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798 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. TirK duties on oolid ...
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Letters From Paris. [Fbom Oue Own Corres...
press alone . In order that she might lose nothing of the coup d'ceil , the troops marched ; in succession down the transverse allee that runs parallel to the Palace , extended their line throughout the whole length of that nllee , and thence took up their former position . The national guard began , the defile : at half-past two o ' clock all was over . There was not half the number of spectators one might ¦ have expected . Tlie general aspect of Paris was almost insignificant . As for enthusiasm , it was very moderate indeed . The National Guard was silent , the troops alone shouted , but they shouted , it seemed , without entrain , on the word given by their commanding officers , as if they were executing orders .
It was much the same with the f & te of the next day . Everywhere abundant curiosity , nowhere enthusiasm . Notwithstanding the puffs preliminary of the Monitenr , as to the intention of the government to depart from the customary programme of the public fetes , I really saw nothing that I had not seen a hundred times before . Excepting the distributions of wine and sausages in the open air , it was exactly the programme of the fetes of the Empire over again . Aquatic combats , Venetian masts with festoons and streamers .
orchestras and dances in the open air , gratuitous theatrical representations , and spectacles in the Circus and Hippodrome , a display of fire-works , everything down to the fireworks at the Invalitt . es , was an exact and faithful copy of the programme of 1811 . As to the decoration of the Place de la Concorde , in Moorish style , of which we had heard so many grand accounts beforehand , it was nothing more nor less than what I saw in 1849 . Altogether , we have no oiie to praise for extraordinary efforts of imagination .
Besides the fete , there is nothing , or next to nothing , to be mentioned . To-day the Emperor and the Empress start for the Baths of Dieppe . The Siecle has received a warning for an article on the certificates ( livrelst ) of domestic servants . The Government did not think a " waraing" enough , bub denounced the offending article to the law-officers ; but I am informed they do not consider the incriminated article guilty of s misdemeanour , and are disposed to an acquittal . To-day is pronounced the final decision of the Court at Rouen on the Appeal in the affair of the Foreign Correspondents . It will not be made public before
to-morrow , 1 he Tribunal of Kennesrby the way , has recently pronounced a remarkable decision on a case of the Press . A journal of the locality was accused before that Court of publishing false news : the indictment acknowledged that there was no apparent intention of doing harm . The Court decided that the law against false news was only applicable where the intention was malevolent , and so acquitted the journal . To make amends for this rebuff the Government has struck one of its own adepts with a warning—the l atrie , to wit . That officious organ had announced a telegraphic message from
Trieste , to the effect that the Sultan , while he accepted the Note of the Vienna Conference , had declared that ho would not send an ambassador to St . Petersburg before the total evacuation of the Principalities . Now , as all privato telegraphic despatches must needs pass through the Ministry of the Interior , and be copied in a register there kept , the Minister of that department declared that he had received no despatch of that nature . Either , then , it was a fabrication of La Patrie , or a mystification of whic h the JPatrie was tho victim , or that journal must have been employing a secret
cipher for communicating through the telegraph in the form of an insignificant correspondence . However it was . down came the " warning" of the Government on tho head of the devoted journal , which is now ( by the way ) in the market . One grave fact appears upon the text of the warning . The Minister avows that tho news alleged by the IM / ria in extremely probable . If that bo the case , tho whole Turkish question hits to be ro-openctl . Tho Bourse is now under this impression , mid inclines ngnin slightly to n fall . I have nothing- moro to toll this week . S .
798 The Leader. [Saturday,
798 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Continental Notes. Tirk Duties On Oolid ...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . TirK duties on oolid bitumen Imro been abolished by Imperial doereo . M . IJnze , in a second letter to the Tnd & pcndanco Jtelge , resolutely ro / use . s tho pardon of tho Emperor . Tho viuifc of tho lOinpreHs to Dieppe , alluded to by our Paris Oorrespondonl ; , has , it . upponi'H , been poHtponnrf . Tho ' . Empress ' s nintor , tho Diiche . SH of Alba , wuh j > rewmfc tit tho gratia performance at tho l < ran aia on Monday . ' . l'ho oflieial journal of Vienna , of tho 1 . 7 th inntant , contains an imperial decroo , taking off tho state of niogo at Vienna and I ' mirm .
Tho i ' rasnti <> f Vienna , speaking of tho return of the Count do < . ! luunhord l , o I iih residence at I'Yohwlorf , adds that ; tho . Duko do Nomoura arrived incognito at Vionor Noiistarit , and paid u vinit to tho head of tho house of JJourlon . Thin newB requires confirmation . Groat excitement prevails in fctoryia at tho approach of
the Russian troops . Austria is employing her consuls in the provinces of Bosnia , Herzegovina , and Servia to carry on a political propaganda in her favour among the Sclavonian subjects of Turkey bordering on her territory . Much conjecture has been rife of late concerning a military execution which took place soon after the Russians crossed the frontier of the Principalities . General Aurep condemned Captain Milklasefski to be shot , and the execution immediately took place ; the cause of this severity is a mystery i The culprit was a man of good family , and the brother of an officer attached to the service of the ExincDss of Leuchtenberg . The imminent danger of the Russo-Turkisb . dispute at the present moment , a danger no doubt foreseen by Russia , is the enthusiasm of the Mussulman , troops at the prospect of a religious war .
Tho Spanish general , Prim , has arrived in Constantinople . He is authorized by Ilia Sovereign , the Queen of Spain , to take part in the operations of the Turkish army in the case of a war with Russia . The Czar has not yet , it may be stated , recognised Isabella of Spain . The Minister who refused to sign the decree for the railway concessions without consent of the Cortez having resigned , his successor proceeded to draw up the proposed decree . It should not be forgotten by speculators , that such decrees can never , so long as Spain remains even , nominally a constitutional country , have force of law .
An officer on half-pay had been ordered out of Madrid for causing to be printed a number of copies of a protest against the royal decree relative to the concessions of the railways , which he intended to circulate clandestinely . The lithographic stone on ¦ which the protest had been written was seized and destroyed , The Presse says of Lord John Russell ' s recent speech on the Eastern question : —Lord John Russell ' s declaration is spirited in appearance , but in reality it means nothing , since the presence of the squadrons at Besika does not in the least inconvenience Russia , and cannot have any coercive character . After , as before , the speech of Lord John Russell , Europe has no , other guarantee for the evacuation of the Principalities than the engagements in M . If osselrode ' s circulars .
The instructions of the President of the United States to his representatives at the different foreign courts , that they should for the future appear on all occasions of public ceremony in plain clothes , and not invofficial costume , were carried into execution in Paris on Monday . for the first time . Mr . Sanford , the Charge d'Affaires of the United States , appeared at the soiree of the Emperor , as also at the dinner given previously by the - Minister of Foreign Affairs , in the plain dress of an American citizen .
The Z?It Lias Published A Translation Of...
The Z ? it lias published a translation of four documents illustrative of the latest position of the Turkish Question*—1 . The letter of the Prince of Moldavia to Redschid Pasha , June 25 , informing him that the Russian Consul-General at Bucharest had summoned him in the name of the Emperor to suspend his relations with the Porte , and withhold any further payments of the tribute . 2 . The letter of the Consul-General above-mentioned , dated June 23 . 3 . Tho despatch from Count Nesselrode to the Consul-General Katchinski , ordering the above measure , Juno 3 . And 4 . Letter from Redschid Pasha to Stirbey , Prince of Wallachia , July 25 . We subjoin an English version of these documents : —
I . DESPATCH OF THE PKINCE OF MOI / DAVIA TO BEDSCHID PACHA , DATED 25 TH JUNE , I had tho honour of laying beforo your Excellency yesterday an exposition of the circumstances consequent upon the occupation of the Principalities b y tho Russian troops . With the deepest sorrow I find myself called upon to-day to make you acquainted with a communication which I have received this moment from the Russian Consul-Goneral at Bucharest . Tho contents of tho subjoined notes will sufficiently explain to your Excellency the nature of the order issued to ine by Russia , to break off my relations with tho Sublimo Porte , and to stop the payment of tho tribute , as incompatible with tho presence of tho Russian troops .
Immediately after the receipt of tho notes I had an interview with Prince Gortschakoff , to whom I expressed my feelings on tho subject , and to whom I declared that I found myself in tho necessity of informing the Sublimo Porto of the circumstance , to which his Excellency mado no objection . As I feel that it is far beyond my power to interfere with measures which depend upon the decision of tho two Powers , I hasten , on my part , to inform your Excellency of what has taken plnco , that you may in your high wisdom tako such steps as you may doom advisable . — I am , & c . II . NOTK OP THK HU 88 IAN CONSUIXTENKTIM . AT BUCIIABUST , TO 1 'iriS l'KINCK MOLDAVIA , DATUI ) 2 ? $ IU > JUWK .
I havo tho honour to communicate in contidence ( vertraulich ) to your Highness tho enclosed copy of a despatch which tho Chancellor of tho State has addressed to mo under date of tho 3 rd Juno . You will find , my Princo , tho fullest instructions as to tho lino of conduct you have to follow , in consequence of the military occupation of the Principalities by tho Imperial troops , as regards your rolations with tho Porte , and the measures -you nro to adopt , for Htopping tho tribute which Moldavia has hitherto boon bound to pay to tho Ottoman Government ! Calling upon you to comply with the commands of Iuh Imperial Majenty contained in tho despatch , —I have tho honour to remain , & 1 - " - IvATfJlClNHKr .
III . COUNT NU BHKMtODM TO THK CONHUI .-fiUNKUAT , KATC 1 I 1 NHKI . Hfc . Polorfiburg ; Junn 3 . Tho military occupation of tho Principalities in , tin I havo already informed you , to cause no ohango in tho existing order of things an regards tho civil ndmuuHtratiou and tho personal of tlu > nup « rior ollicers , uiiIosh tho Hohpodarn thcruBolven should consider tho change of somo tmiploijSa necessary to tho introduction of tho greatest poBuiblo regularity iu tho various branches of tho sorvice ,
and particularly in that of providing for the Imperial troops . There is still one question , however , on which we must make our views known beforehand to the Wo Princes so that they may guide themselves according ly . Wo have to speak of their relations to Constantinople and the Ottoman Ministry . These relations must necessarily be broken off on the day the military occupation of the land on the part of our troops commences ; and at the same time every action , every influence on the part of the sovereign power , musb for a time cease . Another consequence of the state of things will be the stopping of the tribute which these provinces are bound to pay the Porte . The sums which ( the same as hitherto ) have to be paid must remain at the disposal of the Imperial Government , which reserves to itself to make what use of them it thinks
proper . You will comunicate to the Hospodars the contents of this , which I have the Emperor's commands to inform you of .
IV . BEDSCHID PASHA TO STIEBEY , PEINCE OH WAIiliACHIA . Constantinople , July 25 . Prince ! When Russia advanced her troops into the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia , she declared that she had no intention of changing the public arrangements which govern those provinces , or to alter the position which is guaranteed to them , by solemn treaties ; and the Sublime Porte , which trusted this declaration , thought ifc might leave your Highness , as well aa his Highness the prince of Moldavia , at your respective posts We learn , however , from the letter which has been sent us by the Prince of Moldavia , that the ^ Russian Court has issued an order that you , as well as the Prince of Moldavia-shall break off your relations with Constantinople , and keep back the settled tribute . This has surprised us
excessively . As the Russian Court ; has attacked the system of provinces in the point which immediately affects the power possessed of Sovereignty in them—in a word , in its very foundations , —the Sublime Porte sees clearly , that in this state of things the exercise of rightful authority in a manner due to its holy and uneontested rights , is impossible in the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia . The Sublime Porte has therefore determined that your Highness , as well as his Highness the Prince of Moldavia , shall for the present quit the provinces , and this order has also been officially communicated to the Great Powers . Yoa must , therefore , as is due to commands issuing from tho Imperial throne , quit the provinces immediately ; and should it happen that you act contrary to these orders , the Sublime Porte will adopt such measures as shall appear suitable and conducive to its interest on the
ocn * I gladly embrace this opportunity , & c . The following is a translation of the manifesto issued by the Turkish Government : —¦ " The Sublime Porte and Russia having disagreed on certain points , the latter has suspended her relations , and recalled her embassy from Constantinople , and , moreover , has made great military preparations by sea and land ; consequently , the Sublime Porte also has prepared herself for war , as has been already made known . The reason assi g ned by Russia for her dissatisfaction is the refusal of the Porte to afford by treaty certain religious privileges to the Greek Church . But these privileges were granted by his Majesty Sultan Mehemed the Conqueror , and observed
during tho reigns of the late Sultans , and were also confirmed by his present Majesty the Sultan of all benevolence , as well as by his predecessors . When his present Majesty and his Government of their own free will granted ana confirmed theso ancient immunities , who ever thoug ht that they would bo annulled ? When a Govornmont wishes to undertake tho protectorate of several millions of a neighbouring empire , it menaces its independence and interferes with its domestic affairs . The impropriety of such an act has been declared ; but Russia would not forego her claim , and has even occupied Wallachia and Moldavia , crossing tho Pruth with hor troops , thus greatly annoying : tho Sublimo Porte . Such a violation of treaties has called forth on tho part of tho Sublime Porto a protest , which has been communicated to the different European Powers ,
in which it is declarod that such an act , contrary to treaty , will not bo accepted by tho Sublimo Porto . When a question of such grave importance arises , affecting tho indopondenco of tlie empire , it ought to bo arranged by negotiations and friendly mediation . It is not Russia s intention to mako war on tho Sublimo Porte , but eho has occupied tho provinces as a guarantee until her demands nro complied with . The Porto has received from tho different ; European Powers friendly advice , especially from tho maritime nations of England and . Franco , upon whoso friendship and good faith tho Porte can rely , and it is certain that she will not accept anything that will affect hor integrity and independence . Until it is scon what turn affairs will tako , it has been deemed advisable to assume thff dofonsivo on tho banks of tho Danulm nm \ th « frontiers ot
Anatolia . Such is tho disputo and tho present state of affairs n 8 regards Russia . On tho part of tho Government , troops and tho munitions of war havo been prepared . Tho Sublimo Porto has tranquillized nil hor subjects , and baa enjoined thorn to remain qiu ' ot in their Hovoral occupations of 'agriculture and commerce , and jiho roquirou of her s "'' " ' jectB to obey all her commands . Ah has beon already montionod , tho lomis of Rusma relate to tho rolitf io " *
privileges of tho Greeks . Tho Greek sect and Lhoir chiol * have pci-Honully nothing to do with this affair , but have , on the contrary , oxprosmw . 1 their gratitude and thanks u > their Government , and aro sorry that puch a quoHtion hiiflover been mooted ; wo munfc not , therefore , bo looked upon an enemies . . Armenian * , Catholics , Protestants , and •'") aro also tho just and faithful Hubjecfn of our Lord aria I ndi . shah ; tho UroolcH aro so also , ' and they must thereforelivo in jpoaco with ouch other . In Hhort , Moslems and all other Hubjocts of Iho Porto must dwell together in harmony , and not snoak of thing *
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 20, 1853, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20081853/page/6/
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