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CONTINENTAL NOTEb . FRANCE . Pcbmc Spirit m France . — We extract the . follo _ £ - ^ SiS StJSm of ^ W-Tcountry , three words suffice—Kny--&Srence -Platitude ; Nevertheless , pnbhc snrrit is not qnite dead ; it needs nothing but an event tetrant into life . No > v , with a rSgime hanging on the Kffe of one man , and of a sick man , such an event may fAvrar * happen from one day to another . I have always observed that these grand Adventurers go as quickly as they come , and as suddenly . But the meanwhile seems terribly long ! ... . " The Frestch : Students antd the Liberal , Journals . La Presse , Le Siecle , and VEstqfette are threatened with prosecution for having published the address of the French students to their brothers in Turin . But since it
¦ would be difficult even for imperial lawyers to construe the publication of that very harmless document into an excitation a In Iiaine et au mepris du gouvernement , it is believed that the Government will proceed on the ground of the address having appeared without a signature . Such are the grand tactics of the Second Empire The grand dinner given by the members of the medical profession in France to the French , English , Turkish , and Sardiuian medical officers who served in the late war , took place on Wednesday evening in the large room of the Hotel du Louvre . Baron Paul Dubois filled the chair , and more than six hundred French and foreign medical men were present . At the end of the banquet , a subscription was opened for the widows and ¦ orphans of the numerous medical men who died in the East ; which was liberally contributed to , —Times Paris Correspondent .
The Emperor and Empress , on Thursday week , received at the Villa Eugenie , at Biarritz , Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , for some time sojourning at St . Jean de Luz . " Everything , " saj-s the Messager de Bayonne , " leads to the belief that the stay of the Imperial party will be longer this year than in any preceding one . The heads of the stable department have sent here not fewer than nineteen carriages , twenty post horses , ten carriage horses , and six for the saddle . M . Thiers has returned to Paris from London . Some French gossip is supplied by the Times Paris correspondent , who says : — "In the absence of the Emperor , the Council of Ministers is presided over by M . Abbatncci , Minister of Justice . He , in consequence , ¦ will not be able to attend the Council-General of the
department of the Loiret , of which he was lately nominated President ^ and General Count de Salles , Senator , -Vice-President , replaces him . Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , who was at St . Sebastian when , the insurrection broke oat at Madrid , and who was desired by the Emperor to . return to France , is about to re-enter the Spanish Basque provinces , with the object of studying their language , antiquities , and history . He is anxious to compare the various dialects of the Bascuense , which
are very numerous and differ widely from each other . His rambles are not expected to extend beyond the three provinces and Navarre . The Minister of Public Works has addressed a long circular to the Prefects of Departments , directing them to obtain from the chief engineers of the departments answers to a series of questions respecting the causes of inundations , and the practical measures best adapted to carry into effect the suggestions contained in the Emperor ' s letter of the 21 st of July last . "
Galignani relates the case of a servant girl named Saluces , who has just beon tried at the Court of Assizes at Paris for what the French call " spoliation of the succession of a person deceased . " The widow of a rather wealthy colonel , of the name of De Montdc ' sir , died last April in reduced circumstances . Nevertheless , it was well known that sho possessed , in addition to her pension and a small independent income , a few articles of plate and jewellory , a handsome silver-gilt coflee-pot a&oraed with , her husband ' s crest , and some railway shares . These were all missed immediately after her decease . Suspicion foil on the girl Saluces , who had entered the aorviee of the old lady shortly bofore her death , but who had beon intimate with her some time
previously , and had , by pretending to bo a somnambulist , gained great influenco over her . The girl was extremely cunning , having had some connexion with a professor of magnetism . She made strong protestations < fi her honesty , and , to prove how unwilling she was to Obta 4 n any advantage at the expense of her lato mistrcsste Bnrviving daughtor , she offered to destroy a will thtot had been loft in her favour , amounting to COOtfr . Fortunately , however , Mndllo . de Montdo ' siT fownd amongst her mother ' s efFeeta a little pocket-book , in whWH -was inscribed the number of the railway shares ,
Mid'sb «» toto the girl that she should put in an opposition : to the Mule -of the shares , or tho payment o £ the dlvi-Amtde < m-t ) k « m , at- the ofnees of the companies , and at tho WdHxU ** tha ^ rfgrento de change . This frightoned the gh 4 Salucm , tcno , shortty afterwards , she told Madlle . do Montdefllr- that she Mltoved she could discover , through the agency of tnagnetlum ^ -what had become of all the « ii « wing propers of the- l « te > Madame do Montddsir . Aoobrdiftgly tho tie « t «« i « y , Kftw having thrown herself IWto a meatnArlo trance ^ aWstated that Sue had'seen five of tho shares secreted in a certain < m « MteM . Tho
mattress was therefore examined , and the five shares were found . They had doubtless been purposely placed there by the girl herself . The remainder of the shares were subsequently discovered in the horse-hair seat of a chair , after a similar' preliminary had been gone through , and the girl had extorted a promise from Madlle . de Montde sir to make her a present of one of them . The jewellery and plate could not be recovered , and Saluces was , therefore , arrested . The jury having found her guilty , the court sentonoed her to eight years' hard labour . A merchant of the name of Camroux , an English
descendant of a French family , has just proved his relationship to an old lady , named Godefroy , who has recently died in France , leaving behind her certain property . This property was bequeathed to those who appeared to be her nearest relations ; but Mr . Camroux went over from England , traced his descent back to 1665 , showed that he "belonged to an elder branch of the family which had fled to England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes , and obtained the property , though it had already been divided among three persons . The case has iust been decided by the Civil Tribunal of Rouen .
AUSTRIA . Baron James de Rothschild has just left Vienna for St . Petersburg , in order to concert with the Russian Government relative to the railways which are about to be constructed in that empire by a company , of which he is the principal representative .
PRUSSIA . The Prussian Government ( says a letter from Berlin , in the Presse Beige ) has determined to wreak a terrible vengeance for the affair of the Riff . A company of the Chasseurs of the Guard from Potsdam , another of the 4 th Chasseurs from Magdeburg , a third of the 8 th Chasseurs of the Rhenish provinces , and a company of Marines from Dantzic , have been placed on a war footing , '' and are about to leave in transport vessels . An order has been sent to . the Prussian Vice-Consul at Fez to inform the Moorish Government of what is intended , and to declare that all relations will be interrupted between the two Powers , should any attempt be made to oppose a descent on the Riff coast . England , it is affirmed here , will co-operate in the suppression of the pirates .
GERMANY . General Count de Kiehnansegge , formerly Minister of War at Hanover , has just expired in that city , aged seventy-nine .
DENMARK . With respect to the Sound Dues , we read in the Fcedrelandet , of Copenhagen : — " Mr . Buchanan , the English Minister at our Court , who had been summoned to England to give information to his Government on the subject of the Sound Dues , returned to his post the day before yesterday . We are informed that he has brought with him the pleasing intelligence that the Britisli Government is disposed to accept the proposition of capitalization made by Denmark . Mr . Buchanan , who , in returning to Copenhagen , passed through Berlin , states that the Prussian Government also adheres to the proposal of our Cabinet . The Powers most interested in the question—Russia , Sweden and Norway , England ,
and Prussia—are thus agreed on the point ot accepting the Danish proposition . If to this be added that the United States have made offers to the same effect , there is every reason to hope that the commerce of the world will be soon relieved of one of its moat heavy charges . " A shocking scene occurred at the execution of two robbers named Boye and Olsen , at Assens , in the Isle of Funen , in Denmark , on the 18 tH inst . Olsen made such a desperate resistance that the executioner and . six men who helped him could not bring the criminal to the block without calling the soldiers to assist them . As soon as Olsen ' s head was severed from his bod }' , two
young peasant girls , fifteen and seventeen years of age , rushed through the double line of armed police who guarded the scaffold , filled some cups with tho blood that spouted from the nock of tho mutilated corpne , and instantly swallowed the horrible draught . There is an old superstition among the rural population of Denmark that tho blood of a beheaded felon , if drunk while it is warm , is an infallible preservative against epilepsy and apoplexy . Tho girls were taken before a police commissioner , and declared that they had only done what they had a right to do ; they showed a paper , signed " G . Olsen , " in which ho had authorized them , whenever ho should co-ino to bo executed , to drink hia blood .
HWKfDKN . Tho Swodish Chambers have approved the proposition of tho Minister of Marino , which fixes the strength of the Swedish and Norwegian fleets for 1 . 857 as follows : — Swedish fleet , 10 sail of the lino , G frigates , 4 schooners , 4 brigs , 9 steam schooners , 77 gunboats , 122 armed boats , (> mortar vcshcIs , 22 steam despatch boats , 2 royal yachts , 21 transports , 594 armed row boats . Norwegian fleet , 2 frigates , 2 schooners , 2 steam schooners , 1 brig , 43 gunboats , 5 tugs , with a steam frigate and a despatch bout , both of which are now being finished on the stocks at Christiana . All tho vessels of war are ready to go to sea , but in time of ponce they are laid up in ordinary . Only tho vessels strictly required by the Government are kept on Horvico . Tho cholera Has broken out with groat severity at
Stockholm . It is said that General Bodisco , the Russian military envoy , is one of its first victims .
RUSSIA . Count Moray has handed to the Czar the Grand Gross of the French Legion of Honour , in return for the Order of St . Andrew , presented to the Emperor Louis Napoleon by the hands of Baron Brunow . The Pays , of Puris , says that as soon as the Russian Government heard of tho attack of the Riff pirates upon Prince Adalbert of Prussia , it offered to take part in an expedition to chastise them . Russia proposes to furnish a flotilla of two frigates and two corvettes . These vessels fully armed , arc now lying at Cronstadt , read y to put to sea . They purpose , it is said , to join Uie Prussian squadron now assembling at Stralsund , and which is to go out of harbour the beginning of next mouth . It is stated by a St . Petersburg correspondent of the Hamburger Borsenhalle that Russia has signified her approval of the present state of things in Spain , Naples , and Denmark .
The Kreurt Zcitung is informed by a correspondent in London that in the early part of last -week Lord Palnierston received a note from the Russian Cabinet , in which " the complaints of the English Government as to the manner in winch Russia has carried out the stipulations of the treaty of peace meet with a comydete answer . The note is described as taking one by one each fact of which the English Government makes a reproach , and in each case depriving it of all ground for complaint equally firmly and happily . The note then expresses itsi'lf in general terms with reference to the mistrust shown by the English Government . It is said in it ,
that Russia concluded peace m the full hope and expectation that confidence would fully and completely return ; this expectation , however , could not be otherwise than completely disappointed by the distrustful policj " that England had assumed . One passage is more particularly worth notice in the Russian note . The English Government had , it appears , on some occasion declared that if it could have known beforehand how Russia would have put the terms of peace into execution , it wouldhare kept its troops six months longer in the Crimea . To this the Russian Cabinet answers that thiit would of itself have put an end to the peace . "
A host of locusts has invaded the districts of Odessa , Ananicff , and Robvior . A gentleman living in the neighbourhood of Odessa invited a large party to &feUat his country house , and in the evening the place was lit up with lamps , Bengal lights , &c . Sumptuous sideboards were laid out , and a brilliant nnd select company had assembled . All looked forward to a merry evening . The windows of the apartments had been opened , and a refreshing breeze was entering the rooms , when suddenty a loud noise was heard , and a lew moments after myriads of locusts filled the rooms , tho gardens , the sleeping chambers , and every part of the villa . Fireworks , rockets , &c , were discharged in the hope of driving awa } ' these troublesome guests , but in vain . The company were compelled to leave . in
The Emperor luis ordered the Jews every government to depute five- of their number to proceed to St Petersburg in September , to form a conference there , foi the purpose of discussing what changes are desirable in the political standing of the Jews , and to lay their proposals at the foot of the throne . An accident occurred to the ship in which the Emperor and Empress were making their late voyage from St . Petersburg to Ilapsal . During the night , the vessel was inn into by a Dutch merchantman , and so injured that she was obliged to lie to for four hours until d ; iy broke . It was then ascertained that the vessel ¦ was off Swcaborg . Signals of distress were made , and tho Governor sent off a steamer , which took the Emperor nnd his suite on board , and conveyed them back to Cronstadt . For nearly upsetting him , the Emperor lias rewarded the Dutch trader by ordering that sho should be repaired at his expen . se , and by distributing live hundred roubles among her crew .
ITALY . The subscription for the . one hundred guns for the fortifications at Alessandria in energetically proceeding in Sardinia , and it is even said that lists for tho . same purpose have been opened at Milan , Florence , Coino , and other largo towns of tho northern part of Jtnly . Even Jtomo and Naples are expected ere long to join the subscription . Rumour states that Austria has already signified that she regards these fortillcations na a menace directed against herself ; and it appears that the French view ol tnu
Minister at Vienna countenances this matter . " Tho works contemplated at present at Alexandria , " suyu the Times Turin correspondent ., " will consist of an aiceinta , with bastions , encircling tho tow " , and four detached fortB —one on the Boruiida , near Us confluence with the Tunuro ; one on the Tannro , in rein or tho works of Valonzu . ; and two others to the noutu and Houth-eobt of tho town . Those forts will ho j 01 " ^ together by earthworks having a strong profile . lho whole of those work . s will thus form an important jilitcn d ' urmt . s . Uirtlor tho protection of Alexandria and Genoait in thought a . Sardinian army could aiitoiy
, threaten Parma aud l'iaconza , or by menacing a «)« - sieging enemy on tho flank or in rear could force bun . to roiuo the aioyo without striking u blow . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2156/page/6/
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