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    - —^ duchf . considering the great faculty of M . de Lhuys , ia generally lamented-r-is to be found in the serious disagreements -which have arisen between the minister and the Emperor respecting the conduct of the war . It is said that , during his diplomatic mission to Vienna , M . de Lhuys was , induced to accept a less vigorous policy than * hi $ instructions justified ; and that , as the Emperor is determined riot to abate a jot in his demands , the minister was received with coldness on his return , and consequently resigned . M . Drouyn de Lhuys , it is asserted , even went so far as to lead the Austrian Government to suppose that the Emperor would sanction what he had accepted ; but in this he was grievously mistaken . The friends of the ex-minister state

    that the sudden modification of his tone arose from the alarm which" he felt * in common with the Austrian Cabinet , at the projected visit of the Emperor to the Crimea ; rather than encounter which , they were disposed to accept almost any conditions . There are also rumours of considerable ill-will having existed for a long time between M . Drouyn de Lhuys and M . ThouveneL the locum , tenens of the former during his absence at Vienna ; but we probably need look no further than the rupture with the chief of the State for an explanation of the retirement . —M . " Walewski , the French Ambassador at London , succeeds M . de Lhuys , and M . de Peraigny occupies the position of M » WalewskL M . Thouvenel . goes to Constantinople as Ambassador . — The late Foreign Minister left Paris on Monday for his country seat at Melun ; and on the same day , M . Walewski , who had been summoned by telegraph , left London for Paris .

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    The Spanish Cortes , by an overwhelming majority , including six of the ministers , have rejected the petition of the coupon-holders . " Spain , " said one deputy , " has always religiously and honourably paid her debts . " Senor Moyano ' s speech against the claims produced considerable effect upon the Chamber , especially the part in which he quoted some ludicrous verses from a parody published by a Progresista paper at the time when Llorente brought forward his well-known project for settling the coupon question in connexion with a new loan . Senor Calvo Asensio , one of the secretaries of the Cortes , was

    the only deputy who stood up manfully in behalf of justice . " For me , " said he , " this is a question of national honour , demanding the nomination of a commission with full authority to examine the legitimacy of this debt . Between paying or postponing the payment , and denying it absolutely , there is an immense difference . " Besides Senor Asensio , Senores Gaminde , Labrador , Godinez de Paz , and Avecilla voted for the appointment of a committee of investigation . The other 167 deputies present would not even suffer the subject to be examined , and declared the report definitively disapproved . — Times Spanish Correspondent .

    The Queen of Spain has signed the bill respecting ecclesiastical property with many tears , says the Constitutionnel . Her Majesty told her ministers that she signed because they , her advisers , assured her the bill was for the welfare of Spain , but that she was acting against her conscience . The ministers endeavoured to comfort her Majesty by reminding her that she is a constitutional sovereign , and that they alone are responsible . She appeared more cheerful after listening to these observations . Mr . Perry , Secretary of the American Legation , has

    formally announced to the court of Madrid that his government accepts the arrangements proposed by the Spanish Cabinet in the affair of the Black "Warrior . His note on the subject expresses , in the name of the President of the United States , the most friendly sentiments , and the hope that the conclusion of the affair will draw closer the relations between the two countries . The Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs has intimated in the Cortes that other claims are pending . The Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo has been ordered to return to his diocese .

    A letter from Barcelona states that in the course of a violent tempest which burst on the 24 th ult . over the valley of Arran , in Catalonia , near the French frontier , some enormous massea of snow fell from the Pyrenees , and completely buried three large villages , named Una , Vaquerque , and Llabely , each containing from 500 to 700 inhabitants . The authorities of the district immediately caused labourers to be employed to remove the snow ; and , though the operation was far from complete when the letter left , not fewer than forty-seven dead bodies had been discovered . The reigning Duko of Saxe Coburg Gotha has arrived In Paris on a visit to the Emperor . His presence thore is supposed to be not without political meaning . The Session of the Prussian Chambers has been closed rather unexpectedly .

    The late Ministerial crisis in Sardinia ( nayfl the Times Turin Correspondent ) raised so high the hopos of the reactionary pnrty that they revelled for a moment in the anticipation of a coup d'dtat which should overthrow the Constitution . So firm a hold had thLi idea taken with the most ultra of , the section , that it is said , and on very good authority , they had already distributed thoir portfolios , the only thing wanting to the accomplishment being the King ' s command . The explanation generally credited of the terms offered- by the Marquis do Villamarinft , General Durrmdo , &c , to thtj bishops , waff , that

    the present bill should be withdrawn if the bishops would agree to find the 900 , 000 and odd francs required for the poor priests , and that those bishops who are members of the Senate should promise to support , byword and vote , a bill in the sense of Senator Colla ' s amendment , which says that the civil power has the right of taxing benefices , but not of withdrawing or transferring property . This , with his Majesty ' s approval , was made the ultimatum ; and , having been rejected by Monsignor de Callabiana for himself and fellows , the affair ended . The mortal remains of the Countess Rossi ( Madame Sontag ) arrived at Dresden on the 29 th ult ., whence they are to be conveyed into Lusatia , to be deposited in the convent of Marienstern . _

    A special commission has been instituted at St . Petersburg by the Emperor Alexander to consider all matters relating to the Eastern question . It is composed of the Grand Duke Constantine , M . Nesselrode , Count Orloff , M . Kisselef , Count Bludoff , and Prince Dolgorouki . The war party has a majority in the commission . To cover the Spanish deficit , an extraordinary impost on the goods of the Church has been resolved on . The resignation of M . Cuesto is accepted . A holograph will of the late Emperor Nicholas , written

    in 1844 , has been published at St . Petersburg . It concludes with a clause , in which the Emperor begs all those whom he may have unintentionally offended to forgive him , as he forgives all who may have offended him . He expresses his regret that he has ntbt been able to accomplish all the good he could have wished , and begs all his friends to offer up their prayers for the repose of his soul . —There is something more truly Christian in this request for forgiveness than in fifty expeditions in defence of the " orthodox faith . "

    There was a report at the latter end of last week that the Bang of Prussia was dead ; but it appears that this is false , though he has in fact been seriously ill . He had an attack of fever on Tuesday week , which ceased on the following day , was renewed on the Thursday , and again ceased on Friday night . Has champagne got anything to do with this ? Eruption of Mount VEsrrvrtrs . —On the 1 st of May , this celebrated volcano began to throw forth fire and smoke . "As evening came on , " says the Naples correspondent of the Daily News , " the heavens were in a bright glow , and the whole population flocked down to

    the mole of Santa Lucia to see the spectacle . The form of the mountain was indistinguishable ; nothing was to > e seen but clouds , smoke , and fire . Up to the very zenith , the sky was covered with large bulbous clouds , black as ink , and fringed with white ; underneath , and half-way down the mountain , everything was on fire , whilst right in the centre of it shot up a cone of black smoke . Still lower again , dark clouds covered the base of the mountain , having , too , as their centre-piece and contrast , the river of lava which is running down towards Resina . The scene was rendered still grander by an eclipse of the moon which took place about two hours and a half after midnight . "

    The Moniteur of Sunday contains the report of the commission appointed by the decree of August 5 , 1854 , to carry out as far as practicable the testamentary dispositions of Napoleon I . The report is presented by M . A . Fould , and concludes—" Thus , four-and-thirty years after the death of the Emperor , his last wishes on behalf of his faithful servants and glorious companions in arms receive their consecration . " Mehemet Ali , brother-in-law of the Sultan , has been recalled from exile against the will of Rescind Pacha .

    The latter has resigned , and Mehemet AH , an exile the day before , on account of certain acts of corruption , has been made Grand Vizir in his stead . Fuad Effendi has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs . The latter minister is a man of great ability and considerable experience , having been entrusted with several important European missions , including one- to St Petersburg . It was Fuad Effendi who was Minister of Foreign Affairs when Prince Menschikoff first made his appearance at Constantinople in 1853 .

    A letter from Bucharest of " the 23 rd in the Cotuttitutionnel says : — " The only thing talked of here is an arrest which took place the day before yesterday in open day , in a public garden , by order of tho Austrian authorities . M . A . Mano , chef d'escadron of Lancers in the Ottoman army , who was suspected of keeping up a correspondence with an Hungarian emissary , whom the police have been for some time carefully watching , was arrested and is now in prison . He has undergone two intcrrogatorien , the rcBult of which will not be known for some days . Colonel Manoilovitch , who commands the Austrian

    regiment in garrison at Gnlatz , baa addressed a letter to the Wallachian authorities of Ibrail , ordering that tho Ottoman authorities shall not , on any pretext whatever , arrest either a Wallachian subject , or any other claiming Austrian protection , and also that , in tho event of the arrival of Ottoman troops , however small the number , tho authorities are immediately to give him notice of the fact . The interview at Fokfihani between tho Hospodars- of Moldavia and Wollachia had for object to impress on tho former the necessity of a prolonged Austrian military occupation , in order to secure tho welfare and tranquillity of the two Principalities . " Tho insurrection in the Ukraine appears to bo suppreHScd . According to the Wtmderer of Vienna , the real cause of the rising was , that the resources of the

    peasants were completely exhausted by the tremendous supplies which they had been obliged to provide for the southern army . Tho poor creatures , who have hitherto been obliged to transport all the supplies and give , food to the passing troops without remuneration , refuse to work , declaring that they will rather die of hunger than longer bear such heavy burdens . The insurrection has spread most on the immense estates of Count Branitzki , who is related to the Imperial family . A Vienna letter says that the affair was much less important than at first stated , and that a few words from the proprietors were sufficient to quell the malcontents ; but Russia of course would do her best to hush up the facts , and Austria would not be slow to help her .

    A lamentable circumstance has happened at Rome . A lottery was being drawn in the Piazza del Popolo , by command of the Pope , in favour of the cholera orphans . About two thousand persons were collected round the spot , when a scuffle took place between a baud of pickpockets and the police , who drew their swords to prevent their prisoners being rescued . This produced a panic ; swords were flourished by several of the persons present ; and a battalion of soldiers , thinking that a revolution was commencing , advanced on the retreating crowd with fixed bayonets . In their efforts to escape , several persons were knocked down , trampled on , and severel y hurt . The next morning the chief pickpocket , whose avocations had led to the calamity , was pilloried and bastinadoed , to the great satisfaction of the public .

    A mechanician named Foederer , a Swiss by birth , bnt long resident in this city ( says the Salut Public of Lyons ) , has just left for Paris , in order to submit to the examination of competent men a warlike machine of his invention . It has cost him many years' meditation and labour , and will , he says , throw 700 projectiles a minute , and destroy in a very short time either a town or a whole squadron . M . Pleyel , the well-known pianoforte manufacturer , has just expired at Paris . The Independance Beige says that Abd-el-Kader has applied to the French Government for permission to visit Paris , to see the Great Exhibition , and that tho request will doubtless be granted .

    The Hamburg Correspondent contains a letter from Copenhagen which says : — " The draft of the constitution for the whole of the monarchy having been now completed by the Government , it is said that the Diet ' will be immediately dissolved , and new elections proceeded to on June 15 . " The great news frequently contradicted , that Rossini was going to Paris , is confirmed by the Presse , -which says it has received a letter from its correspondent at Genoa , stating that the maestro had passed through that city on his way . The accounts

    The Corriere ltaliano of Vienna says : —" received "from Russia give a melancholy picture of the state of commerce and manufactures in that country . All the labourers usually employed in agricultural work have been taken to construct redoubts and dig trendies along the line of the Vistula , and on the coast of the Baltic . The crops this year will consequently be very scanty . If there be also " taken into account the injury which commerce has sustained by the blockade of the Russian ports in the Baltic and the Black Sea , it -will be seen that the advantages hitherto derived by the Kussians from the coasting trade has been comp letely annulled . The condition of the poorer classes U therefore becoming worse and worse every day .

    The English residents in Paris have held their meeting of congratulation consequent on the failure of the recent attempt on the Emperor ' s life ; and the address which was agreed to on that occasion was last Saturday presented at the Tuilerierf . The address speaks of his . Majesty's " sacred person . " " What next ? The Paris correspondent of the Times says that the < lelay in transmitting the Russian instructions from St . Petersburg to Vienna , in connexion with the ' 1 hud 1 oint , arose from dissensions in the imperial family . 1 he lunall

    peror himself , fearing lest Russia should . see Juirope arrayed against her , was inclined to a pacific enuiw j but the Grand Duke Constantino declared hiinscli tno ardent and inexorable pnrtisarurf the war at all risks ana sacrifices . " The dispute between those present , a nil piuticularly between the two brothers , became so an minted , indeed so angry , that the Empress-Mother , notwithstanding her delicate state of health , wart obliged to niterliTO . i have reason to know that it is solely to calm those outbursts of feeling and to maintain something liko iiji" - quillity in the imperial family itself , as in ( he coin I , 1 »« she is obliged to prolong her stay at St . lvt ( rsl ''"' ' > lk " withstanding the nccuHHitiua of her health , not to up " of her family affection , which would require a remoMu i Berlin . " Tho writer ways ho haH no reamm to qiu'cuim

    tho accuracy oi this story . . The amendment of MM . Collegno and Po « minbn . i .- > ' » the Convents Suppression Bill has been a . vcpte . 1 nj i' Government . Tho votes in the Scnato were— -i < > 45 against . There were two abnent . . Letters from ll « l » iii B fur « , of tho 20 th nlt . m < y t » tl that tho formation of the twenty-nix lmUaliniin <» landers , ordered by ' the Into C / . ar , in now « oiii | . l « t «' - A roport is circulated that his Neapolitan Rliijoniy " «• ' » nhot at on tho laat day of tho Into review at < npu . in Httld that the ball pasted near enough to h « " « The fact I doubt . What 1 m certain i » , that tho knife

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 12, 1855, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2090/page/10/