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892 - THE LEADER. [SatprDay
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LETTERS FROM PARIS. - [From our own Corr...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. The Emperor has retur...
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The session of'the States-General of H o...
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The Genoa and Turin Hail way will be ope...
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Tho Vienna Government published, on Mond...
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The Mazziman press has not fallen into t...
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Count Strassoldo has issued an ordinance...
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Tho Espana (Government journal at Madrid...
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In the church of Santa Croce, at, Floren...
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Catholic Allkdlanck. An Irish Roman Cath...
throne , and who comes not as of old to crush , but to smile with encouragement on the first great effort of Irish Industry , you offer a fervent prayer to Heaven that among [ Britain ' s kings and queens the reign of Victoria maybe the longest , the brightest , and the happiest , and from it may commence the date of Ireland ' s regeneration and of England ' s strength . "
892 - The Leader. [Satprday
892 - THE LEADER . [ SatprDay
Letters From Paris. - [From Our Own Corr...
LETTERS FROM PARIS . - [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letteb XC . Paris , Thursday Evening , Sept . 15 , 1853 . We are just now in the midst of a , crisis . The funds have fallen this week from 80 francs to 76-70—more than four francs in less than a week . The Russian question has had something to do with this , no doubt : the bread question must also take its share of the blame : but the deficit which has suddenly declared
itself in the finances of the State is the chief culprit , The' Treasury is empty . Immense dilapidations have dissipated the public fortune . Aides-de-camp , generals , ministers , courtiers , everybody has been gambling at the Bourse with the funds of the State , and the resources of the State have vanished . The budget of 1853 voted at 1700 millions ( of francs ) = 68 , 000 , 000 £ ., and which was to last for a year , has been devoured in eight months . This is what everybody is talking about in a whisper . This is the secret cause that precipitates the fall of the funds at the Bourse . The Government
itself has betrayed the . alarming secret . 1 . Without any apparent cause , in the midst of a rise of public stocks and of all securities , with abundance of money in the market , the Government finds itself compelled to raise one-half per cent , the current price of Treasury Bills . 2 . The agents of the Treasury have invited capitalists to pay in advance six months' amount of their contributions for the ensuing year , alleging the necessity Tmder which the Government labours of keeping the price of bread low . 3 . Active steps have been taken this last fortnight to induce certain bankers to conclude a loan of three hundred millions of francs —( 12 , 000 , 000 ^ . )
4 . The employes of tfie Minister of Finance tell all the world that there is no money in the State coffers to pay the dividends falling due on the 22 nd inst . Nothing else has been talked of at the Bourse of late , and the funds have fallen lower than they have been for a length of time . Every one asks where all this system is to lead to , and what security there can be in having at the head of the country such a band of jobbers ?
As for the bread crisis , it was arrested for a moment by the efforts made by the Government . But now , after a factitious fall , the prices have resumed higher than ever . I told yon in my last letter how Bonaparte bad given orders to thecantoir . il commissaires de police to visit'every market , and to draw up informations (• proccs-vcrhaux ) against any one buying or selling above the preceding prices . This commercial terror lias borne its natural fruits in the provinces . For a
day or two prices were maintained without a rise , but when Kellers and buyers had disappeared , the great economists of Bonnpartism began to iind out that tho remedy was worse than the disease ; the commissairesde police received orders to cease their informations , and the corn reappeared in the markets—but it reappeared at a rise . The policy of "informations , " even if successful in the provinces , would have been powerless at Paris ; another expedient was necessary .
M . Darhlay , the famous speculator in grain in the year 1840 , and proprietor of half the department oi ( Seine et Oise , was requested to purchase grain on behalf of tho Government . It was in his favour that the duties on wheat , & c , were suppressed . M . Darblay immediately set to work in 1 'Vance , in England , at Odessa , and at New York , simultaneously . Disposing of enormous capital , backed by Rothschild , his old associate of 3 84 G , he swept , up all the crops in tho neig hbourhood of Paris in no time . Jlis calculation was , not to sell them until his supplies from abroad wore exhausted . But this did not suit , ihe views of Bonaparte , who , by a monstrous stretch of authority , ordered M . Dnrblny to throw all his supplies upon the
Central Market of Paris , at a , rule bvlow the price current . M . Darblay , who was given to understand that resistance might cost him dear , obeyed the first d » . y ; 'but ; tlm next day he quietly undersold all liis supplies , and resolved never again to meddle with operations in corn . I . ItJ withdrew all his orders to England , Odessa , and New York ; and , what is worse , tho French merchants , alarmed at tho factitious fall , did likewise , and countermanded nil their consignments . You may easily coneeivo tho disastrous ofleefs of all theso proceedings . France , deceived by tho falsa nmnuiuvres of her Government , on tho faith of a rise artificially created , reposes in frcaeherous confidences to awake , perhaps , in hoiuo imouUjh lionoe , to tho tcrriblo
cry of a famished people , rising up en masse , and crying , Bread ! . Symptoms of a serious agitation are seen every where . In many places there have been riots and tumultuous gatherings , which have been dispersed by force . Agents of all the political parties avail themselves of this agitation to work upon the minds of the population . The Government feels itself ill at ease , and those contradictory measures , those acts of " authority of to-day , expiated to-morrow by an official declaration of respect to commercial liberty , prove that it has lost its head .
In violence and in persecution , mdeed , it waxes stronger . The internes ( political offenders confined within certain districts ) who permit themselves the least syllable or sign of opposition , are whisked off to Algeria . Ten political prisoners have just been sent to Belle Isle . At Orleans , six citizens have been arrested , and three merchants , and an advocate at Lille . At Dieppe , during the Emperor ' s sojourn , the police displayed a severity without parallel . For an equivocal word , or a supposed allusion , people were arrested and taken off to Paris , to the prison of Mazas . It will be the same , no doubt , during the approaching imperial progress in the north of France . This progress was for a long time undecided ; the rnanufacturers of that town who have heard of the talk about
annexing Belgium , are far from favourably disposed , while the working men are , almost to a man , republicans , and of an extreme colour , too . A second edition of the affair of the Opera Comique is apprehended . Bonaparte leaves Paris on the 22 nd inst ., with his wife , and sleeps at Arras . On the 23 rd and 24 th he will sleep at Lille ; on the 25 th , after visiting the camp at Helfaut , at St . Omer . On the 26 th he will start for Calais , passing by Dunkirk , and from Calais he will proceed to Boulogne and to Amiens , returning to Paris on the 29 th . S .
Continental Notes. The Emperor Has Retur...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Emperor has returned to St . Cloud . ; There has been a sham fight and grand military operations at St . Germain , by the troops encamped at Satory , under command of Marshal Magnan . Cabinet Councila are held daily at St . Cloud , and it is not surprising that they should last six hours at a stretch , considering the bread crisis , the financial deficit , and the Eastern question . With respect to the last , M . de Persigny is said to be the chief , if not the only , advocate of bold measures against"Russia . Some surprise has been felt at the absence of M . Drouyn de Lhuys at the present moment , and rumour would hav 6 it that he has gone over incognito to London , to hold a conference with Lord Clarendon on the measures to be taken in the present state of the Eastern question . The Ifoniteur lias published a second note denying that the French Government has been buying corn . It admits , however , that it entered into arrangements in England six weeks back for 410 , 000 hectolitres of Avheat , which amount , it declares , is intended for the annual supply of the army and navy . The note further declares that it has no intojition whatever of interfering in any way in an oiieration relative to corn .
At tho Cabinet Council held on Thursday week , at St . Cloud in presenco of tho Emperor , the majority of the Ministers—who , with tho exception of Count Persignv , were all present—pronounced themselves for the maintenance of the actual inodo of regulating the price of bread in nonconformity to the prices of the market , and therefore without tickets for cheaper bread , of which the price will bo maintained in Paris at its actual rnto . The French Government has taken a measure of considerable importance , on the importation of cattle , and fresh or salted meat . JJy a decree of tho 141 h inst ., it is provided that , " until it shall bo otherwise- ordered , " tho duties on tho above-mentioned imports shall bo fixed " provisionally " os follows : ¦¦—Hulls and oxen 3 francs per head instead of 50 . Cows , heifers , & c , 1 franc per head instead of 25 and 12 francs 50 cent .
Calves , sheep , pigs , & c , 25 centimes per head instead of 3 and 5 francs . Lambs , kids , & cv , 10 centimes per head instead of 30 and 25 centimes . Fresh moat , 50 centimes per 100 kilogrammes instead of IB francs . Sailed meal ., 10 francs instead of 33 and 30 francn . These reductions restore tho I'Yench tariff on cattle , & c , to the figures at ; which it , stood previous to tho laws passed by the Chambers of the Restoration in 1822 . The price of bread in not to bo raised in . Paris . The A 1 miicipnl commission indemnities tho baiters out of the City purse the difference between the natural price , and tho VKuvimmn ( tO cents per kilogramme ) to bo maintained .
With reaped ; to the decree diminishing the duties on the importation of cattle and of fresh and salted incuts , it is noticeable thai , it in not to take efl ' ect only to the end of this year , but "until , ( i / ficnoiso decreed . ; " and it ; establishes no dill ' erentiul <| uti <> n on the produce of different conn trios , or upon importations in I'Vencb and foreign bottoms' . A 1 . Dupin , the elder , ban been paternally addressing- an agricultural society at , Cluinoey . Tho chief points ol his address were a backhander nl . ' " demagogy mid Socialism " -- •¦ an adroit compliment to tho ruling Powers as the protectors of agriculture ; and an onthiiMiaHfie mention of tho glorious comments of'HI ) over feudal privileges .
. 1 he . Paris correspondent of the Chroniclo writon , under date September 15 : "A courier arrived hero yesterday morning , bringing the decision como to tho day before ( fho 13 th ) by tho four Miniufortt who mot « n that day
namely Lord Aberdeen , Lord John Eussell , Lord Pi don , and Lord Palmerston . Another Courier + C 7 larei ?" departure for Marseilles , with orders to " embark «! ° k his once , bearing a despatch for Lord Stratford do 1 ? f f . which , it is said in a well-informed quarter enioinTii- e ' employ every possible means to induce the 4 n \ tL i to cep . fc without delay the Note of Vienna without S ^ tion . In case the Porte should object " that i ? *^ longer able to keep in the populations , his \ ZZ ™ - ° authorized to allow the English squadron to „ P , Bosphorus , and to disembark troops for the iim ^ T e causing tho decision of the Sultan to be rosSE ? ° ! courier also is to be at once despatched to Omer P ¦ i , forbidding him to commence hostilities in n « cha » Yesterday , at St . Cloud , the Emperor and his £ ;> deliberated on the decision of the English Calfi er ? decided on adopting the same course . " ^ "iefc , a ^
The Session Of'the States-General Of H O...
The session of'the States-General of H olland winf mally closed on Monday by the Minister of the Inhv " M . van Keenen . The-Minister expressed the thfrnV = i the Government to the Chamber for tlie -support SM afforded to the law on religious liberty .
The Genoa And Turin Hail Way Will Be Ope...
The Genoa and Turin Hail way will be opened fortnffi in its whole length some time in November . On the 15 th , a fast train , in communi cation with thnf from Cologne , will run between Berlin and Vienna Th distance between the two capitals will be accomplished in twenty hours . . in
Tho Vienna Government Published, On Mond...
Tho Vienna Government published , on Monday tha following notification in the Gazette . •—" A telegraphic despatch has reached the Government from Lieutenant Field-Marshal Coronini , Governor of tho Servian Woiwodschaft , stating that the Hungarian re galia have been discovered near Orsova , where they lav buried . The crown of St . -Stephen , " with" the orb , cross sword and sceptre , arc uninjured . The Governor has taken measures for conveying hither these insignia , under fitting escort , by the steamer Albrecht . " The precious relics are " uninjured ; " thus the Austrian government itself vindicates the Hungarian patriots from the aspersions which mean and cowardl y libellers have thrown upon them .
The Mazziman Press Has Not Fallen Into T...
The Mazziman press has not fallen into the hands of the Pope ' s police , as lately reported . The Sardinian Government insist upon subjecting lay monks to military service . This gives great offence to the priest party . At Home , the Sardinian Minister has hoisted the Sardinian arms on the Braschi Palace . There , supported by the Italian tricolor , they suggest to the Republicans better days to come . In Naples , despotism looks even on science as revolulutionary . The King , Ferdinand , will not encourage a submarine telegraph between Sicily and Naples , his object being to isolate the countries . Only a short time since , Sicilians were not allowed to como to Naples , and many who had been living there were sent back to Sicily .
Tho cholera has left Denmark , and now ravages Sweden . On the 2 nd inst ., Sweden declared London , and all porta on the Thames , or situate at its mouth , infected , and all ports between the mouth of the Thames and tho Tweed suspected . It still exists in Prussia ; but its violence has been checked .
Count Strassoldo Has Issued An Ordinance...
Count Strassoldo has issued an ordinance announcing that a cattle fair will be opened on the 3 rd of October at Locco on Lake Como , and will continue for eight ( lavs . Tho Swiss who may think proper to attend this fair with boasts are promised that tho import duties to bo paid at tho Lombard frontier for their cattle shall bo returned to them in respect of all not sold ; but , it is added , to reach the fair from Switzerland , travellers must journey only by tho Splugen . It would appear from this measure that tho want of the accustomed supplies of Swiss cattlo is Jolt in Lombardy . In alleviating it , however , tho Austrian Government is careful to oxcludo Ticino from tho bcnciit of this special intercourse with Lombardy . The jury sitting at Friburg has pronounced a verdict upon the prisoners who had fled from tho prosecutionsi instituted against tho promoters of tho disturbances w wai canton . Nino were acquitted , among whom arc three oi four names notorious in conncxior / with the Sonderbun .
Tho Espana (Government Journal At Madrid...
Tho Espana ( Government journal at Madrid ) imfl " violent article on tho Protestant , cemetery quoslion , » o »( , piqued by tho satirical allusion of tho Journal den J- feoai to Turkish tolerance as compared with Spanish ml ; () 1 (! m ' , „ Tho argumont , of tho Jtepaua is essentially thifl , tlifti " but an atheist , can bo logically tolerant , on nuiaors ^ which religion i « concerned : and that cvory o tin * - ^ nideration lias always boon sacrificed in Spain to tlio ¦ preservation of " unity of faith , " with which tho ""^^ (• onccMsion in favour of Protestantism , or any other cession , " is incompatible . , an ] , \ icrS The Queen of Spain has ordered tho pay oi the soi (• o bo increased . „ w-
In The Church Of Santa Croce, At, Floren...
In the church of Santa Croce , at , Florence , " »• " ' markablo compositions by Giotto , embracing l <><» K of saints , life size , mid six symbolical . eo mpo . silio b ,, been brought to light in the Hardi Chapo ) , an < i ^ peeled Mini , moro will bo discovered . _ . c ;( 1 lii ) rt Knormous shipments of corn are detained ul . jlt ,,, ii ) - Har of tho Danube , and the losses of merchants m ^ ^ roiis . A . protest has boon addressed to the |{ UH' . n \ on ci . mil . The famous dredging machino leaves Mm "" nHl i « . The ' Russian army has established a ri ^{ i "' li ( i ( i ;) at mirinl , for the service of fho . troops in tho . 1 r'i >« "l | ( , plirt-Huoharost . Thcro urn only eight « oiniiiiHHiir »» « tll j ( l nients throughout tho whole KusHian <' »»]> 1 I 'J ' ' il : ; 0 , i to creation of a ninth docs not look hko a < " 1 evacuate tho Dauubian ProvinooH ovaeualo Mio Unuutunn rovincen
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1853, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17091853/page/4/
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