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      narfc of the year it did his lordship a degree of infuafciee in connection with the Light Cavalry charge SJ £ T « E £ ? one had blundered . " " At any rate / simpers the Globe , " it was an error on the side of that ' dash '—the want of which xs now complained of among our Generals . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . PEACE PEOSPECTS . The Times Paris correspondent reiterates his assertions that Austria has made certain peace propositions of a nature which the Allie 3 are very likely to accept , and which , as far as Russia is concerned , will be backed by an ultimatum presented to that power by the Government of Vienna . The writer therefore believes that we have a better chance of peace now than we have had since the commencement of hostilities . With reference to the question of peace , and to the speech made by the French Emperor at the close of the Exposition , the following circular has been addressed by Count Walewski to the diplomatic agents of France : —

      " Monsieur , —According to the intelligence which reaches me from many parts of Germany , the speech uttered by the Emperor on the occasion of the closing of the Universal Exposition has produced , as it was easy to foresee , a profound impression . Nevertheless , it has not been appreciated everywhere alike , and it has become the subject of diverse interpretations . It bears , however , but one , and the neutral states cannot mistake sentiments which , it is evident they can only commend . The Emperor has said that he desired a prompt and durable peace . I have not to dwell upon this declaration—it explains itself , and needs no commentary . In addressing neutral States , in order to invite them , to offer wishes in this sense with him , his Imperial Majesty lias given sufficient evidence of the value which he attaches to their opinion , and of the part which lie assigns to their influence in the march of events . Such , in fact , has been his manner of

      viewing their position from the commencement of the diplomatic conflict whicli preceded hostilities . The Emperor haa always thought that if they had then more forcibly defined their opinions upon the subject in dispute , they would have exercised a salutary action upon the determinations of the Power that provoked the war . Their position has undergone no change iu the &yos of his Imperial Majesty , and they can to-day , by a firm and decided attitude , hasten the denouement of a contest which , in his conviction , thoy might have prevented . It is with this thought that the Emperor requests them boldly to make known their dispositions towards the belligerent powers , and to put the weight of their opinion in the scales of the respective forces . This appeal , so well understood and so warmly received by an audience composed of representatives of all nations , isiu truth but a solemn homage paid to the importance and the efficacy of the role devolviug upon neutrals iu the actual crisis . "

      The official Morniny Post smiles favourably on the idea of approaching poace , insisting , at the same time , on the determination of France and England to exact from Russia the most satisfactory terms ; and tho Independance of Brussels says : — " Tho Powers of the second ordor , and the majority of the other Courts of Germany , have just addrossed representations to Russia , enforcing on her the necessity of rostoring pence to Europo before the spring . These Powers have not addressed themsolvcs to "Russia collectively , but have omno to an understanding 1 together as to the nature of tho representations to be made to her , and have all written in the samo tones . This is a

      fine reply of tho Courts of Germany to tho loyal appeal made to them by tho Emperor Napoleon . The Emperor himself did not use that language without well knowing , from tho conferences of MM . De Beust and Von der Pfordten , when in Paris , how it would bo understood in Germany . "

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      OBITUARY . Mb . Montgomery . —We regret to announce the death of the Rev . Robert Montgomery , minister of Percystreet Chapel , a gentleman well known for his literary productions , and as being one of the-most eloquent preachers in the metropolis . Mr . Montgomery was educated at the University of Oxford , and about tie year 1835 was ordained a priest of the Established Church . He went to Glasgow , where he became incumbent of an Episcopal Chapel ; but unfortunately there was much religious antagonism between him and his Presbyterian neighbours . The Itev . gentleman , quitting Glasgow , came to London , and resumed his ministerial labours in Percy-street chapel , which he rented to the day of his death . —Globe .

      John Williams , Esq ., late M . P . for Macclesfield , died on the 29 th ult ., from the bursting of a bloodvessel . He was in his fifty-seventh year , and his history is by no means uninstructive or uninteresting . His parents were very poor , humble people , and he was left early without a father . Starting , when fourteen years of age , from Ruthin in Denbighshire , his native place , he walked up to London , became an errandboy in a drapery shop , got on ia life , and finally celebrated establish

      rose to be chief partner in the - ment , well known to all London ladies , in the Kegent ' s-circus , Oxford-street . He was an energetic supporter of the Anti-Corn-law League ; was elected a churchwarden , on the popular interest , in the aristocratic parish of Marylebone ; and was roturned for Macolesfield in tho general election of 1847 , but was defeated in 1852 , though z-etaining the confidence of a large body of the electors . Since then , until hia death , he remained in private life .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . America .- —Wo continue to receive from America accounts of the present diplomatic quarrel which remove all fear of a serious rupture with the Washington Government . A satisfactory apology has been made for tho indiscretions of our recruiting agents in the United States , and assurances have been given that tho West India squadron was not sent out with any hostile intention towards America ; but , with , respect to Mr . Attorney-General- Cushiug's lottors to the District Attorney of Philadelphia , it is suid that tho English Government has addreasod to tho

      American Government a demand for redrosa , and for a disavowal of participation , and it ia thought that this demand will be complied with . Some little soreness , however , has boon created by tho assertion , on tho part of some English papers , that , in what he did , ho had had tho previous sanction of tho American Secretary of State . —The improvement lust noted » n tho New York stock market continues ; nud the New York money market is easier , particularly for loans on demand . The national part of tho Knownothings have issued , a plan for tho organisation ox tho House of Representatives , with a view to aottliPg the slavery question on its present basis . —Mexico »!>•

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      72 THE LEADER . [ No . 298 , Saturday ,

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      the national any' Partant pour la Syrie . * In the evening , the General attended a ball given by the Landgrave William , in honour of the birth of his son . M . Dotezar presented the Ambassador Extraordinary of the Emperor to the royal family , all the members of which received him most graciously . " In Vienna , ifc is affirmed that the main object of General Canrobert ' s mission to the northern courts was the furtherance of the cause of peace , as the French Emperor i 3 said to hope that Russia will see the necessity for yielding before the arrival of spring . Should she not , Swedeu and Denmark , say the Vienna gossips , will join the coalition , and " assume a warlike attitude "—an equivocal phrase , which may mean nothing more than an armed neutrality . The King of Sardinia was entertained on Wednesday week by the municipality of Paris , with tie same splendour and elegance which were exhibited on the occasion of the visit of the English Queen . Austria is making indirect advances to America . The Chevalier von Hulsemann , who for many years has represented the government of Vienna at Washington , as a simple Charge d'Affaires , has been appointed Minister Resident ; a fact which gives occasion to the Ost-Deutsche Post to write a long leader , advocating the claims of America to be considered as the fifth great power , to interfere in European affairs , and to form a party in the present quarrel with Russia , should she think fi t . The balance of power in Europe , argues the German paper , is fast verging into the broader consideration of the balance of power all over the world ; and , in so important a question , the great Western Republic will be sure to have a voice . The writer therefore deduces that it is highly desirable for Austria and America to come to a good understanding on foreign matters ; and he hints that t he former would be willing to forget the Kossta affair . The Colonisation , a journal published at Algiers , Las received a second warning . The Akhbar has also received a non-official warning for an article relative to orphan establishments and discussing the acts and conduct of the Administration . This friendly notice given to the Akhbar by the Prefect , M . Latour Mdzeray , concludes as follows : — - " The attention of the Minister of War had been previously directed to an article in the Akhbar relative to tax on rents , and on this fresh occasion the Governor-General charges rne to warn you that you are forbidden any discussion on facts or acts iu which the Administration interferes ; either directly or indirectly . " The committee of the Cortes ( says the Times Madrid correspondent ) elected by the sections to report on the Tariff Reform Bill has chosen Seuor Olozaga as its president . The Catalan manufacturers are stirring in opposition to it . Meetings were held at Barcelona on the 21 st and 22 nd " ult ., and it was decided to forward an exposition against the measure addressed to the Duke de la Victoria , which ia to be presented to him by Senor Madoss . In tins document , the injuries which will bo inflicted by it on the manufacturing interests are to be set forth , and the petitioners ask that the discussion on the bill may be suspended . On the other hand , a proposition in a more liberal sense than the Ministerial measure of tariff Teform will be submitted by Senor Gaminde . He proposes limiting the protective duties to twenty per cent , ad valorem , and to benefit tho manufacturers in another way—viz ., by allowing all the primary materials required by them to be imported duty free . Tho Cortes have decided , by one hundred and twenty votes against fifty-seven , to re-establish tho Council of State as a corporation to be consulted by the Government ou important occasions . This body was suppressed after the revolution of 1854 , having for some years previously been denominated Concego Meal General Cnnroberthaa arrived in Paris , and has had an interview with the Emperor . ¦ A curious instance of the results of the alliance is mentioned by the Times Paris correspondent , who says : —" Enterprises in which English and French capital is united are in extraordinary favour . This predilection for international association , encouraged , it is true , by the Imperial Government , was particularly evinced by the rapidity with whicli the subscription of the London Omnibus Company was covered . The society of tlie Anglo-French clippers affords another instance of it . There is every reason to believe that this sooiety will obtain in tho course of this month the concession of the four transatlantic linos , for which three others are bidding . The documents the company has laid boi ' ore the Government aro deemed most complete , and the terms it proposes aro calculated , from their reasonable and advantageous naturo , to oocure to it tho preference . The four transatlantic lines to bo conceded are tho following : —From Havro to New York , Nantes to the Brazils , Marseilles to tho Braziln , and Bordeaux to the Isthmus of Panama . " Ifc id rumoured in Vienna that Badon is about to conclude a Concordat with Homo ; and in fact tho speech which tho Princo Regent made when he opened tho Chambers , on tlio 20 th , contains tho following passage : — " Reapooting tho relations between tho State and tho Roman Oatholio Church ,

      negooia-The Polish poet , Adam Mitzkievitch has died . He was formerly a professor of the Sclavonic language and literature in the College of France , and recently librarian at the Arsenal . A few months since he was charged by the French Government with a scientific mission to the East , where he fell a victim to cholera . It is now announced officially that the United States of America will take no part in the conference on the question of the Sound Dues .

      the right to circulate throughout the Sultans dominions . It appears from the Ost JDeutsche Post that on the 30 th ult . Colonel Turr was in prison at Cronstadt , and that a council of war had pronounced , hia sentence . A letter from Vienna , of the 29 th ultimo , in the Boxirse Gazette of Berlin , says : — " Count Coronini , who had gone to Ms estate at Gortz , is about to return here , to take part in the deliberations in the affair of the Danubian Principalities . These deliberations will be opened as soon as Sir Hamilton . Seymour shall have arrived . "

      broken out in a malignant form . A great scarcity of food and considerable distress prevail all over Prussia . Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe has protested energetically against the late arrest of Colonel Turr by the Austrian commander at Bucharest . The Porte also has expressed itself to the Austrian minister at Constantinople as deeply aggr ieved by this outrage , seeing that the Turkish territory was the scene , and that the officer arrested is attached to an allied army , the individual members of which , by virtue of a treaty , have

      tions have been opened with the Papal Chair , and I cherish the hope that they will end in a way which , shall be conducive to the interests both of State and Church . " Remonstrances have been made by the English and American Governments against Portugal ' s recent resumption of the possession of Ambriz as the frontier limit of its territories on the western , coast of Africa . An . order has been issued at Konigsberg , prohibiting the importation of goods of any kind from Russia across the land frontier . Personal communication is alRo reflfcricted to a minimum . The cattle disease has

      quefc given in honour of the General . General Canroberfc sat next to the King . In the middle of the repast , tho King , who wore tho insignia of the Legion of Honour , proposed the health of hia Majesty the Emperor , aua at the same time tho musio struck up

      as royal carriage . Tho audienoo lasted for half-an-hour . After tho audience , Count do Bondy , Seorotary of the Imperial Legation , and Duron Duperro " , commander of the Pelican , woro presented to his Majesty by M . Dotozar , tho French Minister . At five o'clock , tho oorpa diplomatique ( with the exception of the Russian Charge d'Affaires ) , tho members of tho Cabinet , tho high dignitaries of tho Crown , tho ooinmundors of tho ariqy and navy , and the moat eminent functionaries were invited to a

      banohoored him ho entered the The Monzteur , under date Copenhagen , Novombei ' 27 th , publishes the following particulars of the reception of General Canrobort , in tho capital of Donmark : — " General Canvobort was received yesterday at four o ' olock in a private audience by the King of Denmark . Tho General was taken to the Palace in ono of the . Court carriages , in which was M . do Moltke , aide-de-camp to his Majesty . More than two hundred persons assembled in the court of the hotel , and

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page 1172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2118/page/8/