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in spite of the official denials of the fact ; and this has raised fresh murmurs . But , by way of compensation , the authorities , I am informed , have arranged to produce an artificial fall on the 15 th of August , the day of Bonaparte ' s fete . Preparations are being made for that day . Illuminations ( I need not say official ) of a new description are in preparation ! Behind powerful jets of gas will be placed multiplying reflectors , revolvingwithwonderful rapidity : between these reflectors and the gas will be placed coloured multiplying glasses , equally movable . By this means will be obtained prodigious effects of light from
all the colours in succession . It is the city of Paris , with its 165 millions ( of francs ) of debt upon its shoulders , which will have to pay for all these new feux dejoie . Moreover , thcTuileries is being restored . You remember , six months ago , some ten millions ( of francs ) Were expended on that palace . It seems that it is now to b e all redecorated and regilt . Orders have been given to have all ready for the 15 th of August , the day when his Majesty is to do the Parisians the honour of sleeping at the Tuileries . Meanwhile , Trianon , too , is being refurnished—the Trianon of poor Marie-Antoinette—for the consort of his Majesty . I
hear of rural tastes { gouts champetres ) having developed themselves rather suddenly in our amiable Empress of late ; and it is even proposed to reconstruct the Swiss dairy . Whether we shall hear of disguised ( imperial ) dairy-maids , I do not hear , ; but the idolizing husband has amiably consented to all the caprices of the beloved one , and as I write the masons are busy at Trianon . Who ' s to pay ? Certainly not the purse of the august pair : if I am not mistaken , the civil list of twenty-five millions of francs ( 1 , 000 , 000 £ . ) has been long devoured and dissipated . For three
months past economy has been the principal resource . The house has been swept out ; chamberlains , equerries , ladies in waiting , ladies of the bedchamber , and , in fact , all the haute domesticite of the chateau have been sent about their business . And after the high has come the turn of the low . It has been the v office of M . Fould , in his capacity of a child of Israel , to prune all these superfluous parasitical expenses . The Court has lived of late " on tick . " When the purveyors and other tradesmen ask for payment M . Fould offers them —the Legion of Honour . All this only makes us laugh , you may well believe .
I have now to announce an important piece of news . The Virgin Mary has appeared in Provence . Several people have seen her ; others have spoken to her , and she has answered them in patois / Think of the commotion in those countries—women and children deserting in hot haste their infants and their schools to betake themselves in procession to the highly favoured cabane of Mouans , near Cannes , the celebrated residence of Lord Brougham . * Unfortunately the
subprefect of Grasse , who no doubt has been a reader of Voltaire , gave orders to the commissaire de police at Cannes to pull down the cabane , which was incontinently done . The- next day , instead of 1000 people , there were about 10 , 000 on tho ground . The subprefect is now in deliberation with the gardes champetres ( rural police ) of the canton about what he can pull down next in order to prevent these riotous assemblages of the " faithful . " S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tun all-engrossing Russo-Turkish question leaves the rest of Europe a blank . Tho few scraps of news worth noting may bo condensed into a very small compass . In tho north of Europe the squadron of Russia , which has moved from Cronstadt , is beginning to attract tho anxious observation of tho leaser Powers . Tho accounts oi tho ravages of cholera at Copenhagen aro still distressing . On tho 20 th ult . tho medical report was , sick , 279 ; dead , 149 ; total 4413 cases , of whieh 2323 deaths . Tho king had , it is said , proposed that an extraordinary health officer should bo appointed , with dictatorial ' powers , so that tho various clashing committees and authorities ( his Ministers included ) nhould submit to his directions . There being in Copenhagen , as in nomo other cities wo could mention , an army of boards and commissioners , and connnitteeH , and abuses , but no energetic unity , this step has also been demanded by tho whole press , of all colours .
Tho Quooji of Prussia ( sister to tho Emperor of Russia ) has started for Isold and Vienna . Notwithstanding tho conferences of tho four Western Powers at Vienna , under the auspices of Austria , it in difficult to believe that , in the event of tho gravest contingencies , Austria will be able or willing to co-operato with Franco and England against Russia . Tho deep obligations to the Czar , and tho overhanging dread of revolution , paralyze the initiative , and stultify tho traditional policy
of Austria in the east of Europe . Prussia , doubly exposed to the inroads of Russian ambition , is scarcely less atraid of revolution than Austria , and consequently scarcely less averse ta risk the chances of a conflict with Russia , the great patron of European Order . Any real co-opera ^ on between the four Western Powers is , as we said last week , an impossibility in the present condition of Europe . Diplomacy is never more contemptible than when it cong-atulates itself on having , by its long-suffering towards ussia , conciliated the combined support of the two German Powers . Of course , when we speak of Austria and Prussia , we mean the Courts of Austria and Prussia , the nations being out of the question altogether . .. «¦ . delirant reges , plectuntur Acbivi . "
In 1849 , Austria , aided by Russia , destroyed her own chief bulwark against Russian aggression . Prussia reioiced , and England connived at the subjugation of Hungary . Is it to be believed that in 1853 Austria and Prussia will act with France and England against Russia ? The Nemesis of nations and the fatal logic of events forbid it . Diplomatists may draw up notes in common , but England and France can only act with Austria and Russia at the cost of the most ruinous humiliations to Turkey , and sooner or later , to themselves . No man knows this better than the Earl of Westmoreland at Vienna , and Lord John Russell , when he talks complacently of the four Western Powers in concert , knows as well as Lord Palmerston that he is lending hisl officia tongue to a delusion . The recent arrests in , Vienna include several ladies of
high distinction . . The King of Piedmont recently scraped the rocks in the Bay of La Spezzia , and was obliged to get on board another steamer for safety . \ The Austrian military commandant of the city and port of Leghorn has published a sentence by court-martial , dated the 27 th ult ., condemning three porters and a boatman respectively to 12 , 10 , 1 , and 3 months' imprisonment in irons , for having on the 29 th of May last hoisted a tricoloured flag on the wall of Saint Cosimo , and let off a quantity of squibs in the adjacent streets on the occasion . Three more have been dismissed for want of sufficient
proof , and one acquitted . Only four applications have hitherto been made to the fund of the 400 , 000 francs subsidy voted by the Sardinian Parliament on behalf of the Lombard exiles whose proporty had been sequestered by Austria , and these applications are only to the amount altogether of 8700 francs . The King of Naples , who has long ceased to see his capitahiand lives in the strictest seclusion , fenced by guards and spies ,- is now at Ischia , in great alarm afc the prospect of a war .
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The Austrian official journals talk very grandly about the satisfaction to be demanded of the United States for the affair at Smyrna . On the other hand , letters from St . Petersburg , published in German papers , state that the Czar , j * ipon . hearing of the Smyrna affair , advised tho Austrian Government to wind it up as soon as possible , and do anything rather than . open , a door to the interference of the ^ United States in European affairs . The Czar is reported to have a great respect for the United States Government , whose policy is at least intelligible . The Madrid Gazette of tho 30 th announces officially that the Queen is in the fifth month of her pregnancy . The Ministerial crisis is adjourned . We have a few notes to add to the intelligence upon tho Eastern question , to bo found in other parts of our paper . While diplomatists are busy about accommodation , Russia is steadily and actively pursuing her warlike
preparations . " On the 20 th of July ( says the Times ) , a ukase was published raising a levy of seven men per 1000 on the population of the eastern half of tho Empire , which is supposed to amount to 23 millions . At tho same tirno tho arrears of men ( three per 1000 ) who had been excused on the last levy , aro called up , so that in some districts tho conscription will amount to 1 j > er cent . Some pressure has bogun to bo felt for money to support these enormous military preparations , and the Executive Government applied to tho Ministor of Finance for permission to use a portion of tho gold reserve deposited in tho fortresses of tho Crown .
But this gold is tho basis ot tho Russiun paper currency , and tho Minister of Finance raised strong objections , which wore not for the present overruled , to tho appropriation of any part of this fund . Tho Emperor then applied to tho Sacred Synod for a loan of 00 million rubles . " Tho Synod expresses its readiness to comply , but its desiro to bo excused . This last demand indicates not only a great want of ready money and a severe demand upon the resources of the State , but also a decided intontion to mako tho forthcoming conflict a roligious war . Tho Turks , it is true , may play tho eamo game , and with equal effect .
But what renders theso several ukases the moro remarkable in that even those districts which had been , exempted for a certain time from tho recruitment , in consequence of bad harvests , aro called on to furnish their contingent , as aro the- Jews . Tho above ulcaoo was accompanied hy language in tho jtheilla of St . Petersburg ( where , it must bo remembered , all journals arc subject to censorship ) , of an exceedingly warhlco nature , which tho Frohoh journals havo been interdicted to publish . Tho following ia a specimen : — " Russia foaru nothing . In spito of calumny sho pursuoB her course in tho interest and for tho greater
glory of the orthodox faith , and will in tho end ncattor like dust all her enemies . " It is worthy of remark , ( oo , that at tho date- of this furious tirndo tho O / . ar had rceoivod tho proposition of Franco and England . Whilo our Court is entertaining two Princesses of tho Imperial family of Russia , tho Czar ia not loss ostentatious , it would Room , in his oxpresHions of personal regard to tho representativo of St . James ' s at St . Petersburg . A lotter from St . Petersburg , of tho 24 th ult ., in tho 1 ' atrie , says : —" Tho evening before last tho Er . iporor fjavo a grand i'fifco at hia palnco of tho Hermitage On this
occasion , the ambassadors of France and England , it -was remarked , were the object of particular attention from his Majesty . " Letters from Jassy and Bucharest to _ the 14 th and 19 th , of Jul y give details respecting the Russian forces , who aro fortifying themselves in a formidable manner in the Principalities , Every day there are arrivals of artillery intended for the works of defence established in . tho strongest points of the country . The Russians are forming ! three entrenched camps , which are intended to protect afi . their lines , and which are to be rendered impregnable .
Accounts from Odessa of the 17 th July announce that the Grand Duke Constantine , lately named Grand Admiral of the naval forces of Russia , had just arrived in that city . He was to jproceed forthwith to Sebastopol , to inspect the two naval divisions in tho Black Sea . He was accompanied by a considerable suite of naval officers and by several engineers , who are about to make hydrographic survey * along the shores of the Crimea . The Grand Duke Gonstantine peculiarly represents tho old Muscovite and fanatical party , with whom Russian domination is an article of faith .
JLa Presse , in noticing the important personnel of scientific officers accompanying the Grand Duke Constantine , adds the following significant remarks : — " The respect due to the public and solemn declarations of the Russian Government would induce us to believe that nothing bufc a survey of the coasts of the Crimea is in fact intended ; bufc we cannot help recalling , in relation to this inspection , a piece of news which we derived more than a year ago from the Gazette de Cologne , long before the mission of Prince Menschikoff was talked of . " A rumour has recently been spread , says the Gazette of Cologne of July 25 , 1852 , thafc
a number of Russian engineers and officers are at the present moment traversing Servia to map out and study the military situation of the country . ThePorte havingordered inquiries to be made , it has been discovered that eighteen Russian officers have traversed the north-east of European Turkey , taken plans of Widdin , Schumla , Ruttchuck , and Varna , and ware at present in the Balkan examining the principal passes of that range . " This exploration of the Balkan undertaken last year speaks ill for Russia , as it undoubtedly tends to the recent acts of that Power the character of premeditation .
Turkey and her allies are not remiss m preparations . There is great risk , however , of a precipitated denouement of the long suspense , by the fanatical levies under Omer Pasha ^ taking the war into their own hands , andi attacking theRussian , forces , invspite of diplomatic attempts at accommodation . The exasperation , of tho Mussulmen is necessarily increasing with every fresh delay , and fears of an insurrection or of an attack on the Chris - tian population are entertained ; the more so that Russia contemplates such a contingency -with particular eagerness * as she would then assert her Protectorate with something like a cause .
The Governor of Damascus has summoned tho principal Christians and Mahometans , and strongly urged them ta live in peace together . The Governor of Aleppo , who isrenowned for his energy , has seized some thirty fanatical Turks , and locked them up in a fort between Alexandretta and Latakia . On the . 14 th . ult ., Admiral Dundas , with all the captain * of his fleet , made a reconnoissanco as far as Gallipoli . Oni his return he inspected minutely the fort of Chenek , which is the most important that tho Turks possess on ; tho Asiatic coast . Lord Stratford do Redcliffe was expected at Besika . Admiral Dundas was to accompany hia Excellency on his return to Constantinople . The Portafoglio Maltese , of tho 16 th ult ., announces tho arrival at Malta of tho French steamer AJaceio , with fiftytwo French superior officers on board , who aro to enter tho Ottoman servic . It also states that tho French steamer
Leonidas left Malta on tho 15 th for Constantinople , with 120 chests of muskets on board . Tho Egyptian fleet ia now in tho Turkish waters . Lottors from Trobisond announco that Abdi-Pacha has organized there a corps of 20 , 000 men .
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Tho Monitcur records with evident delight tho unprecedented event of a French horso having won tho cup at-Goodwood . Tho names of tho siro and dam of tho winner , Sting and Currency , sufficiently betray , however , tho Saxon lineage of Jouvenco , although sho was born upon Frond * eoil . Besides , tho Moniteur forgets , or probably in ignorant , that French horses aro treated almost ; as hacks in England , being allowed 21 lbs ., equivalent to a start of about a milo and a half . Nevertheless we should seo no cause to regret even if , par impossible , a real French horBo , ridden by a real French jockey , wpro some day to win the Derby . In these days of unrestricted competition it would bo an immense stimulus to our stables f
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THE CAMP . The Queen visited the Camp on Thursday , ngirfa riding a bluck charger , and displaying an animated interest in the proceedings . The charges of cavalry wore brilliant nnd well managed . Tho troops then defiled before the Quoon ; Around her stood her husband , her children , nnd the Prince of Wnrtomlmrg , Hon-in-Iaw of tho Emperor of Ituasin . Tho Morning Post is , n » usual , particular in its record : — "The Queen exhibited great
mtorcHt , and replied with much animation to tho numerous questions put to her b y tho young princes , whoHe attention Heemed much attracted to tho Scots GroyH nnd the 8 th Huswii-h . As tho 97 th marched past , her Majesty , who was in excellent spirits , bent time with vivacity to tho lively air of " Itory O'Moro , " ho gaily played hy their band , and paid both tho 7 th Fusiliers and tho 88 th ( Conimught Rangers ) tho complimont of Hpeeitilly directing tho Princo of Wurtemburg ' a attontiou to them . " Tho nttcntiou of liia Im-
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* W « truHt the noblo lord who , if only aa tho biographer of Voltaire , is so well calculated for nuch un inquiry , will on his return to Cannes prosecute researches into Huh myflterious apparition . But it may bo apprehended that tho bare announcement of tho versatile and venerable Lord's return to those favoured and classical shores will jnduco any virgin who " answers questions in patois" to malco ofl ; or at least to abate her piretonuions to a moro thun torrcatrial origin . —Ed .
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750 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .. ¦ " ' " ' ¦¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ' i i p ii . ^ JM ^ JM ^^^ r t i —I — —^— ^ ^ —^— ^ — i ^ t^^^— m ^ J ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1853, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1998/page/6/
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