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    Continental Notes. France. Lift* Dated T...

    aa follows : —Registered electors , 38 , 367 ; voted , 12 , 280 ; for M . Perouse , Government candidate ,. 11 , 200 ; for M . Douzel , 1047 j votes lost , 11 ; bulletins cancelled , 22 . It thus appeaja that considerably less , than one-third of the electors went to the poll . I rather thiuk , however , that in the Msmes district there , axe more legitimists than republicans , and the Count de Cbamhord has not only advised , but ordered , hi 3 friends to abstain from voting . At all events , the republicans will not throw away their strength , at a single election . " The Persian Ambassador was received last Saturday by the Emperor at a public audience , when he presented bis credentials * To the speech of the Ambassador , the Emperor made the following reply : —" Monsieur l'Ambassadeur , —I amhappy that your sovereign has charged you to bring me his congratulations . When the -war

    broke out in the East , I sought with pleasure to renew our former relations with Persia , and her neutrality was not useless to us . I now congratulate myself upon the treaty of commerce concluded between our two countries , as commercial relations firmly established always cement the friendship of nations . It is with regret that I hear of the war whieh has broken out between you and one of my most intimate allies ; but I entertain most ardent ¦ wishes that your mission to this portion of the globe may hasten the return of a lasting peace . I thank you for ihe nattering things you have said to me for France and fo * the Prince Imperial , and I beg of you to believe in my full sentiments of benevolence towards you , " The Ambassador handed to the Emperor the royal order of Persia , and presents for the Empress , and Prince Imperial .

    The ceremony of the investiture with the insignia of the . Order of the Bath of those French officers who have been admitted to the honour , took place on the 17 th inst . $ but the official account only appeared in the Moniteur of last Saturday . Among the chief persons present were Prince Napoleon , Lord Cowley , Marshals Pelissier , Canrobert , and Bosquet , General Sir Alexander Woodford , General Gomra , and Lord Lucan . At the banquet afterwards given , the speeches were of the usual complimentary character . The Monitevr announces that Monseigneur Morlot , Cardinal Archbishop of Tours , has been appointed Archbishop of Paris by an Imperial decree , dated 24 th January .

    Kern , who is charged by the Federal Council of Switzerland with a special mission to the Emperor , was received on Sunday in the character of an Envoy Extraordinary , and presented his letters of credence . The JZevue de Paris has been suspended for one month , on account of an article which appeared in it against the Ejng of Prussia . The Pays states that the Russian authorities in Bessarabia have , been ordered to quit Bolgrad on the 1 st of February . The Imperialist and Fusionist circles of Paris are occupied just now with very different , but to each of

    them very interesting , statements . In the former , it is confidently asserted that the Pope has at last consented to ciown the Emperor at llheims in the month of May , and has given the sanction of the Church to the new order of things in France . In the latter , a contract of marriage is announced between the Comte de Paris and the daughter of the Duchess Regent of Parma , who is the only sister of the Due de Bordeaux . By . this alliance the fusion will , it is hoped , be complete , and the conflicting pretensions of the Houses of Bourbon and Orleans be reconciled . At present , however , the youthful Princess and future bride is only in her eighth year . —Daily News .

    " The proposition presented to the Council of State for the grant of a pension of 100 , 000 franca to Marshal Peliasier , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " has been negatived by the particular section to which it was referred . The casting vote was that of tho President . The objection , however , is not to the grant itself , but to th < j , farm in which it was made . The provision was that it should rovort to the Marshal ' s descendants in the male ftne . The . section of the Council of State considered that thia was an indirect means of establishing a majorat , aud they therefore rejected it by , as I have said , a majority of one . Marshal Peliasier ia , I boliovo , a bachelor , but he w not too old to marry . "

    The Presae announce that two Tribunal of Commerce of Pans lias given judgment in the case , of tho Directors of the Company of the , Docks Napoleon against Fox , Heaueraon , and Co ., declaring the convention made ho . tweau the parties on the 14 th of February and 24 tU of July ,. 1854 , void , and condemning Pqx ; and , Henderson to pay all theToxpenses . Tho Princess doLieven diqdon Monday night at Paris . " Two extremely serious facts , " saya tho Assembly Rationale

    , " havo been brought to light by tho French official census of 185 C , and which have not only excited the attention of tho public , but formed tho subject of consideration in tho Academy of Moral and Political Sciences at one of its reconfc sittings . Tho first fact is nu almost complete interruption in tbo progress of tho national population since tho cqusus of 18 G 1 , and the aocond is tho extraordinary tendency ovincod during tho flauw period by tbo people of tuo country districts to remove to largo towns , and particularly to tho capital . Jfona 18 W to 180 C , franco , aocordiu * to tlw l ^ cZ

    , has only gained 256 , 000 inhabitants . In the same number of years , from 1841 to 1846 , the increase was 1 , 200 , 000 . " There was also only a very small increase from 1846 to 1851 . The department of the Seine , however , in the last five years , has gained 300 , 000 . A French advocate has written to the London Morning Star , to complain of the unfairness of Verger ' s trial . While expressing great abhorrence of Verger ' s crime , he contends that his treatment has been illegal and despotic . Verger , he remarks , was refused a week's delay in his trial , and is not allowed possession of various papers . " His brother , a looking-glass manufacturer in the Rue de Seine , writes to the journal Ija Patni % which had affirmed that Verger , two days before committing his crime , had received assistance from the Archbishop of Paris . He writes to say that the fact is absolutely false , and he supports his denial by material proofs .

    The editors of La Patrie apply to the examining judge for the authorization to publish this . The reply is a menace to suppress the paper . Verger demands the production of sixty witnesses , all of whom have important declarations to make . These witnesses are called by the examining judge , who in private takes their depositions , and refuses to communicate these depositions , or allow the witnesses to make them publicly . Verger writes to the Minister of Justice and to the Emperor . Tho Minister grants the delay which the accused has demanded , and , notwithstanding the authorization of the public-prosecutor , commands that the witnesses shall not be introduced . " The reason for these suppressions of evidence , says the writer , is that the witnesses -were prepared to make the most startling revelations of the horrible profligacy committed by various dignitaries of the French Church . " Verger , " adds the letter , "intended to establish before > the court the basis of a new

    religious sect . " His coadjutors " intended to disperse themselves all over the earth , to inform the nations of that which they considered to be a GospeL But it was required that their debut should be accompanied by a coup d'etat , to make a gr « at noise and create the opportunity . " The rallying watchword of the neophytes was to be the cry of " Down with the Goddess !"

    A . TJSTRIA . The Imperial Cabinet ( says a letter from Vienna ) has made serious representations to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sardinia , with respect to the demonstrations made by the democracy of Lombardy and Turin against the presence of the Emperor in Milan . The first reception of the Emperor at Milan was very cold . The populace abstained from any enthusiastic demonstrations ; but of course the official joy was rampant . To the address of the Podesta of Milan , the Emperor replied , " The past is forgotten . " The fortifications of Vicenza are to be dismantled . The Credit Bank is about to establish branch banks in the different provincial capitals .

    The Emperor has signed a decree granting a full pardon to all persons in the Lombardo-Venetian territory condemned for high-treason , revolt , or insurrection . Prosecution for such crimes is suspended . The special Court at Mantua is dissolved . This is stated to have produced a manifest increase of popularity .

    ITALY . A funeral service in honour of the late Archbishop of Paris , by order of the Pope , and at his expense , was performed on the morning of the 14 th inat . in the church of tho Santi Apostoli at Home . The Pope himself was not present ; but the prelates of his court , and the Papal choir took part in the ceremony . The excavations at Ostia in the Papal States , conducted under the superintendence of the Conamendatoro Visconti , havo > recently brought to light a very fine remnant of the ancient road leading to that city . It ia flanked by numerous tombs and othor ediuces , the most conspicuous among the former being that of Sixtus Carucinius Parthenopeus , a Roman knight and decurion of tho Ostian colony . Tiiia splendid erection is made of Greek marble , and is of very large dimensions .

    lhe brigands continue to give great trouble in tho Papal States . Two of these depredators were attacked by the troops on tho 9 th inst . near the Tuscan frontier . The banditti shut themselves up in a house , and made a desporate resistance ; but the Iioubo was stormed by tho aoldiera , who , notwithstanding the Iobs of their brigadier , onterod , and succeeded in capturing ono of tho brigands , the other escaping . It is said , however , that he haB been taken since ; but this is doubtful . Tho man killed was tho notorious Paasatoro , called the Pasotino ; tho other wa 8 the not less celebrated Laszarini . Tho assassin of Count Lovatelli , with eight , or , according to some accounts , twelve others suspected of boing his accomplices , has been captured . The assassin himself is stated to be a young mun , the son of a farmer turaed away by tho couut owiug to suspicions reapocting his honeaty .

    Iho King of Naploe , it ia assorted , will grant an amnesty on tho occasion of tho approaching accouchement of the . Queen . Tho Popo b . « 9 giVen 55 , 000 francs from his privy pur »« to tho indigent , for employing thorn on the high ? 1 3 ' » pio 5 " M » kae bud firot for 1868 , just presented to SlfffSS ? * ^^ «« «« n « to tho ^ evonua at & % * ,. U < i , utUi ,, and tho , wtpwidituro at 147 , SG 6 , 821 f .

    The deacit 111 the receipts as compared with the expenses is trifling . The receipts present an increase of 8 , 145 7-iof over tlae estimate for 1857 . The JStvabian 'Mercury quotes a letter from Naples asserting that , shortly after the execution of Milano a party of armed men proceeded to the cemetery durine the night , overpowered the guards , exhumed the bodv of the criminal , placed it in a coffin , and carried it on board & vessel , keeping a strict watch over the guards until tlieir purpose was accomplished . The King of Sardinia arrived at Villefrariche at nine

    o clock m the morning of Ihursday week , by the steamfrigate Governolc-. On landing , be was received , by Count Cavour and the local authorities . The people in spite of the bad weather , assembled in crowds to welcome him . The King having reviewed the 9 th Regiment of the line at Villefranehe . rode on to Nice , -where he was received by the municipality in a fine amphitheatre erected for the occasion , and gaily decorated . An address having been presented and acknowled ged by him , Victor Emmanuel next proceeded to visit the Empress Dowager of Russia at the Villa Avigdor .

    PRUSSIA . The Prussian Ministry , menaced with an interpellation on the part of the Opposition , concerning the application of the extraordinary credit of 4 , 500 , 000 / . voted during the Oriental war for military purposes , have preferred to meet any accusation in advance , and the Minister of Finance has submitted to the Landtag a project of law , concerning the extraordinary military expenses entered into , and the application of the credit for this purpose . Tho interpellation of Herr von Patow has , in consequence , been withdrawn . —Mornina Star .

    TURKEY " . The Austrians have already begun ^ to evacuate the Danubian Principalities , and have stopped all their contracts , in several cases paying a forfeit for doing so . The commission for tracing the new boundaries of Moldavia and Wallaciia will probably be able to commence operations by the end of April . A Turkish corps d ' armee will take the place of the Austrians , and occupy the Principalities up to the time of their final organization . Seven battalions will be stationed at Jassy , and eight at Bucharest : these will be drawn from the corps d ' armde of Roumelia . Tho troops have been recently employed with success in putting down the disturbances in Albania and the brigandage on the frontiers of Greece . Another corps d ' armee is to be concentrated at Erzeroum and on the Persian frontier . This ia owing to the hostilities between Persia and England . Ismail Pacha is to command this bod-y .

    The English submarine telegraph line from Constantinople to Varna -will be taken by the Turkish Government . Negotiations Lave been opened to settle the amount to be paid and the manner of working it . Colonel Biddulph , K . A ., and Lieutenant : Holdsworth , E . A ., who are at present in charge of the line , will superintend it , at least in the "beginning . It is apprehended that the representative of Turkey in the Danubinn Principalities will find some resistance to the convocation of tho Divans . The Ministerial crisis in Moldavia is not yet terminated . The draught of the firman for the convocation of the Moldavian and "Wnllachian divans ad hoc was completed on Tuesday , tho 13 th hist . The internal independence of the two principalities is guaranteed .

    Brigandage continues in Thessaly to an alarming extent , especially among the rural population , whose flocks 3 ufter considerably . The shepherds are obliged to take tho law into their owa hands , and to knock the banditti on tho Lead when they can get a favourable opportunity . Thia lawless state of things is said to be owing to tho indoleuco and rapacity of tho Turkish officials . According to tho Constantinople correspondents of the Indfyttndance Bdga and La Presse , Sir Henry liulwer , the English delegate to tho commission for settling the

    constitution of tho Divans , bad a very hot altercation with Lord Stratford do Kedcliffb at the last mixed conference . Ho assorted that the Ambassador had kept him in entire ignorance of the progress of tho discussion , whilo tho othor members had been duly informed . Ho added that he aaw lamentable , omissions in tho iirinan . Lord Stratford rotortcd very bitterly , admitting , however , that h « hud acted contrary to his instructions , but adding that ho would explain himself to hia Government , and not to Sir Henry . It is said tlint Kcdschid Pacha interposed to stop the dispute .

    The firmans for the convocation of tho Divans ad hoc in Walliichia and Moldavia liavo boon published . As wo have from tim . o to time informod our readers of tho nature of thia temporary constitution , during tbo discussion of tho details by tho commissioners , & c , wo neoil not now retrace the same ground , further than to say that the Divans « ro to be elected by tho various classes composing tho populace , tho electors to possess cor tain property qualifications or social distinctions ; that tlia elected of the various classes aro to form separate committees of tho Divans , each to study tho interests and wan la of its own class ; and that , " tho Divmia , having only tho mission to express wishes , which will bo firs * nxaminod by the Commission , composed of the delegates of tho Porto and thoso of tho

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31011857/page/6/