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      gnunonre are afloat as to the new financial plan of B & 'Br ail ; butnone of sufficient authority for repetition . Certain motions brought forward by deputies in the S panish Gortes , with a view to liberty of instruction and universal suflrage , have been rejected . The Gazette states that the . Government is aware of the Garlists having purchased fire-arms ia Belgium . The same journal announces that ministers have remitted to Paris and London various sums for the payment of the dividends-on the foreign debt . The rest will be forwarded without delay . _ _ . .

      • A curious instance of the ups and dawns of Spanish political life is given , in a letter from Madrid of the lftth inst ., which says : — " There has been a good deal of remark made about the declaration the other day in , the Cortes of Marshal Espartero , that in 1844 orders were given to . have him shot , if caught in Spain ^ and not erven to allow him religious consolation . Some of the moderado journals have denied the truth of the statement ; but , in ^ answer to them , the Gazette of this morning publishes a communication , from the general ' s secretary , enclosing a copy of a royal ordinance , which enactedin express terms that ' if Batdomero Espartero should place his foot on the Spanish territory , he should be shot , without any further delay than , should be necessary to scertain his identity . ' "

      Sir John Rennie , the English engineer , who has been sojourning in Portugal with a view to advising the Government touching certain pulxlic works , has returned to England . His report is unfavourable as far as regards the bays of Kgueira , Oporto , and Viauna , which are . held incapable of permanent improvement ; but he recommends an artificial harbour north of Oporto , and cheap-single lines of railway in connexion ^ -with it and with the populous districts in that direction . It seems probable that the Portuguese Government will not be able to find the capital necessary for such enterprises .

      The Preussische Correspondent publishes an official account of the affair at Cologae connected with 'the arrest of our consul and of his secretary . Kray , the secretary , is accused of not having appeared in obedience to a summons , to answer the charge of enlisting Prussians for the English service ; and the assertion that a despatch had been taken from Kray by the police is strongly denied . Consul Curtis was also arrested for having gained over-Prussian subjects for the English Foreign Legion r an oflenee which is held to be the less excusable' in the cases both of Kray and Curtis on account of their being themselves subjects of Prussia . The King of Prussia is- still in very indifferent health . His malady appears to be- rheumatism .

      Brigandage- prevails in Smyrna to a most alarming degree . Dr . M'Craith , an English physician , and several other persons , have been captured by a band of robbers , and conveyed to the mountains , from which it seems they are not likely to be rescued without a- heavy

      ransom . Accounts are still received of the > anarchic state of * the Ranubian Principalities under Austrian military rale G . ne of these mentions that the- Hospodar Stirbey exhi bits the" utmost servility to the Austrians , and the greatest insolence to-other foreigners ; while he treats 3 bis own- countrymen with disgraceful tyranny . It is affirmed in Paris that information of what passes tfeere is regularly transmitted to St . Petersburg by " a . certain Russian prince" who was banished for a conspiracy against the lato Czar , but who , having be « en educated with the present Emperor , corresponds with him , and transmits Mb intelligence through the " neutral " , states of Denmark and Sweden .

      • Tho Cologne ) Gazette- contains a letter * from- Prasburgy -which says :- — ¦ " The late arrangements of the Emperor Alexander II ., relative to' tho succession fco the- Russianfihroone , appear- to be of more importance than might have been < at first ; supposed . It is said that they were caused by the desire * of the Czar to -withdraw fronv affiiirs-as soon as he possibly can . Tho Emperor , it is- said , , ia of tho opinion q # the German party , that Russia can only lose , 'materially and morally , by a continuation of fch © 1 war . It is added that the 1 * 40 events in the ' Crimea / have produced a very marked efifect on his Majesty , and ' have led him more than ever to wish to retire . "

      » The iStuese , of Berne , announces that M . James-JVusy has given in his resignation as ¦ member of the G-rand Council of Gonova . Tho Me $ actffere delle- Alpi , a Swiss paper , announces that Colonel A . Bundi has boon' definitively appointed to the command of the Anglo-Swiss legion , with pay amounting to 800 / . a year . Tho Dhbota and the Mbcle hare both exproased thoir disapprobation of ' tho unfortunate speech" of' Prince Albert at the Trinity House . ¦ Th e new daily paper , tho Tblegraph and Cour ier ; states * on- the authority of its ftoman correspondent , that the- King of Portugal is expected in tho city of the Popes , and that cholera has appeared at Venice and Verona .

      An Austrian circular by Count Buol , dated May 25 th , Bays that ,, notwithstanding the- rejection of . tho Austrian terms by the Allies , tho Emperor conceives it to bo liis duty to offer them again : should they bo again- refused , the Court of' Vienna will " firmly abide by tho bases * recognised at tho Conferences , and continue to protect 1 > ho '" Turkish Empire ngainat a ' fresh attack . " Heroic Austria I Tho Emperor ' s Government will then Tnrft '

      until the resumption of negotiations shall give an opportunity for the adoption of the four guarantees " in . the sense we attribute to them . " Baron von Manfceuffel has addressed a despatch to Baron von Werther r the representative of Prussia at St . Petersburg , in reply to the Russian circular delivered by M . de Glinka to the various representatives of the German governments assembled at Frankfort . The despatch of Baron Maateuffel , in even more than ordinary diplomatic cloudiness , expresses the deteraiiinaiion of the King to abide by a strict neutrality , and thus to secure the observance by Russia of the first two Points agreed to at the Conferences . The Baron feels sure that the Court of Kussia " will make allowances for the difficult and exceptional position of Austria ; " and the Russian despatch of April SO ( promising the observance of the guarantees on condition of German neutrality ) is said to be " actuated by wise moderation and sincere conciliation . "

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      Naval &Kd Military News. Major Nasmyth, ...

      NAVAL & KD MILITARY NEWS . Major Nasmyth , the gallant colleague of the equally gallant Butler in the defence of Silistria , has been appointed to the office of assistant adjutant-general of the Kilkenny military district , until sufficiently restored to health to return to the seat of war . Lord Eustace Cecil again . —This young nobleman has published in the daily papers a correspondence between himself and Mr . Layard , with reference to the question at issne between them . His lordship emphatically asserts that he was appointed at his own request to the 43 rd Regiment during the time it was engaged in the Kaffir war , -which , however , was at an end before he arrived ; that he afterwards changed into the 88 th , while serving ill Bulgaria ; and that it was in consequence of an unsolicited letter from Lord Stratford that he became a supernumerary lieutenant and captain in the Coldstrearn Guards . It appears that this last change was before he could join the 88 th in Bulgaria ; but he has been promised that he shall join the battalion of Coldstreaxns now in the ^ Crimea at the earliest opportunity . It will be noted that some of these statements are at variance -with the admissions made by his lordship ' s own defender , Colonel Lindsay . Mr . Layard , in answer to Lord Eustace Cecil ' s first letter , says he does not desire to reflect upon his lordship ' s character as an officer , and that , if he is shown to be in the wrong , he will retract his statements ; but he has made no reply to Lord Eustace ' s last communication containing the

      above assertions . Major-General A . TV . Tobrens has left town for Paris upon a military mission to the French court . Banquet to Sir Harry Smith at Livkkpool . —On Wednesday , the artillery officers resident at the New Battery at the North Fort on the Mersey gave a banquet to Sir Harry Smith and a party of a hundred ladies and gentlemen . A ball followed in the evening . Rbar-At > mirax Fremantle left Plymouth on "Wednesday for the Crimea , in order to assume- his duties as successor to the late Admiral Boxer . Governorship op Gibraltar . —We hare reason to believe that Lieut .-General James Fergusson , for some time past in command of the- troops at Malta , will succeed Sir Robert Gardiner as Governor and Cornmander-in-Chief of Gibraltar . —Globe .

      Captain Pebl . — -We feel great satisfaction ) in stating that the rumonr of the death of ^ Captain William Peel , of : the Diamond , which was very prevalent in town yesterday morning , rests upon no authentic information . Gaptain Peel was wounded b y * we ^ believc , a round shot in the arm ; but tho last accounts received . are by no means o £ a character to lead to- tlie . apprehension of a fatal result . —ldam .

      M"I 3-C E L L A Ne O U S. The Court.—The...

      M"I 3-C E L L A NE O U S . The Court . —The Queen and' Prince Albert visited tho British Museum on Saturday , chiefly for . the purpose of viewing the Assyrian antiquities lately arrived from Nineveh . —On Wednesday evening-, the royal children paid a visit to tho Panopticon . —Tho last levee of the season was held on Wednesday , at St . James's Palace . The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit on Friday week to tho National Orphan Home on Ham-common , established in 1849 . In the evening , the ' Dnko attended a banquet at tha- Star and Garter .

      Sanitary Reform . —From the Report adopted at tho eleventh ammnl meeting 1 of tho Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes , we learn that now and more healthy domiciles have been completed in New-streot , Goldon-nqunrn , in Bartholomow-closo , in Bermondsoy , and in other cholera neighbourhoods . Tub Formation ofParisixes Bill ( introduced into Parliament by tho Marquis of Blundford ) Iiuh met with opposition in tho voBtrios of Marylebono and l ' uncrna . Tho bill authorises tho subdivision of parishes for ecclesiastical purposes , and ' it is feared that church-rates may bo imposed for ovory one of tho subdivisions . On this ground , as woll as some others , the pnriuUionero oppose tho act . —A reference- to our Parliamentary columns will show that tho bill has been withdrawn for this session . IIachlnisy Bitoouu—A mrmmona was on Saturday

      obtained against the Commissioners of Sewers for a violation of their own Nuisances Removal Act , by draiuino the New Cattle Market at Islington into the open stream called the Hackney Brook . Margate has just refused a church-rate by a majority of eighty . A Queer Oath . —The following oath -was administered to a little boy , ten years of age , who was chosen to fold up documents in the Iowa Legislature :- — " You do soleainly swear to support the constitution of the United States , and of this State , and to fold papers to the best of your ability . So help you God . " We advise that this story be included in that large library of romantic fiction devoted to the special reading of the

      . The Peopub ' s Comment on the Aristocramcal Sabbath . —The contemplated meeting of the lower orders in Hyde Park , to witness the fashionable mode of " observing" the Sabbath , took place last Sunday , when long previous to the appointed hour ( three o'clock ) several thousand persons assembled near the Humane ' Society ' s Receiving House . A Mr . James Bligh , having been called on to preside , addressed the multitude , and was getting into full swing when a police inspector informed him tliat the park was private property , and that therefore the meeting could not be held . Upon this , a large number adjourned to Oxford Market ; but the maiority remained behind , and , taking up their station at

      the side of the carriage drive , hooted the occupants of the equipages as they passed . Several horses became frightened and dashed oft" at an alarming pace . " Uo to church , and put the horses in the stables ! " shouted the mob ; to which one lady in a carriage responded by holding up a prayer-book . The people , however , replied by exclaiming— " Walk , walk , and let your horses rest , and your coachman go to church . " One man , to conceal himself from the police , lay down iu the midst of the crowd , and harangued them ; another suggested that Lord Robert Grosvenor ' s and Lord Ebriiigton ' s windows should be broken ; and it was not until past eight o ' clock in the evening , that the assemblage dispersed . We believe a similar meeting will take place to-morrow .

      State of Trade . —At Manchester , business is still limi t ed , as the caution manifested by buyers ever since the commencement of the recent speculation at Liverpool has been increased by the tendency to reaction now observable in that market . From Birmingham , the advices regarding the iron trade state that the more favourable symptoms which have prevailed during the past few weeks are maintained , although the distrust caused by the break-up of several speculative firms prevents any decided recovery . The creditors of Mr . Hiikman are to meet next week ; mcuavhile , the lowest estimate of his liabilities is 90 , 000 ^ . Messrs . Davies , of West Bromwich , oiler 5 s . in the pound , caah , and 2 s . Gd . at some subsequent date . Messrs . Whituhouse and

      Jefleries have been ascertained to owe about 100 , OOOt , but the prospects of their creditors have not yet been made known . The affairs of J . Haywood and Co ., ¦ whose debts also are very large , have been carried into the Court of Bankruptcy . In the general trades of Bunninguam no variation is noticeable , except that frhe guxuuiakers are again busy with fresh contracts for fifty thousand Minie rifles . At Nottingham there is sttfJ much duhieas ; and in the woollen districts transactions have been less active than during tho preceding week . In the Irish linen-markets , owing to tho low point to which stocks , had been , -reduced , a permanent , although gsadual , revival appears to- be in progress . The gcuer » l business of the Port of London timing the week ending last Saturday shows increased activity .- —Times .

      A New Loan . —Advices from Constantinople state that a loan is to be contracted by the Western powers on account of Turkey , to the extent of 4 , 000 , 000 *' . Tli « general impression is tha * one-half of this will be raised in London under the guarantee of the English Government , and the other half in t ' niid by the lVeach Government Times City Article , Mumloy . iTrajmd Amajloamations . — A conference of shipwrights' delegates , representing all tho societies in iuigland , Scotland , and Ireland , has just been concluded m Liverpool , when , after mature de-liberation ,, resolutions were come to amalgamating tho entire body throughout the tlireo kingdoms for mutual protection . United fatates

      AMBifcGA Tho last adviiies from tho do > not contain any political news of importance , im Know-nothings Htill continue their agitation ; »»« » majority of the Philadelphia committee , appointed to lay down certain general principles relative to national interests in their connexion with tho movement , liuvo accepted the existing slavery laws , auddcuuid th « powor oi CongresB to cxcludo any State from « dnuw » ion into wt Union , either on tho ground of tho recognition or nanreoogniticm of slavery aa a political institution . *»« Kinney marauding ' expedition had not nailed ; ana . « bark belonging to ' , and laden with suimiiuiilio " , ««« loon captured by a revenue cutter , and Ukuu into ftiou" Even should tho " flllibutituriug" colonel » liccml reaching Nicaragua , the Government have- taken si j to moot him thoro . —From California w « learn tlmi ' Indians have assembled for the purpose of ttttuck " ' ,, oir troops , boing oncouniged by tho BinullnesH ot f ' number . It waa foarod that r « inloreun » ent . s wouni nrrlvo iu time . —Koporta received from ovory part oi

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30061855/page/6/