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    the Manager and Editor a peremptory requisition to publish in th « ir journal a statement from one of the seconds of the assassin of M . de Pene . Under the existing military regime of Prance , the luckless Manager and Editor had nothing for it but to comply . " The statement fully confirms the worst accounts that have been given of the dastardly crime . It is therein plainly stated that the officers of the entire French army arrogated to themselves a right to call out M . do . Pene one after another , on the preposterous ground that he had insulted all . He " was responsible for his article , not only to an individual , but to a class . " The proprietors of tlie Figaro have been ordered not to publish any more bulletins as to M . de Pene , and to close thebook in which inquirers after him write their

    names . " A deputation of colonels , " says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegrapft , " has waited on M . Espinasse to ask him to suppress the Figaro utterly . His reply was , that his relation , M . de Courtiel , Lad behaved very well on the ground , and that the rest he did not care for . However , it is positively stated 'that the journal will be suspended for three months , but thatM . de Villemessant will receive an indemnity . I may add that Marechal Vaillant has caused an order of the dav to be

    fixed up in the barracks , to the effect that any officer fighting with a civilian without permission will be degraded from his position , and , if necessary , cashiered . This may , perhaps , have the desired effect for a time ; but strong circumstances conspire to prove that the bourgeoisie and the army may , ere long , come into ser ious collision . " M . M . Courtiel and Hyenne ( the principals in the two duels With M . de Pene ) , and M . Koge , second to those gentlemen , have been summoned by the'Juge ^ 'Instruction

    of " Versailles to appear before him and undergo an interrogatory . The proprietor of t } ie Figaro lias also been required to attend . The Minister of War , wishing to stop the consequences of the duel , has addressed a circular to the colonels commanding regiments to forbid the writing of letters by officers to the directors of newspapers , adding that the " honour" of the army stands too high in the . estimation of the French people and . of the whole world to be affected by the ill-timed pleasantry of an obscure journal .

    Signor Dal-Ongaro , an Italian literary gentleman , has received a peremptory order to leave Trance , without any reason being given for so arbitrary an act . At the same time he was told that he should have a passport for Algeria , or for any other country which , would not refuse to receive It all : in refugees , excepting England . It is whispered in Paris that Lord Malmesbury is at the bottom of- this disgraceful exception . Signor- Dal-Ongaro has not latterly concerned himself in politics , but has devoted his attention entirely to literature . The Minister of the Interior has addressed a circular to the Prefects on the subject of the enormous landed property possessed by the hospitals and other charitable foundations , setting forth the great advantages which would result from the conversion of such property into Government stock . The proposal has excited ii good deal of opposition .

    M . Havas , the founder of the lithographed political correspondence bearing his name , which has been well known in Europe for the last quarter of a century , died on . Friday week at the age of seventy-six . It appears now to be finally decided that Prince Napoleon shall be placed at the liead of the Government of Algeria , and that liis title shall be that of Lieutenant of the Emperor . The Prince , it is understood , has obtained his own terms—viz . tha-t he shall be uncontrolled by a Minister in Paris . Rumour states that there will be a Minister of the Interior nnil a . Minister of War for Algeria , and General Duumas is . spoken of for the latter post .

    The sentence of death on Lieutenant de Mercy , who has recently been found guilty of murdering his comrade , Lieutenant . Hosier— an act which he endeavoured , by n series of contrivances and falsehoods to represent as a duel—has been commuted . He will probably now he condemned to perpetual imprisonment ; but how far that sentence will be carried out is doubtful , since the absolute pardon which has bec-n extended to Captain Doinean , the officer-who conspired to murder a Sheikh in Algeria , and who , after beiny condemned to deathwas

    subse-, quently ordered to be imprisoned for life . Captain Hosier , the brother of the lieutenant murdered by De Mercy , has died of a brain fever brought on b y the excitement occasioned by the lamentahlu affliction which had overtaken him These fnctH , tnkou in connexion with tho disgraceful duel in the Hois de Vesinet , show in unmistakable colours the alarming condition of military bondage to which thelMcnch nation has been reduced , and the practical immunity from punishment for atrocious enmea -which the army now enjoys .

    The trial of tho Chalons conspirators ( who were concerned in an abortive attempt at insurrection last inarch ) haa been brought to n conclusion . One of the p risoners , named Sercy , has been senU-ncert to four yours imprisonment and a fine of lOOOfr . ; three others , Messrs . Trcve / , Dounrd , and Pougcr to two > W vZs : r ?» v ° io (> rr - » wwi ° *«* - ' «•»« , ono 53 * ° - Crthttn " Jl ( 1 i > ^ t the same line an , one year « imprisonment . There were thirteen other

    prisoners , against whom the evidence of guilt -was entirely presumptive , and they were acquitted . The French naval division in the Pacific , under the command of Captain de Saisset , is to be increased , in consequence of the importance attached by the Government to New Caledonia . Prince Vogorides , Kaimakan of Moldavia , has forwarded to Fuad Pacha , to lie communicated by him to the Conference at Paris , a full statement of all the acts of his administration and of the financial position of the country under his jurisdiction . M . Earaguan , private secretary of Prince Vogorides , has arrived in Paris . The Paris Conference met for the first time last Saturday . Of course , nothing is known as yet of what passed .

    Gaugnanis-Messenger has a full account of the French 11 Derby" at Chantilly on Sunday . The stands vere thronged , chiefly by ladies ; but the ground was covered by crowds of gentlemen and humble folk ; Ventre Saint Gris was the winning horse . A dinner of horseflesh lias just been eaten at the Hotel du Midi , Bourg , when soups , cutlets , steaks , and roast joints were made from a fine animal which it had been found necessary to kill . The Journal de 'FAin states that the guests did not much relish the food , which- . a certain flavour swt generis , not pleasant to delicate palates . The Emperor arid Empress , the Queen of Holland , the Prince of AYurtemberg , Prince Napoleon , the Princess Mathikle , and their suites , left Paris on Sunday by the Lyons Railway for Fontainebleau . - ... ' . ¦

    An Imperial decree , not yet published , decides that all the English who shall establish themselves in the French colony of New Caledonia shall enjoy the same rights and advantages as Frenchmen . ; . Mr . Ingleby , an Englishman , has been compelled to quit France , owing to his not having procured the visa of the French Consul in London to his passport . The English Government has transmitted to Count Walewski twenty-one silver medals and one gold medal , to be presented to certain citizens of Calais in acknowledgment of the courageous services which they rendered on the occasion of the wreck of the British schooner Excel , of " WVyinouth . It is also the intention of the

    English Government to present a lifeboat to the town of Calais . In acknowledging , in a letter to Lord Cowley , the receipt of the medals , Count " Walewski says : — " Permit me , your Excellency , in thanking you for this communication , to assure you that the Government of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor highly appreciates the noble and generous manner in which the British Government has been pleased to recognize the services rendered , by our maritime population to English merchant vessels , and that the Government recognizes in this particular mark of gratitude displayed towards the town of Calais a new means of cementing that cordial harmony which should exist between the navies of the two nations . "

    The arrival of the Russian fleet from the Baltic on the coast of France , as announced in some foreign journals , is incorrect . The Russian fleet will not quit the Baltic this . summer . The riuicpemlaiice lieb / e is to be prevented from entering France for an indefinite period . M . Migeon intends to resign and to propose to the electors of Alsace a warm partisan of his own . The Government , apparently , not - wishing to risk another defeat , will , it is said , make no opposition , but adopt M . Migeoii ' s vrotisav .

    rOKTUOAT ,. The young Queen of Portugal Arrived at Lisbon on the evening of tlic 17 th inst . The festivities on the Royal marriage commenced on Tuesday . Crowds thronged the streets of Lisbon ; the houses were decorated ¦ with flags ; and the city was illuminated . " There is a rumour , " says a letter in the Paris Pre&se , " of a fusion between the Royal family and the ex-Pretender Dom Miguel . According to the report generally credited , the pension recently granted bv the young King to his uncle in the prelude to a reconciliation between the two branches of the house of lirugunzu . "

    TITKKHY . The caravan which left Syria about two months ngo for Mticca having been attacked by the Bedouins beyond Damascus , the Porte has adopted measures to repair the disaster . Mousjifu-Eflondi , brother of the Minister of Finance , embarked on board the steam frigate Mulakoff , taking with him a considerable stun of ' money to relieve tho distress of those who had been despoiled .

    MO . VX'ICNUGKO . Some scattered and not very important operations against the Turks have been conducted by the Montenegrins since their gloat triumph iicar Grnhovo . Several Turkish villager ) have been burnt , and the savage mountaineers have returned to their homes laden with booty . It non- appears probable that the defeat of tho Turku was owing to tln-ir having boon surprised during utruco , and as they worn about to withdraw from Grahovo to Klobulc . After their discomfiture , they lo udly exclaimed that , they were betrayed , and they threatened to take the life of the . Russian consul , who was in their camp . Fortunately , however , the Licutenant-General , Hussein Pacha .

    took the consul into his camp , and protected him . It is asserted that one of the Pachas put another under arrest , though what foi is not known . According to accounts received in Paris , Mirko was not aware , when he made his attack , of the negotiations which vrere going forward between Ferukli Path ' a and the Montenegrin chieftain Plullippoff for the conclusion of an armistice . It lias attracted notice that the French Government suppressed the despatch containing the news of the defeat of the Turks , on the 13 th inst . '

    Orders have been sent ( according to a letter from Vienna , of the lGth inst ., in the Cologne Gazette ) by the Austrian Government to Venice , to send the two frigates sationed there 1 o Cattaro . They are to take a battalion of Chasseurs , two battalions of Infantry , and a battery . The frigates after landing the troops are to cruise off the coast . Colonel Stratimorich proceeds to Cettinye on an official mission , to make representations to Prince Danilo on the consequences of his policy . The conduct of the Austrian Government will depend upon the result of this

    . " According to authentic advices from Ragusa , " says the Vienna correspondent of the Times , " Kiamil Pacha retired on the 18 th inst ., With , a part of the regular Turkish troops , from Grahovaz , a place near the Montenegrin frontier , to Mostar , tlie capital of the Herzegovina . It is stated tha-t Prince Daniel of Montenegro has recently received 200 , 000 ducats ( about 98 , 000 Z . ) from the Russian Government , but the chances are that he has got nothing from St . Petersburg but his regular salary or subsidy . " The Catholic Prince of theMirdites , in Upper Albania , offered Kiamil Pacha his services against the Montenegrins ; but they were declined , although the Jlirdites are generally considered the bravest men in the Turkish Empire .

    The reinforcements of troops sent from Constantinople arrived on the 22 nd at TYebinye . They are composed ( says a telegraphic despatch ) of 3500 of the guard , and make the force now under the command of Hussein Pacha amount to a total of 6000 men . The Ottoman General has dismissed the irregulars , who , being undisciplined , w « re rather an embarrassment to him than otherwise . lie has therefore no longer with Mm any but soldiers well armed and disciplined in the European manner . He occupies an entrenched camp at a short distance from Trebinye . He has received orders from his Government not to undertake any movement against the Montenegrins , ' and ' -not to penetrate into the disputed territory , but to remain in his position and confine himself to covering the Herzegovina ^

    " Tlie affair of Montenegro , " says a letter in the J ^ ord , " be considered as arranged ; the Porte has formally accepted the proposition for a regulation of the frontiers on the bases of the status quo of 1856 , presented to it by France , England , and Russia . This determination is prudent and wise , for the demand of the three powers , without being an ultimatum in form , greatly resembled one by its general character , seeing that it cast on Turkey the responsibility of the grave consequences whicli a refusal might occasion . In consequence of this resolution of the Porte , announced by Fuad

    Pacha , an older Avas to have been sent to Admiral Jurien-Lagraviere to return to France , but it is possible that in consequence of the news of the sending of Austrian frigates to the vicinity of Catturo , it has not been despatched . In any case , however , the ill-judged proceeding of the cabinet of Vienna will not prevent the regulation of the difference . Tlie negotiations are to take place , some say at Constantinople , and others at Vienna ; but tlje former city is considered more ju-obable , and a representative of Montenegro is to take part in them . "

    . The Princess Frederick William is said to be suffering from the effects of a fall = shu had on the staircase of the Royal Palace at Berlin . Queen Victoria inquires daily by telegraph about the health of her daughter . The Prince and Princess are residing at the Castle of Babelsberg .

    tVAXA ' , The Sardinian Chamber of Deputies has been engaged for sonic time past in debating various linanciul questions of little interest to the general European reader . In connexion , however , with tlio incameranieiito , or proposed confiscation « jf church property , necessitating the support of the clergy by tho State , Cavour made some remarks which may be here reproduced . " I think , " said he , " the measure would have for certain ell ' ect either to render the clergy of our country servile , or quite to alienaU * them from tlio material interests of society , and to leave them animated only by n spirit of caste . 1 do not think

    tlie former result would come to pass , because I ton highly esteem our clergy to believo that they will ever sacrifice their independence and the duties of iheir ministry to pecuniary interests . Hut , if this were to bo , . should we luivc conferred a benefit on society or liberty ? " We should havu done , 1 think , the greatest possibleharm to liberty ; wo should have constituted an administrative despotism . It has been my lot ( little to Lienvied ) to 1 )« Minister for several years , and I will . say that , if -to the means of action possessed by the Government theru were to be joined a means of action on the clergy , tlio Government would bo rendered too powerful for the interests ) of liberty . If tho clergy wore

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    No . 427 , Mai 29 ,-185 . 8 . ] T . k ' JB LIE ADER . 509 . ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/5/