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      the re-election of the Hospodars , if the P ™<*™ ° ** . £ accordance with public feeling and with the will of the nrovincial divans . ,. _ - The excesses of the brigands about Rome are growing more serious every day- A battalion of Swiss is about to be sent against them ; and a reward of 20 , 000 francs is offered for the arrest of the noted chief , lazzarini . From Spain we hear that the noted Carlist leader , Estaxtna , has been taken prisoner , and that the factious bands in Catalonia continue to make their submission Cholera is decreasing . The assertion that munitions of war have been conveyed from Prussia to llussia is confirmed by adocument published by the provincial government of Liegnitz , in Silesia , forbidding the exportation of all such articles unless produced in the Zollverein—the exception being rendered necessary by the fact of Prussia ' s engagements towards that association not permitting her to exclude their products . The notification states that false certificates , stating the ammunition to * be of . Zollverein origin when it is not , have been constantly obtained ; and adds , " With reference to particular articles of ammunition , we hereby point out that lead does not , by any mere process of smelting down , nor sulphur , by any refining , acquire the character of a product of the Zollverein ; that , more - over , sulphur is obtained only in very small quantities in Silesia and Hanover . Should suspicion of false swearing attach to any case of affidavit a judicial investigation is to be immediately applied for , and , should the goods be already over the frontier , information is to be immediately given to the Customs' officers for the purpose of investigating the suspected smuggling of contraband . ' A carrier recently gave information that he had been employed to smuggle ammunition into Russia ; but , being interrogated by the police authorities , he asserted that this information was false , and had been invented by him for the sake of the money payment which he had been promised . It is thought , however , that this second assertion was made under the iufluence of fear . Certain it is that articles of war have been frequently passed through Prussia , and that the government has recently made seizures . The Times Berlin correspondent gives the following account of the mode of transit : —" The good ? , being forwarded by railway , are stopped at one or two stations short of the frontier , and delivered into a warehouse at the neighbouring town . 1 hey ure there distributed into small packages , and conveyed across the frontiers by individual smugglers . G * d s are thrust into sacks of wool , gunpowder into rice barrels , &c . When once over they are re-collected and re-nacked at a friendly carrier's , and despatched further by ' railway . This process is the same , whether on importing into or exporting out of Prussia Their transit through tho country is secured by the carrier getting a certificate of origin from the authorities of the place where he first put them on to a Prussian rail . " According to the Ost Deutsche Post , the Austrian Credit Bank has received a " patent" for ninety years . The new institution will , like the French Credit Mobilier , undertake all kinds of business . The capital will be 60 , 000 , ( JOO florins , with the right to raise itto 100 , 01 ) 0 , 000 florins . 3 i , 0 , 000 shares at 200 florins will be issued . Each of the five houses belonging to the Rothschild family will take shares to the amount of 5 , 000 , 000 florins , and . the firm of Laniel , in Prague , and the Bohemian nobles will be concerned fur a very large amount . The administrative council of the company will be composed of twentyono members , a third of whom must be foreigners . The regular sittings of the Germanic Diet were reopened at Frankfort on the 25 th ult ., by Baron de Prokesch Osteu , who informed his colleagues that ho had been appointed lnternuncio at Constantinople , and would be roplaced in the Presidency of tho Federal Diet by Count de Rechborg . One of the churches of Athens lately conceded to the Russians ( says the Moniteur ) has been splendidly repaired by order of the Russian Government . A few days ago , the King and Queon of Greece , returning from a drive , entered tho churcli , under tho pretext of examining th « works , which had just been finished . Their majesties found assembled in tho building tho clergy , tho chanters , and the personnel of tho Russian embassy in full uniform . A solemn scrvico was immediately celebrated , and , after prayera had been addressed to Heaven for tho triumph of tho Russians over tho enemies of tho orthodox faith , a Te Deum was suing . A musical fete hna been given at Toulouse for tho benefit of the wound oil soldiers in tho Crimea . On this occasion , " God save the Queon " waa given by a full chorus , with ( for tho first time in Franco ) tho English words . Tho oiluet was so great that tlio whole audience stood up in honour of the Queen . The Germanic Diot has adopted tho following resolution relative to tho grievances submitted to its consideration with respect to tho violation of thoir rights by the Wurtemborg nobility : —" Tho Diot requests the Government of Wurtoinbortf to continue , on the bnsia of tho federal law , tho negotiation !! pending with regard to tho compensation to bo granted tho lords for tho property rights they have been deprived of , and to effect a compromise in accord with tho constitution ; to , continue on tho same basis the measures taken for tho abolition of tho laws , tho prescriptions of which affecting tho manorial estates are not conformable to tho federal compact , in order to arrive at a constitutional result . *'

      . It is now understood that the King of Sardinia wil i leave Turin for Paris on the 20 th of the present month after opening the Chambers hi person on the 12 th . H ( ; will be attended by Count Cavour ( President of thi > Council of Ministers ) , the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio i General Dabormida , M . Nigra ( Intendente of the Civi List ) , and the whole of his military household . The Austrian Government , having endeavoured in vaii i to obtain the assistance of foreign speculative companies in forming railways in Lombardy , has addressed itself t < the native capitalists , who have declared themselves ready to enter into such speculations . The profits , there-. fore , will remain in the hands of Italians , instead of going into those of foreigners . Count Schwerin , who , in the last Prussian elections ; was elected in five different places , seems likely to be left without a seat after all . He has chosen to abide by the election at Anclam , where he had only a majority of one ; and the officials have since discovered that two of the electors had not been summoned to the place of meeting , and that consequently the result was void . It remains to be Seen which way the two will jump ; but the zeal of the authorities may very possibly be traced to the fact of the Count being an anti-Ministerialist , The story of ths so-called Prince of Armenia , who has turned out to be a mere impostor , excites considerable interest in Germany , and the more his antecedents are investigated , the more clearly does his fraud stand out . " There is an old officer living here , " says the Times Berlin correspondent , " who has been for a long time in the service of the Dutch Government in Java , and was well acquainted with Johannis ' s family there ; his father was , as stated before , a shipowner at Samarang , and his mother was the daughter of a German physician from Electoral Hesse , of the name of Hellwig . The family is not Jewish , as was at first believed ; Joseph Johanms is indebted to his own personal appearance for this latter ' soft impeachment' He was found to be acquainted with only a few words of Armenian , which he had probably learned from a grammar of that language found among his effects ; he was found , on examination , equally gnorantof the history of the present living notabilities of that country . The only genuine paper of a nature to show who he actually i 3 , was a passport made out by Lord Abercromby at the Hague in favour of Ameer Khan ( the enigmatical Flugel-adjutant that Jobannis was always corresponding with ) . On all sides , men , women , and tailors are rising up in judgment against the soi-disant Prince ; and an amount of evidence has been collected that puts his adventurous and inventive career beyond a doubt . " Commercial transactions in Paris were extremely few during the past week , every branch of trade being more or less affected by the restrictive measures of the Bank . The fall in the price of corn has been suddenly checked , and a slight upward tendency has even manifested itself . The accounts from the provinces , however , do not j ustify the apprehension of a further rise , for the markets are beginning to be everywhere abundantly subplied , and considerable quantities of grain have already arrived at Marseilles and Havre . The first qualities of flour fetched from 104 f . to I Oof . per sack of 159 kilogrammes on the Paris market , although the stock maintained itself at between 19 , 000 and 20 , 000 metrical quintals . Wheat rose about If . per hectolitre and a half . The Paris butchers persist in their unwillingness to comply with the Prefect ' s ordinance relative to tho sale of meat , but the numerous sentences they have already undergone , and the energy displayed by the authorities in enforcing tho execution , have rendered them somewhat more manageuble . The wine produced will not suffice to meet the wants of internal consumption or tho demands of foreign countriees ; but tho vino disease seems ^ disappearing . — Times Paris Correspondent . A reform of the Germanic band , to bo inaugurated by Austria , has been talked of lately ; but , in a confidential despatch to Bavaria and Prussia , Austria says that , although late events have shown the groat necesuity of a reform of the band , sho does not look upou tho present ns a fitting time to introduce any attempt of thut kind . According to a letter from Berlin of the 1 st , in tho Post Amp I G axe tie of Frankfort , tho Danish Government perceives that its project for abolishing the Sound dues on payment of an indemnity equal to thoir value , will encounter insurmountable obstacles ; and * it therefore proposes to ^ render them loss onerous , by allowing commercial ships to pay thorn to tho Duniuh Consuls in the Baltic ports from which they may have to suil , instead of having to stop in the Sound . A commission luia been juat instituted at tho Department of Finance charged with examining tho position of the Credit Fonder of France , and concerting measures to onablo that establishment to carry on its functions in tho interest of tho agriculturist In tho Paris correspondence of tho Daily News wo read as follows i . — " Last ni ^ lit ( Monday ) , arumour was very generally diffused to tho efluot that tho limporor hud again been shot at . Tho Little Hoarse fell inconsequence . On inquiry , 1 find that tho following very oxtraonlin . iry story Is circulated by persona connected with Government . Tito Emperor ' s coachman , it i « said , always lias' a pair of loaded pistols in bolsters uttuohed to his coach-Vox , On Monday evening , at about bis . o ' clock , as his Majesty , on returning from his hunting excursion to Fontainbleuu , ¦ ¦

      was proceeding in his carriage along the Rue St . 'Antoine , one of the coachman ' s pistols accidentally fell out of e the holster , went off , and wounded a person in the street . b Several newspaper offices were kept open last night to an , unusually late hour , in the expectation that some 1 authentic Communique would be made , stating what had happened . Messages -were sent to inquire of BL ,- Collet i Meygret whether the event might be spoken of , and hi 3 what form . But , whether from his absence , or some > other cause , no answer was obtained , and the papers are ) consequently silent . The Moniteur contains no explana-- tion . Orders were sent last night to the Telegraph-office ' , not to transmit any dispatch on the subject . " The Archduke Maximilian , Chief of the Naval De-. partinent , was driving on Wednesday morning in Trieste , when tbe horses took fright and ran away . Tlie Archduke jumped out of the carriage , and , falling on his head , injured the skull . His Impsrial Highness is m ' danger , and the Emperor , his brother , has just left this i city for Trieste . [ The Royal Bank of Prussia has raised the rate of * discount on commercial paper from 4 to 4 £ per cent . ; and the interest on loans upon public funds and other securities from 5 to 5 £ per cent . 1 Discoveries had lately been made in St . Petersburg of 1 extensive peculations in several departments , and many persons , occupying high positions , are hi disgrace . The dismissal of the Governor of Nicholaieff , which is said to have taken place , may possibly have had connexion with these circumstances . The King of Sweden and Norway ( says a contemporary ) has approved tbe decision of the United Council of State that a committee of thrae Swedish and three Norwegian members , conversant with commercial affairs , shall be appointed to prepare a draught of certain modifications of the laws affecting the trade and navigation of the two countries . It is intended to abolish , as far as possible , all the enactments that impede the legal commerce between the two portions of the monarchy—mother words , to lay the foundation of a Customs * Union between the kingdoms . The committee is to commence its sittings at an early day in Stockholm . The commissioners appointed for Sweden are M . Skogman , President of the Chamber of Commerce , M . Karstrom , District | Chief in the Customs' Department , and M . Schvan . The measure is warmly advocated both by the Swedish and Norwegian journals .

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      ¦ J&IQ- THE LEADER . [ No . 294 , Saturday , ¦¦—¦ ' ' " _^ —

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      THE DRAINAGE QUESTION " . T-15 (!•? £ ! ' ( e beimiGIi Xvlr . P . 0 . Ward , the advocate of the system of tubular drainage , and the majority of the Commissioners of Sewers , who support the niain drainage plan , has at length been brought to a definite issue . We reprint the following correspondence between Mr . Robert Stephenson and Mr . Ward from the Times : — FROM MK . STEPHENSON . To the £ ditor of the Times . Sir , —1 cannot permit the attack made by Mr . F . O . Ward ( at the special meeting of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers on the 30 th ult . ) on Mr . Bazalgette , engineer of the commission , to pass without remark . Mr . F . O . Ward , in this last of a series of attacks of the same nature , endeavoured to show—1 . That the plan prepared by Messrs . Bazalgette and Heywood , and approved by Sir W . Cubitt and myself , for diverting the sewage of London from the inhabited banks of the Thames , is founded on wrong principles . 2 . That the engineering details for carrying out those principles are badly , unscientifically , and extravagantly arranged . 3 . That the information in facts and figures supplied by Mr . Bazalgette is not to be depended upon—that it is , in fact , obscure and incorrect . These are questions of a character so purely scientific and technical , involving hyradulic calculations of such intricacy , thnt they can only bo appreciated and understood by professional men . I venture to saythatitis quite impossible that the « ommissioners or tbe mass of tho public who read the report of Mr . J ? . O , Ward s speech could have understood the bearing of any part of his arguments , except the positive assertions which he made . . , I ahnll not enter into any discussion on these , which arc among tho most difficult points in my profession , with Mr . F . O . Ward ; but I wish , before i leave England f < n- some weeks , to state publicly that I have not assented to tho great intercepting drainage plan mutter of course und without due investigation . This plan was prepared and aubmitted to me as a commissioner by Mr . Frank Forater in 1850-1 ; it haa since been altered and Improved by the extended experience of Mr . Buzulgette and Mr . Haywood , tho engineer of tho city sewers , who have given their attention to it for jnoro than threeyearB . Every detail has been submitted to Sir W . Cubitt anil myself ; the levels have been moat carefully taken by Mr . •? . Smith , the surveyor of the commission . Each purt of tho whole plan bus been separately ana conjointly deliberated and reported on by Sir W . Cubits

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1076, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/8/