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      erafed 4 o * £ ifte . Qaai d'Qw . . The Montfew- efefea « S 5 ** SSy tk * tf *» feOuWtiou w » h * qpened w ^ toTSy ^ Aw *^ 4 i P ^* - ^ o ^ ex : hri 4 ge : fc-It ydH span the river , on . , three , arches , and w « l be ^ cojn-. plSon the 1 st- May , 1855 , at a cost of 1 , 700 , 000 JP ^ HNtm ^ TitPOMiCMsr Bonataktb is said to haye recerrea orders to return to France immediately . jBoci ^ tlST TEmigkation . — -According to a letter from Strasbourg , in the National Gazette of Switzerland , the SociaUet party in Alsace is about to emigrate en masse to Tijxaa , where Victor Considerant , one of their chiefs , has , pnrohaied a large quantity of land . The first departwe is to take place in the spring . T « bePss » s ih SqhjuBSWIG . — ¦ -Most of the Danish and German newspapers , the perusal of whi j jh has for a long time been interdicted to the inhabitants of the pjUfhy » S nThT < ywTg ; hy the paternal aolicitude of the late _ jr » niater , Count Moltke , are . now again permitted fr ^ e , escalation in the duchy . TgppiyBTFWo ' p niomfrr ^ ¦*** ¦ -wwr - - TgmTTiTg . —A Mar drj £ lattersaysthat , the daputiies of the Basque Phh yi * ya £ 6 have exerted themselves to obtain permission ffcom . the Bute de la Yittoria for the Jesuits to remain in the convent of Loyola . The duke replied that he co « ld not alone revoke a measure which was the work of * he < whole Cabinet . He is stated to have added as bis ^ eraonaj ; opinion— " © ond © hay un Jesuita , hay un peJigr © Cwhe « e there is a Jesnit , there , is a danger ) . " iSrXaiiBH Bksmbot soii a " Minusbto /—JMnriBo ' s last work , " The Marriage of St . Catherine , " m the Church of San Erancisco , at Cadiz , has juat been saved from otherwise inevitable destruction by the British Minister , The chapel Of San . Francisco has been for some time falling to pieces , so much so that the performance of mass was suspended . The . rpof was . tumbling in , and the rain and wind penetrated . Without repairs it would soon have been absolutely necessary to remove « he pleture from the spot where Murillo himself placed ft ) , or the weather would have destroyed it . And yet tk& authorities took no steps . Lord Ho-wden , however , b »« flie ^ bspel repaired at Mb own expense . The piettae i » - € he -jnope interesting as it occasioned Hhe artist ' s ds « rth . Ittarflfle , ; in stepping 1 back to view hi » woi * , leU 4 & 4 tia platform , and died of the injuries received in fl »» lL - ; : ¦ ¦ ~ -: ^ . ; ~ ' . . - ;\ ¦ : ' ¦ . : . ; ¦ - : ;¦ There has been a slight modification of Espartero ' s Cabinet Senor CoTlado , Finance Minister since the Bevolktion , bos reaigned , in consequence , it is said , of the-narrow majority in favour of the Government on the paopoeitiion for abolishing the Octrois . He is succeeded by , ML SeviDanQ , whose appointment appears to give satisfaction . Senor CoTlado is a poor politician , and his budget broke down ; but- he stemmed the embarrassments of the revolutionary crisis with courage and Saxony . —The King of Saxony closed the extraordinary session of the Diet , on the 30 th ult ., in person . ; EGjr 8 peecfc " referted ~ exd ^ —

      Sitaxb ot Siboh at Mojdbna . —The Messaggera of Modena writes >— " Crimes and assassinations having booome very frequent at Carrara , and neither the ordinary means , nor the more rigorous measures and penalties prescribed by the edict of the 26 th of August last , haying been found sufficient to repress them , his royal T yjflftmyff our august sovereign has seen himself obliged to apply the extraordinary and exceptional measure of the state of siege to that town and its territory . " This measure is already in force . This notification is accompanied with the usual details of measures relating to the atatfl of aiego . —The Genoa Gazette states , from private loxresjaondence , that the above measure has not been zendexed necessary by any political disturbance in

      ^ fesa-TRADc : Sweden . —According to the correajwawiwrt of the Daily Newt at Stockholm , the King has '' aapptiw » od , the parqpoeala made , by the Chambers , for jre atjfflffing , ajj Ujq . hitherto existing prohibitory dutios . on import * and . exports ( wjbtb . tho single exception of hm * dy ) , but with the ftligfrt modification that they are to VM » 9 . at the-end instead of . the beginning of the year 16 . 6 & . Tke . HMaeuare'hae been most fftvousably veeeived by <* he . m « e « ar 4 il « would , as one tending to give a great impute * to the development of our foreign aonwaoxce . Vhtm ! Pbk «» im Eh « b « -Ga . 68 BI .. —Tho new federal law on the press has recently been appliod for : the first tiau > Jo Hesee-Caaael . One of the most important houses in * h « publishing trade was suddenly deprived of ite Uummn . the « Muk . uAountstoiQonfiacaUoB .

      SnoreRMB iv VotnKBV . — -Lowl Stratford do Bod-4 tfl ^ Hui * addressed a circular to all the British oonsula tM&eIteran t , Infonhiag them of the important deorcM tewA' bytlte -fSttltan for effecting various salutary reforms in the administration of the laws ; doing away w # nV , » , mwrtwr . af long-mcMing ahuaea , and abolishing tb ** w 4 » Aft . ato ^ , in Georginimd Ciwasaia ; and urging « r 4 m < mm * 4 * t ' mots to give every asa&tanoe by iMfc ? i ^ ' «* d « w h « rt * ttom 8 to the Turkiah auqiorities , who , iftcwyiwg iaV ^ w ig ntVwB the fiftid decxeea , wil J , In aW pwb « hU % , iMwirto oon « w 4 wilb kog-fiajtobliahedjpi ^ j » difl ^ AndsAiioiua AmdltlonB ,

      The . Vibjjna . CojnpSBB ^ OB . —A letter from . F « ns states that the Vienna Conference of the 28 th was leld at the request of Prince Gortschakoff—thus attributing to Russia the inifci » tive in negotiations avowedly directed towards peace .. The Prince requested to know the interpretation set by the Thsee Powers , on the . four cuArantees . - Ht » received- tfiat interpretatjuin- identic , % Is said , on the part of the Three Powers — but entered into no discussion , and immediately forwarded the interpretation to St . Petersburg . The reply ^ w not exacted in Vienna before the 8 th or 10 th of this month . . .. .. . _ _ . .

      I * aman FfcoviHCES OP Aostkia . —A letter from Berlin states that the news of a treaty between France and Austria , guaranteeing the Italian , possessions of the latter , is confirmed . The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette says that the treaty has been actually signed . This , however ., wants confirmation . Th « " Llotd" Suspension . —A letter fromViennaof the 28 th « h ., ia <* e Constitutiormel , saye : — - The affair of the suspension of -the Lloyd journal ia not yet over . This day M . E . Warrens had an audience of bfe

      Majesty , to whom he presented a memoiandum , -which is said to-be a masterpiece of Justiee aad-clBamess . M . Warrens , who has rendered such service to the state , has not lostconfidenee in the reappearanee of bis suppKissed journal , It is true that the other ' journals this day mention a warning given to the Trieste Gazette , because it had published some Knes in favour of the £% c ?; but that is perhaps a measure justified by th « tone of thoee words lather than a symptom that the LJoj / d ixaB been definitively judged . "

      The actual steengtih of the ' © ennan feaeral army , according to the returns for 1858 laid before itoe mili ^ tary committee of the Diet , amounts to 525 , 037 men , and is divided as follows : —The 1 st , 2 nd ; and 3 rd army eorps ( Austria ^ make 1 S 3 , 295 ; the 4 th , « 4 h , and 6 th army corps CP ^ 8858 ^^ *^ ®? ^ 7 th army corps ( Bavaria ) , 60 , 236 ; and 8 theorps C ^ 'u * e m 1 N * g ^ Baden , and Hesaen Darmstadt ) , * T , & 57 ; I 3 ie » thcorps ( Saxony , Electoral Hessia , Nassau , Dtiuiembui ^ , Limburg ) , 35 ^ 36 ; the .-lOtii- corps ( Hanover , Brunswiek i Oldenburg , the Hanse Towns , Mecklenburg ) , 49 , 918 ; the-infafntry

      division of reserve , l « , 186 i Among them 8 * 71 are on the staff j the infantry amount to 404 , 592 men , of whom 28 , 621 are chasseurs and riflemen ;^ ^ the eavaSry are 71 , 149 , with 42 , 032 horses doing work / The artillery consistsI oJF ^ 40 , 270 men , wt « k 7424 horses ; theso-called technical tro 6 ps-ameunt ^ Q ^ 5 _ 745 men , to whom are to be added 1470 army surgeons , and 16 , 838 men attached to the transport service . The siege park contains 250 pieces of ordnance , 122 of which are cannon , 31 howitzers , and 97 mortars . According to its tactical distribution , the federal army consists . of 387 battalions ; 409 squadrons , and 147 batteries , with 1122 guns .

      A most unexpected event has shaken Nicb out of its propriety and prepared the residents in that favoured spot for that perpetuation in cinders , which about seventeen hundred years ago befel the fashionable population of Pompeii and Herculanum . A letter from Nice of December " 80 f"says = ?* Thi-morning-before-lastf-about three o'clock , the inhabitants of this place were awakened from their sleep by a singular sensation of horizontal movement . At tfkst , the greatest number thought it must be a dream , but they soon perceived that it was a terrible reality . Each house rooked gently on its foundations , as you may have seen young poplar trees swaying to and fro from a strong breeze . In an instant the whole town was on the

      alert , Every one rushed out , avoiding the streets , and seeking the gardens and fields , wheje many erected , marquees to shelter themselves from the night air . The weather was delightful ; the sky studded with countless stars , and everything above presenting a marked contrast with the confusion and disquietude of the popu < - lation . Soon after , a second shock , ' and then a third , increased the general terror to the utmost point . Chimneys had been thrown to the ground — a long line of wall had fallen with a loud crash—no one knew but that the town was about to be swallowed up , and the sea to close over the ancient Nictea of the ( Romans . The whole scene was . horrible , but

      yet so strange that it had something of the charm of dreams , or of the supernatural . What added to the uneasiness was , that some Sicilians , who pretended to be learned in earthquake proceedings , announced that another shook wne to-, be expected withm twanty-fbur hours . Inconsequence , no one went to bed , and nearly all Niee spent the next night in bivouock . All the public vehicles of the town , were hired , and carried off to the country to serve as shelter for as many persons aa could be stowed into them , and many a tent was erected in the plain for the same purpose . However , everything passed over in quiet , and the expected polka of the houses did not take pUoe . "

      A private letter , written under -the immediate impression , of . the shock , -says : — . " I have been once more preserved from , a midden and terrible death . I have been hero about ten days , and since . I , have arrived tho weather has been del ightful , and the thermometer 80 in the sun and ftC ia . the { shodo , Fahrenheit . Yesterday . morning I

      observed * rsmwe in ihe . air , ^ pr « santin $ Jfauut Vesuvius or EtW , and the adjacent xoaste . Xester-r day afternoon it blew very hard , f * om , SQw « i-e as * and a great , deal of qlust : ; soogi afterwajgds , > ifc . feU . quj ^ calm , ; and the sun setting last night in tremendQUSfbla . ck . clouds , but no rain here in Nice , it all went w « to France ; at about half-past' two ' o'oloct ; this . inorwing , myself and all the other visitors and inhabitants of . Nice were woke up from our deep , and found o . w . housea rocMnffto and fro , like ships in a gale of wind , Our beds threw us from side to side . All Kise . » ras for their livesThere ' , __ ' _ . j _ . v . ^^ , ^ i-n * . air . -w > T > rftgflTitiinr iMount .

      out of doors escaping . were three distinct shocks of the earthquake , fqr sp it was . The first at half-past two this morning , Jested at least half a minute ( and the oldest inhabitant recollects nothing of the kind here before ) . It has done some considerable mischief to the houses in Nice , and mine is cracked in manv places . The two other shocks were very slight ones . * The effect to myself and ethers was electrifying ; and I was , as well as every one else , quite sick and bilious . The weather to-day has been delightful , and the ponds were frozen this morning and nearly all day . After the earthquake , there was a hard

      frost . " UAvenir de Nice , & Liberal and apparently rather heterodox contemporary in those regions , treats the shock more jocosely . ... " We had the advantageiof assisting last night at an undress rehearsal of one of those dramas of Nature , especially grand when , as now , the development of the phenomena makes no victims . . . . " After describing the shocks , the Voltairian journalist adds : — " The population remains in alarm : this uriusual event is the great subject of conversation , and will be for inany ' days . Certain Western divots will remember that Psalm of David in which the hills leap like

      lambs , and the mountains like rams : the earth , has celebrated the proclamation of the Immaculate , the approaching return of peace and concord among the Christian-nations of the orthodox Latin rite . The devots from ; another point of the horizon will see in this event a , warning and a menace to the Sardinian States , which are said to be determined to make an alliance agafiist the orthodox Christians of the J ^ reek rite , with the communist Governments of France and England . Common-sense people will shut ijieir . mouths j and congratulate themselves - on an . adventure which to the sedentary naturalist is a rare pieoe of good luck , especiaUy when it does no harm . " v ^ j :

      iy 0 severe shocks of earthquake were experienced at Turin at the same time asi at Nice . They were , undulatory , in the direction N . E . —S . W ., and preceded and accompanied "by a rumbling noise and violent wind . The shocks succeeded close upon ^ each other , and lasted several secondseach . ~ It appears " £ hat they were felt much more seVerely in the environs of Turin than in thp city itself , since in the former they caused such terror among the inhabitants that they ran out of their dwellings ; which was . not generally the case at Turin . Naples , like Kome , has recently been "drunk with joy" in celebrating officially the proclamation , of the Immaculate Conception .

      The Tuscan Government has forbidden conswnpts to find substitutesfor-the-military-service . —A-teoent-decree of the French Government abolishes the system of substitutes , and proposes itself to furnish them , on . the payment of a fixed tax .

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      AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF THE QUEEN . ( From the Morning Post . ) Perhaps , since the commencement of the campaign , no document has , found its way to the public so gratifying in it 9 nature as tUat which we here subjojn . The earnest expression of her Majesty's anxiety for the brave men who" have been wounded in the service of the country will have the best effect in the army ; it will console the unfortunate who have already suffered , and animate to increased exertion their comrades who have hitherto escaped the accidents of war .

      The letter was addressed by her Most Gracious Majesty to Mr . Sidney Herbert , and through Kim to Mrs . Herbert , by whom it was transmitted to Miss Nightingale;— - " Windsor Caatlo , Dec . G , 1854 , "Would you tell Mra . Herbert that I faoggad aha would Iqt ma te&frequendff the aocounte she recoiveafitom Muw ,, Nightingale or Mrs . Bracehridge , as / hear no dutaila o / thewouaded , tho' I fee so many from oflwera ,

      &c , about the battle-field , and naturally the fownfir must interest me more . than any one . " Let Mrs . Herbert also Ibnow < & ** l wiah ^ U ^ Nightingale . ami the ladies -would tell theae poor molla wounded and sick m « n that mo osus . takes , « iimtnor intarest , or ifeok more for their sufferings , or admires their courage and heroism moke than their Queen . . 'Day and night she thinks of her beloved troops ., So . does tho Prince .

      "Beg Mrs . Herbert to communicate tfww my . wantla to those ladios , as I know that our qyaTpafchy is . inucU valued by these nobLa fellows . ( Signed ) " yiQWHiA . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 6, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2072/page/6/