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General Castillo , on his return to Callao , was placed tinder arrest by the Council of Ministers , -who exercised the supreme power during the absence of tne President . Castillo published a letter complaining of this outrage , and the matter was referred to the convention , which disclaimed the action of the Council . Au amnesty has been granted at Valparaiso to all persons who , on account of the part they took in the events of 1851 , have been , or may be , indicted , and who reside at present in the country . The leaders of the Conservative party , -who have hitherto supported the Government , united with the Liberals , and formed & strong party against the Government . They demanded a change in the Cabinet , and a more liberal line of policy . The Ministers , consequently , presented their resignation , which was accepted by the President .
The whole of Yucatan is in arms , an < l the revolutionists lave been successful everywhere . The Governor lias marched against Campeachy with 1500 men . Financial affairs at New York continue in an unsettled state , and several other failures are announced , including the firms of Messrs . Atward and Co ., bankers , and the ^ Mechanics' Banking Association , which has suspended on account of an alleged defalcation of the first paying teller . A more confident feeling , however , is arising , and it is thought that the worst of the panic is over .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FKAXCE . The approaching visit of the Emperor to Stuttgard , and the interview he is to have there with the Russian Czar , form prolific subjects for discussion and guesswork in the French and other continental papers . A great many idle conjectures as to the affairs of state which will be talked over by the two crowned heads have been put forth ; but they are not worth repetition . In the meanwhile , it becomes every day more a matter of certaiuty that the interview will really take place . General Fleury , Louis Napoleon's aide-de-camp , charged with the direction of the travelling equipages , has arrived in Paris from Ch&lons , to make arrangements . ^ Everything is to be- ready for the journey on the 20 th inst .
to this , and alleged that when they took the vows thev only pledged themselves to observe the regulations which were at that time in force in their monastery The Archbishop lias sent the refractory monks to a Dominican convent at Maissau , in Lower Austria , and lias summoned other Dominicans from Belgium and Italy . "
ITALY . A lady wlio has recently arrived a t Vienna , and who asserts that she is a Gonzaga , lays claim to tue Duchv of Mantua . * - The Pope returned to Rome on the 5 th inst in the midst of great pomp . He was received bv the people with the utmost coldness . The Roman corres pondent of the Times asserts that " ' claque' onra nized for the purpose of misleading the people during the entry of the Pope deserted en masse after receiving the bread , meat , wine and money , distributed amone them . " There was a large display of military and police 5 and all the vivas came from hireling lungs What a picture of the essential meanness of tliese effete forms of Government !
On the morning of the 18 th inst ., the Pope presided at an Ecclesiastical Council in the Church of Santa Maria del , Popolo . Thence lie was escorted to the Spanish Embassy , for the purpose of blessing the monument of the Immaculate Conception , which was completely uncovered for the first time . He performed his office in the midst of profound indifference . A small torrent which flows through the Commune of Arnaz , Valle d'Aosta , Sardinia , was so swollen by the rain on the night of the 10 th inst . that it overflowed its banks , and swept away ten or twelve houses with their inhabitants . Seven persons were rescued , but thirty are missing . Subscriptions have been raised for the survivors .
A number of persons temporarily imprisoned on suspicion of being concerned in the Mazzinian plot of last June have lately been released at Genoa ; and it is said that Miss White will be restored to her country before long .
GEUMANY , The subjoined notification appears in the Frankfort Post Zeltung ;— " As the British Embassy in this city continually receives offers of service in the English army , we are authorized to state that at present the British Government does not intend to form a Foreign Legion ,, and that foreigners cannot serve . in the , English army . " SPAIX . The Ministers have offered their resignations to the Queen , who has refused , to accept them .
TURKEY , A ' part of the street leading from Perato Galata has been destroyed by fire . A very unflattering account of the line of policy of the Sultan , and his chief officers of state is given by the Times Constantinople correspondent , who observes : — " The people will not long consent to see the wealth and resources of their country squandered by improvident and incapable Ministers . The extravagant expenditure of the S-oTtan and his women , and the endless palaces he is every day building , are becoming common themes of discussion in all the cafenehs . Only two days ago , in
the sacred suburb of Eyoub , tlie City of the Tombs , the abode of the most fanatic Mussulmans , the lust place in Stamboul where one would expect to hear seditious langirage , a white-turbaned Turk , in the middle of a large group , asked me whether it was true that the Kings of England had not built themselves a new palace for upwards of two hundred years . 'Why , ' said he , ' our Padishahs build themselves one every year . How can a country be rich when its wealth is so heedlesslysquandered ? You are wise , and do not let your kings do as they like . ' With all the religious prestige which , surrounds the Imperial person , such opinions need not gain much ground among tlie people to becom e serioua " THE IMNUBIAN l > niN'ClPAUTHiS . The new Moldavian elections are now proceeding . Up to the present time , they liave ' been favourable to the Union .
la consequence of the accident which occurred at the Camp of Chalons , where two artillerymen were wounded owing to negligence in closing the touchhole of a gun , the Emperor , who was much shocked at their misfortune , has appointed a commission to devise a plan for preventing such accidents in future . A paper men * tions that M . Gustave Oppelt , a Belgian officer , has invented , what he calls an obturator , which he undertakes will perfectly close the touchhole of a gun while it is being charged . —A large piece of ground in the Champs Elysees , near the Palace of Industry , has been granted to a society of artists , and a building has already been commenced upon it , in which are to be exhibited a succession of panoramic views of a high class , illustrating great historical events , wars , festivals , and ceremonies of recent and present times . The first series of views is to be from the Crimean campaign . — Timts Paris Corresriondent .
Isthmus of Sues : has been abandoned . He will-go to the Chalons camp , the Emperor having required his presence there ; but it is said he did not in tend to go there voluntarily . PRUSSIA . The assembly of Evangelical Christians was opened at Berlin on the 9 th inst . The meeting took place in the garrison church . Prayers invoking the Divine blessing on the labours of the assembly , were offered up in German , French , and English . Tho Hon . and Rev . Baptist Noel , in his prayer , implored the protection of God for
his fellow countrymen in India , and tho Divine aid in the speedy evangelization of that country . Several meetings have taken place , at two of which the King was present , and was so crowded and- mobbed at the first by our flunkeyish countrymen that the Queen , who was looking on from a distance , was alarmed , and thought an insurrection was being inaugurated ! On one of the days , a striking ceremony took place : this was the administration of the Lord ' s Supper to two hundred communicants of various nations , all speaking the English language . The ceremony took place in a large public room hired for the purpose . .
PORTUGAL . A decree ha 3 been issued authorizing Messrs . Alfred Courson and L . V . D . Affonseca to form a company for the construction of railroads upon the American plan in the African provinces of Angola , the Portuguese Government making considerable grants of land and mining privileges to the company , which is said to be a Parisian p . Toject . SWEDEN . Tlie King on the 11 th inst , in virtue of the terms of the Constitution , appointed a provisional Government , on account of his illness . A motion was made on th < j following day in the Parliament that the King should nominate the Crown Prince Regent of the Kingdom . RUSSIA .
A gala spectacle took place at the Grand Theatre , St . Petersburg , on the occasion of the marriage of the Grand Duke Michael . The Emperor and Empress mother advanced to the front of the large centre box , and presented the bride and bridegroom to the public . The performances only lasted an hour , and but little attention was paid to it , the Imperial box being the chief object of attraction . On the following morning , the newly-married couple received the congratulations of the court , and of the deputations from' jbliifdifferent trading bodies of the eityj'wrao * presented bread and salt , according to custom , on gold dishes . That presented by the artisans is described as the handsomest . Next day , tlie Imperial family returned to Peterhof , and a grand bull was given at the palace .
AUSTRIA . Austria , it is said , wishes to negotiate a Treaty of Trade and Navigation with Russia , but the St . Petersburg Cabinet declines to treat . The assertion that Baron von Prokesch insists on the evacuation by England of the Island of Perim is denied by a Governmental correspondent of the Frankfort Post Zeitung . The Austrian Government denies the right of this country to the island , but does not mean to move in the matter . A 3 the murrain has broken out again on the Transjlvanian frontier , all foreign cattle are subjected to a quarantine of ten days . Having completed his Hungarian tour , the Emperor has addressed to the Archduke Albrecht a . document , in
which he says : — " I observed with satisfaction the remarkable progress which Hungary has made in all respects since I travelled through it five years ago , and convinced myself that the institutions which—rafter ripe consideration and with due regard to the peculiarities of the country—were introduced in accordance with my organic ordinances of December 31 , 1851 , have essentially contributed to its evident improvement . I feel assured that their salutary influence will be still more felt when the commerce of the country is more developed and there are greater facilities of communication when
the measures relative to the emancipation of the soil are entirely enrried out , and tho new organization is completed . Being resolved that the fundamental principles which have hitherto guided me in the government of my empire shall be maintained inviolate , it is my will that this should bo universally known , and particularly that all the organs of my Government should take my will for their exact rule of conduct . At the same time it will be my anxious care that allowance shall bo made for the national peculiarities of tho different races , and that duo attention shall bo paid to tho cultivation of their language . "
I ho miserable atute of religious Hulijcction to which Austria has been reduced by the Concordat ia illustrated by n fact related in the Vicuna correspondence or tho Times ' . — " It was stipulated that the monastic estuMishmcnt . s should undergo u reform , and tlio monks bo obliged to live in atrict accordance with the ruled and regulations made by tho founders of their respective orders . Accordingly , the Archbishop of Vienna informed the Dominicans residing in . this , city that they inuat have their heads ahuven in a certain wuy , ning psalms in . their church nt midnight , repeat their pravora at three o ' clock in tho morning , and custiguto themselves . The Dominicans , with the exception of three , refused to agree
M . M'Carthy , a member of the Geographical Society of Paris , has just started on a journey to Timbuctoo . He speaks Arabic and various African dialects with great fluency . He travels alone . —Idem . Very heavy storms of rain , wind , thunder , and lightning , have burst over Lyons , Valence , Strasburg , and PeYigueux . At the latter town , much damage was done , a great many trees being uprooted or split down the middle , houses unroofed , buildings levelled , and crosses on tho church roofs twisted awry . The printing-offices of the Moniteur were burnt down about seven o ' clock on Monday morning , shortly after the paper was printed and distributed . The fire was extinguished at half-past eight . The printing presses were saved . The Independance Beige has again been seized .
The celebrated painter Winterhalter has been commissioned to execute the portrait of the Emperor Alexander II ., which is to be placed in tho Museum of Versailles . The Emperor continues to reside in military style at the Chalons camp , and the various exercises of the troops go on from day to day to his entire satisfaction The railway branch from CJhalona to the camp , twenty- * five kilometres in length , was opened on Tuesday . It has been completed in seventy days from tho first survey . Two members of the municipal council of Stuttgnrd have arrived in Paris , uud have proceeded to the camp at Chalons . They arc come , it is snid , with reference to arrangements for a f 6 to wliich their city proposes to give in" honour of the Emperor of tho French . —Times Paris Correspondent .
An immense telegraphic lino is about to be commenced , passing from Marseilles to tho Islands of Hyeres , tlienco to Corsica , and from island to inland until it roaches Constantinople . It will thus unite to Franco tho whole of tho East . Tho lino wliich ia to unite Marseilles to Baatia ia to bo finished in less than a year , on tho 1 st of July , 1868 . Thta gigantic undertaking has been conceded to M . Balostrini . —Idem . Prince Napoleon has paid a visit to George Sand Ht her residence in Berry . His projected journoy to tho
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS Inquests on the bodies of some men who were killed by an explosion at the Gawn OoJlicry , on Thursday week , were opened at Dudley on Saturday . The bodies of the seven men having been removed to their Into residences , which happened to be situated in three separate coroners' districts ( the counties of Worcester and . Stafford being at this point much intermixed ) , separate inquests were opened on each . The evidence at all of theao was chiefly of a formal character , ami they were adjourned for a moro complete iuvcstiguLioti . At tho 1
inquest on the body of George French , tlie ' doggie , or underground superintendent of the works , one witness said that lamps were kept in tho pit . It vms t " ' dog ^ iqV duty to try the lamps every morning before commencing work . He never saw any lumps in the k whitnsey' ( a hut on thu bank of the pit ) . IIo saw lamps tukeii down into tho pit after the explosion . A juror remarked that French had told him on tho very morning of thu accident that ho was going to work , an that there wus not a lamp in tho ' whimsey' fit to go down into the pit witk . —I ' rior to tho adjourned inquests ,
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_ 896 ___ THE liEAPER . L No . 391 , September 19 , 1857 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 896, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2210/page/8/
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