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      onward , I must say , by your kindness and indulgence , to Bpeak to a greater extent in regard to matters of foreign policy than I had intended . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , youmust know , gentlemen , in his official capacity , is opposed pretty nearly to all wars —( lAughter ) - ^ but at the game time the present Chancellor of the Exchequer in his official capacity j $ also of opinion that good financial arrangements are amongst the most important preparations for war , when a war is neeessary ; and so far as finance is concerned , I do not think that England has ever been better prepared for a war than at present . ( Loud cheering . ) Matters have been reduced to a state of simplicity ; and in adverting to certain persons who have ; beenmore anxious to resort to arms than I could wish , I must say I

      really suppose those gentlemen are so satisfied with the present legislative acceptance of the incpme-tax by the masses of the people , which has been embodied in an act of Parliament for a term of seven years , that they think it would be convenient to bring in a bill to double or treble the income-tax . —a simple operation , so far as the House of Commons is concerned . ( Laughter . ) Twelve months ago we heard much of a measure that would produce a good deal of money , namely , the doubling of the house-tax ; there may be a portion / but surely not a large portion of the conlmunity , with which that measure would become

      popular . ( Laughter . ) But I can assure you that it is not only as charged in my official capacity with the nnances ' of the country that I deprecate war-r-because we all , advisers of the Crown , and responsible in this great question of European policy , entertain the same sentiments—whether as a Minister , a Christian , or a man , I cannot but entertain from the bottom of my : heart those principles ; and , moreover , those are the principles on which her Majesty ' s Ministers have endeavoured to secure the honour of the Crown and the best interests of the country . ( Loud cheers . )"

      Mr . Gladstone then adverted to questions of domestic policy . He drew attention to the fact , that although we had repealed two millions of taxes in the last session , and although ther new taxes imposed in lieu were but very partially in operation , still the quarter ' s revenue showed increase—a sure sign that the country is prosperous . Adverting to the expectation of other taxes being repealed , he referred the question entirely to financial exigencies , and caused some laughter by speaking of the paper duty being repealed " when the proper time arrives , and when circumstances permit it . " The income tax he characterized

      as impossible of reconstruction , and not suitable as a part of our ordinary taxation . Ministers , therefore , had in the last session passed measures which would enable the Parliament of 1860 to freely judge whether the income tax should be continued or not . Mr . Gladstone then drew his long speech to a worthy close . In a fervid spirit of gladness—yet grave from much thought—he spoke of what free trade had done in lightening the taBk of labour and adding to the comforts of the working man , and expressed a hope that the example set by England would pass over the Hurfaee of the earth .

      A banquet to a select party of one hundred then succeeded . Mr . Gladstone spoke briefly in proposing the Mayor ' s health . The Bishop of Oxford also happily spoke , urging the necessity of educating the people . Manchester , which had spent 1 , 200 , 000 Z . in bringing pure water from the distant hills to supply the physical necessities of the people , should not withhold its aid when the question was to bring waters of a higher and purer nature to the countless multitude . With this worthy sentiment the happy proceedings of the day fitly ended .

      On Thursday , Mr . Gladstone was present at the consecration of a new church at Donton , a village five miles from Manchester . The church was built mainly through the generosity and zeal of the Reverend Mr . GroBwell , a personal friend and old acquaintance of Mr . Gladstone . There were two bishops at the ceremony—the Bishop of Oxford and the Bishop of Manchester . After the consecration , a luncheon took place . Speeches were made , showing the personal character of the clergyman of the parish , and illustrating other local notabilities . Mr . Gladstone also spoke briefly , and on the topic of tho day . At a later period of tho day , Mr . Gladstone assisted at laying the foundation- Hfcono of a new school .

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      LETTERS FROM PARIS . ( FllOK OUIt OWN CoiUtKSPONDKNT . ) Lettmu XCIV . Paris , Thursday Evening , Oot . U > , 1863 . A iudioulouh concoction of rumoura from Germany , emanating from the printe in tho interoHt of ituHHia , had , at tho beginning of thin weok , led public opinion astray . Tho Journal den . Debate and tho Aiwe ? n , bUe NatioHala in Franco , tho Jndepmdance lidtje . in Bol-Riuin , the Journal de Frankfort , in Germany , tho Timett in England , bad maliciously propagated , or stupidl y adopted tho report that the Czar consented to accopt tlm Vicuna Note with ita now interpretation , pie gaping public wan tho dupe of thin fabrication . It forgot that tho r 6 lc of tho CosHaekn of Ruhhmi ,, hh of tin ; Qohhuc ' Ich in France , Germany , and Belgium , iwwl England , ih to arruHi by fftlBo mmoura of poaco the gonoral * novomont of public ttpirit .

      •"<> throw uncertainty into public opinion , to chill tho Governments , to HiiHpond tho effect of the meetings in England—such i / 3 tho evident objopfc of t ]\ aup xnanoyuvreB . Hod'Dot tho deupttteheH "brought try tliu

      British steamer Fury arrived opportunely , they would have been crowned with success . On the Bourse of Paris there was a rise of three francs just before the Fury arrived with the official declaration of war by the Sultan . Private letters came to confirm . and explain this fact . The standard of the Prophet has been imfurled on the mosque of St . Sophia ; that is the signal to all believers of the holy war . Gold and silver amassed by the XJlemas in the recesses of the mosques , devoted by the piety of the faithful to this eventuality , have been placed at the disposal of the Sultan . When the decision of the Sultan was known , the entire population

      pi Constantinople , which thronged the gates of . the palace where tne council was assembled , welcomed it with acclamations . An enthusiasm impossible to describe prevailed . On the other hand , Austria , that pretended neutral power , has betrayed by its prudential orders its secret , designs . Orders have been given at the Austrian legation , to all Austrian subjects , to leave Constantinople ; and the whole of the residents of that nation in the Turkish capital embarked on board the Ciislozza steamer in consequence . Surely this step is significant ; it proves clearly enough to the least acute vision that Austria is disposed not to observe neutrality , but rather to assist the Kussian operations against Turkey . Large bodies of Austrian troops are concentrated on the Servian frontier . These movements are

      , so serious that they have decided Omer Pacha to send into Servia a detachment of his forces to act as the nucleus of a corps to resist the Austrians . Meanwhile hostilities have begun on the borders of the Danube . Besides some stray shots from island to island , in parts where the river is divided into several branches , Omer Pacha has given orders to sink every boat which appears on the Danube . As long as peace was preserved the Russians made use of the river to transport their provisions and ammunition . Now they can no longer do this . This order of Omer Pacha's explains the cessation ofi the packet service of the Danubian Company , which had thirty-five boats employed in running to Galatz . Imagine the effect of all this sudden news on the Bourse . The funds fell a franc and a

      half in three days . Countless rumours were flying about . Some English journals had talked vaguely about the despatch of a portion of the Channel Fleet in some direction or other , a hint which our jobbers improved upon with infinite inventiveness . A movement of troops in the neighbourhood of Marseilles having been observed , it was concluded that two armies were being formed ; one , the army of the Alps , to cross Piedmont and revolutionize Lombardy against Austria ; the other , the army of the East , to go to Constantinople to protect that city against the Russians . At length , we are assured , the united fleets have left Besika Bay , and actually entered the Golden Horn on the 7 th inst . All this is possible enough ; for my own part , I take the liberty not to believe a word of it . No more than I do the announcement of the Times

      that our two Governments have presented a new ultimatum to the Czar . One must be a simpleton not to understand that the Czar will think twice before lie answers " yes" or " no" to any ultimatum of that sort : he will simply avail himself of the occasion this indefatigably blundering diplomacy offers him to wear out , by renewed delays , by false hopes and shuffling expectations skilfully proposed and opportunely withdrawn , the patience and public spirit of Europe . Tho question will , I say , remain after such an ultimatum , or a volume of Notes , just what it was before . It will bo little to the honour of your country if such a denoument ha « been imagined by the brains of your aristocratic bunglers .

      Our Grand Emperor is amusing himself , nevertheless . He goes out shooting . Tho other day he informed ub , through the fidoniteur , that in a day ' s sport ih the park of Versailles he had shot 117 head of game from his own gun . One must allow that tho game was very obliging . On Wednesday the grout man left for Compiegne . To day ho goea a hunting . A very select circle of visitors in invited to form tho imperial circle at Cornpiegno . Perhaps it in that a groat many have declined the indisporiHablo condition of an invitation to tho Chateau—namely , to don tho gold and grcon livery of Bonaparte . Only your Ambassador , I believe , tuibmits to this plcanantry without a scruple .

      Sonus arreatH have boon miulo again of lato . About thirty journeymen hatters wore arrested la « t Saturday night in tho Faubourg- du Tomplo . Tho police will mnko it out to he ft political affair , whilo , in truth , it in nothing but a question of wages . Tho working men wanted to « triko : their chiefti woro arroHtud on tho protoxt of political plotting . That in the secret of the whole affair . The trial of tho conspiracy of tho Op 6 r » Comiquo waH fixed for tho 27 th mHt . : it i « now

      deferred till November 7 . I ho polico havo made no further dinoovoriow . They don't ovon know to what particH tho mon already arrested belong . Thoro aro 17 aopuffod . JuIoh Favro in to bo oao of tho oouuhoI for tho dofoneo . Wo aro oryoying tho luxury of miraoloH hitherto unknown in this blofltfod lnn < l of Jfnuneu . Every liishop RHpiroH to work a , little nuraol « on his own . account . Tho Biahopof Aitfwa Jutf * reopnt , ly rotwrn ^ diromBon \ o with an entire corpse ; ho idlegou it to bo tho body of ft

      Saint of the second century . Why not ? The national guard of Amiens has been convoked to escort this new ( and very old ) saint to her last resting-place ( if she can be supposed to want rest at this time of day ) in the Cathedral The Saint ' name is , or was , Theodosia . The Archbishop of Bordeaux , who is anxious about the prospects of his vintages , threatened with the oldium , a fungus wh v A rots away the grape in less than a week , has lately favoured us with a remarkable receipt for getting rid of this blight ; it is simply to attach to each bunch of grapes a medal of the Virgin Mary . If the medal has been blessed by the Pope , need I say ? the cure is infallible . Pray make this singular experiment known to your hot-houses in England . If those fine fellows of Irishmen want to save their potatoes , they have only to tie a medal of the Holy Virgin to the stalks ! Shade of Voltaire ! This is what we have come to in France in the latter half of the nineteenth century - ' . S .

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      CONTINENTAL NOT . ES . The literary event of the week at Paris has been the publication of the first volume of the Memoirs of a Bourgeois qfJParis , by Doctor Veron , Doctor of the Faculty of Paris , ex-director of the JRevue de Paris , ex-director of the Opera , ex-director of the Constitutionnel , ex-adviser of the Elysee , inventor of the Pate Kegnauld , &c . &e . These memoirs were looked for with some curiosity , as ifc was known that Dr . Veron had enjoyed peculiar opportunities of knowing every phase of the world of Paris , from an Emperor to a danseuse , including statesmen , representatives , financiers , stockbrokers , journalists , men of wit , of pleasure , of politics , of science , of art , of the Bourse ; besides the world of actresses and lorettes . '

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      The latest intelligence from Constantinople is to the 6 th ult . On the 1 st inst . the Sultan , acceding to the unanimous voice of the Grand Council ordered Omer Pasha to declare to Prince Gortshakoff that unless the Eussian troops should evacuate the Principalities within fifteen days , war would be considered to be declared . Omer Pasha was instructed to give Prince Gortshakoff time to communicate with St . Petersburg if necessary , and in the meantime to be ready to commence operations , but not in any case to cross the Danube . Until he receives fresh orders his operations will be confined to harassing the enemy by impeding the communications which lie keeps

      up by means of the river , and by opposing any attempt which may be made by the [ Russians to cross it . The Sultan had addressed a manifesto to the nation , and had called upon the Western Powers ( France and England ) to afford Mm their moral and material support . On the 27 th ult . orders had been sent to the Admirals to enter the Dardanelles . The combined squadrons are now before Constantinople . A fresh levy of 150 , 000 men was decreed , which would raise the effective force of the Turkish army to 300 , 000 men . The Black Sea is closed to vessels under the Russian flag , but remains open to neutrals . All the remaining Kussian Consuls and officials have left Tnrkey .

      After the declaration of war the representatives of * the various Powers had paid a visit to the Sultan . His Highness requested them to assure their respective sovereigns that hifl wish was to settle his differences with the H < ax \ - peror of Russia amicably ; but he added , that liis ancestors had captured Constantinople with sword in hand , and that if fate ordained that it should fall to another master , the Turks would quit the country sword in band , or die as soldiers for their national faith . Prince MonschikofT has been appointed Governor ( exfattevr des hautes ce . uvrea de V ' Mmpereur ) of the Moldo-Wallachian . Provinces , with surveillance of the movements of the fleet in the Black Sea . Thin appointment docs not look Hko an intention to evacuate tho Provinces . It is

      also reported that tho aged Prince Paskiowitz , who lately figured nt Olmutz , and in best known as tho man who restored " order" at Warsaw , has been appointed Generalissimo of the troops in tho ProvincoR . A private letter from Moldavia Htatcs that tho reigning Prince of Moldavia hud resolved to resign his functions , but had boon opposed in lua anxiety to abandon liis discreditable position by Prince Gortshttkofr .

      Prince Sterbey , the Hospodar of Wallacliia , having requested of Princo Gortshakoff 00 , 000 ducats ( 28 , 800 / . ) on account , to pay tho contractors for the army , received no direct , reply to his application , but . on tho following day tho Russian Consul General forwarded a polito note to the HoHpodtir , demanding the discharge of the debt duo by tho Province to tho Russian Government for tho expenses of occupation , in 1848 . Tho movomont , of . Russian troops in t . ho Provinces increases . Fflocn battalions of infantry , and a park of thirty-two pieces of artillery had piissed through Hueharest . General Ludors had arrived thoro . Tho Russian army occupy four camps one at a short , distance from BueliaTONf , the second at . Majorola , the third at . ftaloukareii , and the fourth at , Nerbanotski . Priiieo ( iorlshakoff had inspected them .

      Tho accounts from Persia aro contradictory . On tho one hand , they are reported to bo unfavourable to Turkish interests . Tim Shall has gathered together an army of from f > 0 , 0 < HH . o ( 10 , 000 mon on the Turkish frontier . An attack had boon made upon tho town of Couiil , and also upon a Turkish village , by tho Persians , who had occupied thoui . Russian influence is known to bo very poworful at Teheran . Tho JCmporor of Russia is stated to havo minified liis willingness to make tho most , lenient conditions with regard to tho forty millions of tho Russian loan . AH tho members of tho 1 ' orsian Embassy havo beon decorated at St . Potor « l ) urff , and it is said that , theso aot « of kindness aro to bo roinunoratod by a grateful display of hostility towards fcUo Turks . On the other hand , a letter from . Krzor < nuu , jpf tfip 10 th . "It ., awouncoH , . tho Court ojf Xejiwwan warmly supported by tho British Minister , had rejected

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 989, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2008/page/5/