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    during the whole of the day , as a Russian crowd always is , and that the whole thing was void of hilarity ; The Emperor and his staff took a very shcrt promenade through the crowd . " The materialist of the feast were 2496 poods of ham , 936 poods of sausages , . 3120 roasted sheep , 12 , 480 roast fowls , 49 , 920 pates , 50 , 000 almond pates , 24 , 960 Russian cheesecakes , 145 , 088 small loaves of white bread , 312 poods of butter , 1252 vedros of wine , 3120 vedros of beer , 600 poods of Russian spiced cake , and 800 tchetwerts cf fruit . ( A pood is about 361 b . English . ) The liquids were distributed by means of ten fountains , each placed in one of the avenues of the tables in a small amphitheatre half way from the imperial kiosk . The eight galleries or stands erected for the spectators wore 220 feet each in length , and the total length of the tables spread for the guests was exactly seven miles English ( 10 £ versts liussian ) . "

    The St . Petersburg correspondent of the Morning Post relates that the Russian authorities arc in the habit of opening letters addressed to Englishmen , and even of intercepting them . He lias liimself suifered from this . The telegraph clerks at St . Petersburg , also , objected to sending a telegraphic message from him to the journal he represented , because it contained ati allusion to the accidents at the people ' s banquet . He therefore struck out that part . ¦ ¦ . ' ¦ V Remarking on the harsh exclusion of the merchants from the banquet they bad . themselves given to the soldiers , Mr . Russell says : —" The time is fast coming when the merchant guilds cannot be any longer treated with such indifference ah < 1 insult . If all the reports one hears be true , the Czar is about to become a

    merchant himself , and to be a steam company proprietor . There is a talk of a gigantic scheme being afoot , by which Russia is to liberate herself from the influence of foreign companies , and ( o conduct Jier own export and passenger trade ; not only her own , indeed , but that of foreign countries . This is the formation of a comi ^ any to purchase and keep afloat a fleet of no less than three hundred first-class steamers , which ' . " are to carry on . the trade in the north with Sweden , Denmark , Norway , Hull , and London ; and in the south with . the shores of the Black Sea , Varna , Cons . tantinople , Athens , Smyrna , the Greek islands , Alexandria , Naples , Leghorn , Genoa , Marseilles . &c . The Czar is said to . have subscribed 2 , 000 , 000 roubles to the company , and it is affirmed that agents have been already despatched to England and America to contract for and purchase steamers . " ;

    The English Ambassador and Lady Grariville ' s state ball on . the night of Tuesday , the 23 rd ult-i was very brilliant and very successful . The Emperor and Empress , the Grand Dukes Constantine and Michael , the Grand Duchesses Constantine and Marie , honoured the party by their presence , and all the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers , together with their suites , as well as the : principal Russian nobility , and every person of note in Moscow , attended . The dancing , which was at first formal , -appears , ultimately to have become tumultuous , ' and a tall Englishman , in the full vigour and passion of his waltzing , absolutely - ' ran info the ISmpcror , and considerably staggered his equilibrium . Alexander , with great politeness , relieved , the unlucky gentleman from his "embarrassment by apologising to him , and observing " that he ( the Czar ) really could not g » t out of the way , the , crowd was so great . " .

    ador who replaces Senor Olozaga , has been officially reeived . by the Emperor . Prince Napoleon has returned to the Palais Royal rom his maritime excursion in the North Sea . The Paris correspondent of the Times denies the truth f the account recently published in the Daily News , and uoted by us last week , of the reception given by the F rench-people to the bull-fights in the south . Some further victories over the Arabs have been ained by the French in Algeria . Prince Napoleon has left Hamburg on his homeward oyage to France .

    The Council General of the Bank of France has realved hot to discount bills of longer date than sixty ays instead of ninety as heretofore . Louis Napoleon is said to entertain a design of making military arid fortified port at St . Jean de Luz , near ! ayon . ne . This project has been entertained' since the ime of Louis XIV . Its execution ' would give France he command of the whole Gantabrian coast , and enable er to dominate the whole of the Basque provinces of pain , ¦ which are known to be not very Well affected to he monarchy with which they are now .-united , and yhich have recently given indications of a friendly " eeling towards France .

    The MoniUur publishes a report of the Minister of rinan . ee , relative to the Budget of 1856 . The most renarkable points advanced by the Minister are the folowing : —" Not only has the amount of revenue of 1854 teen attained and passed—not only is the extraorlinary level of 1855 reached—but the first months of he present year , compared , with ; the corresponding months if the last year , show a considerable increase . This ncrease , for the first six months alone , is G 3 , QO 0 , 00 O as igainst 1854 , and 26 , 000 , 000 as against 1855 . Much [ ias been said of the exportation of bullion . A succession ) f bad harvests , the purchase of silk from foreign sources , rnd other less legitimate causes , have influenced , no loubt , the export of French coin . Silver especially has lecorhe the object of a trade which disturbs the public mind . This trade consists in selecting the finest coins , and . obtaining for them their surplus value . This

    unfaar choice of com , which tends to destroy the general equilibrium , was by ancient law considered as a high misdemeanour , and was . punished by severe penalties . Modern legislation cannot be powerless against such an abuse , which has nothing in common with the mi disputed principle of commercial liberty . The Government of your Majesty is justly concerned about this matier . The two first loans have been entirely paid up , and the terms of the last , which will suffice . to liquidate all the expenses of the war , are fulfilled with exactitude . The public revenue is augmenting in a liithcrto Tinparalleled proportion .. The taxes arc paid with the most exact punctuality , and even often in advance . Money flows into the public Treasury . The payment of the last six monthly payments of the rente has left us a reserve of 110 , 000 , 000 fr . It must be evident to every sensible man that these facts are the indices of a

    situation of things which is fundamentally good . The reader will , of course , bear in mind , that this Is . the official account . On the Emperor appearing a few nights ago at the Opera—the first time he has been seen in public since his return to Paris—he was but coldly received . AUSTIUA . Baron Hiiuner arrived at "Vienna from Naples on the 2 nd inst ., and pn the following morning hsul an interview with Count B-uol . Naples persists in its refusal to make any concessions . ¦ Austria intends to continue her occupation of Moldavia during the whole of the ensuing winter . A telegraphic despatch sent from Vienna to Psiris is said to have suspended the execution of the resolutions ¦ w ith respect to Naples previously coino to by the allied Governments of France and England .

    The Nordy of Brussels , publishes in prominent type , and calla particular attention to , an article which has appeared in . the Journalda Frankfort as a communication from Vienna . The object of this article is to defend "the sacred right" of every monarch , or governor of a State , to manage his internal affairs as he thinks fittest , without the least interference from other powers , especially when accompanied by threats . This flourish in defence of " the right divine of kings to govern wrong " is made of course in connexion with the present policy of France and England with reference to Naples . The interference of Austria in 1820 is then justified on the grounds that it was asked for by the legitimate sovereign , and , that the interests of the Emperor were compromised

    the political institutions of England ? or does he endeavour in the slightest degree to spread his principles and extend his domination by force of arms ? And if he does nothing of all this , and if in 1823 Great Britain so strongly disapproved of intervention in the infernal affairs of Spain , how can she in 1856 justify an intervention in the internal affairs of tlie kingdom of Naples ?" The upshot of the argument is , that we may always interfere in the interest of monarchs , but never in the interest of the people . A wild and romantic story , similar to the narrative related of Caspar Hauser , is told in the Allyemeine Zeiiung , which states that a girl was found in November , 1853 , wandering about near the village of "Weiskirchen ,

    in the Banat , almost in a savage state , and unable to speak intelligibly , though full grown . Having since then been carefully educated , she related to her tutor ( who has published the alleged facts iii a pamphlet ) that she was forcibly carried away from her mother before she was five years old ; that she was shut up in a large house with three towers , like a castle , and probably situated somewhere in Hungary ; that afterwards , for fifteen or sixteen years , she lived in a place underground in tlie midst of a forest , where she was tended by an old woman named Bertha ; and that a man called Eleazer used to bring food and clothes for both of them . About

    seven years after her arrival there , a little baby , two or three months old , named Adolf ,-was brought to the subterranean dwelling ; and both lie and she were kindly treatcd , though they were never instructed . 3 n October , 1853 , Bertha took the girl out of the cavern , put her in a carriage drawn by two horses , and conveyed her to the place where she was abandoned . The Austrian Government has directed that inquiries be made by the local authorities . —^ There is something , we conceive , rather suspicious in the extreme particularity with respect to names and-dates in this narrative Under such circumstances , the girl ' s , recollections would surely be more obscure and disjointed . ¦

    " lo get up the requisite amount of loyal demonstration for the Emperor of Austria ' s visit to his Lombard dominions , " says the Daily News , " a long letter of instriictions has been addressed rjy M . Anelli , delegate governor of the province of Com o , to his subordinates , the district commissaries , desiring them to exert all their influence to induce the municipalities , and communal deputies to make a great show of zeal , and prepare an enthusiastic welcome for Francis Joseph and his consort , who are expected about the end of November or the beginning of December . " The lleitven-sent Emperors cannot calculate \ vpon spontaneous demonstrations , except on such as aie against them . ,. . -

    I « l&t V < 11 * 1 / 11 t'UlU llUlil ^ . » V 4 iH > 3 ** . »» rnussiAThe Archduke Albert has met with an accident at the camp at Biranibcrg . His carriage upset , ami he received sonic slight contusions . Jt id stated that the marriage of Prince Frederick William of Prussia , with the Princess Roysil of England ¦ will tako place on tlie 18 th of October , 1857 , the anniversary of the- birthday of the prince . 1 > KNMAKK . The Ministerial crisis is at an end . The Cabinet is reconstituted as follows : —M . Andreii , Pi-fKident of the Council and Foreign Secvetnry ; M . l'cuger , Finance Department ; M . ISchcele , Minister for the German ( luchies , and the other members ' of the lute Cabinet , with the exception of M . 13 ang , retain their ' norll'olius . .

    The Roman Catholic priest of a Moravian village refused for several days to bury . in consecrated ground the body of an Austrian pflicer who had been sliot in a duel by a Prussian officer whom he had affronted . At length , the corpse was thrust into a grave which had been dug for another person , having previously been ' blessed' by a military chaplain . The cause of the duel was singularly trivial . The Prussian oflicer had lighted his cigar by that of the Austrian . Returning the other ' s cigar , he burnt the fingers of its owner , who denounced tlie Prussian as " clumsy . " A challenge ensued ; the parties crossed the frontiers into Silesia ; and the Austrian was killed at the first shot . " In addition to the . instructions which M . de Martini has taken to Naples , " says the O ' azette de Cologne , * ' ( lie cabinet of Vienna has addressed a circular note to its representatives at Paris and London , in -which Austria protests against all armed demonstration , and demands energetically that the Neapolitan question , raised already at , the Paris Congress , be brought before the new congress which is shortly to assemble . No icply has yet been made to this note , which was received at tho same time with that from Kussia "

    by the revolutionary government then installed in the capital of tho Two Sicilies . But , continues the writer , though England had no sympathy with that revolution , she refused , through Lord Castlercngh , to interfere , pleading tho wise doctrine of non-intervention . The English Government , in 1823 , in connexion with the political state of Spain , explained thut the only ground of intervention which it recognized was when one state endeavoured first to propagate ita principles , and then to establish its domination , by force of arms , as in tlie caso of Franco after tho revolution at the close of last century . The writer of tho article proceeds to inquire : — " Does the King of the Two Sicilies , it might be asked , seek to tamper with the British troops , or to undermine

    . General Count dc Leiningcn died at Cracow on the 2 nd inst . ' * Thirty persons were killed at the people's banquet given by the Emperor at Moscow on Sutimluy , the ' 20 th nit . There was a great rush about nine o ' clock , nad not only huve tlie lives of thirty been destroyed , but inany more have been seriously injured . Tho loyal lkussiana endeavour to hush the matter up as nuic . li as possible . During the whole of the day , the rain poured down pitcously , mid tho poor fcastcrs were drenched to the ttkin , and steamed like cart-horses . Mr . RushoII , the Times correspondent , notes that they w « re very quiet

    The ball given by M . < le Morny , the French Ambassador , took ' place on Sunday , September 28 . The Emperor , the Empress , and the Imperial family , were present , and sonic Mingrelians , including the Princess or Queen Dadian , and the young king , all habited in their strange : native costumes , were among the guests . The child monarch at one time got into a great rage about something . ' ¦ - . '¦

    SPA 1 K . Tlie editors of the journals who were recently arrested have been set at liberty . Tlie municipal and provincial elections will take place in November . Tlie garrison of Madrid has been reviewed and manoeuvred in the presence of the queen and king . Tlie Governinent has determined on sending into the Mediterranean a squadron of steamers and sailing ships jsuiuricntly strong to protect Spanish possessions in tli'it

    sea in any eventualities that may arise out of the existing state of things at Naples . It is said that the Government intends to appoint all the Archbishops , and six of th « most distinguished Bishops , Senators of the kingdom . Keport , also , states thut tlie ] Marquis del Duero will be nominated President , and Scnor Martinez do la Itosa Vice-President , of the Council of State . The scarcity of food continues . Important measures are to be taken in order to stop smuggling .

    In spite , of all tho conjectures formed by the newspnpor . s witli regard to the lime at which tho elections for tlie Cortes will take place , nothing has asyetbeen decided , and it is probable that tlie elections will not begin before 1857 . A very remarkable article appeared in tho Nacion ( Madrid paper ) of the . 2 8 th ult ., respecting a pamphlet which is sold and distributed in that city and in tho provinces , on the advantages to bo derived from the ' /* '«« - ytillci' of the Princess of Asturia and the Imperial I ' rinco of France . It Is hardly necessary to say that the Progresista journal and party are indignant , not only

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    October 11 , 1856 ] T H E L E A D E It . 965

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 965, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2162/page/5/