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had . come to light through numerous arrests in the ex . kingdom of Poland and the Grand Dnchy of Posen . The Emperor Nicholas has expressed a desire that the Prussian papers should abstain from-all-communications on the movements of the Russian army . It is said thafc a Nbto from -Count Nc 88 elro < ie has been remitted to- tbe Austrian cabinet in . answer to this demand , —Will Russia- consent to the establishment of a European Protectorate over tbe Christian population' of Turkey ? The Czar , it is-said ,, has answered that , he will never allow any foreign , intervention in his differences with the Sultan , and thai he will admit no participation in a right which be has so well acgnircd . The recall of General de CaatelbajaCv from St . Petersburg
is spofcen of as not unlikely to take place before long , the- gentleman designated as his snecessor being the Count < JeHei 6 « ty , his first secretary of embassy : It is said that Louis Napoleon * was exceedingly displeased a * the condnct of the repiwsentathre o £ France at-the Court of Russia—parti-< 3 okdy at his strange act in going to offer his ; congratulations to the Czar ,, an the victory of Siaope .- " It is not , Sire , "' he is represented as . haying . said , to tbe Emperor of Russia , "it is not as . ambassador of Exaope that I . felicitate you ^ but as a military man . " " It was precisely as a military man , " ¦ eras the . remark-of an august personage in France , on . hearitifrof thi * saying of the ambassador , " that AT . de Castelbajac ought not to have offered congratulations on such a ¦ victory . " The National-Gazette of Berlin states that the sailors of -the Baltic fleet , who had- been , seat to their -homes , have
re--ceiveil orders-to retorn . to theu-poats in March . An ill effect has been ; produced by the : receipt of intelligence that , the , Austrian Government has furnished arms 4 tud ammunition to the Rnssutu troops . The explanation given by the Austrian- Minister is . that it was , a mere commercial transaction , and that the Government- merely imitated the example of the French Government in furnish . ing a certain quantity of arms to the Tntks . It may be ob-«* rved ' , however , that the- cas * s are not precisely the same , and that Austria professes strict neutrality , while France , ihough not as yet : at war- with Russia , is anything but neutral in the qnaraeL ? The nejws from Finland , states-that the glorious Navarino massacre of Sinope . was celebrated in Uelaungfors , « n the 18 th of December rr by . a Te B&um . ia the churches , a ball , at the palace of the Governor-General (_ Rokassowskij ) , and - » general illumination . ;
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A fetter from Stockholm qf tbe 20 th ult . states that a -4 Mmimissioir composed of officers"and engineers had just left Che capital , to : visit different jwrts of the coast , and put all -the ; military points in > astate of defences Tbft country every day declare ^ itself , inoreandi more against . Russian policy , and Jias decided , on making itaj neutrality reapeoted by force of arms , in tha event of its being , violated . - r . In the Danish Ministry we / hear-of a difference on the Bussian aoestibn . The majority , who decidedly represent 'the public feeling of . the country , advised ; a junctian with
JBnglandi The President of the Ministers ' , on the other hand , had insisted ttpon Denmark ' s adhereace to her old terms of amity with Bussia . Then Brine * of GaninOj Charles Lucien Bonaparte , has 4 JoWallhbp « aseB 8 ionaiu Bonietand Bonciglione to-tne banker , Alessandro Torlooia for 450 , 000 * nd : one sendi . The Rev . Janaes Cook Bichrnond f aa American clergyman , having been brutally treatedbjf the Austrian police in . Hung ary , has . appealed for redress to , hia Government . The American . minister at Vienna has behaved , it . is said , with pusillanimity unworthy of the country-of x Captain
Ingra-Oh Board a Turkish steamer captnred at Sinope , the chief engineer wa * ' Mr .- Bell , an Englishman , a The Russians offered him his liberty if he would take-the crippled * steamer safely into SebastopoL He did so with immense difficulty , but on her reaching therhaxbaor tbe ship sank , the wonder * eing that she had not sunk long before a&aea * Instead , however , of Mr . Bell , obtaining , his ; release- as promised ,, he , with his sub-engineers and stokers , was thrown into close confinement with the raiserabJa pittance as stated allowed liim , —Prince Menchikoff , the . commander at Odessa , paying -hot the slightest regard to the promise made by his admiral . The - repair of the Russian ships at Portsmouth was published to the * Russian people- is this form : " That while tbe EhgKsu dare not send one ship into the Black Sea , wo order them to receive oar ships into tile very inside of their dockyards , and the miserable , islanders , obey . " This is the language in which England ialieiii up before the Russian serfs .
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The Jfoniteur of Thursday contained & letter addressed by the Emperor to M . Ducos , the Minister of Marine , appointing him . grand officer of the Lesion of Honour , and thanking him for haviug . on so reduced a . budget , prepared resources which will allow tlie Government any day , the moment it may become necessary , to doublo or even triple the naval forces of France . The Minister of Marine is at the present moment organising a third squadron , to be called that of the reserve , and to consist or seven Hne-ofbattle ships and six frigates . The expense is calculated at ten millions of francs ; and it is said that M . Ducos , who is one of the firmest : supporters of war in the whole Ministry , ia displaying great activity in effecting this increase to tbe reui
« : u nuvjf . Orders have been sent ta Lorientto put hi commission four steam frigates . Mf . Armand Bertin , so long the chief editor and director of the Journal ties Ddbats , died on Thursday morning of quinsy . His loss leases a serious void in French journalism , to which , however we may dissent fronr his political opinious , he certainly gave an unimpeachable * reputation for integrity , sound judgment , and the most exemplary personal worth . The letter of the King of the Belgians to Louis Napoleon ia supposed to have been apologetic on the subj « ct of Orloanist intrigues and tho Austrian alliance of the Due de Brabant .
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vices , except the St . Jean d'Acre , which had sailed for Modena . It is stated that the young Eng is about to marry his Coburg cousin ^ the Princess Charlotte of Belgium . The ordinary session of the C / drtes was opened on the 2 nd inst . by the lung Regent in person . - Lisben is perfectly qniet , and it likely to £ « , as lory as- the British squadron remains in tht Tagus . While Mr . Gladstone ia in power , his client Count Poerio is rapidly sinking to the only rest or release he can hope for . Thet atrocities of the prison discipline . and the unusual rigours of the winter are bringing him to the grave . But he has been allowed to receive Is . 4 a . from his family again } as before .. . .
The BritLih squadron , was . in th » Tagus by the last ad
The indulgent and considerate Neapolitan Government has actually permitted Mr . Baggio , a British subject ( whose case we mentioned some weeks sdnce ) , ip enter Naples after three weeks delay and . expense . Is Me Baggio , or the Government of Naples , to pay toe cost of this flagrant violation of treaties ? .
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A letter from Rome of the 2 nd mat . states , that on the afternoon of tbe 1 st the principal streets in that city were lighted with gas . At ten o ' clock in the morning of the 10 th inst , her Most Catholic Majesty of Spain was delivered of a daughter . The British Legation was represented ' on that interesting occasion hy Mr . Lottos Qtway , Secretary of Embassy . 'Tire people of Madrid generally , we hear ,, manifested perfect indifference about the event : an indifference easily explained , when we consider the ambiguity of . the parentage of the royal infant . Peace be to it ! It was takfen away again from the evil to come on the 8 th inst . Letters from Spain declare that public
anairs are suli in as critical and dangerous a-stato ) ass ever , and that an explosion , may occur at any moment . The Berlin journals contain fang accounts of the funeral of General Radowitz . The ceremony was . conducted with almost regal pomp . At Berlin , om the 4 th , before the body was sent to Erfurt for interment , there was a religions service in the church of the garrison , at which the K 3 ng was present . His Majesty approached the coffin , and prayed in a low voice , after which he kissed on the forehead tlie four sons of the deceased , two of whom are officers in the Prussian army ,, and who were standing-near the coffin .
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AMERICAN NOTES * Recent news from the Uaited ^ Statea , extending ; to the 28 th ultimo , brings some interesting reports . An important piece of nevps comes from Washington in relation to the probable departure of another expedition for Cuba . This intelligence comes from the Ooyerninetit itself , and is to the effect that an expedition jiaa actually ; been arranged ^ and that it hatr two branches—one to leave ' New York ; and the
other to start ficoni New Orleans . It is so fully belieyed by tke . Cabinet that instructions have been sent north and south to arrest certain parties said to be engaged in the enterprise . The Cubans in America assert that a formidable expeditioa of at least four thousand men ; , with a distinguished southern general a £ leader , is in existence , only arwaiting an epportunitj to invade the Queenrof the Antilles . .
Bishop Becini , the Pope ' s Duncib , had been the occasion of avviolent demonstration in Cincinnati . -It seems that a party of " Germans , known as the * ' Society of Freemen , " took umbrage because he officiated in the church of Bislop Purcell on Sunday . Accordingly , a body of five hundred of the disaffected spirits assembled in' the evening , and marched in procession to the house of the bishop , where the nuncio wai a guest , with the supposed intention of summarily avenging the martyrs in the cause of Italian liberty by doing personal violence to Bishop Bedini , who , it is alleged , betrayed the leaders in the
revolution of 1848 * The police having been advised of the intentions of the Germans , stationed , themselves in full force in the vicinity of the scene of the contemplated hostilities , and as the procession came up the officers rushed forth , and a most desperate conflict ensued , in which many shots were fired ,, and the air was made to resound with the shouts of enraged combatants and the lamentations of the wounded . After a severe struggle sixty of the Germans were captured , and the remainder were put to flight . Fourteen persons were wounded ,. one of whom died the next day .
The two hundred and thirty-third anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on Plymouth Hock was celebrated by their descendants , the members of the New England Society , by a dinner at , the Astor-house . From Honduras it is announced that the contract for the new inter-oceanic route io the Pacific , through Honduras , lias been completed with Mr . Squiers , and that a special agent has been sent by the Honduras Government to Washington , to effect a treaty with that country for more intimate relations , and to perfect the arrangements for the opening of this new communication with the western shores of the Continent .
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GREAT FIBE AT NEW YORK . Tub capital of tbe Empire State seemB also tlie civilised head-quarter * of conflagration . Almost every mail , at this season of the year , we hear of terrible fires . One such occurred oa the 26 th ult ., the great interest of ^ hich centres in the fac t that three ships
5 Kr ^~ 18 felt to te a national calamity . The fire broke out in Front-street » T * mt * mri « A o ' clockatnigh ^ ina ba ^ ry . S ^ Sthe ^ rlnlSd 6 energy of the New York firemen , the n ^ eTspie and in an hour the whole block of houseTwereVn fire ^ We extract tho graphic account of the nro . gT ^? J * h , ecatastrophe from to * Mm York Herald ¦ White the fire was raging in Front-street , tbe . n > atk 8 were so thick m th » vicinity a » to assume rho aflpearanceof a shower of fire . The streets and doeka along the East river , were literally alive- with ^ bnrnine ^ raaifc Th «) trier at the foot of Dover-street wiui at one timfe « ov « re&totbe depth of some inches with tire r and the rigging andjna « ta of th » numerous vessels lying in th » stream tow completely en-« elo £ cd > jn . flyine sparks . The seamen amiothera slrennously « xerteartfa ^ mse&e » to present the canms finaa . igDitine but inmost instances the bigh wind rendered thjeu ^
effbttauseicsay j . . " AbaatJlaUvpaBt oneo ? clock , the riggineofthectapHidoas new ship Great Bepublut , took fire ; Owing to the immense height of her-masts , it was impossible for ther engines to play npon the flames , aod the » consequence vm *> thatthe fiuUng sparks soon' set her deck ia a blaze . "Some of the sails on the vessel were 4 > en& and whan they once became ij ^ ited no human pover . conld sn * her . It waa melancholy to see the aoble snip , almost instinct with life , the work of mon ^ is , ;^ e 8 troyedina&w . brief Thoon . She was a perfect wonder inaa ^ val arohitecturei , being'the largest merchant vessel ever constnict « i | in . thi » arr any other country . Bnt afew o ^ ysag ^ we recoUe ^ twJih what pride and admiration she wasbregHidedrhy admirii > j ^ tfaousMiosi . and . Governor , members of the LesiBlatur& . Aiid : ot : hiBic , i »« iriiiMhf in
citizens , aa they , were eap ^ ed examining : onr < harbour encroachments last week , paused- awhile . to < look : at her gigantic , yet graceful proportions . Nothing now remains of the noble vesselbnta chaired hull , her stately masts having fallen-before the fierce bl * stof the fire king , and her white wings are consmnerHn has breathe " " Although there w * snfnoent wafer around to extin-; guish a « ity . in fhunes ,. the thousands , who crowded the docks could pnljp look- on hopeJetBly , while the terrible work of desfructibn was going ; 6 n . ' ' ' M The foremast was tlie first tharwtnt by the board . It fell with a terrible , craslr , thrieatening the lives df somefiremen and others who'were atanding ^ on th ' emde ' df the vesseL ¦
" The mainmast shortly afterwards ' * % ¦* over ^ odd Hie imizenmast ^ feU acros » thQ ^ ier intto th « docIq * tritSiie * jntaall boHt , whdeh it capsized , inmydnpits ^ oecnpHnts ^ &orm « ti . into the water . All , of theta escaped wifelt a . bath ? of : csla water . ¦ - '¦ , ¦ r " The sailors , apparently legjraHesfc of their lives » roshed tip the ladders , and dvL all that men « oula . do . Taut the inrflaininftblft nat \) ra of . the loatoxials rendereialt their efforts ' utterly useless . ' ¦ •¦¦ ¦ ¦¦ - > - ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ - ¦¦ • ¦ - . "The Great Republic cost ; ^^ it is saia ' about 300 . 000 dollars , and waa insured in various- mariae offices for aotmt lBOiOOO ^ dollar * . The -value- of the cargo-wa »> estimated at 300 , 000 dollars ; oa < thiv freight insurancehad ^ been effeotxid
for about 276 j 000 dollars Theivarious marme ^ qAcerof ^ city had : f all linec , either on ths ^ ship > or cargo ; ; Thv ^ Muttoal AtUmtis bad the liu ^ esfc anoount--probably-- about 90 ^ 000 dollars ; The ; Mercantile Jeanne , Sun ^ Mataalj anftottitr offices , it was said , hada lien of about 30 . 000 dollars' eaon . TJie remainder of the policies * were diTidfed * among'offloeS'in Philadelphia , Boston ^ and other places . Considera 61 iBr portions of the cargo : were Ordered by theprerioussteamer ttt-be insnredia England ; ' " We subjoin a list of tlie Great RepvMkTs cargo at tha time of her destruction , obtained from . Messrs * Grinnel , Minturn , and Cd ; , theconsigaees of the ship r" Memorandum of Cargo on board t / i& Ship Great JZs » pubtio . —B 9 & tierces hMf ^ 02 tierces and d 8 > barrek lard .
23 , 406 bushels wheat , 33 t £ 00 bushels , corn , 6620 barrels flour , 1023 bales cotton , 639 half chests tea , 4040 barrels rosin , 14 : hfadav tobacco , 10 casks argpls , and . 867 piece * maplo and cedar wood . - " The ^ burning brands tfirown from the •• GreatRlpmbtic set fire to the rigging ef the magnificent clibDer White ¦ S quall , as she lay moored at pier No . 27 , Easv ^ lbven aum her return for California , upon the-20 * h uoatant ; Owing to tbe high wind which blew at the moment , tne ^ fiftmeji spread over her tracery of masts , spars , and rigging , - in an inorediblV short apace of timej and all became convinced tihatr the oiriy hope or saving her , or preventing her adding to and > oxtend ing the fire by the like calamity which befd herself ^ wa » tb cut her adrift , and let her go before the-windi Thuact was performed by her mate , Mr Poole , irbo had previously arrived « n board , and aha was towed' into' the' stream by one
of the Fulton ftriy-boatfc . " Ones freed from her lubinft the . White Squall was taken out by a stiff north-wester , and went clear into the Eart Biver , advising the astonished people of Brooklyn that the calamity waa about to ^ apjroach their city . ' The White SqvatlaUxtii up the riyer , and was soon sndi a mass ofi flame tnatany-attempt to scuttle her wasfbunuto be impoasible ^ as the fttfling previouslr of her rigging and . mainmast bad > -set tbe entire hull on nre from aft to hwjfoffward parts , at least all the surface space which w « v <* bQV » water . Her course wi » anxiously watched by thoumad * m Brooklyn , and every preparation was made by tiuta * to help her when she would tonah land . ^^ ¦ " As the White Squall was in ballast ^ ana without cargo , except some tons of copjer , she sent forth a * dense ; thiok penetrating smoke from her timbers , butt not a veiy clear flame until about half-paat five o ' clock . Atrthis hour all her
bulwarks were burned awayftom th » aft quarter , up to about six feet of the forward part of thA'taill * which seemed as if protected by the heavy gale whiob was then * blowing in the opposite direction , conouig right over the jib . Her jib * , boom , with the ropes attached to it , stood perfectly whole and sound , but her ma » te . and everything else , bad long before crumbled into th » hold , leaving nothhig" standing ex > - cepting the bare and naked stanoheonB ranging on either tide aft .
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January 14 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 31
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 14, 1854, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2021/page/7/
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