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    CONTINENTAL UOTES. FRANCE. The trial of ...

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    America. This Financial News From The Un...

    ' Mr . George Washington P . Custis , the last member or tlie . great Washington ' s family , has just died . The Hon . Louis M'Lane , an American statesman , of note and standing in bygone days , died at New York on the 9 th inst . in the seventy-second year of his age . It is reported that one hundred and ninety-nine lives were lost in the Central American . The steamer Empire State sank on her voyage to Boston , but no lives were lost . The case of Mrs . Cunningham came on on the 13 th inst ., but she had fled . The Custom-house at Richmond , Virginia , was burglariously entered an the same day , and 155 , 700 dollars were stolen ^ Walker's army is being recruited with great vigour , and hundreds of volunteers have joined .

    The murderers of Mr . Sullivan , the English minister at Peru , have been discovered , but have not been arrested . They are stated to be hired bravos : those who employed them are not known . The Mexican Congress has held a preliminary meeting , and chosen Ernanuel Ruiz President . The insurgents in the south continue to hold cut against the Government forces , and it is reported that Alvarez has been assassinated .

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    . , . ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ K No . 397 , October 31 , 1857 . j THE LEADER . 1039

    Continental Uotes. France. The Trial Of ...

    CONTINENTAL UOTES . FRANCE . The trial of M . Migeon seems likely to prove a very bombshell in the midst of . French stagnation . The Paris correspondent of the Times writes that " the law officers of the Government at Colmar , who form what is termed the Parquet , will , it is said , be removed , in consequence of the Indiscreet use they made of the police reports in the late proceedings . The documents furnished by that department to the prosecutor were not intended to be exposed to the public ; they were for the private eye of the Procureurs , with a view , no doubt , to secure the conviction of the accused . The language used by the Prefect of Police iu them was of the harshest kind , and the prisoner ' s counsel declared their intention to prosecute that functionary for defajnation of their client . Moreover , the decision of the Tribunal declaring its incompetence is not satisfactory . The matter will not end here . M . Migeon intends taking his seat in the Legislative Chamber . " The same writer tells a story of the election of M . Migeon last July . I )' or along time the people believed that he was the Government candidate , and , " when the hostility of the Prefect was known , the electors were astonished and incredulous . The Sub-Prefect .-was asked to explain the fact ; this bold citizen replied that there was no explanation to give , and , according to the evidence of a witness , added , that , when people mean to get rid of a servant , they turn him oft without alleging any reason for what they do . The members of the Legislative Corps cannot be otherwise than flattered at this description . The legislators display , it is true , a uniform , but till now the embroidered coat wus not formally declared to be a livery . "

    1 lie Chamber of Commerce of Algiers has appointed a deputation to wait on the Emperor when he visits Marseilles , and at the same time the Chamber of Commerce will pray for the construction of a network of railways as a matter of urgent necessity . The ' Memoirs' of M . Guizot are to be published in Paris next January . It is anticipated tliat they will throw great light on the history of France from 1 S 30 to

    1848 . In virtue of an arrangement with the Austrian Government , a French consul is about to be established at Pola , where a new and important arsenal and dockyard have been constructed for the Austrian war navy . Dr . Siegl , chief physician to the military hospitals at A ienna , has arrived in Paris , charged with a medical mission . Ilo has been authorized by the Minister of W . ar to visit the military hospitals in France , ami ho has begun by minutely examining the hospital" at Vincennes . Very serious inundations hnve again devastated the departments of the Loire and Allier ; but the waters -are now subsiding , Greut Hoods have also occurred in Piedmont .

    Generul d'Orgoni has arrived at Marseilles on his way to Rome . Prince Napoleon passed through Turin ontho 22 nd inst ., on his journey to lionoe . Ho is accompanied by tlie Marquis Francesco del ( Jallo . The improvements in Paris arc causing the destruction of some houses of note . Among others , the dwelling 1 in the Rue St . Claude , in which the famous Marshal Tureimo was born , is now being tiikou down . The Emperor , Empress , and Court , hnve been amusing themselves with a grand hunt in the forest of Conipiegne . All were in full hunting coatume , and a pack of English stapjUounds was used on the occasion . Tho Bishop of Straaburg baa issued a circular recommending all persons in hua diocese to burn all Protestant liibles , and all books and tracts whatsoever pnblislied by Bible societies , which may bo in thuir bands

    . A strange story is told" in a P . iris loiter published in the Independence , of Brussels , where wo read— "A solemn visitation hold recently in one of the tJm . s oi the arc Henwcopal province of Bordeaux bv tho now Archbishop of Aix , Mgr . Clialumlon , wa » marked with an incident of pumlul interest . Tho bUhop of a diocese whom X will not namo , but who is noted for hia violent

    ultramontanism , placed himself on his throne in presence of all his clergy , about two hundred in number , and humbly confessed that he had committed a number of culpable acts charged against him . The gravest of these acts was the misappropriation of the funds of the diocese , which were destined for the relief of aged and infirm priests , and the prelate avo-wed that being in want of a large sum to construct an establishment for the Marist Fathers , he had appropriated those funds for the , purpose . He then proceeded to state that for some time he had

    been an object of hatred to his clergy , and that this hatred had been carried so far that he had received an anonymous letter , in which he - was threatened with death by a dagger . He concluded by declaring that , with respect to the xinfortunate money question , he was ready to give all the explanations that his clergy could require . You may judge of the effect which this revelation created . It is positive that the prelate had been pointed out to the Minister of Justice and Public Worship as guilty of embezzlement . "

    SP-AIN . The Spanish Ministry had been definitely constituted as follows : —President of the Council and Minister of War , General Armero ; Foreign Affairs , Martinez de la Rosa ; Justice , Casaus ; Finance , Alexandro Mon ; Marine , Bustillos ; Home Department , Uermuckz de Castro ; Fomento , Salaveria ; Governor of Madrid , Marques de Corbera . It is believed by some that Armero means to govern constitutionally . The Epoca , a Jloderado paper , gives him its support . The new Governor of Madrid is saidjto have declared that he will not tolerate reactionary manifestations of any kind .

    The jLsjnma says that the Queen wished the Ministry to be composed as ' follows , but the negotiations for the purpose failed : —The Interior , with the Presidency , M . Isturitz ; Foreign Affairs , Aloala , Galiano ; Justice , Gonzalez Romero ; War , General Pezuela ; Finance , Bravo Murillo ; Marine , General Armero ; Fomeuto , M . Caveda . Princo Louis Lucien Bonaparte is on a visit to Navarre and the Basque Provinces , with a view to prosecuting those philological and antiquarian studies for which he is famous . He was received at Pampeluna with much enthusiasm . The Madrid Gazette of the 21 st inst . publishes a royal decree , signed by Don Francisco Armero y Penaronda , adjourning the meeting of the Cortes from the 30 th of October to the 30 tli of December .

    PUX'SSIA . The King was sufficiently recovered on . the 23 rd inst . to enable him to si » u a mandate empowering the Prince of Prussia to assume the conduct of public affairs , for the next three months , unless the King should be fidly recovered before . M . de Niebuhr , the Cabinet Councillor , has expired at Berlin . The President of the Council , informed of the event by-the Prince cf Prussia , immediately proceeded by a special train to Potsdam to take the necessary steps for preserving the State papers and correspondence which were iu the keeping of his Majesty ' s secretary . The Portuguese Count Lavradio has formally demanded the hand of the Trinccss Stephanie of I-Iohenzollern for the King of Portugal .

    The Berlin Ministerial journal , the Zeil , and the Prussian Curresjiondtitcc . announce that the Prussian Government has ordered its representative sit the Diet to call immediately for the intervention of tho Germanic Confederation in favour of Ilolstein , and also to request the support of Austria .

    T 1 I 10 DANUBIA 2 J lUUN'CIPAUTIKS . The second elections in Moldavia and Wnllachia are said to have been even more illegal than the first . " The following facts , " says a writer from Vienna , " have been communicated by persons of liigli respectability wlio were at Jassy before and during the elections in Moldavia : —The Kaimacau -was ordered by the Porte on the 21 th of August to revise the electoral lists ' upon the interpretations given at Bucharest to certain doubtful points iu the electoral firman . ' Iusto . id of following the instructions received , Princo Vogorides deprived tho committees of the right to examine into the validity of the reclamations of persons whose names ought , if the AVallachiau interpretations had been followed , to have figured on tho electoral lists . () u the 11 th . of August , the Moldavian Government agreed to allow the committees to examine the electoral lists , but still it

    continued to act as if no sucli bodies existed , inserting or erasing names according to its own good pleasure . At Uerlad , two Greeks , named Poyoimte and Jouvarc , were entered as electors by special order of the Government , although they were not luituiMlizud Moldavians . Tho Minister of tho Interior was dismissed because he declined to put into exucuLion orders that were not in keeping with tho instructions which the Ka ' unucan had received from the Porte . Tho Minister ' s successor is tho nide-de-cunip of tho Kaimacan , and he naturally executes tho behe . sta of his master to the letter . Bufore the second election * took place , all the prefects of the districts wt'i-o dismissed by tlie Kaimacan without the knowk'd ^ o of the Administrative Council , and their places given to aiile . s-de-eump Jiml Hocrutjirio . s of iho Prince . In conclusion , the nann .-s of no lower than twentv-threo members of tho Moldavian Divau ad hoc

    are given who have no right to the seats which they occupy in that assembly . " AUSTRIA . !¦ Several large houses at Pesth have suspended ; and at Vienna a good many small failures have occurred . On or about the 12 th or 13 th inst ., the Austrian Government forwarded a circular to its diplomatic agents abroad , in which it was said that the union of theDanubian Principalities could not be decreed by a majority of the parties to the treaty of the 30 th of March "because that document distinctly says that the question of the reorganization of the two provinces cannot be definitively settled without an accordance between the Porte and the Powers . At one o ' clock on the 19 th inst ., a slight earthquake was felt at Trieste .

    PORTUGAL . Yellow fever continues to rage at Lisbon . Jfany persons of importance have been carried off , including three generals—Casal , Francos , and Rezende ; but the cases were principally confined to the lower parts of the town and the banks of the river , the hills being comparatively free . ' The employment of sulphur in the treatment of the vine disease has had a very singular and a very awkward effect . The wine made from grapes which have grown on vines so treated has an unmistakable brimstone flavour . Those who are singular enough to like a fiery wine may now have it in the highest degree ; but the flavour is described by those who have experienced it a 3 being abominable .

    GERSiAinr . A congress of delegates from a number of the German banks affected by the late restriction of the Prussian Government upon the circulation of their notes in Prussia is now sitting at Frankfort , under the presidency of Prince Felix von Hohenlohe . Their present labours are directed to the establishing of a ' solid identical principle' by which the issue of bank-notes is to be regulated .

    DENMARK . Baron Buxen-Finecke , brother-in-law of Prince Christian , heir presumptive to the Danish throne , announces in . the Copenhagen newspapers of the 15 th inst . that he has become a member of the Chamber of Nobles in Sweden , and that he renounces the rights and titles he possessed in Denmark .

    SERVIA . The Servian Government ( according to a letter in the Cologne Gazette ) has announced that it appears , from the disclosures made by the persons lately arrested , that the intended movement vras republican , and that the chiefs of the insurrection were in communication with the exciters of agitation in the Principalities . A storyis also told to the effect that a Servian , of the lower orders , was hired ' by certain persons' to take the life of the Hospodar ; but , recollecting that his father had been very kindly treated by the father of the Hospodar , he repented , and divulged the whole plot . MM . ftlartzailovitch and Stefunovitch have made confessions which have led to further arrests . Stefanovitch says that the plot originated at Bucharest .

    5 OEWAY . The Norwegian Storthing was dissolved on the 14 th inst . by the Prince Regent . The session , whL-h is the fifteenth since 1815 , is the longest that has ever taken place , having lasted from the 2 nd of February . Thespeech of tho Prince Resent comprised the following passage : —" His Majesty regrets that the Storthing did not adopt the propositions founded on the nature of the union of the two kingdoms , and the common interests of the two nations , which were submitted to by the Government in order to facilitate reciprocal commerce and navigation , and to regulate certain juridical relations of the inhabitants of the two States . But the considerable minority which the first of the propositions encountered in the Storthing leads his Majesty to hope that the time is not far distant when the relations of union , so important for the two kingdoms , will be better appreciated , and that all cause for mistrust will have disappeared . "

    nus . Tho Northern Bee says that an English gentleman , Mr . Seymour Kerry Wodehouso , nephew to Lord Wodehouse , tho British Ambassador at St . Petersburg , arrived at Astrakhan on the 6 th of September , and thence proceeded to visit Prince Tumcnow , the chieftain of a tribe of nomad Culmucks in Tartary . lie has since returned to Astrakhan to examine the Russian lisheries there established , and intended to embark on the 1 st instant to go to liakou by the steamboat Tarki . Mr . Wodohouso designed , also , on his way home , to visit Georgia , the Crimea , and South llussin , and then to return to London byway of Constantinople .

    tljricicy . The Sultan has exhibited very great favour to Rcdschid Pacliu , at whoso house ho dined on the lOlh iusC , to the chagrin of tho existing ministers . Sinoo then , Reuschid has been made Grand Vizier . Aali I ' uoha remains Minister of Foreign Aflairs , and tlio Sultan ' a brother-in-law i ivappoiutud Master of tho Oimiiiiuco . Mr . Hornby , tlio Jiul ^ e of the Supreme tJousular Court , has hit ! veil at . CouutiUitinojtle . The Porto coiihidurs tliat treaties have Imiim violato by tho recent npnuur . muo of a Russian whin of wuc noa

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31101857/page/7/