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CONTINENTAL NOTES. LATEST ON FRIDAY NIGH...
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CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES. Tub despatch...
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War Miscellanea. Tite.Eussiaw..Ftoti^L4 ...
¦ write * ftom Sevastopol to a Vienna paper , saying that the- Russians are now beginning to act on the-defensive , and tttat-they receive great- assistance from the Tartars , who being-disgusted-with the way in -which the Allies have treated the- Turks * keep the Russians well informed with respect to- the plans , positions , and movements of the Freneh-and'English . . Hanovbm ^ t— The armament of the Hanoverian . troops is proceeding rapidly , and the Confederation is called on- to hasten its preparations in order efficaciously to assist Austria .- _ Thr Pibdmontesb Contingent . —The Malta Matt announces that twenty-five steam vessels are expected at- that island ; whence they will proceed to Genoa , to take on board the Piedmontese contingent .
• The Batiamons of toe Fkench Imperial Guakd reviewed-on Tuesday by the Emperor , and numbering nearly 10 , 000 men , march to-day for Marseilles on their way " to the East . The 21 st regiment of Light Infantry , about-1900 strong , has marched from Rome , to be embarked-at Givita Vecchia for the Crimea . A battery of artillery is to follow shortly .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . LATEST ON FRIDAY NIGHT . The Vienna Conferknces . —The Chronicle states that the " first point" was definitively settled at Vienna . on the 21 st . TheJFrench continue to throw rockets into Sebastopol . ' The bombardment is proceeding with greater vigour on the part of the Allies . Tixe death . of Prince Menschikoff from the effects of typlma is reported , but requires confirmation . The motion for presenting an address to the king , censuring the Ministerial policy on the Eastern question , was rejected on Wednesday in the Prussian Second Chamber . A prolongation of the credits for tlie . expenses of the present year was voted .
The Berlin Correspondent Of The Times, W...
The Berlin correspondent of the Times , writing- on March 18 th , says : — " A nocturnal levy of recruits was made . throughout Poland on -. the * night of the lothjnst . The ; proximate cause of the death of the Emperor Nicholas , was the receipt of the telegraphic despatch announcing the . defeat of the Russians at Eupatoria . A letter from St . Petersburg , of the 8 th , says : — " The body ofthe late . Emperor , has been for some days lying oua state bed at the Winter Palace , and the public have been admitted . at certain hours to see it . The body is in the room i of the Grand Duchess Olga .. The .
embalmment ; took- place under the direction of Professors Schultz and . Gruber , members of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery . Since , Tuesday the body of the Emperor has been covered with a large pall , edged with gold , which " envelopes the whole and . covers the face . The decoratiou of , the room is very simple . Three priests stand near the bed ,. and say mass alternately . The crowd who go to see . the body , is immense . They are only allowed to stop a few minutes in the room ,. and then , pass on . Every . Russjiuiiltneols , near the . coffiu ,. makes the ^ igu . ot the cross , and kisses the covering over the body . "
"When > the King of Prussia received the telegraphic news of' the death of his brother-in-law , he immediately sent back , as an , answer , the following words from the Apocalypse , addressed . , to his sister , the Empress ? : " Blessed , axe the dead who die in the Lord . " This is probably the firat time that the telegraph has been usedin Russia at least—to-convey- scraps of Scripture . —i Daily News Correspondent ,. The Pope will , send an . Envoy Extraordinary to St . Petersburg , to congratulate the new Emperor upon his accession to the throne . . It is said that Alexander is rather a favourito at Rome ; nnd hopes are entertained of some concessions being made by him in favour , of the Roman - Catholics .
On the 7 th inst ., the now Russian Emperor received tho , ambassadors who waited upon him to present their respects on his accession to the throne . Alexander-is reported to have said that he was animated by the same sentiments as his father , and his uncle ,, the previous Emperor Alexander ; that . the policy of his father , which had of late been misunderstood , was > a conservative polioy ; and that , ho hoped , the principles of the Holy Alliance might still serve as a link between the different States , though the alliance itself had past .. He then a tided , according to tho Frankfort letter from which these assertions , are . derived , " For my part , I am disposed to give peace to Europe if honourable terms arc offered to Russia ; but if tho conditions are dishonourable * I prefer perishing to accepting them . "
A letter from St , Petersburg , quoted by the 7 hmea Paris correspondent , says that tho Emperor Alexander haeaddresaed the following words to the nobility — " I solemnly declare that I will not give up a single inch , of' Rnasiaa territory to our enemies . I will take good care to prevent their penetrating further on the soil of our country ; and never ) never—may my hand wither first !— -will'I affix- my signature to a treaty which shall bring theallglrteot dishonour on tho nation . "
Tfte-Ddnaw has a letter of the 15 th of March from Poland , which contains some curious information .. Not only , are the troops and employee Obliged to take- the oaths of fealty to the new Monarch , but also all the inhabitants of the kingdom . The latter have to appear en masse in the church of the- parish to which they belong , andthere to swear to be faithful to Alexanderll . and the Hereditary Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovitsch . By special order , of Government ; the . young people attending all the schools at Warsaw are to take the oath of fealty at the hands of M . Muchanoff , the inspector of the Warsaw school district . via Marseilles
Accounts from the Piraeus , of the 3 rd , , announce that M : Mavrocordato has tendered his resignation , which , it is said , has been accepted by King Otho . Turkish troops have been concentrated at Monastir . Austria is said to have announced that she will interfere to put down any insurrectional movement in Greece . From Denmark we learn that the committee of the Volksthing has presented to that assembly a bill impeaching the late ministry for exceeding the budget . The King is convalescent , and no more bulletins will be issued . A decree has been issued at Brussels , prohibiting the re-exportation of military and naval arms , when the same are destined for Russia .
A letter from Frankfort , of the 14 th , in the Moniteur , says : — "At one of the last sittings of the Diet , M . de Bismark , replying to the communications of the Austrian plenipotentiary relative to the effective military strength of that power , made use of remarks which did not evince a very favourable disposition towards the policy of the allied powers . M . de Bismark has since been disavowed , and blamed by his government . Prussia , moreover , declares that she does not demand that the Austrian contingent shall remain on the federal territory , and that she does not think of having the fortresses of Luxembourg and Meritz armed . "—The disavowal of M . deBismark's language has been contradicted by the Preussiscke Correspondenz .
^ The Turkish , Sultan refuses to recognise the Hellenic nationality of Rayahs who adopt the Greek protection . These men have been naturalized in Greece , since 1838 , for the purpose of carrying on trade in Turkey without being amenable to the Turkish law ; but the Porte , still considering them as subjects of Turkey , will not consent to waive its authority . A shipjtvith the submarine telegraph is hourly expected at Constantinople . ; and on its arrival no time will be lost in laying downjthe wires from Kamiesch to Varna . The French are emploved in the construction of the land
telegraph from Varna to Rustchuk , whence it will be carried on to Bucharest , thereto join the greatEuropean system . A branch is also being made from Constantinople to Shumla , to join the former line at Rustchuk , sothat in a few weeks the communication will be open from this capital to London and Paris , and intelligence will be carried within a few hours . At present the shortest time is six days , and this is only possible when the fair weather leaves the wretched tracks called roads in a state to allow the passage of a Tartar ' s horse . —Times Correspondent .
The Moniteur of Monday publishes a letter from Jassy , announcing that the electric telegraph was opened between that town and Czernowitz on the 2 Gth of February . * ¦ ¦ " ' "" - Letters from Bayonne of the 15 th mention the great damage caused by the inundations in the Pyrenees . The Bidassoa has done its part in sweeping away the bridges of Behobia . The Nive has completely submerged Lower Cambo , and has inundated a part of Bayonne ; and most of the houses on the quays have had water to the first floor . It is not said whether any lives were lost , but great injury has been done to property .
Advices received from Nyborg , under date of March 14 , doscribothe ice in the Belt as still fast , not a bit of open water to be seen , and from 3 to 4 degrees of frost . At Frederickshaven the sea was covered with ice as far as the eye could reach ; the light ' vessels at the mouth of the Weser and Cuxhaven had returned to their stations . Later accounts , however , state that tho ice in the Baltic is loosening . On the 14 th a motion was brought forward in the Spanish Cortes , to the effect that instead of tho motion of M . Oloznga declaring the Senate elective , three-fifths of its members should be elected and tho rest bo nominated by tho Crown ; but nftor a discussion this was rejected by 15 J 5 votes to 67 . Orders havo boon sent to annihilate tho Carlist band which has appeared in the Sierra do Burgos .
At tho audience which M . do Wcdoll had with the French Emperor , tho subject of tho treaty was talked of , and the Prussian Envoy was given to understand that in tho formal invitation to bo addressed to his Government- should be introduced words implying that Prussia accepted engagements on entering tho Conference—in short , that in tho preamble should bo sot forth , if not in direct terms , at least in terms equally significant , that obligation . M . do Wedell declared that , though he himself did not see any harm in such preliminary engugomont , his powers did not extend so far as to accept it , and that ho should demand what I boliove ho tormed " supplementary instructions" from tho King . The Emperor wus friendly und cordial as before , and M . do
Wedell quitted him with the assurance- that- he should soon have to see him again ^ and that- he should hear from him through the Minister for- Foreign Affairs .- — Times Paris Correspondent . The journey of the Emperor . to . the Grkneaicontihues to be talked of ; but the probability of < sucli a step , decreases every ; day . Nevertheless , gossip . < hasigpne-so far a & . to say that the Imperial hut iasheeaCOttstructed . We now al 6 o hear talk of a visit of , the- Emperor and Empress to the Queen at Osborne . '• ¦ •' . , The ministerial crisis in Belgium , which has lasted as long as our own , and caused as much perplexity , seems not yet to have reached its end- After many abortive attempts at the construction of a ministry , the last of which only lived a day , the country , still remains withrout . a cabinet . The Chamber is convoked for Monday next .
Doctor Veron having in the last volume of his Memoirs described a meeting at the house of M . Thiers in 1851 , at which M < de Morny and General Changarnier were present , and the project of a royalist coup d ' etat against the Assembly discussed , a note appeared in La Presse , formally and explicitly denying the whole story , and treating it as a pure . ; fabricatioa . To this Doctor Veron replied iu the same journal , that he had not printed such statements without the best to
authority ^ . Thiers broke silence give an absolute contradiction . Doctor Veron requested M . de Morny to corroborate his statements , and M . de Morny at once replied that the doctor hud written nothing that was not literally correct . M . Thiers writes again , simply maintaining a flat denial ; and . General Changarnier , writing from Malines , repudiates the veracity of the author of Memoires d ' un Bourgeois , departs , and of M . de Morny , and insists that only " the honourable M . Thiers" has spoken the truth .. _ .
M . Berryer has declined to conform with the Academical custom , and to present himself , to the Chief of the State . He sent a dignified letter , to the Emperor ' s private secretary , M . Mocquart , appealing to his kindness to intercede with his master for the omis ^ sion of the usual ceremony , as in his case " it might be painful not to himself alone . " M . Mocquart expresses in reply the Emperor ' s regrets-that M . Berryer ' s political impulses should have got the better of his Academical duties ; the Emperor from his lofty position would have seen in M . . Berryer the orator only , and in the adversary of to-day the advocate of fifteen years since ; but that M . Berryer is at liberty to consult his own feelings . The lectures of M . Sainte Beuve , who was appointed
Professor of Latin Poetry at the College of France by M . Fortoul , the present Minister of Public Instruction , have been discontinued . At his inaugural lecture the Professor was hissed and groaned at from the—moment he began to talk of that " great- prince who defends the liberal arts at home , and the flag of France abroad . " When he talked of his . principles , there was a cry of " Wkidt f Your principle * -of" 1830 , of' 1848 , or of to-day ? v It was impossible for the lecturer to proceed , and he was compelled to call jn the assistance-of the police to clear the room , that he might continue his address to almost empty benches . It had been the original intention of the students to drown the Professor ' s voice with derisive applause , but honest indignation , or as M . Mocquart
would say , " political inspirations , " got the better of their-discretion . — The closing of . the course-of lectures so inauspiciously begun was a question of common morality . M . Sainte Beuve Jiad so cynically expressed hi 3 contempt for principle in politics , that the " youth of the schools , " not yet extinct in France , we are glad to findj could not repress their disgnstj and M ' . Sainte Beuve , we may hope , is now . definitively shelved . This movement of the students is significant of the revival of public spirit in France , and it corroborates the tenor of all our correspondence which ¦ describes the situation as
growing daily worso for the government . The war creates discontent and anxiety . The news from the Crimea is unsatisfuctorj ' , commerce languishes , and tho hostility to the Napoleonic regime increases daily among tho bourgeoisie upon whom , after allj the stabilitj' of tho government depends . Thero have been very numerous arrests in Paris of late . It may bo doubted whether , under these circumstances , Louis Napoleon will persist in going to the scat of war , though his friends persist in saying that ha-will . On tho whole , he is generally considered to be " on tho decline , " and we are as little surprised as sorry to hear it .
Tho Augsburg Gazette says .- — " Austria lias declared to the Western Powers ( par wio note obligatoire ) that if tho Conferences should not result in tho re-establishment of peace , tho situation provided for by article 5 of tho treaty of tho 2 nd of December would bo in force .
Cuba And The United States. Tub Despatch...
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES . Tub despatch of tho American ambassadors present , at tho conference of Ostend , signed by Mesars-Buchanan and Mason , tho American ministers at . London and Paris , und by Mr . Soule , lato American minister at Madrid , has been published in the Now York papers . This document lias . reference to tho acquisition of Cuba , the purchase of which is recomr mended on tho ground of its geographical , position , ( which commands tho commerce of the ., rivers di « 7 cmboffiiing into tho Gulf , of Mexico ) , and ,. oujt . of oxk
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Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24031855/page/7/
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