M . Rangabd .

      has forwarded a document to M . Tricoupi , the Greek Minister in London , with a view to its being laid before the English Government . This document gives a statement of the affairs of the kingdom of Greece at the present moment , and seeks to show that that country is worthy of the continued support and encouragement of the great European Powers , and that its internal condition has been greatly misrepresented of late .

      DElTBtABK . Another Pan-Scandinavian demonstration has taken place at Copenhagen , where the students of the neighbouring Swedish University of Ltind gave a concert , followed by a banquet , at which the chief toast was , " To the union of the Nortn , which demands not merely a moral , but a political brotherhood . " All the speeches took the same complexion . The Danish Government has sent Count Moltke to Paris , to request the Emperor Napoleon to mediate between Denmark and the two great German Powers in the Holstein-Lauenburg question .

      POR'TUOAL . The political elections in Lisbon have gone against the Government , the Radicals having obtained a majority . The result in the provinces -will probably be different . THE DANtTBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The European Commission- ofthe Danube was officially opened on the 4 th inst ., under the provisional presidency of the Prussian Commissioner Bitter . At that meeting , the Turkish Commissioner , Omar Pacha , was appointed , president in his quality of representative of the Sultan , sovereign of Moldavia . It was decided , on the proposal of the French Commissioner , that a French gunboat stationed at Galatz should proceed to ihe banks of Aljani , at the mouth ,, of the Sulina , and that the Turkish -war-steainer off Sulina should leave for the same spot , to render the river once more navigable , and remove tlie obstructions which exist .

      In defiance of an order to the contrary from the Kaimakan of Wallachiaj Prince Stirbey , the ex-Hospbdar , suddenly made his appearance in Bucharest , summoned the members of Ms defunct Government , and caused them to reply to some accusations made against him and themselves by M . Sou'tzo and SoutzaM , the Wallachum Minister of Finances , who has published a memoir , in which he accuses the late Hospodariate of financial malversation . Oopie 3 of this exculpatory document have been sent to the different Consuls-General .

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      OUR CiyiLIZATIOm ¦ . ' . ——?— : ; ¦¦ -- ¦ ¦ ¦ ,. ¦¦ •¦ : - THE BULLION ROBBERY . A further examination , into the charges against Pierce and Burgess took place at the Mansion House on Monday . Evidence to very great length was received ; but it did little more than confirm the statements already made by Agar and Fanny Kay . Those witnesses were not again examined . In the testimony of ~ W . Steam , the landlord of the White Hart public house , Thomas-street , Borough , where Burgess was in the habit of going , some light was thrown on the manner in which the latter disposed of his share of the spoil . " On the 17 th or 18 th of February last , " said Mr . Stearn , " I received a parcel , which was handed to me by my barmaid , named Sarah Thompson . In consequence of what she said , I put the

      parcel in . my cash-box and left it there . On the following night , Burgess asked me if I had a parcel for him . I invited him into my bar-parlour , and then opened the cash-box and gave him the parcel in the same state in which I had received it from Sarah Thompson . He opened it in ray presence . It contained several banknotes , apparently valuable ones , as I could see they were not 51 . ones . I asked him why he had not made me acquairiteu ¦ vv \\ jli vl , o"'ilue . ^ ** d na < i aot because he did not think it nec efc ' . . lluir as it was perfectly safe in my hands . It was the savings" *^ '" jars , and lie wished me

      to invest it for him . I suggested that he should open a banking account ; but he declined that , and said he knew nothing of money matters , and should o & ' ^ otteT satisfied if I would iuveat it in the best way I could ; " aSCr * it occurred to mo to take the money to Reed and Co ., my brewers , who would allow five per cent ., and he agreed to that . The next morning I so deposited the money , the amount being 500 / ., all in Bank of England notes , and received an acknowledgment for it in the usual way of business . It was entered in a book , -which I gave to Burgess , who kept it a few days , to show it to his friends , and then returned it to me . I Iiave since received the

      interest on that money , and paid it to Burgess . " Tho prisoners were remanded to next Monday . It will bo remembered that Mr . Lewis , while crossexamining Fanny Kay , on the previous Monday , failed in an attempt to draw from her a statement of her present residence , and threatened , as his only resource , to " watch her home . * ' He did not , however , fulfil hia threat , but saw her at the close of the examination in a private room , to which she had retired , and where he promised to leave her unmolested . At the close of tlie proceedings last Monday , Mr . Bodkin , who appears for tho prosecution , brought under tho notice of the Lord Mayor a fact which had occurred on tho preceding Monday . A man who was in tho body of tho court , near the dock , leant forward , and whispered some words , which were not heard by the bystanders ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29111856/page/5/