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ggQ THE LEADER. [No. 325, Saturday,
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. The men conce...
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The Floods In France.
tie quays , the dyke gave -way , and the town was completely inundated . In some quarters the water was nearly twenty feet deep . " At present , " says the ^ France CeitiraU of the 4 th , « all the lower quarters of the town are underwater * the quays are covered , and boats have «« T * ft emnloveA The disasters are immense . At M ^ LTst S , and La Chauss ^ e , the dykes oa the r ieht bank have given way beneath the pressure of the rirer All the left bank above the town is covered with an immense sheet of water ; the villages of Saint-Claude , Vineul , Saint-Gervais , Challes , and Caude , are entirely inundated , and in certain places the waters have thrown down houses , uprooted trees , & c In the town , the Maine can only be reached by boats . "
A terribly interesting narrative is given by the Journal du Loiret : — " M . de Lataille , principal inspector of the railway , hearing that the waters were menacing in the direction of Amboise , proceeded to that town , accompanied by M . Ratel and M . Rabusson , inspectors . On arriving within a few hundred yards of the station , he found a . number of men employed in strengthening the dyke of the Loire , which showed symptoms of yielding . He stopped his train , and went to give them some directions , but while he was speaking the dyke gave vrsy , and the waters rushed through furiously . The situation was terrible . M . de Lataille and his two subordinates ran towards the station , and with difficulty
succeeded in gaining it . The inundation , on reaching the station , rose rapidly as high as the first story , and the three gentlemen had to seek refuge on the roof . The waters raged furiously around them , and in this horrible situation they had to pass the night . Their alarm was increased by seeing the goods station thrown down at a few yards from them . In the meantime , the train left on the line was . reached by the waters , and the enginedriver and stoker to escape being drowned climbed on the top of the locomotive . Even then they had water up to their waists , and in this pitiable plight they remained until three o ' clock in the morning , when they were rescued in a boat . " The French papers hare since reported M . de Lataille ' s arrival in Paris , and his departure in the suite of the Emperor .
From Tours there are no direct accounts ; but the Journal du Loiret of Orleans says : — " At the railwaystation the waters reach as high as the fourth story ; all the Mail is inundated ; there are six feet of water in the Hotel del'trnivers ; fifty houses have been thrown down ; boats are plying in the Rue Royale ; and the printingoffice of the local paper , the Journal < PIndre et Zoire , has been invaded by the waters . A fact which does honour to Mgr . Morlot , Cardinal Archbishop of Tours , has been related . He went at the head of his clergy to the dykes , and { worked vigorously with spade and shovel among the labourers in strengthening them . "
The accounts from Angers state that the Maine had attained six metres , and all the lower parts of the town were under water . At Saumur , the Loire had descended to six metres , thirty centimetres , but the water , breaking through the dyke of La Chapelle , had gained St . Clement . At Champtoce " , the dyke of Savenieres had given way , and the valley was filled . The Authion had inundated the valley of Saumur . T he Journal du Cher of the 5 th contains afflicting accounts of the disasters which have occurred by the inundations of the Cher , AUier , Yevre , and Auron . A number of bridges have been carried away , and the railway has been intercepted at various points . The waters have , however , commenced declining and the
communications are re-established . A temporary road has been constructed on piles between Bourges and Yierzon , and it . was hoped that communications would soon be free between the former town and Orleans . St . Arnaand suffered severely , but the victims were received with warmth by both rich and poor . The waters of the Allier . resembled a vast lake , and committed innumerable ravages , but no loss of life is mentioned in its neighbourhood , though , many unfortunate persons were in great danger . At a little village named CrcVery , three families wore surprised by the rise of the AUier , and were only saved at the last moment by the devotcdness of some boatmen ; a few moments after they had been £ aken from too- roofs of the houses on which they had sought refuge ,
tho waters swept over them . Another narrow escape took place near . Vichy , where two children were surprised by the waters while fishing on a little island in the Allier . They had time only to climb into a high tree , when tho island was covered . They remained in that terrible position from Thursday evening to Saturday morning , and the provisions they had taken with them wore exhausted . No one dared to render them assistance , as to approach the spot was to encounter almost certain death . Xbree sailors from the Crimea , however , placed them-8 eftf « i in a boat , and , with tho father of the children , set Off Jtop the isle , followed by the prayers of all the inhabitant * of the neighbourhood . These intrepid men anocoedediin rescuing tho two children , and on returning to Vlohy they were welcomed with enthusiasm .
The Emperor has again started for the various localities afflicted by the late calamity . f The Minister of th © Interior , " says the AfoMtte « r , "has Jost , invited the Prefects of the departments which have aflfoied from the recent Inundations to point out to him ilia acts of devotion , of which there were so many , on thread occasion . As soon as the necessary information
shall have been acquired , the Minister will immediately bring to the knowledge of the Emperor such noble actions as may appear to him deserving of some honourable reward . " In the neighbourhood of Angers , ten thousand persons have been thrown out of Avork by the complete inundation of the slate quarries . The Archbishop of Lyons has issued a mandate which , Papist though he is , will gain him the respect of Exeter Hall . He attributes the floods to the violation , in his diocese , of the law of the Church respecting the observance of the Sabbath !
Serious inundations have taken place in Holland , where the Rhine and the Wahal have overflowed their banks ; and in the neighbourhood of Basle in Switzerland , where several houses have been destroyed , fields and orchards devastated , and the fruit crops almost destroyed . Subscriptions are being entered into in England for the sufferers by the French floods ; among others , a penny collection has been set on foot among the visitors to the coffee-room of the Mitre Tavern , Downham-road , Kingsland .
Ggq The Leader. [No. 325, Saturday,
ggQ THE LEADER . [ No . 325 , Saturday ,
Continental Notes. France. The Men Conce...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The men concerned in the abstraction of the Government copy of the Treaty of Peace from the Imperial Printing-office at Paris have been tried at the Court of Assizes of the Seine . Besides M . Lejolivet , three other men were accused—Julien Brossard , a pressman at the Imperial Printing-office ; and Charles Emard and Louis Moner , both employed in Lejolivet ' s business , liejolivet kept an office of political correspondence ; and to him , through the agency of Moner and Emard , Brossard transmitted a copy of the Treaty , minus five articles , under promise of great secrecy . Copies were afterwards sent by Lejolivet to Le Nord and to the Independance of Brussels . Brossard , it would appear , though he denies the fact , received one hundred francs for this abstraction .
In answer to interrogations , Lejolivet admitted that , in order to conceal the source whence the document of the Treaty of Peace proceeded , he had got a telegraphic despatch sent to him from Brussels , as if from the editor of the Word , containing these words : — "I publish today the document of which I sent you a copy four days back . " He knew that he was not acting altogether properly in publishing the treaty , but in reality he did not see what great harm was done by the act . Moner and Emard confessed , the first to having suggested to Brossard to communicate to him any piece of news or document that might prove interesting , aud the latter to having received for Lejolivet a document from Brossard . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Lejolivet and Brossard , acquitting the other two . The court sentenced Lejolivet to two years' imprisonment , and Broasard to fifteen months of the same punishment .
The agricultural show continues to excite great interest in Paris ; but surprise is felt that England has no representative . " Scotland , " says the Times special correspondent , " sends twenty-nine representatives , Ireland twenty , all the other European States one each , and England not even one . She has her proportion of members of the jury , but no commissioner to represent her agricultural society . Yet her position and genuine importance are at once recognized by the selection of Mr . Evelyn Denison to propose the principal toast of the evening at the public entertainment given to the foreign jurors . It was from no want of respect to France that a deputation from England was not sent , because we arc assured that many of the most eminent members of the Royal Agricultural Society were most anxious to be placed on such a deputation . But there was some omission on the part of the French authorities in London in notifying to tho society the desire of the French Government in reference to the appointment of a deputation , and tho matter thus fell to the ground . " Cardinal Patrizzi , who is to represent tho Pope at the baptism of tho Imperial infant , has arrived in France . He met with a brilliant reception at Marseilles , being conducted to tho cathedral by the secular and religious authorities , as well as by a detachment of military . Prince Napoleon ( saya tho Moniteur ) projects a scientific voyage to tho North Seas . Tho Prince will leave Paris on tho 12 th for Havre , to superintend in person the preparations for tho expedition . Ho will return to Paris to attend the baptism of tho Imperial Prince , and will return to Havre to embark on the 15 th . In addition to tho members of his household , the Princo tukes with him a commission of staff officers , engineers of tho navy , and miners , naturalists , draughtsmen , & c . This voyage , during which tho Princo will maintain an incognito , will last about three months . AUHTIUA . Le Nord haa been prohibited in tho Austriun dominions . Tho Austrian corps of occupation in Moldavia has begun to move , and a part of it in inarching towards the Oitosch pass on tho frontiers of Transylvania . A tremendous hurricane ban passed over Ratiubon . Rain has fallen in torrents at Vienna , and there has been much lightning .
PRUSSIA . Prince Joseph Bonaparte , the son of Lucien Bonaparte , and the Princess Zenaide , the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte , quondam King of Spain , is now at Berlin whither he has come from Rome by way of Vienna and ' Dresden . THE GERMANIC DIET . It is reported that Sardinia intends to send M . de Barral as a representative of the Court of Turin at the Germanic Diet and at the Grand Ducal Court of Hesse Darmstadt .
RUSSIA . It appears ( says a letter from Berlin , of the 5 th ) that the proposed marriage of the Grand-Duke Michael of Russia with the Princess Sidonia of Saxony has been broken off , in consequence of the Princess objecting to the difference of religion . The Princesa Mary of the Netherlands is now spoken of for the Grand-Duke . M . Bakunin has been pardoned b y the Emperor of Russia , at the intercession of General Mouravieff . Bakunin was delivered up to Russia by the Austrian Government in 1850 , and it was then generally reported that he was an agent of the Russo-Panslavist party . Austria would have put him to death , but Russia insisted on his " extradition . "—Times Vienna Correspondent .
The King of Naples has been endeavouring to induce Poerio and his companions to sue for pardon . He has not succeeded , however , as they continue to deny that they have committed any crime .
ITALY . A conscription is being carried on in Lombardy with great rigour . General Broglia , Inspector of Cavalry , and a Senator of Piedmont , has been selected to attend the coronation at Moscow as representative extraordinary of the Sardinian Government . He will be accompanied by a numerous staff . From Parma we learn that Prince Soragna , who had been named President of the Special Commission for the trial of the persons accused of the late attempts at assassination , has resigned .
The Austrian Government , according to statements contained in letters from Milan , has resolved to erect the Lombardo-Venetian Provinces into a Kingdom of Upper Italy , and to place a prince of Italian birth—the Grand Duke of Tuscany , who is also an Austrian archduke—on the throne . To this determination the Cabinet of Austria is said to have been brought by its anxiety to neutralize the growing popularity of Piedmont . The King of Naples has given up his opposition to beards , moved thereto by a row between the police and a hirsute Messina man , aided by the populace , in which the former got roughly used . The authorities have been ordered to allow all men to walk about with hairy china if they think fit to do so .
SPAIN . A conspiracy against the Queen has been discovered . One Redondo Marquez has been arrested in the streets in the act of presenting a pistol at her Majesty . It is said that he belongs to a secret society . The Gazette publishes a Royal decree conferring on M . Salustiano de Olozaga tho rank and dignity of Ambassador , in order " that ho may attend in a becoming manner , and on an equal footing with his colleagues , the solemn ceremony of the baptism of the heir to the Imperial throne of France , whose august mother is a Spaniard by her family and birth . " A deplorable duel has been fought at Valencia between the Vice-Consul of England and an officer of the Staff . The former was run through the body with a small sword , and little hope remained of saving his life . The officer was likewise wounded , but slightly .
PORTUGAL . There has been a ministerial crisis at Lisbon . Some bills relating to a new loan , and tho quotation of Portuguese bonds upon the Stock Exchange , were sent from the Lower to tho Upper House by tho Ministers , who have generally been able to calculate upon a majority among tho Peers of some four or five ; but , on tho present occasion , eight peers from tho different provinces and tho Azores , who had not been in tho House for years , were induced to present themselves , and to vote against tho bills . The Ministers suggested to tho lung to create some new peers , in order to balance this ualooked for accession of strength to the Opposition . I « ° king declined , and the Ministers gave in their resignation . A new ministry haa been inaugurated under the presidency of MJulio Gomes da Silva Sanchea . vm N
. UUI 1 UV V » X 3 X . % U U 11 U ^ J |\/»»* VW \ M *» ***** V « n « " - _— r--TURKEY . , It ia stated in Constantinople that Persia will seiia an envoy to Paris . General Shirley has received orders to remain with his staff in tho Turkish capital . *«« affair of the bank is not yet settled , but Baron Jiofll 9 Cl' 1 ' ^ has the best chance of success . A conscription ot li > , u " Rayahs will shortly take place . Tho publication of tho Hatti-Humayoun has leu w the destruction of two churchos by tho Mussulmans m Podgorizo , in Albania . Two Christians have been mur dcrod at Nisich . To avenge themselves , Chrlflt r lfl " attacked and pillaged a caravan coining from ltafiU . ' and fourteen Turks were killed . Such , at least , w w Hiibstauco of statements made at Constantinop le } there is aomo dogreo of doubt us to their accuracy .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061856/page/8/
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