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    AUSTRIA . s Emperor has given instructions for the erection at of a full-length statue to the memory of his uncle , te Archduke Joseph . He has also decreed that , he beginning of next year , no further contribution be demanded towards the fund for rebuilding the at Buda ; and the sums already paid are to be : d for the good of the empire , more especially of ary . otorious bandit , named Rosza Sandor , has been ¦ ed in a singular manner , the incident being like a in a melodrama . He had been the guest of one Katona , who knew the character of Sandor . One

    he robber suspected that he had been betrayed by lend . Drawing a pistol , therefore , he fired it at ad of Katona , who was wounded , but not dandy . The wife of Katona thereupon felled Sandor ground with an axe , bound him hand and foot he lay senseless , and then fetched the gendarmes , ling to another account , Katona , who was himself time a bandit , really did design to betray Sandor , lat he began the fray by making-an attack on him . of the cashiers of the National Bank at Vienna isconded , leaving a deficit of between 200 , 000 and ) 0 florins . He has since been apprehended . two little daughters of the Emperor have been

    murrain has made its appearance at Olschan , ) lmutz , where there is one of the largest cattle fairs itria . first Austrian man-of-war intended to circumte the world , the frigate Xovara , left Trieste on th of April for Gibraltar . Emperor , by means of an autograph letter , has 3 d all arrears of the war contributions imposed on mgarians at the end of the war of independence

    ITALY . or Gasparini , a distinguished Neapolitan botanist , fter the events of the year 1848 , though he had 10 offence , was deprived by the King of Naples Professorship at the University , has been apl by the Austrian Government to a similar post University of Pavia . On hearing of the intendo this , the Neapolitan monarch protested against I the Emperor" of Austria has not heeded the feast of the Statuto in Sardinia has passed off reat brilliance . Piedmontese Gazette announces that the Italians g at Mexico have sent the sum of 2479 francs

    committee for the subscription to the guns of idria . Monitore Toscano of the 10 th inst . statesthat , in aence of information received by the police of n of two vessels having been freighted by persons ; ed of political intrigues , and of their having set the direction of Civita Vecchia with a number of chests , the authorities of Leghorn took immediate es to prevent any revolutionary attempt on the On the 27 th ult ., a small hoy was seen off

    Legand was visited by certain individuals whose is were well known ; but she stood out to sea steering westward . Nevertheless , the police that on the night of the 1 st a considerable r of chests had been landed between Gombo and rino , and then conveyed to Pisa in carts ; wherethe governor of that town immediately caused I houses , suspected of having received them , to be id , and at length succeeded on the 9 th in capninety-eight muskets and five chests of ammu-The persons implicated in this affair have been d . RUSSIA . iccasion of his birthday , the Emperor issued a amnesty , extending his pardon and mercy still than in that published at tho time of his coro-Tlio classes pardoned on this occasion arc : — se natives of Great ltussia who woro condemned in bor , 1849 , and have served in tho army since with to themselves ; their rank is to be restored to ) ut no chum to tho restoration of their property io oducod from this . 2 . Those natives of tho n provinces who wcro convicted in connexion to Polish Revolution or for other political ofTencos , io returned to their homos previous to tho Emporonation . 3 . Those natives of tho Western 0 onts who have been convicted of political oil'encos vo sinco served with credit in the army . 4 . Those of tho Western Governments who had loft thoir ' without permission and lind returned thither s to tho coronation arc to bo reinstated in their nry rights . 5 . To such of tho above as belong lobility of tho prlvilogcd classes it shall bo per . to ontor tho civil eervico after conducting thomwoll for throe yours . C . Thoso who hnvo in tho army during thoir period of banishment i admissible at onco into tho civil service . 7 . > f tho above who belong to tho noblo classes have i oT two years allowed thorn to produco tho nccuseumoutary ovidonco of thoir nobility , to bo rcck-• om the dato of thia publication , and , for those urn iu consequence of tho present ukuso , from tlio their return . —T 7 m < ea Berlin Correspondent .

    SPAIX . The Correspondencia Autografa contains the following curious announcement : — - " Yesterday , at five in the afternoon , took place in the royal apartments the ceremony of placing the nail possessed by the Chapel Royal —one of those which suspended Jesus Christ—in the magnificent and unequalled reliquary that her Majesty the Queen has had constructed to replace that which was stolen when , on the 27 th of May of last year , the most holy nail disappeared . The ceremony commenced by the benediction of the reliquary by the Patriarch of the Indies . The reliquary being afterwards placed in the oratory of the same royal habitation , the Patriarch returned to the chapel , and , with all the clergy and music

    of the same , conducted the holy nail in procession to the roj'al apartment , where their Majesties , with her Royal Highness the Princess of the Asturias and the Infanta Dona Christina , were waiting upon their knees with the chief officers of the palace , &c . The music played . prayers which the Church possesses even for such unusual cases as this , and , the procession having reached the royal chamber , the holy nail was placed in the new reliquary , and the officiating divine offered for adoration this inestimable instrument of our redemption , their Majesties adoring it first . Many persons of those present in the chapel also adored it , and it was subsequently

    deposited in the sacred place where it is to be preserved , in spite of sacrilegious hands , for the greater honour and glory of God . " The first sentence here is extremely obscure ; but , as far as one can understand it , it would seem that the Queen of Spain has an unlimited supply of these holy nails on which Jesus Christ was suspended , and that the loss of any one can be supplied at discretion . We have not the same art here in heretic England ; and so the old woman who had been interested with a skull of Oliver Cromwell at one Museum was doomed to disappointment when inquiring fur the same relic at another .

    The Mexican squadron , which has been fitting out for the last three months at Cadiz , had set sail for the West Indies . It is composed of six ships . They carry 2450 troops , thoroughly equipped . This force is commanded by Generals Mendimata , Santiago , and Parrido . In the sitting of the Senate on the lGth inst . ( says a despatch from Madrid ) , General Calonge presented an amendment to the address , in which he attacked the Vicalvarist Generals who got up the military movement of 1854 . Marshal Narvaez , in opposing the amendment ,

    declared that it was the firm determination of the Queen that her Government should follow a conciliatory svstem , and such was also the desire of the members of the Cabinet . In the same sitting , M . Pidal , Minister of Foreign Affairs , presented a bill to authorize the ratification of the treaty fixing the boundaries of Spain and France . The Government presented in the Congress a bill on the press , increasing thn caution money to 15 , 000 douros . Articles are to be signed , and the jury to decide on press offences is to be composed of judges of the first instance .

    There-appears to bo a good prospect that the English sailors who were arrested a few weeks ago at Malaga will soon be released , the Spanish Government having exhibited a conciliatory disposition .

    TUKKEY . It is asserted that the Porte has asked tho powers that signed the Treaty of Paris to occupy tho Danubian Provinces with an army corps , on account of the great agitation now so rife in those two countries . The Revue Contemporaine , Count Walcwski ' s organ , enters into sonic explanations on this subject . It confirms ( he existence of such a note , and asserts that it has met with no success , niul that the Courts of Paris , London , St . Petersburg , and Berlin have unsworcd in the negative . —Dailii JVeic . i Pitris Correspondent .

    " A violent shock of earthquake , " says n letter from Erzeroum , of the 28 th ult ., in tho Pre .-ma d'Orieut , " was felt two days ago in tho neighbourhood of Mouch . Tho oscillations continued at intervals for thirty-six hours . Several villages in tho Plain of Uolanck wcro destroyed , niul nearly one hundred and eighty persons lost their lives . "

    SWICDKX . The King is ill , owing , it is said , to a too close attention to business , lie will go to DroUningholiu to tako tho beneh ' L of tho country air . HOLLAND . Tho workmen of Holland ( nays a letter from tho Hague in tho Emancipation of Brussels ) arc striking all over tho country for an increase of wages . Tho men working on tho canal of Wcmcldingo huvo struck , and pillaged tho public-houses along tho canal . Troops havo been sent from Fort Bat In to maintain order .

    Tho Dutch Government , it appears , liko tho . so of Portugal , Sardinia , and almost , cvory other maritime state in Europe , both groat and small , intends to tako part , at least us a witness , in tho groat intervention or display of foroo which is about , to bo mado in tho harbours and along tho coasts of China . Wo hear from tho Hague that Holland has resolved to contribute uno vossol of win to that roniarkablo naval congress which is about to be hold in tho Eastern Seas , and tho results of which arc anticipated , on behalf of tho general intercuts of commerce and civilisation , with so much interest . —Daily Noiva Paris Correspondent .

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    A GALA DAY AT CREMORNE . Brightly shone the sun in the afternoon of Monday , the 18 th of May , as an intelligent foreigner landed on the shores of haughty and perfidious Albion , a few yards below London-bridge . M . de Mabille , a brilliant illustration of the Younger Empire , was too old a traveller to allow his movements to be impeded by a superfluity of trunks , cases , carpet-bags , and hat-boxes . His luggage , consisting of a pocket-comb and a shirt-front , being safely and conveniently secreted about his person , he escaped all spleen-begetting detention at the Custom House . He had naturally intended , in the first instance , to visit the Tunnel ; for , with the exception of the Tower , it can hardly be said that this island contains any other

    object worthy of the notice of our unprejudiced and accurate neighbours on the Continent . It so happened , however , that as he set foot on the water-stairs , his eye alighted on an enormous placard , headed , ' Eoyal Gardens , Cremorne . ' No doubt there would bo an opportunity of beholding her Majesty and her illustrious Consort , surrounded by their interesting family , familiarly associating with the enthusiastic multitude invited to this royal entertainment . The temptation was not to be resisted , and a few minutes afterwards M . de Mabille found himself on board a steamboat bound for Chelsea .

    But imagine his indignation and horror on making the terrible discovery that he was patronising a Citizen . Muttering between his teeth an execration on ' Canaille !' he spat fiercely on the deck , aud then stared a modest young girl out of countenance . It being , fortunately , dead low water , he was enabled to judge correctly of the natural colour of that river , of which every Briton is so justly proud . Murmuring to himself , Vidimus flwvum Tiberim— 1 have smelt the ill-flavoured Thames' —M . de Mabille proceeded to enjoy the panorama of brick and tile that extended for miles on either hand . A little

    behind him , on the right , he observed a lofty pillar , surmounted by an enormous golden wheat-sheaf , evidently dedicated to tho Genius of Agriculture . In front of him , on the same side , rose , the gigantic dome of St . Paul's , which the First Napoleon had proposed to remove to Paris as a roof for the Pantheon . Presently he glided past- the gardens of the Temple , and moralised on the whirligig of time that had brought up wigs , gowns , and briefs , to replace the crested helmet , the emblazoned armour , and the quivering lance . Farewell to gentle chivalry and knightly prowess—on the opposite bank , In Memoriam , stands the ungainly Shot Tower , fatal alike to the bold yeoman in Lincolngreen and the steel-clad man-at-arms . Somerset House

    next revived recollections of Paris , but on turning his back upon that imposing pile , M . de Mabille ' s mind returned to his body , for ho beheld the British lion standing guard over a brewery . The traveller smiled ; he had recognised in that allegory the acknowledgment of the fact that the soliditu Anglaise is based upon brown stout . Further on he beheld an omnibus slowly passing over a bridge supported by woodwork resting on quicksands , and he thought of the earth on the back , of an elephant that stands upon a tortoise that slumbers upon nothing . He thought , too , that the famous New Zealander would not have long to wait for the ruins of a bridge whereon to imlite his ' Lays of Ancient London ; ' not so long , indeed , ns the senators of Britain

    for the completion of their senate-houso . Ho gazed upwards at the wooden thumb-stalls , on the four corners of the tower ; ho glanced at the architectural ornuments that mark the retrogression of art ; but he turned from the dead animals putrifying at tho foot of the terrace . And as he turned he saw tho palace at Lumbotl ) , and rendered rovercntiul homage to the ineek and selfdenying virtues of tho Christian priesthood . Ho know that the head of tho Anglican Church lived on a humble stipend in a more corner of that palace which ho had converted into a peaceful usylum for pious widows aud unfriended orphans . Nearly opposite , ho observed a-still more spacious building , likewise appropriated to tho

    friendless , who aro there comfortably maintained attuoir country ' s expense for having violated their country ' s laws . But it is a Christian's duty , privilege , and pleasure , to pile red-hot coals o \\ tho uncovered head of his enemy . With yet more pleasurable feelings , bowuver , did our enterprising traveller survey tho verdant lawns and umbragoous thickots of Buttorsoa Park , aud ho acknowledged , unreservedly , that tho Times wub quito right in declaring that there was no point of comparison between it and the Bois do Boulogne . Proudly did ho then direct his Hashing cyo to tho shady walks of Cholsea Hospital , for ho know that they wore poopled 1 > 3 ' tho sad relies of tho British army annihilated by Marshal Soult at Toulouse , Even wo may forgive tho

    paLriotic sigh that regretted those glorious days when tho ouglo was over driving tho slinking leopard into tho stormy ho a that begins tho Spanish peninsula . But tho martial fire quickly subsided as tho steamer uoaroil ti » o modern gardens of AlcinoUs , cool , rural , and iuvJlJi »« V aud at that hour hushed in grateful repose . Having carefully studied the Voyage do Dtigagrmeiits of that singularly woll-inionnod writer M . . hilus J-ocomto , M . do Mabillo was not ho nirioh «^»» i- '" " » disgusted when culled upon to pay a alniJing * or

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    IAY 23 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 487

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2194/page/7/