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Leader (1850-1860), 24th January 1857, Edition 1 of 2, Page 79, Untitled Article

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      . ' CGKfinriN'ENTAE NOTES . FBANCE . Ebbukh . Khan ,, the Persian . Ambassador , arrived at Paris on Sunday night , with , a suite of thirty-one persons * He is lodged , in . a private hotel of the Chanips Ely&ees . A dinner to the chief Crimean officers was given , one day last week t > y Prince Jerome . The affair-passed off with , great enthusiasm ; but there appears to have been aa . entire absence : of any allusion to tbe part borae by England in the late war . Tha Presse and the Estafette are to be prosecuted for reproducing from the Swiss papers a letter on the affairs o £ Switzerland ,, said to have issued from the Secretariat o £ tne < Emperor- This letter , it appears , is a forgery .

      complimentary , we think , to the Protestant profession of the Cantons . A . dramatic performance took place in one of the churches , with a view to make the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception impressive ; and we learn that a body of people rushed into the building when service was over , seized the drapery in which the sacred drama was performed , and made it blaze into an excommunicating fire . "

      ITALT . The reply of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies to the King ' s speech contains the folio-wing passages : — " Sire , —Never-was it so dear to the Deputies of your people to present you their homage , their loyalty , and their affection , as now , when they salute you surrounded by new glories of the army and of its valour , and they see you hold incontestably in our peninsula , and before Europe , that high , position -which had been already assigned you in the hearts of all . The splendour of your House thus increasing and reinvigorating the hopes of a better fate for the common country , we feel that we can with more tranquil spirit continue the difficult work of internal- reforms , in which there will be no little comfort in thinking that the grave sacrifices supported with serene constancy by your people begin at last to attain the desired result . "

      Strong hopes are now entertained that the Austrian garrison will be removed from Parma about the middle of next month , after having been quartered there ever since 1849 . In the event of a state of siege , they have held military possession for six or eight months at a time The General Commanding in Chief has received orders to hold himself in readiness ; and there is consequently little doubt that the hated presence will very shortly be removed-. A duel has taken place between an Austrian officer and a young Milanese , owing to the intolerable insolence of the former towards the latter at the Scala theatre . The contest was with sabres , and resulted in very serious injury to one of the arms of the Milanese .

      in them for the 12 th , the King ' s Birthday . To-morrow , the 12 th , the Royalists are expected to make a demonstration of affection for their ' adored Sovereign . * " The word has been sent round for all honest men to keep within dboTs ; the streets will be deserted ; Many families have already quitted their Iiouses in . the Rue db Toledo . At Penta , in the province of Salerno ,, a person named Petrone chanced to make some remarks about the King in a cafe . The gendarmes made an attempt to arrest him , but a priest , a brother of Petrone , issued out with a poniard in his hand , attacked' the gendarmes , killed one of them , wounded three , and put the- rest to flight . The whole family at once quitted , tlie place , and repaired to the mountains . In this country , those who would enjoy liberty must lead the life of brigands . It is a civil waT without a truce . " After the explosion of the powder magazine , a police commission for the army was established .

      The inhabitants of Milan have subscribed a considerable sum of money to rai 3 e a monument to the honour of the Sardinian army . The people of Lombardy have sent the amount of their first subscription for the one hundred cannen of Alessandria . A madman has created a great deal- of alarm in tlie Vatican , into which he had contrived to-introduce himself , and to remain unobserved until' a late hour of the night , when , says a correspondent of the Daily Jvezro , "he suddenly aroused the inhabitants of the apostolic residence by vociferating m stentorian tones that tie

      Pope was dead , following up tins startling piece of intelligence by another vague assertion , that he- himself was about to succeed his Holiness on the Pontifical throne , and that , as the first fruit of his authority , Ite should order the Cardinal Secretary of State to be shot . It may be easily imagined -with what consternation . these overwhelming announcements were received , until the ill-omened individual was laid hands upon , andtfte state of his intellects discovered . The great gates- < $ f the Vatican have been closed at nightfall since this untoward occurrence . "

      Numerous executions are constantly taking place" fit Sicily , and the town of Catania is in so disturbed a state that the troops mount guard every day with loaded muskets .

      HANOVER . , It will be remembered ( says trie Daily 2 VeTOs )* that tne Second Chamber of Hanover , already several times dissolved for its refusal to acquiesce in the modifications which the Government seeks , at the demand of the Germanic Diet , to introduce into the Constitution , was , a short time ago , again dispersed for similar reasons . The elections to the new Assembly commenced on Sunday , and , if we are to judge of the wlole by the earliest results , the Government will find its relations towards the Chamber unchanged . A despatch , from the capital informs us that out of eighteen districts , the elections id which are already known , ten have elected members of tlie Opposition , and this , notwithstanding the fact that the elections occur under the new and restrictive electoral law .

      RUSSIA , Intelligence received at Vienna , from Constantinople , confirms the report of the victory of the Circassians , under Ibrahim Pacha , over the Kussians . The latter lost a general in the action . It was at Giuvka that the contest took place . The Circassians took nine pieces of cannon from their adversaries . TURKEY . The diplomatic conferences on the Principalities havet completed the task of revising the firman . sr . viN . Arrests continue to be made in Madrid of those who are accused of Kcpublican efforts to overthrow the Government . O'DoiineJl lias retired for the present , it ia . not precisely known where . A Ministerial crisis of aomo kind is understood to be impending . The tribunal of War and Marino has decided that , there was ground for prosecuting-General Prim for tha , publication of his recent letter ; and a court composed of generals ia about to be formed to try him . The Gazette publishes a Royal decree , convoking tlia Cortes for the 1 st of May . The elections will taka < place in conformity with the law of the 18 th of March ,, 1840 .

      " As the date of the Emperor of Austria's arrival at Milan draws near , " says the Times Turin correspondent , " the stricter has become the vigilance of the police there . The police , it is said , has enrolled a great number of soldiers who are on furlough for the last years of their service as special constables . These men are engaged at the rate of 2 f . 75 c . a day during- his Majesty's stay , and their duty is to go into all the crowded places and report to the regular police ( to whom they are distinguishable by a medal or token of some kind ) what they see and hear . " The love and devotion of a loyal people , rejoicing in the presence of its Emperor , requires , it seems , a vast deal of jealous watching , lest it should suddenly make a spring , and bite .

      The bill for the reorganization of the supreme administration of public instruction , nowpassing through the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies , has excited considerable opposition among some of the Liberal members . Among others , Signor Tola , a member of the right , declared himself an advocate for freedom of instruction , and opposed the measure under consideration as calculated to create a monopoly . " By this bill , " he observed , " public instruction was to bo entirely modelled after the views of the Cabinet , and inspired by the minister . The Church itself \ va 3 to be forced to teach according to the supreme will of the State . And yet what was to become of instruction if deprived of the influence of religion ? Party spirit would get the npper hand , and the Government would become a faction . "

      Tlie Emperor of Austria has granted a full pardon to the thirty-two persons who were convicted of high treason at Mantua in their absence . Fresh arrests have been made at Naples , says a letter from that city . They were supposed to have connexion with a secret society in correspondence with a Mnzzinian club in Genoa and Turin . Pieces of money are also said to Lave been discovered newly coined , and stamped with the effigy of Lucicn I ., King of the Two Sicilies . Some of the parties arrested were subsequently released ; the others are still in custody , and an investigation is going on .

      The news of the assassination of the Archbishop of Paris led to the countermanding at Naples of tlie fetes , and bulls which were to be given on the anniversary of the birth of the King ( the 12 th inst . ) , and the theatres were closed . There wa 9 a grand reception at the palace , however , at which all tho members of the diplomatic corps at Naples were present . Tho English frigate Malacca hoisted its colours , and iircd a saluto of twentyono guns . A great number of arrests were ma < le on the evening of the 9 th inst ., at various cofFoo-houses , and the prisoners were marched off to gaol , bound by cords . Tho

      aaf&s were then closed by order of the polico ; but on tho following morning a printed placard appeared on nho walls , benring the words : — " Tlio faction which onlla itself tho Government arrests tho whole city . Patience . Tho hour of the tocsin for vespers will arrive . " The next night , according to a letter from Naples * " the city was deserted and tho cafes empty . The 'gns'hus been turned off from a part of the Royal Palace ; from the Theatre of San Carloa , and that of tho Fonda , aa an explosion is apprehended . Tho theatres ara to bo closed for three days , the 11 th , 12 th , arid 13 th , in ordoB to avoid a demonstration wnich was prepared

      The National of Brussels publishes an address from M . Ladra Rollin , dated London , January 13 , to the electors of France , in which , the principle of abstaining from voting is . vehemently condemned . " Can it be , " he says , M that , by voting , you misconceive one of the primary principles , the preservation of the integrity of which constitutes our power ? I must confess I cannot perceive the-validity of this objection- "What will be its effective operation ? To'carry out the system of universal suffrage , ta exercise a right which owes its birth , to the Republic , aad not to the Empire , and to exercise it with what object ?> With the intent to overthrow that very Empire . Then , in making use . of this Republican : right for a Republican object , how are you . guilty of aa anti-Republican act ? I repeat that this obj ection is beyond my comprehension . "

      Ihe mail bags , which were- being conveyed in a vehicle from the post office of Bordeaux to the railway station at La , B as tide , have been robbed of a sum of 2 M ) , 0 OQfr . Toe . theft , must have ; beea very quickly effected ,: as the . journey from the one place to the other only : occupied a-few minutes . The affair is involved in mastery . The Imperial Prince has been suffering from a slight cafcarrhal fever . He was better on Monday evening , and his condition , according to the Moniieur , is not such aa . to justify uneasiness . It is . stated with great confidence that the charter of the Bank of France is to he renewed till the year 1900 ; that-its capital . is to be increased ; and that sonic other changes axe to take place . The NeufcliS tele prisoners . have arrived at Besancon .

      Cardinal Mcrlot , Archbishop of Tours , will , in al 1 probability be tha new Archbishop of Paris- He has twice rofused tha appointment : but it is said that he has now consented , at the earnest request of tho Emperor .

      ATJ 8 TUIA . A despatch waa' addressed by Count 3 uol on tho 6 th inst , to Count T ? rautmansdorf , the Austrian representative at Berli n expressing the satisfaction of the Austrian Couet that Prussia had postponed her warlike ' - * demonstrations ' , against Switzerland to tho 15 th 1 inst . ; intimating the sympathy of the Imperial Government with thes . Prussian claims to Neufchatcl ; and urging the necessity of holding a > conference , to sotile the questions in dispute . The 1 Augsburg Gazette gives some particulars relativo to tho sequestrated property of tho emigrants . Not only viii ervery doacription of property bo returned to the rigitftiL ownora , but also all the revenues and interoat of theisamo . Tho Emperor has also ordered that thooutlay for tiro : management of tho- property during tho absence ofltho-ownora . —which amounts to-500 , 000 silver florins —sttoiLtte paid , by the State ; -

      PRUSSIA . Tne President , oft the Council has announced , to tho Diet ,, that the Neufclmtel prisoners having been set unconditionally at liberty , tlie question of war is at an end , and' that there ia . every reason to hope an amioablo arrangement-ffillbo offocted by a Conference , at which all tlie great Powers are to bo represented . SWETZmiLJLND . ThaiNaufchfiital prisoners , escorted by a . detachment of , Simian troopa ) . woro conducted , on . Saturday nlglit to 1 tW \ Branch , frontier ,, whiclu they crowed at Pontarlier .. Too . Fodonal Council has . issued order * for immediately dialmading > . tb . o troops ; already aaaombleik "A curious , phaso of mudUavol roligion . has sliown uwttih awitzBrlandy aay * the Morning Star , " notvery

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      OBITUARY . Tins Duke op Rutland died at Belvoii' Castle , near Orantham , on Tuesday afternoon , in liis eightieth year . During the whole of his long life he hud boon a thorough Tory of the old school , opposing every measure of liberal progression , from the Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters down to Free Trado ; but lio-wns greatly beloved hy his tenantry , and was also noted for generous and princely hospitality . He is succeeded in the Dukedom by his eldest son , Charles Cecil John , Marquis oC Granby , whoso elevation will cause n vacancy in tha House of Commons for North Leicestershire . Ho belongs to the Conservative , or Protectionist party . D « . TATnAM , tho Master of St . John ' a Collego , diod last Sunday night , jit twelve o ' clock , in tlio seventyoighth year of hia ago . His decenso was expected by hia friends , as ho had been gradually declining for several

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      0 n being removed from the Conciergerie to the B&qoettej Verger became gTeatly agitated and alarmed , fancying that he' was- about to be executed ; and it was not till- after lie Bad arrived at the lattel prison that his fears were calmed . His petition to the Emperor is coacbed in very humble language . He states that Ckri&tianity requires regeneration ; that the in-ferior clergy ought to- be enfranchised from the yoke of the superior ; and that he loots upon himself as the new Peter the Hermit of a new Crusade : He therefore prays that his life may be spared , and that 3 i « may be sent into a " noble"' and " honourable" exile . The preservation of hi * life apparently occupies all his thoughts , and he is now greatly depressed . On leaving the Conciergerie , he embraced all the officers , and , with tears in Iris-eyes * thanked them for their kindness to him .

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      Januas . x 24 _ 1857 . ] ( EIB . I . BAD . BE . 79

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1857, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2177/page/7/