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      Count Cigala , aide-de-camp to the King of Sardinia , has gone to Venice to congratulate the Emperor of Austria ^ The Count will afterwards proceed byway of Trieste to Egypt with presents for the Viceroy . There is a rumour in Sardinia of some ministerial changes . Should they take place , however , they will leave Count Cavour at the head of affairs . The revolutionary party in Naples has circulated an address to the soldiers , appealing to their honour and patriotism , and denouncing the tyranny of the existing Government , " which has called down the reproof of evea the Conservative Governments of Europe . "

      SPAIN . General Prim has been ordered to go to Bilboa , the Government regarding him as ' a dangerous character . ' The first project of the Ministry was to exile him to the Canary Islands ; but he appealed to the Queen , and remonstrated with such spirit that a compromise was effected . The proposal of M . Mires , relative to a loan of 300 , 000 , 000 of reals effective ( 75 , 000 , 000 francs ) , lias been accepted by the Spanish Government , and the treaty signed by the parties has been published in the official Gazette of Madrid ; but , in conformity with the Spanish law , the outbidding remains open for twenty days .

      DENMARK . The writer of a letter from Berlin , in the Hanoverian Gazette , states that the last remaining difficulty in the way of the definitive solution of the Sound Dues problem has just been removed by England ' s agreeing to the payment of 40 , 000 ? . to Denmark . " When it is considered , " the - letter adds , " that the share of Sound Dues which falls on British commerce amounts to 70 , 000 / ., England appears to-have made an excellent bargain . " A general protocol is to be made ,-which will be signed collectively by all the other states interested in the abolition of the Sound Dues . The King has granted a complete amnesty . Nineteen Danish officers , who , in 1848 , took service in ScWeswig-Holstein , have been recalled to the interior . . ¦ . - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ - . - ' ... -. ¦ . ¦ v-SWEDKN . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ;¦ ¦ The Swedish" Government has withdrawn the bilL relative to the fortifications of Stockholm . The Diet has been informed that subsidies for that object will not be demanded of it in the present session . ..- -.. " ' ¦ ¦ -. ' . . ' , " / ¦ . GREECE .- - ¦¦ ' [ : . ' ¦ V , ' . '¦ The King has returned to Athens .

      TURKEY . A strange story is told by the Paris Pays , which writes : —" Our Constantinople correspondent mentions an important incident . If his information be correct ( and we have no reason to doubt its correctness ) , France has addressed a most energetic despatch to the Porte , urging the Ottoman Government to bring to an end the territorial and maritime occupations which constitute an infraction of the Treaty of Paris , and threatening , in case of refusal , that France will resume a military position ab'the entrance of the Black Sea ( sous p ' eine de vo'ir

      la France-Tej > rendre it son tour unc position militaire a Ventree de la Mer Noire ) . However , since this despatch was received , many things , as we think , have passed which may have modified the situation . The best way to bring all these difficulties to a conclusion would evidently be a second convocation in Congress of the plenipotentiaries who signed the Treaty of Paris . The question of theresumption of the Congress continues to be vehemently discussed by the European-press and is generally considered as the most natural and the most honourable solution for all parties interested . "

      Syria and Mesopotamia are in a disturbed state . All the populations are said to be on a war footing , and family is lighting against family . At Zahle ' , two families and their retainers , each from ono hundred to one hundred and fifty strong , have been making war on each other for ncarty a month , and in their last combat eight persona wore killed : the combatants were of the Greek religion ; la a village of the Druses , a combat hail taken place in which eighteen persons were killed , and a still greater number wounded . The text of the project of the firman for the Convocation of the Divans of "Wnllachia and Moldavia , as drawn out by the late Ministry , has been published . After stating the means by which tho Uishops , the Boyards , the artizans , and tho peasants , > vill be represented , the document proceeds to say that the members of tho several classes will discuss the nftairs of tho

      of the province ; if such a thing should happen , one ought to forbid to the Divans every act of this kind which would be contrary to these principles . " The result of the deliberations of the I > ivan " will be submitted to a commission composed of a delegate named by the Porte , and of the delegates sent by the high contracting Powers , " and , after the report of those commissioners , will be discussed by the Sultan and . his allies . The Presse < f Orient announces that considerable

      PORTUGAL . A royal decree , countersigned by the Miuister of Finance , M . Loureiro , has been published , authorizing the negotiation of a loan , which has been made through the Bank of Portugal upon the deposit of the new bonds voted for railways and public works by the late Cortes . The loan is about 300 , 0 O 0 Z . English . 833 , 300 / . of Three per Cent , bonds are to be created through the London financial agency , and are to be placed at the . disposal of the Bank of Portugal , as security for the

      loanbodies of Russian troops , in garrison in Bessarabia , have been marching towards the Black Sea . The same journal confirms the statement that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has accepted the explanations given by the Russian ambassador at Constantinople on the subject of the incident at Yeni-Kaleh . The Italians at Constantinople ha-ve taken part in the subscription opened in that capital for the purchase of 10 , 000 muskets for the first province of Italy that shall rise in insurrection against Austria .

      The Ost Jjeulsche Post , after laying down the principle that the Porte , which , in its full independence , concluded the convention with Austria , is the power which has to determine whether the presence of the troops of its allies appears to it to be still desirable or not , proceeds to state that the Turkish Government has iutimuted to the French Cabinet , that , if it wishes to obtain the evacuation of the Black Sea and the Principalities by the Austriaus ami the English , it should enter into direct negotiation with those two Powers . In its note

      to France the Turkish Minister says : — " The Sultan ' s Government has no motive for requiring from the two Powers , which insist oh . the complete execution of the treaty of March 30 , the evacuation of . the territory they occupy , with the view of ensuring this execution . It acknowledges that it stands on the same Hue as Trance and England relative to the interpretation of the stipulations of peace . But , in asking that the three allied Powers should come to a direct understanding with each other , it thinks that it gives a proof of its confidence in the loyalty and friendship of its allies . "

      A note , according to the IViestet' Zeitung , was not long since presented to the Porte by JM . M . Boutenieff and Thouvenal , the Russian and French Ministers , demanding positive answers-to certain questions with relation to Turkey renouncing her pretensions to Bolgrad , in consideration for the possession of the Isle of Serpents and of the Delta of ' . . Danube ; the continued occupation of the Danubian . Principalities and of the Black Sea by Austria and England ; and the possibility of the Divans ad Hoc declaring themselves in favour of a union of Wallachia and Moldavia . To the iirst of these questions the Porte gave a polite negative .

      .. - . ' ¦ ¦ ' SWITZERLAND . " IiX \\ Q Zeit of Berlin , " observes the Daily A eus , "is still entitled to the repute it has for several years enjoyed in Europe , that of an orgnn inspired by Baron von Manteuffel , the Prussian dispute with Switzerland is already divested of much of its importance , and the King ' s speech becomes susceptible of a pacific interpretation . The Zeit states that the King only wants an acknowledgment of his rights on the part of Switzerland , upon which he would be disposed at once and spontaneously to

      renounce his claims on . Neufchtitel . The King would see such an acknowledgment in tlie liberation of the prisoners , and would be content . According to the Zeit this is a question of theoretical riglit ; a'Swiss would probably describe it as a question of principle . However , if it were certain and indubitable that Prussia is prepared , as the Zeit affirms , to draw no interested , conclusions , and strengthen no one-sided claims from the concession she seeks , it might be hoped that a settlement of this irritating question of Neufchiitel was not remote . "

      According to the Berlin correspondent of Le Iford , the Prussian envoy tit Berne has received orders to leave Switzerland . All diplomatic intercourse is thus broken off . The same writer says that the Emperor Napoleon is inclined to support Prussia , but that the English Minister at Borne wives Iiis countenance to tho Swiss .

      CJillMASV . M . von der Pfordten ( says n letter from Munich ) slipped on the snow on tlie 27 lh ult ., and broke his arm near the shoulder .

      BF . IXr tUM . The Belgian Chamber of Representatives has brought to a clo . se its discussion on the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne . The amendment proposed by the Opposition on the paragraph relating to public instruction wn 3 rejected bj < JL votes to 11 . The Address was then voted by 3 S voLes to 37 .

      OKASI ) WUC 1 IY OP MIXEMKUIIG . Tho Grand Duke of Luxemburg ( King of the Netherlands ) has proclaimed , of his solo authority , the constitution which the Representative . Chamber had just before rejected . The new constitution limits popular rights , and has been promulgated in deference to a monition from tho Diet of the Germanic Bund , of which Luxemburg is a member . AUSTRIA . Tho Emperor has issued an amnesty to his Yenotian subjects . Seventy political ofiendera have received ft freo pardon . The sequestration on the property of political fugitives is entirely removed .

      provinces in separate committees , and will sond in a Jtfsiowrf of their discussions to the general assembly of the Divans . u Each committee will name by a majority of votee a president for their own body . The president of th « whole Divan will bo named from among tho members by the Kaimakans . Tho secretaries will likewise be chosen by the Kaimakans . The provisional state of tho administration of these provinces having to ce » 8 » ir » a short time , tho Divans will have to finish their discussions -within tho space of six months . If , contrary to- all expectation , tho Divans should enter into discussions : on matters contrary to tho superior rights of the Ottoman Porto , or to tho aneient privileges of the trro provinces , tlio delegate of the Sublime Porto is charged to notify this fact to tho Commission , and to give tUo notjesuary notice likewise to tho Administration

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      SHIPWRECKS . We have several melancholy eases of shipwreck to record this week . ^ The particulars of one of these are brought by the United States mail steamer Fulton , by which we learn that the Franco-American Company ' s steam-ship Lyonnais , belonging to the Gauthier Company , has been , totally lost , together with the greater number of those aboard . She left New York for Havre on the 1 st of November , was run into on ^ Tuesday , the ' - ' 4 th . ( about sixty miles from Nantucket light-ship , wlich bore N . N . W . ) by the bark Adriatie , from Belfast ( Maine ) , for Savannah , and abandoned in a sinking state . Only five passengers out of forty were rescued , and eleven of the crew ; the remainder , consisting of one hundred arid thirty

      souls , are supposed to have perished . The collision occurred in the night ( which was very dark ) , just after the passengers and many of the crew had retiredj leaving the watch oh deck . At that moment , a tbjree-masted vessel was observed bearing down upon the Lyorinais . Those on board the latter did all in their power to avoid a collision , by ringing their bells , and blowing the steamwhistle , which can be heard iit a distance of ten miles ; but , before they could head off , the advancing vessel struck the Lyonnais amidships , tearing out an entire block of the plate iron , causing a gap about two feet square , which extended in length from the companionway as far as the shrouds , and seriously damaging the two starboard boats , one of them an English life-boat .

      lhe bowsprit of the Adriatic ( the name of which has only been since ascertained ) was broken off by '' the ' shock , together with part of her figure-head . She immediately cleared off , without rendering an } r assistance or making any inquiries ; and the Lyonnais continued her course . Efforts were immediately made to stop up tlie hole by ramming in mattresse 3 , quilts , pillows , &c . ; but the water gained upon them very rapidly , and extinguished the fires . " As soon as the engines stopped , '' says M . Laguiere , the second mate , in his statement before the Frencli Consul at New York , " M-Gigneurx , the chief engineer , came up from below and declare ! that the water was pouring in at the coal-bunkers and . the ship was sinking . The pumps were immediately set going , but floating cinders choked up the valves , and they

      became useless . We then had recourse to buckets and formed a chain , while part of the crew and some of the passengers went belo w to shift the cargo from starboard to port ; but , as the water continued to rise , the captain ordered the cargo to be thnmn overboard . During this time , some of the passengers—among them two old sea captains—a few of the oilicers , and a number of sailora were busy covering the side of the ship with a large studding sail . " But in vain . The water continued to gain on them , and they began to suspect that , besides the apparent gap , which was at the water-line , there was another , unseen , below the water-line . It was therefore determined on tli 3 following day ( Weduesday , the 5 th of November ) to abandon the sinking vessel . The remaining particulars we give in the words of tho New York

      papers : — " The ship was provided with six boats , one of which was a life-boat . That boat only has been heard from . On tlie morning of Wednesday , after it was resolved to abandon the wreck , a raft was constructed , and about forty persons , including passengers ( probably the steerage passengers ) , took refuge upon it . It is tho opinion of the second officer that this raft could not have lived through tho rough weather that succeeded this daythat it must have been broken to nieces , and that all tho

      persons on board were lost . There is room for hope , however , that somo friendly sail might have roscned thent , In another boat was tho commander with some of the passengers . This boat was well provided with provisions , compasses , &c . It was the intention of the captain to pull for Montauk Point . This boat has not yet been heard from . Another boat contained the second mate , Laguiere , the second engineer , Desfour , and several of tlie crew and passengers . This is the only boat heard from so far . We have no account of tho other

      five boats and the raft , save that wlueh js given abover . The following details in relation to tlie saved are gathered from the second mate : —Tlie boat left the ship on the morning of Wednesday , the Oth . There was a heavy gale blowing , and tho captain resolved to abandon ths ship . She was then , nnd when BI . Laguiero last Bum her , with her stern sunk below water ' s edge , and her bow high out of wator . Subsequently ho lost sight of th < othor boats . The second mate's boat contained oightcon persons . Tho weather was very rough , nnd the voyagers suffered terribly . They encountered several scvoh snow-storms , and were shoit of wator . They had clarei wine , broad , and preserved moats . Thoy woro beaten about six days , until tho afternoon , of tho Oth ( Sunday )

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      ^ ec embeb 6 , 1856 . ] ^ THE LEADER . 1159

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 1159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2170/page/7/