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    workmanship . . The marble steps of the temple being . about twenty feet -under the surface -of the Boil , have : l ) een left in situ and covered with , earth again . —Daily JVe-ws Homan Correspondent . Some changes in the armaments of Naples are about -to take place . " I have spoken several times -within the last few months , " says -the Times INaples correspondent , '" of new armaments taking place Jn different parts of "the kingdom . I have now to speak of disarmaments , -with , a view to the introduction of cannon of a greater : power and a newer . construction . Inuring the last ten days , all the pieces of artillery remaining in the Island

    aie 60 . 0 officers , tBtrrgeons -with * be rank of officer , aind paymasters . J » BUSSIA . Two nin-hts following , the sentinels placed at one of the gates of the palace of Charlottenbourg have disappeared from their post , and their bodies have been found the following morning in the Spree , bearing marks which show that they must have been first stunned by a sudden blow and then thrown into the river . The police are making the nnost rigorous search to discover the authors of this outrage . Another German prince : serving in the Prussian army has sent in his resignation . His debts amount to 40 , 000 thalers . He was concerned in the affairs of the Jockey Club which resulted in the Hinckeldy duel .

    Techen , ex-lieutenant of police , has been brought to trial before the tribunal of Berlin , on a charge of high treason , arising out of the theft of despatches . The trial has taken place with closed doors , and Techen lias beon found guilty , and condemned to eight years' imprisonnxent , followed by ten years' police surveillance . " We are assured from a good source , " says the Bourse Gazette of Berlin , " that it is not Baron de Koller , but Count Liuningen Westerburg , who is to replace Count Esterhazy as ambassador of Austria at Berlin . "

    " A piece of Court gossip is current , " says a writer from . Berlin , " for which I will no / t assume any responsibility . It is said that the widowed hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen is not unlikely to appear as a suitor for the hand of her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge , who is at tliis time with the Duchess , ber mother , at Baden . On the other hand , the English Princess is said to liave a rival in Princess Mary , younger sister of the Grand Duke of Baden and of the reigning Duchess of Saxe-Coburg . " ' . ¦ "' . ¦ GERMANY . The , CarhruTie Gazette publishes two decrees , by the terms of which , the Regent Frederick takes the title of ' Grand Duke of Baden . ' Since the death of Leopold , In 1852 , Frederick has governed under the title of Regent .

    SWITZERLAND . The recent rising at Neufchatel appears to have been prompted by Prussia , and carried out by a small party of aristocrats possessing strong sympathy-with royalty in general , and with -the Prussian monarchy in particular . There was a simultaneous movement at Locle . As soon as the disturbances were known , General Denzler put himself at the head of a l ^ vy of armed Republicans in the Val de Travers , and . marched on Neitfchatel . The castlerhere had been seized and occupied by some two or three hundred Koyalists , who . had arrested several

    members of the Council of State , hoisted the Prussian flag , declared the town in a state of siege , and issued a monarchical proclamation . . The Republican forces retook the castle and the other positions , and restored order in the course of an hour . About fifteen of the Royalists were killed , and thirty wounded . The Federal troops from Yverdun reached > Teufchatel an hour after the termination of the contest ; "but their services were not required . From two to three hundred of the Royalists were taken prisoners ; and among them are three members of the family of Pourtales and a M . de Meuron .

    Colonel de Mouron and MM . dc Montmollin and de Gelliac , who escaped by water from Neufchatel , have been captured in the canton of Friburg . The last . named 13 a Swiss officer in the Prussian . Guards . Two clergymen have been arrested as connected with the plot , ITAX . T . There is a talk ( says a letter from Rome in Voss ' s Gazette ) of a collective note which the Italian . Governments friendly to Austria , namely , Naples , Home , Tuscany , Modona , and Parma , with Austria herself at their head , are said to be about to address to the Groat Powers , ^ wlth a view to put an end , or at least a limit to , the "growing influenoe of Piedmont in Italy . To this note there is joined , it is reported , a memorandum intended to serve as an answGT to that sent by Count Cavour to Paris . At the aarne time , a fresh protest against the conduct of the Sardinian Government towards the clergy is in preparation at the Vatican .

    The ever fertile archaeological sou . of Rome has just yielded fresh treasures in that part of the city placed between the churches of St . Ignatius and the Minerva which was formerly the eito of the Temple of Isis , surrounded by the priests' houses , in which the Emporora Vespasian and Titus spent the night before entering the city on their joint triumph . Excavations for restoring tiie foundations of an old house , behind the apsis of th © Minerva Church , have brought to light successively the martlo steps conducting to the temple ; a red granite

    group ot a . cow suckling a child , unfortunately wanting the-ftnimnl ' alioau-and forelegs , but otherwise in good preservation , and evidently representing the mystic < livinities « t , ]« U ouailorus . ; and , lastly , a . column of grey granite , with figures of Egyptian priests sculptured on the , shaft dn . -baaaa , xeaieivo , al ) out two feet and a half high , . bearing tUe omUematic implements of their worship . Tlio objoctB . now exoa-vateu aro to bo attributed to the time of Adrian , or oven . Alexander Sovorus , who was a groat restorer of Egyptian . woraMp , the stylo being Curt of Roman imitation rather than ori ^ ndl Egyptian

    of Capri ha-veJbeen wsnoved and carried offtoGaeta . A partial disarmament took place & few years since , but most of the old-iron cannon were left behind as not worth the expense of removal . It is expected that his Majesty and the- "Hereditary Prince will shortly -visit Capri , and will direct the formation of a battery afior di acqua ( at the water's edge ) . As soon as Capri has been disarmed , the same operation is to take place on the opposite point on the continent , at the Carnpanella , ' with the same ultimate object ; so that the narrow strait which separates the island from the mainland will be completely swept from either side . Similar changes and improvements are to be made on the Catanian coast . "

    Books , withthe stamp of the British Library on them , arc in futuie to be permitted to circulate freely in Naples . This is a concession of some importance , but it does not extend to books belonging to private persons . Some suspicious vessels off the coasts of Italy have caused great alarm to the Papal Government . They are believed to belong to the revolutionary party ; and an additional force of artillery and gendarmerie has been despatched to the const stations in consequence . The Papal Government has made certain modifications in its regulations with respect to those excommunicated persons , subjects of Sardinia , who supported the law directed against Church property . These modifications are in the direction of greater leniency . For instance , a marriage may be performed between an excommunicated person and one not so situated , if the priest finds all his persuasions against the marriage fail ; and tie offices of the Church may be performed with respect to the interdicted , provided they express their penitence .

    An address has just been presented by the Provincial Council of Brescia to the Cavaliere Burger , Lieutenant of Lombardy , ' complaining of the enormous - taxation to which their province is subjected in consequence of the great military establishment maintained in the country by the ; Austrian Government . It is believed that the Austrian . Government intends transferring the arsenal establishment , &c , at Venice , from that city to Pola , on the Istrian coast of the Adriatic ,--where some military works are going forward . Tho whole peninsula district south of Trieste is to be organized into a naval , command , and given to the Archduke Ferdinand , who will have his head-quarters ns Lord High Admiral at Pola .

    Two of the members of the present Ministry-- Cautero and Baynrri— are likely to resign , owing to disse nsions with their colleagues on the subject of the law of tfeaa-¦ mortizacion , which they insist on carrying through Such French exiles as are in the Basque provinces . are to be forthwith removed to the interior of Spain The Epoca says that the Emperor of the French las conferred the Grand Cross of the Legion of 'Honour on General O'Donnell , . and accompanied the favour bv " . an autograph letter highly flattering to the * iaa who an Spam has .-saved the cause of monarch y andsociety " The suppression of journals adverse to the Government has commenced . The -harvest is very bad . ¦ A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces that tlie Emperor of the French -was on Tuesday at St . Sebastian . SWISUEK . The Minister of Foreign Affairs , M . Stzerneld , has resigned . He intimated his intention to . take this step at the end of August , TUEKEY . Suchum Kaleh and lledout Kaleh . had been restored to the Russians . ' Rumours of Ministerial modifications are current , at Constantinople , particularly of the removal of the Seraskier . M . de Tlouvenel , French Ambassador at Coixstantinople , has given a banquet to M . de Boutenieff , Russia n Ambassador , at which all the members of the Turkish Ministry were present . : The Russian Generals Dainesc and Kirikofiy members of the Bessarabian Boundary Commission , have arrived , at Constantinople . Messrs . Koller and Benzi have also arrived , and M . Basily and Sir Henry Bulwer are shortly expected . The Smyrna and Aiddin Railway has been conceded to Mr . "Wilkins , the representative of an English company , which also claims the concession of the Adrianople Railway .

    Ihelrencu Consul returned , on the 7 th , to Erzeroum , where he was received with great honour . The Russian Consul was to resume his functions on the 16 th . Kars has been evacuated by the Russians . The Turks took possession on the . 6 th . ult . Three of the English officers attached to the British commissary with the Turkish army in Asia , Major Stuart , Major Fraser , and Mr . Evans , were present at the surrender , not in their official capacity , but as spectators . As in the Crimea , . the Russian officers seem to have been , very

    commumeative on past events , especially about the main subject of interest , their unsuccessful attack on Kars . They say that MouraviefiP was entirely nguinst an attack , and opposed it to the last moment , in spite of the urgent entreaties of several of his officers . But the troops were so dissatisfied at tliis seeming want of confidence of their leader in them , that he was in the end obliged to yield , against his own better conviction , and ordered the attack . According to the accounts given by the Russian officers , tlie thing was decided one evening at dinner , and executed . —Times Constantinople Corresr > ondcnt .

    The new Persian ambassador to France , who is also charged with the settlement of the Anglo-Persian dispute , will open witli the Turkish Government , when passing through Constantinople , the vexed question of the frontiers between Turkey and Persia . Not loss than two hundred and thirty different claims and grievances have been collected by tho Persian Government , which , among other things , desires to obtain the pass oC Kuutur . 1- ' « £ j V « r" ** A UUtM ^ Uf UV-J ** . VfcJ bU UULUtU L 11 U pW } 3 \ J l . J ^ liV % . VV *»«

    RUSSIA . A joint-stock company has just been formed in Moscow , for the most part of Russian men of letters , for the publication of the curlier productions of Slavonian , and more particularly of Russian , literature . The technical management of tho undertaking is to be conlided to a German long resident in Moscow and Kasan . An amnesty is granted in rol ' erence to tho events of 1825 , 1827 , and 1831 . The confiscations , arising out of tho name events , are to remain in force . . GKEECE . A serious quarrel has arisen between tho French Admiral , Bouet de Willaumoz , and the Greek Government . Mnjor Anghelopoulos was appointed by tho Queen Commander of tho PiraMis , in place of Major Mclingos , who had shown great attention to tho French . 'J . 'ho French Admiral said he would not acknowledge him ; denied that the power of tho Crock Government extonded to the Piraeus ; proclaimed the command thcro exclubively French , and confided it to Major llcboul , of the Marines . The small Grcuk garrison was immediately

    sent back to Athens , and the French Admiral signified to Mnjor Anghelopoulos that ho toleruted his presence at tho rii'icus solely because ho was decorated with M ' Legion of Honour ; otherwise he would have scut him away in custody of a detachment of gendarmes . On houring of these events , the Queen consulted with tho representatives of Prussia and Bavaria , and a protest was drawn up . The English Minister , Mr . "Wyse , approved of what had been done , and told tho commander of tho English troops at tho l'irasua to support tho Frcuch Admiral till further instructions uhould bo rouoivod from tho Homo Government .

    Several persons -have been condemned by the Supreme Court of Lucca to various degrees of imprisonment for having formed part of a republican conspiracy . The chief members , a schoolmaster named MarUnelli , and a tailor named Peruzzi , have been , condemned to sixtythree months' imprisonment iu irons ; the others to much shorter periods of the same punishment . The Florentine priests have -wreaked a piece of petty spite on the body of a man who had professed Protestantisun , by refusing for a long time to bury it . At length they were compelled to do so from fear of infection ; but the corpse was cast into the ground set apart for criminals . In . the meanwhile , the widow ( also a Protestant ) was subjected to iusults and threats .

    M . Landucci , the Minister of the Interior in Tuscany , has just offered a gratuitous insult to Piedmont by ordering several Sardinian subjects to leave the Tuscan territories within a few hours' notice , and refusing to listen to any remonstrances or explanations on the part of tho Sardinian representative , so that Ms order was literally carried into effect . SPAIN . It is reported by the Gazette that the brigands who seized on M . Leonardo Garcia Espinosa , of Alocn , after receiving the 9000 piastres required for his ransom , and dividing tho same among them in his presence and that of tho servant who wa 3 tho bearer of it , put their prisoner to death in the most barbarous manner . The Government has received a despatch from Burgos , announcing that fivo armed men , among whom wore one of tho Hierros and Tillalain , entered Aguilur de Campo , in tho absenco of the civil guard , who had beon sent to maintain order nt n neighbouring fair , and robbed tlie funds belonging to tho Government , to the Administration of tho liontas and tho Ayuntamiento . Tho brigands afterwards fled with their booty on the approach of n pntrol of the Queen ' s troops .

    O'Donnoll , who -until now has exhibited the most bitter enmity to Queen Christina , has brought forward in tho Council of Ministers a project for < ho restoration to her Majesty of all her property in Spain upon which sequestration wob laid nftor tho revolution of 1854—a proceeding which O'Donnell now denounces as revolutionary and iniquitous . TUe project was agreed to unanimous !}' .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2158/page/6/