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A NEW CONVEYANCE ASSOCIATION. The reorga...
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THE FAILURE OW MESSRS. STlvAHAN , PAUL, ...
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Letters From Paris. (Extracts From Priva...
the Bp ^ ceV one liour were selling at two francs below the closing prices of the day before . There was no explanation of this sudden d / grmgoiade , and people began to fancy that we had been beaten on the Tcheraaya , when at length it was discovered that the sellers were speculating on the tremendous intelligence , that for twenty-four hours his Majesty had been afflicted with the " complaint of philosophers , " as Montaigne / who was also a sufferer , called it . . . , . ,, When the authorities heard of this panic , his Majesty promised to go out for a drive on Sunday , and to the play on Monday , so as to persuade the funds to get up again : the elasticity of the funds depends so much on the elasticity of the Imperial constitution . But then again , the stockjobbers have another anxiety . Suppose his Majesty were to wear himself out with his endeavours to appear well ! . . . . M . Gamier , Professor of Political Economy , an * d ' as such , under the jurisdiction of M . Rouhc-r , Minister of Public Works , having presented , in the Journal des Economises , some observations on the dc- cree relative to the Institute , was sent for by the Minister to answer for his impudence . When he alleged the excessive moderation of those remarks which had offended the susceptibility of M . "Fortoul , the Minister of Public Instruction , " W e know , " replied M . Eouber , " that your article is very measured in terms . Before 1852 there would have been no objection to it . But you cannot be ignorant that since 1852 any functionary who in any way censures an act of the Government is in hostility to ( en disaccord avec ) the system which the Government is determined to establish . Consider yourself ¦ warned , and for the future be circumspect . " ( From , another Letter . * ) You remember that Napoleon ( the First ) honoured with his presence the tomb of Frederick the Great , and that Charles the Fifth paid a visit to the ashes of Charlemagne . The Charlemagne of the 2 nd of December , the Napoleon of Boulogne , of Strasburg , and of Satory has rendered the same honours to the tomb of the Due d'Orleans . Last Thursday , June 14 , a cabriolet stopped at the grille of the little monument of the Chemin de la JRe ' volte ; two private gentlemen in plain clothes got out : the one resembled a schoolboy , the other a Sick perroquet — the one was the King of Portugal , the other the Emperor of the French . They had the chapel openeil . The concierge recognised them , and respected their incognito even to calling them Messieurs . Our Emperor deigned himself to do the honours of the chapel to his young companion , to . whom he pointed out the painted windows of M . Ingres , and the singular resemblance of the late king to Saint Philippe . The Orleanists are scandalised at this invasion a the more so that the chapel is private property , and actually pays taxes as such . But it seems that this Government respects neither the living , nor the dead . The young King of Portugal is not so strictly watched by his guardian this time us he was on his last excursion . He has been permitted to disport himself , and he has taken full advantage of the permission . .... You ask me what I think of Ristori , and of the Demi-Monde . I have not yet found time to see Ristori ; but my friends assure me that she has great dramatic power , and that 6 he adorns that bestial tragedy of Mirra . Those who saw her at Home admired her much less . Perhaps the public enthusiasm here is tin pen une niche faite a Mademoiselle liackel . Madame Ristori is going to play a Maria Stuarda , becauseone of Rachel ' s celebrated parts was the Marie Stuart of Lebrun .... The Vemi-Monde is a success , because it ia an exact daguerreotype of Parisian conversation . The style is lively and amusing , and the characters seem to be transported directly from the Boulevards to the stage . Just before young Dumas' piece was brought out , Emilo Augier was preparing another on the same subject , founded on the true story of an officer attached to the household of the Emperor , M . de G 1 , and a certain Constance . Constance had been a fille en carte . To save the young man who was mad to marry her , the police laid a trap for the poor girl and gave her a rendezvous in a maison de passe , where they came and arrested her , and lodged her at St . Lnzfirc . Her lover , however , got her out , still resolved to marry her , and nothing could be done but to send him off to the Crimea , where ho is still . I suppose M . Augier has given up his play . G 1 is too like Nanjac . . .. ., . . Every hour of the day the telegraph has been asking for news , and receiving none . Great things ar £ expected of Pelissicr—grand mattre en tueric . ' , CONTINENTAL NOTE S . Convocation of this French CiiAMnicus . — By a . decree in Thursday ' s Moniteur , tho Senuto and Legislative Bpdy ore convoked , . This convocation , tho oilicial jour / nal observes , is of no unforeseen character , as , over since . thp close of last session , the Government had uigniflje ^ ftO tho senators au < l deputies that financial incasu ^ qs yrould compel thole e » p . oeay reunion , ' (¦'" ¦ • ¦ ' ¦ . ;• i ¦ ' - ¦ ¦ . . , ¦ ¦ ¦ m
— I . . .. —^—^— . ^—^—^^^ M ^^ wmma ^ ^^ mgg ^ mmm ^^ mmm ^ ammmm ^^ ' * £ !***! f ^ m *? ' * S 1 *^^^^^!^^^^^^^ ¦ •¦ — ¦ ¦¦ V-- ¦* - '• --, - -. — - A Parisian sculptor has been lately selling plaster casts of a bust of Be ' ranger which he had made . For these casts he charged six sous a piece ; and 10 , 000 have been sold in a fortnight—a fact which indicates the existence of a considerable residuum of republican feeling even in purpureal Paris . The idea of selling the casts at so low a rate originated in a desire to give an answer to some virulent attacks upon Be ' ranger which have appeared in the Univers , the press organ of the Jesuits . A French physician has just published a pamphlet under the title of " The Physical and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race caused by Vaccination . " The startling theory that Jenner , who for more than half a century has enjoyed the reputation of one of the greatest benefactors of humanity , was in fact the principal author of cholera and a host of modem diseases , has been broached before , but without exciting much attention . Now , however , the Imperial Acidcmy of Medicine has placed the subject on their paper for discussion . The Queen ' s visit to Paris is said to be fixed for the 13 th of August . It is held to be probable that the sovereign of England will be present at the Napoleon fetes on the 15 th of the same month . If so , this will perhaps be the strangest fruit of the Alliance which has yet been produced . The French . Emperor has been ill ; and the conseouenee has been a serious fall on the Bourse . The story is , that , after leaving a rather long council of ministers on Saturday , he was seized with a strangury . The ailment , however , could not have lasted long in its intensity , as the Emperor received several visits at the Tuileries on Sunday morning . He lay in bed the latter half of Saturday . The Turin journals state that during the visit of the King of Sardinia to Paris , the regency of the kingdom will be entrusted to II . R . II . Prince Eugene of Carignan . The shock of an earthquake has been felt at Albano . It is thouglit to have been connected with the late eruption of Vesuvius . Some seveie floods have occurred in France . All the rivers in tLe neighbourhood of Toulouse rose considerably ; the Garonne overflowed its banks ; and the Prairie des Filtres , near Toulouse , was entirely under water . Trees , domestic animals , and articles of husbandry , were swept away ; and the inhabitants of the surrounding country had to fl y for their lives . Three piers of a suspension bridge were also destroyed ; but it does not appear that any lives were lost . On the 2 nd instant , a kind of waterspout burst over the town of Aubusson ( Cieuse ); the rivers overflowed their banks , and the water rose to the height of ten feet round some of the buildings . The next day it subsided . A correspondent of the Daily News , writing from St . Petersburg , observes : — " The peaceable and bloodless conquest of the extensive territory to the north of the river Amur—a territory equal in size to the whole area of Germany—is now officially confirmed by the Irkutzk correspondent of the Northern Bee , and is considered as an event of great importance for the future ; for , though at the present moment there exists only one solitary ' winter house , ' there are two most excellent harbours , capable of becoming , when fortified , what Sebastopol is now in the Black Sea with reference to Turkey , as it will give ltussia the command of the Sea of Japan , and open the dooT for the aggressive spirit of the Muscovites to pick a quarrel with , and finally subjugate , the vast empire of Japan , and possibly China . " Montenegro , after having been quiet for a long time , seems disposed to stir again , if we may rely upon a letter from Cettingc , of the 29 th of May , which has been published in the Austrian Gazette , and which says : — " The ruling Prince and Princess of this country proceeded last week with the principal dignitaries of the country and the Senate to Iiieka-Cernovie , where 6000 men in arms were assembled , that is to ( jay , all those who had last year volunteered to fight against the Turks . The Prince passed them in review and then presented each with a cross , which is to be worn to intimate that tho person displaying it had come forward voluntarily to battle with Turkey . Three salvoes of applause greeted tho Prince when he addressed the troops , and the ceremony terminated . " „ The Carlist rebellion seems to bo nearly at an end . Aragon and the Maestrazgo are referred to by the Government as completely tranquillised . Tho Carlist Colonel Puollefl , together with Corales and seventy rebel horsemen , were shot at Agramunt on tho 8 th inst . According to advices from Oporto , dated the flth instant , the vine disease in tho Douro in uproading with such intensity as to cause tho worst apprehensions . An Austrian note , addressed by Count Buol to Count Ester hazy , and dated tho 01 st ult ., exhibits still inoro clearly than preceding documents the political coquetry thut is now going forward between the two groat German powers . Prussia , ns well as tho other Teutonic states , is complimented on having waived tho discussion , in tho Federal Diot of the Russian offer with respect to tho two first PointH . Count Buol concludes by observing that " events are taking such a turn that for tho future wo shall not have to act with reserve totvarda Prussia in pending negotiations . " ¦ A letter of tho 12 th from Burgos ( nays tho Times Spanish correapondent ) mentions that tho mail which
I left there on the 10 th -was burnt not far from BrivTesca by ten mounted men , headed , it is believed , by the Estudiante de Villasur , who is said to have entered Spain from France five or six days ago . A French . Cabinet courier was in the mail , carrying despatches f rom ' the French and English Embassies in Madrid . He earnestly entreated the brigands to respect the official correspond dence , but in vain . It was soon after this exploit that the mail of the 9 th from Paris came up , with c orrespondence from Marseilles , including , it is said , despatches from Senor Pacheco to the Spanish Government . These , according to t he letter , were the only ones not burnt . The robbers carried them away , with what object it is difficult to conjecture . A few details are given by trie Monitore Toscano , of the late attempt against the life of Cardinal Antonelli . It appears that the Cardinal was issuing from the palace of the Vatican to enjoy a walk , when , while descending the steps before the entrance , a man named T > efelicis , a hatmaker by trade , rushed on him , and attempted to stab him , but was stopped in time , and arrested . The Brussels Indejiendance has intelligence from Vienna that the reduction in the Austrian army will be of 140 , 000 , and not . of 100 , 000 men , as originall y announced . — Significant comment on the intentions of the Court of Vienna with respect to the war ! The Biirgerschaft of Hamburg ( says a correspondent of the Daily News ) have rejected by a majority of 162 a new and liberal constitution laid before them by the Senate , and emanating from a mixed commission of the Senate and the people . This constitution is much more liberal than one which the same body accepted in 1850 by 347 to 149 votes . A new constitution for Hanover is in process of construction . We gather the following particulars from a letter of the 16 th inst . in the Cologne Gazette : —" According to the bill , the First Chamber will be again formed of the same elements as before 18 IS , with this difference , that the equestrian order will no longer have more than 26 deputies , by whose side will sit 18 landed " proprietors having a net revenue of GOO thalers ( the thaler is about 4 fr . ) , and chosen by electors designated by the assemblies of the buUliages . The present representation of the legal profession , the schools , commerce , and manufactures , will be done away with . As far as regards the Second Chamber , the bill returns to the fundamental law of 1850 . Notwithstanding the urgency of the Ministry , the bill appears likely to have but very little success with the Second Chamber . " Poor Poerio and his comrades are still languishing under the devilish tyranny of the Neapolitan despot . A correspondent of the Morning Post says : — " Owiug to the great sympathy expressed by the inhabitants of the small village of Montefusco , where the political victims of 1848 had been long confined , fifty of them were some time since removed to Monte Sarchio . The mode in which Poerio and his companions were conveyed from the one place to the other is characteristic of the Neapolitan government . No less than 4000 soldiers were employed at different parts of the road to guard toe closed vans containing the prisoners . All these unhappy men were made to travel in their chains , from which they suffered excessively . But the most painful event of the journey was caused by the overturning of one of the vims , which broke the arm of one prisoner and injured others . On this occasion , the military guard took upon themselves the responsibility to remove tho irons from the prisoner , contrary to tho strictest orders given on that subject . "
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TI M oliCE'jAvD 3 B M ' " r cP ^ yi ^ gAM
A New Conveyance Association. The Reorga...
A NEW CONVEYANCE ASSOCIATION . The reorganisation lately effected in l ' aris of the public conveyances under the direction of one vast Association , is about to be attempted , we are informed , in London . In Parin , the Association guarantees better carriages , better horses , cheaper fares , and a more regular service . If the projectors who have successfully realised their scheme in France , und who propose its adoption in London , can surmount tho difliculues peculiar to our independence of Government control ana to our unrestricted competition , can succeed in P " ciuading tho various interests engaged in the trade to merge their isolated profits into a monopoly -which promises simplified expenses of management and increased receipts , and can convinces the public that ouch a monopoly would conduce to the public advantage , tho Association will deserve encouragement and support . Certainly our public conveyances system in mi . sceptiblo o great improvement . If our cabs and omnibuses are better horsed , they ar « far inferior to those of Parw »' comfort , and in that regularity of correspondence tvluc " is at onco an economy of time and of npuco , by nfloniing to even the most remote districts a continuous communication with the central thoroughfares .
The Failure Ow Messrs. Stlvahan , Paul, ...
THE FAILURE OW MESSRS . STlvAHAN , PAUL , & CO . This commercial catastrophe turns out to bo aor" ~" thing more than was nt first believed , and is tr | l . '; r fcrred from tho ground of simple bankruptcy to tnn * of a criminal appropriation of other people * I """ perty . Tho police court ia dividing with tho M » y w of Bankruptcy tho honours or dishonours ot i " -
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061855/page/8/
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