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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . Oub Contisental PrestMe . — -The Observattwr Beige , in its admirable sunmiary of politics , has the following remarks on the attitude of the British . Go % rnment towards France and Austria : — ¦** It is announced from Vienna that England has made representations to the Austrian cabinet , in behalf of the \ mfortunate Colonel Turr , the British agent , lately seized at Bucharest , by order of General Coronini , and sent as a Hungarian dsseixer to TJarestadt , in Transylvania . At Vienna , it is said the Government regrets this inconsiderate act , and fears that it may produce a rupture between Great Britain aiid Austria . "We do riot share this fear . We know that if England does complain , it will be careful to do so in terms that will not offend the Government of Austria . " Docile to the inspiration of Napoleon , the British Government may even abandon Colonel Turr , should the sacrifice seem necessary to conciliate M . de Buol and M . de Bruck . One proof that the affair will not be seriously treated by the British cabinet is afforded by the silence of the London press—that press so fierce , so insolent , so bold , when little states are to be attacked , but so reserved and so polite when it cirticises the powerful sovereigns of France or Austria , or the powerful cabinet of Washington . " Of Louis Napoleon ' s recent speech , the writer Bays : — " In it England reads an oracle , France perceives a danger , but " Western and Southern Europe detect only the eternal Napoleonist spirit of domination and aggrandisement which has already produced one historical catastrophe . " And the Observatcur adds , that the government of Louis Napoleon is " the most terrible despotism of modern times . " The King of Sardinia embarked on Monday , the 20 th inst ., at Genoa , for Marseilles , with a brilliant military suite . The Duke of Grammont , the French Ambassador , accompanies him . The Count de Cavour , and the Chevalier d'Azeglio left direct for Lyons , where they will join the King . His Majesty arrived at Marseilles on Thursday . He will spend some days in England after his visit to Paris . It is stated that the persons who have" been sentenced to transportation for the conspiracy known as La Marianne will positively be sent to Cayenne , of which Rear-Admiral Baudin has just been named Governor . A telegraphic despatch from Berlin , dated the 19 th inBt ., says : — "The much spoken-of Russian Loan has been concluded . " General KorfF , who was recalled after his unsuccessful cavalry action at Koughill , is dead . 1 arn informed on good authority ( says the Daily News Paris correspondent ) that the bulk of the Imperial Guard now on its way home from the Crimea , has been ordered to holt on the route , so that the whole body may enter Paris together on December 2 nd , the anniversary of the coup d ' etat . Their return will be celebrated with muoh , pomp . There is a talk of giving banquets in the Palais de l'lndustrze to each of the regiments in succession . £ a . BI 8 was visited on Sunday evening by a fearful conflagration which burst out in the large government buildings at Chaillot , in the Quai de Billy , known as the Manutertion , in which a large quantity of grain and flour for the supply of the army of Paria is kept . The' fire Was first observed by the Parisians about half-past six o ' clock , p . m ., when a deep red glow was discerned in the sky overhanging the locality in which the buildings are situated . This glow increased in Intensity , and spread further and further , until at length the whole firmament presented the appearance of red-hot iron . Vast crowds poured forth in the direction of the calamity , and windows and x'oofs were thronged with people . The bridges and the principal buildings of Paris stood out in dark and massive relief ; and the flames , towering abovo intervening structures , at one time induced a fear , in those who watched the oonflAgrationfrom the remoter parts of the metropolis , that ^ fc leoat half Paris was on fire . The heat was felt on"tt ^ e opposite bank of the Seine ; but , fortunately , * he ; n )| ght was wiudletia , and , after great exertions , the flwa ^ Bapk 4 ° > vn into the interior of the building a little pwjt ten o ' clock . At half-past ten all danger to

      itEe ^ oini ^^ ' troops who had been calledottt wereaBdwedto return -totheirbarracks . Amdfcgtheengmes employed was one which was placed at the disposal of tneauthorities by the Canadian'Commission of tlte Palais de l'lndustrfc . This was worked by Mr . Perry , an oil officer of iSbe Canadian fire department , and did very great ser-| Ke . The Ministers of War , Interior , and Public ^ orks , Marshal Magnaa , the General commanding the Imperial Guard , and tie Prefect of Police , were present . The Moniteur says :- — " Only one storehouse of com , isolated from the other part of the building and form the mill , has been burnt . The immense supplies of corn and flour remain , therefore , almost untouched , and they will be sdbn again made complete by means of corn purchased abroad , and which is now being received or on its voyage . " The Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Max , who was lately thrown from his horse , is out of all danger . The Hungarian named Turr , who , while acting for the British Land Transport Corps , was arrested in Wallachia by the Austrians as a deserter , his English uniform being insultingly torn from his back , has not yet been set at liberty . Mr . Colquhoun , our consul at Bucharest , laid the matter before Count Coronini , who at first exhibited great warmth , but at length consented to Btay further proceedings until he had received advices from Vienna . A letter from Constantinople , in the Independence Beige , gives the following account of the Tunisian riot in that city : —" For some time past , the Tunisian contingent , renowned for their fanaticism , had displayed a bad feeling towards the French , soldiers , and availed themselves of every opportunity of molesting them . Several reports had been drawn up on this subject , and presented to the Embassy and General Larchey , who had communicated with the Government . It was intended to remove these men , when yesterday , in consequence of a quarrel provoked by one of them , a Tunisian post , established near St . Sophie , fired on several men on guard at the French hospital . The latter replied to the fire , and the Tunisians took to flight . They ran to their barracks in the square of the Hippodrome , and returned with several hundred men to attack the hospital , when the French defended themselves . An exchange of musketry took place , when two hospital attendants were killed , and two clerks of the administration and seven soldiers wounded . Two other clerks have disappeared , and the authorities have not been able to ascertain their fate . On the side of the Tunisians there were several killed and wounded , but the number is unknown . At the first of the outbreak , imposing forces had been Bent on the ground both by the Turks and the French . General Parisot proceeded with a company , whilst General Larchey waited at the Embassy , in order to send for reinforcements from Maslak , if necessaiy . In a word , the most energetic measures were taken to put down the disorder in the town . The Tunisians ai « e at present kept at their barracks , and are to leave this place in a day or two . A considerable number have been condemned to death . " The Bourse Gazette of Berlin says , from V lenna : « The Austrian Government has , in a note to Count Colloredo , Ambassador to the Court of St . James , announced its acceptance of the nominative of Sir H . Seymour to the post of English representative at Vienna ; and expresses itB regret at the departure of Lord Westmoreland . This question , which was not without difficulties , has been therefore arranged . M . de Balatine has assumed the direotion of the Busaian Embassy . " A well-known member of the Prussian Chamber , M . de Vincke , elected by the town of Hagen , has not accepted his nomination . The following explanations are given by the Post Ampt Gazette of that step : — "A short time after the election , the King passed through Hagen , where he met a very warm reception . He said on that occasion , ' This reception gives me the greatest pleasure , proceeding as it does from a town which has eleoted as deputy to the Chamber one of my enemies . ' These words determined M . de Vinoke to resign . " Lord Howden ( says the Times Madrid correspondent ) has addressed a letter to the Leon Eapanol , whioh journal had announced the fact , that the local authorities of Seville had given permission to the engineer appointed to prepare tho road from that city to Eatremadura to make use of the materials existing in the ruins of tho Roman oity of Italioa , destroyed by the Vandals in tho fifth centuiy . His lordship i oners to pay whatever sum the materials in question may be valued at , in order to prevent Buoh a profana- i tipn of those venerable remains of antiquity . Tranquillity has been restored in SaragoBBa , where the Carlists appear to bo oomplotely suppressed . Tho Blave trade , it is said , is making great Btrides in Cuba , notwithstanding tho engagements Spain is under to suppress it . The Spanish Constitution makes progress . Some obstruction waa caused by an amendment proposed by i Sonor Figueras to the sixth article , and adopted vir- i tuiilly by Senor Olozaga on the part of tho committee , i This amendment was opposed by General O'Donnell , i

      | | but "Bis objebtibhs tu ^ '' * D * een ''' OT € wo % TO''t > y 1 blie adoption" of a form of wording the article , which expresses in general terms the idea that no-Spaniards onght to be excluded from filling _ any office on account of not possessing titles of nobility . Senor Olozaga has received certain explanations , which have induced hifii to withdraw the amendment . TheEmperor Alexander has commanded theMinister of the Interior to signify that St . Petersburg ia no longer in a state of siege . The Schah of Persia has just sent an Embassy Extraordinary to Russia , to congratulate the young Czar on his accession to the throne , but ifc is openly talked of at St . Petersburg that the Persian monarch arid bis Prime Minister have received very costly presents to induce them to send it . " The Persian residents hi Tiflis , " says a writer from Berlin , " welcomed the arrival of the Ambassador in a manner peculiar to their nation . They took up their station on the right side of the road leading into Tiflis , each with asheepj which , as the carriage of the Ambassador drove past , each of them sacrificially slaughtered with a knife held in readiness . The Persian Embassy and all connected with it are reported to enjoy very freely the pleasures that the Russians procure fou them ; they frequent the theatre , and take particular pleasure in the ballets produced there . Prince Beboutoff had given them a dinner and a ball , at the former of which the Ambassador had proposed the health of the c faithful and constant ally of the Emperor of Russia , his Highness the Schah , ' and afterwards that of ' the Emperor of Russia , the friend and ally of the mighty ruler of Persia . '" Some particulars of theJRusaian Emperor ' s alleged , visit to the Crimea are contained in a letter from St . Petersburg of the 9 th inst ., published in the Augsburg Gazette . The writer says : — " A few days since , a package waa sent off to Nieholaieff containing a mantle embroidered in gold and silver by the hands of the Empress and her ladieB for the holy image which the Bishop of Moscow delivered to the Emperor in the chapel of St . Serge . It is positively stated that his Majesty himself conveyed this image to the army of the Crimea . According to an . order of the day of October 19 , the Emperor reviewed on that day the 4 th division of cuirassiers ( four reg > ments ) , with two batteries of artillery , two regiments of infantry with , their artillery , and the regiment of Uhlans of the Grand Duke Constantine . " The following are the details of the late journey of the Czar to the Crimea : —On the 7 th , the Emperor passed the Isthmus of Perekop . He arrived on the 8 th at Simpheropol , and set out on the 9 th for Backtchi-Serai , where Jje passed the troops in review on the 10 th-He afterwards visited the northern iort » of Sebastopol , and subsequently proceeded as far as the Mackenzie Heights . The streets of Pera and Galata ( says the Times Con-• tautinople correspondent ) are far from safe , now that the nights are long and dark . The Constantinople papers are full of accounts of robberies and murders . Two or three nights ago , an English officer was attacked by four robbers , who took his watch , money , and coat . The captain of a Swedish vesesel was stabbed in a street near the theatre , and his life is despaired of . A man was lately assassinated in the narrow street leading to the town of Galata . Last night , a gentleman belonging to the British naval offices at Tophanehwas suddenly assailed , when returning from dining on board ship , by two ruffians armed with sticks , who sprang upon him from a dark corner . Ho was unarmed , but , being a powerful man , succeeded in repelling the attack and escaping , not , however , without very severe bruises . In fact , the police is useless , and the English and French will havo to appoint one of their own , or wo must all carry revolvers -when we go out at night . . The disturbed state of Sicily is thus described in u . letter from Naples in tho Opinione of Turin : — "I have just returned from a tour in Sicily , and can tell you that tho fit ate of that country in much more threatening than is generally believed . Few peophv know French thero ; fewer still understand English ; and yet nil the nrticlos that have appeared iu the French and English journals on tho state of the island ( uid the Neapolitan government are secretly circulated among all classes of people , translated in some way or other . Even tho caricatures of tho Charivari find their way there . Bauds of brigands have mado their appearance , and have had Hevoral skirmishes with the soldiers . I call them bauds of brigands , because the government calls thorn so ; but they arc all in uniform , luid have oxcollout arms of foreign make . There are between 25 , 000 and 80 , 000 men in Sicily , so that if the brigands do not increase , there is no danger of » general insurrection for tho present . Those brigands respect private property , but are inexorable in their exactions upon government officials . " The commercial advices from Naples have rocontly contained many exposures of an iniquitous method adopted by the Finance Minister for influencing tho currency , which seems likely to bring the monetary affairs of that country into disgraceful harmony with Its political condition . It appears that by interposing

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1855, page 1126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2116/page/10/