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country town vrho refuSied to lodge a traveller was prosecuted before the Court of Police and acquitted ; the traveller appealed , and the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal , founding their decision on a law passed the 13 th of March , 1791 , which declar es that commerce is free . " " Madame Rachel , " says the Athenaum , " remains alarmingly ill at Cannes . She recalled to her medical attendants the other day an incident of the period of her greatest triumphs . She was playing ' Ph & ' dre , ' and the Bey of Tunis critically said of ' her at the end of the piece , ' She has a soul of fire in a body of gauze . ' It ¦ was-with a melancholy sigh that she remarked to her doctor , 'Alas ! he was right ; and now you see that the £ re"bas destroyed the ijauze . ' "
The Emperor , Empress , and Prince Imperial have arrived at Compiegne , -where they will remain till about the middle 6 f next month . Despatches have been received at the Toreign-office from . M . Lefevre de Beconrt , French Minister to the Argentine Republic . They announce that the difficulties which , existed with the Republic of Buenos Ayrea are arranged , -the President XTrqui . za having acceded to the demands of tlie-French Government .
SERVTA . Raja Damjanovitch , senator , and former Minister of the Interior ( says a letter from . Belgrade of the 10 th inst . ) , was returning from a sitting of the Senate in the same carriage as the President of the Assembly , when lie . "was suddenly arrested in the street by the prefect of police and two gendarmes . A police officer pi-oceeded at the same time with fifteen cavalry officers to Semondria to arrest the senator Paun Iankowitch , former Minister of Finance , who was there on leave of absence * . It is said the parties arrested are accused of having conspired to assassinate the Chief of the State . AUSTRIA .
The Vienna correspondent of the Times relates the upshot of some conversation he has- had with ' a person who is likely to have some knowledge of what passed at Stuttgard between the Emperors and their Ministers for Foreign Affairs . ' We give it for what it is worth : — "The Emperor Napoleon and Count Walewski talked more of nationalities than was to the taste of the Czar , ¦ ' and certain remarks respecting Poland and Italy weTe unpalatable both to him and to his official adviser . " The Emperor of Russia entertains a very kindly feeling to - ¦ wa rds the King of Naples , and he seemed vexed to find himself brought into such close contact with Prince Marat , ' whose partisans are known to be plotting against his Neapolitan Majesty . ' In conclusion , 5 t was eaid that , if the Emperor Napoleon had produced a more favourable impression , on the Czar , the latter would perhaps have displayed less cordiality towards the Emperor Francis-Joseph . "
The Austrian convents , though very rich , have been ¦ n eglecting the request of the Pope that they should con--triLute towards the support of the Papal chair . If they continue obstinate , they are threatened -with an importation of Bavarian , Belgian , Westphaliarn , Italian , and Spanish monks , who will be more pliant-Tho Jews in Lemberg will in future be obliged to live in the Jewish quarter . The chairs of theology in the new university of Innspruck are to be filled by Jesuits . In future , no Protestants are to bo appointed chief physicians or professors in the General Hospital of Vienna .
Some peasants in Galicia , who have been evicted from their dwellings in order that the Gulician railway might be made , have been revenging themselves by setting firo to the property of those persons who they believe have injured them . They also behaved in a very riotous manner , but vrava finally dispersed by gendarmerie , though not without loss of life . M . de Walewski , an UltramontanLst , residing at Cracow , has published a work , the object of which is to show that the extreme system of centralization favoured by Austria is not conducive to the well-being of the empire . The Emperor , it is said , hns been induced to issue orders that thp General Book-kocping and Central Office shall bo subjected to a strict examination , in consequence of some representations made it > him by one of the superior decks . The affair lias been kept so quiet . that none of the details are known .
Odessa firms have offered to sell at a low pride to the Austrian iron founders the English and French cannon halls which were collected at Scbnatonol .
TURKEY . Some further intelligence has been received from Cattavo relative to the expedition of the Pacha of Scutari ( Albania ) to the district of "Vasojevitz . Four thousand regular troops and aa many Albanians marched from Scutari to Vasojevltz , with instructions to reduce its inhabitants to submission , to disarm them , and then to levy the taxes which they owed to the Porte . The Vasojovitzer applied to Prince Danilo of Montenegro for Assistance , but ho long declined to interfere in a matter which did not directly concern him . As the Turkish commander waa advancing , hia regular troops ( the Albanians ) committed such groat excesses that prince Danilo considered it advisable to send hia brother Mirko , the President of the Sonato , with five hundred m on to the frontiers , A collision would probably have ensued betwoou th « Montenegrins and Turkish troops if an
English commissary had not arrived on the 2 nd inst . at Cettinye , and informed Prince Danilo that the Porte had , at the request of the English , French , and Austrian Ministers , sent orders to the Pacha of Scutari to le : ive the Vasojevitzer in peace . Unfortunately , the bearer of the despatch did not reach the Turkish corps until its vanguard had forced its way into the district of Yasojevitz and destroyed several villages . It is said that hostilities are still going on , but reliable news on the subject has not yet been received . On the 24 th of September , the chiefs of the inhabitants of the district of Kuci , which was harried about two years since by a detachment of Montenegrins xinder Mirko Petrovitch , rendered homage to Prince Danilo . —Times Vienna Correspondent .
The Commissioners appointed to define the "boundary between Russia and Turkey in Asia are said , by the writer of a letter from Trebizonde , of September 29 th , to have arrived at the following conclusion : —The celebrated lake of Balcmk Gueul , situate in Armenia , to the south of Mount Ararat , of which half was claimed by Russia , has been declared to belong entirely to Turkey . The strategic road from Koiidjak-Guetchit has been rectified near Bayazid , and a point has been fixed where the boundary l ) ctw « on tlo two oountrioo io to bo ' ootablished . A tract of land at Gouriel , of about eight leagues in circumference , claimed by both parties , has been divided , and the watercourse of * Tcholok has been declared as the limit between the two States .
THE DANUBIAN mtNCIPA . LITIKS . A deputation of the Unionists at Jassy waited on the French and English Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Principalities , and presented to each , at his own house , an address . In answer to this Sir Henry Bulwer said : — "Gentlemen , —I have listened to the discourse that has just been pronounced with all the attention that such friendly expressions ought to inspire , and , if the words of a celebrated individual be true , > that language was given to man , and above all to diplomatists , to enable them to disguise their thoughts , ' I confess to making a bad use of the gift on the present occasion , inasmuch as I cannot find words to cloak the deep emotion that I feel at the cordial reception with
¦ which you have honoured my entry into this Principality . It is , as you say , gentlemeiij the first time that I have visited your country ; but allow me to assure you that it has long obtained my sympathy , and that I an anxious to see my name honourably inscribed in the new chapter of its history which is being commenced . This desire you will readily understand , as being ; the representative of a Government that must be interested in the development of your resources , while , for my own part , I can desire no mission more agreeable than the amelioration of your condition , nor any glory greater than that of living in your recollections . I feel that I ought always to speak to you with frankness while addressing you with regard . Do not imagine , therefore , I entreat
you , that the future ot a people can be formed in a day . Do not fancy either that 'the race is always to the swift . ' Trees of the slowest growth are the longest lived , while the tortoise challenged by the hare—you remember the fable—gained the race ; In searching for some trait that might afford me an index to your character , I think that I have met one that augurs well . True , you have only made a single road in your country : but that road is excellent . You have only one well-paved street in your city ; but that street is better paved than almost any street in the finest cities in Europe . Thus , gentlemen , you have given mo the idea that it lies less in the geniua of your character to wish to do much than to perform well what you undertake .
A people that progresses m this manner will advance far , because its march is sure . Every epoch in history lias in fact its mission . True political science , in nations as in individuals , consists in justly appreciating the opportunity , employing every effort for the possible , and never wasting time or strength on the impossible . Need I then tell you that , in demanding to bo informed of your wishes , you will be definitely judged of according to tho good sense you display . " After alluding to the construction and objects of the Divan and the Commission , Sir Henry continued : — " "We , gentlemen , have no other part to perform here , as coinniiasioncra , than to make our report according to the plan that has been traced out to us . You have no other duty to fulfil , as deputies , than to aid us in making that report a correct
one . We , on the one hand , must not transgress our Iimit 3 , while you , on the other , arc equally bound to rospect yours . My duty imposes upon mo tho obligation of speaking thus openly , and I think that I give you the best proof of my friendship by so acting . 1 do not as-8 ort that you shall obtain all you desire , nor do I promise to share your views in everything , becauso I will not renounce tho independence of iny own opinions ; but what I can aasuro you of is , that you shall receive the benefit of tho wisdom and good-will of tho Powers in everything that your reason and expoiioncc may indicate , and that prudence and justice can consider as compatible . with your intelligence , your position in the centre of Europe , and the suzerainty of the Sublime Porte . "
" The Divan of Moldavia yesterday , " says a message from Vienna , dated Tuesday , tl voted almost unanimously tho following principles : Self-government of the
Principalities conformably to tho treaties with the Porte whose rights are admitted . Uniou of the two provinces under a princo belonging to a dynasty of the West . A representative form of government , and neutrality oftlio new State . " The Wallachian Divan has come to a similar conclusion .
ITALY . SI . Benedetti , Chief of the Political Department at the French Foreign-office , lias left Turin to continue his journey to Central Italy . M . Benedetti is charged wita a confidential mission to inquire into the present situation of the peninsula . Cardinal Francisco de Medici was struck with apoplexy on the 11 th iusfc ., while paying a visit to Monsignor Giuseppe Stolia , private aamerist of his Holiness Notwithstanding that medical aid was speedily attbrded him , he died at eight o ' clock in tie evening , having pre viously received the last sacrament . The Cardinal was born at Naples the 28 th November , 1808 , and received tho purple the 16 th June , 185 G .
The Sardinian Minister of the Interior has revoked the order of banishment issued against tk * refugees- Dr . Sacclii , Professor Calvitio , and the Advocate Cubussi . The Pope ] efc liome on the 14 th . inst . for Civita Vecchia . The Caviditucljumlcy TVooc ^ ear de Lumlcy , an Italian of English origin , has asserted that the Piedinun . tese Government spontaneously offered to the Neapolitan Government to expel twenty-six political refugees subjects of the latter , from the Sardinian States . ° To this story the Piedmontcse Gazette gives an official denial .
The state of the crops in the island of . Sardinia is thus sketched by a writer from Sapari , who dates October 10 th : — " After the comfortless news in my List , it is grrtifying to me to give you now a better account of our harvest , since , though we may regret a mediocrity this year , it is only fair to add that the imagination blackened everything so much beforehand that- it was expected- to be worse than it really turned out to be . In fact , I can assure you that the grain harvest has all been above the average . Th at of wheat especially , if not above good years , was certainly not ' below . The same may be said of the wine . "
KUSSIA .. The Prince de Joinville arrived ou the 8 th of October at Sebastopol . The Government has published an official declaration to the effect that Anapa , Soukum-Kaleh , and Kedout-Kaleh , on the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea , will alone be open to foreign ships ; and that a liussian visa will be necessary even for those ports .
HOLLAND . Twenty-two Malays have been tried at the Hague for firing and deserting the Dutch barque Twenthe , when off Madeira on the 12 th of August , 1856 . The Crown demanded capital punishment for the ringleader , and various terms of penal servitude for the others . la the course of the evidence it transpired that they had been treated with systematic cruelty by their captain , exasperated to madness , and induced to seek revenge by fastening down the captain and his mates in the cabin , and then firing the ship . The trial lasted ten days , as all the forms and evidence were translated into the Malay tongue . Tho sentenco is , that the two ringleaders be imprisoned for five years , and the two others for three years ; and that the other eighteen be acquitted . The Crown intends to appeal against this decision , in the meantime , the acquitted eigbteou arc detained .
NORWAY . The Storthing of Norway has just rejected , by a largo majority , the royal propositions tending to obtain extraordinary . credits , nnd in case of need an axithorixation for a loan to defray the expense of unforeseen arm , imcnts and preparations for war . DKNJUBK . l \ y a Roynl patent , dated GUlcksburg , October 15 th , tho King of Denmark has convoked the Supreme Council of the Monarchy to moot oil the 1-ltli of next , January at Copenhagen , tlm * propositions relative to the affairs of the Duchies may bo submitted to it .
1 'iiussrA . The Tndependance Belye publishes the text of a privato despatch addressed by the Prussian Government , and signed byftl . de MunteuflYtl , to the Prussian reproriontativoa at foreign Courts . In this document , whidi beard tho date of the 28 th of May , M . de Munteuffcl carefully avoids declaring either in favour of or against the union of the Danubiuu Principalities . II « simply rofeiy to tho instructions given to the Prussian Commissioner . Tho wishos of tho DLvana , the suzerainty of the Porto , and tho integrity of the Ottoman Empire , are pointed out a 3 tho chief elomentH to bo considered . Prussia rctiurvus her vote as reg-ardu the union until the Special Commission , according to tho 25 th Article or tho Treaty of Paris , ahall have laid boforo tho assembly of thu Plenipotentiaries of tho Power . s signing the Treaty of Paris tho results of its investigations .
Tho last advicoa from Berlin etato that the King remains in the samo atato of hIow recovorj-. Tho Prince of Wuloa paid tho Princess of Prussia a visit at GoblouU on tho lGth inst ., whilo on hia way homeward down tho Ziliino .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24101857/page/6/
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