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      CONTINENTAL N ^ ttTES . ¦ FRANCE . ^ ' ¦ The Republicans intend to nominate M . Carnot as a candidate for the Legislative Chamber . They mean to propose him both in . Paris and in the departments . The religious ceremonies of Holy Thursday ( the 9 th inst . ) were conducted with great pomp , and attracted a large number of persons to the churches , which were fitted up magnificently . An account given by the Times Paris correspondent of a spectacle exhibited at the church of St . Roch , in the shape of an illuminated pictare of Mount Calvary at the time of the crucifixion , throws a curious light on these ecclesiastical showpieces : — " Amid the sharp , rocky eminences arose the

      cross , half covered with , black cloth . A number of lamps , partly concealed among the crags , shed a ' dim religious light' over the chapel in-which the tomb was erected , while the cross itself , on which the brilliancy was skilfully thrown , came out in bold relief . At the Madeleine , the tomb was . erected in one of the side chapels ; but the . effect , however in harmony with the rather ostentatious ornaments of the interior of that church , was not so striking nor so solemn as at St . Roch or St . Sulpice . The coffin was covered with velvet embroidered -with gold , and above the whole rose a canopy of crimson " -velvet surmounted witli white plumes . " The writer says that the picture at St . Roch " was the object of general veneration . " Shade of Voltaire ! -was it " veneration , " or only curiosity ?

      General Todleben paid a visit on Thursday -week to Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte at the Palais Royal . Prince Napoleon , it is said , intends visiting Egypt in the course of next month . " General Todleben , " says the Times correspondent , "is rather feted among official people . He remained with the Emperor nearly an hour at his first audience . The Emperor aslced him -whether , if the French and English had marched on Sebastopol at once after the battle of the Alma , they could have taken it . General Todleben declared that there was no doubt about it , as there were but two or three battalions in the place . This opinion was subsequently expressed by him to others . " A thunderstorm , accompanied by hail and rain , burst over Paris on the morning of Friday weelc .

      The commission nominated last year on the monetary question has now- met , under the presidency of M . Schneider , the Minister of Finance , M . Magne being prevented by other occupations from presiding ; . It is said that there never was so much specie in France as at present ; but the peasants hoard , and an artificial scarcity is thus created . In a paper lately read "before the Academy of Sciences at Paris , M . Boussingault has shown that the water contained in the wells of Paris is impregnated with nitrate of potash , or saltpetre . It is true that this water

      is not generally used for drink , but wine-dealers water their wines with it ; and although nitrate of potash is not absolutely poisonous , since it may be taken with impunity in much larger doses than can be imbibed with the water , still its presence always denotes the existence of vegetable and animal matter in a state of decomposition , which is unquestionably injurious to the public health . In consequence of this discovery , the baking establishment of the hospitals of Paris has resolved to use Seine % vator for making bTead , instead of the water brought from the wells of the neighbourhood . b

      Some remittances of sovereigns are taking place from Paris to London . During the last week , 70 , 000 are said to have been sent via Boulogne . It appears that , at the reduced price offered for gold by the Bank of France , they no longer afford any profit on melting . — Times City Article ( Tuesday ) . The question of the renewal of the charter of the Bank of France is now under discussion . The Government is said to contemplate granting a term of fifty years , upon condition tliat the Bank shall double its present capital of 3 , 650 , 0 O 0 Z ., and employ the additional amount thus raised by investing it in Government securities . According to the Pt-esse , these securities are to consist of Treasury Bonds , but it is believed in private quarters that they are to be Three per Cent , rentes .

      the first military division , of -which Paris is the centre . These furloughs will not in any way interfere with the others , granted in accordance with the Minister ' s : circulars of the 7 th of June , 1856 , and the 22 nd of January , 1857 . —Idem . Some men have recently been punished in Paris "b y fine and imprisonment for insulting- priests in the streets—an offence which has become very common since the Verger affair . The vines present a very healthy appearance this year , there being no sign as yet of the oidiura , the disease from which they have recently suffered . The Bishop of Nancy , principal Almoner to the Emperor , has returned from Rome , and has brought with him a Papal Bull for the better organisation of the Imperial Almonry .

      The Grand Duke Constantine is expected in Paris on the 23 rd . The Emperor wished his cousin , Prince Napoleon , to go and meet him ; but he refused , his repugnance to anything like a Russian alliance being very great . There is said to have been a rather warm altercation between him and the Emperor ; and the Prince is even reported to have intimated a desire to absent hiniself from Paris during the visit of the Russian Grand Duke . Some electoral committees were formed a short time ago to agitate the country in the Republican interest

      and to aid in the return to the Legislative Chamber of Republican representatives . For some time , the Government looked on passively ; but , according to the Paris Correspondent of the" Augsburg Gazette , when it was perceived that the committees were every day drawing off more and more of the working classes from the Government candidates , the police made two descents upon the agitators , and have altogether arrested one hundred and six . These will be tried , not for any conspiracy against the safety of the state , but for -unlawfully assembling .

      Ihe spring campaign against the Kabyles , in Algeria , has been opened . , The commission -with reference to Cayenne , which was appointed by the Minister of Marine , has , it is said , reported that the evacuation of the settlement at Cayenne is indispensable , and that the convicts should be removed to New Caledonia .

      TURKEY . . Some pirates have attacked a Dutch ship in the Bosphorus , and have escaped all pursuit . The English Ministry and the India Company have reversed the project for carrying the telegraphic wire from Constantinople to India by way of tlie Red Sea . It is now decided that the wire shall follow the line of the railway of the Euphrates . The English steamer Arcadia , which was wrecked at the entrance of the roadstead of Smyrna , has been got up by the aid afforded by Admiral Roset .

      little foundation in fact , the men having only come for the settlement of some private affairs of their own . The Aulic Councillor , Von Lackenbacher , has left Vienna for Constantinople , where he is to form one of a commission for examining into the finances of Turkey . The money matters of that empire have got into a state of such grievous disorder that the Sultan has requested England , France , and Austria , each to send a person learned in such affairs to give advice to the Ministers of the Porte . Count Ficquelinont , who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1848 , died at Venice on the 6 th inst-, in his seventy-eighth year .

      The preposterous ceremony of " the washing of feet ' took place on Holy Thursday ( the 9 th iast . ) at Vienna . The Emperor operated on twelve old men , the Impress on the same number of old women . The performance is of a very simple kind , and is not too laborious . It is transacted thus : —A requisite number of basins is produced ; a Lord Steward hands to the Empeior , and another Lord Steward hands to the Empress , a gilt ewer ( Imperial humility must not be without its splendours ) ; the august operator pours on one foot of each of the old folk ( for self-mortification in palaces must be

      minimised ) a few drops ' of water and then dabs the foot dry ; and so , with a present of money , the ceremony concludes . And by this cheap humility does Ferdinand Joseph puTt-hase the right to ' commit—or , as an act of special favour , to withhold from connnitting '—any amount of pride and vanity and oppression for the next twelvemonth . —A writer from the spot says that " the Emperor handled the crockery in a masterly way ; but the Empress required the assistance of hex ladies . " From this . it would ' appear that it is a part of the education of Austrian , ladies of the court to know how to handle hardware .

      The concentration of 20 , 000 Sardinian troops in a camp near Alessandria has induced the Government to order the commander of Ihe Austrian army in Lombardy to form " a camp of instruction" between Sesto Caleude and Somma , at the southern extremity of the Lago Maggiorc . Such , at least , is a report generally believed in military circles ; and there is another report , to the effect that Sardinia has given up her intention , of forming the corps at Alessandria . Count Correr , the Todesta of Venice , has tendered his resignation to Count Bissingen , the Stadtholder of the province . . ; The Government has removed the sequestration placed on the estates of Count Aimoni , deputy to the Sardinian Parliament .

      The Government has solicited many of the most influential Hungarian nobles to undertake the task of preparing an enthusiastically popular demonstration in favour of the Emperor on the occasion of his approaching visit to his Magyar dominions . They have declined , however , knowing full well that the feeling of discontent at the less of national liberty—at the endeavour to break down the Hungarian language by introducing German into the law-courts , where tlie people have actually to employ interpreters—at the separation from Hungary of Croatia , Transylvania and the Banat—and at the despotic rigour of the Concordat—is so great , that the attempt would end in failure .

      The following are given in the Times City Article of Wednesday as the chief details of the projected Turkish Bank : — " The privileges are for thirty years , and extend over the whole of the Turkish dominions , giving the right of establishing branches in any part of the empire . The capital is to be 10 , 000 , 000 / ., of which 2 , 500 , 000 / . must be paid up . The Board is to consist of a Governor , Deputy-Governor , and twenty-four Directors , the Government nominating the Governor and Deputy-Governor and six directors , the remaining eighteen directors being elected by the shareholders . The right of issue is for 15 , 000 , 000 / ., with a reserve of one-half in specie . Within six months from the commencement of business , the Bank is to withdraw that

      ITALY . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , on entering on his office of Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian Provinces , lias issued a circular to the administrative authorities on the nature of their duties , and on tie spirit in which they must henceforth act . Among other things , he recommends that the people shall be allowed to develop freely their material and moral resources ; that they shall be treated Avitl * duo consideration and humanity ; and that functionaries shall not , by exaggerated zeal , compronii . se the safety of the throne and the welfare of the .. population . Queen Victoria has sent a gold medal to Signor Vincenz Robandi , as a token of her admiration of his "Hymn of the Riflemen , " which was dedicated to her , and which was very populnr with all tlio allied nrmiea in the Crimea .

      portion of the existing state paper circulation which bears interest . This amounts to about 2 , 700 , 000 / ., of which 1 , 600 , 000 / . carries six percent ., and 1 , 100 , 000 / . ten per cent . The circulation not bearing interestabout 2 , 300 , 000 / . —is to be redeemed within fifteen months . The total to he redeemed is , therefore , 5 , 000 , 000 / . The depreciated specie currency , amounting to 4 , 500 , 000 / ., is to bo replaced by new silver and copper coinages to be gradually supplied from the Mint —the former with an alloy of sixteen per cent ., the latter with , an alloy of thirty-three percent . For the

      amount of paper currency withdrawn the Government is to give the Bank transferable Six per Cent . Treasury Bonds , secured by a special assignment of the revenues of tho provinces of Konia and Kutayah , Adrianople and Uskuif , amounting to nearly 1 , 000 , 000 / . per annum . Similar bonds arc also to bo given for any difference resulting between the value of tho depreciated currency called in and the new coinages issued iu ita place- Finally , the Board is to have the power of carrying on all legitimate banking operations in the same manner as tins Banks of England and Frantic . "

      1 lie inhabitants of Novellara , in tho Duchy of Modenn , have sent lOOf . towardu tlie subscription for purchasing cannon for tho fortress of Alessandria . The state prisoners in the fortress of Paliano , in tlio Roman States , liave been treated with great cruelty since the attempt made by some of their companions tc escape , -when six were shot dead and several wounded . They arc kept in Holitnry confinement , and deprived ol books , j ) cn , ink , or paper . It ia denied by the writer of a letter from Naples in tlio Nord of Brussels that General Pianclli has arrived

      lho first experiment in European colonization in Turkey has just been made . Ono hundred and thirty Poles have embarked for the purpose of settling on the domains of Rescind 1 ' aciiain Thcssaly .

      in France with a mission to arrange the differences between Naples and the two greut Western Powers . The aanio writer says that the author of a false proclamation posted in the streets of Naples during the night , with the signatures of tho Ministers and the King ' s Boal attached , has been arrested , lie is a young printer , and lie admits his guilt , but denies having any accomplices Spinuzza , one of tho insurgents at Palermo during tht late outbreak , has been Hhot before his own Iiouhc , hit family being previously sent out of the town , lie confessed , obtained absolution , received tho sacrament , on « l heard mass , at a neighbouring' church , where tho

      sa-AUSTICIA . One of the Vienna correspondents of the Augshury Gazette states , that two Kouih-Slavonian » forced their way into the anteroom of tho Emperor'a audience chamber , and there btatcd that a plot hud been formed against his Majesty , which was to be put into execution while he was in Hungary . Inquiries have been made on the subject , and it ia now 8 aid that tho atory haa but

      Silk still maintains a high price in France , owing to the holders of stock keeping the sales back , in the belief that another short crop is to be expected . The aspect of the mulberry trees , however , is favourable . King Victor Emmanuel , according to a letter from Rome of the 3 rd inst ., lias proposed to the Pope to resumo negotiations with tho Court of Homo on the following bases : —Monsignor Franzom to resign his rank of Archbishop of Turin , and to receive a cardinal ' s hat m return . Monsignor Charvuz , Archbishop of Genoa , to be translated to the see of Turin ; and , further , that a concordat should bo concluded which would efface all the acts of tho Piedmontesc Government with respect to ecclesiastical matters for somo years poet Times Paris Correspondent ,

      Marshal Vaillant , Minister of War , in order to place the effecti ve strength of tho army in harmony with the estimates of the budget of 1857 , has decided that fresh temporary renewable furloughs shall bo immediately granted to tho soldiers of tho classes of 1850 , 1851 , 1852 , 1853 , and 1854 . They will bo divided in tho proportion of about 100 to each regiment , making ; 3000 for

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      April 18 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 365-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2189/page/5/