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The French Government have just advertised for a large quantity of brandy , to be delivered on or before the 27 th April . The Dresden Journal states that the Five Powers may be regarded as having agreed to the preliminaries of the approaching Congress . The day of assembling will probably be * the 30 th inst ., but the place of meeting is not yet settled .
AUSTRIA . It is not yet known who will represent Austria at the Congress . Count Hartig is spoken of . The Count , who , some sixteen or eighteen years ago , was Stadtholder of Loiiibardy , is a very able man , and knows Italy and her ailments well . The probability , howerer , is that Count Buol will himself attend the Congress . Although Austria has promised to attend the Congress , she is not inclined to think peace will be maintained , and consequently continues her armaments . There are now , or will be by the end of the month , thirty-five regiments of the line in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . all in his
It is said that General Hess is doing power to divert Francis Joseph from war . " If we have to fight against Italy and France , " he is declared to have said on a reeent occasion , " . we are inevitably lost . If we have allies , the war will become general , and then who can tell where it will stop ?" ¦ The Emperor does not , it seems , pay much heed to the marshal , and is still ardently in favour of showing his strength . War , then , seems inevitable , despite all the efforts of mediators . We learn from "Venice that information had just reached that city that the colonel of a Hungarian regiment had been tried by court-martial , and sentenced to be shot at Verona , for having attempted ' to persuade his . regiment not to fight against the Italians . The sentence , we regret to add , was immediately carried into effect .
A Vienna letter , in the Lloyd of Festh , states that Austria has addressed a note to Piedmont , demanding the extradition of the Venetians who have been received there contrary to treaties . Letters from Piaceriza announce that on the S 25 th ult » , 1 , 200 Austrians , with 50 cannons , 150 barrels of resin , and a great quantity of Congreve rockets , arrived there . The church has been converted into a flour magazine . ' . ~ ... . The Opinions states that the Austrians have occupied two villages , Reggiolo and VolO , belonging to the duchy of Modena .
SARDINIA . Withregafdto the sudden visit of Count Cavour to Paris , a correspondent at Turin writes— "Iain assured that the President of the Council intended to protest in his Majesty ' s name against the humiliating and unjust exclusion of Sardinia from a Congress , which is the direct ; consequence of the maxims laid down in that of Paris . Victor Emmanuel has written a most energetic protest , and has not concealed his indignation . When Count de Cavour left it was his intention to be back in Turin on Tuesday , the 29 th ult . . A later despatch informs us , upon f * unquestionable authority , " that Sardinia will be admitted to the congress . TUSCANY .
At Florence there is great excitement . The Tuscan Monitorc of the 23 rd ult . suspends the little liberty of the press that was left , and re-establishes the censorship . There was a talk of Baldasseroni ' s resignation and that of the other ministers ; b \ it it seems there is repentance and fear in the Pitti Palace . The now Minister pf Public Instruction , Martini , demands the admission into the Government of two liberal chiefs , one of them being Lucchesi , they say . Landucci continues to be the soul of the reaction in the Austrian sense . Now that the freedom of the press is suspended , Tuscany will of course be inundated with secret publications . The report is current that the Grand Duke 1 ms published a new ^ mauifesto , but its contents are not yet known .
UELC 1 IU 5 I . The Chamber of llepresontatives has terminated , the discussion of the war budget for 1800 , and Jias voted all the credits , to the amount of 32 , 213 , 500 francs . The majority was 5 G against 8 ; the number of representatives who did not vote having been six , NAPLES . There is no fresh intelUgonco with rogard to tlio health of the king . A letter of the 19 th ult . snys : —
" Ho continues In a most wretched state , and I am assured on gooil authority , that he cannot live more ' than throe months . Ills death is looked forward to with dread hy Iris Government in tlio present ) critical state of affairs . In the euso of war between Franco and Austria , a Murat occupation of Naples might onsuo , a result much to bo depreciated . In rf case of peace there might bo a modification of tlio absolutist system . Meanwhile all things stagnate , and commerce Is at an end . "
IONIAN ISLANDS . The Lord High Commissioner has appointed a commission with the concurrence pf the Senate ' , to inquire into all public departments , for the purpose of effecting such improvements as could be legally done by the Government . The commission was to meet for the first time on the 18 th inst ;
rORTUOAL . The latest advices inform us that the new ministry had only brought forward in the Cortes a bill to authorise : the continuation of the State receipts and expenditure until the budget can be discussed and voted . The Ministerial explanations seem , to have been satisfactory , and little doubt was entertained of the approval of the money bills . The Cortes is likely to close on the 2 nd of April . It is believed that the railway will be put up to public competition . Senor Fontes , it is said , will be Minister of Public Works , and Pimental will be Minister of the Interior . Prince George of Saxony is shortly expected at Lisbon , to marry the Infanta . The postal convention between England and Portugal is in course of final adjustment .
GEEMANY . Among other reports , one has been circulated that the Congress will be assembled in the Grand Duchy of Baden . Froin Frankfort we have the following dispatch , which we are told is " official " : ^ -The federal assembly has voted supplies for arming the federal fortresses with necessary artillery . The Ober-Postamts-Zeitung contains news from Stutfegart to the effect that Prince Frederick of Wurternberg has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Stli Federal Corps d'ArrnSe . "
BAVARIA . The Munich Gazette publishes officially the application of M . Von der Pfprdtenfor his dismissal from the post of President of the Bavarian Ministry . The closing of . the Chambers took place on Saturday . The Diet approved of all the bills which had been submitted to it . In the closing speech , the Government promised to take into consideration the wishes expressed by the Chambers ; and stated that the demand relative t 6 the liberty of the press had been sent to the Council of State .
TURKEY . 0 n the 18 th of March the Sultan reviewed a body of 6 , 600 men who are about to march for Roumelia ; All the troops had been newly equipped , Three of the principals in the massacre of JJjeddah have arrived at Constantinople , whither they had been sent to undergo their sentence . One of them , the Caimalcan , or governor of the place , had formerly been attached to the household of the Sultan , and for that reason , although he and the two others were condemned to death , the commissions preferred sending them for the Sultan to decide on their fate . The illness of Ali Pacha , the Grand Vizier , caused serious disquietude to his friends . "
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No . 471 , April 2 , 1859 . ] THE LEADEB . 425
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CANADA . Nkws from Toronto to the 18 th ult . has been received . In the Canadian Parliament on the 17 th , Mr . Buchanan ' s . motion , that the House do not go into committee on the new tariff of the Iiispector-General , was lost by ' a majority of thix'teen . Mr . Buchanan ' s motion was looked on as a motion of want of confidence in the Administration . It is now probable that the new tai-iff will bo passed with slight modifications . The Inspector-Gonc-ral stated that , when in committee , he would be willing to consider '' the propriety of deferring the operation of the now tariff for such a time as would enable the Upper Canada merchants to obtain their goods from the place of growth . This announcement , as well as the result on Mr . Buchanan ' s amendment , was recoived with loud cheers .
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AMERICA . Tun Jura arrived at Liverpool on Sunday , with Now York advices to the 15 th xiltimo . A mooting of the Democratic llejuiblican electors was held at Tammany-hall , Now York , ou the 14 th , when resolutions favourable to the acquisition oi Cuba wore adopted . The grand jury at Washington had examined witnesses in the Sickles case . Louis Bono , a gentleman attached to tlio Prussian Legation , had committed suicide by shooting
himself . 'Ho loft a statement , alleging that ho Wlis apprehensive that ho was troubled with disease oi tho heart , and a failure to rucoivo remittances from Texas , whore ho owndd large osUitos , impelled him to the not of self-destruction , The Nova York Herald says : —" Tho financial officers of tho Post-olllco , department have submitted a statemont to tho President , by which it appears that tlio dollclt in that branch ol' tho public service amounts to six millions of dollars Ins tend of throu , as heretofore supposed , and that tho department is at
this time six months in arrears . The President has this statement Tinder consideration , and will , it is stated , on the 15 th , indicate whether , in his opinion , an extra session of Congress is to be called . " A resolution was pending in the New York Legislature , authorising an additional canal loan of 3 , 500 , 000 - 'dollars !' The Bremen has arrived at Southampton , -with dates from New York to the 19 th March . The political news is unimportant ; the question of an extra session of Congress was still undecided . The American Minister in China states that an extensive trade in Coolies is carried on between China and Cuba . The Coolies are entrapped and barbarously treated . . Sickles' trial for murder was to commence on the 22 nd ult .
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MEXICO . . A-PyiCES from Vera Cruz to the 9 th ult . state that a battle had been fought near Cordova , and the left wing of Miramon ? s army was completely routed by the liberals . Miramon lost 100 men killed , three cannon , 300 muskets , anda large quantity of ammunition . General Degollado was preparing to inarch on the capital with 10 , 000 men . The liberals had captured Guanajuato and Aguas Calientas . A Washington telegram says : — "It is credibly
ascertained that both England and France disclaims any other intention in sending naval forces to the coast of Mexico than to procure due reparation for wrongs to British and French subjects , and that it is not their purpose to . take sides with or favour either of the contending Mexican governments . There is reason to believe the American Government is not apprehensive that anything will be done by them in conflict with the Munroe doctrine , or to shape the political institutions of that country . "
The last advices from Vera Cruz communicate an ord , addressed to the authorities at that port , by Senor Ocampo , Minister for Foreign Affairs ^; instructing them to set apart , and under no circumstances whatever to use , the moneys assigned to English and French subjects . Senor Ocampo had also issued a circular referring to the demands lately made by the English and French naval commanders . Their stipulation that agents nominated by the English and French creditors should be empowered to supervise the proceedings of the custom-houses , and other docu
and to have free access to all books . - ments , was absolutely refused by fhe Mexican . Government , upon the ground of its hmniliafciirg character . The minister states that President Juarez has been made aware of the irregularities which have occurred in the payments to the foreign creditors , affirms his anxious wish to satisfy all just claims , and declares that ,, in so far as his administration is concerned , these irregularities shall no longer be permitted . The intervention of the British naval forces has at once been productive of the good results anticipated .
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WEST INDIES . CUBA . Nkws from . "Havannah to the 9 th ult . informs us that General William Walker , the filibuster , had arrived there , en route for Aspinwall and California .
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MOROCCO . Tub Qibraltar Chronicle of tho 19 th ult . says : ¦<— " Wo learn from Tangier that the seven Spanish prisoners had been delivered over by the Moorish authorities to tho Spanish Charge d'Affaires , and that salutes of 21 guns had been exchanged between tho Spanish war steamer in Tangier Bay and the Moorish batteries , It is reported , too , that tho differences -which have for some time past formed the subject of discussion between the two governments , including tho Mehilla boundary question , are in a fair way of being adjusted . The eon of the Emperor of Morocco , after escorting the Spaniards to tho environs of Tangiera , roturnctl with his troops into tho interior . "
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WEST COAST OF AFHICA . Lkttkhs from Sierra Leone speak in ntrong terms of arbitrary measures which are being adoptod to stifle public opinion in that colony . Homo timotiffo . several hundred of the inhabitants addressed a »» omorinl to Sir 10 . B . Lytton , describing tho « novimaos from which they suflbral , and pmyuig lor a Commission of Inquiry and the establishment of representative institutions . It is stated that tho oflloials uro not content with potting "l > " counter memorial , but have adopted unjufltlfluMo means to intimidate tlioii * oppononts . Many of tho popror classes of tho memorialists huvo boon required to nppear in . tho p olice court , and there severely conjured by the niaffistratoi wlillo attempts have been made to induce others to disavow their signatures , or to dcolarc that they were aououdod in iujnoranco of tho con-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2288/page/9/
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