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They were allowed to pass , the river authorities being struck with surprise ; but at Alexandria the question ¦ was taken up by the local government . The Prussian consul was remonstrated -with : he refused to interfere , and appealed to certain immunities granted to Russia by the Porte , coupled with the fact that Prussia had been placed in the position of the-most favoured nation , as a justification of what the merchant had done . The steamers went on a second voyage , T > ut were stopped at Atfeb , and sent back . A protest was then issued , by the Prussian consul , who intimated that lie held the Egyptian Government responsible for all losses , damages , &c . ; and thus the affair stands at present . Rumours are current at Berlin to the effect that it is the intention of Government to surround the city with an enceinte of forts similar to that which encircles Paris . It is believed , however , that this idea has no good foundation .
and salt to the monarch , and all the accustomed ortho dox ceremonials . A brightly-coloured picture of the interior of thp Church of the Assumption , in which the coronation i to take place , is given by tlie Bally Nevis special-com spondent , who remarks : —" What a scene of barbaric magnificence , historic reminiscence , and political sno gestiveness ! Passing through a darkened vestibule T suddenly felt myself almost dazzled by a per f ect bW < i gold and colour . The walls were every inch covered with frescoes and mosaics , in heavy gilt frames , and tht great central pillars that support the cupolas were deco rated in a similar manner . Although the church i " small , the loftiness of the ceiling gives it a most im ™*!
mg appearance , and the vague indistinctness with -which the comparative gloom enables you to take in the details produces in the mind a peculiar feeling of awe and re verence . . As -works of art , few would be "bold enough to defend these elaborate decorations , but they are the signs of a sentiment , a power , and a policy , and , looked upon ra that light , must always be objects of deep interest to the spectator . Greek priests were chanting their vespers in one corner , while carpenters were hammering away in another at the gorgeous estrade upon -which the Emperor is to kneel while the metropolitan places the crown upon his head . Everything was resplendent with gold , and velvet , and ostrich feathers ; but a glance was all i was permitted to take , sufficient to convince me that the
interior of the church will not accommodate more thai about five hundred persons . " The campaign projected by the Russians against the Circassians is indefinitely postponed . Prince Esterhazy was unable to present liimself before the Emperor Alexander as early as the Plenipotentiaries of England and . France , owing to the absence of his credentials , which were not ready for him when he left v lenna . It was expected that a special courier would overtake him before he arrived at St . Petersburg ; but a great pressure of business in the Austrian foreign-office prevented the speedy despatch of the necessary documents , and hence the delay in the presentation .
A romantic story is told of Count de Blorny exhibiting at a party a breast-pin , in which ' an almost invisible capsule , ' on being opened , displayed an exquisite miniature of the Empress Eugenie . This , affirmed tie gallant statesman , gave the pin the greatest value in his eyes . Ever since then , there has been , a rage for infinitesimal miniatures of the French Empress to put in pins and brooches ; but it has been found necessary to send to Paris for them , the Russian artists being unequal to thfeir production .
ITALY . The subscription for the hundred guas intended for the new fortifications of Alessandria is proceeding with extraordinary rapidity in the Grand Duchy . The lists are being publicly circulated , notwithstanding the efforts of the police . Among the chief subscribers may be mentioned the Marquis Gino Capponi and the Advocate Galeotti . At Leghorn , a great number of porters have subscribed . The Sardinian Government has sequestrated two papers at Genoa—the Italia e Popolo ( in which Mazzini writes ) and the Maga—for publishing lists of subscriptions to a fund for presenting a gift of 10 , 000 muskets to the first province of Italy which shall rise against the common enemy . The Italia e Pojiolc , however , continues to publish its subscription lists , only under tho head of " Patriotic Fund . "
__ The Pope has granted power to the Bishops of Sardinia to allow persons to read and retain the journals prohibited it jure et ah homine . Prince Murat is at Aix-les-Bains , much to the annoyance and alarm of the Neapolitan King . A proclamation , detailing their wrongs , and exhibiting the iutensest hatred of the existing GoTernmcnt of King Bomba , has been put forward by the Sicilians . A disposition is , shown to unite with the Neapolitans for the common object of putting an end to tlie tyranny under which they both suffer .
A disgraceful system , encouraged by the Government of King Ferdinand , of tampering witli the electric telegraph , exists at Naples . Tho telcgrapli with Eng land has been open two years , and it is alleged that , incredible as it may appear , tho private messages of merchants and others are divulged , the instant they arrive , to a set of monthly-subscribing speculators , who act upon them , and affect the markets in most cases before tho despatch has been delivered to the rightful owner . A commercial paper at Naples publicly gives tho substance of each message , contenting itself with the sole omission of the names of tho receivers . Tho telegraph is under the control of Government , tlie officials consisting , for the most part , of old Custom-house empl oy ^ who arc bound to hand a copy of each despatch , ns it arrives , to tho Ministers of Finance- and Police .- — Correspondent of the ' Times ,
Princo Charles Doria , who every year was accustomed to distribute a sum of 40 , 000 fr . in alms , hna recently died . Ho was a aaccone , and , not content with what lie hiin « olf gavo , used to go , barefooted , drcs . scil in coarso sackcloth , with a thick cord round his wiiist , about tho streets , imploring charity from the paasers-hy for tho poor . Tho Corrkrc Mercantile , of Genoa , gives tho following version of the riot which took placo . cn the 2-lth nil . » l Leghorn : — " Somo country people - » vcro singing- songs
M . de Lamartine las published in the Cours Familiers de Literature a defence of his policy with respect to Italy during the four months he was in power in 1848 . He says he " was not a radical republican , a subversive republican , a chimerical republican , dreaming of the overthrow of the foundations of government and civil society , in order to create out of blood and fire a now world , perfect in three hours ; " he was " an improvised republican , a republican from expediency , a republican upholding everything which ought to tagaupheld in society under the penalty of death . " Ha 9 ( p not been " a conservative republican , " he conceives he might easily
have '' let the flames of France , by the mere current of the wind that was then blowing , kindle the world . " But , " out of the general conflagration would have come what alone could come—a heap of ashes quenched with showers of blood , forthwith to be trampled under foot by a military tyranny . " He adds : — "My wish was to show once for all to Europe that between free France and the neighbouring powers—respected in their frontiers as in their independence—there was nothing incompatible . Mutual inviolability is the fo undation of peace upon which reposes the world . To violate this foundation is not only a crime , it is war—wholesale murder—it is human blood thrown at hazard and
broadcast over the whole continent of Europe . And by what right ? By right of an opinion , of a theory , of a fancy , of a vanity , of a whim of Danton ( and yet even . Danton proclaimed only a defensive war , and negotiated with Prussia ) . I confess my weakness . My conscience—tho conscience of a man who fears God—spurned that game of human bloodshed whereof the stake is the life of his fellow-men . Despise me , but acquit me . I kept the Republic from an offensive war as a crime to humanitv and to God . ; in thought 1 accepted , for the Republic nothing but a defensive and patriotic war . .... The confederated courts were deprived of all right of attacking the Republic ; the nations , respected and reassured in . the possession of their territory , came over to our principles ;
and , within six weeks , French diplomacy -was t e arbitrator of the world , having done no violence to any nation , and without firing a single shot . " M . de Lamartine then glances more especially at Italy : — . " I issued a decree fo r the array of the Alps , consisting of 60 , 000 men , and € chelonnes from JLyons to the frontier of the Yar . What was the meaning of tho army of the Alps ? In my mind , it had a twofold meaning—first , to be ready to descend into Piedmont on the first sign of peril to that power ; next , to be ready to put down the religious , civil , socialist , and democratic commotions which might at any moment have burst forth in the south of France —more ruled as it is by passion than the north . " Had Austria invaded Piedmont , the French armyiwould have marched to the rescue , and " fought , had that been necessary , for the evacuation and the independence of the whole
peninsula . " Further on , M . de Lamartine writes : — " My duty was not to flatter Italy , but to save her . I did not flatter her . I did not excite the unseasonable r isiaigs of 1848 . I call to witness her ambassador and ler patriots of that day . Let them say whether I did not use my sincere efforts to turn aside King Charles Albert from his scheme of aggression , in winch . I foresaw his destruction ? Let them remember my words at the tribune , too full of meaning : ' All the songs sung are not Marseillaises . ' At the present time , I speak my mind of this nation with all sincerity : ripe for independenceripe for liberty—ripe in eloquence—ripe in genius—it is not ripe for arms . Liberty placed those arms in its hands ; but it needed a people of soldiers and veterans in glory like the French to teach the use of thein . You may improvise liberty ; but you cannot improvise tho armies to defend it . "
The reader will recollect a pastoral of the Bishop of Arras , enjoining his clergy to visit with severe reprehension the schoolmasters and schoolmistresses who bring up Catholic children with English Protestant children . A correspondent of the Daily News affirms that this piece of raving bigotry haa had no effect , wid the position of English children -will not bo in tlio least injured . 1 Even tho moat orthodox look upon it as a mistake , while easy-going readers lawgh at it . " It i 8 stated that a belief gains ground in Paris that a widely different view of tho Spanish question is entertained by the French and , English Governments . INo
communications on tho subject have passed between tho two Cabinets , tliat tho public are aware of ; but it is tiought that tho dissimilarity of views may lead to some unpleasant discussions . Tho sympathies of England are m favour of tho Progresistas ; those of France—or of tho Irench , Government—incline to tho opposite piiTty , and to aji approval of O'Donnoll . Tho proceedings taken against tho four journals which published tho letter from tho Paris students to those of i ™ 5 «« been abandoned . The young men who signed tho letter arc to bo admonished .
PRUSSIA . n . auoBtioTJnW ? Wi 80 n bet ^ cen Prussia and Turkey on teTlaw to ife *? « * navigation of tho Nile . There Nile ( with £ oXlw ? T CF b 0 atS ™ ^ " £ the they hoisted any 5 J ^ frT ^ ) Bhould - if A Prussian merchant i 5 ^ S J Turkish C ° loura ' two email Egyptian ri vorat ^ n ' - ° W 0 Ver ' 6 ht flag , and aont thorn to ^ 7 ^ 1 M ° ° Vrnssian « - river a number of . ^ t ? S&SfffiZ
The Prussian infantry are to be armed with small fieldpieces , tiro to each battalion . One soldier can draw each of these pieces , which can bring down a man at a distance of one thousand paces . The extraordinary range of the Minis' rifle has been lately proved in Prussia by a melancholy accident , a labourer in a field having been killed at the distance of 1700 paces , during some experiments with the weapon . It was thought that the man was quite safe where he was working . The Duke " William of Mecklenburg ( says tlie Berlin correspondent of the JPresse of Brussels ) , wliose late conduct has given rise to much public scandal , will probably enter the Russian service in a regiment of lancers . A line of conduct has been laid down for him , to which he -has promised to adhere . The King has paid from his privy purse to the holders of bills accepted by the Duke the net sums for which they had discounted them .
SWEDEN . The Swedish Chambers have admitted the desirability of fortifying Stockholm upon a new plan , and of constructing a series of defensive works in the valley of Maeler , on the banks of the lake of that name , which communicates with the Baltic Sea . They have further voted a sum . of money for the necessary preliminary surveys . HANOVER . The Ilanover Gazette states that the Government has decided that , if it cannot come to an understanding with the Chambers , it will settle its financial affairs by royal ordinance . . . .. . In place of eight million francs -which were required for the bank , four milliards have been subscribed , and to maintain order it was necessary to call in the aid of the military .
SPAIN . The Marquis de TaTraerniga , the only menVber of the Constituent Cortes who spoke against the resolution of censure passed upon the O'Donnell Cabinet at the last sitting of" the Cortes , on the 14 th of July , has just received the appointment of a Gentleman Groom of the Chambers , and the Queen has presented him with a golden key of the richest workmanship , and ornamented with diamonds . —Daily News Madrid Correspondent . Sefior do los Santos Alvarez has been dismissed from the post of minister at Mexico . The Queen of Spain having , by an order in council dated the 1 lth of August , permitted the free importation of corn until the 1 st of June ; -1857 , has now , by a decree dated tho 21 st of August , ordained that all vessels laden with wheat , flour , barley , and Indian corn , for the ports of Spain , shall bo exempted from tonnage and anchorage dues , charges for loading or unloading , lighthouse , or other municipal dues .
Some particulars of the plans of the Spanish Cabinet are contained in a recent communication from the Times Paris correspondent . He states that private intelligence from Madrid confirms the intelligence he has already given . " Tho Constituent Assembly will l > e dissolved , and the Constitution of 1845 will bo ro-established , not , however , as has been asserted , with modifications in a Liberal sense . The question of modifications will bo left to the new Cortes , to be summoned according to tho electoral law of 1837 , with elections by provinces instead of districts . It is said that tho elections will take place in November , but apparently nothing positive is known on this head . A now Senate is to be appointed . All these measures are resolved upon , but tho Government
keeps thorn en portefeuille . No one seems to oxpect that tho present Ministry will last to meet the new Cortes . Tho palaco is , as o old , a focus of intrigues , the object of all being moro or less tho overthrow of tlio Government . Tho King , taking counsel with his confessor , -with a woll-Unown Spanish Bishop , and with tho celebrated nun Patrocinio , who has found lior way back to Madrid , would fain seo tho installation of a Cabinet that would revoke the law of desamortizaciouy sanction convents , and make itsolf in all respects agreeable to Rome . Tho Queen is said to have a loaning towards' the Marquis of Viluma ( Pczuela ) , tho old supporter of Isabella absolute . " Narvaez is watching from PariH , and biding his time . RUSSIA ., Tho solemn entry of tho Emperor and Empress into Moscow took place on tlio 20 th ult ., amidst a widely diffused clangour of bella and roar of nrtillory , tho utmost amount of military and ecclesiastical splondour , kiasinff of images ia tho cathedral , presentation of bread
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 844, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2157/page/4/
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