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gggjons so equivocal , as particular conventions or stipulations ia favour of a great community of so many millions of subjects professing the Greek rite . "Such being the points which present inconveni ence to the Sublime P orte , it cannot , notwithstanding the greatest respect for the advice of the high Powers its allies , and its'sincere desire to renew its relations with the imperial government of Russia , its friend and neighbour ; it cannot I say , resist trusting to the equity and the justice « f the Grreat Powers the consideration relative to its rig hts of s overeignty and independence ¦
_ , . " If , however , the last draft of noto composed by the Sublime Porte is accepted , or if that of Vienna receives the ^ desired modifications , the Ottoman cabinet will be ready to sign either of these two drafts , and to send imm ediately an Ambassador Extraordinary , upon condition of the evacuation of the Principalities . The government of the Sublime Porte expects moreover a substantial guarantceon the part of the Great Powers against any future interference , and any occupation from time to time of the
Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia ; and the object of the Ottoman government in arming itself beforehand with such excessive . precautions is to prevent any occurrence that might bring back misunderstandings between the two empires after the Sublime Porte has renewed ita relations with the court of JJussia . " The points of the draft of Vienna relative to . the affair of the H oly Places , and the construction of a church and hospital at Jerusalem , have met with the complete sanction of the Sublime Porte .
• ' A copy of the Vienna note , containing also some modifications which the imperial government has thought fit to make , has been transmitted to your Excellency . "The Sublime Porte , wishing to give another proof of its particular regards for the Powers whose signatures were affixed to . the treaty of 1841 , is ready—although the draft it composed lately would naturally be preferred—to accept the draft of Vienna , with the modifications it has made , and hopes that the Powers , which , have always recognised from the very commencement of the question the rights of the imperial government , and made manifestations of their good feeling , will , appreciating these modifications , act accordingly .
" His Majesty the Sultan having ordered me to communicate the above to your Excellency , as well as to the other representatives your colleagues , I acquit myself of this duty , and beg your Excellency to receive on this occasion , &c . ( Signed ) " Beschid . "
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The "brush at Smyrna between Austria and the United States is a forcible application of a musty proverb . It has blown good at all events to the officers of the Bhips concerned . The Austrian Government has promoted the commander of the TTssaro brig to the rank of captain . It can scarcely be doubted that the American Government will do as much for Captain Ingraham , whose decisive and independent conduct has won the respect of Europe for the American flag . Russia has sent to , Canton a frigate and a brig , which will bring up the Russian squadron on that station to five sail . It is also stated that a corps d ' armSe of 6000 men had boon assembled at Irkutsk , the entrepot of the Russian trade with China in Siberia . The fete of Napoleon was celebrated with great solemnity at Broussa , on the 15 th ult . Abd-el-Kader and his suite wcro among the company .
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The Monitcur has recently published a decree to regulato tho alimentary regime" ot the Lycdes , or colleges under State control ; in other words to give the boys more to cat . Think of tho advantages of a paternal government , hungry boys ! Fortunately our royal colleges of Eton and Westminster do not require tho intervention of alimentary decrees . Unless indeed tho colleges at Eton should pray u \\ - a t ' ecrco to give them less mutton , and more beef . J-JU 8 momorablo decree , signed Fortoul , divides tho pupils into three categories—tho big boys , to whom 70 grammes <> i moat aro allowed per head , and per meal ; the middleflized sixty ; and tho " little uns" 50 grammes . On these
paternal regulations T . m Prasse , from its accustomed point !! tt ' ° *" r < / ) {? imo ° f unrestricted liberty , remarks : — Under n re # imo of liberty , as wo understand it , wo should havo said— ' Bread , meat , and vegetables in tho coliogcH shall bo of good quality . No quantity is prescribed ; it will regulate itself naturally according to tho hunger of <¦"" pupils . ' But what a mad notion to think of giving I'oyfl an unlimited liberty of eating « discretion . Can ono Wi ° * ' ' P ' 0000 ^" /? seriously without a shudder ? Why ! it , would bo indigestion en permanence . " This < lm-
; and oxlond at pleasure tho oporatioriH of coramcrco » i '" l Uio prices current of markotH , but descenda , an if it w ' . u-o a second Providence , into tho minutest details of life , "urou do Richmond , ono of tho many soi-disant Louis 'lie bovenl , « wi , | , ha , Iuih just , died in an obscure' corner of a , , Vi' '' T " ' " " ' <) franco . JIo wum , however , tho most < iniiio o | „(! thoao modoHl ; pretenders , and his oJaimH were < '' ORMmed bya considerable portion of tho Legitimist party . ^¦ n members of tho old noble sse wore mo convinced that ho loril : IU " l ) llu l ) hil 1 < l" J'Vnneo , that Uiey dubbed tfniiei- I ; , ) iiH . suro him . an annuity of . 12 , 000 francs , which
V ., KU V v m ' * ! lv 0 < 1 » l » '" 'he day of his death . I lio ««/« , | , ] 10 Ihroo-masted vostiel which wo upoko of ] , w " » »«» having reached 1 ' urJH , to l , ho astonishmont of ¦ natives of tho capital , who aro at once convinced tliat » irw ih to )) , ) wiul (; Napoleon tho First declared it nhoulri ^ ' a P " rt <><> mor , in only u small c / iasxo marthi of 80 ton « . ¦ - ii . uppoaiH Mini ; a company liad boon formed provioun ¦ o Mm revolution of I 84 B , for Him purpoHo of establishing l » , i ,.- m , !' ltMlln communication between Bordeaux and ^ » ih . xj ,, hcIiouio wuh proposed in 1 H 4 ' 2 by M . Annan , ! " " » " »« nt shi pbuilder at Bordeaux , and wiui then treated M A . "m" < a- ln lfM <> > however , it wuh again started , ami i > r in lm ' . lxiraovering ontorpriao wan on tho point of - '"{? actunlly coi-ried into ollbct hy a joint French and
English company . After the revolution the scheme waa again set on foot , and arrested by the objection on the part of the Government , that the steamers employed on the river Seine would be useless for war purposes . But Louis Napoleon , on his visit to Bordeaux , took up the idea warmly , and encouraged the projectors to pror ceed . This steamer , the first of the line , is called the JLam . origiiikre , was launched from M . Arman ' s yard during Louis Napoleon's visit to Bordeaux . She is 1000 tons burden , and 200 horse-power . Her engines were made in England , at the cost of 11 , OO 0 J . She will carry about 900 tons of coal , and a cargo of 700 tons , or about 2800 casks of wine . She is built like a steam-frigate , admitting for the difference of construction requisite for her peculiar services , and will be propelled by screw , carrying a good spread of canvass . She is expected to
make the passage from Bordeaux to Paris in ninety hours . Her first trip will be made next month . She will carry freight at 35 francs a ton , and at this rate will , it is thought , be able to defy the competition of the railway . As however , speed , regularity , and cheapness , are the eventual conditions of success , a vessel of a smaller size could not possibly be made to pay . The projectors of this line of steamers are mainly indebted to the patronage of M . Ducos , now Minister of Marine , and , as is well known , himself a native and banker of Bordeaux . It is fifty years since the Emperor Napoleon first thought of making Paris a " seaport , " but the war diverted his attention from the project , of which indeed , as subsequently in 1827 , the difficulties were found to be almost insuperable under . the then existing conditions . The utmost that has been effected within the last twenty years is the deepening of the channel of the Seine between Rouen and Paris . The success of the present scheme deserves attention , and will be watched with interest by the commercial world ,
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The Belgians are unwearied in getting up marriage fetes . At Antwerp there has been a splendid street pageant and procession in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant . The Times correspondent speaks of" the human interest of the scene . " " The thousands of robust , healthy peasantry- —those Flemish figures and features with which the immortal artisra of Antwerp have familiarized the whole civilized world—those clear complexions , blond tresses , with old-fashioned gold and silver ornaments taken from their family cabinets , where they have reposed from generation to generation , with the clean fine lace caps hanging over the shoulder . "
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The schoolmaster is indeed abroad . The Eing- of .. Bavaria , who , as La Presse reminds us , is no free-thinker , but , on the contrary , the Catholic Sovereign of the most Catholic State in Europe , has lately delivered , with extraordinary emphasis , the ^ following reply to an address of certain - schoolmasters who had sent to thank him for having increased their stipends . This royal reply deserves , says the Augsburg Gazette , to receive universal publicity : — " I thank you , gentlemen , and I rejoice if in what I have done you recognise that I am the friend of schoolmasters ,
that I honour and esteem their profession ; not only do I esteem it , but I love it . Your mission is , I acknowledge , hard and difficult , and to fulfil it you have need of an angelic patience . Attend to the education of the-people , for it is in a great measure in your hands ; disseminate everywhere useful knowledge , for it is that which forms a moral and believing people ( jidele ) . Tell your brethren that I love them , and" ( placing his hand upon his heart ) " tho King gives you his word that he will do everythingin his power for you . "
Tihs address ia no doubt interesting as an indication that ono King at least on the Continent of Europe discorns tho signs of the times . But it may be , without unjust susceptibility , doubted whether the hug of a Catholic Sovereign is in all respects tho best guaranteo for tho lifo and liberty of popular instruction . It is difficult not to suspect that this King may be endeavouring to discount tho labours of his schoolmanters to the profit of kingcraft and of its ally priestcraft . When tho King talks of a . faithful
people , wo aro in doubt whether ho usou the word in the strictly Catholic sense , or generally in tho sense of a loyal people . In tho former oaac , taking tho general position of Bavaria into account , wo cannot help detecting a prooccupation of kingcraft ; in tho latter , of priestcraft . Tho whole address , indeed , reads more like ono of those fiery and mystical harangues which occasionally fall from , tho King of Prussia , under tho inlluonco of " Ithenish" and champagne . Bavarian boor is scarcely to bo credited with such a display of royal enthusiasm .
At tho grand military manoeuvres ol tho Prussian army , about to talce place at Berlin , it is naid that tho British army ia to bo represented by Lord llardingo and other Oonornls . A great many natives of tho Tyrol , who havo become converts to Protestantism abroad , were , on their roturn to their own country , anxious to possess tho freedom accorded to native Protestants . They petitioned for tho Xndigenat . The local authorities forwarded the petition *! to tho Government , which rejected them . Lovo at lirHt ' nigh * in not often a royal experience . But according to a , continental paper tho Emporor of Austria Haw tho I ' rincoHB Elizabeth of Bavaria at a ball at luchl , wuh charmed , requested to bo allowed a few minutes' conversation with her after tho ball , and roturnod with tho I ' rinwHH leaning on hm arm , presenting her to tho company ns tho future JCmpreoH of AiiHtria .
In Berlin , boots for Australia aro being oxtonfuvoly made . Boots are one of tho few art ielos which are made undoubtedly better in Berlin than in England , and at half the pricoH , bout ; inen ' H boots conting only 12 , v . to V . is . ( W . At Berlin tho deaths , in consequence of tho heat , havo Amounted to twenty in ( ho day . The Jflmporor i'Yancin Joseph arrived at Salzburg on Anoint HI . Shortly iiftorwardH tho DiicIiohm Maximilian anil her daughtorH tho J ' rineoHH Elizabeth ( Emprotm elect ) and the IMiicohh Helena likewise arrived thorn . Tho l * rosso of Vienna annouucoH that , tho Emporor of Buosiii ia to bo present at tho grand inauauivroa of tho
Austrian camp at Olmutz . Other reports state that he is going to Warsaw . The annual reviews of the Imperial Kussian Guard terminated on the 26 th ult . A Franciscan monk named Marcus Gasparich has been executed at Presburg . He was accused of correspondence with Kossuth and Mazzini . After , having been " dese-. orated , " he _ suffered death on the gallows ; and . this has given great umbrage to the ultra-Catholic party . The Times correspondent at Vienna writes : — " On the
14 th of last month two persons knocked at the door of a room inhabited by Padovani [ a refugee ] in the High-street of Pera , and on opening it he received two wounds in the breast , which are supposed to be mortal ; "Whether the unfortunate man really was a spy or not we have no means of knowing , but it is probable enough . The refugees are on the whole " a bad lot , " for within the last six months three of the leading men have by letter offered their private services to the Austrian Government for a valuable consideration . "
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At Eavenna , an attempt has been made to assassinate the Legate , but fortunately without success . The establishment of a iine of steamers between Genoa and North and South America , is definitively arranged . The law authorizing the Government to treat with the proposed company for the concession of the line , is published in the official journal at Turin . The Messager de Modene publishes some details of the arrests recently effected at Eome . Among the arrests are included an advocate of Bologna , an employe * of the Government , a priest of San Lorenzo , a member of the Rospole family , a jeweller , &c . This is sufficient to prove that the projected movement , if it existed , comprised all classes of society , Government officers , and priests . The Piedmontese Gazette of the 3 rd instant has advices
from Naples , stating the names of the twenty-two persons whom the Criminal Court of Naples has condemned to death in contumaciam for the part they took in the revolutionary movement of the 15 th of May , 1848 . The King of Naples has ordered the railway from Naples to Brindisi to be commenced , but he has directed that no Englishman , either directly or indirectly , is to have any connexion with its making , or in the manufacture of the materiel to be employed .
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Lord Howden , our ambassador at Madrid , has arrived in Paris , en route to England . Probably Madrid is getting too hot for him after his sharp skirmish with the ignoble Government to which he is accredited , on the subject of Christian burial of English Protestants . Add to this , Lord Howden is the warm personal friend of Narvaez , now , it is known , enjoying an " honourable exile" at Paris , and supposed to be studying , by the order of his Government , military archives at Vienna . When Lord Howden succeeded Sir Henry Bulwer , at Madrid , it was believed that he would
bring the two Governments to the most friendly terms . 1 % has been found impossible to maintain decent terms with so profligate and shameless a Government of rogues and harlots ; although Lord John Russell is anxious to bring the might of England ( which he sutfera to be the mockery of Russia ) to the support of Spain against the United States , in order that Queen Christina may grow more and morn rich upon the unholy gains of that slave dealing which Spanish Governors are sent to Cuba to protect , in tho face of solemn treaties , and under the flag of Spain .
Tho London journals have frequently been stopped at the Madrid post-office of lato ; but a Royal order appeared on August 21 ) . addressed by Senor Egana to tho governors of provinces , b y which the Times is excluded altogether from the Spanish dominions , It is as follows : — " Ministry of tho Homo Department . " The enemies of tho peace of Spain , not finding in our noble soil elements disposed to break daily tho laws of decorum , and offend that which is venerated hero almost as a worship , have sought in foreign lands pens which might servo their criminal designs , and for some time back there have been aeon , with indignation , articles of ai ^ English periodical , entitled tho Times , tho sole and baso obioct of which seems to bo to wound and ridicule
systematically tho object most dear to Spaniards . Such a ocandal cannot longer be tolerated . The public decorum forbids it ; tho monarchical sentiment of the country repels it with horror ; liberty itself ia ashamed of it an of a repugnant spectacle which stains and compromises ita fair cause . To put a atop to it immediately , and to do ho in a public and solemn manner , which may attest ^ it all time , ' ) how lively tho stimulus of offended national dignity in in Spain , is not only now to fulfil a high duty of Government , but alfio to satisfy a groat ami goncroun aspiration , without which we uhould neck in vain for reaped , for tho constituted powers , stability and roposo for the States . have had tho
" In virtue of I heao reanonw , which I honour of elevating to tho sovereign knowledge of her Majesty tho Queen ( whom God preserve ) , nho lmn deigned to command ( . hat tho entry , circulation , and mulnig of the English periodical entitled tho Thium , bo not permitted in Spain , ita adjacent islands and pouKo . saions and colonial dominions ; which measure uliall bo equally extensive to whatever other journal or foreign publication which nhould exhibit tho ' wamo want , of consideration for tho highest objecfn which thi . s apccially catholic and monarchical nation has venerated lor agon by law , by gratitude , by instinct , and oven by a oliivalroua Hentnnont , toand worthy ofthe noble Spanish race .
proper , , " The which I connnuiiicato t <> you by ' royal order , lor your knowledge and opportune odocts . God proHorvo you many yoara . —Mm \ Ildcloimo , Au £ . 27 . J ( Signed ) "( EaANA . " To tho Govornor of the province of . " Tho lato articles in tho Timos on Spanish repudiation and bigotry account for thin exclusive honour .
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It appoarH that the > Swins Federal Council in dosiroiiH to bring ita conflict with . Auatri * to an arrangement , and to that end it propoaea to aacrilico the canton of Ticino , and , contrary to all precedents , to consider Uin ( juoation bel . woea that canton and tho Auutriau uullioriliutj tt movoly can .-
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September 10 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 86 $ )
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 869, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2003/page/5/
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