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      Austria , a young girl of seventeen , cousin to the present Emperor—being the daughter of his uncle Joseph , Archduke anrl Palatine of Hungary . The brido progressed through Cologne and Aix la Chapelle , and reached Verviers , a Belgian town , dose to the Prussian frontier , at nine o ' clock on Saturday , morning . Austrian guards and officials accompanied her to the town' —and here the young brido was to be delivered over to her . new friends . According to the traditional ceremony , presuming national hostility , and therefore suggesting mutual fear , the farce pf - declaring the Hotel de Brolley " neutral ground" was gone through . Here , after some tedious ceremonies , the bride was delivered to the Belgian authorities , represented by theKing , the young bridegroom Dukeand some Royal

      Commission-, ers . The Duchess took leave of her Austrian guard , and then proceeded by train to Brussels , passing Verviers , adorned with flags , and Liege , the Birmingham , and Wolverhampton of Belgium . At Louvain , where Republican sontiment is said to obtain , the Town Council advised the people not to be " turbulent ; " an awkward marriage proclamation . At Brussels , the party were met by the Burgomaster of Brussels , who detained the wedding guests by a judicious speech . The Times correspondent says : — " This remarkable person , considered by all Belgium as a great citizen , is somewhat past the middle age , and , with gray moustaches and a clear liquid intelligent eyehas in his bearing

      , all the signs of nature ' s aristocracy . Possessed of a handsome private fortune , ho devotes a powerful intellect and an energetic will solely and entirely to the public service , and is , in fnct , made of the very stuff that in days of yore rendered Antwerp and the cities of Flanders the Venice and Genoa of the north—a man , who under Alva would have been- sent to the scaffold , but under Leopold the Prudent is the rampart of the throne against democratic ambition . " In passing through the streets of Brussels , the young couple were cordially received by the people—and the bride , "toitte rayonnante de beaute et de jeunesse , " gave delight by taking a petition from a poor woman .

      The marriage took place on Monday , being postponed owing to the indisposition of the young Duchess . The long journey , and the emotion of being speeched at by burgomasters , and shouted at by crowds , had naturally fatigued the young girl ; and even when she appeared on Monday , she was still pale . The civil marriage took place in the grand hall of the palace , in the presence of the Burgomaster of Brussels . " Precisely at half-past ten a . m ., the Royal family , with its new member , entered the grand hall of the palace , where were already assembled the Burgomaster of Brussels ( ready to discharge his functions ); the eight witnesses ( four for the Austrian and four for the Belgian

      court ) of the ceremony ; Colonel Seymour , Enjoy Extraordinary of Queen Victoria ; and Baron Lowenfels , Marshal of the Court of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha ; with a few Belgian notables . The selection of the persons invited to be present gave the meeting the air of a family party . The preliminary ceremonies at an end , the Burgomaster of Brussels asked the Duke of Brabant the usual question , ' Do you agree to take for wife , &e . P' His Royal Highness bowed to the King , as if asking his consent , and then in a subdued , though audible tone , answered , ' Yes , Master Burgomaster . ' To the similar question addressed to the Duchess , she replied , with a slight blush crossing her pale countenance , ' Yes , sir . ' "

      The religious marriage took place in a few hours afterwards . Precisely at noon the royal cortcga reached the grand entry of the cathedral . A temporary Gothic altar \ yns erected in this magnificent building , which was brilliantly illuminated , crimson and gold prie-dieus , &c , being placed for the illustrious actors in the ceremony , and Belgian and Austrian flags waving from every pillar . The grand nave , from tho threshold to the transept , was kept open by a double row of grenadiers . The Cardinal Archbishop of Malincfs , Primate of Belgium , presided over the clergy . On tho arrival of tho royal party , the deep

      voice of the organ gave them a solemn greeting , tho clamour of the bolls chiming in . Tho Cardinal Archbishop received the royal parly on tho threshold ; his Eminenco preceded them , to point out , to tho . young married couplo the places they were- to occupy . Tho [ Duchess was palo and excited , and walked with a tottering gait . As soon jib she and her spouse- had placed themselves , tho Cardinal pronounced tho nuptial benediction . Tho organ then intoned ( lie first notes of tho marriage mass . "At tho elevation of tho Host ; , all tho soldiers in the church presented arms . "

      The . ' . Dally News correspondent points to somo fiuggostivo reminiscences . Ho sayfl— "Tho Belgian journalists are ecstatically eloquent on the honour and glory of having an Austrian Princess again to reign over them . This is natural : the house of Austria was no regardful of the liberties and immunities of these provinces , so prompt , and energetic in their dofenco against external aggression , IVonv the time that Maximilian suppressed ( lie liberties of ( Jhent , fill the time when Joseph II . ' h meddling sowed the iwenlH of revolution , that the Helgiarm must bo rejoiced to see their King taking shelter under tho wings of the double-headed eagle . Mis Majesty , too , must be highly gratified to iinrf himself no longer Mm mere puriwiiit , sovereign of the revolutionists of 'lHilO , but a recognised momher of the old Austrian family . Tho fruits of this alliance , lor tho people will doubtless show themselves in good time . "

      Tho marriage of t . ho Due do Hrabnnl ; with nn Austrian Archduchoss han evidently given umbrage to the . ' French Imperial Government . Tho pompous flattftrintt of the otlicial addresses on the occasion , and t . ho allusions of tho Belgian Government , journals to jho political advantages ot such an alliance with the House of Austria , dwelling particularly on tho high dynastic position ' of the brido , have , perhaps , appeared n pointed slight to Mio rejected I ' arvc-nu of Franco . At nil events , a significant article , of considerable length , has appeared in ( . he Clontititutionnol , signed by JV 1 . Amedeo Cosonn , ono of t . ho lately decorated for " important services" in iho political press . M . C 6 « ona . tukea tho pamphlet of n euppooed JJolgiun , published by

      the Bonapartist publisher , Ledoyen , in Paris , as a test for his discourse . This pamphlet represents the marriage of the heir to the Belgian throne to the daughter of the House of Austria as a sort of defiance to French imperial pretensions , and as a step towards the complete isolation of the French empire . Belgium enters into a dynastic alliance with Austria on the one hand and England ( through Leopold and theCoburg family ) on the other . The writer insists that it is the . interest , political arid commercial , of Belgium to be merged in France , and that , it is the wish of the Belgian people ; and , consequently , that this match is anti-national as well as anti-French in its

      object and tendency . M . Ame"dee Ce ' ' na adopts this perilous pamphlet with great circumspection , arid surrounds his own comments with unusual precautions of language , so as not to compromise his employers ; and it will be observed by our readers how convenient such an organ as the Constitntionnel is to fire the big guns , while the elegant and optimist Pays is preaching peace and concord . It is reported that M . Rogier , the Belgian Minister in Paris , has already asked for explanations of this article , and has been met with the ever ready reply from the Minister of Foreign Affairs— - " The Moniteur is our only official organ—we have nothing to say to any other journal . "

      It may also be remarked that M . Adolphe Barrot , the French Minister at Brussels , was ordered to Paris f * r a fortnight ' s conge just bef 61 e the royal nuptials . His absence was particularly noticed . "With regard to England , France need scarcely fear that we shall allow ourselves to bo drawn into any dynastic alliance for the sake of the House of Coburg , whatever we may have to say to the views of France upon Belgian annexation . Another royal marriage is that of the bride's cousinthe boy Emperor of Austria . Elizabeth Amelia Eugenia , Duchess of Bavaria , who has been affianced to the Emperor of Austria , was born on the 24 th December , 1837 . Her royal Highness is the second daughter of Maximilian Joseph Duke of Bavaria and of Ludovica Wilhelmina , Princess of Bavaria ; she has three brothers and four sisters . She is grand-daughter of the late . King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria , cousin of the Emperor of Austria , and nearly related to the Queen of Prussia .

      The Vienna Zeitung , of Wednesday last , officially announces the betrothal of the Emperor , and publishes ordinances which considerably modify the state of siege in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces . La Presse remarks , as a " monarchical heresy , " the fact , that at the marriage of the Due de Brabant with the Austrian Archduchess , the civil register of the marriage was held , not by an officer specially appointed for the occasion , but by M . de Brouckere , the Burgomaster of Brussels ; anrl that it was in the presence , as it were , of the population , that the formalities of the civil marriage were accomplished .

      The Tndependance " Beige defends these liberalizing innovations as particularly salutary in a State like Belgium it says , that in other countries perhaps it is proper that royalty should remain placed in an exceptional sphere , but that in Belgium it is never so much respected as when it puts itself in direct contact with the nation ; as in this case , through the public officer of tho municipality of the capital city .

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      The Austrian camp at Olmutz is beginning to attract attention . It is to last from the 2 oth to the 30 th of September , and to consist of 42 , 000 Austrian troops , including every branch of the service—six regimen t& of heavy and five of light cavalry , twenty-eight batteries of artillery , and a due proportion of engineers . The medical staff will also be complete . The regiments will bo detached from tho forces serving in Austria Proper , in Moravia , and Bohemia . They form tho Austrian federal contingent , that is tho first , second , and third corps tfarmee of tho German Confederation , and in that character thoy will bo inspected by the Prince of Prussia , and the federal military commission of Saxony and Hanover , according to tho decreo of tho Diet ; , which has ordered military inspections to take placo this autumn throughout tho Skates of tho Confederation . Tho King of Prussia is expected to visit the camn at Olmutz . l

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      Tho minor German States under tho intluenco of Austria show a decided ill-will to Switzerland . A house at Arau had contracted to supply tho Swiss Confederation with a certain number of carbines and pistols for tho use of tho Swiss Cavalry . The consignment was sequestered on its transit through Bavaria by tho Authorities of that State . Thereupon the consignors applied to tho French Minister of War for permission to pass tho arms through French territory , which tho Minister accorded . J \ l . Och . senhein , tho chief of the federal military department , accompanied by Colonel Bourgeois and General Dufour , in presiding over tho committee of superior offleers appointed to organize tho defences of tho Swiss territory on tho Auslrio-Italian frontier .

      It is rumoured thutM . ManleuHol , the Prussian Premier , has soul , in his resignation to U 10 King , which has not been accepted as yet . The retirement of M . Mantc'uflol fit the present moment would bo considered a triumph of . Russian intluenco at , Berlin . Tho general discussion on Iho new law for tho surveillance of religious bodies by the State , or , as wo should call , it the Kcclesiantieal Title . s ' bill ; it , having , as our readers remember , been suggested " liv ( ho Pupal appointment of hiii

      an . seopal hierarchy in Holland , was concluded in the . Dutch Chamber on Saturday last . Tho discussion of tho articles of tho now law was to bo commenced this week . An amicable arrangement of the differences between tho Papal Court and the Dutch Government , occasioned chiefly by the bad faith of | , ho former , and the complicity of somo members of tho hitter government , is expected , an M . Lightenvolt , Minister of Catholic Worship in Holland , is about , to return from Rome with now concessions on tho mut of the Government , of tho Pope . Tho Second Chambor in Holland him unajnmoualy

      carried the project of law opening the Molucca Islands f ' « . commerce of a , ll nations . This act on the part f Dutch Government is another step in the direction ° f ^ trade and towards the abolition of international and colonial monopolies of commerce and navigation . m ^ '

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      The Austrian army is represented at the camrj nf < 3 1 . by Prince Jablonousky , Field Marshal , by two ffit Colonel Baron Leykau , brother-in-law of Prince Mnff ' nichj and two other colonels . Mtep . The Austrian Correspondent of the 16 th inst . publi \ an extract from the Memorandum drawn up by the A trian Government upon the affair at Smyrna . This a Us " ment states that negotiations are still in progress with ° tt ^" "United States Government , and that it is expected tt I the captain of the American corvette will be disavowed f Washington . The Austrian Memorandum insists that no case can such an act on the part of an inferior offi ^ be permitted , as it amounts to a declaration of war with out notice ; and . that the conduct of the American office *" was a flagrant violation of public law in a neutral boh- *

      The reply to tnis memorandum is surely not difficult fn the Cabinet at Washington . With whom did the flagrant violation of public law begin ? With the Austrian officers who violently seized a person furnished with an American passport , and entitled to the respect due to art American citizen ; or with the American officer who resisted that in . terference , and asserted the rights of American citizen . " ship ? .

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      M . Soule , the newly appointed American Minister to Spain , accompanied by his son as his private secretary is at present in Paris en route to Madrid . A grand ball has been given by the officers of the American Frigate , the Cumberland , to the Queen of Sardinia in la Spezzia bay . The Louis corvette arrived at the anchorage from Smyrna in time to participate in the fete , which passed off brilliantly . Dancing was Kept up till five in the morning . The American navy is becoming very popular in the Mediterranean . It is recognised as the only active champion of liberty in the European waters . Free-trade is spreading itself—the rumours of a scarce harvest giving wings to its progress through Europe . The King of Naples has followed Louis Napoleon in suspending all duties on corn . The elections for municipal authorities have been suspended in Tuscany .

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      In its second edition of yesterday , the Times printed a -submarine message : — - "We have news from Constantinople to the 19 th instant . The Turks were anxious for a pacific settlement through the aid of the Four Powers , but they required some alteration in the note that had been sent from Vienna . A Turkish courier was to proceed to that place on the 20 fch , with the note modified according to their wishes . The changes are said not to be of an important character , nor such as will prevent a peaceful solution of the question . "

      The Boyards of Moldo-Wallachia have petitioned their Hospodars not to obey the Sultan ' s order to withdraw . ( The Boyards are the landed aristocracy of the Provinces . ) Servia is stirring . The Prince Alexander Karageorgewitsch has left Belgrade , the seat of his government , taking with him the archives of the State , &c , and has retired to Kraguavatch , a town in tho centre , and the most mountainous part , of the province . Ho has , moreover , called out all tho national militia , a disciplined force amounting to 40 , 0 W men , and has appointed Knitshianin the Commandcr-in-Chief , publicly declaring that ho will repel every invasion , either Turkish or Austrian . All this has given riso to tho greatest ferment at Belgrade .

      Tho Times correspondent at Constantinop le writes , under dato August 11 th : —" General Gortschakoff arrived on tho 28 th of July at Bucharest , with a brilliant Mat major , holding very diplomatic language in speaking of tho hopes ho had of avoiding war ; but tho officers of his suite , in their confidential conversations , spoke of war as decided on at St . Petersburg , and that nothing would dissuade- tho Emperor from it , since ho believes it to bo indispensable to the maintenance of his power in Jiussia . Tho materiol which tho ltussian troops bring with them , the fortified works they undertake * at various points , and tho p on toons and artillery stores show that thoy do not intend to rom < i » n on tho loft bank of tho Danube . " . ..

      Ho adds , in a postscript ; : — "A report is current m i . > ° city , to the effect that a collision has taken place between tho Russian and Turkish troops on tho Danube , but x / o have no official confirmation of it , nor any details . At w not , altogether incredible , howovcr , since it is well know *" that the Russians wore about to send a small war-std " past ; tho confluence of tho Pruth and tho Danube , wlnci further infraction of treaty Omer Pasha decWcd ho woui resent b y firing into tho steamer , and ff'ivo notico ol *" intention so to do to General GortachakollV . Tho Vrc . sse of Vienna state * < hat , tho Russian consul fl * Constantinople , who had Joi't his post , has received inslru - tions to rol . um to it . . .

      Among tho pnporn recently presented to Parliarnen tho subject , of tho closing of " the mouths of tho . ' Dftnuiw '" u despatch from Count Nossolrodo to Baron flf } 111 ' ™' dated O «! r * a « , 18 fil , in which tho Count , alludmg ^ the efforts of Mio Turkish engineers to maintain clear navigation of the Sulina Bar of Iho Danube , cxp « ifls «« ^ opinion that an English dredging machine i' * . I ' ' - u [ "We are persuaded , " says tho Count , with true JtuS . " fluuvity , " that the English -Government , liko « | irfl . jj considers tho prejudices of English eommoreo rohitiv ¦ our supposed designs upon tho Danubian Principal ! ' ' to bo unfounded "—( penfowl-fa ) . , lirn . Tho ltussian Government , is preparing for niiothor - pnign against , the tribes of the Caucasus . The ° I "' , jH will counnoneo in tho latter part of August . A f "' ' , being armed in tho Sea of Azof to support tho juovow of tho army .

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      820 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , I

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1853, page 820, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2001/page/4/