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      The King of Portugal arrived at Vienna on the 17 th , and alighted at the Imperial Palace . He was received at the railway terminus by the Archduke Ferdinand , brother of the Emperor . The Princess Zenaide Charlotte Julie Bonaparte died at Naples on the 8 th . She was the eldest daughter of Joseph Bonaparte , King of Spain , and was born in Paris on July 8 , 1802 . She married her cousin , Prince Charles , the eldest son pf Lucien Bonaparte , and leaves by him eight children . He usual residence was Borne , where three of her married daughters and her eldest son , Prince Mussignano , are living . Bou Maza , who has obtained permission from the French Government to serve in the Turkish army , arrived at Constantinople in the Ganges steamer .

      -The Moniteur collects puffs of incense trom all quarters for . its , imperial master . This week it tells us how the Belgian Minister at Stamboul , in an interview with him at Broussa , asked Abd-el-Kader if his heart did not beat to take part in the . pause of the Sultan . "My heart , " said the Arab , with thct skill of a courtier , " sleeps in peace since I became _ acgnainted with the Emperor " Napoleon , and it now desires nothing except it be the continuation of the glory of its benefactor . !* The Belgian Government have refused a passport to the exile , General Leflo , at present residing in Jersey ; the excuse is that the moment is not opportune . Colonel Charras has been ordered to quit Belgium , wherehe has' resided sinoe December . . .

      M . Victor Consideraut , M- FouoYIn , M . Van der East , and some others , have been arrested in Belgium on a chargejrf fabricating "Infernal machines" of an explosive order , intended , jta be used against the French Emperor . Consideraut has ibeeiv liberated * .. _ ' .. ' . . : . : jriie , Jfaspodars of Molilavia- and Wallachia , in their peregrinationB from home , have alighted at a village , near Vienna , ^ li e re ' they noware . I , General Prim and the Spanish officers in his suite have arrived 3 a Paris on their way to Madrid .

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      A boat of new . churches are to be set up in the modem Babylon : to wit , three in Faddington , three in Clerkenwell , arid ; others iii Whitechajel , Kehsington , Hammersmith ; Isleworth , $ t .. Pancras f ? &c . The Queen subscribes 500 £ , the Bishop of London 1000 / ., towards the setting up of a church in . Cbvjehtry ^ street , Piccadilly ; Mr . Gelifbrand Hubbard builds one at his own expense in Holborn ; and Mr . William Cotton one at Limeliouse . Verily the land will be edifiedat all events with churches .

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      ,. ' . Saturday , August 26 . The only telegraphic despatch of the morning containing any news is . the following ; and , certainly , if tyue , it is what ; might have been expected ; ; '' " Vienna , Friday Evening . . " Prince Gortschalcoff is said to have received intimation from St . Petersburg that no direct answer will bo given to the last propositions forwarded by Austria , but that she will be asked what her intentions really are . "

      Well , let us read a . little further . I ( i the Siksian Gazette there is a letter from Vienna ' of the 18 th , bearing on the subject : '' Whilst Austria is continuing her preparations for war , Prince < Jortschakoff is acting as if the whole quostion was afc an end , by the retreat of the Russians behind the Pruth—as if , in fact , peace was about to be signed . Ho is getting the apartments of the Russian embassy splendidly fitted up ; and after purchasing the c ^ ujpnges of his predecessor , has ordered eight splendid Hungarian horses to bo purchased for him . He has sent for his sons , and in all respects is acting as if thej-e was no prospect or an interruption in the diplomatic relations of Austria and Russia . "

      . And it appears that he does contemplate being able to hpl 4 his ground , and do his master some service , too . JTor the Times announces tlmt more negotiations are to ibe sot afoot * The latest conditions which Auatrja ha 8 agreed to demand , at the instance of the Western Powers , and which she has notified to St . Petersburg on the 10 th August , ore to bo made the oasia of a protracted diplomatic campaign , and an armistice is to be obtained by Russia—if possible . With tills Vlnw " ran ni-n fnl / 1 II 'Dninnn r 3 n-t .. ~ l ... I . „ l \ . -

      Prince Albert reviewed the garrison of Portsmouth , yesterday , and was present at the heavy gun practice seaward from Southsea Castle . The day before , he went to Newport , to lay the first stone of St . Thomas ' s Church , about to be erected there . The Prince was received by the Mayor and Corporation of Newport , the Bishop of Winchester , Lord I > owne 8 , and Mr . Fleming . A Guard of Honour , with the Royal Marine band , was in attendance .

      Minsatpr ) u > reported to have said at Vienna that ho did not ? £ »? i m llcso , c ° n ( 1 Jt } Ons aa imacccploMo an they seemed , and miffl l , ? in i ? > i * ° ™ ° - ^ limitations ; , tlio Kmporor might Ijo induced to ontortnin thorn , " aririZ ° r i J * * ue 8 tSonfor ™ expression of popular bSt ^; hif ory , " m armlstioo , " it would woiirbffnfn OBU 9 pen i thqww llt thia moment ; it SrS i ™ ln f ftmo " - Nor do wo boliovo that our Mmistora wjU conaont tp any Buch proceeding . B h n £ 7 nmdo shows th «^ cSvo Fo ? iSI ™ ° arTS Uftra s ftBain 3 t Rua 8 lft » diplomacy . 4 ) or Russian arms thvro is np fenr - -

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      An inquiry beforethe Croy don magistrates into the fearful accident of , Monday , which begun on , Wednesday , was continued yesterday and again adjourned ^

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      Hiere is nothing , so revolutionary , 'because there is nothing so Unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world ia by the very law of it 3 creation in . eternal progress . —De . Abnoxd .

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      Looking out , then , upon the war-map , we haVe a pleasanter prospect to describe than we had six weeks ago . Then , Silistria had been relieved , and the [ Russians had crossed the Danube , but they still occupied the line of the Argisch , and their outposts stood strongly at OHurgevo . Now they have been driven from Oiurgevo ; forced bade across the Argisch ; across the Jalomnitza , across the

      Sereth . By a well-combined movement the Turks marched upon Bucharest , entering it on the 8 th August , establishing their headquarters i in and around it , and pushing onwards after the enemy , ag he retreated 3 wearied , broken by sickness and the sword , but still in good order , into Moldavia . As far as we know the position is . this : the [ Russian position has contracted its front . Ifc now stretches from the forts on the [ Lower

      Danube to Galatz , occupying the fortress of Braila as an , advanced post ; thence it extends upwards behind the Sereth to Jassy , perhaps farther , with an advance at IToltschaxti , to cover the withdrawal of thei army from . ' - ' - 'VSrall . a ' chia , ; . -The advantage of con > tinunig to occupy the Ijower Dan ^ iib ^ and Braila is obvious . Ketreat from the [ Lower Danube is easy , by a , tele- de pont to Ismail at Satunbvo ; In like manner the forces at

      Gralatzniay soon regain Itussian territory by crossing the Pruth to ! Reni . ! Braila is a fortified place , eapable of standing a regular siege . Thus , then , the [ Russians are ^ not badly posted , and their new position has this advantage , that it is only exposed to a flank attack from Austria , -wMch coiild he met by falling back and occupying both banks of the Pruth . Of course we know nothing of

      the plans of Omer Pasha or the Austrians . But the honour of both is pledged at least to recover Wallachia and Moldavia entirely from the [ Russians . If Omer Pasha press on , as he may , and the Austrians take post in bis rear , it is clear that' they must act as a reserve , and that , therefore , he can . go forward , if it seem good to him , with p erfect security .: . - . ' . " ¦¦ " ¦ " *

      If it be necessary , a eoiabined movement of Turks and Austrians on the front and flanks of the Russian position , aided by a flotilla on the Danube , could only end by driving the Russians into Bessarabia . Such are the positions of the Austrians , [ Russians , and Turks on the left bank of the Danube . But , exclaims the detractor of his countrymen in arms , where are the English—where are the French ? "Why are not they pressing on the [ Russians ? Why didn't they relieve

      bilistna ; why man t they rush lieadlong ia pursuit of the [ Russians in Wallachia and the Dobrudscha ; and liui *! the invader across the Pruth ? Softly , Silistria was relieved by the presence of the allies , or the Russians would have taken it ia time ; there was no military necessity for following the [ Russians in Wallachia ; for the position of Austria made them retreat , and the Turlcs are more than strong enough to imrsuo them .. The Allies have a finer gamo to play . They aim at Sevastopol , and no doubt Sevastopol they will have . If we may believe tho telegraph , the expedition sailed somewhere between tho

      SURVEY" OF THE War . We resume our survey of the war at a period when the prospects of the canipaign of 1854 are brighter than ever . A slight retrospect will show that up to this day those gentlemen who so loudly complain of inactivity and procrastination , those who , knowing they may become the victims of cholera themselves , here in London , yet trace the virulence of that disease at Varna to the idleness of the Allies , have no foundation whereon to base their Babel tower of ignorant denunciation .

      War was declared in March ; in August the Turks are forcing their way over the plains of Wallachia , and an Austrian army marches down to intercept the return of the [ Russians , leaving the Turks free to press on if they please : m August , [ Russia is on the Soreth instead of tho Danube ; in August , tho Allies are in tho Crimea ; and masters of Bomarsund . Those military critics who toll us that the position of the Allies in front of tho Balkan , and the position of tho Austrians ia Transylvania and the Bukowhm , did not help to defeat the Russians at Silistria ; those who assert that tho admirals in tho

      Unlfcic have been instructed to spare the Russians , are totally unworthy of credit . No matter how brilliant may bo the reputation of any public man or public writer , if he go coutx'ary to facts , he is not to too trusted . We repeat , war was declared in March , and in August whore are the Russians ? They have fallen back to thcii . own frontiers ; they have Itopt close under their own batteries , and ono of their atrougliolcls has boon wrested from them ,

      14 th and 20 th August , and by this time must be in the enemy's country ., It is impossible to say what plan of talcing tho place will bo followed ; whothor ifc will bo iound necessary to land at Kufl ' a , and march along the northern slopes of tho chain of hills that look over tho Black Sea , securing tho harbours as tho army proceeds , or whether a landing can be effected near to Sevastopol , wo cannot my . High military authorities declare that u lnndiiJg cannot be effected safely in any of tho bays oast of Gnpo Khorsou j and thnfc a landing nt Eupatoria , followed by n march through tho desert atoppes , would Tbo highly dangerous , " \ Ylulo to land

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      ^ Four men lost their Ii 7 es by an explosion of fire-damp in Lipsd-hill colliery , near Barnsley , The works had gone ¦ wrong-. . . . some foul air had' accumulated in the shaft ; the men went down with a lighted candle , and it exploded . The workhouse at King ' s Lynn ; fell down oh Saturday . Fortunately the inmates Lad been removed . One man was , however , killed and two nurt , The house was part of an ancient tower , and has long been falling to decay . -The : cholera has appeared here and there in the prpyinces . InLiverppol , list week , the deaths were 21 . In Edinburgh and Leith there had been 24 cases and three deaths , up to Vjfednjsday . In Belfast , Antrim , Lame , and Lisburne , the appearance of the disease is also noted .

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      SATURDAY , AUGUST 26 , 1854 .

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      The accounts from Belfast continue to be unfavourable . The Daily Mercury of Thursday thus reports : — "We regret to state that the disease is spreading in this town in rather an alarming manner . During the past week there were 77 * cases under dispensary treatment , and ont of that number there were 15 deaths . These cases are independent of those under private practice and hospital treatment in the workhouse . "

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      In the accident at Bamsley colliery , it appears , five lives were lost through the negligence in carrying naked lights . A coroner ' s juxy / has returned the following verdict ;— "The unanimous opinion of the jury is , that the five men have come to their deaths entirely from accident , and we acguit the proprietors of the colliery of aiiy Uame or culpability ; but we are of . opinion that John Jebson ; the contractor , ought to have men in whom he can place more confidence than those he has employed , and that he ought to have used the means "which -are placed at his disppsal for ventilation by the proprietors . If deceased , Noah Heeley , had used more caution , the accident might riot have occurred . " ,

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      TO CORRESPONDENTS . " Two letters , on the " Duties of the Clergy , " are under consideration . ¦¦ .. " ¦ . ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . '; " - ' ¦ . ¦ .. ¦ .. ' . ' ¦ ,. '¦' . ¦¦'¦ :. - ' ¦;¦ ¦¦ . - Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of . the paper : only .. If long , it increases the difficulty of flndinj ? space for them .

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      August 26 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 801

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 26, 1854, page 801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2053/page/9/