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6 THE Ii E AD E It. [No. 458, January 1,...
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6 The Ii E Ad E It. [No. 458, January 1,...
6 THE Ii E AD E It . [ No . 458 , January 1 , 1859 ^
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CONTINENTAIi NOTES . ¦ ' ¦ ' FRANCE . ' ¦ ¦ At the election in the department of the Seine for a vacant seat in the Legislative Body , there were three candidates , and it was announced that Government left the choice free in the hands of the electors . Nevertheless , it came put that the favourite candidate' with the Government was M . Brochant de Yilliers . He polled 8254 votes , and his opponents fewer . But not having enough of votes to render his election legal , the election has to begone over again . Such of the political prisoners transported to Algeria after the coup d ' etat as have asked for a remission of their sentence are to be permitted to return to France on the occasion of the new year . Among them are M . Mulet , a member of the late Constituent Assembly , and ¦ Mu Cauigril , a butcher of Toulouse . ^ The most important piece of French news we have to mention is a renewal of the pardon granted by Louis Napoleon to Count de Montaleinbert . The Afoniteur announces the fact , and the definitive sentence of the Court of Appeal is neutralised by this act of grace . The printer of the Correspondant is also pardoned , The Court of Appeal had already relieved M . de Montalembert from the only really serious conseqiience of the decision of the police court . He is no longer a suspect under the law of public safety ; and there is reason to believe that the main object of the prosecution was to hook him into that category . The pardon will now have effect without placing him under any obligation . It is now legal and regular , which it was not before . * ,
The correspondent at Paris of the Daily News adds : — " All that was said about M . de Blontalembert being a ' determined martyr' was rank nonsense . He will make no ridiculous clamour to be taken to prison ; he . does not now ' accept' the pardon , which he would have done had he refrained from appealing ; he simply remains quiescent . The pardon of M . Douniol , the responsible editor of the Correspondant , which is only now an-r nounced , must strike every one as a pure matter of course . But he has already paid his fine of lOOOfr ., and there is no doubt whatever that in point of law * the pardon does not compel the state to return the money to him ; whether , in facij he will get it back or not is a curious question . " The history of the Charles-et-Geqrges affair has been penned by M . Rouxel , the commander of that ship , and sent to a * French journal , which publishes the communication . The captain endeavours to show that the Africans he took onboard were free labourers , who . had , of their own will and accord , consented to sarve for a term of years in the French colonies . He acousea the Portuguese authorities who seized the ship with behaving in . a cruel way , adding insult to injury . Fever , he acknowledges , prevailed among the blacks on board . That the labourers really were free is by no means proved by what Captain Rouxel states ; on the contrary , his letter deepens the impression that they were not free . ' The nearer we approach to New Year's Day the more activity and bustle are observable in the Paris shops . Unfortunately the commercial movement is not general ; it extends merely to fancy articles . The wholesale merchants and many of the manufacturers are doing little . A letter from Brest , of the 24 th instant , states that a dreadful hurricane . prevailed on that coast on the 22 nd . The Souffleur , of the Imperial navy , coming from L'Orient to Brest , had one of her paddle-wheels carried away , her bowsprit broken , and her mizen sail swept off by the wind . The French Government ia calling under arms every man-that it can lay its hands upon . The entire contingent of conscripts for the year is ordered to join , and this is a thing unprecedented in time of peace . The IndSpendance remarks :- —< " The Christmas holidays will , perhaps , be somewhat saddened in the country villages by the departure of 100 , 000 recruits to join their regiments . " The camps of instruction for 1859 will be unusually large . An army of 80 , 000 men near the Italian frontier is spoken of . On this head , a letter from Paris says : — " Should war break out next spring between Piedmont and Austria , France , it is pretty evident , will be ready for any emergency . Yet It is difficult to boo what Louis Napoleon hopes to gain by meddling in the affairs of Italy , unless the old gamo of European conquest is in his mind . On the other hand , Franco ia becoming more difficult to govern 5 discontent doeg not diminish ; financial matters are in an embarrassed Btato ; and the country wants some changq to vary the monotony of despotism , A war onco entered upon , homo grievances would bo for tho tlmo forgotten . " General JVT'Mahon has loft Paris to rcsumo tho command of tho army In Algeria , in consequence of tho agitation whioh prevails among tho Kabyle tribes . It is rumoured that troubles have actually broken out among the Kabyles , though the papers do nob allude to the fact . Itteflaid that Marshal CastoUano Is about to retire
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from the service in consequence of his advanced age . In that case he will probably be succeeded by Marshal Canrobert ; and Marshal Randon will be appointed to the command held at present by Marshal Canrobert , whose head-quarters are at Nancy . AUSTRIA . In the Wiener Zeitung is an Imperial rescript respecting those parts of the law for the raising of recruits which have given such extreme dissatisfaction in Italy . There have been " strikes" among the workmen in Bohemia , but they were soon over , as the Austrian authorities strongly object to demonstrations . If the men who are dissatisfied with their wages are foreigners they are sent across the frontier , and if . they are natives of the empire they receive orders to go back to their work or to return to their respective homes without delay ; It is only when the men are guilty of Violence that the stick is brought into action . Cards are handed about in Milan urging the inhabitants to abstain from all amusements at the approaching carnival season , and to save their money for important purposes . The belief in approaching war is general and strong in the Austro-Italian provinces . On the 11 th an attempt was made at Pavia to set a military magazine oil fire . The gate was smeared from top to bottom with turpentine , but a guard appeared just as a light was about to be applied . The police have not yet succeeded in laying hands on the incendiaries . The University of Pavia has been closed by order of the Austrian authorities . This is in consequence of the disaffected spirit and by the recent assassination of Professor Emilio Briccio . This unfortunate man was a native of the Austrian Tyrol , and an intimate of a certain police official named Rossi , greatly disliked , and who is thought to be in some danger of a like fate . SARDINIA . The Piedinontese Gazette publishes a decree for tho construction of a bridge over the Rhone , near Culoz , to connect the Sardinian Railway line with that of France . The result of the census taken in the Sardinian States has been published , and shows the whole number of inhabitants to be 5 , 194 , 807 j being an increase of 5 . G 7 per cent , over the census ' of 1848 . The province of Turin shows the large increase of 12 \ per cent . ; that of Genoa , 13 f ; and that of Iglesias ( in the island of Sardinia ) , 14 £ . The increase in the continental provinces has been 1 per cent , more than in the island . t
urkey . . . Disturbances have broken out in Servia , which have led to the deposition of Prince Alexander . On the 22 nd the National Assembly ( Skuptsehina ) sent a message to the Prince , insisting on his resignation . The Prince , promising an answer for the next day , withdrew for his personal safety to a Turkish fortress . In consequence , the Assembly pronounced him to be deposed , 011 the ground that he had left the country without a government , and must be looked on as a fugitive . The Assembly then proclaimed Prince Milosch head of the Government , and made to the people a formal announcement of what it had done . A telegram from Belgrade , dated Christmas-day , states Prince Alexander still remained in the Turkish fortress in which he found shelter . No sooner had Prince Milosch been proclaimed in his stead than the National Assembly established a Provisional Government . We hear of a military counterrevolution which was suppressed . Meanwhile tranquillity prevails . Prince jYiilosch Obronovitcb , who is now placed at tho head of the Government in Servia , is tho same Prince who was dethroned in 1839 . A telegram , dated Belgrade , December 27 , says that tho Senatehasrevokeditsresolution of Friday last concerning the recal of Prince Alexander . The Skuptsehina is preparing a petition to tho Porto in favour of Milosch . The army is now also favourably disposed towards the latter . A deputation has been sent to Princo Milosch . Prince Milosch is an old man , eighty years of . age , almost blind , but still full of energy and resolution . He possesses , moreover , an immense fortune , acquired as a merohant in Wallachia , whither ho had retired . What the Sultan will do cannot bo yet anticipated . There ia no doubt that Austria is opposed , to Milosch . Thinking him a man likel y to make his terms with Russia , Austria wishes to interfere , but tho Treaty of Paris stands in tho way , unless the other Ppwors consent to such interference . The consent of Russia and France is nob to bo expected , Austrian troops are already on their way from Pesth to tho Voivodina , tho nearest Austrian province to tho Servian frontier . By a telegram from Belgrade , dated Thursday , wo are Informed that tho departure of Prince Alexander from the Turkish fortress had , been demanded , as ho was regarded as implicated in tho military movement of Friday . Tho military had sworn fealty to tho new Government ; the petition in favour of Milosuh had been sent off to the Porto , and addresses had'boon presented to the Skuptsehina , thanking them for the measures they had takon . A Vienna letter says tho latest news received there gives reason to hope that the affair of Sorvia will be spoedily arranged . From Constantinople wo have news up to tho 22 ml . Tho Sultan appears to bo undoing tho work of administrative reform . The anticipated ohango in tho Ministry , which it was intimated would Include Iilza Pasha , who is the real financial reformer , has not yet takou plaoo .
The telegraphic wire between Constantinople and Bagdad is completed , but before the line is extended to Balsora we can hardly hope that Indian news will reach us quicker by way of the Persian Gulf than by that of the Red Sea . BOMB . Letters from Rome speak of the intended sale of the extremely . remarkable collection of Antiquities and works of art belonging to the Marquis Campana , a collection with which most English visitors to the Eternal City are probably acquainted . It is estimated to have cost 6 , 000 , 000 f ., or 240 , 000 / . It fills a vast number of rooms , in three or four different houses . SWEDEN . The Prince Regent ^ has just dismissed the Norwegian Minister , M . Vogt , who had been in office for thirtythree years . PRUSSIA . Among the proposals to be laid before the Prussian Diet will be one relating to the army and navy ; it is pretty certain that a considerable additional outlay in both these departments is contemplated . The attempt will now be made in earnest to create a tleet ia the Baltic . The alteration in the army , it is supposed , will consist in placing the Landwebr ou a permanent looting , and incorporating it into the Lane ,, so that each infantry regiment will contain double the number of companies —21 instead of 12 . IJAVA . RI'A . The King has convoked the Diet for the loth of January . As this body is even more hostile to the Ministry than the two preceding Legislatures , it is thought not unlikely that the Ministers will resign . In the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the new : ' Chamber has commenced its labours by a Vote of defiance to the Government . POUTUGAL . Don Vasco Guedez , Governor , of Mozambique ,. has been recalled for the non-execution of the ' orders of the Government relative to negroes * ' The Portuguese Government has published correspondence relative to the affair of the CharIes-et- ( Jcor ^ es . Lord Maloiesbury is said to have instructed our Minister at Lisbon that Portugal should . surrender the ship , and abide by the decision of a third Power as to the amount of indemnity . This suggestion was refused , ~
. IONIAN ISLANDS . In the official Gazette of Corfu appears the despatch written by Sir E . B . Xytton to Sir J . Young , hi reply to the address of the ten rejiresentatives of CorAi against the occupation of that island and of Paxo as colonies of the British Crown . Sir E . B . Lytton says that the Queen ' s Government do not entertain the desire , as tluy do not possess the power , to make Corfu and Paxo British colonies ; that it is not within Mr . Gladstone ' s power to consider tho cession of the Ionian Islands to any Power in Europe . Sir EuVard recommends the lonians to co-operate with Mr . Gladstone in remedying existing imperfections , so as "to make the practical working of the constitution more harmonious with the natural results of self-government . " The Times correspondent at Corfu says : ^— " Tho more advanced Greek party , though aspiring to the establishment of a kingdom of Greece which would embrace these islands , and , indeed , Thcssaly nnd Epirus , arc not blind to the benefits of the British protectorate , and apprehend that any union with the kingdom of ( Irecce as it is now constituted would detract from the material welfare of tho Ionian Islands . Tim national ami intellectual party , which may be said to number sonio of tho most distinguished men of the country iu its ranks , who have its real progress at hoart , is , however , not ati'tintf enough to make head against tho cry for union with Greece which emanates from tho active agitators , > vlio , backed by foreign intriguo , bring thut principle to iho van , while the Greek clergy loud the powerful iiiihiui . ico which they oxerciso over tho more unaducutoU classes to tho national cause . " NAVLKH . A Naples letter of Docoinbor 22 nd sUUos that a supplomeutttl iQvy of 18 , 000 men has been ordoml . There is great activity in all tho ursonuls . A dospatch iu tho Measajcr da Midi conllrms tho fact of tho extraordinary arm amenta . Tho Graud-Duko Constantino arrivoil at Nico 011 Sunduy , and will leave with the JUuesinn squadron to visit tho royal furnily at JNaploji . The . hand of Marie , ' Princess of Bavaria , has boeu solemnly demanded , for the Duke of . Culabria , but tho marriage will not be celebrated beforo tho 20 tu of February . Tho Russians , says a lotlor from Vionna , wiwhod to got Bvhidhl uu a coaling station , but tho King of Naples positively refused to lot thorn huvo it . Bl'AIN . Tho QaxeUo of the Bflrd contains tho ilooroo by which LiuutonanXxonoml Bayona and tho Count of Espolota , who voted agniusfc tho Govoriimont in tho . last division in tho Sonato , are dlsmisuud . from tUoir posts an Judges in tho Supremo Tribunal of War . Tho clerical journals aro Iu oustusios at tho duoroo wliioli directs h cathodral to bo erected in Madrid in honour of the Immaculate Conception . Somo Sunday schools instituted , in M . adrUI , unuor tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011859/page/6/
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