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    -with the gunboats , next passing the'brigs , corvettes , and smaller steamers , then-the frigates , and so to the . greater ships of the line . Her Majesty and suite steadily - . advanced , -until they reached tbe flagships , the huge tiireerdeefcers , Duke of Wellington : and Royal George , . and emerged from the lines at hal £ * past one o ' clock . Every ship as the Queen passed by manned all the yards with admirable celerity , and acknowledged the royal presence' with a joyous burst of English and .-sailor"like cheering . * At a respectful distance behind , a couple of miles or « o , the Royal . squadron rwas followed in its progress -through the fleet by all the flotilla of gunboats , which had left their anchorage behind the station as sooa as

    • tlie-Queen ' s yacht entered between the < ships of the line . The gunboats now came on , tw < o and two—that is , in -double-line , similar to the-order in which the large ship 3 Twera anchored- ^ -proeeediog towards the flag-ships at the head of the fleet in a very steady and regular manner , Aiid keeping on the prescribed path between the two lines of first-raters and frigates , in comparison with the size of which they looked quite boyish . The gunboats being more than a hundred in number , it was necessarily a matter of time to bring the last of them to the end of a five-mile course . It was nearly three o'clock before the entire flotilla , got out of the lines , and , dividing into tvo squadrons , to the right hand and to the left hand ; £ or as it is technically said , to the starboard and to port ) , turned round the dag-ships , each on its own side , and went to their appointed positions nearer the shore . By this time , other arrangements for the combined operation

    -tobe'thua represented were in progress . Two or three -of'those grim iron-mailed monsters , the floating batteries , had been detached from the rear of the fleet , and , together with -the exercising brigs , a mortar vessel or two , and the Maaander and B « Ueisle , sailing vessels , formed a stationary line aerosstte' bay , Just outside the site of-the sandbank , aiid near enough to beTvell examined by the people on shore . One squadron of gun--boafcs took up its place beyond them , so as to command I ? 6 rt ~ M © nckton and that part , of the coast . A squadron - ©^ sixteen or twenty gunboats ( perhaps more , for it ivas difficult to get aai uninterrupted view of the whole line * otf them at once ) came straight in towards Soiithsea Castle , just eastward of the Boyne buoy , and anchored about anaile off , with all their broadsides ^ bearing on the -fortress ; but no-preparations were made in the castle to return ' their amicable fire .

    • ¦" ¦ Tfce breeze in the afternoon was not sufficient -to prevent the accumulation of a good deal of smoke and htaze , by which the view of the fleet > w-as rendered less distinct than it had been at an earlier hour . After the Boyal yacht had gonefar out to the Nab , and marked tie farthest limit of the course , the whole mighty fleet at once weighed anchor , east off the trappings of its flattering flags , and , with a s-tately and a measured j > ace , moved in superb procession towards the place -occupied t > y its illustrious Mistress . Then , indeed , the

    -wondering -and gratified admiration of the multitude -who < 8 a-w that glorious spectacle rose toa higher pitch ( than , before . It was as if the mountains had arisen to walk the earth , < when those stupendous oreatures of fruman skill , which had appeared to be permanent objects' in the scenery around them , began to stride over the sea . The increasing distance from which they loomed through the misty atmosphere seemed in no appreciable degree to diminish their relative vastness . ¦ They were followed , until they reached their goal and tzurnotl , by the earnest gaze of many constant eyes . lhe

    ^ r fleet , an 'hour or two- later , returned to the anchorage which they at first occupied , and the Royal squadron was saluted , as in the morning , upon passing the Spit buoy on . its way back into the harbour . The gitnboats stationed against -SoTithsQa Castle fired six rounds at half-past four , giving the people on the beach an . opportunity of observing how their guns are worked . Her Majesty ' s yacht then returned into Portsmouth , and ± Ue entertainment of the day was done . " A novel and very beautiful effect was produced at night by the sudden and unanticipated illumination of

    the fleet . This -was obtained by simultaneously lighting up . the yards and port-holes with blue lights . " At nine o ' clock gun fire , " aay 8 tho Times , " tho whole fleet at anchor burst into light as by magic , tho jets bbing one above another ; and tho ports of each vessel opening at once , showed a vivid glare between decks , causing an Tinusiial roar of cheering from , tho shore , which was -echoed and given Imqk with interest from tho boats of the legion afloat . From nine to ten , rockets were then aent up thickly from tho ships , and rained a golden Bhower upon tho floating capita , ! . ' "

    JClio jvmounfc of wowding on Wednesday at the stations of tho various railways which run in tho direction of the show proved , as may bo expected , something terrific , an < l there was , as usual on these occasion ' s , a goodly sprinkling of tho roughs . " The arrangements , however , wove all well carried out . According ; to tho official statements , rtho number of carnages sent down , and -composing the various trains to Southampton and tforfcumouthjworo 867 , convejing upwards of thirty thousand persona .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . ! Count Buol and Baron de ManteuflPel took leave © f the Emperor of the "French on Thursday week , and on the following day they left Paris together by the early train—i-the Count for Tienna , the Baron for Berlin . The TndependaAtoe Beige states positively that more discussions'upon the Italian question have taken place in the Conferences . At the last sitting , Russia and Austria maintained that every sovereign has aright to call in the aid of another power , and to retain that aid as long as he chooses , without consulting the wishes of other States . England and Piedmont maintained a contrary opinion , and so lively was the debate that Lord Clarendon , it is asserted , allowed an expression to escape him when speaking of Austrian policy , " which is not likely to find a place in the proces * vevbal . He described it as " an infernal policy . "

    " I am assured , on good authority , " says the Times Paris Correspondent , " that B Granger denies positively that he is the author of the verses ' Aux Etudiants ' attributed to him . " It is stated as certain that Count de Morny will be appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to St . Petersburg , for the Coronation of the Emperor of Russia . He will probably be afterwards made President of the Senate , and the place of Arch-Chancellor will he established for M . Troplong . It" is stated that France has been endeavouring to effect a reconciliation- between Rome and Piedmont , and that both those Powers have exhibited great moderation .

    "In the sitting-of the Corps Legislatif on Friday week , " says the Daily News Paris Correspondent , " on the occasion of the introduction of the Count de Labedoyere , the newly elected menlber for the Seine Inferieure , Count de Montalembert made an important speech on the subject of the recent decision of the Court of Cassation with respect to the liberty pf distributing electoral bulletins . Immediately on rising , he was interrupted by the President , Count de Morny , who inquired whether he disputed the election . 3 tf . de Montalembert replied that he did not . His only object was to make some general observations on the working of the electoral law . He adiftitted that the present rules of the House did not give hiin a right to make any

    interpellation . An interpellation would involve an answer ; he did not ask for , he knew that he had no right to expect , any . He merely -wished to express an opinion with regard to the electoral law . The President said it was most desirable that there should be no misunderstanding . FFe had always ' thought , and was now more than ever convinced , that the best-considered constitutions the most far-seeing regulations , required in their working the assistance of the parties acting under them -with good faith and common sense . Interpellations had been erased from their regulations , and could not l > e made . But he was prepared to acknowledge that observations presented with moderation , and in a good spirit , might be made in

    that House with advantage to the country , to the House itself , arid even to the Government . He would therefore authorise M . de Montalembeit to make his observations , but under the express reserve that the Government should not be obliged to answer them , and that he ( the President ) should have full right to stop the speaker if he found the course of his observations transgressing the limits alluded to . " M . de Montalemfoert then "contended that , as the Government had been based on universal suffrage , that principle should be honestly carried out . He was no great admirer of universal suffrage ; but the people would rather forgive a Government that oppresses than one which deceives them . He said that , if he were a factious man of

    opposition , 'he should hope that the prefects might be authorised to denounce as enemies of the Emperor men who had been his ministers , as had been < lono in the cuso of M . de Chasseloup-Laulmt , and that they might lock up in prison every bearer of an electoral bulletin—ho should hope and-wish for this , 'because ho was thoroughly convinced that such a course could not foil to rejoioe the spirit of opposition where it existed , and to raise it up where it was dead . But , ns a good citizen , ho wished to give the Government a warning , dictated by the spirit of justice and loyalty . Tho very word election

    implied choice , and choice meant that one candidate might be preferred to another . It was tho right of tho elector to make preparation for his choice . Art . 21 of tho organic decree stipulated that the electors should come to tho poll with bulletins prepared outside tho electoral meeting . Every elector , consequently , might have recourse to a third party to prepare h | s bulletin . There might , therefore , according to this decree , bo concert and discussion between citizens . JProin this it necessarily resulted , to his mind , that tl » e distribution of bulletins by one oleotor to another was a thing permitted . "

    PBtJSSIA . A paragraph has been inserted identically in all the Prussian papers , the origin of which is clearly the Polizei Prcesidium , to the effect that very careful investigations 'have * been . instituted of late with regard- to'the Potsdam despatch theft ; and that these investigations would already have . led to a judicial trial of Tecien , if the latter had not been confined by illness to the ( hospital of the Stadtvogtei prison for the last < few-weeks . As the maa is already seventy-five years old , has been an invalid for a long ; time ,-and has now no interest in getting well , it is more tbanprobahle that he will continue to be confined by illness to the sick ward « f the prison . —Times Berlin'Corresponded .

    The trial of Herr von Hochow for the HinteHey duel-is now completed , and the result has been communicated to the King , but for the present is kept a profound secret fronvthe-public ,, . ¦ The Prussian Government is experiencing great opposition on financial grounds from the Lower House , which refuses to vote any new ^ axesJuntil ^ iheJSISnlsters dearly state what they-intend to do with the . unspent baLanceof 30 , 000 i 000 thalera voted for theiEi $ egsbe 3 * i& schaft . The balance amounts to about 16 , 004 )^ 000 thalers . . '¦ '¦'¦¦ .

    The redaction of the war footing of . the army 4 o its usual peace complement -will affect more particularly ^ - 1 , all the cavalry regiments ; 2 , all the batteries of ithe nine regiments of artillery ( theTecehtly organised 'fifth batteries , 6-pounders , of ev « iy regiment are to be entirely disbanded ) ; 3 , the technical companies of the artillery 1 The King of Prussia ratified fee 0 Freaty « of Peace on Friday week . The Emperor of Austria ratified on . the 15 th instant .

    SWEDES , Prince ( Xscar , third son of the King of Sweden , -Witt shortly arrive , in London , preparatory tphis roarriagsT ^ th the Princess Mary of Cambridge . The ,. Queen Dowager of Sweden wiXL set out for Paris abgiut . Jibe ijth ' gf Jdjajrl '¦' . '• . . . ¦ . . .... DENMARK .. . . : ¦ ¦ - : -i . ' ¦ :. . ; . - ¦ Ihe , English-Government , baviag refused to : agree-to the Danish proposal for capitalising the Sound .-Dues , has made a proposition of its- own , -wMch is ofrthe ; following nature , viz ,: — -Thatiihe dues are to be retained , but that their amount shall in future be levied . iu . Jfche Baltic ports instead of at Elsinore . The Governments

    of . Jhe Baltic States , however , oppose this arrangement , onUae , gro , un . d that it is . impracticable and at variance with their expressed wishes and interests . The Prussian Government ; is in favour of capitalisation ; and committees of both Houses . of the Diet have been appointed to coixsider the question .. The report of the committee of the House of Deputies has been given in : it recommends the JEIouse to express its agreement with fchje Gpy . erpment jn again reepguisiqgthe prejudicial influ-r ences of the Sound Dues oa Prussia ' s commerce and shipping interests ,. and its hope that the . ininjLstera will energetically fpjlowjupthe getting rid of the Sound Duea iri the negotiations that have been opened o » . the s . ubjecfc

    ,, RSrssj& . -:. . ; An Imperial decree dissolves , th e whpje . of the najjltia Count Orloif is appointed President pf ^ h , e . Qoun ^ , pf Ministers , vpee TscherjuclieflF . Qfd&ya feave been . jgjiyen . to , jekLndle the lightb , i > , usea and replace the buoys , along the whple coast . , The senii-. ofiicial jQrescl&n Journal confirms tJn 0 ( , retirement of Cpun ^ NesseU'ode from the . Russian Foreign Oi | fice . He ^ Js fiiicce . eded there by Prnice Gprtachaleofi recently Russian ambassador at Tienna . . Count 2 Teaeeb'ode will xe ^ ain the title and . office of Arch-Chai \ BsW ior of the Empire .

    It is stated by well-informed persona that it is tkq ia * teiltion , pf the Eraperor Alexaw ^ er to free all phe , c hil ^ j : boyn of serfs on and after the day of his corpn , atioor Various circumstauceu , moreover— -a ^ mong othoxa , ^ e large demand on tho peasant population , made by jtho war , which has been , a great injury to this species Qf " property" . —^ haye induced , a desh-e pn tho part of , many of the nobility to put an end to serfdom , or at any ra . tK ? to modify that system , toa considerable . extent . The proceedings taken against General KpkonpTJol ?

    wUo comraanded the fortress of Kinbum whpn tf * vap captured , on tlvo 17 tU of October laBt , Ly thP WWftjt forces of England and France , jhavo boon brought ; , ip , p close . Tho examination pf tho Oenoral'a condu . ct iwa ^ referred to a Council of Inquiry , which sat , at . Odessa , pn , tho 8 id inst . The council after a thorough jiny 9 ^ ti » gation of all tho fuctp connected witjii the attacjc . and dafenco of tho place , ami of the t , 02 tt of the capjitulatipn , declared thut tho General's conduct in such circwnptaacei deserved no blame , and . that there was no . ocqfts ^ oa to summon a courti-martial to inquire iuto Jit ,

    SPAIN . A report that an insurrection luul broken put , atM ( 3 rainada , on tlio occasion of tho drawing for the loonficrl p ^ tion , producod at Madrid only a slight alarm , wlrioh was soon dissipated . Tho camraltteo of tho oongrosiG appointed to oxamino into the . conduct pf tlie oxr ministora liavo decided on impeaching Sartorius . The Q < iBctto doxiies tho tenth of tho cumours relative to , tll < rctirumont of tho Duko do la Victoria . Tho Paris Canatitutionncl contains a very bitter article oguluat Eepartoro , accusing him of . ambition , and cede

    AusxniA . One half of the Aiuatrian army pf occupation in tho Danubiaa Principalities is about tp return to Auutria . An order to that effcojt JUaa been transmitted to General Corouinj .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1856, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2138/page/7/