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Kovember 19, 1853.] THE LEADER. 1107
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Letters from St. Petersburg, of the 3rd ...
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A serious conflict has arisen between Ch...
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I ho Hank of Franco, contrary to expecta...
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LETTERS FltOM PARIS. JiicrxHu XCJX. , Pa...
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THE STATE OF ASIA. The Overland Mail arr...
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The War On The Danube Attracts The Atten...
guarantee tbe authenticity . At the time of the publication of the first manifesto of the Emperor . Nicholas , which ended with the words ' We will inarch in the defence of the orthordox faith , ' two Polea in a regiment in Bessarabia went to their colonel , and said to him , ' We have just read the manifests of the Emperor , and as we wish to act as good soldiers , we come to demand from you our discharge , because , as Catholics , we cannot fight for the Greek religion . ' The colonel demanded instructions from St . Petersburg , and received orders to have them botli shot . Four others presented themselves , and made a similar request , and they wpre also shot in Moldavia . "
Kovember 19, 1853.] The Leader. 1107
Kovember 19 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 1107
Letters From St. Petersburg, Of The 3rd ...
Letters from St . Petersburg , of the 3 rd instant , announce that a new levy of troops , in the proportion of seven men to every thousand inhabitants , has been commenced throughout the entire of the eastern part of the Itussian empire . A letter from St . Petersburg of ¦ the 8 th says , that all the troops in the vicinity of the capital have been ordered to keep themselves in readiness to march afc a moment's notice . On the 3 rd the Emperor reviewed the regiments of the Imperial Guard , 18 battalions of infantry , 20 squadrons of cavalry , and 6 batteries of artillery . Namik Pasha , charged to negotiate the Turkish Joan in . Paris and London , has arrived in Trance by the Mentor steamer . The despatches brought by the Mentor confirm the Turkish successes in Asia .
A Serious Conflict Has Arisen Between Ch...
A serious conflict has arisen between Church and State in the Grand Duchy of Baden . The Government appointed a special commissioner , without whose countersign no act of the Archbishop of Friburg should be valid in the Grand Duchy . The Archbishop has pronounced a decree of excommunication against the superior members of the Catholic Ecclesiastical Council appointed by the Government , and also against the Government commissioner . The Regent has forbidden the clergy to publish auy such act , and is preparing to take further measures agaiost the Archbishop .
At the opening of the session of the Germanic Diet on thelOth , M . de Prokesch d'Osten , the Austrian federal commissioner and President of the Diet , made a communication on the Eastern question , and expressed a hope , in the name of Austria , that peace would be maintained . After this the Minister of Prussia declared that his Government had resolved to reserve to itself full liberty of action , in order to be able to act in the interest of Germany , and for the maintenance of the peace of Europe . On the 14 th inst . the Piedmontese Parliament met for the despatch of business , having been prorogued from the 13 th of July last . It is understood that , among the most important measures to bo introduced by Ministers , will be one on the subject of church reform , and another relating to religious toleration .
The Popo has been astonishing the natives of the Holy City , unaccustomed of late to public speaking of that paternal description , by a aerinon on the Forum , in which ho rebuked , with great energy of language and gesticulation , the immorality of his subjects . The Holy Father appears to improve on his new regime of billiards . Austria having permitted the exportation of wheat from lombardy into the Grisons by virtue of the concordat of 1848 , has refused the same favour to Ticino , on account of the blockade of that Clinton , and has demanded of the Federal Council an effective control over the refugees residing in the frontier cantons without the consent of the Austrian authorities . This demand has been distinctly refiiMftfl .
A letter from Lugano , of the 10 th inst ., announces the arrest of an Austrian spy in the canton of Ticino—a circumstance -which had caused a considerable sensation . Ho arrived nt Lugano on tho 1 st inst ., when he commenced nmking inquiries respecting the refugees suspected of carr ying on political intrigues . He was arrested on his way to Milan . Ifc is expected that the Austrian Government will claim him , and that the differences existing between Austria and tho Swiss Cantons may become more envenomed . Tho 24 th of April next is said to be the day fixed for tho nuptials of the Emperor of Austria with tho Princess . Elizabeth of Bavaria .
General Navaez , on hifl return to Madrid from honouraide biuiiHhmont , was received fur from graciously by tho Queen of Spain . On his thanking hor Majesty ' for permitting him | , return , who replied , "I am ' glad to find your health ho good : had I known it , I h 1 iou 1 < 1 have insis ted on youv proceeding to Vienna . " Genenil Navaoz jell , the force of this reception ho keenly there , lie lost no time in leaving the capital ami repairing to Amiiguez .
I Ho Hank Of Franco, Contrary To Expecta...
I ho Hank of Franco , contrary to expectation , ban not yawed its rnto of discount ; but it hufi determined to limit , «« loans on railway shares from <> 0 millions of francs to •<»> millions . An oflu ; iul report , of tho French ( Joverninciil ; slates that , " ><> yield of the last harvest in about 1 . 0 , 000 , 000 lieetolitron ' > elow the average yield , and that up to the present time ' MK ) 0 , () OO h hlroH of oornhnvebeen imported into l'Ynnce . nii interdict , on tho exportation of corn by tho Vieorro «) t I ' jgypL haw encountered a determined opposition r tho ( Jouiieils-gonoral ol' Franco and lOnglnnd , who ' ton ' ! ' t ;<) 1 ) 0 mitisfiod with tho delay nmmlert till tho - » oth of November . It . ia probable that tho interdict will -we removed .
Letters Fltom Paris. Jiicrxhu Xcjx. , Pa...
LETTERS FltOM PARIS . JiicrxHu XCJX . , Parln , l'hui «< lny Evening' , Nov . 17 , 18 KI . ijONAPAUTi o ih hunting at Fontainobloau with nil hit , 1 ! , , " Tll ° BuHHian Ambassador , M . do Kiflselotr « a < i | ) 1 H , invited to the limiting party , and had ordered » H ploiMhd coHfcumo Louis X V ., With the intention "' "guring iu tlio fetes with distinction . But on moHday lnat , tho day fixed for \ m dopartitro for
Fontainebleau , M . de Kisseleff was seized with a sudden indisposition , which has confined him to his hotel . This occasioned all sorts of rumours in Paris ; among others , that the Emperor Nicholas had addressed a menacing note to the Cabinets of-France and England , demanding the instant return of the combined fleets to the Bay of Besika , under pain of an immediate declaration of war . This was rumoured to be the actual cause of the sudden indisposition of M . de Kisseleff . The Bourse , you may imagine , was alarmed , and the funds were sensibly affected . For the last week there has been a continuous , though veiy gradual fall . It is again reported that the rate of discount will be raised by the Bank of France . The financial crisis has been again a principal topic of
consideration . You may remember that , in September last , I told you that the resources of the budget ( 1700 millions of francs , 68 , 000 , 000 ^ . ) were already exhausted , and that great efforts were being 1 made by the collectors to get the taxes of next year paid in advance . This state of things has only grown worse . The appeal was not accepted , and the Government has been forced to dip its hands deep into the coffers of the Bank . Hence the difficulties of that establishment—hence its want of specie . In other words , to avoid a Governmental financial crisis , Bonaparte will treat his friends of the Bank , and in trade , to a nice little commercial crisis . Warn your countrymen in good time to look to their credits on France , or the " smashes" in France may find their rebound in England .
AiTests are still going on m the provinces . The number of the arrested is so considerable that the prisoners cannot be brought to Paris , and an examining magistrate has been sent to Orleans , the centre of the ramifications of the cons piracy in the Loire in the Delescluze affair . At Orleans he was joined by the examining magistrate from Tours . This excites some apprehensions . Delescluze , you are aware , was the confidential friend of Ledru Rollin , from whom he held all the threads of the middle-class republican
organization . It is feared that this arrest of Delescluze may compromise what , remains of the republican bourgeoisie in the departments . I say nothing , you observe , of the operatives , who form the real republican party , and comprise an organization apart : It must be confessed that the middle-class republicans are severely threatened in the provinces . Their disappearance would make so many rallying centres , so many leaderships the less for the people when their day arrives . It is thus that their loss ia a misfortune to the cause .
The Opera Comique trials are over . The prosecution began by itself abandoning the count which involved the punishment of death ; . it contented itself with demanding of the jury a verdicb of guilty of a plot against the person of the Chief of the State , and against tho surety of the State . This indulgence on the part of the prosecution confirmed a great many people in the belief that the real chiefs of the conspiracy were not before the Court , for tho simple reason that they had been disposed of as soon as taken .
Proofs were almost wanting against the prisoners , but simple inductions sufficed . Persons altogether unconnected with the plot , in whose houses pistols or copying presses had accidentally been found , wore implicated in the aifair . The trials lasted nine days . Tho Prosident , M . Jangiacoini , a Corsican , displayed revolting partiality . Whenever the accused seemed to manifest any energy , any firmness , M . . Tangijicomi cut them short with the . exclamation , "What is all this ? You are not hore to attitudinize . Tho dock of
the Assize ( Jourt is not a pedestal on which you are to bo permitted to drape yourselves as you pass before the crowd . " Jules Pavre , who endeavoured to flpuak for tho defence , met the same rebuff as the acciiHcd . But ho could not bo prevented from letting Hy ji volley point blank at tho whole tribunal . He had just pronounced tho word " republic" when ho was ; interrupted by the ]> reHiding judge . "Oh ! " replied Jules Favro , " I know well enough that it in good taste riow-a-days to Bpoak ill of a government at whose foot 1 have hood many prostrate who are now before me . "
" That is not tlio question , " rejoined JV 1 . Jangiacoini , incensed at the allusion . "Not to-day , perhaps , " repliod . Jules J'Wro again , "but ; fo-mavrou > / " The verdict wan as follows : — Ruaufc , Lux , C !( Irani , do M'dren , Mariet , Gabrat , sentenced to deportation ; Folliefc , Decroix , and A tix , to eight years' exile . The students , with the exception of Laugardioro , wero acquitted , an also Bratiano , the Wallaehian , wIioho only crime w ; in to have had a press at his Iioubo . Martin , tho Dominican , the man who goes' to confession—Martin , who without b < Sing arrested , denounced hhnsolf and his atisociateH - —was acquitted .
To-day i « , I believe tho final decision on another affair- —that of the foreign oorrespondontH , and of tho violation of the secrecy of lottors . Tho Court of'Cah-Hation declared that tho police had no right , to opon letters . Tho ( Jourt of Itouun having afiirniod , in appool , that in thin special case the police had properly acted in opening" letters , tho Supremo Court , in a full bench of all tho judgos , in ilO \ v to give a ' definitive decision in tho last resort . Ifc iH H : iid that MM . Dupin and Dufauro Jiro l < o argue tho point ; . Wo aro in receipt of howh from the seat of war in tho oanfc of Jfiurojie , ><]> to tho 11 th inst ; . That day tho
Turkish army had advanced to within four leagues of Bucharest , and had fought a second battle with the Russians of which the result was not known ; but as the Russians had not sent to Vienna any bulletin announcing their own victory , it is presumed that they were defeated . In that case they would be reduced to evacuate Wallachia , altogether . It is certain that the Turks crossed the Danube on the -1 th , at a new point , at Giurgevo , opposite to Routschouk ; they attacked the Russians m Giurgevo , and routed them at the point of the bayonet . Some details are known about the battle of Oltenitza of the 3 rd inst . The Russians had 3000 men killed or wounded . The majority of the general officers were wounded . It was the Carabines de . Vhicennes
carrying from 1000 to 1200 yards , which did the mischief . The two battalions of Turkish tirailleurs , armed with these carabines and drilled a la Frangaise , bore off all the honours of the day . Whatever may have been asserted to the contrary , it is positive that Gortschakoff has # in Wallachia the fourth and fifth corps , 120 , 000 men , commanded by the generals Dannenberg and Iaiders . Of these 120 , 000 men , Luders has kept 30 , 000 with him at Galatz , and on the Lower Danube . The remaining 90 , 000 are with Gortschakoff to hold Omer Pasha in check . If , as it is asserted , Gortschakoff has concentrated all his forces at Bucharest , nothing is yet settled , nothing is decisively concluded , and we shall have to wait some time yet for a solution . If , on the contrary , he has scattered his forces for the
purpose of guarding all the points of the passage of the Danube , Omer Pasha , if he have but a moderate share of military genius may , by falling like lightning on the Russian detachments , utterly annihilate the armies of the Czar in a fortnight . However this maybe , rest assured the piece is only begun . The last acts may yet have to be played out in Paris , or in Moscow . S
The State Of Asia. The Overland Mail Arr...
THE STATE OF ASIA . The Overland Mail arrived on Saturday afternoon , bringing full accounts from India , Burmah , and China , ¦ up to the Hth of October , the 19 th and the 27 th of September . From the north-west provinces we have news of trouble and agitation . The murder of Colonel Mackeson , at Peshawar , by an Affghan , had caused the greatest excitement , and had been followed by the wildest rumours . An Affghan invasion was expected ,
although there had been no intelligence to justify it ; forces from Ravvel Pindee were instantly marched down to Peshawar , and the ruinous old fort at the latter place was armed , and the guns pointed at the town . The assassin of Colonel Mackeson was hung in front of his victim ' s house ; a large force , accompanied by artillery , with lighted matches , being present on tho occasion . An additional regiment had been ordered to the north-west from a frontier post in Goozerat ; and Lord Dalhousie ' s visit to Rangoon had been put off in consequence of these north-western disturbances .
Meantime , Mr . Thomason , the able governor of the north-west , had died at Agra . He was a in : m of administrative ability , far above the average , and his death is a groat loss indeed . [ It will bo remombured that the Court of Directors had just appointed him Governor of Madras . ] Rumours had reached Bombay from many quarters of the activity of Russia among the tribes on tha north-west frontier . It was commonly reported that
Dost Mahomed , tho Affghan chief , had formed an alliance with Russia ; that Russian emissaries wore at Kohat and C . abool ; and it seems certain that , the Khan of Khiva and tho King of Bokhara lind gone forth at the head of their armies to repel a Russian invasion . Tho » Shah of Persia still luspt his army in tho field at Sultanieh ; and , it in remarked , in defiance of treaties with Russia , which forbid the asHtJinbling of " troops in that place . Hence it is inferred that the Persians will fall upon the Turks in Asia .
J ho news from Burniah is still moro exciting . Tho eaHborn side of tlio Irrawaddy had been ravaged by tho ho-called robber ehiofrt , and only two towns , l ' rome and Shweydoung , had escaped destruction . iiYcqticut raids wore niado on tho western bank , in dolianco of tho { Sepoy garrisons . Tho hoir-apparcnt of the throne of J . kinnah openly sided with tho rebels , British authority was Hot at naught , and tho unfortunate peasants were the victims of ovory atrocity ; Rangoon itself , poorly garrisoned by 800 men , was threatened " with an attack . Tho Hunucso guorilla wore resolved to mako Poim a desert ; boforo thoy yielded it to uh .
Tho robols in China continue their triumphant course . Shanghai was captured on the morning of tho 7 th , by a band of K . wanfcung and Fokien men of tho Triad Society , mixed with > Sin /> aporo inon and with some of tho low class of Shanghai . Tho place was fcaktin by surprise , with littlo ro . 'iistaneo , t ; ho Imperial troops , ohiolly Triad inon , donerting thoir authorities . Tho Hooond ma ^ istiato was killed and tho prisons thrown opon . 'IV « other . Mandarins escaped , and tho Taout-ao , Samqua , Uio well-known Hong nun-chant at Canton , deserted by bis guanln , presented himself unprotected in his ollicial robes and honours to tlio multitude , who boing at tho moment ohiolly Canton uvon , 1 i £ h lil « was spared , and ho ultiin : tt , oly made Iuh oncupo , and ]> la < : ed hininolf under tho protection of Uie American Minister . There wan littlo loss of lifo , tho main
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111853/page/3/
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