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D ecember 20,1856.] THE LEADER. 1205
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years hence all the lectures are to be in that language , puni This has created great discontent . sixt The chiefs of the provinces of Transylvania , Croatia , men Slavonia , of the Temescher Banat , and of Dalmatia , are that no longer to bear the title of " Civil and Military Go- illici vernor , " but of " Governor . " I" the civil administra- shal tion , the expressions " Civil and Military Govern- hun < ments " are no longer to be employed , as in future there offer will be no separate departments bearing such titles . Art . The Emperor and Empress , on the Oth , crossed the hav < Gulf of Venice to Pola , -where they were received by the the civil and military authorities of Istria , and , after orde visiting the chief objects of interest of the locality , re- out . turned at midnight to Venice . his " The Emperor , " says the Mommy Post , " has not of a yet decided on visiting Milan . His Majesty is said to men be : much disappointed \ vitli his reception in Italy , and ings complains of false representations having been , made to cula him as to public feeling in Venice and Lombardy . " the italt . does A Neapolitan gentleman , who has recently visited cler his native state after an absence of some years , and the who has again quitted it , has communicated to the gali Paris correspondent of the Times some particulars mee of the present state of King Ferdinand ' s domi- a s ] nions . According to these statement ? , the Neapoli- six tans are Federalists in their politics . They " are no per longer the gay and noisy people travellers knew them per to be not long ago . They have become serious , speak little and in a low voice T but whatever they do say ^ they say without fear . The terror which hung over affi them no longeT exists ; you hear tliem speak of the of incompatibility of Ferdinand II ., of the Constitution , as and of liberty , without apprehension or disguise . One Pn would suppose they are anxious to go to prison , but the an < police daTe not gratify their \ vish . They seem to wish : - that the police should commit excesses ; but Bianchini Mi does not venture , or does not wish , to gratify them . An Bianchini is respected and honoured as an honest man ; effi his police are tolerant , and even civil . The police are now of divided into two parts—the old and the new , and these last for detest the excesses of the agents of Mazza . Neither Mor- -inf bell , nor Campagna , nor Crefii , is now seen in the streets , wi They have disappeared , and are afraid to show them- fai selves in public . .... Whatthe people want is a Constitution like that of Belgium . Reforms or amnesties ve no one seems to care about . In the Bagnio of Ischia sh there -were forty-two political convicts . It was inti- be mated to them that they should demand their pardon of the King . One demand only was made ; and , two days after , the person who made it was found dead ! When of the King passes in the streets , few salute him . If the fa Queen and the children pass , the people turn their backs th on them , and no one touches his hat . An amnesty is tr spoken of as on the point of appearing . Most of the cc persons included in it are unknown . . . . The population ss are armed , but ' tb » y will not have recourse to arms , g ' except at the last extremity . . . . The Hereditary Prince ic himself is discontented ; he is hated by the Queen , and g < turned into ridicule by the King ; he / is prohibited ai from reading the newspapers , which , however , he feels sr the greatest anxiety to see . He is only allowed to see p . and converse with the priests . ... When Toerio was a : transferred from Montefusco to Jlontesarchio , before the eprison doors were found elegant carriages to convey him si to his destination . They were the carriages of the cl proprietors in the province , who disputed among themselves the honour of conducting the prisoner . " " » The soldier who attempted to assassinate the King of o Naples was hanged on Sunday morning . AH remained t quiet . "When he was being examined by the military v and police authorities , ho demanded pen , ink , and paper , r saying he would write his deposition . He then wrote down t a 3 follows : —* For six years I have cherished a hatred c against Ferdinand II . I belong to the class of insurgents in Calabria in the year 1818 . It was my intention to purge the earth of this monster . I have not 1 the slightest intention of revealing the names of my < brethren who conspire like me to rid the world of this tyrant ; but the occasion will come when their daggers will avenge all . " . From the 1 st of next January , fine silver will be paid in currency in the kingdom of Naples . The ducat will bo one hundred and thirty-two grains forty-five centimes per ounce . Count Lavatelli lias been assassinated at Bologna . The Milanese official journals of course say it was done by the Mazzinians . SWEDEN . Subjoined is an analysis of the principal provisions of a bill for . the establishment of freedom of religious worship , which is about to be presented to the bwcJish Diet : ~ " Art . 1 revokes the clauses and enactments of the Penal Code relative to the penalties attached to departure from tho true Evangelical doctrine , and tlio profession of another faith . These penalties were nothing less than exile and confiscation , and the persons who leit tlio Swedish Church almost in every case merely became Protestants of another denomination . Every bwede , however , who leaves tho national Swedish Church is obliged to make a formal declaration to that effect m tho I rogiatera of Mb parish . —Art . 2 revokcfl the enactments of the eamo code which entail the penalty of exile for tho propagation of erroneous doctrines , and changes the pun sixty ment that illicit shall offence Art have the ord out . his of all ings culated the does the gality a sixty L person : ¦ affair > of as > » and l i . effect I- of t for _ t . will ' - far 3 a ; - be > f . . ¦¦' ¦" ¦ s n of ie- ts is the ic > u « s ce ia id id Is ee p l 3 Q m he a- of on cd ry er ivn -cd Lir in _ uot my his crs ' aid , vill en- ma . one a of vor- JUU Fthe par- fes- less t tl o ano 1 2 , ¦ li is ^ of - the } the
; ishment for that offence into a fine , varying from -eight francs to four hundred francs , or imprison- for from one to twelve months . —Art . 3 proposes whoever shall seek by persuasion , threats , or other means to lead to apostacy from the Swedish Church , he liable to a fine of from seventy francs to four hundred and forty francs , and for each repetition of the to imprisonment for from two to twelve months . — . 4 states that children bora before their parents changed are to be brought up in the doctrines of Swedish Church , and the municipal councillors are ered to see that this prescription is carefully carried — -Art . 5 states that no one can , in consequence of religious profession , be released from the observance the laws in vigour in tlie kingdom . —Art . 6 allows members of the Swedish Church to hold religious meet- in private housesj provided nothing takes place cal- to destroy public order . In every meeting for purpose of religious worship , at which a clergyman not officiate , entrance cannot be refused either to the clergyman of the parish or to the public functionaries of neighbourhood ; and these latter can , in case of ille- or disorder , dissolve the meeting . No such meetings , however , can in any case take place , unless by special permission , under the penalty of a fine of from -eight francs to one hundred and fifty francs for the person lending his house , and . of fourteen francs for each present . " PRUSSIA . A Prussian note , on the Subject of the Neufcuatel , was forwarded on the 1 . 0 th instant to the Cabinets Paris , London , Vienna , and St . Petersburg , as well to the Germanic Diet . It is said that in this note Prussia declares its intention to have recourse to energetic independent action . A note signed by Baron Manteuffel , the Prussian Minister , and addressed to M . de Hatzfeldt , the Prussian Ambassador at Paris , has been published . It is to the that the Prussian Government shares the opinion France and Russia that Conferences should be held the settlement of the points under dispute , and informs him . at the same time that he ( Count Hatzfeldt ) have to represent Prussia . This note is dated as back as the 8 tb of October . , It is said that Prussia is resolved on an armed _ inter vention in Switzerland , in case the royalist prisoners shall be contlemned . Military preparations are said to already made . :-. - ' . "' . . ''¦' . GEBMASY . ; . . ¦ '¦ . - ¦ ¦ ¦' . ¦ . '¦¦ A fresh pastoral letter , published by Bishop Arnoldi Trier , contains several innovations which have not failed to make an unfavourable impression . Amongst them inay . be noticed the restriction of church music Latin language exclusively . The pastoral letter contains the following illiberal regulations : — "No sacred music the words of which are written in the Ian guageof the country can be permitted to be performed any cathedral or church ; " and in another place goes on to say : — " It having come to our knowledge and caused us sincere grief , that in various churches sacred iniisic is sung in the vernacular , which is corn letely at variance with all Catholic piety and devotion amongst which are certain odes written by profane and even heretical authors , we hereby prohibit their being sung in future ia any Catholic church or chapel in this diocese . " ,. The criminal tribunal of Frankfort-upon-the-Maine within the last few days , has tried various persons who the 18 th September , 1848 , were arrested in the act tbrowing up barricades in the streets of that city . They were condemned to various periods of imprisonment none of which exceeds three years . These men have thus been detained in gaol awaiting their trial upwards of eight years ! TURKEY . According to the Neio Prussian Gazette , a ¦ wrcllformed Berlin paper , the commission for the regulation of the navigation of the Danube have fixed upon Kilia mouth of the river as that which would give greatest facilities to improvements in the navigation The Kilia is the most northern mouth , and that which the destroyed fortresses belonging to Russia situated . , . The new Ministry , as finally settled , is thus posed : —Redscliid Pacha , Grand Vizier ; Arif Effendi Sheikh ul Islam ; Mehmed Ali Pacha , Minister Marino ; Mehmed Pacha ( Kibrisli ) , President of Tanzimat Council ; Riza Pacha , Soraskior ; Ahmed Fcthi Faclin . Grand Master of Artillery ; AH I ' achn , Minister of the Mint and Private Treasury Chofik Pacha , President of the Council of State | tt Pacha , Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Safeti Pacha , nister of Commerce ; Muchtar Paclm , Minister Finance ; IlaBslb Pacha , Minister of the Lrkass Pious Foundations ; Izzet Pacha , Minister of Police Safot Effendi , Mustachar of the Grand Vizier , Minister of tho Interior . Besides this , the Ministry , there arc six members of the Ministerial Council \' vithout portfolios These arc ,-Raouf Aali Taclm , Mustapha Pacha , Kiunul Paclm , 1 P trder l \ 1 l 0 A ^ Sg V' Serious News , " J ^ g Constantinople has tho following intollifionco :- "On 22 nd of November , tho Russian General Philipson ¦
took an o Gen und < Sorn whe T recei was Nor < allui Rus urge T Serf was Frei whii the j ^ neVi it jj an ^ ^ hai ser , at , 0 JIe i ' p ^ w , jai On na < dre peiJ tne cej wa ^ far ofi ^ CO ] - n 0 ^ tv , — . '¦' . mi , VL nl to o , tiJ - j ; t ( it xi , p p - a ] , t j j , ^ ' " >' , t ] , n of & n , 0 f d \ in- ( the the . on were com- , of the Ghahb ; honi Miof or ; and regular Pacha -uad te the retook Soudjak Kaleh , and drove out the Circassians after an obstinate resistance . On the following day , the same General captured a Turkish brig and eighteen boats , under pretence that their papers were not regular . Some other boats escaped and got into Trebizonde , where the Consuls drew up reports of the affair . ' . ¦'¦ ' : . . ¦ ¦ RUSSIA . ¦ ' : ' . ¦ The Nord of Brussels contains a leading article on the recent statement that a Russian army , 50 , 000 strong , was prepared to march on the Persian frontiers . The Nord , whilst expressing its doubts of this intelligence , alludes to an article in the treaty of Gulistan , wherein Russia engaged herself to defend Persia in any case of urgent necessity . The Russian memorandum on the Bolgrad and Isle of Serpents questions , which was made public last week , was originally communicated to Count Walewski , the French Minister of Foreign Affairs , with a note , in which the French Government was invited to promote the reassembling of the Conferences . . ¦ - ;¦ ¦ ' "¦ : . ¦" . . " .-. .. ¦ ¦ gbeece . ¦ . . ¦ ¦''¦ . . . . - . A strange taie of Turkish atrocities is told in a Greek newspaper , called the Sun ( Helios ) . We append it , though it has so much of a romantic colouring in its complexion , and is so " raw-head and bloody-bones " in its details , that we give it with the same caution which we observed in connexion with the now world-famous story about railways and revolvers in Georgia ( U . S . ) . Our Hellenic contemporary says : — " A certain Christian at Philippopolis celebrated the marriage of his son , to which he invited all his friends and relations . For six ^ days they kept up the rejoicings with music and dancing . ! On the fifth day , the Pacha of Philippopolis unfortu' nately happened ; to pass by and saw the ladies elegantly dressed , adorned -with flowers , jewels , and strings of 1 pearls . On learning the occasion of the festivity from 1 the father , with whom he was acquainted , his Ex- ' ' cellency was angry because he had not been invited ; he 1 was therefore asked to come on the following day , when ^ he was a spectator of the profusion and wealth of the 1 family . About midnight , he atacked the house , carried y off everything , and slaughtered twenty-five persons . On 3 the following day , which was Sunday , the neighbours , consulting together , knocked at the door ; but there was " no reply , or sound of anything within . At last they 3 broke open the doors , and became spectators of the 3 tventy-five corpses , with their fingers mercilessly cut oft " —a sad sight for Philo-Turks . Immediately a state-, ment of facts was drawn up , and the Pacha hastened to '' view the place with his own eyes . He then left , *¦ mounted his horse , uttering curses and imprecations on st the perpetrators . He rode up and down , and set a guard 0 over the house , and sent out his soldiers to pursue and 5 r take the midnight plunderers . But there is nothing ^ ° done in secret that shall not one day be brought tol light . One of the servants of the Pacha gave an account 5 to the Christians of his share in the horrible murder . ifc Upon this , immediate information was given to the e > Pacha of Adrianople , who , coming to the house of the iS Pacha of Philippopolis , instantly drew up before him 1- all his soldiers , afterwards the soldiers of the place , so n that the latter should have no guards , and , accompany-I ( * ing him , caused search to be made in the houses of the l neighbours of the murdered man . Then he . returned to ' the Pacha ' s house , when a large iron chest-was discovered in a private apartment occupied by his servant ; ie > this he opened , and there were found heaped up bracelets , ° 5 necklaces , and rings belonging to the amputated fingers , of & c . Tho Pacha was taken to Adrianople , where he reey mains in custody . The other inhabitants are seeking l 4 > out the terrified witnesses with all diligence ; but the ve fear is that this Pacha -will get off as the Pacha of Varna ' ^ did . They have written to Constantinople , and are waiting orders from head-quarters . " POKTUGAX ,. J ~ The produce of salt in Portugal has failed to an l alarming oxtent , and tho Government has felt com-, polled to issue a decree allowing the importation of foreign salt at a . low duty . According to the uncontraon' dieted reports of the Portuguese press , the Councillor of on State , Felix Pereira Magalhaens , one of the Ministers ore in the last Thomar Cabinet , has had his carriage and horses confiscated , in consequence of having made them > m" the vehicle for introducing within the town a petty u contraband of beans , bacon , and oil from his country ? house , in order to evade the city dues , which barely , amounted to three shillings , ned llib SPAIN . rv . Tho official Gazette recently stated that no ccn-Jn [ sorship of the press exists in Spain . Tho monstrous Mi _ untruth of this assertion is shown by the fact that o r gendarmes are placed at the doors of the printing-ofliccp , to control the circulation of tho journals . One paper : . ( the Iberki ) advertizes for a largo supply of editors , as an ( i it docs not wish its readers to be a tlay without their ular paper : a plain hint that editors in Spain ar « now under ¦ rial continual liability of imprisonment . c j lft The Duko of Osuna has arrived at St . Petersburg ' uucl from Madrid , charged with a diplomatic mission from the Spanish to tho Russian Government . J | fa SWITZERLAND . 1 the A very unliappy affray has taken place at the el cere- tions in tho Swiss canton of Tribourg between the Con-
D Ecember 20,1856.] The Leader. 1205
D ecember 20 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 1205
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/5/
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