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    There-Has fcteendhcreased aetivitr-na'tne-general-fousi ness of theport of London dtiring the--w « ek'ending * last Saturd ay ; The number of' ships reported inward- was 232 . Those ^ cleared out-ward amounted to 80 , including the unusually small number of fdui in 'ballast ; the num » her on the ber-th loading for the Australian colonies'is' 3 9 . — Times :

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to tie condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion or the human race but that to which itself belongs . Dr . Aenold . FRANCE . The 3 f 6 mteur records a fact which it describes as provin" - " the honourable feelings with which the English officers who took part -with the French in the war in the Crimea are animated . The committee of the Army and Navy Club in London , Laving heard that a caricature at the bottom of which were some offensive remarks , with a pretended message from the club , had been sent to some colonels of * the French army , has offered a reward of 50 ? . to any one who will make known the author of it , thus showing how indignant the members of the club feel , at so shameful an insult . " There has j ust been , discovered at Nantes a series of letters written by some of the literary celebrities of the first half of the eighteenth century . Among them are thirty-six signed by Louis Kacine ; three by Tilbn du TUlet ; fourteen by Desforges-Maillard ; thirty by Bertrand of Nantes ; and one by President Bouhier .

    M . Pietri , Prefect of Police , has resigned his post . The Emperor , who has written a letter to 51 . Pietri , accepting his resignation with regret , and speaking highly of the retiring Prefect ' s services , has appointed to the vacant office M . Boittelle , Prefect of the Yonne . The Moniteur of Thursday contains some noteworthy replies to observations which have appeared in the Times and other English papers . The official journal sayS : —" In its number of the 15 th of March , the Times pretends that the French police- penetrate into the domestic circle , and cause anxiety and mistrust in the relations of private families . It adds that it regrets the davs when it could not refuse its admiration to the noble

    confidence of the Emperor , ' who drove his own phaeton , ' and who now never goes out tinless guarded by squadrons . It will suffice to mention such assertions to refute them . Never was the French police less inquisitorial than at . the present moment . If its zeal has been doubled since the attempt of the 14 th of January , those who regret the failure of that attempt are the only persons to complain . As regards the assertion respecting the Emperor , every one knows that his Majesty has made no change in his usual habits , and that he drives out daily without an escort . . . . Some foreign journals seem astonished that France should have requested

    the continental and bordering Powers to send away dangerous refugees from her frontiers . Thus acting , France only made use of the right of international law . ! No one was astonished that Switzerland last year requested the French Government to send into the interior the refugees who desired a restoration of Royalty at Neufcbatel ; nor was any one surprised that Spain should have asked us to send into the interior the Carlist refugees , and that the Cortes should have thanked the Emperor for having , by such a step , prevented a civil war . The conduct of Franoe hns therefore teen guided by the universally acknowledged principles of international law . "

    PRUSSIA . / Some sensation has been created in the House of Deputies by . a matter affecting the independence of the electors .. An . interpellation was recently addressed to the Minister of the Interior , seeking for information ¦ with respect to certain interferences by the police in the election which took place last autumn at Elbing . Tho facts alleged are to the effect that the Director of Police at the place mentioned issued to the various , authorities a . circuUuj . enclosing a , list of the Conservative , or High Tory , candidates , and calling upon thorn not only to vote fop thosecandidataa themselves , but to use all their influence- with others to got those candidates elected , Tho same moans wore taken to corrupt the individual citizens ; but , two days before tho election , a . complaint was sent ito , the Minister of the Interior with , respect to this scandalous invasion of popular rights . Nevertheless , tho illegal interference continued during tho '

    election . Tho ground was surrounded by tho police , who questioned every voter as . ho came up ns to' how ho in . tended to vote ; and a . Commissary-of Police stationed Iiimaoie eo-ae to . eee whre voted foryand . who against , the Conservative candidates . Towaxdo tho clone of tho day , it bocamfl'manifest that these favoured gentlemen had noohanaoof success in the ordinary way ; whereupon , . tto . poli <> s » brQugUt ^ uiuA _ , nwrabRr ^ completely undor their influonoo , and forced them to vote oa tho Government , wished . Tho answer which tho Ministenof , the Interior gave , on the 8 th . of January , to tho complaint , atated " that tha police had , conformably with their , duty , done their bout to protect tho elections from AU . unduo influonoes and diaburbancea , and that proper measuroa had been taken with reference to thoir conduot . " Thia aua \ v « r not boiiig siitiafuctory , tho interpolkition already alluded to wits put . lc was Umu worded ^ ^ Does tUo Minister really approve tho con *

    duct of ^ thet . poMce in- > terfering !' to * lrifluenoe ' : said election , and what were the . ' proper ¦ measures ? - which the- Minister . ' subsequently took to restrain the : Police DirectoF for the- future ¦ within'the- 'bounds - of . 'hiaxonapetence ? " In- answer to these questions ; the Minister read the . Police- Director ' s- own * account off the-affair . That official admitted the- alleged- facts * and justified them by asserting that election ; . tricks * are resorted to by the democrats to induce voters * to fstvo or their candidates ! The Minister of the Interior : concluded by saying that he approved the motives of the Director of- Police , while'he disapproved ^ his ac * s ; bat he-orefasedita state what were-the ¦ ' proper measur es' hehadtakenii

    " Yha > Borom > Zeit % uig " says-the . Berlin correspondent of the Timesy ' lately brought to the knowledge < of ; ' tfl& public that atelogram had * been refused transmission ! at the Royal Telegraph-office , although itsicontoents-weroa / piec ® of news * that , was published in all the newspapers of > theday ; via > , that some-expectations had been enter * tained tha * on > the-occasion of the marriage'of Prtmce Frederick William an-amnesty would-be proclaimed * . and that ? those expectations were , however , not to be ftil ~ filled . The remark attached to this statement was , that a species of censorship was exercised at . the telegraphoffice , which was not referable-to either law or reason *" The same writer relates other-instances of official tyranny , and states that " civil liberty is reduced to the smallest conceivable fraction . "

    ITALY . The political trials at Naples continue to drag their wearisome and horrible details through the letters from that citj' to the English journals . The correspondent of the Times ( who acknowledges the great courtesy and facilities he has received from all the authorities of the court ) , says that most of the Government witnesses have retracted their statements , which were made under the influence of threats . One of the prisoners stated that Eugehio Lombardi , one of the strongest witnesses for the Crown , had confessed to him that he had denounced Captain Sitzia because he had been ungrateful to him , but that all he had said was false . " The evidence of the men I have heard examined , " says the Times

    correspondent , " amounts to this : —Captain Sitzia and the crew were surprised by a few of the passengers ; they were greatly vexed , and the captain wept . They were menaced and guarded by the insurgents ; they were perfectly passive , or did what they did at the command of Pisacane . ' It is useless , ' he said , ' to resist ; if you ohey us , no harm shall happen to you . ' ^ On arriving in Ponza , they did not land , but were compelled , on their lives being threatened , to row ashore ; but Watt , Park , and the captain did not even leave the steamer . When the vessel put off for Ponza for a moment or two , and then returned , it was by order of Pisacane , with fifty or sixty of the exiles on board . From Ponza to Sapri the captain did not appear . On the vessel leaving Sapri ,

    and long before any Neapolitan vessel hove in sight , the captain ordered his men to throw the arms which the rebels had left overboard . Such are the statements which were repeated over and over again by the men who alluded at all to the subject . Two doubtful statements only exist to be spoken of . Moline had heard it said on board that the captain , crew , and some of the passengers , had been guilty of a trodimento . This evidence is , of course , worth nothing . Mascia was then called . ' Mascia , Signor Presidente , is dead . ' ' Let his deposition then bo read . ' ' I oppose the reading of the deposition of a dead man , ' said the advocate . Ho was overruled by the Procurour-General , and the deposition , which was read , amounted to this : — ' The captain was

    in communication with tho chiefs of the jnsurgonfcs , hence we inferred that they were friends and fellowconspirators ; ' but , ho adds , ' the captain , depended on tho orders of the General . ' This evidence , too , falls through , as a . dead man cannot appear like tho otucrs to retract , modify , or explain , and because it neutralizes itself . As far , therefore , as the testimony of one hundred and eighty-three prisoners goes , the captain and tho crew ( including Watt and Park , of course ) are innocent of tho crime imputed to them . " Ono of tho prisoners , on being about to be brought into court , was discovered , to be mad . He had stripped himself stark naked , and howlod loudlv . Throe , it scorns , are now demented , and sixteen

    arc reported ill . Several are sufl ' ering from tho itoh ; ono who was oxanmiod on tho trial is described as ' a dirty , pallid skeleton , ' another was so maimed by tho illnusage of tho soldiers that tho President ordered his removal to tho hospital ; and a third hue received seventy lashes for singing a patriotic song which ho had boon accustomed to sing from hia boyhood . It appears cortuin . that , when tho rising wob put down , tho soldiors behaved with savage . violence to tho poor insurgents ; and since then they have robbed them shamelessly . — We are happy-to be able to stato that a Royul decree aHowHWutt to roturn to England immediately . Itia to bo hoped that thiitardy act of justice will result m the poor fellow's restoration to sanity .

    A demand on tho part of the French Government tliat tho Mnzzinian organ , L'Italia dot Popolo , should be suppressed ,. and that the editor ot VUniono should bo oxpellcd , Imp been refused by the Sardinian Governmont . Tho King is said to have written a letter to tho Foreign Minlstery General dolla lloooa , in wluoh ho says that tho pooplo have entrusted to him the custody- of their liberties , and that he will never , betray them .

    A subscription- harbeeu' safe on- foot 1 at Tario ; toi pxe > a sent M . Jules Favre with a testimonial / ofcgtHtittide ; andS admiration for-the eloquent' and icourageotts / ples for * the independence of Italy which he introduced ; into- hi * idem fence , of Orsini . The editor of the Armonias , theicleiieal organ of Turing has-been , for the second time , condemned to two months '* imprisonment , a fine of 1000 francs , and damagesto . then amount of 3000 francs , for defamatory articles againstin Professor Melegari , a determined adversary of ultra * montanistn . The Piccolo Corriere of Twin states , on the authority ; of a communication from Verona , that the municipality of that place * have received notification of an Imperial decree ^ commanding , them to restore to the Jesuits the ? buildings taken away from them in 1848 ; and also to en toast- their communal college to that body , to which the municipality are to pay 40 OO francs annually for itsservices * . The recent street robberies and outrages at Genoa , have been : suppressed , several of- the robbers having been captured . It is also stated—but we hope incorrectly—that- many political refugees have- been sent , away from . Genoa , and that some of these ; have-. beenr shipped'to ^ Montevideo and Buenos Ayres .

    HAJTOVEK . A manuscript , entirely written by Leibnitz , and forming part of a refutation of Spinoza :, which was never completed , has just been discovered in the city of' Hanover . SWITZERLAND . The Genevese Government has dissolved the Italian Benefit Society . The Federal Commissioners have ordered the expulsion of twelve French and seventeen Italian refugees . An inquiry is going on concerning twelve others . HOLLAND . The Dutch Ministry has been modified as follows : — M . Gollstem , Foreign Affairs ; M . Van Bosse , Finance ; M . Van Tets , Interior ; Mr . Boot , Justice ; and MV Rochussen , Colonies . The other Ministers retain their portfolios . BELGI 03 L The young Princess de Ligne , daughter of the President of the Belgian Senate , died at Brussels on Thursday week , of the attack of typhus fever under which she had been labouring for some time . She was only eighteen years of age . M . Labarre , editor of the Drapeau , Belgium , who was recently condemned to thirteen months' imprison- * ment and 1200 f . fine , for offensive articles against the French Emperor , has surrendered himself at Brussels ,, and given notice of appeal . SPAIN . General Narvaez has obtained leave of absence for some months , and has received his passports from France . TUKKEY . Quarrels of race are becoming every day more violent in the Turkish empire . The Bulgarians refuse to pay the dues to the Greek Patriarch ; and the Pacha , of Trebizond has issued a circular accusing the Christiana of being deficient in respect to the Mussulmans . Tho Presse d'Orient states that tho conflagration of the Gor vernor ' s palace at Adrianoplo was the result of a plot , the Beys having refused all assistance . Austria is about to concentrate 25 , 000 men at Scutari ,, to keep Montenegro and the Herzegovina in check . Other troops will be sent into Bosnia . Russia and ^ Aus ^ tria are said to be in perfect accord as to the necessity of securing tranquillity on tho Turkish frontior . Further conflicts have taken place between the Turks and tho Montenegrins in the llorssegovina , in which theformer appear to have got the -worst of it . Roumelia is also in a rather disturbed stato . Here , however , it : is the Mahometans , and not tho Christians , who complain of grievances . Tho Boys who raised irregulars during tho last war assert that their arrears of pay have not been rendered to them .

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    IT AVAL AND MILITARY . Lifeboats . —Tho Humane Society of Boulogno , having completed the modifications of ono of their lifeboats , on tho principle of tho Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Groat Britain , designed by Mr . Peako , master shipwright at Woolwich dockyard , assembled iu committee a few days ago . Mr . Peako was present , and put the boat through somo severe experimental tests , tho result © of which wore highly satisfactory . , TlUU FjllCJLD-TKAiN DlU'AKT . UICMT ttt WoOlWlOh , hitherto a separate corps ( iMnjor-Gonoral W . Cator , C . B ., Director-General of Artillery , commanding ; , has boon abolished , the duties of that department having been consolidated with tho military store department , of th-o-Koyar-ATSOiialr-iindor-the-Buperiutonaenco ^ pf- ^;^ . Pollutt . Tho elorka and other oUicors of tho late do * partmont nro to bo installed iu tho Military Store ,-koopor ' s offices , in similar positions , according to tuofcformer rating . k Wukok o * ' tuw Ava . — TUo Calcutta etoamor Avft was wrecked near Triucomaloo on the loth , of Jfebniary f Tho cargo and mails wore totally lost , but tho crew and passengers were savod . 2 Z 5 » , OOOZ . treasure for thb Bombay Government wore on . board . 28 , G 0 O / . have

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  • Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1858, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2235/page/11/