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xu $ tan < Z ) , and shall enable them to make their voices ^ fcear _ d andrespected in the Bund , where their most important affairs are discussed . " To effect these objects , Professor von Lasaulx , a member of the Chamber , and one of the leaders of the Catholic party in Bavaria , has proposed— " -1 . That a Supreme Federal Covert for securing the political rights of the different states shall be formed ; and , 2 , the organisation and convocation of a , national representation , in order that deputies of the people may be heard as well as the representatives of the princes . " The Queen of Spain has been indisposed ; but has recovered . The assertion that she has had a miscarriage Appears to be incorrect . TheQueen of Spain arrived at Madrid on the 30 th of September , and the Cortes assembled the following day . M . JSruil , Minister of Finance , read the Budget of 1856 , and different financial bills . The cholera is again raging . It is stated on good authority that sums of money have been sent to the Carlists of Catalonia by the Fillibusters of the United States , who , it seems , count much on the success of a rising in Spain , and are confident of being able to treat with the Count de Montenaolin for the transfer of Cuba ! The brigands are still having it all their own way in " Smyrna . A Government , courier has been robbed of 2000 £ . near Magnesia , and he and two of the guards were ; killed . The bandit Luka , who is a Croat , has - ¦ sworn that he will avenge the death of Simon , and that the first person he catches whose ransom is not paid within four-and-twenty hours , shall be impaled or flayed alive . Endeavours are being made to capture this ruffian . —The Smyrna fig harvest this year has proved
unusually . Much indignation has been excited among the French in Egypt at the extraordinary conduct of Said Pacha , the Viceroy , in announcing his intention of visiting France , starting on his journey , and then putting back far no better reason than that he was sea-sick ; a reason tfee . more extraordinary , as this very man was Admiralin-Chief of the Egyptian fleet for fifteen years ! On his Highness ' s return , one of his police-officers jocosely said that the Pacha had been to Sebastopol and taken it . This came to the ears of Said ; and , having sent for the -man , he told him that , if he had not the power to take -Sebastopol , he was quite capable of ordering him five hundred lashes—which were accordingly administered . The Austrian Minister of Finance ( says the Times Vienna Correspondent ) has" come to an understanding with M- Isaac Pereire on the subject of the statutes of the Mortgage Bank ; but the question as to the amount of capital with which the new institution is to be endowed has not yet been settled . The premium on gold has fallen two per cent . ; great activity prevails at the Mint , -and the process of coining is carried on by night as well as by day . The house of Kothschild will find the necessary funds for the Mortgage Bank . The security will . probably be State domains of the value of 150 , 000 , 000 of florins , with the right to bring them into the market . The Opinione of Turin , in mentioning the appointment of General Winspeare to the Directorship of War at Naples , states that he has a brother who is a general in the Russian army , and that he is well known for his
i'lnlo-Russian opinions . . Cholera is rapidly decreasing in Northern Italy . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe , it is said , refuses to recognise the restoration of Mehemet Ali Pacha to power ; ¦ and , in an interview which he had with the Sultan , he used , according to report , language so unbecoming , and even so brutal , that the Sultan had a fit in consequence . The reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has left Paris for Coblentz , at which city there is at present a sort of congress of German princes . Kossuth , Mazzini , and Ledru Kollin have published in the National of Brussels a long manifesto addressed to Republicans . They declare that the moment has arrived for European democracy to constitute itself into a powerful unity , and to act . The fall of Sobastopol thoy regard as the 'beginning of a general war , tlic end of which must be favourable to the peoples ; a ud the document concludes with the words , " Organise
yourselves , ana dare i " The visit of Baron Prokesch to Paris is stated to be purely that of a private individual . He has , however , been presented to the Emporor . The Emperor of Russia's late visit to Moscow , flays a letter from St . Petersburg , was in order that he might •? ' pray to the God of Russia in the first capitul of the empire , in which he was born , to bless his power and the holy combat of the orthodox Church in the Bust . " At the moment the Gaar entered the cathedral , the Metropolitan of Moscow delivqred an address full of faiiatioftl raving . After alluding to the prayer for victory , the Metropolitan concluded with the following inexplicable observation : — "Wo address to the Lord Another , praye . r : it is to see you soon with the auored . sign of ( the eaiqts , the crown of your father and your ancestors , amid the benedictions of Heaven and of Russia . " The Nort / tem Bee , has / lately published several articles on a book on the war in 1812 , in which it is attempted to benhown that it was the Are of Moscow , and . not cold . ¦ and ( hunger , which destroyed the invading army . The , « bj « ot of this ia to persuade the Russian reader . tluit tho
abandonment of Sebastopol was premeditated , and will certainly turn to the advantage of Russia . The Governments of Austria and Belgium are at this moment engaged in a dispute _ about the right of possession of a church at Rome , " called the Chiesa dell ' Anima . Belgium claims it because it was founded in 1400 by a Belgian named Jean de Fister . Austria , on the other hand , pleads her possession of Belgium for centuries , and the fact of there existing no treaty or article of a treaty by which she renounces her right . When France annexed Belgium , she also took possession of the Chiesa dell' Anima , and subsequently the Holy See recognised the right of Belgium . Cardinal Brunelli has been appointed to examine into the matter . The Austrian Government is said to have made a proposition to the Porte that the powers of Prince Stirbey , the present Hospodar of Wallachia , whose authority expires in May , 1856 , in virtue of the convention of Balta-Liman , shall be prolonged for another period of seven years . The Paris Prefect of Police has issued a decree , ordering that , on and after the 16 th of the present month , butchers' meat shall be subjected to prices fixed regularly by the authorities every fortnight . In the shops established in the markets , meat is to be sold at ten centimes , at least , per kilogramme below the fixed price . % Great disgust is being created in Prussia at the unscrupulous conduct of the police , which , though not so bad as that of the sbirri of Naples and Rome , is sufficiently irritating . This force was originally intended to be an exact counterpart of the London police ; but it has gradually assumed a more military character . It appears that members of the body have lately been instructed to draw up lists of electors , and to go about from house to house , demanding that the owner shall vote in favour of the ministry at the elections . If the Prussians have any spirit in them , they will resist such insulting dictation .
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: : : i ' . THE ITALIAN NIGHTMARES . The presence of English and French vessels in the Bay of Naples seems to have imposed a certain check on the savage vagaries of the King of the Two Sicilies . The beatings , the torturings , the illegal imprisonments , and infamous extortions of money from the pockets of inoffensive beings , have considerably lessened ; and the people are left to breathe awhile . But the calm is only treacherous . Mazza , it is said , has been employed by the king to organise the armed lazzaroni , and has told them that he is still in fact their leader , and that they are to be faithful to his cause , which they are to hold themselves ready to defend . Such , at least , is one statement ; but , according to another , Roberti , the new Director of Police , has disarmed the lazzaroni , and placed them under surveillance . Of the two assertions , the former , we ate afraid , is the more probable . Roberti is said to be a pious mau . The phrase is so often misused , that a misgiving comes over us on hearing it ; but let us hope that he is pious iu the best sense of the
space is left vacant between the Austrian soldiers on the one hand , and the populace on the other . The castle on the Piazza d'Armi is now very strong , and the guns in its towers completely command the town . 1 he citadel on the hill near Verona is nearly completed ; and we should despair for the Italian people , if we did not know that the oause of justice and right possesses immortal strength and immortal hope . ^• 7 * j > tated ( says » letter from Rome in the ( Metal Milan Gazette ) that the Pope lately received a letter from the Emperor of the French , in which he was reminded of the stringent reasons which render a series of reasonable reforms necessary , such as were recommended m the letter of August 18 , 1849 , from the then President of the Republic , delivered to the Pope by M . Edgar Ney . The measures recommended were—a general amnesty , the secularisation of the administration , the Code Napoleon , and a liberal government . It is added that his Holiness replied , that he -was not averse to granting his subjects certain reforms calculated to secure the peace of the country without sacrificing either his dignity or that of the Holy See . To this reply it is rumoured that an answer has been received which has not proved palatable to the Holy See .
i word . The Naples Correspondent of the Morning Post says that , as the dismissal of Mazza has not been officially communicated , the demands of England are not satisfied ; and Sir William Temple is determined to uphold his country with spirit . The affair , therefore , is not yet settled ; and the King goes on fortifying with preposterous industry . " The diligence from Rome to Naples , " says the Daily News Correspondent , " has been stopped by brigands between Terracina and Ciaterna . The brigands wcro three , tho passengers , conductor , and postilions , twelve . Notwithstanding , the passongers were relieved of a little of their superfluous cash , until tho greater booty was discovered of 1500 piastres . Tho robbory ia suspected to have been a plot concocted at Rome , with which the conductor perhaps had something to do . From Rome to
Porto dAnzo , the omnibuses are guarded . Tho Times Neapolitan Correspondent states that he has tho following from " one of tho most temperate and unprejudiced men in Naples : " — " Since 1848 up to May , 1854 , 839 persons had boon condemned to different punishmonts for political crimes . Of 47 of those condemned to death , 26 were commuted to tho Ergatttolo , und 21 to heavy irons . Among the condemned were 67 priests , and 84 of tho prisoners had died . This list , however , gives no account of the nambor of persona arrested by tho police , and routined in custody without trial , und even without examination , directly iu violation of tho penal code , which ia an explicit on this subject as tho Habeas Cor / nut in England . Iu tho civil courts , bribery is so openly recognised that no advocuto would think of undertaking a cause , be it ovor so good , without first recommending his client to muko u piopitittiy offering to tho judge , and ho would hardly daro to pload at all if tho opposing party was in
finy way under tho protection of tho police . Such is tho condition of South and Central Italy . If wo turn our oyes to tho North , under ( ho rule of A . us ( riu , we find matters nearly as bad . Tho Austrians behave with tho greatest brutality to the Milanese , and frequently call thorn in public " boasts , " " cowards , " » nd " assassins . " Tho people , in consequence , will not mix with tho officors , and iu tho pits of tho thotttros u
Our Civilisation. A Crimean Hero Mai> Wi...
OUR CIVILISATION . A Crimean Hero Mai > with Drink . — Upwards of three months ago , a soldier named William Maynard , who had returned , from the Crimea badly wounded in the battle of Inkerman , where a rifle-ball carried away the bridge of his nose , his right eye , and a part of his temple and cheek , entered a Catholic chapel under the influence of drink , and made a murderous assault on a policeman who turned him out . Mr . Norton , the magistrate , learning that a conviction would deprive the man of his pension , and making allowance for the effect which drink had made upon a constitution weakened by injuries , continued to remand the case under the hope that the policeman would recover . A certificate announcing a partial recovery has been given in , and Maynard , who has been out on bail , is therefore discharged . The constable is still weak , and the surgeon states that the kidney is injured . Maynard's counsel has given a sovereign to form a fund for the officer ; Mr . Norton has added another from his own pocket , and a third from the poor-box ; and it is to be hoped that the public will inc tne amount
rease . Our Marriage Laws . ^ -A case , illustrating with sad reality the imperfect nature of our marriage laws , and the species of civilisation which springs from them , was brought forward a few days since at the Lambeth police court . A " reverend" gentleman , named David Edwards , is married to a lady who was formerly a schoolmistress , but who is now nothing more than a victim to the fantastical cruelty of this Christian clergyman . She is reduced to a condition of feverish nervousness , and , unable to endure the slow torture any longer , summons her husband before tho Lambeth magistrate to answer a charge of ill-using her and threatening her life . At the police-office , she stated that all she wished was to be allowed to take away a portion of the household goods , and to reopen a school in some other neighbourhood . She added , that she would not trouble the " reverend" gentleman for a shilling , but , on the contrary , would support him out of her income of 40 ? . a year , and what she might make by her school . Edwards did not . deny his wife ' s statements , but refused to comply with her requests . In vain did the magistrate urge the necessity of compliance : Edwards remained inexorable , and the summons was ultimately adjourned to a future day to sco what time and reflection might do . But it is only too clear that time und'reflection will have no effect upon a
nature so hardened in its guilt or so confirmed in its moral disease . As well suggest time and reflection to the St . Giles ' s ruffian who Beats tho wretched woman in his power , as to the " Reverend" David Edwards . It is a cage for the law to interfere ; but tho law will not interfere . The law will calmly hand the wife back to her legal torturer called husband , who , as long as ho docs not commit any positive assault , will have full liberty to pursuo that course of conduct which has already led to " nervousness , " and which in the lapse of a few more months will very probably lead to sonio affection of tho
mind of a nature far more serious . A Ttiiicv uy Wuoukhmm . —Alfred Rostock , a journeyman shoemaker , and a woman named' Kirk , wcro charged on Saturday at Worship-street with a most extensive robbery of boots and shooa from tho promises of Mr . Ruddock , tho employer of tho male prisoner . Tho suspicions of Mr . Ruddock having been excited by tho mysterious disappearance of portions of bin stock , a detective policeman was stationed on tho promiuos to watclj . Ho secreted himself in a shed which commanded a full viow of tho promises , In a little time , lioatock , whoso time for commencing work was not till considerably later , walked up to a small workshop at tho oido ox tho warehouse , which ho entered , arid , nftor romaunng there a short time , cropt cautiously out agai » , jooKoa about him , and thon made hi * way to tho ™» rohou « o , the door of which was secured by an excel lent Jo c c . I Jjls tho primmer could , not open without / » f « therefore obtained an entrance by d ^ lLandZaS which hold the hasp or staple , went iuaido , » ud in a , few
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101855/page/7/
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