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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . - FRANCE . ' ¦ ' . . At the election in the department of the Seine for a Vacant seat in the Legislative Body , there were three candidates , and it was announced that Government left the choice free in the hands of the electors : Nevertheless , it came out that the favourite candidate with the Government was M . Brochant de Villiersj He polled 8254 votes , and hi * opponents fewer . But not having enough of votes to render his election legal , theelection has to be gone over again . , ^ .. Such of the political prisoners transported to Algeria after the coup d ' etat as have asked for a remission "of their sentence are to be permitted to return to France on the occasion of the new year . Among them are M . Mulet , a member of the late Constituent Assembly , and M . Cautgril , a butcher of Toulouse . :

      The most important piece of French news we have to mention is a renewal of the . pardon granted by Louis Napoleon to Count de Montalemberfc . The . Moniteur announces the fact , and the definitive sentence of the Court of Appeal is neutralised hy this act of grace . The printer of the Correspondant is also pardoned . The Court of Appeal had already relieved M . de Montalemberfc from the only really serious consequence of the decision of the police court . He is no longer a suspect under the law of public safety ; and there is reason to believe that the main object of the prosecution ¦ eras to hook him into that category . The pardon -will now have effect without placing him under any obligation . It is now legal and regular , which it was not before . ; The correspondent at Paris of the Daily etcs adds : —

      " All that was said about M . de Montalembert being a ' determined martyr' was rank nonsense ^ He will make no ridiculous : clamour to be taken . to prison ; he does not now ' accept' the : pardon , which he would have done had he refrained from appealing ; he simply remains quiescent . The pardon of M . Douniol , the responsible editor of the Correspondant , w hich is only now announced , must strike every one as a pure matter of course . But he has already paid his fine of lOOOfr ., and there is no doubt whatever that in point of law the pardon does not compel the state to return the money to him ; whether , in fact , he will get it back . or not is a curious question . " The history of the Charles-et-rGeorges affair has been

      penned by M . Rouxel , the commander of that ship , and sent to a French journal , which publishes the communication . The captain endeavours to show , that the Africans he took on board were free labourers , who had , of their own will and accord , consented to swve for a term of years in the French colonies . He accuses the Portuguese authorities who seized the ship with behaving in a cruel way , adding insult to injury . Fever , he acknowledges , prevailed among the blacks on board . That the labourers , really were free is by no means proved by what Captain Rouxel states ; on the contrary , his letter deepens the impression that they were not free .

      from the service in consequence of his advanced age . In that case he will probably be succeeded by Marshal Canrobert ; and Marshal Randon will' be : appointed to the command held at present by Marshal Canrobert , whose head-quarters are at Nancy .

      AtJSTBIA . - •• In the Wiener Zeitung is an Imperial rescript respecting thpse parts of the law for the raising of recruits which have given such extreme dissatisfaction in Italy . There have been " strikes" among the workmen in Bohemia , but they were soon over , as the Austrian authorities strongly object to demonstrations . If the men iyho are dissatisfied with their wages are foreigners they are sent -across the frontier , arid if they are natives of the empire they receive orders to go back to their work or to return to their respective homes without delay . It is only when the men are guilty of violence , that . the stick is brought into action . in Milan the inha

      Cards ar ^ handed about urging - bitants ; to abstain from all amusements at the approaching carnival season , and to save their money for important purposes . The belief in approaching war is general and strong in the Austro-Italian provinces . On the 11 th an attempt was made at Pavia to set a military magazine on fire . The gate was smeared from top to bottom with turpentine , but a guard appeared just as a light was about to be applied . The police have not yet succeeded in laving hands on the incendiaries . The University of Pavia has been closed by order of the Austrian authorities * This is in consequence of the disaffected spirit and by the recent assassination of Professor Emilio Briceio . This unfortunate man was a native of the Austrian Tyrol , and an intimate , of a certain police official named Rossi , greatly disliked , and who is thought to be in some danger of a like fate .

      The telegraphic wire between Constantinople and Bagdad is completed , but before the line is extended to Balsora we can hardly hope that Indian hews will teach us quicker by way of the Persian Gulf than by that of the Red Sea . ROME . ' ¦ . : Letters from Koine apeak of the intended sale of the extremely remarkable collection of antiquities and works of art belqnging to the Marquis Campana , a collection with which most English visitors to the Eternal City are probably acquainted . It is estimated to have cost 6 , 000 , 000 f ., or 240 , 000 * . It fills a vast number of rooms , in three or four different houses .

      SWKDE 2 T . The Prince Kegent ^ has just dismissed the Norwegian Minister , M . Vogt , who had been in office for thirtythree years . PRUSSIA . Among the proposals to be laid before the Prussian Diet will be one relating to the army and navy ; it Ls pretty certain that a considerable additional outlay in both these departments is contemplated . The attempt will now be made in earnest to create a fleet iu the Baltic . The alteration in the army , it . is supposed , will consist in placing theLandwehr on a permanent footing , and incorporating it into the Line , so that each infantry regiment will contain double the number of companies — -2 i instead of 12 . .

      BAVARIA . The King has convoked the Diet for the loth , of January . As this body is even more hostile to the Ministry than the two preceding Legislatures , it is thought hot unlikely that the Ministers will resign . Iu the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the . new Chamber lias commenced its labours by a vote of defiance to the Government . .

      rOKTUGAL . Don Vascp Guedez , Governor of Mozambique , has been recalled for the non-execution of the orders of the Government relative to negroes . ' .. The Portuguese Government has published correspondence relative to the affair of the Charles-et-Georges . « Loril Malmesbury is said to . have instructed our . Minister at Lisbon that Portugal should surrender the ship , aud abide by the decision of a third Power as to the auiyiuit of indemnity . This suggestion was refused .

      IONIAN ISLANDS * In the official Gazette of Corfu appears the despatch written by Sir E . B . Lytton to Sir I . Young , in ivjcly to the address of the ten representatives of Corfu against the occupation of that island and of Paxo as colonies of the British Crown . Sir E . B . Lyttpu says that the Queen ' s Government do not entertain the desire , us they do not possess the power , to make Corfu and Paxo British colonies ; that it is not within Mr . Gladstone ' s power to consider the cession of the Ionian Islands to any Power in Europe . Sir Edward recommends the loniana to co-operate with Mr . Gladstono in remoJ ^ 'ug existing imperfections , so as "to make the practical working of the constitution more harmonious witli the natural results of self-governihent . "

      The Times correspondent at Corfu says : — " The more advanced Greek party , though aspiring to the establishment of a kingdom of Greece which would embrace these ialunds , and , indeed , Thcssaly and Epirus , a re . not blind to the benefits of the British protectorate , mid apprehend that any union with the kingdom of ( ircuco as it is now constituted would detract from the material welfare of the Ionian Islands . This national and intellectual party , which may bo said to number some of tlio most distinguished men of tho country iti its ranks , who have its real progress at heart , is , howovpr , not strong enough to inako head against tho cry for union wit . li Greece which emanates from tho active agitators , wlio , backed by foreign intrigue , bring that principle to tlio van , while tho Greek clergy loud tho powerful iniluonco which they exercise over tlio more uneducated clause * to tho nutionul cause . "

      NAI'JUSS . A Naples letter of Dcooiubgr 22 nd states that ix supplemental lovy of 18 , 000 men has been ordorod . TUuio is great activity in all tho araonals . A despatch iu the- Measayor da Midi contlnua the fact of tho extraordinary armaments ) . Tho * Grand-Duko Constantino arrived at Nico on Sunday , and will leave with tho Kuesian squadron to visit tho royul family at NaploH . The hand of Mario , Princess of Bavaria , has boon solemnly domamlod for tho JDuko of Calabria , but tho marriago will not bo coiubralod before tho 20 tit of February . Tho Russians , says a lottor from Vienna , wiahod to got Brindisi as u coaling station , but tlio King ot Naples positively rofuauil to lot thum have it .

      Bl'AIN . Tho Gazette ' of the 20 nl containatho dooroo by wliioU Lloutouant-Goneval Bayona , anil tho Count of Jispuluta , who voted against tUo UovOrninout in tho last division In the Sonuto , arq ul » inisse < l from tlioir posts ijh jiultfos in tho Supromo Tribunal of War . Tho clerical journals nro in ocalualoa at tlm ducroo whioli directs a cathedral to bo orootod in Madrid in honour of tho Immaculate Conception . Some Sunday achools iuetitutod , iu Madrid , uudor two

      SARDINIA . The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a decree for the construction of a bridge over the Rhone , near Culoz , to connect the Sardinian Railway line with that of France . The result of the . census taken in the Sardinian States has been published * -and shows- the whole number of inhabitants to be 5 , 10 . 4 . , being an increase of 5 . 67 per cent , over the census of 1848 . The province of Turin shows the large increase . of 12 ^ per cent . ; that of Genoa , 13 $ ; and that of Iglesias ( In the" island of Sardinia ) , 14 ^ . The increase in the conti nental provinces has been I per cent , more than in the . islan d .

      urkey ; Disturbances have broken out in Servia , which have led to the deposition of Prince Alexander . On the 22 nd the National Assembly ( Skuptsehin ' a ) sent a message to the Prince , insisting on his resignation . The Prince , promising an answer for the next day , withdrew for his personal safety to a-Turkish fortress . Inconsequence , the Assembly pronounced him to be deposed , on the ground that he had left the country without a government , and must be looked on as a fugitive . The Assembly then proclaimed Prince Milosch head of the

      Government , and made to the people a formal announcement of what it had done . A telegram from Belgrade , dated Christmas-day , states Prince Alexander still remained in the . Turkish , fortress in which he found shelter . No sooner had Prince Milosch been proclaimed in his fltead than the National Assembly established n Provisional Government . We hear of a military counterrevolution which was suppressed . Meanwhile tranquillity prevails . Prince Milosch Obronovitch , who is now placed at the head of the Government in Sorvia , is tho same Prince who Was dethroned in 1889 .

      A telegram , dated Belgrade , December 27 , says that tho Senate has revoked its resolution of Friday last concerning the recol of Prince Alexander , The Skuptschina is preparing a petition to the Porto in favour of Milosch . The array is now also favourably disposed towards the latter . A deputation has been sent to Prince Milosch . Prince Milosch is an old man , eighty years of ago , almost blind , but still full of energy and resolution . He possesses , moreover , an immense fortune , acquired as a merchant in WaHaelna , whither ho had retired . What the Sultan will do cannot bo yet anticipated . Thoro is no doubt that Austria is opposed to Milosch . Thinking him a man likely to make his terms with Russia , Austria wishes to interfere , but tlio Treaty of Paris stands in tlio way , unless tho other Powers consent to such ,

      interference . Tho consent of Russia and Franco is not to bo expected . Austrian troops are already on their way from Pesth to the Voivodlna , the nearest Austrian province to tho Servian frontier . By a telegram from Belgrade , dated Thursday , wo arc informed that tho departure of Prince Alexander from tho Turkish fortress had boon demanded , as ho was regarded as implicated in tho military movement of Friday . Tho military had , sworn fealty to tho now Government ; the petition in favour of Milosoh had been sent off to tho Porto , and addresses had boon presented to tho Skuptsohina , thanking thorn for tho measures they had taken . A Vienna lottor says tho latest nows received thoro gives reason to hope that the afl'air of Sorvia will bo sircedily arranged .

      From Constantinople wo have nows up to tho 22 ml , Tho Sultan appears to be undoing tho worlc of administrative reform . Tho anticipated change in tho Ministry , which it was intimated , would inoludo Itlza Pashn , who is . the real Ananolal roforraojyhas not rot taken \> h \ w .

      The nearer we approach to New Yeai- ' s Day the more activity and bustle are observable in the Paris ehops . Unfortunately the commercial movement is not general ; it extends merely to fancy articles . The wholesale merchants and many of the manufacturers are doing little . A letter from Brest , of the 24 th instant , states that a dreadful hurricane prevailed on that coast on the 22 nd . The Souffleur , of ^ the Imperial navy , coming from L'Orient to Brest , " * had one of her paddle-wheels carried away , her bowsprit broken , and her mizen sail swept off by the wind .

      The French Government is calling under arms every man that it can lay its hands upon . The entire contingent off conscripts for the year is ordered to join * and this is a thing unprecedented in time of peace . The Independanco remarks : '— " The Christmas holidays will , perhaps , bo somewhat saddened in tho country villages by the departure of 100 , 000 reoruits to join their regiments . " The camps of instruction for 1850 will bo unusually large . An army of 80 , 000 men near the Italian frontier is spoken of . On this head , a lottor from Paris says ; — - ' « Should war break out noxt spiring between Piedmont and Austria , France , it is pretty evident , will be . ready for any emergency . Yot it is diifi » cult to see what Louis Napoleon hopes to gain

      by meddling in the affairs of Italy , unless the old game of European conquest i $ in his mind . On the other band , Franco is becoming more difficult to govern ; discontent does not diminish ; finanoial matters are in an embarrassed state ; and the country wants some change to vary the mpnotony of despotism . A war onco entered vpon , home grievances would bo for tho time forgotten . " General M'Mahon has loft Paris to roaumo tho command of the army In Algeria , in consequence of tho agitation which prevails among the Kabylo tribos . Xt is rumoured that troubles have actually broken out among the Kabylo ? , . though the papers do not allude to the faoiv It h flaW that . Marshal CastoUano is about to retlro

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      6 THE LEADEB . P ^ O . 458 , Januakt 1 , 1859 . _

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2275/page/6/