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      country town who refused to lodge a traveller waa prosecuted before the Gourt of Police and acquitted ; the traveller appealed , and the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal , founding their deciaion on a law passed the 13 th of March , 1791 , which declares that commerce is free . " "Madame Rachel , " says the Athenceum , " remains alarmingly ill at Cannes . She recalled to her medical attendants the other day an incident of the period of her greatest triumphs . She was playing ' Phedre , ' and the Bey of Tunis critically said of " her at the end of the piece , ' She has a soul of fire in a body of gauze . ' It "was with a melancholy sigh that she remarked to her doctor , ' Alas ! he was right ; and now you see that the fire has destroved the ffauze . ' "

      The Emperor , Empress , and Prince Imperial have arrived at Compiegne , -where they will remain till about the middle of next month . Despatches liave been received at the Foreign-office from M . Lefevre de Beeourt , French Minister to the Argentine Republic . They announce that the difficulties which existed with the ltepublic of Buenos Ay res are arranged , the Pi esident Urquiza having- acceded to the demands of the French Government .

      SERVTA . Eaja Damjanovilclv senator ,, and former Minister of the Interior ( says a letter from . Belgrade of the 10 th inst . ) , was returning from a sitting of . the Senate in the same carriage as the President of the Assembly , . when be was suddenly arrested in the street by the prefect of police and two gendarmes . A police officer proceeded at the same time with fifteen cavalry officers to Semondria to arrest the senator Paun Iankowiteh , farmer Minister of Finance , who was there on leave of absence . It is said the parties arrested are accused of having conspired to assassinate the Chief of the State . AUSTRIA .

      The Vienna correspondent of the Times relates the upshot of some conversation he lias had with ' a person ¦ who is likely to have some knowledge of what passed at Stuttgard between the Emperors and their Ministers for Foreign Affairs . ' "We give it for what it is worth : — " The Emperor Napoleon and Count TYalewski talked more of nationalities than was to the taste of the Czar , 4 and certain remarks respecting Poland and Italy were unpalatable both to him and to his official adviser . ' The Emperor of Russia entertains a very kindly feeling towards the King of Naples , and he seemed vexed to find himself brought into such close contact with Prince Murat , ' whose partisans are known to be plotting against his Neapolitan Majesty . ' In conclusion , it was ^ jvid that , if the Emperor Napoleon had produced a more favourable impression on the Czar , the latter would perhaps have displayed less cordiality towards the Emperor Franciri-Josepli . "

      The Austrian convents , though very rich , have been neglecting the request of the Pope that they should contribute towards the support oi the Papal chair . If they continue obstinate , they are threatened with an importation of Bavarian ,. Belgian , Westphalian , Italian , and Spanish monks , who will be more pliant . The Jews in Lembevg will in future be obliged to live in the Jewish quarter . The chairs of theology in the new university of Iimspruck are to be filled by Jesuits . In future , no Protestants are to be appointed chief physicians or professors in the General Hospital of "Vienna .

      Some peasants in Galicia , who have boen evicted from their dwellings in order that the Galician railway might be made , have been revenging themselves by setting tire to tlie property of those persons who they believe have injured them . They also behaved in a very riotous manner , but wore finally dispersed by gendarmerie , though not without luss of life . M . do Walewski , an Ultramontanist , resiling at Cracow , has published a work , the object of which is to show that the extreme system of centralization favoured by Austria is not conducive to the well-being of the cm pice . Time Emperor , it is said , has been induced to issue orders that the . General Book-keeping aud Central Office shall be subjected to a strict examination , in consequence , of sonus representations madu to him by one of the superior clerks .. The ailuir has been kept so quiet that none of the details are known . Odessa fiLruis have offered to still at a low price to the Austrian iron , founders tho English , and French cannon balls which , were collected at Sebustopol . TUUK . EY . Some further intelligences has been received from Cattaro relative- to the * expedition of the Pacha of Scutari ( Albania ) to the district of Yasojovitz . Four thousand regular troops and as many Albanians marched from Scutari' to Vasojevitz , with instructions to reduce its inhabitants to submission , to disarm them , imd then to levy the taxes which they owed to the Porte . The Vasojoviteer applied to Prince Danilo of Montenegro for assistance , but he long declined to interfero in a matter which did not directly concern him . As the Turkish commander waa advancing , his regular troops ( the Albanians ) ' committed such groat excesses that Prince Danilo considered . it advisable to send his brother Mirko , the President of the Senate , with five hundred men to tho frontiers . A collision -would probably have enaued between tho Montenegrins and Turkish troops if an

      English commissary had not arrived on tho 2 nd inst . at Gettinye , and informed Prince Danilo that the Porte had , at therequest of the English , French , and Austrian Ministers , sent orders to the Pacha of Scutari to leave the Vasojeritzerin peace . Unfortunately , the bearer of the despatch did not reach the Turkish corps until its vanguard had forced its way into the district of Vasojevitz and destroyed several villages . It is said that hostilities are still going on , but reliable news on the subject has not yet been received . On the 2-tth of September , the chiefs of tho inhabitants of the district of Kuci , which was harried about two years since by a detachment of Montenegrins under Mirko Petrovitch , rendered homage to Prince Danilo . —Times Vienna , Correspondent .

      The Commissioners appointed to define the boundary between Eussia and Turkey in Asia are said , by the writer of a letter from Trebizonde , of September 29 th , to have arrived at the following conclusion : —The celebrated lake of Balpuk Gueul , situate in Armenia , to the south of Mount Ararat , of which half was claimed by Russia , has been declared to belong entirely to Turkey . The strategic road from Koudjak-Guetchit has been xectiiied near Bayazid , and a point has been iixed where the boundary between the two countries is to be established . A tract of land at Gouriel , of about eight leagues in circumference , claimed by both parties , lias been / divided , and the watercourse of Tcholok has baen declared as the limit between this two States .

      THE UASUBI . VN miXCIPALITIKS . A deputation of the Unionists at Jassy waited on the French and English Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Principalities , and presented to each , at his own house , an address . In answer to this Sir Henry Bulwer scud : — " Gentlemen , —I have listened to the discourse that has just been pronounced with all the attention that such friendly expressions ought to inspire , and , if-the words of a celebrated individual be true , ' that language was given to man , and above all to diplomatists , to enable them to disguise their thoughts , ' I confess to making a bad use of tho gift on the present occasion , inasmuch .. as . I cannot find words to cloak the deep emotion that I feel at the cordial reception with which you have honoured my entry into this Principality . It is , as you say , gentlemen , the first time that I have visited your country ; but allow me to assure 3 'ou that it hiis long obtained my sympathy , and that I am anxious to see my name honourably inscribed in the new chapter of its history which is being ' commenced . Tiiia desire you . will readily understand , as being the representative of a Government that must'be interested in the

      development of your resources , while , for my own part , I can desire no mission more agreeable than the amelioration of your condition , nor any glory greater than that of living in your recollections . I feel that I ought always to speak to you with frankness while addressing you with regard . Do not imagine , therefore , I entreat you , that tho future of a people can bo formed in a day . Do not fancy either that ' the race is always to the swift . ' Trees of the slowest growth are the longest lived , while the tortoise challenged by the hare—you remember the fable—gained the race . In searching for some trait that might atrbrd mo an index to your character , I think that I have mut one that augurs well . True , you have only made a single road in your countrv : but that road is excellent . You have only one

      well-paved street in your city ; but that street is better paved tlian almost any street in the finest cities in Kurope . Thus , gentlomcn , you havo given mo the idea that it lies less in the genius of your character to wish to do much than to perform well what you undertake . A people that progresses in this manner will advance far , because its march is sure . Every epoch in history has iu fact its mission . True political science , in nations as in individuals , consists in justly appreciating the opportunity , employing ovary etlbrt for tho possible , and never wasting time or strength on tho impossible . Need 1 then tell you that , in demanding to be informed of your wishes , you will bo definitely judged of according to the good aeiiso yon display . " After alluding to the construction and objects of tho Divan and tho Commission , Sir Henry continued : — " We , gcntlumeu , have no other i > itrt to perform here , as commissioners , than to

      make our report according to tho plan that hiia been traced out to us . You have no other duty to fulfil , as deputies , than to aid us in making that report a correct one . We , on the ono hand , must not transgress our limits , while you , on tho other , are equally bound to re-Bpect yours . My duty imposes upon mo tho obligation of speaking thus openly , and I think that I give you tho host proof of my friendship by so acting . 1 do not assort that you ahull obtain all you desire , nor do I promise to abaro your views in everything , because 1 will notrenounco tho independence of my own opinions ; but what 1 can assure you of is , that you shall receives tho benefit of tho wisdom and good-will of tlio Powers in everything ' that your reason and experience may indicate , and that prudence and justicu enn consider sis coinpatiblo with youi ? intelligence * your ponition in tho centre of Europe , und tho suzerainty of tha Sublime Porte . "

      " Tho Divan of Moldavia yesterday , saya a massage from Vienna , dated Tuesday , a votod almont ununimouHly tho following principles : Self-yovormnent of tho

      Principalities conformably to the treaties with the P whose rights are admitted . Union of the two m-ov ! under a prince belonging to a dynasty of the ww representative form of government , and neutrality r new State . " The Wallachian Divan has come similar conclusion .

      ITALY . II . Benedetti , Chief of the Political Department a French Foreign-office , has left Turin to continu . journey to Central Italy . M . Benedetti is charged a confidential mission to inquire into the present s tiou of the peninsula . Cardinal Francisco do Medici was struck with plexy on the 11 th hist ., while paying a visit to ] sign or Giuseppe Stolla , private eajnerist of his Noli Not-withstanding that medical aid was speedil y affi him , he died at eight o ' clock in the evening , bavinviously received the last sacrament . Thi > Cardinal bom at Naples the 28 th November , 1808 , and rcci the purple the lGth June , 1856 .

      I lie Sardinian Minister of tlie Interior has rev the order of banishment issued against the rem-Hsus Saeclii , Professor Calvino , and the Advocate CaTus The Pope lofc Homes on the 1-ith inst . for C Yecchia . The Cavalicro Lumley Woodycar de Liimlcv , an lian of English origin , lias asserted that the Pied tose Government 'Spontaneously offered to the Nc litan Government to expel twenty-six political rofu subjects of the latter , from the Sardinian . States , this story the Picdrnontvsj Gazette gives an oC denial .

      The state of the crops in the island of Sardii thus sketched by a writer from Sapari , who dates ( ber 10 th ;— " After the comfortless news iu my List . grrtifyiiig to me to give you nova better account o harvest , since , though we may regret a mediocrity year , it is only fair to add that tlie imagh ! : blackened everything so much beforehand that it exp-ctcd to be worse than it really turned out t < In fact , I can . assure you that the grain harvest all been above the average . That of wheat especial not above good years , was certainly not below , same may be said of the wine . " RUSSIA . The Prince de Joinville arrived on the Sth of Oc at Scbastopol .

      I he Government lias published an official deular to the effect that Anapa , Spukum-Kaleli , and liec Kaleb , on tlie Asiatic coast of lhc lilaek . Sea , will ; be open to foreign ships ; and that a Russian « £ •>•« be necessary even for those ports . HOLLAND . Twenty-two Malays have been tried at the Flagt firing and deserting the Dutch barque Twenthe , a off Madeira on the 12 th of August , 185 G . The Ci demanded capital ¦ pu nidhmeut for the ringleader , various terms of penal servitude for the others . In

      course of the evidence it tr . tnspired . that they had treated with systematic cruelty by their captain , ( perated to madness , and induced to seek reve-ii ) fastening down the captain and his mates in the c and then firing the ship . The trial lasted ten day alL the forma and evidence were translated into the A tongue . The sentence is , that tho two ringleaik ' imprisoned for live years , and the two others for < years ; and that the other eighteen be acquitted . Crown intends to appeal against this decision , in meantime , tlie acquitted eighteen arc detained .

      NOHWAY . The Storthing of Norway has just rejected , by a majority , the royal propositions tending to obtain traordinary credits , and iu case of need an authoriz for a loan to defray tho expense of unforeseen nrmaii and preparations for war .

      niCNMAUK . By a Royal patent , dated Glileksburg , October the King of Denmark has convoked thi > Supreme C cil of the Monarchy to moot on the lltli ( if next . Ian nt Copenhagen , that propositions relative to tliii <» of the Duchies may be submitted to it . rilUHSIA . The Tndcjtaulance Bchje . publishes the text of a p « despatch addressed by tho , Prussian Government signed by M . do Manteuflcl , to the Prussian repres tives at foreign Courts . In this document , wind )

      tho date of the 28 th of May , M . do MiinteulM car avoids declaring either in favour of or against tho of tho Danubiuu Principalities . Ho . si in ply rulers I instructions given to tho Prussian ( Jommir-sioiHir . wishes of tho Divans , the suzerainty of tlie I ' orti the integrity of tho Ottoman . Kinpiro , arc- pointed < tho chief elements to be considered . Prussia ivserv vote us regards the union until the Special ( , ' omtin according to tho 25 th Article of tlie Treaty of ahull have livid before tho assembly of tho Ph' » i'l tinrios of . tho Power . i signiug tho Treaty of 1 '^ u " results of its invest umtionn .

      The last advices f « om liorlin atato that tho Ivn mains in . tlio sumo state of slow recovery . Tho Prince of Wales paid tho Princess of l ' v . isib at CoblonU on . the lGth hist ., wliilo on hi : homeward down the Khiuo .

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      t 014 THE LEADER . _ p * o- 39 ( 3 , October 24 , 1857

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1014, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/6/