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the increase of interest restating from the fall in th < Rente , the , loan will be found to amount to several mil ltArda . The deficiency in the harvest is undoubtedly one of the causes , but it is not the only one which ha produced the panic . It may be traced ( also to the lat < loans , the apprehension of the extension of the war , am of other loans which the Government may require . Th < future crisis which is apprehended , and the perturbation * in commercial enterprises which -would be the conse quence , produce a far greater effect on the imaginatioi of the public than the deficiency of the harvest . Then is probably some exaggeration in these forebodings ; bu when we take into account the difficulty experienced iz classifying the last loan of 780 millions , it cannot b « denied that there is some foundation for them . A considerable number of the subscribers to that loan speculated on a use , and anticipated a good profit . It was , no doubt , a perfectly legitimate speculation , but it was not without its risk , inasmuch as the same number 01 subscribers—and the proof is now before us—had not in reserve wherewith to pay up the monthly instalment ol the twentieth part of the capital they had obtained , and still less of the capital , four or five times more considerable , for which they had subscribed in anticipation of the proportionate reduction in the subscriptions .. Every one desired to realise a profit , and hastened to sell out the moment the value of the Rente rose ever so little . This depression , continuing from day to day , together with fears for the future , forces not only the holders of the loan to sell , but those also who are obliged to create resouTces to meet a future crisis . " The Monkeitr announces that her Majesty the Empress has just entered the fifth month of her pregnancy , and that the health of her Majesty is excellent . A state paper is said to have just left the Austrian Foreign Office , in which it is contended that the present is not the time to entertain propositions with respect to peace , and that the Western Powers should follow up their advantage , and not treat with Russia uutil the Crimea is wrested from her grasp . Further successes are necessary before the war can be brought to a " strategic conclusion . " Austria refuses to listen to any proposals that may come from St . Petersburg , unless they are also addressed to France and England ; and she agrees with the Western Powers in regarding the four guarantees as the minimum of what is to be demanded from Russia . The Russian Imperial Court are returning by degrees to the capital . The Univers states that the Russian Government , in order to excite the fanaticism of the people , has caused to be constructed near Moscow an exact imitation of the Holy Places at Jerusalem . The natural configuration of the soil was favourable to this undertaking , but still immense works were necessary to render the imitation perfect . The convent of Voskreseenskoe is made to resemble exactly the church of the Holy Sepulchre ; and the sanctuaries , chapels , and tombs have precisely the same dimensions , colour , and ornaments as those at Jerusalem . The Greek Patriarch Anthymos , the favourite of Lord Stratford de Reuelifle , has been dismissed , and the Archbishop of Amasia is named his successor . The Greek Ministers , M . Mavrocordato and General Kalergi , have given in their resignations . The new Ministers have taken the oaths . Four are—M . Miaulis ( Marine ) , M . Smolenski ( War ) , M . Siliverio ( Finance ) . The hist holds the portfolio of Foreign Affairs until the arrival of M- Tricoupi . The Austrian troops in the Danubian Principalities have recommenced their excesses . At Backeo , in Moldavia , a non-commissioned officer of the Moldavian militia has been wantonly insulted and murdered in a public place . At Tergowitz , in Wallachia , the Auatrians have been guilty of such atrocities that the administrator of the district has made a formal complaint to the Government , in consequence of which , an investigation has been ordered . The central committee of the Lank of Prussia has resolved to raise to 4 £ per cent , the rate of discount on bills of exchange , and to 5 ^ per cent , that on the paper called Lombard ( advances on Public Securities ) . A leading article to the following effect has been published in the New Prussian ( Jazttte , the avowed organ of the Russian Embassy at Berlin :- — " Europe is at this moment within two steps of disgrace and of servitude ; its independence , its honour , and its faith now incur the same dangers as from 1810 to 1812 , and perhaps greater . Forty-five years ago , the first Napoleon undertook to strike , in Russia , the last hope of European liberty , and he drew with him , as victims condemned to the sacrifice , the nations already conquered , and Germany herself : now , revived Bonapartism again conHpires for the triumph of revolution , and the establishment of universal monarchy . It is liberty , it is right , it is Christianity itself , which it wishes to destroy by annihilating Russia . It has already got for accomplices England , which has become Its auxiliary from foar of conquest ; Sardinia , which has descended to the rank of vassal ; Spain and Portugal , aspiring to the same servitude , and it still requires the co-operation of Germany . Must Prussia in her turn enter into this alliance , which is only a vassalage slightly-dleguised ? Must eho rebuild with her hands the domination of Bonapartism ? Must the French reign in < Jernmny ? Yes or no V "
a Poerio and his friends have recently experienced eonio slight amelioration of their wretched condition in the T dungeons of King Bomba . They are permitted to write s twice a week to their friends , under surveillance , and 5 they walk out every day within the enclosures . 1 A rumour is abroad iu France that Prince Napoleon s is about to marry one of the Royal Princesses of England , a We cannot say we place much faith in it . On account of the deficiency of the vintage , the l Roman Government has prohibited for another year the 3 exportation of grapes , must , common wuies , and vinegar , t as also crude tartar . l The Spanish Cortes have passed a bill for the estai blishment of agricultural colonies by means of private enterprise . The Emperor of Austria is in great perplexity about , his coronation . Although he has boon on the throne j seven years , that august ceremonial has not yet been f performed ; and it seems * not improbable that it will rei main unacted for an indefinite period , owing- to the difRf culties by which Francis Joseph is surrounded . Austria I has been declared au empire ' one and indivisible 'therefore , its supreme head must be crowned simply as I the Emperor of Austria ; but it happens unfortunately ¦ that Hungary , Bohemia , and Lombardy are very par-• ticular about having a special coronation for themselves , \ in which they desire their national crowns to be introi duced , and this wo » : ld indicate divisibility of rule . On s the other hand , to be crowned with the imperial crown of Charlemagne would create great jealousy all over Germany ! Such are the petty difficulties of monarchy ! It is believed ia Berliu that the banker Hope will succeed in raising a loan for Russia in North America . The health of the King of Sardinia has so far recovered as to render unnecessary the issuing of any further bulletins . A collision between the Pope and the Sardinian Government seems imminent . The Sardinian episcopacy , feeling perplexed as to whom they were to apply the Papal excommunication to , addressed the Pope , and were told that the penalty applied to the Ministers , the members of the Ecclesiastical Board , the agents of the public revenue , the mayors , municipal councillors , and workmen who took part in the different expeditions against the convents , all journalists Mho hav ? supported the Government anti-ecclesiastical measures , and the signers of petitions in favour of those measures . All these persons are to be refused the sacraments unless they sign a retractation . The Pope is certainly doing his best to drive the Sardinians into Protestantism . The Austrian Government has sequestrated the property possessed in Lombardy by religious corporations which have been suppressed in Piedmont , supporting its right to do so by the example of the Sardinian Government , when Joseph II . abolished convents and monasteries . The Sardinian Government has remonstrated . The Spanish Cortes resumed their sittings on the 1 st inst . The Budget has been read by Signor Bruil ; and it appears that about fifteen millions sterling will be required for the year 1856 , and seven millions and a half for the following half year . A demand is also made for 298 , 000 , 000 reals for an extraordinary expenditure for 185 G ; but means are provided for defraying it . Some further particulars of the Budget are given as follows by the Times Madrid Correspondent : — 'The deficit on the ordinary budget of I 860 is stated at 324 , 000 , 000 reals , which will be provided for by an increase of propertytax , which the Minister estimates to produce 34 , 000 , 000 reals ; by the reirnpo # itk > n-of— -the _ gate and excise dues on articles of general consumption , which i « estimated to produce 140 , 000 , 000 ; by alterations in the Customs ' tariff , and draughts on the colonial revenues , amounting respectively to 40 , 000 , 000 and 71 , 000 , 000 . The Minister calculates that 440 , 000 , 000 reals will have been received by the Government from the Hales of national property by July 1 , 1867 , and the proceeds arc to be applied to the repayment of the loan of thin year and of the portion of the Snrtorins loan of last year which had been paid in , together with the payment of obligations due to the clergy , charitable institutions , those of public instruction , and corporations , to public works , und the redemption of the public debt . A special law will provide for the repayment of the loan of 1854 . Another law confers on the Bank of San Fernando the title , of u General Bank of Spain , " und raises its capital from 120 , 000 , 000 to 200 , 000 , 000 mil * . The- bank i . * to establish within a year branches at Barcelona , Seville , Cadiz , Malaga , Vulanuiu , Uilbuo , Santuudcr , { L ' orunua , Alicante , Valludolid , and Surugos . su , and the Government is to be authorised to grant them tho privilege- of i « suing notes . The vineyards in the south of Franco are reported to bo doing well . The produce , will bu greatly superior in quuntily and quality to that of laot year . The oidiuin or vine disease hun not done ho much injury as waa expected . The olive and chestnut crops aro uluo excellent . The new Danish Constitution , adopted by the Chambers , has , together with the Electoral Law , been sanctioned by the King in a Council of Miniature ; but the Hereditary Prince Ferdinand bun refused to sign , and , an a punishment , ban been removed from tho chief command in Seoland .
The Moniteur publishes the following : — " The Government of the Emperor has seen with deep regret the publication of a letter on the subject of the affairs of Naples of a nature to engender the belief that the policy of the Emperor , instead of being frank and loyal , as it has always been , towards foreigu Governments , might favour , underhand , certain pretensions . The Government openly disavows them , under whatever form they may appear . " The Russian Emperor visited Odessa ou his way to Nicholaiuft * . His arrival was expected at noon , but be did not arrive till late iu the afternoon ; so that , the crowds having dispersed after waiting several hours , his Majesty had but a poor reception . The unity of opinion in Russia on the subject of the war would soem to be not so certain as the Russian organs desire to make out . In a letter from Warsaw , dated October 2 nd , and published in the Cojustitutionnel , we roud : — " I have to communicate to you the opinion which prevails here generally among the usually wellinformed Russians , that it is not improbable Count Nesselrodo will retire from public life . The veteran statesman is accused of having , from the very commencement of the Eastern question , allowed it to become envenomed until war became inevitable . In Europe , the opinion prevails that Count NcsM-lrodc was always peacefully inclined . Hero , on the contrary , the Russians accuse him openlv of having desired war , and they are inclined to suspect him of secretly exulting at the checks they have suffered within the last year . Such suppositions will prove to you how many sources of discord there arc between the Russian and German factions . So much is curtain , that Count Ne&selrode has not received any mark of satisfaction , either from the Emperor , Nicholas or from the Emperor Alexander , since the commencement of tho war . The Chancellor is not mentioned in the will of the late Czar . This fact is significant , as the Emperor Nicholas names all his servitors in his will . It is finally rumoured hero that the Chancellor will be replaced by M . Sk ' iiiirvine before the end of the year . " General O'Doimell , Spanish Minister of War , in roading to the Cortes a project of law fixing the force of the army next 3 ear at 7 U , 000 men , alluded to the possibility of circumstane ^ s arising which might render necessary the intervention of Spain in the great European btruggle . The Prussian Minister of Lhe Interior ( says the limes Correspondent ) has personally and vied roce denied , at a meeting of electors , any cognisance on his part , or of any one in his bureau , of the domiciliary visits of the policemen , and their improper attempts at influencing the elections by intimidation . On the other hand , it is known that he approves the uttcnipts made by the Lmilriithe , or sheriffs , to secure the return of Ministerial candidates by roundly stating that it will not be tolerated that anyone in the employ of the Government should in any way be concerned iu forwarding the election of any int / ruta jjersotia . The refusal of the Beyrade" George Stirbry , son of the Hospodar of Wallachia , to order , in the absence of his father , a general illumination of Bucharest , on the receipt of tho news from the Crimea relative to the taking of Sebastopol , is making a great stir in the Principalities . The young man , who is n great partisan of Austria and Russia , had had the impertinence to Bay that there was no proof of Sebastopol being taken , and that , on tho contrary , the public might expect to learn that the Allies had been driven into the sen . The Hospodar returned hurriedly to Bucharest to soften matters . He asked the Director of tho Homo Department the reason of the omission , and was told tho Boyrade * George was the cause . Stirbey then ordered the town to be illuminated for three days , und . sent tlio Administrative Council to the residence of the English Consul to congratulate him . Mr . Colquhoun is reported to have replied as follows : — " I am quite surprised to hoc you hero after a delay of fifteen day * . I cannot conceal from you the little faith I attach to your felicitations , which you term sincere . Tho Government of her Britannic Majesty will be the judge between mo und your conduct during the last ft ^ v days . " ? Several persons , most of thorn Mayors , have been urrcsted in Finland , by order of the military commanduntH in tho vuriou . - * districts . Tho causes of these arrests— eighty in number—nrc stated to be political . A conspiracy ugainBt the existing Spanish Government has been discovered , according to a letter from Madrid , written apparently by a Curliat . A paper , Hotting forth the dc « ign » i > f tho conspirator ^ was illscovered just a . s the person employed to distribute it was delivering hiiiiki copies to a courier . His house was searched , and 1-1 , 000 hnprensionn wore discovered , as well us the original , eyrrwleil by t lie hand of the author . The writing proved to b «> tliat of Don Augustin Perules , Secretory of the Queen , who had just been removed from bin post by the now puluco regulations . Ho lia « been urrested , together with « on » o perwonM of lo «» note . The paper which won dincovururt nets forth that , owing to " the failure of the . Inly revolution , " the Queen is insulted and tyrannised over , shut up in her palace an in a prison , encircled by gbirri , and calumniated . A document la then appended , which , it i » en id , is attributed to
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 978, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2110/page/6/
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