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      ¦ writes from Sebastopol - to a < Vienna paper , saying that tte fRussians are-now beginning , to act on , the defensive , and th ? at they < = reeeive great ^ assistance from the Tartars , who , ' being disgusted- with the way in which the AlKes havetreated ' the Turks , k « ep the : Russians well informed with jnespect ^ to the plans ,. positions , and movements of the French and English : Hanover , — -The armament of the Hanoverian -troops is . proceeding- ' rapidly , and the Confederation is called on to hasten-its preparations in order efficaciously to assist ) Austria . The Piedmontesk Contingent . —The Malta Mail announces that twenty-five steam vessels are expected at that island , whence they will proceed to Genoa , to take-on board the Piedmontese contingent .

      The Battalions of the French Imperial , Guard reviewed on Tuesday by the Emperor , and numbering nearly 10 , 000 men , march to-day for Marseilles on their way to the East . ' The 21 st regiment of Light Infantry , about 1900 strong , has marched from Rome , to be embarked at Civita Vecchia for the Crimea . A battery of artillery is to follow shortly .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . LATEST ON" FBIDAI NIGHT . The "Vienna Conferences . —The C hronicle states that the "JBrst . point" was . definitively settled . ' at "Vienna on the 2 lst . The French continue to throw rockets into Sebastopol . The bombardment is proceeding with greater -vigour on the part of the Allies . The death of Prince Menschikoff from the effects of typhus is reported , but requires confirmation . The motion for presenting ran address to the king , censuring the Ministerial policy on the Eastern question , was rejected on Wednesday in the Prussian Second Chamber . A prolongation of the credits for -the expenses of the present year was voted .

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      The Berlin correspondent of the Times , writing s on March 18 th , . says : ^ - " A-nocturnal . levy , of recimits was . made throughout Poland . on the night of the lStb inst . The ; proximate cause ,. of the death of ,, the Emperor Nicholas was the receipt of the telegraphie- despatch announcing the defeat . of the Russians at Eupatoria . A letter fromSt . Petersburg , of the 8 th , says : — " The body , of the late . Emperor has been , for some days lying on astate bed at the Winter Palace , and the public have Leen ^ admitted at certain hours to see it . The body is in theTroom of the Grand Duchess Olga . The

      embalmment took place under the direction of Professors Schultz and , Gruber , members of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery . Since Tuesday the body of the Emperor has been covered with a large pall , edged "with gold , which envelopes the whole and covers the face . The , decoration of the room is very simple . Three priests stand near the bed , and say mass alternately . The crowd who go to see the body is immense . They are only allowed to-atop a few minutes ... in . _ the _ room , _ and . then ^ p ass on . Every Russian kneels near the coffin , makes the sign . of the cross , and kisses the . covering over the body . "

      When the . King of Prussia received the telegraphic news of the death of liis brother-iu-law , he immediately aent back , as an answer , the following words from the Apocalypse , addressed , to his sister , tho Empress : " Blessed , are the dead who die in the Lord . " This , is probably the first time that the telegraph has been usedin Russia at least— . to convey scraps of . Scripture . — Daily News Correspondent . The Pope will send an Envoy Extraordinary to St . Petersburg , to congratula te the new Emperor upon his accession to the throne It is said that Alexander is rather a favourite at Rome ; and hopes are entertained of some concessions being made by him in favour of . the lioman Catholics .

      On the 7 th inst ., tho new Russian Emperor received the ambassadors who waited upon him to- present tbeir respects on his . accession to tho throne . , Alexander , is reported to have said that . he was animated by the same . sentiments as his . father , and his uncle , the previous Emperor Alexander ; that the policy of hva . futher , whkh luid of late been misunderstood , was a conservative policy j and that ho hoped the principles of tho . Holy Alliance might still serve as a link between tho different States , though the alliance itself had past . Ho then added , according to the Frankfort letter from which theso assertions are derived , For my part , I nm disposed to give peaco to Europo if honourable terms aro offered to iiuasia ; but if tho conditions aro dishonourable , I prefer perishing to accepting them . "

      A letter from St . Potoruburg , quoted by tho Times Paris correspondent , says that the Einporor Alexander has addressed the following worda to tho nobility : ~ " I eolcmnly declare that I will not give up a single inch of Russian territory ' to our enemies . I will take good caro to prevent their penetrating further on tho soil of our country j and never , never—may my hand wither first I—will lufflx my signature to a' treaty which shall bring -the ultghteat dishonour on the nation . "

      i The Donau has a- letter of the' 15 th of March-from Poland ,, which contains some curious ^ information . -Not only are the troops--and employes ' obliged to take the oaths of fealty . to th& new Monarch , but also alTthe inhabitants of , the kingdom . The latter-have to-appear en massein the church of the-parish to which . 'they belongs . and there to swear to befaithful to Alexander II . and the Hereditary Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandro vitsch . By special order of Government the young people attending-all the schools atWarsaw ¦ are to take the oath of fealty at the hands of-M . rMuchanofly the inspector of the -Warsaw school district .

      - Accounts from the Piraeus , of the 3 rd , via Marseilles , announce that Bf . Mavrocordato has tendered his resignation , which , it is said , has been accepted by King Otho . Turkish troops have been concentrated at Monastir Austria is said to have announced that she will interfere to put down any insurrectional movement in Greece . From Denmark we learn that the committee of the Volksthing has presented to that assembly a bill impeaching the late ministry for exceeding the budget . The King is convalescent , and no more bulletins will be issued . A decree has been issued at Brussels , prohibiting the re-exportation of military and naval arms , when the same are destined for Russia .

      A letter from Frankfort , of the 14 th , in the Momteur , says : —" At one of the last sittings of the Diet , M . de Bismark , replying to the communications of the Austrian plenipotentiary relative to the effective military strength of that power , made use of remarks which did not evince a very favourable disposition towards the policy of the allied powers . M .. de Bismark has since been disavowed , and blamed by his government . Prussia , moreover , declares that she . does not demand that the Austrian contingent shall remainon the federal territory , and that she does not think of having the fortresses of Luxembourg and Mentz armed- "—The disavowal of M . de Bismark ' s . language has been contradicted by the Preussische Correspondenz .

      The Turkish Sultan refuses to recognise the Hellenic nationality of Rayahs who adopt the Greek protection . These men have been naturalized in Greece , since 1838 , for tho purpose of carrying on trade in Turkey without being amenable to the Turkish law ; but the Porte , still considering them as subjects of Turkey , will not consent to waive , its authority . . ¦ A ship with the submarine telegraph is hourly expected at Constantinople ; and on its arrival no time will be losOn laying dawn the wires from Kamiesch to Varna . The French are employed in . the construction of the land

      telegraph from Varna to Rustchuk , whence it wilL ^ be carried on to Bucharest , there to join the great European system . A branch is also being made , from Constantinople to Shumla , to join the former line at Rustchuk , so that in a few weeks the communication will be open from this capital to London and Paris , and intelligence will be carried -within a few hours . At present the shortest time is six days , and this is only possible when the fair weather leaves the wretched tracks called roads in a state to allow the passage of a Tartar's horse . —Times Correspondent .

      The Moniteur of Monday publishes a letter from Jassy , announcing that the electric telegraph was opened between that town undCzernowitz on ~ tha 2 Gth of February . Letters from Uaj'onne of the 15 th mention the great damage caused by the inundations in the Pyrenees . The Bidassoa has done its part in sweeping away the bridges of Behobia . The Nive has completely submerged Lower Cambo , and baa inundated a part of Bayonne ; and most of the houses on the- quays have had water to the first floor . It is not said whether any lives were lost , but great injury has . been done to property . Advices received from Nyborg , under dato of March 14 , describe the ice in the Bolt as still fast , not a bit of open water to bo seen , and from 3 to 4 degrees of frost . At FrederHikshftvnn t . ho Ron . ivn <* novp . red with ice as far

      as the eye could roach ; the light vessels at tho mouth of tho Wcaer and Cuxhaven hud returned to their stations . Later , accounts , however , state that the ice in the Baltic is loosening . On the 14 th a-motion was brought forward in tho Spanish Cortes , to the effect that instead of tho motion of M . Oloznga declaring the Senate elective , three-fiftha of its members should be elected and the rest bo nominated by tho Crown ; but after a discussion this Was rejected by 185 votes to G 7 , Ordera have been sent to annihilate tho Carlist band which has appeared in tho Sierra de Burgos .

      At tho audience which M . do Wedell had with the French Emperor , the subject of the treaty was talked of , and tho Prussian' Envoy was given to understand that in tho formal invitation to bo addressed to his Government should bo introduced words implying that Prussia accepted engagements on entering tho Conference—in short , that in tho preamble should bo aot forth , if not in direct terms , at least in terms equally Higniucant , that obligation . M . de Wedell declared that , ( hough ho himself did not hco any harm in such preliminary cngagomont , Ins powers did not extend so far as to accept it , and that ho should demand what I beliova ho termed " supplementary instructiona" from tho King . Tho Emporor was friendly and cordial as before , and M . do

      . Wedell-quitted Jiim with : the assurance : that , he ; should soon , have to < see him again , and that he should hear from him through the Minister for ! Foreign Affairs . — Times Paris Correspondent . The journey . of the . Emperorto the Crimea continues to be talked , of ; but the probability-of > such a ; step decreases every day . Nevertheless , ¦ ¦ , gossip - has , gone so far as to say that the-Imperial hut . has been . constructed . We-. now . also hear » talk of . a visit -of . the . Emperor land Empress to the Queen at Osborne . The ministerial . crisis in . Belgium , which Jxas lasted as long as -our own , and caused as much perplexity , seems not yet to . have reached-its ., end . After many abortive attempts at the construction of a ,-ministry , the last , of which only lived a day , the eountry still remains without a cabinet . The Chamber is convoked for Monday next .

      Doctor Veron having in the last volume of his Memoirs described a meeting at the house of-. M . Thiers in 1851 , at which M . de Moray and General Changarnier were present , and the project of a royalist coup d ' etat against the Assembly . discussed , a . note appeared in La Presse , formally and explicitly denying the whole story , and treating it . as a pure fabrication . To this Doctor Veron replied in the same journal ,. that he had not printed such statements without the best

      authority . M . Thiers then broke silence to give an absolute contradiction . Doctor Veron . requested M- de Morny to corroborate his statements , and M . de Moray at once replied that the doctor had written nothing that was not literally correct . M . TJbiers writes again , simply maintaining a flat denial ; and General Changarnier , writing from Malines , repudiates the veracity of the author of 3 / emoires ( Tun Bourgeois de'Paris , and of M . de Morny , and insists -that only " the honourable LL Thiers" has spoken the truth .

      M . Berryer has declined to conform with the Academical custom , and to present himself to the Chief of the State .. He sent a dignified letter to the Emperor ' s private secretary , M . " Moccjuart , appealing to his kindness to intercede with his master for the omission of the usual ceremony , as in his case " it might be painful not to himself alone . " M . Mocquart expresses i « reply the Emperor ' s regrets that M . Berryer ' s political impulses should have got the better of his Academical duties ; the Emperor from his lofty position would have seen in M . Berryer the orator only , and in the adversary of to-day the advocate of fifteen years since ;~ bu t that MflBerryer is at liberty to consult his own feelings . The lectures of M . Saiute ¦ Beuve , -who was appointed

      Professor of Latin Poetry at the College of France by'M . Fortoul , the present Minister of Public Instruction , have been discontinued . At his inaugural lecture the Professor was hissed and groaned at from the moment ha began to talk : of that " great prince who defends the liberal arts at home , and the flag of France abroad . " " When he talked of his principles , there was a cry of " Which t Your principles of' 1830 , 'o / 'l 818 , ror of . to-day ?" It was impossible for the lecturer to . proceed ,. and he . was compelled to call in .- the assistance of . the -police to clear the room , that he might continue his address to almost empty benches .. It had been the . original intention of the students to drown the Professor ' s voice . with derisive applause , but honest indignation , or . aa- M . Mocquart ¦

      would say , " political inspirations , " got the better of their discretion .. . Tluf closing " of thei course rof lectures so inauspiciously bogun - was a question ; of common morality . . M . ' Saiute Beuve . had so cynically expressed his contempt for principle iu politics ,, that the " youth of the schools , " not yet extinct in -FrancCiiiw o , aro glad to find , could not repress their disgust , and . M . Sainte Beuve , we may hope , is now definitively shelved . This movement , of the student : * is- significant of the- revival of public spirit in Franco , and it corroborates the tenor of all our correspondence -which describes . tho situation , as

      growing doily worse for the government . The war creates discontent and ,-anxiety . The news from tho Crimea is unsatisfactory , commerce languishes , and . the hostility to the . Napoleonic rdgiine increases daily among the bourgeoisie upon whom , after all , the stability of tho government depends . Thoro have been very numerous arrests in Paris . of lute . It may be doubted whether , under theso circumstances , , Louis Napoleon will persist in going to tho seat of war , though his friends persist iu saying that ho will . On tho whole , he is generally considered to be " on tho decline , " and we arc aa little surprised as sorry to hoar it . Tho Auysbury Cazette says : — " Austria lias declared to tho Western Powor . s ( par wie note , obliyatoire ) that if the Conferences should not result in tho re-ontabli . shnicnt of peace , tho situation provided for by article /> of tho treaty of tho 2 nd of December would ha in force . "

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      CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES . The despatch of tho American ambassadors present nt tho conference ) of Ostend , signed by Messrs . Buchanan and Mason , the American ministers nt London and Paris , nncl by Mr . Soul < f , Into American minister at Mail rid , has been published in the New-York papers . This document 1 ms reference to tho acquisition of Cuba , tho purchase of which is recommended on the ground of its geographical position ( which commands tho commerce of tho rivers disemboguing into tho Gulf of Mexicp ) , and out of an

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      -Mxkgb . % & , 1855 . ] THE . LIADEE . x 371

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2083/page/7/