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SBPtfEMBBB. 10, 1853.] THE LEADER. 869
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The " brush" at Smyrna between Austria a...
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Tho Moniteur has recentl y published a d...
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The Belgians are unwearied in getting up...
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The schoolmaster is indeed abroad. The K...
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At Ravenna, an attempt has been made to ...
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Lord Howden, our ambassador at Madrid, h...
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ft appears that, the Hwias Federal Counc...
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Continental Notes. The Turkish Spirit Is...
ressions so equivocal , as particular conventions or stipu-P tions in favour of a great community of so many millions if subjects professing the Greek rite . " Such being the points -which present inconvenience to the Sublime Porte , it cannot , notwithstandin g the greatest esnect for the advice of the high Powers its allies , and ts sincere desire to renew its relations with the imperial governmen t of Russia / its friend and neighbour ; it . cannot I say , resist trusting to the equity and the justice of the '( 3 reat powers the consideration relative to its rights of sovereignty and independence . ^ " If however , the last draft of note composed by the Sublinie Porte is accepted , or if that of Vienna receives
tbe desired modifications , the Ottoman cabinet will be ready to sig n either of these two drafts , and to send imm ediately an Ambassador Extraordinary , upon condition of the evacu ation of the Principalities . The government of tlie Sublime Porte expects moreover a substantial guarantee on the part of the Great Powers against any future interference , and any occupation from time to time of the Principalities of Wallaehia and Moldavia ; and the object of the Ottoman government in arming itself beforehand with such excessive precautions is to prevent any occurre that might bring back misunderstandings between the two empires after the Sublime Porte has renewed its relations with the court of Russia .
" The points of the draft of Vienna relative to the affair of the Holy Places , and the construction of a church and hospital at Jerusalem , have met with the complete sanction of the Sublime Porte . ¦ , 'A copy of the Vienna note , containing also some modifications which the imperial government has thought fit to make , has been transmitted to your Excellency . " The Sublime Porte , wishing to give another proof of its particular regards for the Powers whose signatures were affixed to the treaty of 1841 , is ready- —although the draft it composed lately would naturally be preferred—to
accept the draft of Vienna , with the modifications it has made , and hopes that the Powers , which have always recognised from the very commencement of the question tho rights of tho imperial government , and made manifestations of their good feeling , will , appreciating these modifications , act accordingly . " His Majesty the Sultan having ordered me to communicate the above to your Excellency , as well as to the other representatives your colleagues , I acquit myself of this duty , and beg your Excellency to receive on this occasion , & c . ( Signed ) " Reschid . "
Sbptfembbb. 10, 1853.] The Leader. 869
SBPtfEMBBB . 10 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 869
The " Brush" At Smyrna Between Austria A...
The " brush" at Smyrna between Austria and the United States is a forcible application of a musty proverb . It has blown good at all events to the officers of the ships concerned . The Austrian Government has promoted the commander of the Ussaro brig to the rank of captain . It can scarcely be doubted that the American Government will do as much for Captain Ingraham , whose decisive and independent conduct has won the respect of Europe for tho American flag . Russia has sent to Canton a frigate and a brig , which will bring up the Russian squadron on that station to five sail . It is also stated that a corjps d ' armie of 6000 men had been assembled at Irkutsk , the entrepot of the Russian trade with China in Siberia . Tho fete of Napoleon was celebrated with great solemnity at JJroussa , on the 15 th ult . Abd-el-Kader and his suite wero among the company .
Tho Moniteur Has Recentl Y Published A D...
Tho Moniteur has recentl y published a decree to regulate tho " alimentary regime" of tho Lycees , or colleges under Stato control ; in other words to give the boya more to eat . Think of the advantages of a paternal government , hungry boys ! Fortunately our royal colleges of Eton and Westminster do not require tho intervention of alimentary decrees . Unless indeed tho colleges at Eton should pray for a docreo to give thorn less mutton , and more beef . I'his memorable docroo , signod Fortoul , divides tho pupils into three categories—the big boya , to whom 70 grammes of meat are allowed per head , and per moal ; the middlesized sixty ; and the " littlo uns" 50 grammes . On theso paternal regulations * La Presso , from , ita accustomed point of view of n regime of unrestricted liberty , romarks : — 'Under a reVimo of liberty , as wo understand it , we should
liavo said—• Broad , moat , and vegetables in tho colleges hIuiII bo of good quality . Wo quantity is prescribed ; n will regulate itself naturally according to tho hunger of tho pupils . ' But what a mad notion to think of giving boys an unlimited libert y of eating a discretion . Can ono think of such a proceeding seriously without a shudder P Why ! it would bo indigestion en jpormanonca . " This decree wo havo noted particularly as a fair Rpocimen of what is called an " enlightened despotism , which not only protends to regulate tho march of trado , to rontricfc ana extend at plcasurn tho operations of commerce nnd tho prices current of markets , but descondn , as if it ¦ wwo a second Providence , into tho minutost details of lifo . Huron do Richmond , ono of tho many soi-disant Louis tho Seventeenths , lias just died in an obscuro corner of a distant ; ( loj ) artinont of . Franco . lie was , howover , tliomost notahlo ot all those modest protondora , and his claims woro r j'cogniHod by a considerable ) portion of l . ho Loiritimint . rmrtv .
<> n members of tho old noblesso woro ho couvincod that ho wuh really tho Dauphin of Franco , thai ; they clubbod to gether to assure him an annuity of 12 , 000 francs , which no regularly received tip to tho day of his death . the Nolo , tho throo-manted vonnol which wo npoko of ln . R ( , wook an haviTig- reached Pnrin , to tho astonishment of t » o natives of tho capital , who aro at onco convinced that •• 'inn ih la bo what Napoleon tho Firnt declared it , should '" 'V " 1 "' ''" > ™ o »> l . y " Hinall cJutsno marfio of 80 tons , "ut it appoara that a company had boon formed previous to tlio revolution of . 1 . 848 , for tho purpoHo of ontablinhinL ft ( liroct Nl . oam communication between Bordoaux ana J arm . 'J'Ihh Holiomo wan proponed in 1842 by M . Annan nn onunojifc HhipbuiUlor at Bordeaux , and wan then troatml
M a ^' " n 1 H 1 (! ' howovor > " ¦ wm ' tf <»»» started , and JM . Arman ' H pornovflring ontorprino wan < mi tho i > oint of »> oing actually oarrioa into oflbob hy a joint Jfronok nnd
English company . After the revolution the scheme was again set on foot , and arrested by the objection on the part of the Government , that the steamers employed on the river Seine would be useless for war purposes . But Louis Napoleon , on his visit to Bordeaux , took up the idea warmly , and encouraged the projectors to proceed . This Bteamer , the ; first of tho line , is called the Lanwriguibre , was launched from M . Arman ' s yard during Louis Napoleon ' s visit to Bordeaux . She is 1000 tons burden , and 200 horse-power . Her engines were made in England , at the cost of ll , 000 Z . She will carry about 900 tons of coal , and a cargo of 700 tons , or about 2800 casks of wine . She is built like a steam-frigate , admitting for the difference of construction requisite for her peculiar services , and will be propelled by screw , carrying a good spread of canvass . She is expected to make the passage from Bordeaux to Paris in ninety hours .
Her first trip will be made next month . She will carry freight at 35 francs a ton , and at this rate will , it is thought , be able to defy the competition of the railway . As however , speed , regularity , and cheapness , are the eventual conditions of success , a vessel of a smaller size could not possibly be made to pay . The projectors of this line of steamers are mainly indebted to the patronage of M . Ducoa , now Minister of Marine , and , as is well known , himself a native and banker of Bordeaux . It is fifty years since the Emperor Napoleon first thought of making Paris a " seaport , " but the war diverted his attention from the project , of which indeed , as subsequently in 1827 , the difficulties were found to be almost insuperable under the then existing conditions . The utmost that has been effected within the last twenty years is the deepening of the channel of the Seine between Rouen and Paris . The success of the present scheme deserves attention , and will be watched with interest by the commercial world .
The Belgians Are Unwearied In Getting Up...
The Belgians are unwearied in getting up marriage fetes . At Antwerp there has been a splendid street pageant and procession in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant . The Times correspondent speaka of " the human interest of the scene . " "The thousands of robust , healthy peasantry — those Flemish figures and features with which the immortal artists of Antwerp have familiarized the whole civilized world—those clear complexions , blond tresses , with old-fashioned gold and silver ornaments taken from their family cabinets , where they have reposed from generation to generation , with the clean fine lace caps hanging over the shoulder . "
The Schoolmaster Is Indeed Abroad. The K...
The schoolmaster is indeed abroad . The King of Bavaria , who , as LaPresse reminds ua , is no free-thinker , but , on the contrary , the Catholic Sovereign of the most Catholic State in Europe , has lately delivered , with extraordinary emphasis , the following reply to an address of certain schoolmasters , who had sent to thank him for having increased their stipends . This royal reply deserves , says the Augsburg Gazette , to receive universal publicity : — " I thank you , gentlemen , and I rejoice if in what I have
done you recognise that I am the friend of schoolmasters , that f honour and esteem their profession ; not only do I esteem it , but I love it . Your mission is , I acknowledge , hard and difficult , and to fulfil it you have need of an angelic patience . Attend to the education of the people , for it is in a great measure in your hands ; disseminate everywhere useful knowledge , for it is that which forms a moral and believing people ( jidele ) . Tell your brethren that I love them , and" ( placing his hand upon his heart ) " the King gives you his word that ho will do everything in his power for you . "
Tihs address is no doubt interesting as an indication that ono King at least on the Continoni of Europe discoms tho signs of the times . But it may be , without unjust susceptibility , doubted whether the hug of a Catholic Sovereign is in all respects tho best guarantee for tho lifo nnd liberty of popular instruction . It is difficult not to suspect that this King may be endeavouring to discount tho labours of his schoolmasters to tho profit of kingcraft and of its ally priestcraft . When tho King talks of a . faithful tho word in tho
people , we aro in doubt whether ho uses strictly Catholic sonso , or generally in tho Ronao of a loyal people . In tho formor case , taking tho goneral position of Bavaria into account , wo cannot liolp detecting a preoccupation of kingcraft ; in the lattor , of priestcraft . Tho wholo address , indeed , roads more liko ono of thoso fiery and mystical harangues Avhich occasionally fall from tho King of Prussia , under tho influonco of " Rhenish" and champngnc . Bavarian boor is scarcely to bo credited with such a display of royal enthusiasm . uvrcsof tho Prussian
At tho grand military inariaj army , about to tako plnco at Berlin , it is Raid that tho British army is to bo represented by Lord Hardingo and other Generals . A groat many natives of tho Tyrol , who linvo bocomo converts to ProloHtantism abroad , woro , on thoir return to thoir own country , anxious to possess tho freedom accordod to nativo I ' rotoHfants . They petitioned for tho Indigenat . Tlio local authorities forwarded tho petitions to fcho Government , which rejected thorn . hfc inot often But
Lovo at first fti ^ « a royal experience . according to a continental paper tho Emperor of Austria na \ v tho Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria at a ball at Ischl , was charmed , requested to bo allowed a few minute r * ' convernation with her after the" ball , and returned with tho . Princess loaning on hid arm , pronenting her to tho company n <» the future EmproHn of Auntria . In Berlin , boots for Australia are being extensively inado . Boots aro one of the few articles which are made undoubtedly bettor in . Berlin than in England , and at half tho prieoH , best men ' s boots tsont . ing only I . 2 . * . fo Via . V > d .
Ai Berlin the deaths , m consoquonco of the heat , havo ft nountod to twenty in the day . Tho Emperor J ' rnncia Jonoph arrived at Salzburg on August III . Shortly aftiorwarttn the DucIiomh Maximilian and hor dauglitorn the 1 ' rineonn Elizabeth ( KmproHB elect ) and the I ' rineoHH Helena likewise arrived there . Tho I ' rossa of 'Vienna announces that tho Emporor of RuflBia ia to bo prooonfc at tho grand raauoouvroa of tho
Austrian camp at Olmutz . Other reports state that he is going , to Warsaw . The annual reviews of the Imperial Russian Guard terminated on the 26 th ult . A Franciscan monk named Marcus Gasparich has been executed at Presburg . He was accused of correspondence with Kossuth and Mazzini . After having been " desecrated , " he suffered death on tho gallows ; and . this has given great umbrage to the ultra-Catholic party . The Times correspondent at Vienna writes : — - "On the
14 th of last month two persons knocked at the door of a room inhabited by Padovani [ a refugee ] in the High-street of Pera , and on opening it he received two wounds in the breast , which are supposed to be mortal . "Whether the unfortunate man really was a spy or not wo have no means of knowing , but it is probable enough . The refugees are on the whole " a bad lot , " for within the last six months three of the leading men have by letter offered their private services to the Austrian Government for a valuable consideration . "
At Ravenna, An Attempt Has Been Made To ...
At Ravenna , an attempt has been made to assassinate the Legate , but fortunately without success . The establishment of a iine of steamers between Genoa and North and South America , is definitively arranged . The law authorizing the Government to treat with the proposed company for the concession of the line , is published in the official journal at Turin . The Messager de Modhie publishes some details of the arrests recently effected at Rome . Among the arrests are included an advocate of Bologna , an employe of the Government , a priest of San Lorenzo , a member of the Rospole family , a jeweller , & c . This is sufficient to prove that the projected movement , if it existed , comprised all classes of society , Government officers , and priests . The Piedmontese Gazette of the 3 rd instant has advices
from Naples , stating the names of the twenty-two persons whom the Criminal Court of Naples has condemned to death in contwmaciain for the part they took in the revolutionary movement of the 15 th of May , 1848 . The King of Naples has ordered the railway from Naples to Brindisi to be commenced , but he has directed that no Englishman , either directly or indirectly , is to have any connexion with its making , or in the manufacture of the materiel to be employed .
Lord Howden, Our Ambassador At Madrid, H...
Lord Howden , our ambassador at Madrid , has arrived in Paris , en route to England . Probably Madrid is getting too hot for him after his sharp skirmish with the ignoble Government to . which he is accredited , on the subject of Christian burial of English Protestants . Add to this , Lord Howden is the warm personal friend of Narvaez , nowj it is known , enjoying an " honourable exile" Paris , and supposed to be studying , by the order of hia Government , military archives at Vienna . When Lord Howden succeeded Sir Henry Bulwerat Madrid , it was believed that he would
, bring the two Governments to the most friendly terms . It has been found impossible to maintain decent terms with so profligate and shameless a Government of rogues and harlots ; although Lord John Russell is anxious to bring tho might of England ( which he suffers to be the mockery of Russia ) to the support of Spain against the United States , in order that Queen Christina may grow more and more rich upon the unholy gains of that slave dealing which Spanish Governors arc sent to Cuba to protect , in the face of solemn treaties , and under the flag of Spain .
Tho London journals have frequently been stopped at the Madrid post-oflico of lato ; but a Royal order appeared on August 2 i ) , addressed by Scuor Egana to the governors of provinces , by which tho Times is excluded altogether from the Spanish dominions , It is as follows : — " Ministry of tho Homo Department . " Tho enemies of tho peaco of Spain , not finding in our noblo soil elements disposed to break daily tho laws of decorum , and offend that which is venerated hero almost as a worship , have sought in foreign lands pons which might serve their criminal designs , and for BOino time back thero havo been seen , with indignation , articles of an English poriodical , entitled tho Times , the Kolo and base object of which seems to bo to wound and ridicule
syHtematically tho object moat dear to Spaniards . Such a scandal cannot longer bo tolerated . The public decorum forbids it ; tho monarchical sentiment of the country repels it with horror ; liberty itself in ashamed of ik as of u repugnant spectacle wliich stains and compromises its fair cause . To put a stop to it immediately , and to do so in a public and Holemn manner , wliich may attest at all times how lively tho stimulus of offended national dignity m m Spain , is not only now to fulfil a high duty of Government , but also to satisfy a great , and generous aspiration , without which wo . should seek in vain for respect / or tho constituted powers , stability and rcposo for tho States . have had Iho
" In virtue of these reasons , which I honour of elevating to the sovereign knowlodgo of her Majesty tho Queen ( whom God preserve ) , she hart deigned to command that tho entry , circulation , and reading ot tho English poriodical ontitled tho Times , l > o not permitted in Spain , its adjacent inlands and posHosHionn and colonial dominions ; whichmeaHiiro . shall ho equally extennivo to whatever other journal or foreign publication which should exhibit the name want of eoiimderatiou lor tho highest objects which thin Hpoeially catholic and inon-mihienl nation lias venerated for ugos l > y Jaw , by gratitude , by instinct , and even by a chivalrous Hoiitiiiiont , r toand worthofthe noble Spanish nice .
poper , y , " The which 1 communicate to you hy royal order , for your knowlodtfo and opportune nMe « I . H . ( Joel pnvsorve you many yearn . —San JldoioiiHo , Autf . 137-( Signed ) . HO-ANA . " To tho Governor of tlio province of . " Tho lato articles in the Times on Spanish repudiation and bigotry account , for Mum exclusive honour .
Ft Appears That, The Hwias Federal Counc...
ft appears that , the Hwias Federal Council is uonirouH to bring itn conllict . with AunU-i * to an urrangomont , and to that end it , propoooH to Haori / ico the canton ofTiuiuo , and , contrary to all precedents , to consider tho ( juchMou between that canton uud tho Aualriim authoritioH u moroly can-
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091853/page/5/
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