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820 THE LEAD E R. ______ [Saturday ^
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Tho Austrian camp at Oimutz is beginning...
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The minor Gorman States under tho influe...
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It is rumoured that. M. Muntouffel, the ...
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Tho Second Chuuibor in Holland has unani...
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The Austrian army is represented at the ...
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M. Soulo, the newly appointed American M...
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In its second edition of yesterday, the ...
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Madllo. Rachel Is Reported !•<> Ho About...
Austria , a young " girl of seventeen , cousin to the present Emperor—being the daughter of his uncle Joseph , Archduke and Palatine of Hungary . The bride progressed through Cologne and Aix la Cha ' pelle , and reached Verviers , a ^ Belgian town , close to the Prussian frontier , at nine o ' clock on Saturday morning . Austrian guards and officials accompanied her to the town- ^ -and here the young bride was to be delivered over to her new friends . According- tb . tho . traditional ceremony , presuming national hostility , and therefore suggesting mutual fear , the farce of declaring the Hotel de Brolley " neutral ground" was gone through . Here , after some tedious ceremonies , the bride was d el ivered to the Belgian au thorities , represented by the King , the young bridegroom Duke , and some Koyal Commissioners . The Duchess took leave of her Austrian guard , and then proceeded b y train tt > Brussels , passing Verviers , adorned with flags , and Liecre , the Birmingham , and
Wolverhampton of Belgium . At Louvain , where Republican sentiment is said to obtain , the Town Council advised the people not to be " turbulent ; " an awkward marriage proclamation . At Brussels , the party were met by the Burgomaster of Brussels , who detained the wedding guests by a judicious speech . The Times correspondent says : — " This remarkable person , considered by all Belgium as a great citizen , is somewhat past the middle age , and , with gray moustaches and a clear liquid intelligent eye , has in his bearing all the signs of nature ' s aristocracy . Possessed of a handsome private fortune , he devotes a powerful intellect and an energetic will solely and entirely to the public service , and is , in fact , made of the very stuff that in days of yore rendered Antwerp and the cities of Flanders the Venice and Genoa of the north—a man , who under Alva would have been sent to the scaffold , but under Leopold the Prudent is the rampart of the throne against democratic ambition . " In passing through the streets of Brussels , the young couple wero cordially received by the people—and the bride , "toute rayonnantede beaute et de jeuiiesse , " gave delight by taking a petition from a poor woman .
The marriage took place on Monday , being postponed owing to the indisposition of the young Duchess . The long journey , and the emotion of being speoehed at by burgomasters , and shouted at by crowds , had naturally faligued the young girl ; and even when she appeared on Monday , she was still pale . The civil marriage took place in the grand hall of the palace , in the presence of the Burgomaster of Brussels . " Precisely at half-past ten a . m ., the Koyal family , with its new member , entered the grand hall of the palace , where were already assembled the Burgomaster of Brussels ( ready to discharge his functions ); the eight witnesses ( four for the Austrian and four for the Belgian
court ) of the ceremony ; Colonel Seymour , Envoy Extraordinary of Queen Victoria ; and Baron Lowenfels , Marshal of the Court of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha ; with a few Belgian notables . The selection of the persons invited to be present gave the meeting the air of a family party . The preliminary ceremonies at an end , the Burgomaster of Brussels asked the Duke of Brabant the usual question , 'Do you agree to take for wife , & c . ? ' His Royal Highness bowed to the King , as if asking his consent , and then in a subdued , though audible tone , answered , ' Yes , Master Burgomaster . ' To the similar question addressed to the Duchess , she replied , with a slight blush crossing her pale countenance , ' Yes , sir . ' "
The religious marriage took place in a few hours afterwards . Precisely at noon the royal cortege reached the grand entry of the cathedral . A temporary Gothic altar was erected in this magnificent building ,, which was brilliantly illuminated , crimson and gold prie-dxeus , & c ., being placed for the illustrious actors in the ceremony , nnd Belgian and Austrian flags waving from every pillar . The grand nave , from the- threshold to the ti-ansept , was kept open by a double row of grenadiers . The Cardinal Archbishop of Malines , Primate of Belgium , presided over the clergy . On the arrival of tho royal party , the deep
voice of tho organ gave them a solemn greeting , tho clamour of the bolls chiming in . The Cardinal Archbishop rccoivod tho royal party on the threshold ; his Eminence preceded them , to point out to tho young married couplo the places they wero to occupy . Tho Duchess was pale nnd excited , and walked with a tottering gait . As soon ns she and her spouse hud placed themselves , tho Cardinal pronounced tho nuptial benediction . Tho organ then intoned the first notes of tho marriugo mans . " At tho elevation of tho Host , all the soldiers in tho church presontod anna . "
Tho Daily News correspondent points to some euggoativo reminiscences . Ho says— " Tho Belgian , journalists are ecstatically eloquent on the honour and glory of having an Austrian Princess again to reign over thorn . This i " h natural : tho hou . se of Austria was no regardful of tho liberties and immunities of those , provinces , ko prompt nnil energetic in their defence against external aggression , from tho timo that Maximilian suppressed the liberties of Ghent , till tho time when Joseph li . ' s meddling sowed tho seeds of re-volution , that tho Belgians must bo rejoiced to hoo their King taking shelter under tho wings of tho doiihlc-hoadod ouglo . IIin Majesty , too , muni ; bo highly gratified to lind himself no longer tho mow pu-roenn sovereign of tho revolutionists of lHilO , but a recognised mem - ber of tho old . Austrian family . 'J'ho fruits of this alliance for tho pt'oplo will doubtless hIiow themselves in good time . "
, Tho marriage of tho Due do Hrabdnt with an Austrian ArchflitchoH . s linn evidently given umhrago to tho French Imperial Government . Tho pompous ( latteries of tho official addrowHOH on tho occasion ,- and tho allusions of'thu Belgian Government journals to tho political advantages of Hitch an alliance withthe Houno of Austria , dwelling particularly on tho high dynastic position of tho biido , have , perhaps , appeared a pointed slight to tho rejected Varvnnu of Franco . At all events , a significant article , of considerable length , lias appeared in the Constitntionnel , signed by J \ l . Ameddo Cono ' , ono of the lately decorated for " important , services" in tho political press . M . Cohoim takoa tho pamphlet of u uuppogod Bolgiun , published by
the Bonapartist publisher , Ledoyen , in Paris , as a test for his discourse . This pamphlet represents the marriage of the heir to the Belgian throne to the daughter of the House of Austria as a sort of defiance to French imperial pretensions , and as a sfcep ^ towards the complete isolation of the French empire . Belgium enters into a dynastic alliance with Austria on the one hand . and England ( throughXeopold and the Cohurg family ) on the other * The writer insists that it is the interest , political and commercial , of Belgium to be mergedin France , and that it is the wish of the Belgian people ; and , consequently , that this match is anti-national as well as anti-French in its
object and tendency . M . Amedee Cesena adopts this perilous pamphlet " with great circumspection , and surrounds his own comments with unusual precautions of language , so as not to compromise hjs employers ; and it wilf be observed by our readers how convenient such an organ as the Consiitutionnel is to fire the big guns , while the elegant and optimist Pays is preaching peace and concord . It is reported that M . Bogier , the Belgian Minister in Paris , has already asked for explanations of this article , and has been met with the ever ready reply from the Minister of Foreign Affairs— " The Monitcur is our only official organ—we have nothing to say to any other journal . " that Adol t
It may also be remarked M . phe Barro , the French Minister at Brussels , was ordered to Paris for a fortnight ' s conge just befoie the royal nuptials . His absence was particularly noticed . With regard to England , France need scarcely fear that we shall allow ourselves to be drawn into any dynastic alliance for the sake of the House of Coburg , whatever we may have to say to the views of France upon Belgian annexation . Another royal marriage is that of the bride ' s cousinthe boy Emperor of Austria . Elizabeth Amelia Eugenia , Duchess of Bavaria , who has been affianced to the Emperor of Austria , was born on the 24 th December , 1837 . Her royal Highness is the second daughter of Maximilian Joseph Duke of Bavaria and of Ludovica Wilhelmina , Princess of Bavaria : she has three brothers and four
sisters . She is grand , daughter of the late King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria , cousin of the Emperor of Austria , and nearly related to the Queen of Prussia . The Vienna Zeitung , of Wednesday last , officially announces the betrothal of the Emperor , and publishes ordinances which considerably modify the state of siege in the Xombardo-Venetian provinces . La Presse remarks , as ^ a " monarchical heresy , " the fact , that at the marriage of the Due de Brabant with the Austrian Archduchess , the civil register of the marriage was held , not by an officer specially appointed for tho occasion , but by M . de Brouckere , the Burgomaster of Brussels ; and that it was in . presence , as it were , of the population , that the formalities of the civil marriage were accomplished .
^ The-Independance ' Beige defends these liberalizing innovations as particularly salutary in a State like Belgium : it say 6 , that in other countries perhaps it is proper that royalty should remain placed in an exceptional sphere , but that in Belgium it is never so much respected as when it puts itself' in direct contact with the nation ; as in this case , through the public officer of tho municipality of the capital city .
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820 THE LEAD E R . ______ [ Saturday ^
Tho Austrian Camp At Oimutz Is Beginning...
Tho Austrian camp at Oimutz is beginningto attract attention . It is to last from the 25 th to the 30 th of September , and to consist of 42 , 000 Austrian troops , including every branch of the service—six : regiments of heavy and five of light cavalry , twenty-eight batteries of artillery , and a due proportion of engineers . The medical staff will also be complete . The regiments will bo detached from the forces serving in Austria Proper , in Moravia , and Bohemia . They form the Austrian federal contingent , that is the first , second , and third corps d ' armeo of the German Confederation , and in that character they will bo inspected by tho Prince of Prussia , and tho federal military commission of Saxony and Hanover , according to tho decree of tho Diet , which has ordered military inspections to take place this autumn throughout the Statos of tho Confederation . Tho King of Prussia is expected to visit the camp at Ohnutz .
The Minor Gorman States Under Tho Influe...
The minor Gorman States under tho influence of Austria show a decided ill-will to Switzerland . A house at Arau had contracted to supply tho Swiss Confederation with n certain numbor of carbines and pistols for tho use of tho Swiss Cavalry . The consignment was sequestered on its transit through Bavnria by tho authorities of that State . Thereupon tho consignors applied to tho French Minister of War for permission to pass tho arms through French territory , which tho Minister accorded . M . Ochsonhein , tho chief of the federal military depnrtment , accompanied by Colonel Bourgeois and General . Dufour , in presiding over the committee of suporior officers appointed to organize tho defences of tho Swiss territory on tho AuHlrio-llalian frontier .
It Is Rumoured That. M. Muntouffel, The ...
It is rumoured that . M . Muntouffel , the Prussian Premier , has sent in his resignation to the King , which has not been accepted a * yet ,. Tho retirement of M . Mantouffol at the present moment would bo considered a triumph of . ' Russian iuiluonco at Berlin . Tho general discussion on tho new law for tho surveillance of roligioujs bodies by tho State , or , as wo should cull , it tho Ecclesiastical TitWbill ; it having , as our readers remember , been suggested by the Papal appointment of an Episcopal hierarchy in Holland , was concluded in tho Dultfh Chamber on Saturday hint ; . Tho discussion of Iho articles of tho new law was to he commenced this week . An ainicahle arrangement , of the differences between tho Papal Court , and Iho Dutch Government , occasioned chielly by tho bad faith of the former , and tho complicity of Homo members of the latter government , is expected , as M . Lightenvolt , Minister of Catholic Worship in Holland , is about , to return from Homo with now concessions on tho part , of | , ho Government of tho Pope .
Tho Second Chuuibor In Holland Has Unani...
Tho Second Chuuibor in Holland has unanimously cui
vied-the project of law opening the Molucca Islands to tl commerce of all nations . This act on the part of th Dutch Government is another step in the direction of fre trade and towards the abolition of international and iatev colonial monopolies of commerce and navigation .
The Austrian Army Is Represented At The ...
The Austrian army is represented at the camp of Sat or by Prince Jablonousky , Field Marshal , by two archdufc eJ Colonel Baron Leykau , brother-in-law of Prince Mette / nich , and two other colonels . The Austrian Correspondenz of the 16 th insfc . publishes an extract from the Memorandum drawn up by the Aim . trian Government upon the affair at Smyrna . This docul ment states that negotiations are still in progress with the United States Government , and that it is expected that the captain of the American corvette will be disavowed at Washington . The Austrian Memorandum insists that in uch act the of
no case can s an on part an . inferior officer be permitted , as it amounts to a declaration of war without notice ; and that the conduct of the American officer was a flagrant violation of public law in a ne utral port , The reply to this Memorandum is surely not difficult for the Cabinet at Washington . With whom did the flagrant violation of public law begin ? With the Austrian officers who violently seized a personburnished with an American passport , and entitled to the respect due to an American citizen ; or with the American , officer who resisted that interference , and asserted the rights of American citizenship ?
M. Soulo, The Newly Appointed American M...
M . Soulo , the newly appointed American Minister to Spain , accompanied by his son as his private secretary , at present in Paris en route to Madrid . A grand ball has been given by the officers of the Ame - rican Frigate , the Cumberland , to the Queen of Sardinia in la Spezzia bay . The Louis corvette arrived at the anchorage from Smyrna in time to participate in the fete , which passed off brilliantly . Dancing was kept up till five in the morning . The American navy is becoming very popular in the Mediterranean . It is recognised as the only active champion of liberty in the European waters . Free-trade is spreading itself—the rumours of a scarce harvest giving wings to its progress through Europe . The King of Naples has followed Louis Napoleon in suspending all duties on corn . The elections for municipal authorities have been suspended in Tuscany .
In Its Second Edition Of Yesterday, The ...
In its second edition of yesterday , the Times printed a submarine message : —" We have news from . Constantinople to the 19 th instant . The Turks were anxious for a pacific settlement through the aid of tho Four Powers , but they required some alteration in the note that had been sent from Vienna . A Turkish courier was to proceed to that place on the 20 th , with the note modified according to then * wishes . The changes are said not to be of an important character , nor such as will prevent a peaceful solution of the question . "
Tho Boyards of Moldo-Wallachia have petitioned their Hospodars not to obey the Sultan ' s order to withdraw . ( The Boyards are the landed aristocracy of the Provinces . ) Servia is stirring . The Prince Alexander Karageorgewitsch has left Belgrade , tho seat of his government , taking with him tho archives of the State , & c ., and has retired to Kraguavatch , a town in the centre , and the most mountainous part , of the province . Ho has , moreover , called out all tho national militia , a disciplined force amounting to 40 , 000 men , and has appointed Knitshianin the Commander-in-Chief , publicly declaring that ho will repel every invasion , either Turkish or Austrian . All this has given rise to tho greatest ferment at Belgrade .
Tho Times correspondent at Constantinople writes , under dalo August 11 th : — " General Gortschakoff arrived on tho 28 th of July at Bucharest , with a brilliant etat major , holding very di p lomatic language in speaking of tho hopes ho had of avoiding war ; but tho officers of his suite , in their confidential conversations , spoko of war as decided on at St . Petersburg , and that nothing would dissuade tho Emperor from it , since ho believes it to bo indisponsablo to the maintenance of his power in Jtussia . Tho maUnol which tho llussian troops bring with them , tho fortified works they undortako at various points , and tho pontoons and artillery stores show that they do not intend to remain on the loft bank of tho Danube . "
Ho adds , in a postscript : — " A report is current in tho city , to tho effect that a collision has takon place between tho ltussian and Turkish troops on tho Danube , but wo have no official confirmation of it , nor any details . W ' not altogether incredible , however , sinco it is well known that tho Russians woro about to send n small war-ntenmor past ; tho confluonco of tho Pruth and tho Panubo , wincii further infraction of treaty Omor Pasha declared h <> w ° . resent by tiring into tho steamer , and gavo notico of li | fl intention so to do to General Gortschakofl ' . " , The rrossc of Vienna states , tlmfc tho llussinn consul »* Constantinople , who had left his post , has received inatr """ tions to return to it . Among the papers recently presontod to Parliament on tho subject ; of tho closing of ' tho mouths of tho Danube J a despatch from Count Nossolrodo to Baron JJrunow , dated Octobor 2 . X lKGl . in which tho Count , alluding ,, " tn
the efforts of tho Turkish engineers to . maintain clear navigation of tho Sulina Bar of tho Danube , express' " opinion that an English dredging machino is proi « ra i >» " Wo are porsuaded , " says tho Count , with true Jtu 8 «>»' r . uavity , " that the English Government , liko oiirsoivfi ^ considers tho prejudices of English cornmorco relauV " our supposed dosignu upon tho Danubian . Principal ! » to ho unfounded "—( pcnj ' ondds ) . jn . Tho ' Russian Government is preparing for nilO '' f-,, piiign against tho tribes of tho Caucasus . Tho opera i . » ^ will commence in tho latter part of August . A w ,. boing arrnod in tho Son , ' of Azof to support tho jnovom »>» of tho army *
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1853, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081853/page/4/
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