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    Bi Tho Prcsac Of Tuesday, Emile De Girar...

    Girardin , since his fatal rencontre with Carrel , has , I believe , been converted from duelling . Granier has no alternative but to challenge his adversary ; but it does not seem probable that , his challenge will be deemed more respectable by the editor of the Presse than it was by M . Creton , who refused either to fight or to apologise , after having called M . Granier in the Assembly a miserable pamphleteer . Tbe Presse has since received a second " warning , " by way of a reply . The French Government is reported to have resolved on taking steps for the prevention of certain Engbsh papers being circulated in France . A bureau will be opened at the Post Office for the express purpose of examining the English papers , the least inconvenience of which will be to retard their delivery . The correspondent of the Morning _Advei'tiser has received notice , that in case of continued

    offence he will be expelled the country . At a dinner given recently by a great capitalist in Paris , General Haynau was present . To a " delicate allusion " on the part of a French officer , the General replied , with thanks for the opportunity of clearing up so grave a calumny as that of woman-flogging . It was true a lady had been flogged ; but , on his word as a soldier , he himself was sixty leagues from the place , and had reprimanded the officer who ordered the punishment . That he was severe he avowed , but only on duty . As to the charge of having murdered eighteen persons in cold blood , they were sentenced by the tribunals : he had only the power of preventing the execution , which , however , he could not do consistently with justice and duty . The General says nothing of the atrocities committed under his orders at the storming of Brescia ( see General William Pepe ' s account ) , scarcely equalled by the darkest horrors of war in the middle ages .

    The New Gazette of the Oder mentions , that during the Emperor of Austria ' s recent journey in Hungary he promised the most liberal rewards to any one who should find the crown of St . Stephen , which disappeared in the revolution . His Majesty has promised a million of florins to three magnates , who are suspected of being in correspondence with Kossuth , if they should succeed in discovering tbe crown . The clergy have called on their flocks to give all the information in their power on this subject . The Lieutenant-Governor of Venice has published a " sovereign resolution , " declaring the revolutionary loan , and all " patriotic paper , " meaning thereby tho revolu-. tionary paper money , null and void . General Filangieri has left Ischia for Palermo . A plot is said to have been discovered at Castrogiovanni , in Sicily . " ~

    By a convention just concluded between Russia and the Papal See , the vessels of Russia are admitted to all the immunities of Roman ports , on conditions of reciprocity . Thc King of Naples has granted full pardon to the 547 galley slaves who constructed tbe dry dock , inaugurated at Naples on the loth , under the direction of tho Prince of Ischitella , Minister of Marine . The Madiais of Florence ( persons of unimpeachable character ) , who ( it may be remembered ) were arrested on the night of August 17 , 1851 , on a charge of being Protestants , reading their Pibles , and inducing others to do the same , bave been tried and found guilty after a year ' s imprisonment , and sentenced , the men to 5 ( 1 months of solitary confinement , with labour , and the women to 40 , with labour also . The Prussian _Ohnrgtf d'Affaires , as the representative of a Protestant Sovereign , has protested

    against the sentence being curried into eliect . vy c do not bear of any protest from the English . Minister . English Protestantism evaporates at homo in Exeter Hall , and abroad sympathizes officially with governments that persecute Protestants , and is on ( be best terms with Louis Bonaparte , the King of Naples , and the ( 3 rand Duke of Tuscany ; while in France _IVolestiinls are forbidden to meet for prayer ; at Naples a Protest ant teacher is driven houseless into the streets ; and at . Florence pious Protestant parents' are sentenced to a life of solitary confinement and hard labour for reading ( heir Bibles . So much for fhe sincerity of laxefer Hall ! ' Tho . Duke of Cambridge ( our Inspector-General of Cavalry ) is on a visit to the King of Prussia , assisting at the grand military _lnanieuvres , including regular siege operations , af Stettin .

    ' 1 lie Vienna Gazuttt ; continues to publish the sentences of the Pesth court-martial . Recently it ; contained five columns of this intelligence , concluding with , "To be continued in our next . " The Duchess of Orleans will leave Switzerland for her former asylum at Fisenaeh in the course of this week . The King of Sweden arrived at . Zurich on the 2 P > ih . Disastrous accounts are given of ( lie iuundut ions in the valley of the Alp : ; in parts of Switzerland and iu Savoy . The Queen of Spain is reported lo he again c . nc . c . iulc . A l . vlgian journal has the following on the subject of the recent , conventions between Krancc . and lhtli > ium :

    "We learn that , one of the consequences of tho treaty of the 2 'Jiul , relative to literary and artist . ica ) property , will be the creation of an _olliee for thc direct inn of affairs connected with books , in the department of Ihe Interior . We think we may also say that before Ihe ratification ol * the treaty ( be Belgian publishers and _booksellers will be bound lo present , a complete inventory of all the reprinted French books which ( hey have in ( heir establishments , and as many stamps un they nIi . iII have declared works will be delivered to them , which Ihey will themselves placy on the covers of the works in their possession . From the date of the publication of the treaty , any French book reprinted , which shall not . bear tho stamp required by lho law , may be seized on ( be premises of the bookseller or the printer . The seizure is the only penally to be indicted . " The l . clg ' mn printers are up in uruiM at the prospect of losing ( heir busy trade of _Conlrtfacon .

    A monument , to Titian was inaugurated af Venice on Ihe 17 th , with civil and military hoiionrM . fn the _midut , of royal and imperial progresses , King Cholera pursues his dreadful march . If is important ( o

    Bi Tho Prcsac Of Tuesday, Emile De Girar...

    watch his stealthy steps , so as to be able to judge from precedent how soon we may expect ( if we are doomed to expect ) his arrival in England . The following is the latest intelligence of his movements . The Berlin correspondent of the Times , writing on the 28 th ult ., says : — " The cholera has reached Konigsberg , two fatal cases having occurred on the 26 th . " From Dantzic the accounts are to the 25 th . The cholera had increased , and there were at that date from 40 to 50 new cases daily . Several cases had occurred among the higher classes of the inhabitants . From the first appearance of the disease to the 25 th , there had been 308 cases , of which 145 were fatal . The troops of the garrison had suffered more in proportion to their mimher than tho civilians .

    " In the town of Posen there were 70 new cases on the 27 th , of which 29 were fatal ; on the same date there were 428 persons under treatment . In Miloslaw the disease had increased . In Zerko and Smilowo the epidemic had shown itself , and also at Lissa , in the immediate neighbourhood of Breslau . The Preslauer Zeitung gives a gloomy description of the continued prevalence of the pest at Pleschcn . " The Kreuz Zeitung states , from Marienburg on the 26 th , that the . disease was still spreading there , and increasing in severity , especially in Weichselwerder and Nogatwerder . " Isolated cases are spoken of at Vienna .

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    kept one hour and a half , and thence conveyed to the police , and there detained two hours and a half . My son naturally remonstrated , and inquired why he was thus treated ; but the only answer he could obtain was , ' That * is an affair of the military authorities . ' A person was then ordered to accompany my son to his hotel and examine all his drawings and papers ( which he did in the most searching manner ) , and if ' nothing was found of an objectionable character , ' the orders were to discharge my son ; and although nothing of that kind was discovered ( there being nothing ) , still he was taken back to the police office and finally conveyed to prison , without being allowed to go back to his hotel to take some food—he not having had anything since breakfast , and it being then half-past ten o ' clock at night . His keys and everything he had in his pockets wore taken from him on arriving at the prison .

    BRITISH SUBJECTS IN ITALY Mr . Mather it appears was not destined to be the only Englishman subjected to Austrian outrages . The name of Mr . Newton , whose case we noticed last week , must be joined to his _; and probably , judging from the temper of the Austrian officials these two will have other companions . The particulars of the outrage inflicted on Mr . Newton , at Verona , are thus detailed by Mr . W . J . Newton , his father , in a letter to the Times , dated Aug . 28 th : — " My son ( an architect ) was returning homewards through Verona from his extensive travels , and while examining a part of the fortifications was arrested by the sentinel on duty and taken to the guardhouse ; and although he proved he was not sketching ( for that was the charge against him ) , as my son had only Murray ' s Guide Pooh and a plan of Verona in his hands , he was nevertheless

    " My son states that the dungeon was of a ' most loathsome character '; that he was confined all night , in perfect darkness , with two low characters ( one , I believe , a malefactor ) ; and that he bad only a straw mattress on the ground to repose upon , and which proved to be full of vermin . My son adds , that , what with hunger and fatigue both of body and mind , ' tbe horrors of that night aro beyond description . ' "The following morning he was so ill and exhausted that , wben a person came with somo food nt eight o ' olock , be could not take any ; antl , in short , he was detained until four o ' clock on that day , and then liberated without any charge being made against him .

    " In this weak state ( nothaving had food since breakfast on the preceding day ) my son could scarcely walk ; but so soon as he was able he stated bis caso in writing , and conveyed it to Marshal Kadotzky , who after three days referred him to tho Governor of Verona . My son was , however , treated so rudely by this oflicial that ho wa . s not allowed to state , his case , but . was ordered to leave the house , which , of course , ho did , nnd then my son considered it right to inform Marshal Kadotzky of the nature of that interview . " M v "on wailed in Verona three or four days afterwards " My Hon wailed in Verona three or four days afterwards

    in expect ul . ion that , some explanation would have been given to him ; but in failure of which he retraced bis stops to Venice , and there laid his caso beforo her Majesty ' s Consul , who was at last induced to take some steps in this act , of aggression and outrage . " I ' pon leaving Venice my son was again exposed to annoyance at . fhe railway station -his ticket was taken from ' him and all his luggage _vexatiously examined , by which ho was detained beyond the departure of the train , so that be not only lost his time but his money also . Ho was in like manner exposed fo great annoyance at Milan nffervvnrds . "

    We , quite , agree , with Mia VV . . 1 . Newton , " thai , such gross treatment of an unoffending British subject in a foreign country calls aloud for reparation and apology from the proper quarter . However , " he . continues , " nothing can < _-onipcn , ) nft . my son for the m ' lHery ol mind and body to which be has been exposed ; and lOiiglish travellers in the Austrian States of Italy will bear in mind tho risk thoy run , and the penally they aro liable to pay for lho p leasure in contemplating works of art . " Wben shall we havo a , truly national minitsfry whom the Austrian barbarians will respect , or who will make themselves respected V _Chanly the namo of Miilineshury is a byewonl in Lombardy and Vienna !

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    AMERICAN _DlFFICtJtTlfis We have had two mails in from the United State * « , week , bringing news to the 21 st of August < k * are two distinct sets of opinions as to the state of «! fishery question j one reciting that matters ar * & more warlike , and even that England is _disrwT enforce the treaty ; another , the probabl y _more _^ cV that . the dispute is all but wound up , and that we W given way : in fact , 4 hat the revelations of the _Standard some time since , are substantially true . The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald , writing from Washington on the 20 th states that the Committee on Foreign Relations did not am sider that they were called upon to take any step to " wards a settlement of the fisheries qnestion , _believing it to be the duty of the President to take the initia tive , and , after the example of General Washington " lay his views before Congress , and ask for advice '

    "In such event , " says the Herald ' s _corresnondonf " it is highly probable the British Government _wouM early become acquainted with our ultimatum . In anv event , unless the British Government disavows an inter _, tion of forcing her construction of the treaty by an armed force , retaliatory duties will be imposed . The official advices received by the last steamer b y Mr . Crampton it is stated , upon what I deem good authority , confirm the opinion that the British Government are determined to press tho offensive construction of the treaty , as interpreted by the Crown officers , and upheld upon all occa " sions by the Earl of Derby , while Lord Stanley . The English Government will not listen to any negotiations for opening the fisheries , unless such negotiations also embrace the whole subject of reciprocal trade with all tho

    provinces . That Congress in its present condition , excited by a British fleet on our northern borders , and called upon to make concessions almost under duress , will consent to such negotiations , is out of the question . The fish difficulty must be settled by itself before any reciprocity measures for Canada will be listened to . It is the opinion of many leading and distinguished men here , that if England persists in carrying out the offensive attitude which it is on good authority believed she has determined upon , by forcing the headland construction of the treaty , serious difficulties must arise . When the subject comes up again in the Senate , it will be seen that recent information ha 8 greatly embittered the feelings of that body . England must back out . "

    Bnt Senator Seward , in his great speech , made on the 14 th of August , a speech delivered after a consultation with Mr . Webster and Mr . Crampton , not only sweeps away the idea of war as preposterous , hut points out that England has had actually fewer guns on the fishing station than formerly ; and that the alarm arose from the unofficial information supplied to the public hy Mr . Webster . He describes beth countries as non-aggressive , and shows that all along the practical understanding of ths treaty of 1818 has been , that American fishermen should fish without the three

    mile coast line . Besides , it is not the interest of England to go to war : — " _England is a creditor nation . We are debtors to her . Heaven knows how much capital is not accumulated in England . It is a capital that _^ ias been gathered through a thousand years , by a nation of wonderful and worldsearching sagacity , industry , and enterprise . Wc employ of that capital all tbat wo can obtain , for-wo have need of it all to bring at onco into sudden development and

    perfection vast and perpetually extending regions , which for near G , 0 ( X ) years were , by civilized man , untrodden and unknown . A largo portion of our public debt is owned in England . Largo masses of our State debts aro owned there . In addition to that , our merchants are indebted to England I know not bow much ; but I have known the timo when tho whole public and privato debt of tho United States was not less than 250 , 000 , 000 dollars . The interest on this debt constitutes tho support of a considerable portion of the British community .

    England , then , cannot wisely desire nor safely dare a war with tho United States . Sho knows all this and moro —that war with tbo United States about thoso fisheries woultl find tbo United States able to surround the British colonies . Sho would find that the dream of conquost of those colonies which broke upon us oven in tho dawn of tho revolution , when we tendered them an invitation to join their fortunes with ours , and followed it with tho sword that dream which returned again in 1812 , when we attempted to subjugate them by force—would como over us again , and that now , when we havo matured tho strength to tako them , we should find the provinces willingly consenting to captivity . A war about thoso fisheries would he a war which would result either in tho

    independence of the British provinces , or in their annexation to tho United States . I devoutly pray God that that consummation may como—the sooner the bettor ; but 1 do not desire it ai . the cost of war or of injustice . I " " content to wait for the ripened food which must fall . I know the wisdom of England too well to believe that » ho would hazard shaking that fruit into our hands , for « h that she could hope to gain by insisting on or enforcing of the

    with armed power the rigorous construction convention concerning the colonial fisheries . Sir , what is the condition of England for a war with the United States at this moment P tier power baa boon extended over Lho Kant , and she employs nearly all _borarmios in India and in Africa to maintain _horsoH * against tho natives of fhe one continent and the _navngos of fhe other . At this very moment , those who _undorultind her condition best , say that her homo defences aro inadequate to _protcac her agiunut an invasion by France . W ise and able statesmen ,

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091852/page/4/