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    October 11, 1856] THE LEADER. 965

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    sador who replaces Senor Olozaga , has been officially received by the Emperor . Prince Napoleon has returned to the Palais Royal from his maritime excarsion in the North Sea . The Paris correspondent of the Times denies the truth of the account recently published , in the Daily News , and quoted by us last week , of the reception given by the French people to the bull-fights in the south . Some farther victories over the Arabs have been gained by the French in Algeria . ; Prince Napoleon Las left Hamburg on his homeward voyage to France . . The Council General of the Bank of France has resolved not to discount bills of longer date than sixty days instead of ninety as heretofore .

    Louis Napoleon is said to entertain a design of making a military and fortified port at St . Jeaa de Luz , near Bayonne . This project has been entertained since the time of Louis XIV . Its execution -would give France tie command of theAvliole Cantabrian coast , and enable her to dominate the -whole of the Basque provinces of Spain , which are known to be not very well affected to the monarchy with -which they are now united , and ¦ which have recently given indications of a friendly feeling towards France . . The Moniteur publishes a . report of the Minister of Finance , relative to the Budget of 1856 . The most remarkable points advanced by tlie Minister are the following : —" Not only has the amount of revenue of 1854 been attained and passed— -not onlv is the

    extraordinary level of 1855 leached— "but the first months of the present year , compared with the corresponding months of the last year , show a considerable increase . This increase , for the first six months alone , is 63 , 000 , 000 as against 1854 , and 26 , 000 , 000 as against 1855 . Much has been said of the exportation of bullion . A succession of bad harvests , the purchase of silk from foreign sources , and other less legitimate causes , have influenced , no doubt , the export of French coin . Silver especially has become the object of a trade which disturbs the public mind . This trade consists in selecting the finest coins , and obtaining for them their surplus value . This unfair choice of coin , -which tends to destroy the general equilibrium , was by ancient law considered as a high misdemeanour , and was punished by severe penalties . Modern legislation cannot be powerless against such an

    abuse , which has no-thing in common with the undisputed principle of commercial liberty . The Government of your Majesty is justly concerned about this matfer . . - ¦ The two first loans have been entirely paid up , and the terms of the last , which will suffice to liquidate all the expenses of the war , are fulfilled with exactitude . The public revenue is augmenting in a hitherto unparalleled proportion . The taxes are paid with the most exact punctuality , and even often in advance . Money flows into the public Treasury . The payment of the last six monthly payments of the rente has left us a reserve of 110 , 000 , 0 O 0 fr . It must be evident to every sensible man that these facts are the indices of a situation of things whicli is fundamentally good . " The reader will , of course , bear in mind that this is the official account . On the Emperor appearing n few nights ago at the Opera—the first time he has been seen in public since his return to Paris—he was but coldly received . AUSTRIA . Baron Hiibner arrived at Vienna from Naples on the 2 nd inst ., and on the following morning had an interview with Count I 5 uol . ' Naples persists in its refusal to make any concessions . Austria intends to continue her occupation of Moldavia during the whole of the ensuing winter . ' . A telegraphic despatch sent from Vienna to Paris is said to have suspended the execution of the resolutions with respect to Naples previously come to by the allied Governments of France and England .

    The Nord , of Brussels , publishes in prominent type , and calls particular attention to , an article which has appeared in the Journal de Franh /' ort as a communication from Vienna . The object of this article is to defend " the sacred right" of every monarch , or governor of a state , to manage his internal affairs as ho thinks fittest , without the least interference from other powers , especially-when accompanied by threats . This flourish in defence of " the right divino of kings to govern wrong " is made of course in connexion with the present policy of France and England with reference to Naples . The interference of Austria in 1820 is then justified on the grounds that it was asked for by the legitimate sovereign , and that the interests of tha ' I & mneror -were compromised

    by the revolutionary government then installed in the capital of the Two Sicilies . , Hut , continues the writer , though England had rro sympathy witli that revolution , she refused , through Lord Castlcrengli , to interfere , pleading tho wiao doctrine of non-intervention . The English , Government , in 1820 , in connexion with the political state of Spain , explained that the only ground of intervention which it recognized was when one stnto endeavoured first to propagate its principles , and then to establish its domination , by force of arms , as in the caso of Franco after tho revolution at tho close of last century . ^ The writer of the article proceeds to inquire : — " Does tho King of the Two Sicilies , it might be asked ,, acek to tamper with tho British troops , or to undermine

    the political institutions of England ? or does he endeavour in the slightest degree to spread his principles and extend lis domination by force of arms ? And if he does nothing of all this , and if in 1823 Great Britain so strongly disapproved of intervention in the internal affairs of Spain , how can she in 1856 justify an intervention in the internal affairs of the kingdom of Naples ?!' The upshot of the argument is , that we may always interfere in the interest of monarchs , but never in the interest of the people . A wild and romantic " story , similar to the narrative related of Caspar Hauser , is told in the Allgemeine Zeitung , \\~ h \ 6 h states that a girl was found in November , 1853 , wandering about near the village of Weislrirchen , in the Banat , almost in a savage state , and unable to speak intelligibly , though full grown . Having since then been carefully educated , she related to her tutor ( who has published , the alleged facts in a pamphlet ) that

    she was forcibly carried away from her mother before she was five years old ; that she was shut up in a large house with three towers , like a castle , and probably situated somewhere in Hungary ; that afterwards , for fifteen or sixteen years , she lived in a place underground in the midst of a forest , where she was tended by an old woman named Bertha ; and that a man called Eleazer used to bring food and clothes for both of them . About seven years after her arrival there , a little baby , two or three months old , named Adolf , was brought to the subterranean dwelling ; and both he and she were kindly treated , though they were never instructed . In October , 1853 , Bertha took the girl out of the cavern , put her in a carriage drawn by two horses , and conveyed her to the place where she was abandoned . The Austrian Government has directed that inquiries be made by the local authorities . —There is something , we conceive , rather suspicious in the extreme particularity with respect to names and dates in this narrative . Under such

    circumstances , the girls recollections -would surely be more obscure and disjointed . : " To get up the requisite amount of loyal demonstration for the Emperor of Austria ' s visit to his Lombard dominions , " says the Daily iVe «? s , " a long letter of instructions has been addressed by M . Anelli , delegate governor of the province of Como , to his subordinates , the district commi ssaries , desiring them to exert all their influence to induce the municipalities and communal deputies to make a great show of zeal , and prepare an enthusiastic welcome for Francis Joseph and his consort , who are expected about the end of November or the beginning of December . " The Heaven-sent Emperors cannot calculate upon spontaneous demonstrations , except on suchas are against them .

    The Roman Catholic priest of a Moravian village refused for several days to bury in consecrated ground the body of an Austrian officer who had been shot in a duel by a Prussian officer whom be had affronted . At length , the corpse was thrust into a grave -which had been dug for another person , having previously been ' blessed' by a military chaplain . The cause of the duel Svas singularly trivial . The Prussian officer had lighted his cigar by that of the Austrian . Returning tlie other ' s cigar , he burnt the fingers of its owner , who denounced the Prussian as " clumsy . " A challenge ensued ; the parties crossed the frontiers into Silesia ; and the Austrian was killed at the first shot .

    " In addition to the instructions -which M . do Blartini has taken to Naples , " says the Gazette de Cologne ) " the cabinet of Vienna , has addressed a circular note to its representatives at Paris and London , in which Austria protests against all armed demonstration , and demands energetically that the Neapolitan question , raised already at tho Paris Congress , be brought before the new congress which is shortly to assemble . No reply has yet been made to this note , which was received at the same time with that from Russia . "

    PRUSSIA . The Archduke Albert has met with an accident at the camp at Biramberg . His . carriage upset , and lie received some slight contusions . It is stated that the mnrringc of Prince Frederick William of Prussia with the Princess lioyal of England will take placo on tho 18 th of October , 1857 , the anniversary of the birthday of tlio prince . DENMARK . The Ministerial crisis is at an end- The Cubinct is reconstituted as follows : —M . Andrea , President of the Council and Foreign Secretary ; M . Fengcr , Finance Department ; M . Schcclo , Minister for the German duchies , and the other members of tho late Cabinet , with the exception of M . Bang , retain their portfolios .

    ltUSSIA . General Count do Leiningen died at Cracow on tho 2 nd just . Thirty persona were Wiled at the people ' s banquet given by the Emperor at Moscow on Snturdny , the 20 th ult . There w «» a great rush about nine o ' clock , and not only have the lives of thirty been destroyed , but ninny more linvo been seriously injured . Tho loyal Russians endeavour to hush tho matter up aa much an possible . During the whole of the day , tho rain poured down pitcously , and the poor feastera wore drenched to the skin , and steamed like cart-horses , Mr . RukscII , the JHmes correspondent , notes that they were very quiet

    during the whole of the day , as a Russian crowd always is , and that the whole thing was void of hilarity . THe Emperor and his staff took a very short promenade through the crowd . " The materials of the feast were 2496 poods of ham , 936 poods of sausages , 3120 roasted sheep , 12 , 480 roast fowls , 49 , 920 pates , 50 , 000 almond pate ' s , 24 , 960 Russian cheesecakes , 145 , 088 small loaves of white bread , 312 poods of butter , 1252 vedros of ¦ wine , 3120 vedros of beer , 600 poods of Russian spiced cake , and 800 tchetwerts of fruit . ( A pood is about 361 b . English . ) The liquids were distributed by means of ten fountains , each placed in one of the avenues of the tables in a small amphitheatre half way from tie imperial kiosk . The eight galleries or stands erected for the spectators were 220 feet each in length , and the total length of the tables spread for the guests was exactly seven miles English ( 10 £ versts Russian ) . " '

    The St . Petersburg correspondent of the Morning Post relates that tlie Russian authorities are in the habit of opening letters addressed to Englishmen , and even of intercepting them . He has himself suffered from this . The telegraph , clerks at St . Petersburg , also , objected to sending a telegraphic message from him to the journal he represented , because it contained an allusion to the accidents at the people ' s banquet . . He therefore struck out that part . . Remarking on the harsh exclusion of the merchants from the banquet they "had themselves given to the soldiers , Mr . Russell says : —" The time is fast coming when the merchant guilds cannot be any longer treated with such indifference and insult . If all the reports one hears be true , the Czar is about to become a

    merchant himself , and to be a steam company proprietor . There is a talk of a gigantic scheme being afoot , by w-Iiich Russia is to liberate herself from the influence of foreign companies , and to conduct her own export and passenger trade ; not only her own , indeed , but that cf foreign countries . This is the formation of a company to purchase arid keep afloat a fleet of no les s than three hundred first-class steamers , . which , are to' carry on the trade in the north with Sweden , Denmark , Norway , Hull , and London ; and in the south with the shores of the Black Sea , Varna , Constantinople , Athens , Smyrna , the Greek islands , Alexandria , Naples , Leghorn , Genoa , Marseilles . & c . The Czar is said to have subscrined 2 , 000 , 000 roubles to the company , and it is affirmed that agents have been already despatched to England and America , to contract for and purchase steamers . "

    The English Ambassador and 1-ady Granville ' s state ball on tho night of Tuesday , the 23 rd ult ., was very brilliant and very successful . The Emperor and Empress , the Grand Dukes Cohstantine and Michael , the Grand Duchesses Constantine and Marie , honoured the party by their presence , and all the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers , together with their suites , as well as the principal IJussinn nobility , and every person of note in Moscow , attended . The dancing , which was at first formal , appears ultimately to have become tumultuous , and a tall Englishman , in the full vigour and passion of his waltzing-, absolutely ran into the Emperor , and considerably staggered his equilibrium . Alexander , with great politeness , relieved the unlucky gentleman from his embarrassment by apologising to him , and observing 11 that he ( the Czar ) really could nbtgtt out of the . way , the crowd was so great . "

    1 he ball given by M . de Morny , the French Ambassador , took rilticc on Sunday , September 28 . Tho Emperor , tho Empress , and the Imperinl family , were present , and some Mingrelians , including the Princess or Queen Dadian , and the young king , all habited in tlieir strange native costumes , were among the guests . The cliild monarch at one time got into a great rage about something .

    SPAIN . The editors of the journals who were recently arrested have been set at liberty . The municipal and provincial elections will take place in November . The garrison of Madrid has been reviewed and manoeuvred in the presence of tho queen and king . The Government lias determined on sending into the Mediterranean a squadron of steamers and sailing ships sufliciently strong to protect Spanish possessions in that sea in any eventualities that may arise out of the exiBting state of things at Naples . It is said that tlie Government intends to appoint all the Archbishops , and six of the most distinguished liishops , Senators of the kingdom . Report , also , states that the Marquis del Duero will be nominated President , nnd , Sefior Martinez de la Rosa Vice-President , of the Council of State . The scarcity of food continues . Important mousures oic to bo taken in order to stop smuggling .

    In spite of all the conjccturca formed by tho newspapers with regard to the timo at which the electionfl for the Cortes will take pluce , nothing lias as yet been decided , nnd it is probable that , the elections will not begin before 1857 . A very remarkable article appeared in tho Nacion ( Mudrid payer ) of tho 28 th ult ., respecting a pamphlet ¦ which is sold and distributed in thutcity and in the provinces , on the advantages to bo derived from tho ' ji ' awc ;( tiUea' of the Princess of Asturia and tho Imperial Princo of France . It is hardly necessary to say that the Progresiata journal and party arc indignant , not only

    October 11, 1856] The Leader. 965

    October 11 , 1856 ] THE LEADER . 965

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101856/page/5/