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      the squadron , and six of the above vessels have already arrived there . The French journals have received a fresh caution not to report trials in prosecutions of the press . They are to confine their summaries strictly to the text of the judgment , and to indulge in no comment whatever . The first detachment of pilgrims departed from Marseilles for- the Holy Land on the 22 nd ult . The Moniteur declares that they belonged to the highest . families ,. but prudently abstains from giving : their names . Pilgriiriages ,

      and other church affairs , are all the fashion in France at present . & Impartial , of Boulogne , enlarges upon the numerous pilgrimages to our Lady of Boulogne , and the Gazette de France publishes an elaborate account of the principal church bells of the empire . Great excitement has prevailed in the corn-market at Odessa . Depots were established in the open air . Foreign Governments , especially the French , were making large purchases . The stoppage of the bar of tiro Danube at Sulina is causing a severe loss of shipping .

      The Journal dti Midi announces that a certain M . X—— has left a legacy of 20 , 000 f . to the editor , upon condition that a detailed biography of the testator appear in that journal . As it does not appear that any stipulation has been made as to the biography being eulogistical , the editor may clearly accept the legacy—and speak his own mind freely . La Presse notices the military celebration now going on in Prussia as follows : — " For some days the Prussian journals have brought us pompous accounts of all sorts of demonstrations , which France would be entitled to

      consider misplaced . On the 23 rd of August it was the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Grossbeeren , won in 1813 against Marshal Oudinot and General Regnier . Presently we are to have a vast display on the occasion of the inauguration of the monument to Blueher at Krublowitz , in Silesia . When France abstains from celebrating the anniversary of the battle of Jena , and even England seems to have given up feting the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo , we may fairly ask what Prussia means by such demonstrations . "

      The ex-Queen of the French is about to visit her son , the Due de Montpensier , in Spain . A grand evangelical assembly is to take place at Uerlin next month . It is intended to be a Protestant demonstration , in opposition to the spread of Romanism in Prussia . Count de Montalembert has just published in the Correspondani ( Paris religious journal ) a long and eloquent article on M . Juan Donoso Cortes , Marquis de Valdegagamas , late Spanish Ambassador in Paris . The Assemhlee Natioriale has copied the article in full , and its example has been followed by one or two of the other journals .

      The Times correspondent takes much pains to expose its inaccuracy in relation of facts . Regarding the character of Donoso Cortes , the critic says : —It is not exactly correct that Donoso Cortes , virtuous , high-minded , and noble as we may admit him to bo , was so utterly indifferent to temporal rewards for his great merits as one would conclude fromM . de Montalembert ' s sketch . He took , no doubt from conviction , what turned out to be the more successful side of the question of the Spanish marriages . His exertions were very great , and his speeches in the Congress of Deputies powerful . His zeal was recompensed with the title of Marquis of Valdegamas from the Queen of Spain ( how her share of tho " Spanish marriages" turned all the world knows ); tho Cross of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour from Louis Philippe ; and , I believe , that of Grand Cross of Isabella tho Catholic , with tho title of Excellency as a matter of course , from his own Governmcn t ; and I nover heard anybody saj' that he had to bo forced to accept them .

      In tho Pana correspondence of tho Chronicles wo find tho following account of the ultimnto conditions of peace laid down by tho Sultan : — " First , that tho Ambassador to bo sent to St . Petersburg should not leave Constantinople till aftor tho order for tho evacuation of the Principalities should havo been despatched from St . Petersburg ; and secondly , that a declaration should bo made by the Four groat Powers , guaranteeing Turkey against any further oxigencios on tho part of Russia . Thcso two conditions the Porte insists upon as ft sine qua non , notwithstanding tho joint remonstrances and explanations of all tho reproson tuti ves . "

      At Boulogne the Emperor ' s employe ' s are preparing a " popular" rccoption for thoir master . . ' Ho is expected there on tho Oth . ( Tho London steam companies udvortise tho fact in loud placards through town . )

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      Wo read in tho Journal de Jiruxe . lh's : — " liin Holiness Popo PiuH IX . has just sent to tho Duke do Hralmnt a fragment ; of tho wood of tho inangor which form or I tho cradle of our Saviour . In tho privato audionce , which JVfgr . Gonolla obtained , in order to present this precious relic , Inn royal highness ) was much affected at . tho present made to him by tho Popo . " It in otuted that tho reigning Duke of Brunswick , who has no insuo , is about to abdicate , Tho titular Duko , no long notorious in London and Paris , is debarred from tho rmciHiUHioii , having boon deprived of his Duchy by tho Gorinnnio Diet . Tho consequences of tho projected

      abdication of the present Duko will bo , commercially an well an politically , important . Tho Duchy of JiruriHwick if ) merged in tho Kingdom of Hanover , which thereby becomes nearly ivn large an Saxony . On tho uimivomiry of i \ w JY (« of ( ho French Emperor , n grand banquet Wuh given at the French iCmhiiHsy at Athens . All tho members of the diplomatic corpM , and tho officers of the French . ships of war in' port , wciro prosent . The health of tho JOniperor wan proponed by M . I ' aicoH , tho Minister of Foreign Affairs ; and tho toast , of t ' io Empress was given by tho British Minister , Mr . WvHC .

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      Lel . torH from Oslond stale that Queen Victoria intends making an excursion to that town , to return tho visit of tho Bol ^ iim Royal family , and congratulate tho Duko ami Ducheau of Brabimt on thoir marriauro .

      The Belgian wedding festivities are not yet over . The King of the Belgians , accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Brabant , the Count de Flandre , and tho Princess Charlotte , left Brussels on Tuesday for Bruges , where splendid fetes were to be given in honour of the recent marriage . There is a rumour that the Federal Council of Switzerland contemplate an extensive plan of fortification on their Italian frontier . . Colonel . Bourgeois , M . Ochsenbeiri , General Dufour , and Colonel Zeigler , wefe' at Bellinzona on the 18 th : M . Ochsenbein is the Swiss Minister at War .

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      In the early part of August the Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces prohibited the exportation of corn and flour from Lombardy . The federal council consider this measure , in so far as Switzerland is concerned , a manifest infraction of the treaties of 1818 , which stipulate that the cantons of Ticino and the Grisons shall be free to buy corn in Lombardy within the limit of 70 , 000 measures for Ticino and 6000 for the Grisons . The Swiss charge" d ' affaires at Vienna has received orders to insist upon the strict and loyal fulfilment of existing treaties .

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      The government of electoral Hesse has hitherto attempted to check the increasing emigration of its subjects , with but indifferent success . Leave to emigrate was only given to such as were free from the obligation to military service . But so long as the adjoining states gave no assistance evasion was easy . The Prussian , Hanoverian , Ducal Hessian , and Brunswick governments , however , have at last issued orders to the heads of their police to aid the government of Electoral Hesse in dragging back such of its subjects as emigrate without a permit . The mitigation of martial law in the Lombardo-Venetian provinces would seem to be merely nominal . Not only political offences , but murder and connate offences , may still be referred to military courts . The political police , too , is still to be left to the military authorities . The seats of the military tribunals for Lombardy are Milan and Mantua ; for the Venetian territory , Verona and TTdine . Radetzky continues afc the head of affairs .

      In the Vienna Gazette of the 26 th ult ., twenty-two persons are sentenced , by the military tribunal , to various punishments for high treason . The revised customs-tariff is about to be laid before the Emperor of Austria for signature . The Lloyd , informs us that , when the revised tariff is published , the last trace of the prohibitive system will have disappeared . This must not be taken literally . Colonel Huff is said to have brought from Constantinople to Vienna an autograph letter of the Sultan ' s , thanking the Emperor of Austria for his good offices in the dispute with Russia . The Emperor , on tho other hand , is reported to have written to the Sultan urging his prompt acceptance of the Vienna Note , and threatening to withdraw from the intervention in case of further delay . The Grand Duke of Tuscany has forbidden his subjects to subscribe to the monument to Gioberti .

      The Corriero Mercantile of Genoa of the 22 nd quotes a letter from La Spezia , stating that Captain Ingraham , of the St . Louis United States frigate , which had arrived there , received an ovation from , the inhabitants of that place on the preceding days / or his conduct at Smyrna . A number of boats with bands of music surrounded tho vessel , while a deputation presented a ilattoring address to the captain . Tho Roman correspondent of tho Daily Tsfcws dotails insuccessive letters tho circumstances connected with tho arrest of a number of persons supposed to bo preparing for a popular outbreak . Of theso tho principal is tho advocate Petroni of Bologna , a man devoted heart and soul t'j tho republican cause , and lato president of tho

      Mazzmmn committee m this city . In his hiding-place , a quantity of correspondence , revealing tho entire plans of tho party , is said to have been discovered . Among tho number arrested arc Roselli , brother of the General ; Pictro Ruiz , accountant , and his c / ouvcrniintc , Cntorinn Baracehini ; Antonio Palma and Giovanni Erniliaiii , two emissaries , who took refuge in vain under a French o / licor ' fi bed ; Enrico Ruspoli , of tho princely house of that name , taken to prison on a litter , having broken his arm in a fall ; Casciani , son of the Major of tho Palatine guard ; Claudini . Lepri , accused of having walked

      arm-inarm with the refugees subsequently arrested ; and Ridolfo Lepri , her . son—the father having escaped by tho wellropo from the kitchen window , and lied in his nliirt through Prince Piombino ' s stables . Tho alleged discovery , and theso numerous arrcnts , in ascribed to tho information of ono Catcnacci , a returned fugitive ; whoso trepidation led , in tho first instance , to bin own apprehension , and his foam or cupidity to tho revolution ho has been induced to make . —The Government have appointed a commission for tin ? trial of tho oonHpirators , and made several additional arrests in different parts of tho Pupal StateH .

      . Micro have been rather HoriouH riots at Genoa , in consequence of a rise in tho price of grain . Several whops wore attacked by tho populace , consisting chiefly of women , Home of whom have been arroHted . Two companion of tho National ( Juiinl were called out , and Hinall ( letnelnnenlo of troops were placed near tho shops which had been attacked . The Mayor has issued u proclamation stating that the price in that city was lower than that of other markets . At Liege nimilar riots have taken place , and popular disturbances havo alno occurred at . Hruss ' ols . There ih general uneasiness throughout tho Continent , arising from the high price of bread . There Irnn been a mooting' of tho people at Lausanne , to take tho matter into serious consideration .

      IIio Turkish fortifications on tho Danube continue to be pushed forvyard with activity . In tho Dobrodjn , in tho environs of Khiuulu , mid especially in the < lelilen of the Balkan , redoubt , * are being constructed , it in Huid to tho numbor of 200 . J . Wfoct tranquillity continuoH in Constantinople , though u strong mid bittor fooling has luttorly

      arisen against what is termed the faithlessness of « , „ nof Turkey . . r ™ *^ Letters from Odessa of the 20 th of August state th extraordinary activity reigns in the grain market Ti ^ stores were not sufficiently large for the quantities of brought to the place , and it had been found necessai ^^ establish , depots in the open air . ^ w > Austria . interfered , in ' 48 , between Denmark and H Duchies , that it might counteract the influence of Prm , in the north . , It now demands six millions exDensPo a ? * the Danish Government ! / lw * The Trieste Gazette says—" M . de Fock , the Bussia Consul-General in Egypt , has received orders , it ia ^ from his Government to quit that country , in consequent of the participation of the Viceroy in the TurcoOJussian difference . "

      The Princess Belgioso , who since the Milan revolution has lived secluded in a village of Asia Minor , has been nearly assassinated by an Italian . She received seven wounds , but nevertheless survives . The would-be assasin has been arrested and taken to Constantinople . It is asserted that the Sultan intends declaring tie in . dependence of Moldavia , Wallachia , Servia , and Montenegro , and that these provinces shall form a confederation under the protection of the Four great Powers . The following is the Vienna note , with the altera tions suggested by the Sultan . _ The words proposed to be omitted are printed in Italics , and the words . to be substituted are appended at foot : —

      His Majesty the Sultan , having nothing more at heart than to re-establish , between himself and his Majest y the Emperor the relations of good neighbourhood and perfect amity , which have unfortunately been weakened by recent and disagreeable complications , has betaken himself diligently to the task of seeking means whereby to efface th& traces of these various incidents . The Sublime Porte is happy to be able to communicate 1 to his Excellency Count Nesselrode a supreme Irad ^ , which gives publicity to the result of those labours . Iftlie Emperors of Russia have on all occasions evinced their active care for the maintenance of the immunities and ' privileges of the orthodox Greek church , within the limitsof the Ottoman Empire ; the Sultans , on their fart , have never refused to ( 1 ) confirm them anew by solemn acts . which testify their old and enduring benevolence toward *

      their Christian subjects . His Majesty the Sultan Abdul Medjid , now reigning ; is animated by the same sentiments , and—desirous to giveto > his Majesty the Emperor of Russia a personal proof ( if . his . sincere friendship—he has listened to nothing but his unbounded confidence in the distinguished qualities of hisaugust friend and ally , and has condescended to tate into serious consideration the representations ( 2 ) of which his Excellency Prince Menschikoff has been made the medium , of communication to the Sublime Porte .

      The undersigned has in consequence received orders to declare by these presents that the Government of his Majesty the Sultan will remain faithful to the letter and thespirit of the stipulations in the treaties K-uscuik , Kaimrji ( 3 ) , and Adrianople , relating to the protection of Christian worsliip ( 4- ) , and that his Majesty considers himself bound in honour to cause to be respected , now and in future , tho enjoyment of spiritual privileges , which have been conceded by the august ancestors of hia Majesty to the orthodox Church of the East , and which arc now confirmed by him ; and , moreover , to make the Greek ritual participate ,, in an equitable spirit , in the advantages conceded to othor Christians by any convention or special ordinance ( 6 ) . to

      As the Imperial firman which has just been _ granted the Greek patriarch and clergy , and which contains the confirmation of their spiritual privileges , will of course to regarded as a new proof of those generous sontimentR—aiML as , moreover , tho promulgation of this firman affords m guarantco which will dispel for ever all fear with regard tot tho ritual which is the religion of H . M . tho Emporor ot Russia , I am happy to bo charged with tiro duty oi making the present intimation . As for tho guaranteo tor tho future , nothing will bo altered in tho visitation oi Jcruaalom ; it is regulated by tho firman issued by Mi ? Jfutti Ifuniayon , on tho 16 th of tho month of Jieoui Ulakir , 1268 ( February , 1862 ) , and explained a " * c 0 Jf firmed by tho lirmans of , and tho intention of 11- ^ j tho Sultan is to cause hia sovereign decision to bo cniora

      without nny alteration . t ^ Tho Sublime Porte , moreover , promises spontaneous ^ that no modification will bo introduced in tho ofltaWisw-afltato of affairs without a previous understanding with x governments of ' . 'Russia and Franco , and without prcjuui for tho various Christian communities . , . . In Him event of the Imperial Court of Russia ninin » h mich a request a proper locality will bo unsigned in U ) 0 i of Jerusalem , or its environs , for tho erection ot a " . net apart for tho celebration of divine service by Jt " „ ecclosiuHties , and of an hospital , for the indi gent or pick 1 grimfl of the name nation . , io ( . n-Tho Sublime Porto engages to subscribe a formal > w > merit to thin effect , whieU will place those p ious < ! 8 r ^ JiflU , inents under tho especial supervision of tho general late of Jtussiu in Syria and Palestine .

      ( Tho undernignod , &c . ) ^ ( I . ) The SultaiiH have never ceased to keep ^ 'f , - ^ , ^ mnintennneo oi ' tho iinimmifieH and privilege * <> 1 » 1 H £ on _ fillip and this church in the Ottoman empire , ana w firm .. them anew by solemn acts , which uttested , « - « - ( 2 . ) Tho communication . . , t j m || io ( T ( . 'I . ) Of Kutshulc and Kairmrdji ,. confirmed I > J " tfp Adrianople , relating to the protection of ChiiHtwm w > by the Porto . ( 4 . ) And to notify that , ll . M . tho Sultan- ^ ( fi . ) In the advantage * grunted , av wh «*»» " *» ' . f to other OhriHliim eomrnunitieri of ou < M " "' J Kl ' , lt ,,, o . The cholera makes progresH in the North <> f ' ^ ^ It in still active in Norway and Swedoii . Jt nan ^ poared in Uerliu ; whore out of thirty-four poruww ^ twonty-fivo diod .

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      846 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , I

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 846, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/6/