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      tan , render the absence of the British Ambassador from Constantinople a very serious laches . The Triest Zoitung of the 4 th , contains a letter from Vienna , which in some measure confirms the opinions of those who believe that the war between Kontenegro and the Turkish Vizier will soon bo at an end . The letter , whicli has something semi-official about it , says that George Petrovich , the Vice-President of the Montenegrin Senate , who left Vienna about a week since , was persuaded that it was not advisable that his countrymen should push their resistance to the utmost ; on the contrary , Prince Daniel was advised to seize the first ^ ppportunity of effecting a decent compromise .

      _ __ _ _ . , The German Journal of Frankfort has the following from Vienna , dated the 7 th , by electric telegraph :- — " We have now the hope that the negotiations tor a friendly arrangement of the affair of Montenegro will produce a satisfactory result . This hope is founded on despatches from Count de Leiningen , respecting his conferences with the Divan , which relate to the Christians of Bosnia , as well as the Montenegrins . " Meanwhile , however , the struggle continues fiercely . The brave Woiwodo of Grahovo , defended his fortified house until the 19 th , on which day , at four in tLe afternoon , it was taken by storm , and he was made prisoner . nocturnal

      It is reported that the Montenegrins made a descent into the camp of Derwisch Pasha ( near Grahovo ) , in order to liberate the captive Woiwode . Although they massacred several Turks , whose heads they carried off , they did not effect their principal object . It appears that there was a regular battle between Omer Pasha ' s corps and the Montenegrins on the 1 st , but it is not known how it ended . In his proclamation to the mountaineers , Omer Pasha promised that if they would submit to the Porte , and surrender their arms , they should enjoy an autonomic government . The last condition will never bo accepted , for his weapons arc as dear to a Montenegrin as his life . Fortyfour thousand Turks are now operating against Montenegro , but its defenders have already repulsed larger armies and better soldiers . " A part of Mkrmont ' s army attempted to enter Montenegro , and was annihilated , "

      says the Presse . The Augsburg Gazette has a letter of the 18 th of January from Bucharest , by which we learn that the Russians are expected in Wallachia again in the spring : — " Things look critical enough in Turkey , " says the correspondent , " but in reality they are more critical than they look . Russian feldjager ( Government messengers ) on then * way to Montenegro , from time to time pass through our city . The increase of the Austrian consulates in Bulgaria probably means something more than the mere protection of Austrian shepherds tending their flocks on Bulgarian pastures . " The news that the Russian corps in the Crimea and Bessarabia have received marching orders is confirmed . Accounts have been received of the arrival of the steam frigate , the I ^ ahrador , which conveyed Ab ( l-el-Kader and his suite to Turkey , at Mondania , a port in the sea of Marmora , where the ex-Emir was to land , and proceed to

      Broussa . Overland news from Lisbon of the 31 st ult . states that the House of Deputies had been declared constituted , and had appointed a committee to draw up a reply to tho Throne , while the Peers were still debating whether they would vote any reply at all . A telegraphic despatch , dated Madrid , January « i () th , announces that tho Spanish Government had replied to the dilatory plea of Narvaez , by an order , unjoining him to leave immediately for Vienna , under pain of being regarded as a rebel . Madridof tho 3 rd instantstate

      Subsequent letters from , , that General Narvaez had resolved on not going to Vienna , but demanded previously an investigation of Ins conduct by court-martial . No wonder the Spanish elections are proceeding favourably to the Government , considering tho repression exercised over the press , and the difficulty , or rather impossibility of the candidates communicating with the electors . Addresses and circulars arc , liowovor , went to tho provinces surreptitiously . A very spirited address from tho Progresisla committee lias lieon isHiuxl , the object of which seems to be to prevent the reconciliation of General Narvaez with the Government . The addross recommends tho union of all sincere friends of liberal institutions . The most remnrkuble passages of this address uro the following : — TO Till ! MJJKKAIj KLia'TOKB .

      " A censorship , such as has never been lmown in Spain , men under the most absolute Government , und it being forbidden to publish in the daily journals the addresses of the Electoral Committees to the Queen , or the just reclamations of the Duke of Valencia agniiist informations evidently false and of bad faith , milder it necessary before the electoral urns are opened , to enliven the country with respect to the true ntulo of itn public utlairs and its political situation . The closest and most Hincero alliance exists between all honourable nmn who an ) muted to uorve the cause of liberal institutions . « To this onorgetio and decided activity on I , ho part ol fixentire Liberal parly , and of all honourable men , „ Sp . un , may be added the notes of England in lavour ol tho LoiihUtuUonal system , and with respect to the ( lasers with whu-h tho recent events in Franco menace Europe . Cabinets of coteries are now impossible ; Cabinets , e . iunont ly honourable and constitutional , composed of omiiionLpohtical men , are alone those who have the probability of opening the Cortes" Alluding to General Narvaez tho address nayu : —

      . " Firm in his loyalty and his rectitude , 1 >« will demand this Home day , but ' ho never will eoiisentto bear the stigma inflicted on him by tho royal order of tho lllli , until a tribunal shall have pronounced against him the penalty ol tho luw or declare bis innocence . With respect to the ridiculous niinmoii bo ih charged with to tho capital ol AuMtria , the only thing Urn Duke of Vuhmcitt domandfl in it bo exonerated from it , um uy nmu o £ Liu ruuk would

      ever consent to go to Vienna with the stigma inflicted on him . We know that the Duke of Valencia , as senator of the kingdom , is resolved to present himself in the Senate on the 1 st of March , and if he be prevented from doing so , fifty distinguished senators , and amongst them are the most illustrious officers of the army , are determined to fix on the Roncali Cabinet the responsibility of an act which has no example in the history of the world . This is what it is desirable to avoid , " and by which the Ministry muBt fall . It must fall , for the tribuno will echo with the energetic words which shall proclaim what occurs in Spain ; which shall disclose why railroads are granted without competition—why others are purchased against the authorized vote of the first bodies of the State—why three

      parliaments have been dissolved in the space of two years —why the settlement of the debt was effected—why , by means of the constitutional reform , it has been attempted to stifle the voice of the press and of the tribune—and why , because through fear it was abandoned , the scandals of the election proceedings , and the permanent seizure of the press not purchased by the Government , have substituted the secret coup d'Stat for the pretended constitutional reform , which was only a revival of the most odious of despotisms , that of 1806 , in the time of Charles IV . Spain has not accepted it . and it never will accept it ; and of this none are more convinced than those who dreamed it . The constitutional Queen has her altar in the heart of every true Spaniard ; the despotism , of this or that person , of this or that Minister , will find an adversary in every man who respects himself . "We did not the absolutism of Carlos

      struggle seven years against Don , to bend to the despotism of any one . "As to the financial condition of the country , all our friends in the provinces must know that the actual cabinet , not even by giving at the rate of 15 per cent , interest the promissory notes of purchasers of national property—the only resource remaining- to us for the future—has been able to procure funds in Spain , or in foreign countries ; that the respectable house of Baring , of London , has decidedly refused to accept a negotiation , which , not being authorized by the Cortes , is completely null ; that the same has been declared by all Spanish capitalists—with the exception of Senor Salamanca , who is the protector of the Government—who refuse even to renew their bills on the Treasury , which , at the cost of immense sacrifices , and by taking money on railroad shares , has only been able to procure 20 , 000 , 000 for the February payments . "

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      THE BURMESE WAR . We learn from Trieste , that the annexation of Pegu has been proclaimed ; and that it lias been announced , that in case the Burmese Emperor should refuse to make an immediate peace , or should molest our new territory , the whole Emp ire will be subdued , and the Emperor dethroned . The Burmese , however , make no sign of acceding to this proposition , and an advance on Ava was considered inevitable . The advance will probably take place as soon as the necessary means of transport have been collected .

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      FOREIGN TROOPS IN ITALY . There has been some expression of public feeling this week touching the Austrian and French occupation of the Roman States . Professor Newman presided over u meeting held on Monday in St . Pancras , to consider the subject , and support Mr . Duncombe in hia intended effort to bring the question before the House of Commons . Mr . Newman was supported by Lord Dudley Stuart , Mr . Peter Taylor , Mr . David Masson , and other gentlemen . The most significant fact , however , was , that Mr . Chisholm Anstey , who is a Roman Catholic , courageously moved the following resolution : — " That thin meeting contemplates with feelings of horror and indignation tho bigoted and cruel oppression of Christian men in the dominions of tho Grand Duke of Tuscany , for their profession of religious belief ; but that this meeting hereby records itn conviction that religious liberty la impossible without tho existence of civil freedom , of whicli it is a certain consequence , and , believing thus , tho meeting is further of opinion , looking to tho relations of civil and ecclesiastical government in the Italian-States at tho present time , that the complete political freodom and mdopimdonco of Italy would bo the best guarantee of religious i ; i >» M . ir i » i TiiMcnnv . and tin incalculable train to the cuuuool '

      religious liberty for tho world . " Lord Dudley Stuart miid , in the coin-He of his address , that Imj had much hope in the present Government ; it was gratifying to find that a man who had so ably exposed the prison Hyufcoui in Naples held a prominent part in the Government , and that the nobleman to whom Mr . Gladstone addressed hi « writings was at the head of the Government . It vviih equally gratifying also that that old and tried statesman , Lord Pahnerston , held it part in the priwoiit Government , and although ho did not fill his old post , there was no doubt ho would exorcise some influence in the foreign policy of the

      country . Mr . * David Masson urged the necessity of separating tlit ) spiritual and temporal 1 ' unctionn of tho l ' ope . lit ) moved tho following resolution , which was ncconded by Mr . I ' cttie : — " That Thomas SlingHby Duncombe , M . P ., having given notice of his intention to move an addrenn from tho JIouho of Commons to her Majosty , to use her good offices in order to put an end to the proHont occupation of tho Roman States by the troops of Austria and France , the 5 > reueut mooting declare their approval of this motion , and [ o hereby adopt the following petition , to bo iJgnod by tU «

      chairman of this meeting , and presented as the petition of the meeting : "

      PETITION . " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled , the humble petition of tho undersigned , showeth , — " That the mode in which the Roman Republic was established in February , 1849 , and the entire course of its proceedings during the trying period of its active existence as described in the despatches from , the British for

      Consul at Rome to her Majesty ' s Secretary of State Foreign Affairs , and since printed , presents a remarkable picture of combined wisdom , courage , and virtue , which ought to have secured the sympathy of every free nation , and more especially of Protestant and constitutional England . " That instead of expressing any such sympathy , lord Normanby was instructed to state that her Majesty ' s Government approved of the ' national crime committed by the French Government in their armed intervention in

      support of the Pope . " That the plea under which that sympathy was expressed was that the Pope should be restored , under an improved form of government . " That the foreign occupation of Rome has now lasted nearly four years , and has restored and maintains in its very worst form the old priestly despotism . " That the Pope in 1848 refused to share in the war of Italian Independence , because ' Croats were Christians , and he . could not shed Christian blood ; ' but that since his restoration he had been imprisoning , torturing , and exiling his own subjects by thousands , and shooting them by hundreds . ¦ . . .. .. „ ,... ^ ' ., _ this Christian made

      " That in October last alone , Pope room for fresh victims in his over-crowded dungeons , by having sixty of his subjects publicly shot , being at the rate of two pei day for the whole month . " That the national character of England is implicated in these horrible proceedings , by the expressed consent of her Majesty ' s Government to the restoration of the Pope . " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable House to present an address to her Majesty , praying that her Majesty will use her good offices to put an end to the occupation of the Roman States by France and Austria , And your petitioners will ever pray , &c . " The spirit of the meeting was hearty and enthusiastic .

      Another meetingwasheldon Tuesday in Cowper-street , for the furtherance of the same objects . Mr . Le Blond was elected to the chair . The principal speakers were Mr . Beale , Mr . Newton , Mr . Ireson , and Mr . C . F . Nichols . The main object of the meeting was t o advance the subscription in aid of European freedom , " the cause of every Englishman , " set on foot in tho autumn . It was urged that the people should stir up Parliament , influence diplomacy , and protest against the continued

      occupation of the Roman States . Utter such an expression of opinion as will prevent the capitalists of England from lending the money of this country to support tyrants in their unholy crusade against the peoples . Roth Austria and Russia are dependent upon credit , and they" must fall if not supported by the money power of England . In a single-handed contest , if it even comes to that , England , supported by her kindred on the other side of the Atlantic , will he

      more than a match for the combined despots ot Europe . A petition , similar to that above set forth , was adopted unanimously .

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      THE SHILLING SUBSCRIPTION IN AID Oh ' EUROPEAN FREEDOM . Some few months ago a Shilling Subscription for European Freedom , was proposed and initiated in ii printed appeal to the English public , issued with the signatures of the following gentlemen : — Rev . Charles Clarke , 152 , JJucclouch-strcot , Glasgow . Thomas Cooper , 5 , Park-row , Knightsbridge , London . Joseph Cowan , Jun ., Waydon-burn , Newcastlo-ou-Tyne . George DawHon , M . A ., Birmingham . Dr . Frederick Richard Lees , Leeds . William James Linton , Brantwood , Coniston , Lancashire . Henry Lonsdale , M . D ., 4 , Devonshire-street , Carlisle . Rev . David Maginnis , Belfast . George Searle Philips , West-parade , Huddersfield . James Watson , 3 , Quuon'u-hcnd-passagu , Paternoster ' Row , London . The Subscription was limited to One Shilling , in ) order to get the greatest possible number of Subscribers , and to make of tho Subscription List a Register , instructive and encouraging , it was hoped , of Englishmen and lOnglishwomcn prepared to record their practical sympathy with the cause of Freedom on the Continent of Europe .

      Nuim ; roiin individual responses , direct and indirect ,, were lnnde to this appeal . And in addition to tho efforts of these gentlemen with whom tho proposed action originated , a considerable number of earnest friends of popular and national right through tho country linve been engaged in soliciting Subscriptions for a Fund in aid of European Freedom , the proceed * to be placed at tho discretionary disposal of MM . KossuUi and Mu / . / . ini . It hut ) been thought , by a certain number of thoati

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      150 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , _

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1853, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1973/page/6/