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      THE REGISTRATIONS . At the close , on Friday v . eck , of the revision of the list . of . voters / for-the City . of London ,, the Kovisiuo-Barrister called attention to the strange . apath y with respect to the' . suffrage exhibited by voters— . an apathy not '; creditable to freemen , lie observed : — "To those who have paid attention to this reg Utration it must have been more than apparent that there , has' been generally the most complete state of ' apath y as to the elective franchise into which a constituency " could well be supposed to have ' fallen .. - It was very different a few years ago ; then the franchise was greedily sought after ami it required some exertion to prevent persons gettin" - on the register who bad no pretensions to be there ; but now all is listlessness and total lndiuerence as to

      whether persons . 'have votes or not . In several instances where parties have been objected to , and did not appear , and it was supposed that they ' might either have forgotten ornot been avare of the precise time when their lists " would , be taken , I have myself suggested that those cases should stand over fo r an hour or two , ; or a day ^ so that remin < ling notices might be sent to the individuals , wliich has been done , and of all who have been thus dealt -with I do . not think that more than tinee ^—certainly not more than four—persons have availed themselves of the opportunities afforded / them of commahere , their answer generally having been , ' Xo , I don't care about my vote ; I don ' t care whether I have it or not . ' " '• ' The barrister then proceeded to comment on the nature of the objections :- — " The objections winch have been taken this year have been all on oiie side—on that which I believe is called the Liberal party . As is now

      pretty well understood , when an objection to a party's name being on a list has been served , and called on in court ,, the party objected to is required .-to . appear and prove his qualiucation to the satisfaction of the barrister , otherwise the revising barrister is bud under the necessity , of expunging his nami from tlie list oh which it inaiy aj > pear . - '¦ ¦ It is not necessary that the objector or his agent , who may be in court , should open his lips until after he who has been objected to shall have proved his right to be registered . ' The result of this has been , that generally I have no knowledge of the nature of the objections that were taken . 1 had no right to ask the objector -what the grounds of his objections were . Whether the objections , or . the majority of theui , therefore , that have bceuv taken-.-this ' .. year and prevailed , would , if they had been investigated , have been found to be well grounded or not , I have had no certain means of knowing . "

      Mr . Sidney Smith , one of the agents , afterwards supplied the annexed statistics of the registrations : — " Of persons who were on last year ' s register , who were now omitted , there " were 1052 householders and 290 liverymen . Of persons not on last year ' s register , and not Inserted on the new register , there were lCDS householders and 181 liverymen , making a total of 1879 , being a difference of only eight in a list of 21 , 000 names . Ju respect to objections , there were 'itiH householders and 111 liverymen , making a total of 576 " . " When the learned barrister commenced the revision there were about 5000 objections taken on each side , but now they were reduced to about one-tonth that number . " With respect to claims , 55 were allowed ami 18 were withdrawn . The objections allowed were 533 ; failed , 42 ; and erased by the Court , 27 . "

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . MniAGK . —A curious instance of this phenomenon is given in a letter from the agent stationed at Aden of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , who writes thus , under date September 15 : — " Yesterday , a little after noon , the Bignal was made ' u nteamer to the eaNtward , ' and was kept Hying tlie whole afternoon ; towards evening , the signalman reported that the steamer was gradually receding , and supposed that she liatl cither broken down or run out of coals . On this , the Political Kcsidcnt ordered the lion , company ' s steamer Queen to get up steam and go to her assistance . The Queen accordingly left about nine o ' clock , and met the Oriental at three o'clock this morning stc / iming alonyj all right . At the time the steamer wns signalled , nlie was one hundred and fifty njilea from Aden , and we can only account for this very singular ' phenomenon by some optical illusion , such as the mirage . "

      Loud Cahimgan . —In connexion with tho dispute betweon Lord Cardigan and Colonel Buck mentioned in our last number , the latter oflicci' has addressed to the earl a letter containing a veview of bis lordship ' s militnrv career , of a nature by no means Haltering ; and this letter . lie has since sent to tho Tiimis , where it ha . s been published . Colont'l Uuek writes : — " Your Lordship evidently requires from mo some explanation of my allusiou

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      co-operate with the English fleer , as the Isle of Serpents ' question is not satisfactorily settled . An Austrian squadron is also ordered to the same spot . " The dissension between the Trench Ambassador and the Turkish Government , "with reference to the prilivege granted' .-to Captain Ulagne and the navigation of the Sereth and the Prutli . " says a letter from Constantinople , "is said to be entirely settled . Austria at last listened to reason , arid the revocation of the privilege has been again set aside . The Minister of Finance is still in great difficulties , and he has borrowed another 25 , 000 , 000 piastres , at eight per cent , interest and two per cent , commission , which makes ten per cent . ' . . Rothschild ' s" house furnished the funds through its agent at Constantinople . This sum is hardly sufficient to answer the most pressing wants . "

      was at Galatz on the 27 th ult ., and left-In . the evening for Jassy . . ° Great surprise and . excitement have been caused bv the announcement that four thousand Austrian soldiers have suddenly seized Galatz and occupied it ; have also occupied 1 brail , and seized on all the ports of the Danube . They have taken possession of the police and post-offices , ' and are complete masters of the towns mentioned .

      . ' . .. . . . ' . ITALY . ..- ' - . .: . The King of ^ Naples is making all the preparations he canto resist any attempt that may be made to coerce him into reform . He is strengthening , his'fortifications and . concentrating his army . Likewise , lie is becoming very religious under the influence of fear , "which , however , he affects not to feel . Tor the present , lie remains at Gaeta , where he has removed his valuables and carriages . Mr . Lowther , English Secretary of Legation , lias not yet arrived at Gaeta , having been detained by superior orders from England . Mr . Fagaii is at Civita " Vecchia . In case of the arrival of the Allied fleets , orders will be given by the authorities to put the city of Naples in a state of siege . Baron Hiibner , before leaving , requested the Austrian consul to publish a denial that he ( the ISaron ) had gone to Naples on any special mission ~ but we all know the worth of ministerial contradictions of popular rumours .

      \\ hue these diplomatic card-shufflings are going on , the political prisoners are dying . Zeuli , in fact , is dead of consumption , accelerated by hardship ; and . Poerio has had an operation performed on him , and is confined toi-his bed . : ¦ ¦ ' ;¦ r The King of Naples , it is said , has consulted , not only his usual advisers , but the superior officer ^ of the army and navy , with respect to the present crisis . The advice given by these persons was , that his Majes . ty would be justified in adopting , if he thought fit , the recommendations of France and England , unless they were accompanied by menace . In consequence of this , the Icing resolved to reject the ultimatum of the Allied Powers . : ¦ ' ¦ : ¦ . ¦ ' . ' ¦' ¦ ¦'¦' .. ¦ '' . ¦ ¦¦ . - ' .. ¦ ¦ ;¦ : ¦¦' . ¦ . '

      The Lazzaroni are being organized and paid by the police ; a fact whiclx induces a writer from Genoa iai the Paris Constitutionnel to observe : — " In Naples , the third city of Europe according to its population , an order of things extremely unnatural now exists : it is democracy closely united with absolutism—it is the Lazzaroni shouting ' Long life to the absolute king I *——it is tlie red cap and the crown put together . " Two French officers have been in NTnples , sounding the populace in the interests of Murat ; but they have met with no encouragement . Some of our contemporaries have announced the stoppage of the Diritte , Turinese journal . -We " are jiappy to say that our Italian contemporary is vigorously alive , representing a large and powerful party . The rising influence of the Italia e PojjoIo , of Genoa , also , is a sign of the time 3 . .

      The Ministerial Austrian Gazette states that the King of Naples has sent autographic letters to the Emperor Napoleon and Queen Victoria . The King announces that he is willing to send a representative to the Paris Conference , and to communicate his intentions respecting organic reforms and an amnesty . SWITZEIiLA . NJ > . M . do Salignac-Fenelon , French Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation , baa paid an ollicial visit to M . Stampfli , President of the Confederation , for the purpose of asking from him , in the name of the French Government , an amnesty on behalf of the Koyalista of Xeufchatel .

      GitEKcrc . The Queen ( says a letter from Athens ) caused to be voted about a nionth since a law having for its object tiio partition of national property among those who support her Majesty ' s policy . The law was the cause of much scandal and irritation in the capital and the provinces , and tho Ministers of Franco and England no doubt communicated tlie fact to their respective Governments , as they have received instructions to inform the Greek Government that tho loan of 60 , 000 , 000 luul for its guarantee that property , -which could not be alienated without the assent of the three Powers . Tho G ovcrnments of Franco and England have approved tlio conduct of tho French Admiral Bouct-Willaumez on tho subject of the command in tho Pirajus . This has given great oflbneo at court " .

      at the idea itself , but at tlie manner in which it is presented . The journal Liberia , another liberal paper , has also an excellent article on "the Imperial Prince being named Senor of Biscay , while the Sovereign herself , though Queen of Spain , is only Senora ; and it dwells very strongly on a report , much spread and considerably ¦ b elieved , ' that there is a movement among some of the leading men in the Basque Provinces to place their fueros under tlie protection of France . These two subjects Jiave created much sensation , at Madrid .- — Times Paris Correspondent .

      The Emperor Napoleon ( according to the Madrid correspondent of the Indeperidauce jBel

      chambers , and of avoiding , by all means , a return to the arbitrary and despotic regime -which distinguished the " Sartorius ministry . He also alludes to the dangerous influence ! of certain members of the clergy . The same correspondent writes on a subsequent day : - ^ ? ' Her Majesty has written to the Emperor of the French , expressing her profound gratitude . She states that she is infinitely obHged to him for his advice , that she will take his counsels into her best consideration , and that she particularly appreciates the clear , precise , and truly paternal manner in . which his suggestions are conveyed . " These statements must , of course , bo received with caution .

      The Gazette publishes a Royal decree suppressing tho commission appointed to prepare the codes by a decree of the 11 th of September , 1854 , and replacing it by another , consisting of sevenmembers and a secretary , who are ordered , to draw up , without delay , the long-expected laws on judiciary organization and criminal procedure , and to reform the penal and civil codes now in vigour .

      .. . . . poutugal . ¦ . . -.. . . . The failure in the supply of grapes excites the utmost consternation among the vine cultivators , many of whom ¦ w ill be ruined by the disease which has destroyed the means of their subsistence . Hardly one thousand pipes of sound wine can be produced in the -wine districts , and prices have of course gone up considerably . The vessels that were scuttled in the river Douro , by order of the Board of Health , are still in the same position , and no order has been received to attempt to raise them . Two of them are past recovery .

      TURKEY . Omar Pacha , who has been pensioned by the Governfnent and excluded from the suite of the Sultan , has retired from Coiistan tinoi > le , and taken up his residence in a village . Some curious particulars of an expedition to Jerusalem are contained in a letter from that city published in the French religious journal , the' Univers , where we read : — u The caravan of French and Hungarian pilgrims spoken of lately by the French journals is at the present moment accomplishing its pious excursions in the Holy . Land . Arrangements had been made at Jaft ' a . to facilitate their journey to Jerusalem , and , after they had visited the Church of St . George , they slept the ttrst night in the convent of Kanileh , where they were most kindly received . The next day they crossed the mountains of Judcea , and at the first sight of the Holy City

      precipitated themselves to the ground , and kissed the soil . " This is like a bit from the middle ages ; indeed , it is difficult to imagine the countrymen' Voltaire in these times kissing tho consecrated earth" of Judoea . After relating the kindness of the reception which Kiamil Pacha , the Governor , gave to the pilgrims , tho writer proceeds : —" Although Palestine ia one of the most fanatical countries of tho Ottoman Empire , Mussulman intolerance is rapidly declining , tho war in the Crimea having made a breach in the Koran . Contrary to the prescriptions of Islamism , tho Christians can at present , though not without paying for it , construct churches on every spot wher « one had ever stood . At the present time it is certain that thoy will obtain the restitution of an ancient sanctuary held by the Mussulmans since tho conquest of Jerusalem by Suladin in 1187 . Tho building in question is one erected by tlie Crusaders on the spot where our Saviour first fell in bearing his cross . "

      A truce Has been agreed upon in Montenegro , the Austrian officers having recommended Prince JJanilo to ceaao hostilities . The Porto has refused tho exequatur to sovoral Greek Consuls who had compromised themselves in the lato war . The septennial census has just been ordered at Constantinople , and tho civil list has been definitively established . There has boon a rise in the price of corn both at Constantinople and at Smyrna , notwithstanding the favourable accounts received from RU 88 W . A frightful tempest has lately taken place at Varna ; all the crops have been destroyed ; the houacs , severely ° U ** " * and tL ° P ° rt ' hftv 0 sufferet * A French aquadnm ia ordered to Conatantinople , to

      MONTKNEGUO . Austria supports the application of Montenegro for an extension of frontier , but all negotiations had been again put an end to by n renewal of hostilities between tho Turks and Montenegrins . THK OA . NIUUA . N VUINCIPAHTI 1 S 8 . According to information received in Paris , tho return of tho Ottoman forces to Walla ' chia has coincided with the occupation of Gulatz by an Austrian force of 3000 men . Princo Schwarzoubcrg , Governor of Transylvaniu

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      ¦ 9 g 6 THE LEADER , [ No . 342 , Saturday , ' ¦— ¦ ¦ i ¦ ¦ ^ — - — _— ¦ —

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 966, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2162/page/6/