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      battle-field the whole resources and power of a great nation . ' " This appeal seems to have been heard ; and winter , by suspending hostilities , favoured the intervention of diplomacy . Austria resolved upon a decisive step , which brought into the deliberations all the influence of the sovereign 01 a vast empire . Sweden bound herself more closely to England and to France by a treaty , which guaranteed the

      integrity of her territory . Finally-from all . the cabinets advice or petitions were sent to St . Petersburg . The Emperor of Russia , inheritor of a situation which he had not brought about , seemed animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the causes which had brought about this sanguinary conflict . He accepted with determination ( avcc determinatioii ) the propositions transmitted by Austria . The honour of arms once satisfied , to defer to the distinctly expressed wish , of Europe , was to do himself honour .

      "At this moment , the Plenipotentiaries of the belligerent > aud allied Powers are met at Palis to decide on the conditions of peace . The spirit of moderation and equity , which animates them all , must make us hope for a favourable result . Nevertheless , let us , with dignity , wait for the end of the Conferences ; and let us be equally ready , if it prove necessary , to unsheath the sword again , or to offer the hand of friendship to those whom we have honourably fought .

      " Whatever happen , let its busy ourselves with all matters which tend to augment the power and the wealth of France . Let us draw still closer , if that he possible , the Alliance which has been formed by a common participation in glory and in sacrifices , and of which peace will make the mutual advantages , appear even more conspicuous . Let-us , lastly , at this moment , so solemn for the destinies of the world , put our trust in God , so that He may guide our efforts in a way the most advantageous to the interests of humanity and of civilisation . "

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      direct opposition to the existing treaties and tUe exigencies of traffic and intercourse between the two countries . " At the suggestion of the Minister of Commerce , -the motion was referred to the Coiaraitteo of Trades and Manufactures . Berlin has been the scene of a curioiis chivairic spectacle . About a fortnight ago , according to the Times correspondent , " an equestrian entertainment , consisting of a carousel and a quadrille , executed by the highest members of the aristocracy here , with the ybizng Prince of Prussia at their head , came off in the presence of the King , Queen , Royal Family , and Court . The first half of the entertainment consisted

      of fcherwell-known mediaeval amu&ements of carrying off rings at the lances' point , throwing javelins at targets , and cutting or thrusting at Turks' heads with swords while riding at a hand canter . These sports were executed by two divisions of cavaliers , distinguished each by separate colours , and who were dressed in the French costume of the tiine of' Louis XIII . The second half of the entertainment contained the quadrille , ridden by the aforementioned cavaliers and eight ladies of the nobility , attired in the costume of the same period . " The entertainment , wh ^ ch was for a charitable purpose , was to be repeated .

      Seebach , and conducted to her carnage , at the close of the service , by Count Orloff . The correctional tribunal of Grenoble has just tried several political prisoners who were arrested in December last on a charge of belonging to a secret society and distributing seditious writings * On the 3 rd of December , a weaver , named Pierre Roux , was arrested by some custom-house officers at Massieu , near . Saint Geoire . A great many seditious writings

      were found upon him , as well as letters , which afforded a clue to some of his confederates . In . consequence of this discovery , a prosecution was instituted against eighteen individuals residing at Voiron , Pont de Beauvoison , Saint Geoire , and Lyons . Six of those who have escaped , were condemned in default of appearance ; of the twelve others , five were acquitted , and the rest weie convicted and sentenced to light terms of imprisonment , varying from one to six months .

      The budget laid before the Corps Legislatif shows receipts exceeding by 19 , 220 , 000 franc 3 and expenditure exceeding "by 96 , 770 , 636 francs the same items in the budget of last year . The excess of receipts is estimated at 15 . 417 , 348 francs . In the expose , it is said that it does not become strong governments or ¦ wise financiers to build tiieir hopes of the future too high . The surplus may appear small in view of the credits constantly demanded , but the Government

      hopes to be able to restrict supplementary credits in future . Jt is confidently stated that the Grand Master of the Ceremonies has just drawn up the programme of the ceremonial to be observed at the birth and provisional baptism ( ondoyement ) of the children of the Emperor ; The " auspicious event" is expected in a few days . The Empress has already retired to her chambers . It is said that the Pope will visit Paris to christen the infant .

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . * * FRANCE . An anniversary funeral service -was celebrated on Saturday at the Russian chapel , in the Rue de Berry , Paris , for the repose of the soul of the Emperor Nicholas . A piece of doggrel ( writes a Paris correspondent of the AtJtenceum ) which has of late made as much noise in Paris as " Villikins and his Dinah " dicl of yore in London—namely , the " Sire de Franchoity" — - bids fair to be transformed , by accident , into a public song . Some weeks ago , the French Emperor and Empress were present at the Ode " on Theatre . Louis Napoleon retired for a few minutes to the foyer ,

      whereupon certain wags began to chant , at first in a low voice , £ Corbleu , Madame , n ' avez-voiis pas un man ? " Others took it up , and the sanie words were soon repeated all through the theatre , to the intense disgust of the Court . Police—secret and avowedwere , however , soon at work , and the disturbance was suppressed , but not before a new meaning was given to these unmeaning words . The consequence is , that no one can hum the air now without being looked upon as a suspicious character ; and the song and the pieces written on the same theme ave being gradually withdrawn from all the theatres—for it is impossible to prevent some one joining in the chorus con expressione .

      Several Frenchmen have been massacred in Madagascar by the troops of the Queen of that barbarous state . Others have been made prisoners , and some pieces of cannon have been captured . The French assert that all that part of Madagascar in which the massacre took place belongs to Franco . Measures will no doubt bo taken to vindicate the French flag . A French journal published in the Mauritius states that on the day fixed for signing the petition to the Government for the re-establishment of the French language in official and judicial documents , a crowd of colonists thronged the Hall of Commerce with enthusiasm to sign their names .

      We are assured ( saya the Conatitutionnel ) that the widow of Admiral Bruat has been designated foi > the jbigh position of governoss to the expected infant of France , and that Madame de Bi'anc , ion , widow of the Colonol killed before Sebostopol , is to be sub-governess . The Emperor haa juafc given hia sanction to the draught of a bill for advancing 100 , 000 , 000 f . to agriculturists , to be employed iu draining ; and it has been eont to the Council of State to be examined , in order to bo submitted to the Legislative Body .

      Among the persona present at . the service held at the Russian chapel in Paris on Saturday , the anniveroiuy of the death of the Emperor Nicholas , were the grand equerry of tho French Imperial household ; tho first aide-do-camp to Prince Jerome ; Princeaa Mathildo , in full mourning ; Count Hatzfold , and all tho attachea of fcho Prussian embassy ; Baron Soobaoh ; M . do Worther , Minister of Win-toraborg , and Baron do Bourgoing , X < Yonoh senator , and formerly representative of Franco » b tho Russian oourfc . Tho Princcsu MuthiUlo was led into tho chapel by Baron

      AtJSTBIA . When Count Nicholas Esterhazy was on his deathbed , his son . Count Paul Esterhazy , who was concerned in the Hungarian War of Independence , asked for leave to visit him , but was refused . After his death , he requested to > be allowed to attend his funeral . This ~ wa 3 granted ; but he "was told that he could only be allowed to remain in ' "Vienna for fortyeight hom - s . Governments , like individuals , can never forgive tbose they have injured . An appendix to the Concordat , which has been long talked about , has at length been published in the

      Vienna Qhuvcfc Gazette . It i 3 elucidatory of the various articles of the Concordat , and is addressed by the Archbishop of Vienna , to Cardinal Viale Prela , the Papal intermtuxio at the Austrian capital . The comment on the Ninth Article gives the strictest interpretation to the laws against the liberty of the press . " Literary audacity " is to be " curbed , " because , in most of the countries of Europe , the people " are suffering under a deeply-rooted internal malady , "namely , free thought . The Church must treat this malady " as a . wise physician would do ;" ' and the police are therefore to aid in keeping out dangerous books sent from foreign counti'ies .

      Austria is surely henceforth to be the head-quarter 3 of priestcraft , and therefore of disbelief . Voss ' s Gazette has just published , a remarkable document—a general order by the co-ramander-in chief of the Austrian anny , giving directions for the observance of the fasts of the Church by the troops of the empire . This innovation Is another result of the Concordat . It is said to be the intention of the Austrian Government to introduce the use of certificates of confession into the army , and each officer will have to show that he has confessed at least once in six weeks .

      PRUSSIA . An astonislung instance of detection of a criminal by scientific aid is mentioned by the Times Berlin correspondent , who writes : — " Professor Ehrenberg ' s microscope , which did such good service in procuriag undeniable pi-oof of the Simonidcs' fraud , haa been made use of again , to detect the thief that stole a barrel of specie , whioh . had been purloiuod on one of tho railways . One of a number of barrels , that should , all have coutainod coin , was found on arrival at its destination to ha-ve boon emptiod of its proqious contents , and refilled with sand . On Professor Ehrenborg being consulted , he sonb for saniploa of sand from all tho stations along tho different lines of railway that tho specie had passed , and by moans of hia

      microacopo identified the station from , whioh tho interpolated sand must havo boon taken . Tho station once fixed upon , it was not difficult to hit upon tho oulprit us tho small number of employ ^ on duty there . " Tho left side of tho Prussian Lower Chamber recently proposed tho following motion : ¦— " That tho House of Deputies resolves to express to his Majesty ' s Government tho expectation that it will take etepa to procure thorough relief and satisfaction for tho long enduring aud jusb grievances , more particularly of the eastern frontier provinces , in connexion with tho Russian prohibitory flaoal regulations and tho Rusaian frontier system of exclusion ; and that a state of things may bo brought about , with some prospoot of duration , wlilch shall not ^ llko tho proaont , stand la

      DENMARK . The JFlcnsburgerZeituny states thaton the 2 nd ult . the Danish Government proposed to the various representatives assembled at the Sound Dues Conferences to abolish them on receiving payment of 35 , 000 , 000 to 36 , 000 , 000 thalers , to be defrayed by the various States interested according to a table drawn up by the Government . This proposal was accepted at once by the Russian representative , Tengoborski , without any reserve , although Bussia ' s share would amount to about one-third of the wLble . It i 3 represented that this project met with so much favour with the representatives assembled as to ; lead to the expectation of its being adopted by the various Governments .

      A note delivered by Baron Brunowto the Danish Minister Von Bille , at the time that the protocol settling the succession to the Danish Crowa was signed in London in 1852 , has recently been laid on table of the English Parliament . The Emperor of Russia had , in a protocol drawn up at Warsaw in the previous year , resigned for himself and his i 33 ue , in favour of Prince Christian of Gliicksburg , as presumptive heir to the throne of Denmark , all the rights to the reversion of the Danish Crown , acer-aing to > himself aB representative of the elder line of the House of Holstein Gottorp ; and , in th-e note above alluded to , the Emperor reserves these rights to himself and his male issue in case the direct male issue of Pxince Christian should become extinct .

      The opening of the session of the Supreme Council of the kingdom , of Denmark took place at Copenhagen on the 1 st inst ., with the usual ceremony . ITALY : Some questions were asked in the Sardinian Chamber of deputies by M . Deviry of the Minister of the Interior , with respect to an alleged outbreak among the Anglo-Italian Legion . M . Ratazzi , the Minister , replied that the affair was of the slightest kind ; but M , Deviry , who belongs to the extreme Right , -which , has always opposed the Russian war , returned to the attack , and asked when the Anglo-Italian Legion was to be removed , and whether Sardinia had become an English colony . The Minister denied that the English liave any jurisdiction in Sardinia , even with ' in their own barracks .

      The Marquis Gualtien , a Roman subject by birth , lout Piedmontese by naturalisation , well known in the litorary world by bis works oa contemporary Italian liiatory , is now in Rome . On his arrival , he ¦ was waited upon by a bevy of police agents , who gavo Mm . warning to leave the city in twenty-four hours , "but the spirited reply of the Piedmontese envoy , who declared that ho would take down his arms and flag if such n . measure were carried out , haa prooured for tho Marquis permission to prolong his sojourn without furthor molestation in the Eternal City . —JDailj / Newa Roman Correspondent , A letter lately received from Florence by Rossini announces tho death'of Doohlor , the pianist , l > y consumption . The deceased , who was only forty years of agewas married to a Russian lady .

      , Tho negotiations relative to tho Italian railways came to a cloao at Vienna on the 20 fch ulfc . , Tho state haa ceded them to a company , of which MM . Rotb . BQb . ild , Blount , Laiug , and Talbot nve members . Bavou do Rothschild gave a grand dinner to-day , at whioh tho Ministers , Bnron do Bruok , Baron de Bach , nnd Chevalier do Toggonbourg were present . "

      SPAIN . Some disturbances lmvo occurred at Malaga ; but they have boon «\ ipprcssod . RUB 3 IA . Aooording to intelligence from . St . Petersburg , tlu rofr / iromout of Count NosBolrode from public affair * will take plnoo immediately after tb . 0 conclusion o poaco , VariouB persons are namod aa likely to buc oood tho vonorablo statesman , amongst whom nvt

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2131/page/9/