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March 1, 1856.] THJS LEADER " 2Q1 ¦ ¦¦ ....
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THE ORIENT. - PERSIA. The Gazette OJicie...
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STATE OF TRADE. The commercial reports f...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Old Women at the...
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MISCELLANEOUS. Tiik Court. ¦— Her Majest...
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Continental Notes. France. The Incident ...
denounced P rofessor TTnger , a celebrated geologist at the Vienna University , as a man who brings forward unseriptural doctrines . The students thereupon sent a deputation to the Minister of Public Instruction , whoassured them that the holy maa had asserted an untruth * PRUSSIA . Baron von Manteuffel has recently made to the Prussian Chambers a statement of the extraordinary efforts of the Government to put the army on a war footing , to facilitate which , the Chambers , in the course of 1854 , granted the Ministry a loan of 30 , 000 , 000 thalers . *
HA . NOVER . The Hanoverian Cabinet has survived its recent crisis , the ministers who had proposed to secede having been induced to retain their portfolios . A decree convoking the Legislative Chambers for the 2 nd of April next bears the signatures of all the members of the Government . ITALY . The official Gazette of Verona , affirms that the Princess Beljiojoso is authorised to return to the Imperial Austrian dominions , and ^ that the sequestration ia removed from her estates . The accounts from Italy indicate no disposition o n the part of the Lombardo-Venetian exile 3 to avail themselves of the " amnesty" just accorded them by Austria .
SPAIN . It is said that the public feeling in Spain is setting against the present government in . France . Recently the Madrid Gazette officially contradicted the rumour that General Bosquet had been elevated to the rank of a grandee of Spain . Th « rumour was ridiculous enough ; General Bosquet has already sacrificed himself enough by his " elevation" to the rank of senator of the French empire :
PORTUGAL . A passage of arms between the Duke de Saldhana and Count Thomas occurred the other day in the Portuguese Chamber of Peers . The Du & e had accused the Count of peculation during h . is term , of office ; the Count called upon th « Duke to explain . So far from explaining , however , he said he meant the imputation strictly in a personal sense , and not as applying to the official acts of the ex-minister .
TUBKEY . Constantinople is on the eve of a financial and commercial crisis . The price of goods has considerably fallen , and transactions are thereby totally paralysed . Meat and flour have diminished by one-half , sold by wholesale ; but the retail prices continued as high as ever . The public , the journals , and the merchants , loudly demand the establishment of a bank , in order to reduce the difference of exchange between the Turkish and foreign coins , which already lost from fifteen to twenty per cent . The Divan , has not yet replied to M . de Rothschild's proposition . A disease among cattle is extending its r-avages all over the empire . The Hatti-Scheriff , regulating tlie position of the Christians , is being translated into several languages ^ and will soon be published .
The conferences at Constantinople with regard to the settlement of the Danubian Principalities were signalised by many -widely-varying propositions—the English , French , and Austrian ministers suggesting constitutions similar to those existing in their own countries ; but finally , the last two ambassadors gave way to the views taken by the Eogliah representative , knowing that tlie results of the conferences would not be definitive . No signatures were exchanged ; and the question remains open for the conferences at Paris .
There has been a rumour that Omar Pasha would soon arrive in Constantinople . It appears thab lie has again sent in his resignation , sayiug that he can only remain at the head of the army on certain conditions which shall better define hia powers with respect to the Ministry of War . Omar , however , has been ordered to remain at Sugdidi . Some talk haa been occasioned by Omar Pasha removing from Sugdidi the furniture found at the palace of the Princoas Dadian . There arc also complaints against Omar for allowing tho property of Count Roaouiaduque , a French subject long settled in Mingrelia , to bo pillaged after he had promised that it should b e protected . The Count had established a silk manufactory in Mingvelia , and had given tho Turkish General hoiuo valuable information about tho stato of tho country people as wall as of the Russians .
An accident haa happened in ono of tho Baahi-Bazouk squadrons . Tho Baahis had boon in tho habib of cutting out pieces of wood from the sides of a -wooden nlied in - whioh they were quartered . At length they found that they had carried tluB liberty a little too fur , for the shed , weakened in its foundations , foil down , killing eight and wounding olovon men , and killing and wounding forty-two horses . Aali Pacha has been charged by tho Sultan to transmit to tho Empress Eugo ' uio and Queon Victoria two diadems in brilliant * . Bos idea horaea , tho Sultan has sent to tho ISmperor Napoleon a sabro , mounted with precious stones .
THE DAHtTBLAN PRINCIPALITIES . The Fremdcn . Blatt learns from Bucharest that , on the 21 st of January ( old style ) , the freedom of the press was proclaimed in Moldavia , and laws for its regulation were published . On the 7 th of Februaiy the question of the emancipation of the Wallachian gipsies was decided by eleven voices against ten . There are 70 , 000 gipsies in Wallachia , and their present proprietors will receive an indemnification for each of them from the State . The Moldavians express great joy at the pi'esence among them of Mr . Allisson , the fir 3 t Oriental Secretary of the British embassy at Constantinople . They regard England with great veneration , and look upon her as the natural protector of the Boumain people .
RUSSIA . During the present year , an ukass permits the importation of salt over the frontier of Austria , and from Moldavia , and at Odessa aud the Danubian ports , upon the payment of fifteen copecks per poud . The Emperor ha 3 ordered that the two Grand Duke 3 , Nicholas and Michael , shall at once enter upon their respective functions , the former as Inspector of Engineers , the latter as Master of the Ordnance . "Within the last few week 3 , considerable amounts of specie have been forwarded across the frontier to the addres 3 of the house of Steiglitz and Co ., in St . Petersburg .
The Empress-Mother is extremely ill , and it is thought that she cannot long survive . Her nervous attacks are very violent . The Court receptions and rejoicings consequent on the marriage of the Grand Duke Nicholas have been suspended in ^ consequence . An Imperial ukase has ordered the immediate issue of Treasury bills , irt seven series , amounting in the aggregate to 21 , 000 , 000 of roubles .
SWEDEN . A commission of engineer officers has been appointed , with the Crown Prince at its head , to make plans for the fortification of Stockholm , and to consider other propositions , for the defence of the kingdom . DENMARK . The conferences on the Sound Dues have just been formally adjourned .
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The Orient. - Persia. The Gazette Ojicie...
THE ORIENT . - PERSIA . The Gazette OJicielle de Teheran contains a notification to the effect that the Emir Dost Mahomed Khan , Sirdar of Kaboul , having become master of Kandahar , intends to march an army on Hei'at ; that the Persian Government considers it to be its duty to protect that province ; that the designs of Dost Mahomed Khan " teiid to foment a strong agitation in the province of Khorassan , and perhaps even in Beloochistan , Kcrnnan , aud the neighbouring countries ; " and that the Persian Government , in consequence , feels it necessary "to maintain in Herat the rights and authority of its sovereign until new political arrangements are made . " The position of Persia towai'ds the Allied Powers , however , is to remain the same .
State Of Trade. The Commercial Reports F...
STATE OF TRADE . The commercial reports from the provincial towns for the week ending last Saturday are of a varied character , but ou the whole favourable . At Manchester there has been considerable flatness , owing to a falling off in the orders for India , although the home demand is steady . The Birmingham advices show a tondency to lower quotations in the iron-market , consequent upon the limited extent of tlie purchases for America and the continued pressure for money . In the copper-market , however , renewed firmness ia observable , aud the general trades of the place are also fairly sustained . The Birmingham Chamber of Conimeroa has resolved to petition for the introduction of " protective" clauses into Mr . Lowe ' s new partnership bill . At Nottingham , both the homo and
foreign demand for Inco has boon of an extraordinary character , whilo for hosiery it ia likewise good , nJU though oheokod ia some . degree by the lato advance in prices . In the woollen districts there has been a further improvement , and a genoral increase of occupation . In tho Irish linon-niarketa stooka are decreasing , and the transactions are in every respect heal thy . —Timea . The Latw Mr . Sadleiu and this Stock Exchange . —The Committee of tho Stock Exchango on Monday took into consideration tho poouliar cirourastancen connected with tho issue of shares aud obligations of tho Koynl Swedish Railway Company by the lato Mr . John Sadleir , and adopted a resolution , postponing tho settlement of outstanding transactions , and . disoountenanciug for tho preaonb amy further operations in them .
Rifistanation oir titr Lrvnnpooi . Looal Maiunk Board . —This Board has given in its resignation , from causes whioh . are thus Btatod in tha Liverpool Mail : —" Tho resignation was produ ' ood , \ yo bolievo , by tho overbearing behaviour of tho officials of tho Board of Trade , who refused to aanotion tho
recommendations of the Local Board relative to the salaries of some of their officers . At the same time that tUese ungracious refusals are conveyed to the elite of our mercantile body , the Board of Trade make no scruple to receive from them -upwards of £ 3 , 000 a-year , not one sixpence of which is expended for the benefit of the port . A few months since , the Board of Trade refused to ratify a recommendation of jbhe Local Marine Board , till Professor Playfair , who was sent down at an expense which would have paid one year ' s salary of a local official , had made a special report on their application . "
The Boabd of Trade Retobns for the month , ending the 31 st of January were issued on Wednesday morning , and show an increase in the declared value of our exportations still larger than that exhibited in the preceding month . It was then £ 1 , 470 , 969 , and in the present instance it is 1 , 509 , 990 . With regard to imported commodities , most of the principal articles show an increased consumption .
Naval And Military. The Old Women At The...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Old Women at the Admibaxty- —Under date of February 8 th , the annexed order has been issued from the Admiralty : —¦ " I atn commanded . ¦ . . . . that it is their Lordships * desire that officers of the navy should not wear beards or moustaches on board her Majesty ' s ships . By the regulations of the service , men are expected to be properly shaved , and it is essential that a . good etxample on this point should be set by their o £ fi . eer 3 . '! (!) The "Loss o-e- the Josephine "Willis . —The
reports of Mr . ITardley and Captain Robertson -with respect to this catastrophe have been transmitted to the Board of Trade . The former gentleman conceives that the collision was owing to the chief officer of the Josephine Willis having starboarded her helm under the belief that the lights of the Mangerton were those of Dungeness , and to the captain of the Mangerton porting ^ instead of starboarding his helni He does not think the chief officer of the Josephine Willis to blarney but he conceives that the ligit on board that vessel was insufficient , although the Ianterns had received the sanction and approval of the emigration agent who inspected the ship . The boats of the Mangerton are described as having been in an
inefficient condition . The crew of the Mangerton lifeboat are thoughtblameable for not having -succoured the crew of the Josephine Willis , the chief officer of which is severely criticise d for not taking measures to the same effect after he had been rescued and placed on board the Mangerton . " The second officer showed , equal apathy and want of feeling . " Captaiu Robertson differs froni Mr . Yardley "in the conclusion come to by him respecting the cause of collision , and considers that , so far from the chief officer of the Josephine Willis , who was in charge of the deck at
the time , being excusable , the collision was caused by his wrongful act and default . " With re 3 pect to the course pursued by the officex'S of the Mangerton , Captain Robertson " thinks they did perfectly right in porting their helm after losing eight of a light they had just before seen a point to a point and a half on their port bow . " In other matters , Captain Robertson coincides with Mr . Yardley ; , and he concludes by z * ecommending Newham and Anderson ( two sailors who behaved with great gallantry ) to the favourable consideration of the Board of Trade . Manslaughter of a Soldier in the Swiss Legion .
—An inquest has been opened at M . aid stone on the body of Henry Voht , a private in the Swiss Legion . Voht made a violent assault on a comrade , named De la Vecchia , who was sent out with a patrol to bring baok Voht and some other truant soldiers . A struggle ensued , in whioh De la Vecchia ( who is au Italian ) stabbed Voht in tho abdomen with his bayonet , conceiving himself justified by the Swiss military law in thus meeting an obstinate resistance to the patrol .
Tho inquest ia adjourned . Lieutenants Montgomery and Hodgson . —His Excellency the Governor of Malta has granted a pardon to Lieutenant Montgomery , of the 7 th FuaiJeers , lately sentenced to throe months' imprisonment for misbehaviour in tho cathedral of Civita Vocohia , and for resisting tho . police . The oklor offondor , Lieutenant Hodgaon , H . A ., committed for four months imprisonment , lias nob boon included in tlua act of clenwncy ,
Miscellaneous. Tiik Court. ¦— Her Majest...
MISCELLANEOUS . Tiik Court . ¦— Her Majesty and tho Court still remain in town . The royal family on Tuesday visited tho Zoological Gordons in the morning and tho Prin « coshos Thoatro in tho ovonlug . —Her Majorty hold a loveo at St . Jamoa ' s Palace on Wednesday . Turn Fouii Atmospuekn in the Court of Queen ' s Bun oh . —A vitiated and sickening atmosphere has boou remarked in the Court of Queon's Bench ; and abtlio silting of tho Court on Tuesday morniag Lord . Campbell Baid ho had received a lvttor , of whioh , for tho Hake not only of hits own health , but for that of tho counsel , jury , aud witnesses , ho felt it to be his duty to take publio juotioo . Tho writer afcatod that ho wixn woll acquainted with all tho oirouniBtanooH
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01031856/page/9/
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