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      Naval And Military. A Soldier Of The 1st...

      opinion of military men here make very short work of sieges , which Napoleon I . during his Italian campaign was compelled to abandon in consequence of his deficient materiel . The experiments were quite satisfactory , so much so indeed that several batteries are to be armed with the guns as speedily as they can be got ready .

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      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. The Tempest...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The tempestuous weather of the past week has , there is reason to fear , produced much disaster . From Holyhead we learn that both the inner and outer harbours have been crowded with vessels . seeking refuge during the late gales , as many as 300 sail being counted at one time . The harbour is now comparatively empty , though some vessels had been there as long as six weeks . A large quantity of wreck has turned up along the coast , particularly in the Bay of Cardigan . ¦ . The week has been also marked by several terrible fires in provincial towns , which have destroyed a vast amount of property . On Sunday night one broke out on the premises of a timber merchant at West-bar , Sheffield . The stock was immense . The conflagration extended over the whole premises , and threw up a blaze many yards above the loftiest surrounding buildings .

      The . whole of the buildings are completely gutted ; nothing saved . There was a tremendous crowd , and the military were called out to clear the streets . The building is insured in the Sheffield Fire-office . Stock not insured ; estimated damage over 1 . 0 , 000 / . —^ On Tuesday a fire of a most serious nature broke out in the factory of Hine , Mundella , and Co . j hosiers , ' , Stationstreet , Nottingham . The progress of the fire was stayed some time when it had reached a ' part of the building which had been made fire-proof . At eleven o ' clock , however , it burnt through the roof , the flames lighting the country for many miles round . About halfpast one the flames were mastered . The damage sustained is immense ; all the machinery is destroyed , together with the factory and the unfinished goods . Several hundreds of workpeople are thrown out of employmentjthe factory , being one of the most , extensive Of the kind in Nottingham .

      An inquest was held on Wednesday , at Camberwell , on the body of a young lady aged seventeen , named Mary Ann Hearn , who was killed by the discharge of a gun . On Monday morning , James , the brother of deceased , being about to go out shooting , had laid a double-barrelled rifle loaded on the table , and while in the act of , lifting it , the weapon , by some unexplained accident , went off . The sister , who sat in the . room , received the contents in her head , having her brains blown out , and expired almost immediately . The jury returned a verdict of Death by Misadventure .

      The captain and crew of the British barque Franklin , which was wrecked at sea on the 7 th ult :, have arrived at New York , in the packet-ship Manhattan , which rescued them from the wreck on the forenoon of the 10 th . The captain ' s lady and only child were lost at the time that the vessel capsized , and one young man perished afterwards . Treasure Tkovk . —Our readers may be awarq that , by an ancient Scottish law maxim , " What belongs to nobody belongs to the Crown , " and consequently that all ancient relics , ornaments of the precious metals , and coins , are claimed by the Crown when they happen to be discovered . The consequence of this , state of things haa been , that comparatively few such , discoveries become known , as the finders have so many motives for concealment , and every year many valuable and curious

      relics of antiquity find their way to the melting-pot . We are gratified to be able to announce that this state of things no longer exists . The Society of Antiquities of Scotland , and the Commissioners of Supply in th , o dif ~ ferent counties , recently memorialised the Treasury on the subject , and an official order from that department , just promulgated , henceforth recognises the right of finders pf ancient coins , gold of silver ornaments , or other relics pf antiquity in Scotland , to receive from the Treasury their actual value , on delivering them up on behalf of tho Crown to the sheriff of the county in which they may be found . Wo cannot doubt that this is a most important stop for the better preservation of our national antiquities ; and we trust . that tho liberal provision of tho new Treasury arrangement will soon become gonorally known throughout tho kingdom . —/ Scotsman ,

      PcBWto IIrai-th .- —Tho Registrar-General ' s return marks an improvement in the state of health of tho metropolis . During last week the deaths declined to 1829 , having been 1880 in tho previous week , but wore in excess of tho averago by 51 . There is no doorcase in the mortality from scarlatina and dlpthorla . Tho number of births for tho wook was 1980 . Dr . Lethoby ' s return shows tho deaths for the City to bo ubovo tho average , , ; V $ ry High Church . —Sunday bolng tho anniversary of " King Charles tho Martyr , " the Vicar of ' Loedu ( Pr . Moloswortb . ) took ocoaslon to complain that tho apodal service for tho day had boon suppressed without the heads of ( ho Church bolng consulted in tho matter . Ho remarked that It was their duty to bow to that as well as all other legal decisions , but he hoped that tho day was not far distant when the Churoh would bo Alf owod . to conduct it )} own affairs .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . . - - -FBANG ' E-. " . . ¦''¦ ¦ : ' . ' . The preparations for war are going oh with increased energy in every department of the naval and military services . The Emperor is evidently bent on war sotnewherey while his Ministers are as anxious to preserve peace , no doubt being fully convinced that their individual interests point out a pacific course . " The uniform tendency , says the correspondent of the Express , of all the evidence which now presses upon my ear at every moment is to show that war was thoroughly resolved upon at the moment when the Emperor made his ever-memorable New-year ' s speech to M . de Hubner ; and that all semi-official statements and despatches to the contrary have only been made and written with a view to deceive . "

      Orders have been issued to call home all French ships of war on foreign stations which can possibly be spared from the particular service on which they ¦

      now are . .. . . The Minister of Marine is shortly to make a tour of inspection in the French ports . An ordinance reorganises the seamen employed in effecting a landing ; and it is stated they are in future to be exercised in the use of the rifle . Toulon is full of troops . From a French port in the north of France One General is said to be forwarding at the rate of two hundred ^ horses a day to the army . Naval preparations on a large scale are going on , and quantities of camp equipage sent both , to Toulon and Marseilles . Our First Lord of the Admiralty can say whether it is correct , namely , that the Mediterranean has become pretty nearly a French lake ; that the English have but three sail of the line at Malta , while the French have ten in their ports , and that the Russians are also doing something in these waters .

      It is authoritatively denied by a Government journal in Toulon , which largely circulates in the French army and navy , that the Emperor of the French has proposed that a European congress should decide on the state of Italy . The Daily New having asserted that France could onl y spare 130 , 000 men for an expeditionary corps , the Constitutiohnel has been ordered to prove that the Emperor has a disposable force , for foreign service , of half a million . .

      The correspondent of the Express says : — " Unless the Emperor is preparing an immense surprise for the world by his speech on the day after to-morrow , we are certainly on the eve of war . This impression is more widely diffused to-day than I have yet seen it . The journals speak of war in a matter-of-course tone which is most alarming . The Constitutionnel ' s article in reply to the Daily News , boasting of the immense forces which France could at once bring into the field , js looked upon as a menace , and perhaps contributed more than anything else to the great fall at the Bourse . " extremel ad

      The popular feeling in Franco is y - verse to war . The suspension of business is felt in all the great commercial and manufacturing centres , at a time of year when work should be busiest and the greatest number of hands employed . Humours which are ?• fun " at the Tuileries inay . be " death" in the faubourgs when work is wanting and orders fall off , and something of the distress of war is felt before < war has ceased to bo more than a menace or a boast . In order to attain his ends more easily , Louis Napoleon is intriguing for the overthrow of the Derby Ministry , and a correspondence , more active than over , is going on between certain political men in England and tho Tuilories .

      On account of the interest attached to public affairs at the present moment , the Emperor is anxious that the opening of tho sessions of tho Corps Legislutif should bo attended , with unusual ceremony and pomp . With respect to the speech , it is drawn up with immense care ; but those , who are initiated in the matter have reason to believe that it will not be so pacific as tho'offlcial and financial world would desire . It is said that the Duke de Montebollo , not Count do Porsigny , will replace tho Duke of MalakofT at the Court pf St . James ' s . It seems to be certain that PtflisBier is about to assume the command pf tho army of Paris .

      Prince Napoleon having distinguished himself so greatly as a Crimean general , will now , it appears , receive the title of High Admiral . A pamphlet has just appeared , destined to make a considerable sensation . Tho title is " L'Emnercur Napolo " on ot l'ltallo . " Tho writor is annpunqod to bo M . do la Guorronlcre , The moral pf It will be , that although the Emperor desires peace , things in Italy cannot remain as they are- —ergo , no alternative but war Prince Nappleon and the Prinooss Clotilda arrived at tho Tullorioa at half-past three p ' olook on Thursday afternoon . SARDINIA . The Government continues tho moat active propnratlpiis for war , which is considered at T urin to be inevitable .

      General Niel has visited all the fortified places of Piedmont , and has declared that they cannot be got readv before the end of March , He has written to Paris recommending delay . It appears that the King will be generalissimo , that General Niel will be the chief of hi 3 staff , and La Marmora commander-in-chief pf the Piedmontese army . A corps of th . e French army , it is said , will act in Venetia , and Garibaldi , who has just arrived at Genoa , will hold with his volunteer corps the provinces bordering the Lago Maggiore , Como , and the Sondrio . A letter of M . Felix Solar to the Journal' des Chemins de Fer states that people in Turin are by no means so hot upon war as they are supposed to be in Paris—that in fact , it is only the party of the refugees who really wish for War , and that the French are at this moment as coolly received in Turin as the Aiistrians .

      The marriage of Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda was celebrated on Sunday last with great pomp . The newly married couple were present at the theatre the * same evening , and at a grand ball on Monday night . The enthusiasm shown by the Turinese was very small indeed , and the illuminations at night paltry and by no means general . The Grand-Duke Corfstantine left his sick wife at Palermo a few days since , and privately came to Turin-. He was only seen by the King , M . de Cavour , and some few partisans of the Court . : ¦' ... The Chamber of Deputies have voted the sum of 20 , 0007 . for the dowry of the Princess Clotilda . A despatch from Turin , dated February 3 , says that a loan has been decided upon , and that the project will be immediately presented to the Chambers .

      A rumour is current that the Iving of Sardinia is about to marry a Russian princess . The Pays publishes a letter , from Turin , which states the fart positively . The name of the princess in question is the Grand-Duchess Maria Nicolaiewna , the eldest daughter of the Emperor Nicholas , widow of the Duke de Leuclitenberg ' , who died November 1 , 1852 . The Grand-Duchess is now at Rome , ¦ where it is alleged the Marquis Alfieri has succeeded in negotiating the marriage .

      AUSTRIA . Reinforcements continue to pour into all the Austrian garrisons in Italy . The Ojr inione of . Turin states that the garrison of Payia has been reinforced with the regiment Kinslci , so that it is now composed of 8000 men . A corps of observation , according to the same paper , has been formed between Como , the Logo Maggiore , and the Ticino . The Milan Gazette of the 29 th ult ' . announces that the University of Pavia is to be reopened immediately on the same conditions for the students as that of Padua . The generalissimo of the Austrians in the anticipated struggle will be , it . appears certain , the Archduke Albert , son of the celebrated Archduke Charles , and who gives every promise of worthily following in the steps of his father . He commands at this moment the army of

      Hungary-Numerous arrests have been made at Venice . Nevertheless , there has not been any attempt at disorder . On the 26 th ult . two fresh battalions of Croats arrived there ; they were immediately despatched into tho interior . The Duchess of Parma has returned to her capital . The Messrs . Rothschild have issued propositions for an Austrian loan of 5 , 000 , 000 . ' ., at . the price of 80 / . for every 100 ? . stock , bearing interest at the rate of five pur cent , per annum ; and English capitalists have so poor an opinion of their security that they will not give more than 784 for it . The Empress of Austria and her sister , the Duchcs . sof Calabria , have arrived at Trieste . Tho exportation of horses towards the frontiers of Lombardy , Tyrol , and tho Scogrenze ( borders of tho Adriatic' ) , hns been prohibited .

      SWITZERLAND . A letter from Berne , dated Jan . 29 , ' says : —" The Federal Assembly has been closed . Tho President in hid speech » a » d— - We will maintain our independence as n united and armed peoplo , but without giving offence to neighbouring states . ' " TOKTUGAL . A telegraphic despatch , informs us that tho Portuguese Chambers havo unanimously voted ninety contort of rois to the Infanta Mary Anno , and thirty contos of rcis for tho celebration pf the marriage .

      HAVA 1 UA , A letter frem Munich announces that tho session o > tho Chambers of Bavaria was opened on tho 20 ib by Prlnco Lultpold , brpthor of the king . No speech wus mudo on tho occasion . Tho real opening took nlaco ft fortnight boforo , as , according tp tho constitution of Havarla , tho Chambers first aasomblo to form tlioir bureau , aftor which they aro convoked for tho royul sitting .

      SA 3 COSY . - Tho Dresden Journal cpntradlots tho news of t » o Ministry having resigned , and deelaros that thoro has not boon , and will not In its opinion bo , any ministerial crisis durlpg tho present parliamentary sosslon . TuniMcv . . ,, Two principal ringlondora in tho massacre pi u » o

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05021859/page/8/